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I have an issue with my temporary redirects. The seomoz campaign is showing many pages are redirecting to the homepage.

However, the pages it identifies are old pages and have been deleted and are not on the sitemap.

How do i solve this?

one of my SEOmoz pro campaigns has given me the warning:

Too many on-page links

and the page in question is my html sitemap.

How do i resolve this because I obviously need my sitemap. How do i get around this?

I have recently built an e-commerce website for the company I work at.

Its built on opencart.

Say for example we have a chair for sale. The url will be:

www.domain.com/best-offers/cool-chair

Thats fine, seomoz is crawling them all fine and reporting any errors under them url great.

On each product listing we have several options and zoom options (allows the user to zoom in to the image to get a more detailed look).

When a different zoom type is selected it adds on to the url, so for example:

www.domain.com/best-offers/cool-chair?zoom=1

and there are 3 different zoom types. So effectively its taking for urls as different when in fact they are all one url. and Seomoz has interpreted it this way, and crawled 10000 pages(it thinks exist because of this) and thrown up 20000 errors.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

I think I have sorted the 301s now. I agree I should really do that before launch. all a learning process.

Yer thats a good idea. When you mean search engine friendly content, can you expand on that please?

Good point, I really need to do some of that. I was thinking about that Ontolo tool. Any others you can think of?

Wow, thanks for a great answer. You should write a YouMoz post on what to do with a complete site overhaul.

Moving on, I have done some of the things you suggested, I have done the non-www to www redirect. I have also set my preferred domain in webmaster tools. And also I redirected /index.php to my domain address.

When you mention clean up the php, do you mean clean the code up a bit or something else? I was going to give the Ontolo tool a go to see if that could help with link building prospects.

I will aim to clean up URLS this week, which will mean resubmitting a new sitemap. Btw, every time I add a new page to my website, does that mean I have to resubmit a sitemap to Webmaster Tools.

One of the best tips I have heard on Q&A btw. Thanks for the help.

We have an old domain that we have had for years now. And recently. December, we completely redesigned the site, I mean a complete overhaul, design, architecture, asp to php for example. Resubmitted to google via webmaster with a new site map etc.

Our website for reference is www.completeoffice.co.uk.

We are trying to rank in UK google, www.google.co.uk, for the term office refurbishment kent (we are on page 2) and office refurbishment (we are on page 17).

This is confusing me, because thats 7 pages lower than we were originally, before the site design, its better seo wise, duplicate content is none, title tage meta tags all correct, domain authority has doubled from 12 to 24 in a few months all in an effort to rank better. our homepage and office refurb pages both got an A on the on page SEOmoz tool test. So we dont understand why we are not ranking highly. It seems sites, much uglier and less seo friendly than our with same or lower domain authority are ranking at least 10 pages higher than us.

Why is this? Can anyone help or give us a few suggestions.

All help greatly appreciated. SEOmozzers.

The question says it all really. Google analytics shows me that my top 2 pages are my domain address and index.php, which are exactly the same. Is it best to leave it like this or redirect index.php to my domain address?

Wow, what a great answer. Thanks bunch, actually helped alot

I have recently set up a campaign for www.completeoffice.co.uk. Im the in-house developer there. When the crawl diagnostics completed, i went to check the results, and to my surprise, it had well over 100 missing or empty title tags. I then clicked it to see what pages, and nearly all the pages it say have missing or empty title tags, DO NOT EXIST.

This has really confused me and need help figuring out how to solve this. Can anyone help?

Attached image is a screen shot of some of the links it showed me on crawl diagnostics, nearly all of these do not exist.

Will the relation Canonical tag in the head section of the actual pages help?

For example,

The actual page that exist is: www.completeoffice.co.uk/Products.php

Whereas, when crawled it actually showed www.completeoffice.co.uk/Products/Products.php

Will have the rel can tag in the header of the real products.php solve this?

in my title tag i want to have:

3D Renders of Office Refurbishment & Interior Design Kent | Complete Group

which unfortunatly is longer than 70 characters, however, to make it fit in 70 characters i could put:

3D Renders of Office Refurb & Interior Design Kent | Complete Group

Notice that refurbishment has been changed to refurb, would this be ok for SEO purposes?

We are about to change nameservers and upload a new website design design, completely rebuilt website to that new hosting, will this effect our seo efforts previously and have an effect on our SEO rankings?

Why are you redirecting .html to .php why dont you just permanently change the endings of the pages to .php?

Hi. I was speaking with my designer last night (we are setting up a new website) and we were discussing the design of our homepage, now the designer said he wanted the first page of the website to be a sort of landing page page were the visitor has to click and enter, im sure everyone has all come across these before. However, I am concerned as to the SEO implications of this?

Any help guys?

The typical listing looks like this (as im sure you know):

However, one of my competitors has a listing that looks like the following:

(http://i.imgur.com/Io1oX.png - link to image if its too small for you to see)

How do they do this?

Am i right in thinking this is a lot better for SEO because effectively it takes up 3-4 positions on search results?

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There all good ideas.

I could do that, but I still wouldn't know how to get enough information about the particular office interior design to write content for the blog and the image permissions.

the images they have must have been obtained from the company doing it, but the images aren't the real issue, how did they get the information about the interior design in order to write a blog about it?

Im currently building a blog on Wordpress, and I will be blogging about Office Interior Designs. When I look at my competition they have some great blog posts about office interior designs and I have no idea about how they get: a) The ideas to blog about, how do they find out about these office interior designs b) how they get the content for them, how do they know what to write about each one, do they need permission etc, c) if i am interested in doing a blog on the same office interior design as them, how can I get information )and permission from the company that done the office interior design) on the office interior design so i can blog about it and also how do i get the images and stuff. an example is http://www.officedesignblog.com/invensys-rail-office-concept/726/ I would like to cover this aswell, as i think my future readers would like to know about this. how did they get the images, and the information about the project so they could write a blog post about it? And how would I go about doing the same thing?

Thumbs up for suggesting a wp install to his current site. Without this, theres no point doing SEO because the blogs not run your site and you would not get any sweet nectar from it.

Theres been alot of rage about this. go to this question:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/link-analysis

People chat about it alot today, and alot of people are very unhappy with seomoz

If you have more relevant backlinks than 10, and obtain a higher PR and DA over time then it is without a doubt that you will see your self rise up the ranking quickly, just give it time, Bots are doing their best.

I have recently gained a few links which I know are definitly up, because I have seen them, however, when I navigate to link analysis on SEOmoz pro, the number of links isnt showing as more than before. How long does it take to update?

Is answering questions on yahoo answers and forums genuine link building opportunity? I dont mean spamming much, but being a genuine member of the forums

OK that sounds reasonable. How would they get a backlink in a downloadable document?

When using open site explorer to analyse my competitors links, when going through them, I would click them to have a look at them.

Almost all of the ones I clicked on something started to download on my computer and would be a blank page or the tab would disappear when the download begun.

What is this?

Why have they done this?

Is this bad practice?

Thanks

Thanks alot. Was hoping that would be the case

When viewing my campaign and looking at the on page optimisation tool, I have a few issues.

I seems to only shows the keywords I want rankings for and how optimised my homepage is for those keywords.

Is there any way I can get it to analyse permanently specifc keywords for specific pages because my homepage isnt optimised for some keywords which are on my list, which I have optimised other pages for, and because its looking at my homepage its getting a really low grade, and looks really bad and frustrates me because I cant work this out.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Using the tools in the SEOmoz pro repertoire I have inserted keywords.

Will the rankings tool show me the rankings for any of my pages on the site that have listed for this keyword, or just the home page?

Hi.

I am new to the world of SEO, and SEOmoz has already taught me a lot.

I am a newly appointed in house SEO at www.completeoffice.co.uk.

They want to rank for the keyword office interior design, but I noticed that all the keywords they are trying to rank for, there homepage shows up on search results.

So I optimised the on page SEO of their website for the specific office interior design page.

http://www.completeoffice.co.uk/interiors.aspx. I took it from a grade F to a grade A.

Currently they are showing up just outside the top 50 for office interior design, and its the homepage in the google results. Now I have made these changes and on page optimised the SEO for this page to be solely for office interior design keyword will the search results change so that it is the specific office interior design page showing and linking to , or will it always remain the home page.

I have optimised many of the other pages in this way so that a keyword will link to the relevant page and rank for that relevant page, rather than get the home page to rank for 30 keywords.

Thanks for any help.