Thank you Tom.

Hello,
Now that the Keywords Tool is gone, how can I see [exact match] search volumes on Google?
Thank you,
Cornel

Hello,

I found two studies that seem to contradict themselves about PPC vs Organic CTR:
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2200730/Organic-vs.-Paid-Search-Results-Organic-Wins-94-of-Time
http://brandongaille.com/google-organic-click-through-rate-statistics/ Which one is true?

Thank you
Cornel

Hello,

Is OSE making any difference when crawling the web between http or https links?

Will OSE show all links that point to my website regardless of them being http or https?

Thank you

Cornel

Note: The Label for the search bar is http.

I'm trying to submit a private question but I get an error saying:

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.

Cornel

Thank you,

Good point.

Cornel

I think/guess that most Romanians living in uk will search Romanian words on the google.co.uk .

This is what I do because my browser has Google.co.uk as a default search engine.

Cornel

Hello,

I want to build a blog on a .co.uk domain that targets Romanians from uk.

The blog will be in Romanian.

What recommendation do you have regarding Google, should I submit the website to google.co.uk or google.ro.

Did you had any cases like this?

Cornel

Hi Matt,

Thank you for your response, but I have one more question.

The article is from 2008 is it still applicable today?

Cornel

Hello,

This is a quick one or two.

If I have a page accessible on http and https count as duplicate content?

What about external links pointing to my website to the http or https page.

Regards,

Cornel

Hi Doug,

Thank you for your reply.

We never used the .com it was redirected to the .co.uk domain since the begining.

The traffic is 100% new visits.

Cornel

Hello,

We've 301 redirected our .com domain to .co.uk. A few dayes ago, I've started to get traffic from the .com domain to the hompage.

Any idea how this can happen?

• 100% New visits

• Low bounce rate

• 80% of the referral traffic

Our website is www.theloanengine.co.uk

Any suggestions are welcomed.

Cornel

Hello,

This is a strange one for me.

We have 301 redirected our .com domain to the .co.uk domain.

The strange thing is that if you gogole the .com domain (theloanengine.com) there is a result with the website description.

If you click on the result you are redirected tot he website homepage.

One other thing: I've discovered this 301 issue because Google Analytics started to show me a few days ago referrals from the .com domain. I don't know if these things are connected.

Cornel

Hi Jorenr,

One last thing: this will help you increase your CTR:

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-get-more-clicks-with-low-rankings

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049695/Top-Google-Result-Gets-36.4-of-Clicks-Study

I've tested it and it doubled my CTR.

Cornel

HI Adam,

Sending emails to your partners to changes their links is just a natural process after a 301 redirect.

No, Google wont find that spammy and it will increase your link juice, rankings etc.

Cornel

Hi Malcolm,

You are right and the second position gets only ~12%.

Than means less than 160 visits a month.

Cornel

Hi Jorenr,

1,300 (exact match) for 'some' keywords is not a lot and it can be volatile.

The best place to start debugging is Webmaster Tools > Traffic > Search Queries.

Here you can see if your website has been displayed, how many times, on what keywords, on what position and the CTR of your results.

Please check this and let me know the results.

Cornel

Hi Bilal,

Have a look at this:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/splitting-one-website-into-2-different-new-websites-with-301-redirects-help

It might help.

Cornel

Hi Bilal,

A 301 redirect is not spammy, but why do you want to do it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

Cornel

Hi Clotaire,

From a Romanian to another take some time and read this: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo it will explain a lot of your questions and it will give you a solid ground to build on.

Cornel

Hi Keri,

And as far as I know there isn't a date when they update their SERP for all website at once. Each website is individually crawled and they update the SERP individually for each website as quickly as they can.

And for this reason they've introduced 'Fetch as Google', speed and freshness.

If it was a weekly or even a daily update of the SERP we will lose the daily news.

Thank you for your reply Keri

Cornel

Thank you for your intervention Rand,

Have a nice week.

Cornel

Hi Vincent,

This is a common problem with new website and new links.

My website is 6 months old and I only have 4 domains pointing to my website (OSE) and 42 (Webmaster tools).

The next update is Today 

Cornel

I might not know a lot about SEO but I've never heard about something like this?

Anyone?

Cornel

P.S. I think you just wanted that link in there 

I'm sorry for his but I'll try to be honest.

It looks more like a price-list than an infographic.

Try to add more focus on the fun/info part, create a story about it.

I think the topic can be fun enough to be shared around if you put some time into it..

Cornel

What do you mean by "next Google index is due"?

Cornel

Thank you

Cornel

Just send your client this:

1. Missing Meta Description

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/meta-description

http://www.highrankings.com/metadescription

2. Duplicate Page Title

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag

3. Title Element too Long

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/title-tags-is-70-characters-the-best-practice-whiteboard-friday

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/long-title-tags

4. To many On-Page Links

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

5. Duplicate Page Content

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

6. Long URL

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/should-i-change-my-urls-for-seo

http://www.johnfdoherty.com/lessons-from-google-about-url-lengths/

7. Title Missing or Empty

http://searchengineland.com/seotable

By the time they finish reading this hey will not argue anymore.

Cornel

Anyone have any idea when today's WBF will be published?

Cornel

I will love to see Rand replying to this.:)

Cornel

Hello,

http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/sell-links.html is in buying / selling links so that is a NO! NO! NO!

http://www.thinkbigsites.com/seo-seo-packages.html play the video (min 1:05) and they'll say "we own a big network of blogs and social bookmarking profiles" ... That's again a NO! NO! NO!

I suggest you read some blogs about the penguin and panda update ... just google it.

If you have $1800 to spend on SEO each month I think you can use them in better ways.

Cornel

Hi,

301: Permanent Redirect, (Response to the crawler)

404: Not found (Response to the user)

Here is a nice Response codes article  http://www.seomoz.org/blog/response-codes-explained-with-pictures

In theory 404 is a safety net for your website when: you delete a page (you shouldn't :), a user types in a incorrect URL ... etc and you don't want the server to display the ugly 404 error message to the client. A lot of 404s to me it shows that the webmaster is not keeping a close eye to his links.

Although 301 redirecting a page that is not relevant anymore is not 100% accurate it's the best solution because:

• you keep the links juice

• your showcase page is the most relevant page on the website.

• you don't lose any direct visits.

Cornel

Hi Alice,

If you start with the simple purpose of the sitemaps that you've stated above, (website crawling) you don't need to create** "Product A by brand B in Location C"** and **"Product A by brand B in Location D" **because the product was already indexed by Google.

Will it look spammy? I don't know, it might.

The question is, who ranks better your category/search results pages or product pages?

Cornel

If you have your byline on top and your anchor text link will point to the same page, Google will count your byline and not your anchor text link which is not ideal.

Hi,

1. An Anchor text is better than a byline

2. If the 2 links are pointing to the same page, yes only one counts, the first one.

3. Duplicate byline will not help if they point to the same page.

Cornel

Hi Dimitry, Here is the list with the Rich Snippets available on Google. http://bit.ly/MzCxQz I think the search bar is not a Rich Snippet, but rather something that google adds when he thinks its relevant. Cornel

Hi Andrew,

Can you give me some more details?

1. How long before doing the SEO optimization was the website live.

2. What was you position on the SERP

3. CTR on that position?

4. Have you guest posted in any news websites?

5. Have you measured your position in the SERP with SEOmoz Tools?

Cornel

I've seen something similar especially when you appear in some kind of news websites.

Maybe Google wants to see if his new page is no something 'viral'.

Cornel

Hi Florent,

For me if Webmaster tools shows me 1600 impressions and I'm on the first page, that means 1600 people searched for the term, I consider that search volume, this doesn't apply to search results where I'm not on he first page.

A 2.5 position can be real even if you are no1 for 6 weeks. The reason being is personalized results, you can be no1 on your results and be no 3,4 on other people results.

Are you sure that 15.000 searches are 'exact match' searches?

Hi Florent,

To calculate your CTR you shouldn't compare Google estimates with you traffic.

Google Webmaster tools gives you an exact CTR number

Take a look at this http://i.imgur.com/wWZzr.png

Cornel

I guess they will create a 'report link' and 'report domain' tool as well.

Cornel

First question:

Yes PA can be greater than DA.

Watch this 2010 WBF http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-domain-authority-page-authority-metrics

Second Question:

DA can predict that you will have good rankings but does not guarantee it.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority

Cornel

As far as I know there is no SEO difference between 301 redirecting a page or a category.

Cornel

Hi Joshua,

Take a look at these

http://www.webpronews.com/google-will-soon-ignore-links-you-tell-it-to-2012-06

http://searchengineland.com/live-blog-you-a-with-matt-cutts-at-smx-advanced-123513

Conel

Hi GAZ09,

It usually takes  24H if you use 'Fetch as Google', but if your new title tag 'seams' spammy and unnatural it can take even one year

Take a look at this:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/my-google-title-isn-t-showing-what-is-entered

Regards,

Cornel

Hi Gareth,

I guess it should work like this in a web.config:

<match url=".*"></match>

<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^domain.co.uk/category/$"></add>

<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.domain.co.uk/category/{R:0}" redirecttype="Permanent"></action>

Hi Axel,

As far as I see you can't measure the string length in 'Conditional Formatting' option in gDocs.

This is how it should work in Excel gDocs

Lets say that your table looks like this:

1. Column A  = No

2. Column B = Strings

This is what you should do.

1. Create a separate empty column C

2. Paste this code into column C  ||| _ =IF(LEN(B1)>140,B1__,"")_  ||||

This should create in Column C a list with all the strings > 140

Hope this helps,

Cornel

Hi Donnie,

One of the occasions when you should use nofollow is paid links.

If you are offering sponsored links to you partners, Google demands that you nofollow those links.

Cornel

Hi Paul,

Employ one or two senior people to build a small SEO team for you.

Cornel

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how big is the difference between a PR5 .com and a PR5 .edu

Double, triple? How big?

Cornel