Hi, no problem. Keri has answered your query re the Moz crawler not finding them.
Peter
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Hi, no problem. Keri has answered your query re the Moz crawler not finding them.
Peter
Just as Kevin said! [thumbs up]
Peter
Hi, I don't think it is true to say that as a result of Hummingbird that Title tags are are the main selling point in SERPs, but certainly having lots of keywords in your Title will not be helpful to you.
The longer the Title tag, the less SEO value each word has, but that doesn't mean you should always aim for a very short Title tag either. The most important words need to be near the start of the Title and most of all - and this it true pre-Hummingbird as well - the Title should be a good summary of what the page is about.
Think about the Title tag as the title of a page or chapter in a book. It needs to be succinct but descriptive enough to be understood (by both a person and the search engine) and it needs to be unique.
The Title examples you have given look reasonable and well targeted I would say.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi, if you put site:xxx.com into Google where xxx.com is your client's domain name, does Google report anything?
Peter
Hi Silviu
It is as Ari said - source URL is relative and destination URL is absolute.
Peter
Hi Letty
I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but if you are already committed to using Google+ and including authorship on your site's pages which is linked to your Google+ profile, then I don't think you need it. I would use Google+ instead.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Thanks everyone for your feedback. Much appreciated. Glad I am not the only one who doubts the value of this tactic,
Peter
Hi, I suggest putting your site into the Open Site Explorer and looking at the Page Authority and Domain Authority of the links.
These two metrics are Moz's measurement of authority which you can find out more about via the links here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority and http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority. They will give you a good idea.
Just a word on the Disavow tool. Be cautious in the way you use it and maybe check out this blog post: Disavowed: Secrets of Google's Most Mysterious Tool before you do anything further.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Josh
Without knowing the URL that you are specifically researching it's difficult to be sure, but I understand if you don't want to share that.
On the Open Site Explorer itself, what do you see if you click the Linking Domains tab?
If I put my site's domain in I see a list of the linking domains with a + symbol alongside each one. If I click that link, then it shows a link to each page on that linking domain that links to my site.
There is also a filter on this tab above the list of links which allows you to Shown Domains with links to: this page, pages on this sub-domain or pages on this root domain. Selecting on any of these and clicking the Filter button will show different pages of results.
I hope that helps,
Peter
OK, yes I understand, no problem. It would be good to hear suggestions from others as there may be a better way to represent all of what you want to be able to do.
Peter
Hi, my guess is that it is a page extension that is unique to the Content Management System (CMS) you are using but it nothing more significant than that. Certainly it isn't helpful to anyone, human or search.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi again,
Yes, I understand your reluctance to have a top ten list given that some categories may not have ten, but maybe you could have a "The best of..." category which could have whatever number of toys etc that fitted into it.
What I meant by the top level "top ten page" is just a page that is linked to from your site's home page to be the home page of the "top tens" or "The best of" page, You could just have a dropdown menu from your home page for this, but if this section had its own "home" page so to speak, then it would be an opportunity to make a big splash on that page for various categories of products for Down Syndrome children. It would have more impact that way and would be a good hub for your reviews of these products.
The level below that would be the lists of products that fit that category but just with a summary of each and a thumbnail image with a link from each to a detailed page and review of the product.
Yes, I am suggesting you have a separate page for each toy because by doing that you make it flexible for a toy to appear in more than one "best" list without having to duplicate content. It would just be linked to from each list into which it belonged. See below.
Having said before about not going below 3 levels I have realised that this structure is 4 levels so maybe that is too deep, but it may work.
So you would have something looking like the following:
Home page: "The Best of..." menu item
|_ The Best Of feature (home) page with summary details of all the categories
|_ The Best Christmas Gift Ideas
|_ page listing a summary of all reviews for this category with read more links to...
|_ Gift (full) review 1
|_ Gift (full) review 2 (same page as Learning Toy review 1)
|_ etc
|_ The Best Learning Toys
|_ page listing a summary of all reviews for this category with read more links to...
|_ Learning Toy (full) review 1 (same page as Gift review 2)
|_ Learning Toy (full) review 2
|_ etc
|_ The Best of another category
I hope that makes sense and is helpful for you,
Peter
Hi Noah's Dad
Yes, it can be quite a challenge organising content when you have lots of it. In these cases, I think it is best to try to take a step back and think through the pathway a user would want to follow if they were coming to your site. By doing that it will give you a better idea of how to structure that content so the user's experience is as straightforward and hopefully as intuitive as possible.
I would be inclined to create a structure around your Top Tens, so that becomes your top level menu with its own home page so to speak within that category. Then, branching off of that starting point you can have your top ten sub-categories, i.e.
Then you could drill down to the age brackets, but I would avoid going any lower than a third-level. If you can, I would avoid the third-level, but I understand it may be needed.
What you need to be careful of from an SEO perspective is to not have big blocks of duplicate content across the site for each of the toys. You don't really want to repeat the same paragraphs for a toy that appears in more than one sub-category..
My suggestion to resolve that therefore is for the top ten pages to be compilations or lists of the top ten toys in that sub-category. To do that you would write a little bit of summary text on a toy, enough to give the user a taster with a thumbnail image, but then with a read more through to an individual page for that toy where you can include the full information and link(s) to where they can view and/or buy the product online.
By having individual toy pages it means you can include a single toy page in any list you choose to create. Probably on the toy page itself you need to include a list of "top ten fors...". What I mean is on the individual toy page it could say something like "Noah's Dad rates this toy in the top ten for..." and then what you rate it top ten for, e.g. one-year old, learning etc.
It is complicated and which ever way you cut it up, it's not going to suit everyone, but hopefully the above will give you some ideas.
All the best to you,
Peter
Hi Roxanne
Welcome to Moz! The community rank is based on how many Moz points you have accumulated when you have interacted on Moz by responding to questions, posting on YouMoz and also updating your profile. The more Moz points you accumulate the higher your community rank is, the lower the number the higher your rank.
3238 is a good starting point but it will get even better the more you involve yourself in the Moz community!
All the best to you!
Peter
Edit: there is more info on Moz points and how you can earn them here
Hi Rob,
I'm not sure any SEO tactic can be described as the best approach. It's really more about following through on a number of elements that all focus attention on a particular web page and your site as a whole being better optimised to be found and indexed by search engines for the customers you are targeting.
That said, it is true that building backlinks to your website is still an important ranking factor in SEO, but then before you do that you need to be sure you are targeting the correct keywords for the pages on your site.
Probably a good way to start doing that is to perform analysis on the websites of your competitors and look at what keywords they are targeting and where they are drawing backlinks from. You can do that using Moz's Open Site Explorer tool. By putting in each of your competitors' websites into that you will see where they are receiving links from (so with some location you can grow some too) and what anchor text they are using which is often an indicator of the keywords they are targeting.
But on all of the above, try to keep in mind that you are optimising your website for your target customers and not search engines. A search engine is just acting as a broker in your relationship with your customer. Try to understand the mind of your customer and what they will be searching for and then check to see how competitive some other keywords may be and what search volumes are available for them.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Silviu
There is always the possibility of some SEO value being lost when you implement a 301 redirection so that may be why you have seen a hit.
Have a look at Moz's information on this here...
Note this paragraph: A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link juice (ranking power) to the redirected page. 301 refers to the HTTP status code for this type of redirect. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website.
One thing though, I have never seen relative redirection for the same domain written as "http://www.domain.com/old-url.html" 301 redirect to "/new-url.html" but always as "/old-url.html" 301 redirect to "http://www.domain.com//new-url.html". I'm not saying the other way wouldn't work - which if the links are working correctly when you follow them they clearly are - but just not seen that.
I hope the above helps,
Peter
This is something I asked myself this evening. You see a lot of sites with a Facebook or Twitter feed displayed, but I struggle to understand their value.
OK, it shows that you are active on this or that social media channel, but unless you are posting great content consistently on the social media displayed, the impact of your feed could detract from the web page it is displayed on. It could also cause a visitor to that page on your site to click away from your site into the noise and distraction of that social media channel.
I don't have an issue with using social media icons to link to your channels, but they are more discreet and the sort of thing people will look for if they are interested enough in your web pages to want to connect with you. Also, social sharing icons are good, but I do not see the value in social media feeds.
Do you agree or disagree? I am more than will to be persuaded otherwise.
Thanks in advance,
Peter
I have no experience of using Triond so please take my comments in that context.
Personally, it would worry me to uss a service like that to put my articles as guest blog posts around the Internet. It raises some questions & concerns for me.
They say they put your blog posts on the most relevant sites, but what is to stop you finding these sites and doing that? Who owns these sites?
If these blogging sites are legitimate blogging sites then why can you not post on them, or are you just paying to put blog posts on someone's site? If that is the case then in essence you are buying links which Google outlaws for SEO.
Penguin has slapped many sites for gathering backlinks from low quality sites. What is there to say that some of the sites your blog posts will be posted on will not also be low quality.
IMHO, if you have the ability to write blog posts sharing your expertise and represent your business, then it is too risky to entrust that into someone else's hands to publish without clear control of where they will be published.
I hope that helps and as I say, the above is just my opinion and not from someone who has used Triond.
Peter
Hi Rob
Congratulations on publishing your first website.
First comment is the site looks very clean and its navigation is very clear. Whilst content is very important for a website, the look and feel of the site needs to engage you to browse and read, which I think your site does. That is an important aspect of SEO because the more people browse and read your site the more Google will take notice and it will help to grow the authority of your website.
In terms of other optimisation of the site, you need to do it systematically and incrementally rather than take a scatter gun approach. A planned approach to what you do will help you to grow your understanding of SEO. The Moz tools are excellent for helping you do that, plus I recommend you read Moz's Beginner's Guide to SEO which will give good foundations to your learning.
One thing I would look at changing on your site is how you have structured your Title tags. All of your pages start with your site name: "The Removalists Guide" rather than what the page is about. I would reverse the order so, for example, on the Costs page the title is something like, "How much will it cost to move home? - The Removalists Guide".
Having the main words at the start helps both people and search engines to better understand what the page is about. In deciding on a Title of what the page is about, I would try to get inside the head of the person searching and what they are looking for or the question they are asking. Hence my wording for your costs page of "How much will it cost to move home?" rather than "How much will my move cost?" You need to include the word "Home" as it is important to what your whole website is about.
Similarly, with your home page, make the Title something like, "Helping you choose the right removal company" rather than "Helping you choose the right company" - the right company for what? Whilst I understand your site is about "removalists", and that is fine as your brand name, it's not a word understood necessarily by your potential customers - at least not in my part of the world (UK) it wouldn't be.
So, I hope that gives you a good starter. I am sure you will receive some great tips from others.
All the best to you,
Peter
I think people are more likely to search for Red Armani Jeans Coat than Armani Jeans Coat Red, but I don't think that means you should necessarily structure your Title tag as "Red Armani Jeans Coat" - but I am more than happy to hear otherwise.
Google is always trying to understand the searcher's intent and the question they are asking irrespective of whether they write their search short or long. The question the person is asking in this example is "Where can I buy a red Armani Jeans Coat?", but that doesn't mean a web page with the Title tag "Armani Jeans Coat - Red" will not rank well for that search.
Google will understand that first and foremost they are looking for an Armani Jeans coat and not a red coat. So, by structuring a Title as "Armani Jeans Coat - Red" makes the title unique and makes it clear that the page and ultimately your site (because you will have other Armani Jeans pages) sells Armani Jeans clothing. That also fits with Google's Hummingbird update as that is looking at the breadth of the site for a search and not just individual pages that they list in their results.
I'm not sure how much my ramblings above makes sense, but I hope it helps.
Peter
Hi, I agree with David's comments. All I would add is that whilst Hummingbird will give more attention to long tail searcehs that does not mean stuffing the Title tag with more words.
Best current advice re Title tags is to keep the main words at the start of the Title and keep words focussed and to a minimum where possible on the basis that the more words you have the more diluted the title is.
In the example you have given I think the Title should definitely start with "Armani Jeans Coat". To differentiate it then from other Armani Jeans coats I would make it ""Armani Jeans Coat - Fur Hooded - Green". Some would say using hyphens is not good for SEO in a Title tag, but I think it is matching SEO with readability and Hummingbird may well fit with that too.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Steve
If it can only be viewed legally by health practitioners who are members of your site, then it seems to me you don't have an option as by putting any of this content into the public domain on Google by whatever method you use will be deemed illegal by whichever body oversees it.
Presumably you cannot also publish short 25o word summaries of the content?
If not, then I think you need to create pages that are directly targeted at marketing the site to health practitioners. Whilst the pages won't be able to contain the content you want to have Google index, they could still contain general information and the benefits of becoming a subscriber.
Isn't that the goal of the site anyway, i.e. to be a resource to health practitioners? So, without being able to make the content public, you have to market to them through your SEO or use some other form or indirect or direct marketing to encourage them to the site to sign up.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Roger
I don't think you should pay too much attention to optimising for plural versions of keywords or the sort of variations you list.
For localised SEO the number of pages targeted at a set of keywords will be smaller anyway, so search engines will have less to pick from, meaning that they will spread their net wider to provide a set of results that are relevant for the search entered.
Also, these days, search engines are sophisticated enough to understand the variations largely mean the same thing. The focus of Google when returning their search results is increasingly to understand the searcher's intent, i.e. what the person is looking for and answer their query accordingly.
Google also includes personalisation in its search results, so these days it's likely that someone typing "magician for parties" for example who lives in say, Southampton, will see a set of search results which will include magicians local to them in the Southampton area or nearby.
Google's personalisation of search results is defined through a range of criteria including the IP address of Internet connection where the search is entered, hence Google interprets that if you are searching "magician for parties" then it is your intent that you are looking for a magician who is local to you.
Personalisation may even work for the single word search "magician" but in that case the search results are likely to also contain results from pages from Wikipedia and the Magic Circle. I tried it for where I live in Bournemouth and I get exactly that type of mix of results.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Aqeel
Yes, it is because all of the backlinks to your site are pointing to ultimatecharter.com/en/home and not ultimatecharter.com. But you also have what looks like a 302 (temporary) redirect from ultimatecharter.com/en/home which is probably the cause of not seeing them
If you run another check for ultimatecharter.com you will see the the 302 redirect reported.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Steve
As you already know, if a page is not crawlable it's not indexable. I don't think there is any way around this without changing the strategy of the site. You said, _"We have a number of open landing pages but we're limited to what indexable content we can have on these pages". _Is that limitation imposed by a legal requirement or something like that, or by the site owners because they don't want to give free access?
If the marketing strategy for the site is to grow the membership, then as it's providing a content service to its members then it has to give potential customers a sample of its wares.
I think there are two possible solutions.
(1) increase the amount of free content available on the site to give the search engines more content to crawl and make available to people searching or
(2) Provide a decent size excerpt, say the first 250 words of each article as a taster for potential customers and put the site login at the point of the "read more". That way you give the search engines something to get their teeth into which is of a decent length but it's also a decent size teaser to give potential customers an appetite to subscribe.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi, if you are not already a subscriber there are social tracking tools within Moz's new Moz Analytics in which you can for example track your site's "Most Engaging Posts".
Peter
Hi Christopher
If you go to bing.com and enter linkfromdomain:yourdomainname into the search box it will show you all of the pages the site is linking to but does not show the actual pages the outbound links are going from.
I have not used it but you could also use Xenu's Link Sleuth which you would need to download and install.
I hope that helps,
Peter
I think you could do both...
Have a page which is like a directory page for all their depots, but then have individual pages for each depot giving their full name, address and phone number, a Google map, details of the types and makes of appliance that depot repairs, opening times etc.
An example of a company that does both is Walmart. If you click on the More Details link in the page below you are taken to a detailed page about an individual store:
Or look at Fedex. They have a state level directory for California: http://local.fedex.com/ca/ which drills down to cities: http://local.fedex.com/ca/los-angeles/ and then to offices within that city: http://local.fedex.com/ca/los-angeles/office-4566/
OK, Fedex are huge, but they have very detailed individual pages for each of their offices. Whilst your client may only have a few service & repair depots in California, the principle is the same.
Peter
Hi Jesse
When you say they offer appliance repair in all of California does your client have a single location to which appliances are brought or taken to for repair or just one?
So, to use your example, if they have depot in Los Angeles which people can phone to arrange for their appliance to be repaired, then include a page on the site with the address details of the Los Angeles depot and optimise that page for "Appliance Repairs Los Angeles". Then do the same with all the other cities they have depots.
If they only have one location, then it will make more sense to just optimise for "Appliance Repair California".
As I say, it really depends on how your client operates.
I hope that helps,
Peter
From the look of the info you have given about all URLs having /content/ after the domain name, I think you may be using Drupal as your CMS. If it is, whilst I don't know a great deal about Drupal, it may be worth looking at what extensions Drupal has for dealing with duplicate page issues.
Peter
Hi, it's difficult to say without knowing anything about your site. Would you be able to share a link to it?
The other possible reason - and I am not saying this is the case - is if you have had any used any overseas backlinking service that could be based in these areas. Could that be the case?
Peter
Hi Tony, the video seems up to date (or near to) as far as I can see. It shows the breadth of things that Moz can do in terms of keyword research.
I am wondering if you are referring to keyword suggestion? That is one area which Moz's tools don't provide much support with other than on the Find New Keywords tab which only lists keywords that your Google Analytics reports your site has been found for. What Moz's tools don't do is take a seed keyword and provide suggestions based on that seed that you may also optimise for.
Peter
Hi, I have seen a situation before where GWT says that no images are indexed but they have indexed them. I don't know why.
Checking Google directly, by searching site:thesalebox.com and then clicking the Image tab shows that Google do have images indexed on your site, maybe not all, but there are some so maybe more are being indexed:
Peter
Hi Mike
I doubt that this will help, but one thing I have seen recently is missing campaigns in Moz Analytics that are shown in Moz Pro. I have also seen someone saying yesterday on the Q&A that they were missing campaigns the other way around.
As I say, I doubt this will the case in your situation, but it may be worth checking if they are in Analytics or vice versa in Pro.
Peter
Hi Jake
You could try http://www.keywordeye.com. They offer a free account which provides 10 keyword searches per day and up to 100 keyword suggestions per report. Their Pro version is not very much per month and there is a 30 day free trial of that.
I have played around with this tool rather than used it seriously, but it is worth a look as an alternative to the Google Keyword Planner.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Andy
If the hair salon owner only wants to target Sheffield and nowhere further afield, then one option to guarantee page one attention would be Google Adwords.
Whilst local SEO is easier because of the smaller target demographic, the city of Sheffield is quite large as you say, so if he is wanting to target quickly after a rebrand then that may not work as quickly as he wants through organic SEO.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi, my recommendation would be the latter - their brand page on your website. There is more context that way and the link (which hopefully they will agree to make a "follow" link) will pass good value to your web page so that page will rank higher for that brand because of it.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Jake
Depending on how long they have had their current domain (i.e. the one like soccershoes.com), then it may be better to focus their attention in optimising some of the pages on that site for US market.
One of the ranking factors for a site is the domain's authority which in part is based on its age. For a new domain there is no authority to start with, so if the existing domain they have is older and is already online and earning authority then concentrate on that one. The other domain they have just bought can then be redirected to the existing one, but there isn't any great SEO value in doing that.
Exact match domains like ussoccershoes.com used to be a quick route to target being ranked for search terms but because they have, Google is not paying so much attention now to ranking them well, especially when they are new domain. That isn't to say it wouldn't be possible to rank a site like that for the search term, but at the end of the day it comes down to having lots of good unique content for the keywords you are targeting.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Zulfiqar
In your other question you were asking about how to rank highly for a specific term. Yes, I would highly recommend at this stage you look at having a clear idea of what business you want to be in as you have suggested and a business that would interest you. Also, where you can bring expertise.
It's easy to get sucked into using different tools and techniques with SEO, but the bottom line is about having a strategy, one that looks at your business and what you have to offer and about the type of customers you want to be able to reach with your business. Search engines are really the glue in the middle that connects your business with them and them with you.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Coleman
As Matthew says, but also, if you created accounts in Moz Pro and then went for the try out of Moz Analytics. You campaigns at that stage would have been migrated to Moz Analytics, but if you then created more campaigns in Moz Pro, those campaigns will be missing from Moz Analytics.
Peter
Hi Zulfiqar
You do not say what type of site you have, i.e. what you site is about, but I am guessing a site about IT recruitment?
It will be important for you to build a site with pages containing good unique content about the search terms you want to be found for and other things like that, but don't get too hooked into tactics and techniques. Think about the people you want to find your site and what they are looking for and the questions they may have. That should drive the type of pages and content you create.
Yes, Moz videos will be a good start for you in the Moz Academy and also read Moz's Beginner's Guide to SEO. Both will give you a good kickstart into what you want to be able to do.
Good luck to you,
Peter
Hi Steve
Others will comment on this I am sure and how effective your strategy may be. The article here may also help you.
Peter
Hi Mike
I have no experience of Attracta, but if, as you say, what they are offering "doesn't exactly sound white hat", that would worry me.
The last couple of years have seen many sites experience loss from 'not exactly white hat' link building. You can get quick climbs in keyword ranking, but if your site gets slapped it could suffer a long time in obscurity. The net result is not worth it.
But as I say, I have no experience of Attracta so my issue is not with them because what they do may be totally fine. All I would say is if in doubt be cautious.
I hope that helps,
Peter
EDIT: I suggest it is also having a look at this page which may help you to qualify what may or may not work for you: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
Hi Lara
This isn't a Hummingbird issue. From the sound of it, you may have been hit by Penguin 2.1.
To start with you may find it helpful to read this article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/penguin-2-1-changed-since-2-0-recover/72977/
Peter
Hi Iris
OK, I think I can see what you mean. About 20 lines down there is a block of inbound links showing as coming from your domain. Is that what you mean?
It's a good question. I think this is to do with the fact that you use absolute URLs in the links on your website and not relative URLs.
An absolute URL to a page is like this: www.mydomain.com/mypage.html whereas a relative URL is like this /mypage.html
If you use absolute URLs to link internally then because they have the full path including the domain then I think that is being seen as an inbound link, whereas if you use relative URLs that don't include the domain they are not seen as inbound.
The report shows inbound links and not **internal **links so there is a subtle difference. If you run the same report on your site using Open Site Explorer that provides a filter which allows you to see inbound links that are only external or only internal. Using these filters hides the block of links you are seeing when filtering external only and shows them when filtering internal only.
See here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links.html?page=1&site=villasdiani.com
I need someone to verify this but I think this is the reason.
Peter
Hi Kristin
I have no experience of this happening, but I would suggest that you create a full sitemap and submit that to Google Webmaster tools asap.
Peter
Thanks for including that screenshot Iris.
Regarding villasdiani.com/?db being shown as one of your top visited pages, I think (and perhaps someone from Moz will confirm this) that because you have been receiving links to your site to villasdiani.com/?db and that is probably also being recording in your Google Analytics, it considers that to be a page when it actually isn't.
As I mentioned earlier in our conversation on this, villasdiani.com and villasdiani.com/?db are actually go to the same page. They are just seen as different because you have had inbound links to villasdiani.com/?db and as said before when the query string ?db is not processed by the web server because there is not recognised, it is then ignored.
I have run a search to see what external sites/pages are linking to villasdiani.com/?db and the following were some of the results:
http://dianibeach.com/airservices/index.html
http://dianibeach.com/apartments/index.htm
http://dianibeach.com/bedbreakfast/index.htm
http://dianibeach.com/books
http://dianibeach.com/carhire
http://dianibeach.com/golf
and they are showing as all having had the anchor text of "Raul".
Is Raul the name of this guy you know who said he was giving links to your site from the footer of your site?
I have checked the source code of some of the pages above villasdiani.com/?db.
The data being reported by Moz for these type of reports is not totally up to date but taken from the last crawl they made. You said at the start of this thread that you had asked this guy to remove the links to your site. Could it be that in the last few days or so he has done that and so from now on you won't be getting any links to villasdiani.com/?db ?
That's possible, but I cannot say that is definitive, but it would explain what you have been seeing.
Maybe someone from the Moz team can throw some light on this or one of the other more knowledgeable forum members.
Peter
Hi, I don't think there is any reason not to and gives further opportunity to 'like you'
Peter
Hi Nathan
No, that is not correct. Only 301 redirects will pass value and they don't guarantee to pass all of the value. As 302 redirects nothing is passed.
There is information here on redirects: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection
I hope that helps,
Peter