Hi Pete,

Please don't block access to foreigners. You can set the geo-target in Google webmaster tools account, if you have not already done so. It is completely normal with country-specific websites getting traffic from all over the World. A small or probably 1 in a thousand foreign visits might come from UK people traveling abroad. So to conclude, its my honest opinion not to block access to foreigners even the bounce rates might be alarming. Its common and natural and search engine like Google know about this pretty well and there won't be any issue to your website from their end.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Adding to the above responses. Just because of the fact that Google does not use the keywords meta tag for ranking purposes at this point in time, populating it with too many and irrelevant keywords/phrases can do more harm as doing so is nothing but abusing the tag and moreover it clearly conveys the intention of the webmaster which is none other than to manipulate the search results and there by to rank high for those keywords/phrases.

So you better leave this tag empty if your CMS generates the tag automatically.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

If this proxy website is a clone of the original website and if its not blocked thoroughly from being accessed and found by the search engines, we have a huge problem and this proxy website should be taken down ASAP as this might create issues because of duplicate content especially if the original website is fairly new and the proxy website has some strong SEO factors like domain age, domain authority or page authority etc. Please do write back in case you would like to give some more details about the issue or have queries in this regard.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

No problem my friend : -))

He is trying to consolidate or find the total number of landing pages that do not have any traffic at all. So, screaming frog seo spider can be used to crawl the entire website (with the substring in the URLs) and substitute the URLs that have driven at least 1 visitor. He is not trying to get a hold of his historic or old analytics data. The question is pretty straight forward unless I missed something.

Hi, you can use a crawler like Screaming Frog SEO Spider to come up with total number of pages with some unique string in the URLs, substitute the URLs that have traffic from these and the rest will be ones with no traffic.

You will have to use the paid version of Screaming Frog SEO Spider if you want to crawl more than 500 pages and here is the section of the user guide that tells you how to do a regex crawl:

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/configuration/#9

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Moz does not provide backlink indexing service.

Hi Surabhi,

If you are serious about getting your backlinks indexed fast and for sure, you need to make use of paid services like:

1. http://linklicious.co/

2. http://www.lindexed.com/

3. http://backlinksindexer.com/

4. http://www.instantlinkindexer.com/

5. http://www.indexification.com/

Free pinging tools are not so efficient compared to the above.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

You should not nofollow links to your social profiles. Your social profiles can benefit from your links.

This has been answered here on Moz:

http://moz.com/community/q/is-it-better-nofollow-or-follow-links-to-external-social-pages

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

I 100% agree with FedeEinhorn.

roofrackworld.com.au seems penalized somewhere around November 2013 to December 2013.

Go here: http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

Give an offline access to the tool for your Google Analytics account. Select the date range from September 2013 till date. Look for any Google update related penalty.

Please post your observations here so that we can take it from there.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

I would look at this from two perspectives.

1. These thins pages could have been beefed-up with some unique content or at least the content could have been re-written to make them unique. Personally, I prefer to make the duplicate pages unique instead of deleting them.This of course depends on the number of pages and the level of duplication.

2. Now that these pages have been removed from the website, you should be erasing all the links to these from within the website from all the places like, sitemaps and internal linking so that the search engines do not find a link pointing to them that might end-up in a 404 error. You should also consider if there have been any references left to these pages from third-party web properties.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi