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Thank you. Any idea how long this will take?  It can't be all that hard to do, to at least add the ones currently say available on Namecheap to buy?

Thanks for getting back to me, but I probably didn't explain myself properly. In fact re-reading it I really didn't.

I can find the site in OSE but it says my DA and PA are 1 when I thought it should be a little more than that. So that is one problem and I don't know how to improve it other than to wait.

But there is a second problem which is not to do with my site but with the MOZ software.
I looked in the Just Discovered reports to see if I could find anything there.   It looks like they do not take the new TLDS or at least the one I am using into account.

They are reporting that I have incoming links that I do not have as they are counting incoming links to other people's sites on a report about my site.  I hope that what I am saying is clear.

I can't find my 4 month old site in Open Site Explorer.    But as the site has had all of its posts tweeted  I checked the Just Discovered Links reports to see if it was mentioned there.

My domain is http://www.genesisclub.training but the problem is that if I target "this root domain" - I get a bunch of links that are nothing to do with my site.

For example the root domain report includes sites linking to

• www.tinmagpie.training
• www.goahead.training
• powerquery.training
• http://videoproduction.training
• http://www.eti.training
• http://linkedinsales.training

and more, as sites linking to my root domain.  In which universe?  The Just Discovered algorithm looks like it isn't coping with the .training TLD.   It is treating my domain as if it were genesisclub.training.com so now anything.training is in my root domain.

This is an old question, but I'll answer.  Yes - we just set a number of WordPress sites on SiteGound.  Bought their Geek account.  Very, very happy with it so far, but am aware that the costs will increase significantly as they do draw you in a bit with their slashed pricing for the first year.

Happy with the package as it is super-fast and really like their caching solution.

If you do what is suggested in the second link you give, that will work but is a manual process.

Not every page that someone authors should be included as an authored page - only the good, high quality articles so doing it manually is a way to ensure you only cherry pick the best content to claim authorship for.

If you use a plugin, you can end up linking back from everything whether you like it or not.  Apart from only claiming authorship for your best content  I think it is better to link back to your author page and then link once (per author) back to the Google profile.   We created a WordPress plugin that does this called AuthorSure.  It is used by a lot of multi-author blogs and gives you granularity of control over what you link to. If you happen to use WordPress and want a plugin solution it is the best one I know of ;-).

In WordPress, if you have categories of dogs, budgies and cats, the category pages that WordPress generates for you will be

• www.yoursite.com/category/cats
• www.yoursite.com/category/dogs
• www.yoursite.com/category/budgies

So the word category appears in each URL diluting the keywords.  Yoast allows you to remove the "category" part of this altogether, if you want to. I don't think there are any disadvantages to it other than when you look at a page URL you'll have a hard time telling if it is a category page or not.

The advantage is that you page doesn't look generated to the naked eye - the word category in the URL is giveaway.  If you go to the trouble of inserting some relevant unique info at the top of each category page this will look even better, both to humans and search engines.  You also make the URL a little more relevant.

You can instead specify a word to replace category and tag in the URL which is another route. So rather than category you can specify some niche word where appropriate.

Can you encourage the sites you guest post on to add authorship markup so that you can benefit from your work as the author?

Our WordPress plugin AuthorSure works on multi-author sites.  Try getting them to add it? That is assuming you are guest posting on WordPress sites.

Probably better to post a link to your CSS file so someone can see what you are talking about.

I know this is an old post, but when I tested that link in the rich snippets testing tool, it doesn't appear to have valid markup. So until that is fixed the photo won't show ....

It will make an impact. I have had authorship set up for months now and it has made a difference to click-throughs.  Basically I have more traffic now than before.  And I believe this is partly due to the photo in the SERPs.

We put an authorship plugin together for WordPress as we needed to implement authorship on our own sites and client sites.  It's free - you can try it if you feel you can't or don't want to do it manually.  http://www.authorsure.com.

If you do what is suggested in the second link you give, that will work but is a manual process.

Not every page that someone authors should be included as an authored page - only the good, high quality articles so doing it manually is a way to ensure you only cherry pick the best content to claim authorship for.

If you use a plugin, you can end up linking back from everything whether you like it or not.  Apart from only claiming authorship for your best content  I think it is better to link back to your author page and then link once (per author) back to the Google profile.   We created a WordPress plugin that does this called AuthorSure.  It is used by a lot of multi-author blogs and gives you granularity of control over what you link to. If you happen to use WordPress and want a plugin solution it is the best one I know of ;-).