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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.

I realise this response is almost a year old, but I've only just found it. I am about to start using Optimizely, but am concerned about affecting my ranking especially now that we have a new Penguin update due any time now.

The nice guy at Optimizely told me today (during the webinar for newbies) that you could use Optimizely to permanently direct different sorts of visitors to different content. For example, he pointed out that people who today run IE 6 are very different from people who run IE 9. And depending on your market it might make sense to give those two groups different messaging.  But Google specifically say don't deliver different content based on user-agent.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/website-testing-google-search.html  And on the last point in that article, how long is too long?

Thanks. So the answer is no - they cannot be moved, but we can set it up that the numbers on the new page refer to the SM love counts on the old.

Say you have a WordPress site with a number of posts that have all been given lots of tweets, G+, FB likes and other social media love, and say you are showing that using a social media plugin on each post that shows the counts of all of these.

If you 301 redirect the pages to another site, will the social media love counts follow, or will the page on the new site have to start again as far as social media is concerned?

QhqeL

I took  "simply falling down in the SERPs" to mean that it's preferable to an actual penalty. We are all rising or falling in the SERPs for every keyword every day according to what changes happen in and around our sites and in and around other people's sites.

Google is trying to use a bunch of signals to imply authority and quality and along the way they are bound to judge some well intentioned sites wrongly.   Someone I know has a site full of original and useful content. But he also has a whole bunch of duplicate content pages lying around which he forgot about from months ago, and a long list of duplicated archive pages due to poor use of tags in WordPress.  He's placed a large ad above the fold on every page and has a high code to content ratio on the page. He has poor but not non-existent social interaction on his site and his site as a home-made feel to it - it also looks dis-organised - which I tend to think prevents people from ever engaging with his stuff as they can't see the article for all the surrounding clutter.  He uses GA so G knows about his bounce rate too.   You can't fault him on his content, but in the past when he didn't know better he did some fake link building but he doesn't do it any more.

He lost 75% of his traffic on 24th April.   At least if this a result of  "simply falling down in the SERPs", he can simply climb back up with a  few changes. Except for the bad links.

I'm not sure what anyone can do about those, but then I am (reliably) told Penguin had nothing to do with inbound links.

Liz