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Yes, i believe so.

Yeah, it looks right to me. Can you send me articles where you found people recommending absolute links for https?

Hi, Ria.

The subject in question is why number of impressions are being shown as 0. I understand that there are lots of queries which are being as not set now, but that doesn't explain the quantity of overall amount dropping to 0.

Hi there.

Surprisingly, it happens to me as well. I have no idea why this exactly happening, however, I do have a suggestion.

Simply go to Search Analytics section of Google webmaster tools (or as it's know now - Search console) and see all your data there. Google analytics is pulling all that data from GWT anyway, so, maybe there is a bug or new change in GA-GWT connections.

Hope this helps.

Well, try ipv6 by itself first. Make sure it's working, eliminate the variables, you know. If it works by itself, then you can start digging into regular expressions (even though it should be simple ipv6|ipv4 without escapes). Who knows - maybe fault is not in regular expressions, but address is wrong or something.

Hi there.

No it's not necessary at all. The reason it's recommended sometimes is that, basically, to eliminate potential extra redirects from http to https. But this would happen only if page you're currently on is not https. So, my thought is that as long as you make sure that there is no way to get to your http website (make sure that it's always redirected to https), you won't have any extra redirects.

From my personal experience: it depends also on hosting servers you use. If they are very slow or you have gigantic htaccess files or something in that spirit, then yes, couple extra redirects to secure version of your website can slowdown page loading on your website. But in modern world it's very rare. So, from dozens of https clients and my own websites I haven't seen any bad-bad experience with relative internal links.

Hope this helps.

IPv6 is that long IP address.

Simply go to filters in GA, find predefined filter, choose exclude, choose "traffic from IP addresses" and paste your IP, which is 2606:a000:4e2b:d500:61d9:9d4e:c539:ea86.

Yes. Canonical link transfers all the link juice.

Hi there.

You should be able to exclude both IPs without any escaping. What I'd recommend is to create a filter just for ipv6 and see if exclusion works. Let me know if that works.

Hi there.

Super easy solution - put canonical link from "bad" page to "good" one. Do "fetch as google" in GWT. And voila!

Hi there.

Exactly same IP? or same C-Block?

I would recommend having different IPs if possible, also do keep your and client's websites on several different hosting servers so if one of them goes down, all of your websites are dead at the same time - you'll save yourself lots of pain.

As for how valuable those backlinks are - I'd say as long as you're not using spammy techniques (lots of footer links, all of them are follow, to the same page, with the same anchor text etc), you will be fine. Of course, it would be nice to have every single client website with different C-block, but in real world it's close to impossible.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Looks like redirect (rewrite rule) loop. Check your htaccess.

Hi there.

Please read this pinned post by Rand (point #2): https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores

As you can see several domains DAs are going down at the same time, meaning that DA change is relative due to highest DA domains gaining lots more links.

The there shouldn't be any problems. What you can do is see how hits by your China team are being registered in Real Time section in GA (if they are being registered at all). Then see if your website is indexed in Baidu and see how visits from Baidu are being registered. If it's just simply another organic search channel (or referral), the there shouldn't be any worries.

Basically, I would setup GA and see how it works, if data looks realistic. It's free, right?

Hi there.

Yes, you should. Especially if summary contains parts of full article content or is very close in its content. Basically, if there is any chance that summary can rank for keyphrases, same as full article - do canonicalizing.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I never worked or heard about this company. However, very easy way to check if company is any good with their SEO services is to see how they rank for related keyphrases. So, that's what i did - using MOZ's rank tracker i checked their domain for three seo related keyphrases - seo denver, ppc denver and social media marketing denver - they are not in top 50 for any of these keyphrases. I understand that this industry is competitive, but if they can't make themselves rank on first 5 pages - something is wrong. Therefore I personally wouldn't go with them.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I haven't worked with chinese websites, no. But since you're saying that website will be hosted in US, there shouldn't be any problems at all. The question really is not if GA will be accurate or not, but is that website gonna be accessible by users from china. The idea is that GA will track ANY hits to website, so as long as users can get to website, all data will be recorded.

Ok, problem solved.

The issue was with ssl certificate - apparently i have missed one step of authentication when installing SSL. Usually, it's required to combine two authentication steps, but mine for whatever reason required three. I went to ssllabs.com and checked my SSL, even though it was working, the missing step has being downloaded automatically by browser. So, after reuploading correct SSLs, its all working.

Well, if it does, then it's not purposely and I surely haven't done it.

The thing is that i have five websites on GAE with exactly the same configs and three of them are working and two of them don't. I can't seem to find any differences anywhere.

Is there way to check if somehow I'm blocking AWS?

Hi.

AWS? I'm not using anything from AWS, I'm using GAE. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Hi everybody.

I'm trying to use on -page grader for https://www.upscaledinnerclub.com and get "Sorry, but that URL is inaccessible." Robots.txt are empty, another thread on MOZ was talking about DNS check - it's all good. So, I can't figure out why this is happening. Also I am trying the same for another website https://www.regexseo.com - the same story.

Common thing is that they both are on Google App Engine. And at first i thought that was the problem. Bu then i checked this one : https://www.logitinc.com/ and it's working, even though this website is on GAE as well.

None of these website have robots.txt or any differences in setup or settings.

Any thoughts?

I'm saying rename files first and do rewrite for removing extensions.

You will have to do rewrite for replacing underscores with hyphens anyway, just for redirect purposes.

So, rename files from underscores to hyphens; do rewrite rule for underscore to hyphens to insure old pages are being redirected; do another rewrite for removing file extensions. In som time (2-3-4 months) when old file names (with underscores) are out of google index, delete first rewrite.

Well, I thought that's what you were going to do and use rewrite just for deleting file extensions. Honestly, I'd leave file extensions and rename files to hyphens. This way there is no server processing involved.

Hi there.

Why not do parent category by type of clothing - "snowsuites", "sweaters" and so on and then have boy-girls filters inside?

Or have clothing categories and have boys-girls filters over everything? This way there is no "issue" with extra or redundant categorization.

Hello, my friend.

The thing with schema is that it takes long time (mostly) to be displayed in SERPs and snippets. You can find lots of threads on this forum about schema taking forever to affect snippets. It usually works in terms that if it's implemented correctly, it won't return any unexpected errors.

As for breadcrumbs - yes, they do work. I have implemented them somewhat recently to our website and it's showing in SERPs. Google "hyperlinks media case study" first three results. I actually was surprised that it took only a month or so to be displayed.

Hope this helps.

Yes, I believe so, that's the only rewrite you'd need not to mess up rankings.

I don't know if one of codes is better than another. All I know that my piece of code is working and i haven't used the one you wrote. It seems ok to me, but just test it. If it works, I don't think there is any difference.

Hi there.

Watch this video from Google webmasters:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njn8uXTWiGg

They explain pretty good what's what. And here is the article: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663744?hl=en

So, basically, pagination and canonical links are different things and can be used at the same time.

the rule you wrote wont work.

What it will do is redirect this: _domain.com/old/small_blue_widget.htm _to this: domain.com/new/small_blue_widget.htm

To remove the extension would be:

<code>RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.htm [NC,L]</code>

yes, since you are not changing domain name and keeping the same content, you should be fine, since you were original author of that content

Yes, change the color in places I've mentioned to whatever colors you want. Swap #fcf9f9 to whatever color.

Hi there.

I personally haven't seen any ranking boost from barcodes, in fact I don't think I've ever seen barcodes being used on websites at all

However, even if Google can read and understand what barcodes stand for, it would get only the name of product, maybe SKU number, manufacturer etc. - none of the important stuff. You gonna have all that information on a page anyway, but what would make a difference is compelling description, which is not transferrable with barcodes.

So, no, I haven't seen boost, I don't think it would help no matter if Google can understand barcodes or not.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I wish anybody can give you an answer to your question about when linkfarmers are going to harvest their fruits. But nobody knows. Not even Google. They've been talking about it for years and there are still "succesfull" link farms and such. I believe that since lots of google's algorithms use a lot of self-learning, nowadays even google themselves don't really know what exactly is happening

As for different types of links, here:

• Equity-Passing (formerly follow) - Typically links which pass value from one page to another, including followed, 301, and meta refresh links
• Non-Equity Passing (formerly nofollow) - Typically links that are nofollowed or don't send value (rel=nofollow , meta nofollow, off screen, 302, RSS feed)
• Only rel=nofollow  - Links that have the rel=nofollow attribute
• Only Follow - Links that don't have the rel=nofollow attribute, but still may not pass equity (i.e. 302 links and meta nofollows would be returned)
• Only 301 - Links that are only specifically 301 links

Cheers.

Hi there.

you have inline css code, line#173:

#content a:hover, #sidebar a:hover, .social a:hover, .member-bar a:hover, #home-search a:hover,.paging_full_numbers a:hover, .placester_properties a:hover, #content .person-name a, #content .post-title a,#sidebar .widget-title a {

1. font-family: arial !important;
2. color: #fcf9f9 !important;

_}_This is what makes anchors become invisible on hover.Exactly the same reason for your titles not showing up. because titles are links and they are that "white color. The same inline css - line #181.Cheers.P.S. I recommend you hire a front-end developer, who understands this stuff, otherwise you gonna waste countless hours scouting web for answers which don't exist.

Hi there.

Well, as for best practices - you got it covered - remove/substitute underscores, remove redundant directories, make urls readable and understandable by users, implement redirects for pages, which are being renamed.

As for removing extensions from files - i'm not sure it has any effect on SEO or user experience at all. But no, you don't have to create new format pages. Basically what mod_rewrite does is when somebody requests a page, server says "I gonna server you this file with this name, because you sent me this specific request". Just be aware that there is no way to access both original url and rewritten url at the same time, since it would create duplicate issues.

As for rankings affect - as long as all redirects are done properly and urls are targeting the keywords on the page - you should be fine.

Hi there.

Can you control what is being put on aggregator website? if so - there shouldn't be any problem, right - just make it different. If you can't control aggregated material - usually Google relies on date/time of indexing pages to find out who copied from whom. So what you can do is after creating new pages for products etc., go to webmaster tools and go "fetch as google" to insure that your website would be crawled first.

You said that you're doing new website. Are you changing domain names? Are you copying all content over without any changes? or you just restyling?

Anyway, idea stays the same - either make content different from aggregator website or make sure that your website is being crawled first. Oh, depending on how your content is being scraped, you can utilize canonical links (if aggregator simply copies full page into iframes or something).

P.S. I'm trying to find a video from matt cutts about websites being indexed earlier than original content.

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsB19wTt0Q

Hi there.

Well, the key would be how many backlinks there are and how likely for your blog to lose its rankings and value if you move it off that high DA domain. Also do consider that generally 100 backlinks from the same domain is not bringing as much of a juice as 1 backlink from 100 domains. Some say it's really referral domain what matter, not as much as quantity of backlinks from that domain.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

I think that the "problem" lays behind the idea of OSE - not to get all possible backlinks, but important ones. At the same time OSE crawls only down to certain depth, which means that for facebook link to be crawled it's gotta be at the top of the list for backlinks on facebook domain. The page you specified has about 7.5k backlinks, which is not a lot at all, if you compare to other pages on facebook with tens of  thousands of backlinks (https://www.facebook.com/VinDiesel/ - example). So, the chances that MOZ will crawl a page with several thousands backlinks are pretty slim. It's the same reason you rarely see local directories in your website's OSE report.

I hope this helps.

Sure, I did this: http://bfy.tw/2hTu

Hi.

I assume that traffic volume for "latest..", "best.." etc is much lower than just for "movie reviews". As you said yourself, they are more of a long tail phrases. And as far as my brain understands, you shouldn't emphasize on long tail keywords, even if they are high competition and relatively high volume. Creating specific pages and stuff for them (long tail phrases) - sure! But concentrating just on them, taking away from short tail - I wouldn't do so.

As for best practices for backlinks to directories = best practices to any website

The only difference - you can actually link to directories from your own website if there is natural placement spot.

Hi there.

My take on this is that having links from directories wouldn't hurt, especially if you use those directories substantially, for example for reviews, or communicating with clients. However, make sure that directories is not your only backlink building campaign.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

We experienced the same issue for one of our clients - bad review was coming on the first page of google results when searching for client's company name. We came up with couple ideas, which can work in theory:

1. Create local listing directories, get reviews there, make it fully filled out, get several backlinks etc. - basically make it one of the main directories. This way, since large directory websites have high DA, they would come up right after client's website, pushing website with bad reviews down. The same idea would work if you can get company on wikipedia etc.

2. Also you can create secondary pages, optimize them for keyword, so you get several results on first page from your domain for the same keyword, again, pushing down the result with bad review.

3. This one is a little tricky/spammy. Create one landing type page website, not duplicate of main domain though, put it on separate domain, optimize it, get backlinks etc. Idea stays the same - hopefully it will come up on first page, pushing down bad review result.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I think that as long as rankings are good (especially historically), there is no reason to worry, because google includes in index pages, which wouldn't be in sitemap - for example pages, generated with query parameters (domain.com?x=value). Sometimes these pages do not really exist by themselves (like filters in online stores), they only exist "on the fly".

Hope this makes sense and helps

Hi there.

My, this is a lot of text

Well, I'll answer the question you are asking at the top: no, there shouldn't be risk of having live subdomain. However, everything you are talking about always is expected with rebranding - loss of traffic, dowgrading in rankings etc. So, what I'd recommend is, yes, to have a page on old domain, informing that you moved to another domain. however, I'd do it on main index page, not on subdomain, since who knows if you can even rank for that subdomain.

hope this helps.

Hi there.

I think you should do full keyword research, in the way suggested here: https://moz.com/blog/cant-do-keyword-research-like-its-2010-whiteboard-friday

By doing this (expecially pay a lot of attention to "business value" column) you will find out what's best for you. Also you can find good tutorials on how to do related keyword research to populate your choices of keywords to do research on. For this I use SEMrush, but you can do it with whatever you have.

As an opinion on your direct question - I'd stick to "movie reviews", since it's more broad and would be the best in long-term.

Hope this helps

hi there

https://moz.com/local/overview

It explicitly says "

In one easy step – and for just $84/year per location

"

I dont see anywhere else anything about $50.

Hi there.

Well, just adding a video on a page will not attract any links. It's the same as building super cool looking office. It will make people feel better when they go in, and they might spend a little more time there, but that's it. Internet Marketing is much more than just adding a video, especially link building. If you have like a channel and you are adding videos all the time and they are awesome, you start building audience, following, brand etc., plus add awesome UX&UI, relevant text and image content, also do other types of internet marketing like social media marketing - maybe only then just putting up a video on a website will attract links (but most of them gonna be from current followers anyway).

Now, I'd like to say that adding a video is not a bad idea at all, just it don't expect any backlinks by just doing so.

Hope this helps.

Ok, now I get it

Here: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/slsb-overview

Basically, it requires some schema mark up and a little extra work. However, don't expect it to work immediately. It will take time - up to couple months.

So, as far as I understand, you are asking if it's possible for non-index page of the website to rank in Google - yes. Just look at what come up here http://bfy.tw/o8s

If I had to choose between these two - yes, scrolling. But it's just my opinion.

Do A/B testing experiment for that page with Google analytics - it will help you more than just one answer from random guy