Welcome to the Q&A Forum

take a look at the attached screenshot... it should look like that and when you click on the "view" button you should be able to see the report...

1OFJJ64

A very interesting question!

You have to think about that issue more precisely: is the whole content of the site changing? Or is just a section of this page rotating?

If there is rotation of a section only, this won`t do your site any harm but if the whole content changes every time the site is opened / re-loaded, then this might cause some problems.

You have to give this site one static component, even if it`s just the title of the page and 2 or 3 short introductional sentences which do not change so frequently. Put them at the top of the page.

If you do so and the rest of the site changes, then the worst case would be that Google will change the descriptive text while displaying the answers on the search queries only.

It might also be a question of how this rotation of products is technical realized?

You are not! Your thoughts about that issue are absolutely correct. I also would recommend that things like that should be done (if they have to be done!?) in a very moderate way!

Linkbuilding using campaigns that offer something (doesn`t matter what) when others create a link to your site is a kind of "buying links". Of course this is not an uncommon way to create links but Google will always take a closer look on how you do that - if this is done excessively the risk is high to get a penalty.

ok, then both domain names are "appropriate" ...

the best way would be to take one to target the "tourists who book last minute" and the other one to target those who book from the States in advance ... You would gain a very good range then and ensure to use two good domain names in the right way...

dont misunderstand me (dont want to be unpolite by just quoting this link below) but look here:

http://moz.com/community/q/how-google-adwords-can-impact-seo-ranking

maybe this will answer your question...

1st question: yes

2nd question: you wont see any data for this periode of time - during this time you will get a graph which shows zero, even if you change back to the Pro version... Ive experienced that by myself... maybe they`ve changed it but 3 months ago this is what happened then.

3rd question: I`ve experienced that this is not possible... your campaigns will be achieved (the old data and the settings) you can re-start them when you change back to PRO

I think that a link from www.9slides.com wont do you any harm BUT its not worth the work in comparison to a link from slideshare! The site has no real visibility, no PageRank, only 1 Top10 position within Google USA... slideshare has also a very bad visibility but as we all know visibility is not the only point, as well as the PageRank is not an unique feature... but if you take a look at all those aspects, slideshare is the better source for a link... just my opinion supported by the stats from the sistrix tool

I had a discussion about that question with our programmers and they all told me that they would gladly use httpd.conf if they could... so when your refer to a case study this ist just a plain opinion of our IT

I dont see any advantage if you switch from a well-established (5 year old) domain that is already ranking in good positions to a brand new one. Its a hard job and a lot of work and even if you redirect the old to the new one there will occure some changes. I would also recommend to redirect the new domain to the old one.

I general it is a popular opinion that "EMD" is a little bit better than just "PMD" and the shorter, the better BUT this is not a written law. If you do an overall good job these aspects won`t have such a big effect on your rankings.

I am not 100% sure about that but as far as I know, there is no such thing within MOZ... take a look at this post to look for alternatives:

http://moz.com/community/q/how-do-you-check-the-outbound-links-of-a-site

No.

If you build a network of satellite sites to support your main site, this is always a difficult thing. Google is able to detect those connections in various ways (the most easiest way is to sum them all up in one GA account!).

Even if you would use separate GA accounts this would not prevent Google from detecting your connections.

If you overdo that you will get no positive effect and the risk to get a penalty will rise.

E.g. if you use 5 sites to support your main site this might be ok, but if you build up 30 sites Google will recognize that as not trustworthy.

There are several ways to avoid that - for example to use different IP classes from different networks. This can be done if you use different registrars for your websites BUT if Google wants to find out about that, Google will be successful. If you become suspicious they will check the whois and if the data is always the same... BANG

Never, never use anonymous registration. Those sites always have serious trouble.

So please be careful with your network! It`s a lot of work and time with lots of snares.

But to answer your question: it won`t help you if you use different GA accounts.

searchmetrics & sistrix are international tracking tools used in Germany... but not for free

Replace them step by step: delete the bigger one and then immediately upload the new, resized, smaller picture... so the first thing which you should do is create the new pictures before replacing them. Kemp in mind that they have a 4:3 ratio and that at least one edge should have a minimum of 300 pixel.

If you use the same name for the picture (example.jpg is the name for the big one and is also for the new picture) this procedure won`t have any negative effects on your site.

well this depends on the question whom you want to target???

Do you want to spread/offer this coupon nationwide or just for interested people in Houston?

If you use this local "parameter" then your site CAN be more relevant if the visitor can be located in this area or if he/she uses the word "Houston" in his query... of course your site should be optimized for this relevant keyword!

by the way: if you just decide to offer this coupon in different locations you should do more than just change the city within your content otherwise its DC or at least partial DC and that wont do you any good.

Definitely YES!

Use a 301 as soon as possible... this is the only correct way to ensure that your linkjuice is passed to the new URL

you won´t be charged until that date... moz will also send you a reminder that they will charge you on xx ... so you can decide to close your account or to keep it...  very comfortable...

In general the "text 2 html" ratio is smaller within a shop. This is just because of its business nature. You know that there are more than 200 ranking factors and that text is still a very important one BUT its not the only one that should fit.

User experience (you refer to responsive design), page speed and much more is also very important, especially in an e-commerce environment! If you just do a good job by creating unique article descriptions than youve done the best according to the text 2 html ratio within a shop system. There are several ways to push that by having a blog or using customer feedback on articles and services but I wouldnt do more than that. The rest should be done on the html basis, social media, adwords or whatever else...

Hey Chris,

please take a look at the attachment... it should look like that.

So you don`t see that within your account?

OVJUOMO

"How important are the image height/width attributes and would you expect a best practice site to have them included ?"

This is not the most important SEO thing in the world BUT according to your 2nd question

"I hear not having them can slow down a page load time is that correct ?"

That`s the point! The question related to this issue is how relevant the whole thing might be?

Modern browsers and broadband connections seem to make this insignificant but just in case there are some visitors which are not using the right settings they might get pictures unscaled and your whole site will be shown non-responsive... by the way, use responsive designs if you can to avoid that...

Ive always been told to use these parameters . even if you dont need it it ensures that your code is a little bit more perfect

Ive never heard of anything like that... I dont think that this is possible at the moment.

Officially it is said that the CC of a TLD makes no difference for the ranking if you do your SEO homework right...

I would agree with that in general BUT inofficially the CC of your domain matters in your case - .re is not comparable to  a .com domain! Take a look at the serach results: there are only a very few examples that a .re is ranking on high position outside it`s dedicated country.

If a CCtld spells the name of your project it has no real influence or relevanve for the googlebot... it`s just a nice thing for yourself, marketing and maybe the visitors of your site.

You dont need to buy the .com domain but if you can do so, I would always prefer this solution. This is always a question of money and if its worth it for you.

My opinion is based on long-term experiences.

If you rename your project it`s easy to transfer linkjuice, authority etc. by using a 301 redirection...

duplicate content is often closely connected to a duplicate page title - but mainly not with shops

how many duplicate content errors do you have?

You have to imagine, that you always present the same title according to the fact, that you`ve several sites to let your customers scroll through. Tell the Google Bot, which url he should index by using rel=canonical

Together with rel="next" & rel="prev" this should solve the issue

Have you done that?

we`ve experienced marginal effects within our corporate blog when using it...

on the one hand the advantages can be found mainly on the side of UX/UI - if your visitors are Google affine they will like this feature because they know it. If you have enough content (especially a lot of articles in an archive for example) then this will help your visitors to search for the relevant info...

on the other hand there is a very powerful feature within analytics tools (Google Analytics and many more) to track what your visitors have searched for using your Site Search... I think I don`t have to tell you how useful this data can be...

Have you answered yourself the question if you want to advertise more local or within a wider range?

I would use the 2nd one... I like that more because it seems to be "accurate" ...

You might be very right that the name of a domain is no longer "the most important thing" according to all those changes which already took place and all those changes that might take place...

BUT

It is still a relevant ranking factor if you can use a domain name that fits for the proper keywords... and it CAN help you to make things a little bit more easier.

Experts will tell you that you should focus on unique content and all those things closely associated with that and they are absolutely right!

AND in addition to that It won`t hurt and it will have a significant impact if you choose the right domain according to the content you will focus on... do a keyword research and take the results into your consideration...

I am not 100% (in general) sure but this recommendation in your screenshot f.ex. is closely connected with the activities of Barnes & Nobles and their listings in Google Shopping... furthermore this depends on the markup structure of the website/URL/page ... if there are good reviews Google will "link" to them...

never mind... it`s kind of a joke (teapot / coffee pot) - behind this "joke" is a 200 code which means "ok" ...

why does he expect to rank for the term "mpc"???

I think it is not that easy to expect that you can achieve to rank for an abbreviation just by redirecting a domain that sounds similar. Even if he would redirect mpc.com this won`t do the job!

A website is ranking for its keywords or better for its unique content and the keywords associated to that. So if he really wants to rank for the term "mpc" then you have to create unique content that refers to this term. Turn mgpc.com into a landing page and create content that is usefully referring to the term "mpc" (cant see how this can be done!!!) or just focus the whole content of the website on that term ... that would be a possibility which I personally wouldnt recommend.

Its tough to become an authority for such a keyword and even if your are successful with that you cant expect to be more successful afterwards. Why should visitors expect this site when they search for "mpc"?

The only reason to do so and which I can understand is that this has to bee seen in the context of brand building but this aim is much too high to start with...

by the way: actually the site is down or temporarily not available

It is definitely a ranking criteria BUT if you do your homework right by focussing on other ranking factors, you do not need to consider it. To make it perfect: if you can, always use the right ccTLD.

Concentrate on keyword domains, with the right ccTLD but if you can`t use keyword domains despite their CC

Take a look at the actual list of ranking factors here

A very interesting aspect!!!

Although I think this would be classified as a black OR "grey" hat technique. This might not be so obvious as classical black hat techniques but you only need to make yourself suspicious to risk a penalty. Its your business to prove then that you didnt do anything against the rules...

What I was thinking about, that could be similar and less black or grey, is offering a coupon code only within special circles at Google+ or for your fan community. I mean, they have to like/connect your Google+ or facebook page first to see the code. I know this is not perfect but to avoid any scam you can check if the name of your client can also be found within your social media community... for example... this could be promoted in your shop then...

Ah, I see... well the theory behind is still the same then

This is tricky thing - you have to give an answer to the question if this is unnatural linkbuilding first?

If a website gets 5000 links over night this is often an very unnatural behaviour and you make yourself suspicious. Making yourself suspicious for Google means that you risk a penalty (manually or automatically) ... furthermore if Google can verify that you own both websites this is just a confirmation for the black hat technique of unnatural link building.

Be careful and start with a slight amount of links... if both shops have the same or lets say similar content then google will allow a natural linkbuilding between them (e.g. we have several subdomains which profit from a lot of crosslinks but they all have been built up over a long periode of time)

If your redirect is a 301 there is no need to change anything. The linkjuice will be passed through...

To be formal correct and clean up the things a little bit, it would be better if you make a 301 from http://example.net to http://example.net/

if tppmc.co.uk has never been indexed and always (from the start) been redirected then yes...

Absolutely right - I agree with you!

Sure - I can confirm this behaviour because we`ve experienced it already.

Google is very anxious to show content which is closely related to the country of origin where a user starts the search query... but what you describe there will take some time to show up...

but by the way: I am not sure if your efforts will be honored that much by Google... it`s a little step and the impact on SEO might by questionable according to the time you need to make these changes?!

Hi Marike,

unfortunately I personally would answer both questions with "yes".

To sum it up: a change of domain names is not the best thing from SEO perspectives. But of course there are many situations in which this can`t be avoided and where SEO has to stand back.

The change/merge of a domain has always a certain impact on the rankings which have been established by the old one. I highly recommend you to use a 301 redirect or several if neccessary - they pass the PageRank for example.

Furthermore you should use the change of address tool in the GWMT - it`s used to tell Google that the address of your site has changed.

If youve done the work youll have to be patient. It might take some time until you get back all of your old rankings. In general this doesnt take soo much time but Ive experienced that there is a big chance that you wont get all your old rankings back and that those positions arent written in stone... well this aspect is also valid for well established domains.

Best regards, Marc

I cant see any significant advantages if you would do that. Its not wrong to set up a few links to that site from your articles but not that much.

You have to imagine that your site has a certain amount of linkjuice. Everytime you set a link to a different site without the nofollow attribut you pass a little bit of your link juice. So if you do excessive linking from your site to others this makes no sense. Dont get me wrong - you should not use "nofollow" with all your links... its a question of: to which site and how much of your linkjuice you should/want to pass through...

Furthermore I took a closer look on your text at your main page and as far as I can see you don`t mention the term "Diani beach" there.

This is not the only and especially not a reliable criteria to rank for your keyword but it would be helpful to use your keyword in your text exactly as you name it. Your term is "Diani beach" not "Diani" or "Beach" ...

You have a very strong and healthy social media background thats great! Yout texts are good and nice to read... youve done a good job there. Your text (on the main page) is unique... continue things like that.

What I would recommend you is to build more links. According to the opensitexplorer you don´t have much external links. Try to promote your site with the aim to get linked by sites with similar content.

The whole thing is a very, very big topic. It`s controversial and there are many, many opinions out there on what might be important to do that your rankings will improve.

There is not enough time to mention all the aspects but maybe other mozzers will add some helpful infos for you as well?! I hope I could make a useful contribution?!

No, you are not wrong about that... the keyword is "linkbait". There are several techniques which are very different but they all have one thing in common: the aim that they will create links to your site (maybe!)

The standard splits those linkbaits into the following tactics:

• informational (e.g. top-10 or whatever lists of interesting facts etc.)

• provoking (e.g. false statements) - I personally don`t like this one

• awards & interviews

• rewards (competitions)

• Tools (you have done something that might help others? e.g. a little guidebook or a calculator for xy)

• curiosity (e.g. polls and their results)

• humor (mainly pictures etc.)

well you have to take a closer look at these options because they have to fit to what you intend to do... this is just a hint which could guide your thoughts AND all these techniques are absolutely controversial... they have good aspects and might have bad consequences if you use them... it depends on many, many aspects

Hi Dominik,

although I am german too, this community is in english. So you will have to cope with my english as well

Your new domain will profit from the 301 redirect and this will have an impact on your rankings as well. As you described the results are already visible. Unfortunately there is no one and only reason why you still haven`t caught up with the ranking for the keyword "hochzeitsfotograf". I personally guess, that your old domain name had a bonus beacuse it was a PMD (partial match domain). So your old domain included this keyword and this was a bit more relevant for Google.

On the other hand there are many, many ranking factors which have an influence on your rankings. So I would never tell you that waht I`ve described is the problem/reason! The only thing you can do now is continue creating unque content that is closely connect to your keyword. Show relevance for this term and this will help you (together with some more patience) that your ranking for "hochzeitsfotograf" will increase.

I am sorry that this isn`t any direct help for you which can fix your issue right away!

You are welcome!

Maybe one more little thing:

there is a useful tool for free. Its a german website but you dont need to know the language.

Just take a look at this keyword density tool (it`s browser based):

http://keyworddensity.online-marketing-solutions.com

Paste your text in there and press "Prüfung starten"... what you get is an very good hint about which keywords you`ve focused on (with intent or unintended) - you should reach the green colored percentage. 4% usage of your keyword(s) is a good amount but this is also controversial

Maybe there is a similar tool in english but I don`t know that... wish you all the best!

it`s just a little inpulse Robert... well, with "controversial" I mean that you have to be careful with your choice...

for example the methode of rewards: this won`t lead to links that last longer. If you promote that you offer an iPad or something like that for just a referral you might loose this link after the competition is over ... furthermore if you request a link from each participant Google might interpret this as buying links if they recognize it.

If youve got an onlineshop for example its much more difficult to initiate successful linkbaits...

The most difficult aspect with linkbaits comes up when you try to convince other webmasters. Try to imagine their position (you already mentioned that): why should they put a link to your site? There are many reasons to do not.

Let me quote another example: there is friend of mine who created a 40-pages PDF which explains how dangerous a fire can be and what to do to avoid serious injuries etc.

He created a landing page especially to promote that little ebook which is for free! Then he figured out the webmasters of all the local fire departments and told them about that PDF. They liked the information and what he did. They regarded his work as very useful und linked to the landing page of this book... successful linkbait I would say.

Other webmasters are not interested on what you do or what you`ve done unless you can provide something very useful...

Sorry for not telling you the perfect solution but this depends on your project, you know?

The easiest way would be to add a new language to the existing site - YES, that`s right.

Just think about the option to register a .co.th domain and redirect it to the site where your content is in Thai language (maybe a subfolder).

If you implement the english text on a .co.th domain as well this will be interpreted as duplicate content.

In general Google doesn`t differentiate between them - if you get the chance or better take the chance to get in a dialog or direct contact with Google (f.ex. using the reconsideration request) they can get this information. But I doubt that they care about that. Unfortunately you have to do the same work in both cases: clean up the mess.

Its imaginable that your chances to recover are much better if youve been a victim than an ex-black hat (website)

first of all: you wont get an answer here that you can rely on like a guarantee! The only thing youll get are opinions and maybe experiences... that might sounds a little bit frustrating but that`s it.

What I can tell you from my experience is that changing the anchor text of such a high amount has a very big chance to raise a red flag. Officially its not known that google has an algorithm to detect that BUT I wont rely on that!

If Google has already marked those links as "bad" the only way to overcome this issue is nofollow or to disavow them... if they were just a few ones this wouldn`t be such a problem but according to your numbers I would not recommend to rename them

Your plan ist definitely a good thing!

A short and precise URL is a relevant ranking factor, a significant factor from which your site can benefit a lot...

I would recommend that every time someone asks about that issue.

A 301 redirection will pass the linkjuice to the new URL, I don`t think that you have to consider about loosing PA.

Why do you think that this will "hurt" you?

I mean you provide a very useful tool for other webmasters and their visitors.

The only thing you have to keep in mind is that you might need a lot of ressources to keep the system running. If your tool is embedded and needs to work with the original source, you need a powerful server to handle all those requests...

nothing is more annoying than a helpful tool which doesn`t work

take a look at this and keep in mind that this is 2 years old!!!

http://www.webpronews.com/google-duplicate-content-2011-12

Hi nightwing,

in such a case I would always recommend a 301 redirect to avoid any loss of linkjuice, DA or whatever you prefer to name it. We`ve have made good experiences with that in the past...

I am actually experiencing how those URL parameters work - what I can tell you from this point is that you have to name those parameters more exactly - if you want to exclude the attribute "pgid", "CategoryName" etc. then that`s it what you have to use.

You cant use "+", "-", "/" etc. because Google ignores that... an example: if somebody is running an ecommerce store with intershop then the system generates attributes like ";pgid" ... Google cant work with ";" so you can`t exclude this attribute using GWMT

As far as I know, Google just can handle the parameter "?"...

So whatever comes after your "+" take the next word, to try to exclude those URL`s anyway...

You have to be patient: this will take some time to see the effect (if it works!)