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After spending a great deal of time on the webmaster tools forums I have seen that a fair few people have exactly the same type of problem as me. I cant afford to take risks etc with it so just easier to delete the original domain, put in a reconsideration request and start again.
I have yoast, it does not allow the author page to be edited.
Hi,
Quick question regarding author pages.
I have the blog set as me for my author page. so the url is:
Now, seomoz has picked up that my author page is missing meta description.
But, this cannot be editied through wordpress as there is no edit option available.
I may really be missing something, but where can I alter the author page, I have a feeling it might be fed from G+ but no really sure what part of G+ is used as the description.
Thanks
Miles
Hey everyone, I hope someone might be able to help me figure out what has gone wrong here.
I have a website which was slowly growing in rankings. The domain used was a .net
However, It is a UK based business so I shifted this to a .co.uk domain and then followed googles advice in webmaster tools for moving address. ie, copy site, verify in GWMT and then 301 the old site.
Now the .net had 71 indexed pages out of 73. But after 2 months .co.uk only has 41 out of 73 indexed.
At the end of last week I did change the theme on my website although the content / urls have all remained the same. I have gone to check my rankings this morning and the site has totally bombed. Even the own brand name does not ranking in top 10 pages.
I have not done an major link building at all yet for the site and any links that are there are all high quality from industry related authority sites.
Looking at GWMT the latest links all look ok, nothing spammy but one thing I did notice is that it shows the .net domain providing 193 links via 301and also individually a great deal of the links that point to .net but have shown in .co.uk
What I would like to know if have I actually done something wrong? Should I just kill the 301 (i am loathed to do this as a few of the links to this took me a long time to get), after spending a great deal of money developing my site and just starting to see some nice progress in the natural rankings and google has gone and pulled the carpet from under me. I would understand if I was doing something wrong but I have made strenuous efforts to ensure the linking on this site is whiter that white.
Oh, I have had no warnings in my messages at all.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Google has never really revealed what chrome does with the cached image. It is believed that it is stored to RAM rather than HDD. You should not be logged into Chrome at any point when checking rankings as you will automatically be using Googles personalised search.
However, if you log out, use incognito and do not actually open the sites and just do the search it will not effect the results. It is when you open sites that it will remember that as a preferred site.
Well I would say a page always needs an H1. However, due to recent turn of events with Google in does not necessarily have to have your keyword in it. But it should be an H1 that is on-topic. Google is clever enough now to tell the general context of the page. As Rand said in the last whiteboard friday (HERE) there is now a lot more to on-page SEO than the old method of keyword in the url, title, description, H tags etc etc
Thanks Keri, Good to know that before I start installing different software. I do like analytics. Its just so annoying how Google bangs on about openness and transparency and then starts disguising its own stats, and IMHO totally devaluing GA in doing so.
Thats great, thanks. I will take a look at both of these.
Google analytics '"not provided" is driving me insane. Can anyone recommend a half decent analytics program that will not clog up my site.
I cant help but feel that Google are devaluing their own product as more and more people switch to chrome and are encouraged to use a logged in account. For me it makes analytics about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
Thanks for the responses, much appreicated.
Well I would say a page always needs an H1. However, due to recent turn of events with Google in does not necessarily have to have your keyword in it. But it should be an H1 that is on-topic. Google is clever enough now to tell the general context of the page. As Rand said in the last whiteboard friday (HERE) there is now a lot more to on-page SEO than the old method of keyword in the url, title, description, H tags etc etc
Google has never really revealed what chrome does with the cached image. It is believed that it is stored to RAM rather than HDD. You should not be logged into Chrome at any point when checking rankings as you will automatically be using Googles personalised search.
However, if you log out, use incognito and do not actually open the sites and just do the search it will not effect the results. It is when you open sites that it will remember that as a preferred site.