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Awesome. I'd figured that it might be the internal links.

OSE has filters on it that you can use to include or discard internal links. Check out those filters and see how they're set. Default includes internal links and also no-follow links. Depending on what info you're looking for.

OSE's data is populated with our Linkscape crawler. We do this so we can have the best data possible and try to only crawl quality links. Read more about our latest updated that included 58 billion URLs. That said, we do not crawl as many links as Google, so we do not report as much. However, by trying to crawl the best data out there instead of everything, we stand by our competitor comparison as the only backlinks we're not picking up compared to Google are low-value ones. No crawler -- even Google -- picks up every single backlink to your site.

Hope this helps.

The ones saying it's long are including the site name. So in the WP plug-in, you're only typing in your title -- Best Blog Post Ever -- but how it's displayed is -- Best Blog Post Ever | Example.com -- and that's what the SEOmoz tool is picking up as your entire title tag.

Sadly, yes. Perhaps that's something to ask a Google Engineer about an SEO conference.

301s will not pass all the link juice. But they will pass most of it.

Google says "about" this means that they probably won't match and are somehow rounding it.

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Our crawler will pick up all your pages inside your domain in it's tracking. Your "campaign" consists of any page under your domain. So if you set up, www.example.com, it will also crawl www.example.com/pandas or www.example.com/kittens or any other page that you have created.

For tracking your keyword, you want to set up "Rafeal Navarro" as a keyword in your campaign. This will show up how your keyword changes in ranking week to week in "Rankings." For each keyword, you can look at keyword analysis, which shows you which one of your pages is ranking for that term. (I've attached screenshots of both where the drop-down is and what the info looks like to help.)

As a new user, I highly recommend attending our weekly webinars about the basics of our tools so you can get the most from the tools.

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You have to find the right balance for your site and what works for both users and rankings. When thinking about text for your website header to explain who you are, you'll want to think of it as a short blurb. I wouldn't write more than 150 words and be very precise in what you want to rank and tell your users. Less text means less of a big block and might ease a lot of your aesthetic concerns. As Mark Twain said, if I had more time I would have written a shorter letter.

You should have a mix of both. Searchbots cannot "see" images (which is why you give them alt tags to help.) Some of your customers are visual learners and will benefit greatly from your images, and others will be text readers and need text. If you don't say what your company does, it makes it extremely confusing for both customers and searchbots. Don't assume people know what your business is about.

Putting up a notice on the homepage and allowing users to go in and delete their information is great. I'd definitely set a time limit on that based on how often the majority of users come to your site, say if you know your return customers come back every month than you leave it up for 30 days, if it's every 3 months, you leave it for 90.

I'd be very clear in the copy what you're doing with the customer information and insure their privacy and respect of their information. If you're migrating that information to your other site, let them know. If you're deleting it, let them know to.

Same with the email newsletter people. Send them a notice via email and let them know about the site closing, what's happening with customer accounts, and if you're moving their emails to another newsletter. If you are, you might consider having them re-opt in for that newsletter.

After the time period, I'd 301 redirect it instead of building a 404 page. This is going to be better for your SEO and the vast majority of your customers will already know that you closed the site and that they could visit your other site. 301s are permanent redirects. They are valid as long as the file that redirects them is live on the web.

Having the same anchor text on every link does look funny to Google. Will they penalize you? I don't know. But it does look like you're linkbuilding in a specific way. It's better to have a variety of anchor text because it looks more like natural links as that's what humans would do if you weren't telling them what to put there.

That said, while directories do still provide link juice, the signal from them is not as strong as it once was. Identical anchor text from directories may also be treated differently due to the submittal nature of directories.

So you're definitely going to lose rankings for your major keywords if you take away the information that explains what your site is about. You should work to make this text both friendly for your users and Google's bots. I'd work with a graphic designer to put it somewhere else, say nearer to your header. And I'd work on optimizing what you want to say about the company.

Will you be selling those products on your other site? Are you wanting to move the subscribers and account holders from one to the other?

I found this one. (Haven't used it, bu it looks like what you need!)

Please have your client contact our Help Team help@seomoz.org, and we can see what we can do.

100 links sets off the "too many links" warning. I'm not sure if the Add This app links are nofollow or not. Read Dr Pete's post on Too Many Links and what this means and what matters for you.

I don't think there's a standard, but I definitely agree that you don't want too many words as scrolling can get a bit much. 328 is the limit of words allowed in a text message that you email someone. That would be a good guideline to start with.

I'm betting you got hit with Google's Freshness update. Are those minor site links new pages? Do they get updated with content more frequently than your major ones?

The first step is getting people to open it, I'd head to CopyBlogger and check out there How to Write Headlines articles.

What EGOL said. Especially lots of fresh information from sources that Google has decided are News & put in their News section normally, i.e. Washington Post, AP, HuffingtonPost, NY Times, WSJ, etc.

This is likely your problem:

Redirect permanent /spanish/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Change to:

Redirect permanent /spanish/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/

Your first one was saying that anything under /spanish/ should be directed to /es/index.html, which then was adding /index.html to all your other rules due them calling both the /spanish/ folder rule & their unique one.

For every campaign, you'll have to reload the list. Sorry!

You can always head over to our features request page and put in a request.

Do you know if it's actually ranking? If it is, make sure that your sitemap has the proper header which identifies it as an xml sitemap. You obviously want Google to crawl it, but if you don't have the proper header, it will treat it like any other page and you might rank for it. You can also put a "noindex, follow" directive on your sitemap, which will crawl it, but not index it as a SERP.

I'm assuming they're enforcing it when they come across it and feel like enforcing it. But I haven't seen any official documentation. (BTW, Facebook also has rules against giveaways, and as we know, they happen a lot.) Not that I would ever encourage anyone to break the rules...

Are those visits or unique visits? Where are you getting the visits metric from?

Unfortunately, more text is what Google wants. Have you thought about adding maybe a featured product with a good review on it to both enhance the page & to add more content to it?

I'd definitely have them remove it as you'll be getting errors for having 2 page titles. You want to stick with <title>...</title>

You might head over to our SEOmoz group on LinkedIn for posting a job request. Also, Alan is correct in that a better description of what you need would help freelancers determine if the work's in their knowledge-base and it's worth their time to contact you.

If you canonicalized the pages correct and added pagination clearly, I wouldn't worry about the errors in crawl. I know one of the most requested features for our crawl errors is the ability to ignore some of the errors. Make sure your voice is added in our request a feature.

For canonicalization and pagination:

The best thing to do is have a "view all" page and rel=canonical to that page from your series pages.  However, if you don't have a view all page, then you can put these nifty rel="next" and rel="prev" tags in to let Google know your page has pagination and where the next and previous pages are.

Since a 202 error is a server error, that's not categorizing that page right. A 404 says it doesn't exist, which is better. However, redirecting it to another similar and relevant page via a 301 is the best option.

Definitely possible with HTML5. But you're probably going to have to make one from scratch. Then you can share with the world

Unfortunately, none of our tools check rankings on Yandex. But make sure to let our product team know you're interested on our features request page.

I think that's kind of a great solution for the fast changing world of rentals.

With this one: www.example.com/details/apartment/id/786 - you're going so many folders down that Google may not even index what you have.

You can definitely set www.yoursite.com/blog to redirect (as a 301) to Blogspot. However, your domain is not getting the SEO benefits from your blog by having it on Blogspot. Yes, you can put rich anchor text links, but it's safe to say that Google's smart enough to figure out that you own both your domain and the Blogspot blog.

The best use you could get out the blog would be for link-bait articles, in the hope that people would then circle back to your e-commerce site.

Not to speak for Casey, but both those comments are definitely linked together. If Google thinks your content is thin or too similar to other content, it's going to index what it deems worthy or interesting to searchers. Retail sites often have this problem due to the conundrum of "how much can you really write about a table lamp" and that category and product pages often have similar content.

I'd focus on making your content on the pages more robust so Google seems it as awesome and indexs it.

We use WPTouch, which is pretty easy to use and seems to work well. It was having issues with WP Super Cache.

Not sure what plug-in you're using, but my non-profit's website had a similar issue earlier this year where some of the mobile traffic would randomly 404 or show a non-mobile person the mobile site. We found that it was a conflict between that plug-in and another we were using to cache the site. We went ahead and got rid of the cache plug-in, which had numerous issues including slowing down our site, and that seemed to solve it.

Have a canonical tag on your pages, regardless of whether or not you have the same page in other places, will not harm you. (It would only harm you if you had it on two duplicate pages saying that both were the canonical version.)

I'd check your site for similar or thin content, which is another thing Panda hit. Yes, you may not have direct duplicates, but if your content on the category and product pages are either thin or very similar to each other, you can still get hit. I'd suggest reading this post, which is basically everything you need to know about Panda.

In my clothing retail e-commerce experience, I had much the same issues. Most people tend to search more refined than just a brand name, and men's or women's is a pretty basic distinguisher.

That said, I'd do a couple things: 1) figure out what keywords you want to target and make sure your copy's robust and 2) linkbuild. Especially with luxury brands, there are tons of fashion blogs to partner with, and it's pretty amazing what you can get by sending someone an article of clothing.

You don't really have control over if Google's going to display that for your site. You want to set up your site's major pages properly in order to get the best chance at Google displaying them. However, you don't get to decide.

You can, however, remove or suggest changes for them in GWT. But I believe in order to do so, Google must already have decided to list them for you.

Thin content is something penalized by Google's Panda, and to avoid it, definitely use James' suggestions depending on what you want from your site.

Google's affiliate program is done through their custom links which then redirect, which means they're all no-follow links. With Panda, Google's basically saying that everyone's going to be no-follow from here on out for all affiliate programs, even if they have built in no-follows or redirects that are already not passing link juice.

Media queries don't redirect, but instead, display CSS stylesheets to fit different devices. 1 page to rule them all, so to say. Which means less work on your end in the long run.

The reason that your site's not being indexed is because your robots.txt file is blocking (see: disallow) bots from searching it.

Yes, you can definitely put links in your comments & posts. In fact, if they help out the post and the person asking the question, links are encouraged.