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Wow, that sounds like a crazy mess. My first question would be: why does there need to be two tracking codes? To what end does it matter? What analytics are being served by having two codes instead of using one?
I would use only one tracking code and then set up a filter for looking at content outside the frames and inside the frames if that data is still relevant to what the site owner's looking for.
The problem with frames is that Google has problems crawling them. Read what Google says.
Dynamically created pages can work just fine. However, not all CMSs are created equal, so make sure to research whatever one you're thinking about and make sure that its pages are crawlable, conform to web standards, and SEO best practices.
Good luck!
I have a couple thoughts for you:
Make sure that your database is creating pages that are crawlable by search engines.
Create unique content for those pages that are optimized for keywords and other SEO best practices. Especially check what HTML your database is spitting back out, not all CMSs are created equal.
As far as what to do with those job pages after the position is filled, that's really up to you. I do think that people expect filled jobs to disappear into the void. Though you could put a "FILLED" announcement on the page and create something where it would recommend unfilled jobs that were similar. On an e-comm site I worked on, we decided to leave up sold out product pages, but make it super clear they were sold out (and of course, they were not linked internally anymore), due to the traffic coming from search engines who'd crawled those pages and external links. Then the pages had a "recommended products" on them which drove people to similar items.
Hey Antonio,
Maybe I'm missing something, but I only found one issue.
You want to 301 redirect www.solmelia.es to es.solmelia.com. A 301 is a permanent redirect which will pass on your link juice and tell Google that this it the new page and the old one is no more. The guide I linked to gives tips on how to do it in various platforms, but most people use their robots.txt to do this.
It sorts first on how many links the domain has to your site and then on domain authority.
I don't know of a plug-in. Sorry! The only way I've mass transfered data was using SQL queries.
We know that social signals affect Google rankings, but I wouldn't say that Google's reacting to breaking news is all driven by Twitter or Facebook. If something majorly news making happens, there are going to be tons of articles being published by news sources, which especially the trusted ones, we can pretty much assume are constantly crawled by Googlebots. I'm not entirely sure they do have a massive traffic loss to Facebook and Twitter given that they rule the search market and you use Google differently than Facebook or Twitter. (Just my 2 cents about the current atmosphere.)
I think Facebook building a search engine would be interesting. However, it would also expose a lot of their privacy issues. Have you ever Facebook searched for "hangover" on a Monday morning?
Google Analytics will not track anything after the # in the URL. I suggest using Google's tracking tags and coming up with an internal naming system. Since your affiliates are paid, I wouldn't worry too much about them not copy tracking tags as long as you're very clear that they have to link with the very specific URL.
This all depends on what your site is written in. We have an extensive guide for Apache, and in this post, Jen links to several other rewrites in different languages.
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30% site speed is a lot. Google says it's a factor in rankings; though we don't know how much.
Did you get hit by Panda and duplicate content?
Google often treats each iframe as it's own html page. Though they say that they try to link the iframe back to the page it's being displayed on; from my experience, this does not seem to happen very often. So, yes, it would give linklove from x.com to z.com. Though beware as it's going into gray hat territory.
Yes, they do need the meta tag:
While you can use robots.txt to block bots, the problem is URLs can still show up in Google searches (minus any information) and this can create an easy playground for hackers. Check out the section here called: "Why Meta Robots is better than robots.txt"
On the Blogger platform, tag pages are blocked in the robots.txt so they won't be index and thus, won't cause duplicate content issues (no matter what canonical tags they have on them). Archives seem to get around this issue by creating full html pages; thus, it doesn't show up as duplicate content, but as snippets of content on an indexing page.
Please contact our Help Team help@seomoz.org to help you add your Blogger account as a campaign.
Hi Diane,
Yes, anchor text does matter. Anchor text on inbound links can help you with keyword rankings. However, as you've probably noticed, most inbound links to our site will be linking to your brand name. Here are some articles that can help you have a deeper understanding about anchor text: Anchor Text 101 and some more advanced stuff Beyond Exact Match Anchor Text To Next Generation Link Signals and Which Type of Link Anchor Text is the Most Effective? [An Experiment].
As for getting link (link-building), commenting on blogs/articles in your niche can be a great way to get backlinks. However, as you noted, many sites no follow links on their blogs/articles. Here is our 101 article on link-building which can get you started on other ideas to go after backlinks to your site.
Hope this helps!
Because you're using Wordpress CMS, what's probably happening is that Wordpress is putting in the canonical tag and then one of your plug-ins is also putting in a canonical tag. My guess that the plug-in would be whatever one you're using for SEO on the site. Apparently, this is a problem with (or has been one) with the Platinum SEO plug-in. (I prefer All-in-One-SEO for my own sites, which don't have this issue.)
Before you start deleting any code, I would make sure that all your plug-ins are updated to the latest version, Wordpress started adding the canonical tag at version 2.9.0, so that was a few rounds ago and most SEO plug-ins would've removed that part of the code from their plug-ins now.
Hi Alan,
500 errors are a general "not found" web error. They don't really tell you anything about what's going on the page except that there's an error. It's kind of like if you went to the doctor and said "I'm sick" and didn't give any other details.
In order to help, can you either add your site details in this form or if you can't do that, you can email me erica@seomoz.org and I'll take a look and see if I can figure it out. (Or find someone else on staff with some time to take a look.)
Thanks
I would focus on figuring out what keywords you're targeting (you are an expert for your product after all) and then compare your rankings against your competitors. You can use a tool like Rank Checker. (Though beware when using it as it will search via your profile & IP unless you tweak your search.)
Small note: You don't get link juice from email links. Just traffic if they click.
Are you just grabbing Facebook's code? Or are you using a Joomla-specific plug-in?
I'd be careful about hiding text. Google doesn't like that.
Something I experienced when running an in-house ppc campaign for a smaller brand was that big companies aren't afraid to send out C&D letters from their very expensive lawyers if you bid on their branded terms (not using their name in the text). While there is certainly no law saying you can't bid on a branded term, a smaller brand is going to cave because they won't be taking on a giant in court.
Google says that what happens on AdWords doesn't affect your SEO and vice versa.
As far as incoming links from other sites, no. You should check to see if Google does index these linking sites, because if they don't, then there's no link juice coming in from them at all. If they are indexed, but labeled as spammy/junk, they just won't pass any positive link juice.
I couldn't find anything for bulk checking sites. 
However, there's this add-on for Firefox, which checks sites for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wappalyzer/
And someone built this web app: http://onlinewebtool.com/cmsdetector.php
You do have to do it one at a time.
You'd want to make the URL paths where the display ads live to have the crawl disallowed in your robots.txt, just like any other section of your site. Here's some basics on robots.txt.
Hope this helps!
Do you have the lastest version of the GA code on your site? I know Google put out some updates for it, which make it possible for some of the new analytics features.
Hi Andrew, A 301 redirect will delude your link juice for the URL that's being 301'd. At to why it's so drastic on Google, you probably blame Panda as Google may be seeing it as duplicate content for the same keyword. Hope this helps! Erica
Yes, the bots will read and try to index your Javascript, which you don't want. (Google says its bots can read around 90% of all Javascript.) You'll want to create a separate .js file (like you would with CSS file).
Antonio,
For work load and ease of change, I'd edit your robots.txt. Sometimes, search engines will still show the empty page in search results with only the URL if you don't put in a nofollow meta tag, but most of them should obey the robots.txt commands.
Of course, ideally, you'd want your website not to push those "future pages" without content live, but I understand that sometimes there are things that seem easy on a website that aren't.
Hope that helps!
Erica
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