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100 bad links is not bad at all. Unless those are ALL the links you have. If you sent the disavow file and submitted a reconsideration request, wait for their respond. They claim the respond to 100% percent of the requests, but it can take over 2 weeks (on my own experience).

Did you get a manual penalty warning? Or you just doing the disavow and reconsideration just a percussion? Because if there was no manual penalty, you shouldn't be using the reconsideration request, instead, after disavowing those bad links you should focus on creating content for the purpose of link earning (valuable links).

Hope that helps.

Thomas, he already said that the HTTP site is being 301 redirected to its HTTPS version. So why adding all that about how to do 301s on Apache on nginx?

Hi Steve,

I just posted a response to a similar question here.

However, if the content you present in the same exact page changes based on the user location, I would personally suggest you create separate pages to serve to specific locations and implement rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags. You can read more on that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Hope that helps!

OSE doesn't scrape the entire Web, only portion of it. It takes a lot of resources to scrape the entire Web for links, however, the main ones, those that aren't that "hidden" are easily found by OSE.

Well, it depends on how you "embed" it.

YouTube does it with an iframe and a special player designed to go on other sites, linking to the original video in YouTube, etc.

This can easily be achieved by creating an HTML page, that you can later offer as a code to embed the post in their pages while adding some design and styling. In that HTML, you can still add the Analytics code for tracking and as it is actually a page in your site they are loading, you are still getting the hit. Beware of the extra server load you may receive, potentially hundreds of hits from outside sources.

And try to style the iframe so you can actually add a link to the full source or limit the amount of words displayed in the iframe so you can bring the user back t your page to continue reading.

An example of this is the slideshare

Hope that helps.

If they are totally different services (that you need separate domains) I would go with different themes. Not because of a SEO penalty (there's none that I am aware of) but just because of user experience. Each Website offering a specific service would work better having the design matching the service, IMHO.

Subfolders ARE the best approach

As to your options, I would go with A, but if a visitor goes to say the Canadian version: domain.com/ca even though he previously accessed domain.com and was redirected to the AU version as it was the first time and a cookie was created/session var to store that, I wouldn't redirect him/her.

Let me put this differently.

AU visitor accesses domain.com, you redirect to domain.com/au (and you don't create any cookie, as the user actually didn't select a specific location).

Visitor accesses again, redirected to the AU version, but chooses to change the Country to CA, then he/she is redirected to domain.com/ca (a cookie/session var is now created as the user actually chose another option).

Visitor accesses again domain.com (he has the cookie/session var), he is redirected to the CA version regardless he is in Australia.

Visitor accesses again, but this time he types domain.com/au instead of the naked domain. He has the cookie, but I wouldn't redirect him... as I figure he typed the AU version because he WANTED the AU version.

That's what I would do. However, you can choose to redirect him anyway to the CA version as he has a cookie/sessio var stored. That's up to you.

Then on the 302, what I meant is that every redirection you make in this case should return a 302 status code, not a 301, as the 301s can be stored by the browser and then the user will be "forced" to the redirection. EX: he is in the AU page, chooses to go to CA, you create a 301 (instead of a 302) then next time he accesses the AU version he is redirected BY THE BROWSER to the CA version.

Hope that clears it up.

I don't think messing with your sitemap will work. Google serves what they think is better to the user, even if it is old content.

You have several options here to go for:

• Make a full sitemap automatically that will assign priority automatically like the one provided by xml-sitemaps.com (incredible software in my personal opinion and well worth the money).
• Update the content on those pages you say it's outdated. I think Google prefers serving pages that have huge value instead of "new", therefore, updating the content of those pages may decrease your bounce rate.
• While on the old pages, link to the new posts that include the new info. You can even put something like "This content is outdated, for the up-to-date version, click here" and link to the most appropriate new page, you keep the page, no 301s and pass some juice to the new page.

I think the best would be to use the 1st and 2nd options in conjunction. Or 1st and 3rd if the content of the "old" pages have something that updating them will loose their value.

In any case, I wouldn't leave pages out of the sitemap. The software I mentioned automatically assigns priority as to "how deep the page is in your site" (links it needed to follow to reach that page, older pages will surely need more clicks to reach to them).

Hope that helps.

No you are not.

EMD penalties are for the ones that abuse that. ie: have several EMD pointing to the same site; have the entire site flooded with the keyword, etc.

Just published an article on SEJ about Schema.org markup and its role in future google updates: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/schema-org-eight-tips-incorporate-rich-snippets-conform-google-hummingbird/75435/

As peter pointed out, it will depend on the CMS you are using, nowadays there are plugins for almost everything.

Organic penalties do not affect paid placements. They are completely different products.

You are welcome!

Still get that traffic in the move It's free traffic, try to make the most out of it. Find the best way to point them in the direction you need them to go always keeping an eye in being as friendly and natural as possible.

There are several other sites that re entirely dedicated to check keyword rankings. But no matter which one you choose, checking rankings for 10,000+ keywords will be expensive as hell.

Examples: serps.com, trackpal, positionly, etc.

I think Yoast has an option that allows you to force the rewritten URLs. Check its entire configuration, it should be something like redirect ugly urls to... I don't remember. But it should be under Permalinks.

According to Matt Cutts, if you don't want to get all those localized domains, such as domain.it, domain.es, etc., then you are better of using subdomains.

The the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWx31GeQWY

But it is really up to you. Make sure whatever route you take, add each subdomain / domain/folder to WT, that way, you can target specific markets for each language.

Hope that help!

The "idea" is still valid. You need a "Thank You" page that actually sends the transaction details to Analytics. Users must be redirected to that page after completing the payment, and I guess the return URL is just a variable you set while sending the order details to Worldpay (look into their docs for that: return url).

Then, in the "thank you" page you trace the order and create the analytics ecommerce call (with any programing language) depending on the version of Analytics you are using, it could be the ga (ga('require','ecommerce','ecommerce.js'); and then the rest of the transaction details) or the older _TrackTrans() (after the rest of the transaction details).

Hope that helps!

No, Google is smart enough to determine which content shouldn't be duplicated and what content is most likely to be the same in all sites (exactly your situation).

As a side note, if you are adding the content in HTML, plus providing an extra value, you will probably rank higher than those that just display the product specs as a downloadable PDF.

Are you using a CNAME of your main domain for that server? Like sounds.example.com? You should, if you aren't. I don't think pagerank can flow to a sound file. But I am not entirely sure, tho.

Yes, google crawls and understands almost every language, so you shouldn't have any problem.

Make sure you add the appropriate  (changing "es" for whatever language you will use).

Well, I checked SEMRush and they in fact report $2K on ads, but it seems that they have no data of the past. So they are just catching up with the data or Nest just started with their online ads. In any case, as the stats are just pouring in, I would leave a few more weeks before "trusting" on what SEMRush reports. I'm also sure (like you) that after that acquisition they are spending much more than 11K a month in ads.

Hold on for a week or two and see if there any changes.

Google prioritizes results that they consider more valuable.

Imagine someone looking for a private equity firm database, they WON'T type private equity firms, as those who enter that are either looking for the meaning of "private equity firms" or news about "private equity firms".

Google might have ranked you on top for some time, but after the release of hummingbird, everything changed, now Google tries to "understand" what you are thinking, what you are looking for and present the best possible results, not only based on the query itself, but also taking into account search history, habits, etc.

You should also consider that your Website, compared to the others shown for that specific query, has a very low domain and page authority. Plus it lacks of any kind of social signals.

Hi Ron,

You will need to use URL rewrite and the following code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That will redirect any page/file on example.com/file to www.example.com/file with a 301 redirect.

Hope that helps!

You can rest assure that the scraper blog WILL NOT rank above Moz's results.

As Eric said, Google's Matt Cutts pointed out that Google has several techniques to recognize the original source of an article/content.

In this case, the content isn't helping the blog, and it can even be penalized for duplicate content and/or rank far below as it isn't adding any value.

On the DMCA side, while they point to the source, why will the source bother? They get backlinks, Google knows who's the original writer, etc., nothing to worry about.

IF there was no link to the source, then I would advise taking action, otherwise, they are probably doing you a favor

If the domain expired and there's no content in it, then it will take time. You no longer control the domain, once Google crawls it again it will notice the lack of content and the domain actually expiring. The reason why Google may take some time to remove old content, is because you could be having an issue with the Website and therefore the content is not being served, and that is not a reason to remove/lose rankings.

Hope that helps.

No problem. Keep checking on SEMRush in a few days to see if those numbers are changing.

But for now, you can report to your customer that Nest wasn't doing any noticeable advertising before the acquisition. They are now, apparently, but those stats from SEMRush are just estimates based on open metrics, no one outside Google or Nest can actually give you an exact sum.

Holy... this IS weird.

Checked the robots.txt and there's nothing blocking the indexing, robots meta tags are present with INDEX.

You clearly need urgent access to Webmaster tools, seems like a penalty for pure spam or something like that, as there's no 1 single page indexed, while there are other sites linking to it.

What I would do? Before doing any further onsite SEO, get that resolved. Go to Webmaster tools and check any manual action, message, etc. Try the fetch as googlebot. Then go to Google's Webmaster forums and ask, usually someone from Google jumps in.

That is only truth if the new theme that you are going to use has errors. If it has been SEO'ed and all the content will be the same, you may some rankings decline until Google spiders the new site and re index it. But that shouldn't take very long.

You need to think on the users first, will the users love the new site? If they will, then Google will follow, don't worry about that.

Oh well, as you mentioned "rebrand" I guessed you were able to also merge the two, by using one site to cover all, like most manufacturers do (apple, samsung, sony, etc).

Anyway, in this case, I would suggest you build different content for both sites. In the manufacturer site, you can have technical specifications, let's say it builds computers, then in the manufacturer page you list technical aspects of the chips, motherboards, manufacturing process, etc. While in the sales front you "SELL" the end product, show how it works, you can probably add videos of the product in action, etc.

By following that process you will end up with "similar" pages, but sites that actually read totally different; and you won't need to nofollow or noindex anything...

Hey,

Why do you want to increase an Alexa ranking in the first place? Alexa is completely manipulated, and there's software and services that can increase the ranking, but just that, just the number, it won't be a traffic based increase, therefore useless.

The only REAL way to increase an Alexa ranking is having more traffic. 1500 daily visitors does not even come close to the amount of traffic you need to reach the position 1500.

In fact, given that the site has 1500 visitors daily, looks weird that it has a 4497 rank, it should be worse for that amount of traffic.

All you mention in the 4th point, will drive you more traffic, which ultimately may increase the rank, however, you will need much more traffic than 1500 to get to the rank you want.

Did you try manually fetching as Googlebot the robots.txt file via the webmaster tools? If not, do that, then click submit to index. Then do the same thing for some of the images or better if you have a file linking to all images (like an image sitemap). Once that is done, let Google recrawl everything for a few days (even a week) and try again.

As @jessconfitti said, you are 100% correct. If a user browses more than 1 page in your site, it would not be a bounce. Even if after the second page the users clicks back to whatever Website they came from.

"Responsive" sites use CSS to accommodate the content on the user's device. Usually the HTML doesn't change. The best way to know if that is the type of responsive template you have, is trying resizing the browser window to different sizes. Content should accommodate without reloading, if it does there's nothing you need to worry about.

There are lots of blog directories, but those won't get you any significant traffic at all. In fact, I would recommend you focus on social media to become viral.

First, make sure you have created a FB page, Twitter profile and G+ page, verify everything needed and start posting on the 3 networks on a regular basis. Not only post your blog posts, but try to build a community. This could take a while (and you can push it with a few ads from facebook and twitter). Remember to use hashtags to get new followers that read about certain topics.

Then you can also use sites like viralcontentbuzz, which allows others to share your pages in exchange of sharing theirs. There's also a paid version that gives you more exposure and a few of free credits, although the idea is to share in exchange, not to "buy shares".

To add up, you can always offer yourself to guest post on other related blogs, even if the outbound links are nofollow (no juice to the site), you still get your article and your name out there.

There are millions of other ways to promote your blog that I;m sure you'll discover on the way

Hope that helps!

Hi,

Have you considered the social media links you have in each page? 5 in each page. If you have 800 pages there are your 4,000 outbound links.

Hope that helps!

I really hope they were able to find a way to take down that SAPE link network, which apparently they were working on it.

I see hundreds of quality sites outranked by those link buyers, and all of them go back to sape. HATE THAT!

Do you have the penalty in available in your Google WT? What exactly does it say?

Most penguin penalties I've seen are partial matched and affecting only some incoming links. Removing pages won't help as you don't know which ones are affected.

Doing a link cleanup by going link after link asking for removal and then requesting a reconsideration may remove the penalty (in conjunction with the disavow file), but there's been several polls online and over 80% of the people who did this and got their penalty removed didn't see their rankings back. This is obviously true, as probably those manipulative links were the ones causing your high rankings and now gone you need to get some REAL, EARNED links to gain positions.

Truth be told, no one can tell what will happen, and you can only try.

The ultimate question always become: Is it really worth it? Or do I just start fresh (new Website, unrelated to the old one)?

Your site's URL would help...

There's no such thing as a maximum or minimum. All that matters is WHAT you publish. It is best to publish an excellent post once a week than 10 posts of useless content a day.

It would help if you tell us a little more about the platform you are using. If it is wordpress, you should go with the Yoast SEO plugin, which will make all the changes and adjustments for you, while you can set specific METAs for specific posts.

Yes, basically you will get the juice from the new domain to your old domain. However, have you made your research? As the domain may have a penalty that an also be passed to your old domain by 301 the new one.

I would suggest you do a backlink assessment, add the domain to your Webmaster Tools and look for any manual actions that the domain might have.

If your research results in a bad backlink profile, or a manual penalty, I'll suggest you don't make the 301.

Hope that helps.

Panda does not affect links, penguin does.

Panda is a "quality content" related update.

Penguin penalizes both pages and/or entire domains, even to the point of completely removing the from the index.

Under your Google Webmaster Tools, "Manual Actions" you can see the type of penalty the site has (if any) and what it is impacting.

"Sitewide" means that the entire site got the hit, while "Partial Matches" means some parts or some links.

Anyhow, if you have a manual penalty, you won't recover by just creating new pages. Although penalties expire, you cannot know which ones were hit.

You have to consider if the Website is worth saving or you can just start again fresh. If you have a Website 3 years old or more, and generating income, with a client base, then you probably start working on saving it. If your Website was new, not real client base or value, you rather start fresh.

Don't make the same mistakes again!

I can't find any link to default.aspx, but the fact that the page actually loads (even blank), shows that for some reason traffic is going there.

What I find weird, is that default.aspx doesn't have the Analytics tracking code in it, therefore GA shouldn't know that traffic is even flowing there.

Check if default.aspx has some code in it, if it actually does something, and if it doesn't, just delete the file.

Does your client have that much content to regularly update a tumblr and a custom on-site blog? I would actually go with the on-site blog.

What's your customer's reasoning behind the change?

Well, I checked the site and you are already adding the page number to the title. Then do the same for the Categories / or any other area that is being "paged".

bloh/page/2/

title: Blog dental de Clinicas Dentales Propdental - Página 2 de 59
desc: Lee sobre cierto tema y aprende bla bla bla - Pagina 2

In my case I would remove the "de 59" just to avoid the 70 chars limit in titles.

You can get great info here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag and here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description

Hope that helps.

Your site is being indexed. I don't know how many pages your site actually has, but at least 80 something are indexed by Google. Your homepage http://www.michaelharwinlaw.com/ even has a rich snippet with "Michael Harwin" picture. (see screenshot)

If you did a redesign lately (less that a month ago) you can probably expect some ranking fluctuations until Google starts picking up your site again, this could take a while.

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When did that happen? Google may have the results shuffled for a day or two while the index is updating. It's not a surprise to have a site ranked 2nd one day and the next day 17th and the next day back in 2nd place.

Did you check what your competitors are doing?