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Have you tried OSE to find links pointing to the new URL and the old one?

I would go with another solution tho. I will start analyzing the pages where you have the highest CTR, then on those the highest bounce rate. Are those visitors leaving because the content is useless or because they finished reading the piece and there's nowhere to go? Consider all variables and try improving the content pages to include links to related posts kinda "You may find this articles interesting", or "Related Articles", etc. Try improving the site navigation, if you are getting CTR from search, then do whatever you can to keep those visitors there, by improving user experience and navigation.

Hope that helps!

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Hi Lauren,

Mentions carry some SEO benefits, not as much as hyperlinks but they do help.

If you can ask those reporters to add the link that would be much better, but the mention itself does help anyway.

There's nothing you need to do. If you don't want those pages to be indexed leaving the robots.txt as it is is fine.

You can mark that in your Webmaster Tools as fixed and Google won't notify you again.

100% agree.

However, I think they already parked the URL. Did you?

As if you did, it will start loosing its ranking (if it didn't already).

Based on what you said, you built a private link network, which is strongly forbidden by Google and even if you didn't get caught, you may in the future with that strategy.

If I were you, I would took down all those blogs and move only the good posts to the main one, if you fill your main blog with "crappy" or thin content, you could get that site penalized.

Move only those articles that are worth moving and then take out all those blogs, with no 301s or canonical, just kill them. If you use canonical, they still have links to your main website (link network - forbidden), if you setup 301, then you get hundreds of unnatural links, which again, results in a private link network. and I advise against both.

Hope that helps!

Well, just took a look at your subdomain links and there's nothing bad there. You can go ahead and remove the subdomain placing a 301 to your homepage.

What don't you just block Google and other search engines from crawling/indexing the subdomain?

That will keep the content there while not affect your SEO at all (and prevent from having bad backlinks from subdomain now pointing to domain (if any) by using a 301).

I'd suggest you go with pages for Websites and keep your personal profile for yourself. You can link from your personal profile to your Website too under the "Contributor" links (and you can list as many Websites as you need).

To verify the page with your Website, you will need to add a reference from your Website to your page.

Just like Facebook profiles and pages, when you like a Website you follow that Website's Page (if any) compared by following a person or being friends with.

You have a "Person" profile, not a page. Therefore you can link to all the Websites you contribute.

If you were talking about a page, then you should have 1 page per each Website, unless the Websites are connected internally, say www.example.com and blog.example.com (in which case you can do whatever you prefer).

Yes, you should put a 301 to the new and unique URL, so that if you have any backlinks to those pages you get the link juice anyway. Plus, it will avoid potential 404s.

Hope that helps!

Or it could be like Bender's and be completely useless and just messing up with TV reception? By the way, is Roger Bender's brother?

http://static.betazeta.com/www.belelu.com/up/2011/05/futurama-bender.jpg

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evolution-of-roger

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.

Apparently, he can also fix your roof or repair a bed

http://www.seomoz.org/img/sprites/changelog.png

I don't know. But I am now subscribed to this question

Hmmm he can read REALLY fast? At least that seems what he is doing in the community page http://www.seomoz.org/community

If there's no way to access site.com why will you set a canonical?

If, for example, your sites serves the same content on site.com and www.site.com what you need is a "global" 301 redirect from site.com to www.site.com to avoid duplicate issues. As the file is the same in both domains, a canonical would help, but not appropriate in that case.

Is that what you need?

You may want to check this video:

watch?v=Filv4pP-1nw

Equity is passed to a 404 page, which does not exist, therefore that equity is lost.

Kevin, I think the question is what is the intent on those subdomains. As he points, he wants to generate more traffic, I inferred Google traffic by creating those subdomains, as such, those won't add anything to the main site besides the link to the main domain, which actually is a doorway page (correct me if I'm wrong).

Actually it would be worse. As Doorway pages are pages that link to your domain from other domains. And subdomains are considered separate domains, therefore a page that its only purpose is to drive traffic to the main page is a doorway page, which is against google TOS.

Which server type are you using? Apache?

If you are:

1. Choose the one you prefer, www. or without www.
2. Redirect all your pages to the one you choose, let's say you go with the one without www.

In your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

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

3. Go to Google Webmaster Tools > Configuration > Settings > Preferred Domain (choose the one you chose)

4. Check that all your links in your page point to the correct one. If you link to your internal pages like this you can skip this step.

[5. Wait for the results.

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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?

Couldn't that be considered as doorway pages? There's a penalty on doorway pages.

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.

AdSense uses another bot to read your pages content and then serve ads based on the content. That's why you are getting a higher crawl rate when you have adsense installed and the drop when you remove it.

Hi Heather,

There's no link in the homepage to your Blog...?

First thing you should do is remove that page and have the blog as the index page.

Then you can see what happens.

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!

It will, yes, and you not only will get the new pages indexed faster but also the link juice the previous one had.

If you didn't receive any Google penalty, I would buy the domain, and set a 301 permanent redirect to the new one; or leaving the old one with the content and a rel=canonical tag to wherever the content is in the new domain (that's your decision).

But if you have the chance to get the domain again, for for it at least for 1 year and then, once you get all your new content indexed and the old one deindexed, you can forget about it, or leave it with the 301 redirect (which won't make you any harm, unless that previous domain was penalized).

If it was penalized, then don't. Again, do not get that domain back and point it to your new one, if you do that, all toxic links will be now pointing to your new domain.

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.

If you link to those articles you are flowing pagerank to them, but you are not getting anything in return. The best would be to contact those article writers and ask for a link. Even if the articles are about murder trials, she is a lawyer, therefore related to murder trials. You can ask a backlink on the name or "lawyer" or whatever word refers to her and her job.

I found the problem myself.

My site is under cloudflare, and apparently they were blocking the IP requesting the favicon file.

As a fix, I added the favicon to the CDN (which does not go through cloudflare) and the issue is now fixed.

Although PDFs are indexed, Google recommends creating a copy of that PDF in HTML. There's no reason for leaving a page in PDF if you want it to be indexed.

Check Matt Cutts video on the most common mistakes SEOs make. He mentions converting the PDF content to an HTML version:

watch?feature=player_embedded&v=421aTJI2Nxc

I think the difference is the pagerank passing.

You can have a 302 redirect link that is followed but equity is not passed to the final destination.

Kind of what twitter does. Links are all changed to a t.co link, while that link could be followed, link equity (pagerank) isn't flowing through that link.

Hope that helps.

Hi Chris,

It's been proven that the main issue with h1 and h2 tags is that people uses them everywhere within the design, while there's a reason for the 1, 2, 3, etc. h2 is used to denote your primary heading, h3 to denote your h2, and so on.

You could change the other h1, h2 (that are less important) and use h3 and h4 accordingly by styling the h3 and h4 in the CSS.

The only bad thing to do there would be to hide (display:none) any of the headings.

Hope that helps!

Well, there's some improvements you can make and some other you can't.

First: try using CSS and JS static files, the way you are calling them is using php, which probably doesn't let the machine to save a copy on cahce. Once you manage to serve real static content, you can enhance that by using a CDN, like netdna, or maxcdn. You could also test cloudflare, which also has CDN integrated and other features that will also help with page speed while async loading all JS, preventing any blocking while the HTML is downloaded.

Second: you cannot edit/change anything from the twitter, facebook js.

Following all suggestions by page speed, you could achieve 95+/100.

Try checking the problem and the possible solutions. They even offer reading material to allow anyone to understand what is exactly the issue and possible fixes.

Hope that helps!

Wow, this is a hard one.

There are several things to consider here:

• Have you tried fixing the penalty issue? Removing the links, using disavow tool and submitting a reconsideration request?
• If you did, have you waited long enough to say you haven't recovered from it?
• If you start from scratch using the other domain, remove the other one to avoid duplicate content, start with a new site completely. I would even try to redo the content.
• Does it worth it? How long will it take for the new site to reach what you have now with the penalized site?
• etc, etc.

It will be ultimately your decision and yours only. But consider all the pros/cons and first of all, try fixing the error. Redeem yourself, if that works, it will be so much better, and easier.

Hope that helps!

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.

Oh yeah, forgot about that. But considering you are providing you DDoS protection, CDN, optimization, etc, their fee is still very low for a pro account.

Those sounds are yours, therefore you don't need them to rank in SERPs as long as your Website ranks. Anyway, Google does not display "sound results" so I don't think following or nofollowing those links will do much difference, I don't think that is the problem why you could be loosing your rankings.

After considering my answer and Sylvana's, I would go with her solution. Separate pages. She is right, I also like scrolling over fan pages and it could be confusing if posts are in different languages.

+1 Sylvana

Hey,

The 2 loads could be: 1st load (no cahce), 2nd load (cached), thus the second load is much faster as images and other cached content in not being requested from the server.

Why don't you try with Google Page Speed? It will pinpoint each fix you can apply to speed up loading time. If you are using Firefox, you can download Firebug and install Page Speed, I don't know about other browsers tho.

Hope that helps!

Hi Sylvana,

You can target Facebook posts to individual Countries (among other options), so others following your page won't see it in the feed.

On the other hand, I completely agree on the "picture networks." I wrote a post last year about that: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

You can only target specific Countries with Facebook, they offer the ability to target a specific audience with every post. Then, Twitter, pinterest and flickr don't.

Following your reasoning, you should go with a single account on Facebook, Pinterest and Flickr and separate accounts for Twitter.

Pinterest and Flickr doesn't offer to much value aside from the images, and if you need some text, you can put both languages within the same post.

Hey Mike,

So basically if the page is unique and there's no other copy with another URL you shouldn't use the canonical tag in that unique page pointing to itself?

I know it's like saying "the original copy of this page is here" while "here" is the same page, but that solves lots of duplicate content issues that might arise while using URL rewrite.

If you have a blog, you can use structured data, if you are selling movies you can use structured data. It has several uses and you should read each structured data type (schema.org, microformats, microdata, RDFs) to see which one you can use.

Personally I use microdata on my blog to give the author data a structure using "Person", the post date, etc.

I would go first with Schema.org, as you are just starting: http://www.schema.org/

Google has great resourced to help you started with structured data.

Your first read should be this: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2650907

Once you do the implementation, you can test it using their testing tool: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Data Highlighter is a structure created for events. If you don't have any events, then you shouldn't use data highlighter. More info on Data Highlighter here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2692911&topic=2692946&ctx=topic

Hope that helps!