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It seems to be an issue with your account as I just tested and wasn't able to reproduce the error. I recommend you contact Moz help@moz.com

Yes, those "pop-ups" are crawled. Search engines are already smart enough to interpret lightboxes just fine, which is the name of that kind of "pop-ups".

Colons are seen by search engines as what they are. You say something, a word, then a colon, and then comes an explanation or enumeration.

In your example, you did it right, perhaps you should move the colon to where they belong, right next to the last letter of the brand, so it reads: GENERAL ALTIMAX ARCTIC: 225/45R17 91Q

The idea you mentioned, building titles for users, not for engines, is the way to go. However, there are some tweaks you can make to make it easier for both.

As in your example, the title could become: GENERAL TIRE: ALTIMAX ARCTIC 225/45R17 91Q - YOURSITENAME (personally I would put the colon next to the brand, and then comes the rest of the product name + you end up with " - YOURSITENAME" to help build YOUR brand.

Hope that helps!

Keri,

There are some excellent profiles that can share your content, unlike other "services" that are paid to share, the people sharing the posts are actually reading and finding them interesting enough to share. Of course, there are some that click on each and every share button just to get the credits, but as viralcontentbuzz "pays" by how popular you are based on metrics (I think from Klout) those that share just for the credits can't do you no harm.

I've used them for several posts and some ended up with tweets from high level profiles that got retweets, favs, etc.

I am totally against their paid version as it could become a paid to share scheme, which ends up as a way of spamming the networks, but still, high end profiles won't share everything just for the points, they have a "reputation" to maintain.

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!

Exactly.

Let's do some cleanup

To redirect everything domain.com/** to www.domain.com you need this:

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

That's it for the www and non-www redirection.

Then, you only need one line per 301 redirection you want to do, without the need of specifying those rewrite conds you had previously, doing it like this:

RewriteRule ^pagename1.html(.*)$ pagename1.html [R=301,L]

That will in fact redirect any www/non-www page like pagename1.htmlhgjdfh to www.domain.com/pagename1.html. The (.*) acts as a wildcard.

You also don't need to type the domain as you did in your examples. You just type the page (as it is in your same domain, you don't need to specify it): pagename1.html

Well, if you still want to go that way, the rewrite conds there are not needed (as it is given that the htaccess IS in your domain). Then a rewrite rule for www.mydomain.com/pagename1.htmlsale should be:

RewriteRule ^pagename1.htmlsale$ pagename1.html [R=301,L]

Plus a rule to cover everything that is pagename1.html*** such as pagename1.html123, pagename1.html%22, etc. can be redirected with this rule:

RewriteRule ^pagename1.html(.*)$ pagename1.html [R=301,L]

Although you can redirect any URL to the one you consider they wanted to link, you may end up with hundreds of rules in your htaccess.

I personally wouldn't use this approach, instead, you can build a really good 404 page, which will look into the typed URL and show a list of possible pages that the user was actually trying to reach, while still returning a 404 as the typed URL actually doesn't exists.

By using the above method you also avoid worrying about those links as you mentioned. No linkjuice is passed tho, but still traffic coming from those links will probably get the content they were looking for as your 404 page will list the possible URLs they were trying to reach...

Let's start with the basics. There's a tag there that does not exists: "fb:ids", I guess what you wanted to use here is "fb:admins".

Now, the debugger is actually using the content in your meta tags properly. I tested also posting it to facebook and it also shows the appropriate data as you have specified in the tags, see the screenshot.

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One doesn't relate to the other.

I personally wouldn't go with the noindex,follow if the duplicate content is on other sites besides yours. If you are having duplicate content issues within your site, that's a different story.

If your content within your site is unique, then do not add the noindex (keep the prev/next). Just try to make your pages stand out from your competitors.

On the other hand, if you are getting duplicate content warnings withing your own site, then you could perhaps use the noindex or find another solution to avoid duplicate content.

Hope that helps!

Here's an article we published on the differences of marketing to men or women, perhaps you can find some valuable information in it: http://www.fulltraffic.net/blog/84385/marketing-to-men-women-differences-in-internet-usage/

ONLY in the terms of speed. If you are targeting New Yorkers, you probably want to serve them as fast as possible. An offshore server will deliver slower that a server in Virginia (Amazon AWS) for example.

Using a CDN can probably eliminate that issue as almost ALL CDN providers have multiple servers across the US, still the dynamic content will be loaded from the main server, but that is usually the smallest amount of data (while CSS and JS files are usually what slows down loading and rendering).

Hope that helps!

Completely agree with Chris.

What's the point now a days of a directory? Even paid ones (and good ones) like Yahoo's... People don't search in directories...

Unless of course you are listed (naturally) in a directory that only lists "Ducati Parts" if you were selling Ducati parts, and still I'd ask for that link to be nofollowed.

For the tags, easy: noindex them, those pages don't offer any value to search engines.

For the categories you could perhaps go the same way, or use another approach and only use 1 category per post.

Have you read the post? First he was talking about ALL guest blogging. Then he retracted and fixed both the title of the post and added a note to it.

FYI: This wasn't a video. It was a blog post on Matt's blog.

And just minutes ago, Cutts changed the post title and clarified he was referring to "guest blogging for the sole purpose of SEO"...

Today, Matt Cutts published an article on his blog saying pretty much "Guest blogging is dead". Seemed a little harsh to me, but what happens now?

Is GOOD guest blogging still allowed or will it be seen as spam too?

I even picked up a chatter on Twitter about YouMoz: https://twitter.com/rustybrick/status/425374254465445888

By the way Hugh, if you think the broken link reported by Moz isn't actually there, then you can contact them about a possible glitch here: help@moz.com

Andrew,

The site in question has low authority compared to the ones showing up in the first page. Google is somehow associating your brand with a software called "Free Studio" and sites with almost impossible to beat authority are ranking above.

Google, compared to Bing (and Yahoo! that serves results from Bing), uses different ranking mechanisms.

In order to "claim" your brand's name, I'd suggest you establish several business listings pointing to the site, such as:

• Facebook Page
• Twitter Profile
• G+ Page
• G+ Local
• LinkedIn Page
• Crunchbase
• Yelp
• etc.

Try to put your company out there, expose its name as much as you can without purchasing any "featured listing." Once you have all those steps completed, compare results and see if the brand name starts to show up.

Another approach would be to "extend" the brand name, removing the FS and using the actual significance of those 2 letters ("FS" means?). It should be easier to compete with other sites instead of the ones that are currently returned by your brand query: "FS Studio". Softonic, CNET, afterdawn are not easy targets.

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You're welcome Emily.

Moz has a list of recommended companies here: http://moz.com/article/recommended

ALL paid links are going to hurt you eventually. You can probably get an immediate boost, but then, the penalty you could receive, will take far more to fix.

Regardless of the "related content" those are paid links in a link scheme network apparently.

If your SEO company is recommending you purchase links, then my suggestion is CHANGE YOUR SEO COMPANY!

Has it shown any data in the past in that section? As if it did, it is probably a glitch and should be fixed in a few hours.

Your "blog" pages are in fact missing a description. For example: http://photographerinc.com/david/ has no description tag. It has the og:description, but that's not the same.

I wasn't able to find a broken link tho.

I'm sorry James, but I don't provide SEO services for the moment.

There a list of recommended SEO companies suggested by Moz: http://moz.com/article/recommended

As for the Metrics, if you go to opensiteexplorer and type the URL of your competitor, you won't get any data, as it is actually a new site and with almost no authority.

I did check the backlinks using ahrefs and they have near 75. My quick guess is, that if they are climbing out of nowhere, received 75 backlinks in a few days, then they are most likely using some king of black hat seo technique. But you shouldn't care, they WILL be removed in a few days (it could take a couple month too. You can report them to Google as a spam report).

Anyway, leaving that site aside, there are issues in your site that you should fix ASAP, or you will never get a decent amount of Search traffic. As I mentioned before, you can't name your pages "HOME". You need to name them properly. Check other Websites for reference... Your title, in the homepage, should read something like: "OC PAtent Lawyer - Entrepreneur and Mid-Size Business Patent Attorney". Plus your description should state what you do, while now, it also says "home".

Send me PM if you need more info. I can probably help you out for free. It is a Wordpress theme, so it shouldn't be so hard to fix.

James,

There's no such thing as "hijacking your authority".

You mistakenly typed twice your own domain, so you are seeing the same results in both columns

PS: There are a few things in your SEO that you have overlooked. Just by accessing your site I noticed the first: Title = "Home". You should really consider hiring an SEO expert to help you with your site.

Do you mind sharing your Website's address?

Hi!

The 1st error is given when you are linking somewhere in your site to a 4XX page. Try following the links in hat error report to see which page is linking to that 4XX. Once you find it, simply remove the link or fix it.

The 2nd, if you are just adding the missing tags, it would take at least a week to reflect in the crawl stats in Moz as Mozbot scrapes your site one a week.

Hope that clears it up

Well, it could take some time, yes. 72 hours isn't that long. However, I'd suggest you verify your site on GWT and then use the Fetch as Googlebot to scrape your page and verify that Google is actually seeing the correct page. Then you can click submit to index and select the option that says something like "this and all linked pages". That should help getting your site re-crawled and re-indexed faster.

Make sure all your possible url versions are correctly redirected via a 301 the the correct version. http://www.site.com - > https://site.com, etc.

Hope that helps!

Christian,

I just checked your site and I wasn't able to find those URLs that are constantly changing as you mention.

If you are referring to the restaurant order presented on the page changes, that's nothing to worry about. You are just sorting the restaurants by the last review, right?

I wouldn't recommend noindexing the review section, in fact, I would recommend you further improve it using schema.org markup to tell Google what those "comments" are. You can even use GWT Data Highlighter to markup your data automatically (although only Google will know the markup if you use that method).

About the duplicate content, there's also nothing to worry about, as in the homepage you present only 1 review while in the restaurant page you show all of them, so the content is different.

You should also use schema.org markup to let crawlers know business locations, details, etc and what you are actually listing.

Hope that helps!

Have you contacted the Google Webmaster Help forums? As that seems to be a glitch in Google.

How many pages are scraped by Mozbot? If the amount that mozbot shows is different, then you should either sit and wait until Google removes those indexed pages or create a conversation on the forums so someone at google can give you a hint of what is going on.

If the tool is listing those URLs with and without the slash I guess you are linking to those pages with and without the ending slash. You should check your site and remove the one that shouldn't be there.

Also, check if the "wrong" version redirects to the "correct" one or at least has the "correct" URL in the canonical tag.

The lastmod should be the date that the page was last modified, however, most sitemap generators don't know when that was so they just use the timestamp and a changefreq daily to tell Google basically that they need to scrape the page everyday. In most cases, that's not the case as the page remains the same for years, but that won't hurt you at all as Google has its own methods to verify if a page has changed and "learn" how often your site/page updates that it needs to re-scrape it.

Hope that helps!

I'm with Peter. As I wrote you Yesterday in the question you posted: http://moz.com/community/q/all-keywords-increasing-rank-except-url-keyword-whats-going-on

There's a massive report on a new update on SERoundtable: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-update-17956.html

Both should happen.

You should design your coming soon page in a way that allows visitors to visit the AU version meanwhile. Perhaps even adding a newsletter sign up form...

If you are already getting links, then Google is already aware of your site. They were probably not indexing the AU version as you were forcing them to go the US, which is an "under construction" page.

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.

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...

Why a different brand name? Couldn't just the manufacturer offer the products for sale on its site?

I can understand it if the retail store sells not only from one manufacturer, but if all the products are from the same manufacturer then why don't just use 1 site? That should be simpler to maintain, market, etc.

If your main concern is page load time, then I'd suggest you look into the @media query for higher resolutions. In fact, if you use sprites, you can recognize via CSS the display and serve different sprites (or images) based on the display resolution.

Take a look at the RetinaJS project here: http://retinajs.com/

Hope that helps!

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.

You can't track accesses to your feeds as simple as you track pageviews. You still can see the traffic coming from you feeds.

If you are using XML feeds in plain text, then there's nothing you can do to track impressions. However, if you use some scripting language to build the feed, (if you are using wordpress you are) then you can use some server side counting including sending a track pageview to Google Analytics while the scripts prints the feed.

Here's an example on how you can accomplish that: http://suefeng.net/blog/google-analytics-rss-feed-tracking/

Hope that helps!

Agree with Mike.

However, I'd like to add that in the last few years, as .com are almost impossible to get, people started to use ccTLDs for sites not targeted to a specific Country, and Google (and I am guessing other engines too), had to "learn" to recognize these sites in order to rank them for other Countries as well.

Well known examples: bit.ly, last.fm, etc.

Your developer is correct (partially) :).

You see, that DOES affects SEO but in a good way. Over time, Google has learned to recognize what's best for the user, and from my personal point of view, having a "lightbox" (that's how that "window" is called) is far better than opening a new page if you can present the property details better. Whatever looks better for the user, then it will also look better for Google.

Google is also capable of running and understanding Javascript, therefore you shouldn't have any problem, even less, when the link actually points to the page, so search engines unable to run Javascript can still scrape the site perfectly.

Hope that helps!

I'm guessing you are talking about the crawl diagnostics?

You can find them (in the old version Moz Pro), here: http://pro.moz.com/campaigns/[CAMPAIGN ID HERE]/issues

Or in the new Moz Analytics, navigate to your campaign -> Search -> Crawl Diagnostics.

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

Why would you redirect the naked domain to home.html? I'd personally would have that home.html renamed to the default page that your server serves as the index, probably index.html and then look if there are any canonical tags in home.html pointing to the named domain + if there are any restrictions for robots to index the page, in the file itself and in the robots.txt file.

If you can provide us with the URL, we would be able to check a little deeper.

Hope that helps.

You're welcome

Have a good one!

Sorry for the delay.

Did you check if the pages where linked from your site? Sometimes, automated scrapers test for pages that actually are not linked from anywhere. It could be the results of Google trying to "discover" (I've seen that before and is not uncommon at all), or a possible attack attempt.

Steps I'd recommend to follow:

• Check if those pages have links from any other pages around your site or external (use GWT and/or OSE).
• If there are links in your site, remove them.
• If there are extrenal links to those pages, consider taking advantage of those pages Perhaps someone misspelled an URL when linking to the site and you are loosing that juice throwing a 404, consider a 301 to the best match or building a new page using that URL to leverage from that juice.
• Make sure all your plugins and files are up to date (if a CMS) or have the site checked by an expert in web security to mitigate any possible backdoor (services like cloudflare can help).

Hope that helps Dan!

Glad I was of help.

I do have some technical knowledge on redirections, however, as we are dealing with subdomains here, I'm not sure cookies will work. Remember that x.domain.com is a different domain than y.domain.com, thus making a cookie created by x.domain.com useless on y.domain.com.

I've checked a couple of sites that do this kind of redirection, and can't hardly found an example of it using cookies, I find lots of them using subfolders: domain.com/au/, etc. as the cookie is valid for all subfolders.

How about forgeting about a "Global" cookie, and just using one for the particular subdomain (if you still want to go with the subdomain route), here's how it will work:

domain.com -> redirects to the "best match" (US go to us version, AU go to au version, others go to whatever version you consider the "default").

Then, in the subdomain, you implement the lightbox pop-up (the less intrusive one you can come up with) and save their response, so if the user accesses the next day to au.domain.com they won't be prompted again to change the location, BUT if they access domain.com (a US visitor) he/she will be redirected to the US version and get the lightbox again.

You end up "basically" with the same results, however, it could be a little annoying for some users, at least I know I would be annoyed if that happened to me.

Give it a day and think if subfolders aren't better in your case, that should solve all problems, and implementation will as easy as 1,2,3 (I am capable of helping you with that approach). You won't be using cookies, but session variables (although cookies will allow you to remember the user choice for any time-frame you want).

Oops, forgot to mention, 302 redirects

Finally, OSE is now like "integrated" in Moz! And it looks awesome. Not only from a design perspective, but also, I think all the login issues in that past I was having are now solved!

Nicely done Moz!