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Some pagerank is diluted over a 301 redirect. The same as if you had one link to HenryJewelers.com from Henry.com.
It will certainly be better to use the actual domain. But not going the other way around? Is HenryJewelers.com an established website with lots of value? are all the links pointing to Henry.com? why not going with Henry.com as the main address, it clearly makes more sense user-wise.
Why would you create an image tag if there's no image to put? If the reason is just to put some words, then yes, that's stuffing, and you could be penalized.
As Jesse said, I also tried everything, with 3 browsers, firefox, chrome and IE.
To add up, don't know if you noticed, it also affects OSE, before if I was logged in in Moz, I was automatically logged in in OSE. Not that part seems broken too, I need to login every time I access (even during the same day, browser session, etc).
I guess you already did a 301 from the www. to the root, right?
If that's the case, some link juice get lost on the 301 just as much as if it was an extra link you needed to click.
Make sure all the pages are 301'd to their new versions!
I think that now a days, with many sites using reverse proxies (such as CloudFlare) Google has stopped looking at the IPs as it is no longer a factor to rank sites.
Jeff's point on the e-mail problem is right, however, you can simply host your email on a third party IP, like Google Apps, and never get blocked. Something that even dedicated IPs get the punch.
I have a few dedicated servers, some of them with multiple IP addresses and I found myself trying to clean new IP addresses that just were to new or "abused" by previous owners.
Switching hosting provider, however, while changing the IP address may increase/decrease rankings not because of the IP but most likely because of the site speed, which IS something that Google considers to rank sites.
I think you did the right thing. Engines will take a while until they re-crawl your robots.txt and actually following what you commanded.
Extra steps I would take:
No, authorship is intended for people, not pages.
I think Google was already working on the possibility to add multiple authors to a single post, which can solve your problem by mentioning each author that contributed to that specific article, but I can't find the article I read about 3 - 5 month ago.
But did you get any MANUAL penalty on A or B?
Same problem here. I am responding questions in the Q&A, navigate to the the Profile page and suddenly I'm logged out.
There's been at least two more threads about this issue in the last couple of weeks. Some suggested logging our, clearing the cache and logging back in. Others to log out and in; neither worked out for me...
Hey G,
I took a quick look at your Website and link profile.
There's no much I can suggest other than continue working on your site. The on page grader is just another metric, but you can't take that and expect higher rankings.
Google say they consider over 200 metrics to rank Websites, not only links, but also content, navigation, user interface, etc.
If I was required to suggest you changes these a few a would start:
As for the 301, it is perfectly implemented. Your robots file has nothing in it and does not need to. You can probably add (and remove everything else in the file):
User-Agent: *
Allow: /
But it wouldn't help much or even anything.
It will require a much more in-depth research, you may want to hire a professional SEO to look at your site and competitors'. I based my quick review only on your site, I don't know who your competitors are or what keywords you are targeting.
Hope that helps, a bit at least 
Site looks like a scraping engine full of crap, you probably don't want them to link to you (links are dofollow).
You can still disavow the entire domain even if not showing in WMT. Just add the full domain in the domain format: Domain:handmadearea.com to your disavow file and you are done.
similarweb gets their numbers from Alexa I think, so is spyfu. Compete has estimates based on their actual clients (the ones paying to track their traffic, like Alexa certified metrics), still those are just estimates that won't provide you any "REAL" data as the one Moz gets from Analytics. Worthless and completely manipulated.
I just searched everywhere and seems that there shouldn't be any problem, however, I suggest you ask here: https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/twitter-cards as I couldn't find the exact question you are asking.
Saw a thread that a user was asking about his two domains being approved but didn't say if they were for the same account. Checking some of the tweets I saw the usual "See on [domain]" saying "See on Website"...
I will surely do it. It's not all about SEO, but building relationships. You may not get a link from them directly, but you could indirectly!
There's when guest blogging becomes a spam technique, when you only do it for the link. Change your mind, watch it from another perspective!
Example: I once wrote for a small SEO blog, it had almost no value, then when I applied for a much bigger site, and showed them my work, it was a "Can you please write for us?".
Unfortunately no. Moz gets your traffic number because you allowed access to your Analytics. There's no way to know others if you don't have access to their Analytics.
There are sites that provide some open metrics, but almost all are inaccurate: Alexa, Compete, etc unless you installed their tracking code.
Hey,
As far as I know, Google has no issues at all reading HTTPS pages even if the site has mixed pages (http and https).
Probably, your Website lacks authority and that's why you are not ranking better. Not only the links help, in fact, there are over 200 factors that contribute to ranking Websites by Google.
If you share the URL, we can probably give some suggestions of what to do.
Question tho, why securing only the homepage but the entire site? Do you have a login form in the homepage only?
Hey Chris,
Did site A or B receive a manual penalty?
As any penalty on A, which is 301'd to B, will ultimately pass the penalty to B. I would suggest removing the 301 ASAP. Then cleanup the A domain until it's clean (if a manual action, until it's revoked) and then you can think of putting the 301 back.
Removing a manual penalty could be a long process, it took 1 year for us and 4 reconsideration requests to get the penalty revoked. We had to use the disavow as a machete as disavowed almost our entire link profile leaving aside the domains that we knew were good links, all others were disavowed using the "Domain:" to avoid any missed link.
That's also possible.
Check this post: http://uxmag.com/articles/a-url-in-any-language
In any language they will work fine due to Internationalized Resource Identifiers, when you copy paste them they might look weird because of that, but they will still work in a browser.
Edit: offering the URL also translated will be helpful for SEO too. Imagine a user searching for your site in their language, they will probably click on the one that it's written in their language that on the the one that has an English URL.
More specifically, for construction and building: http://schema.org/HomeAndConstructionBusiness
I think you can use data markup to add both your addresses at the same time in one single page...
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.
I think you can find the answer to your question in this other thread: http://moz.com/community/q/what-are-benefits-to-develop-large-html-sitemap
Agree with Jeff.
I noticed, however, that using some king of markup to let Google know your "most accessed" and important locations increase the chance of getting those pages in the sitelinks, ie: HTML5 tags like
<nav>.</nav>
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.
Catherine,
If you have a blog you should be using structured data. But in any case that couldn't be the reason of the drop.
I am guessing competitors using some shady techniques to outrank you and others or perhaps lack of content. I do see only 18 pages were indexed. Having a blog and posting regularly can help you. For example posting experiences from your customers? or any extra info you can provide on the locations you offer skiing (I don't know). Do a little research and see what's missing in other pages and get your hands on it.
In any case, if the site outranking you are spammy, you can always report them to Google, they don't pay too much attention, however, you could then throw a thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums (if you didn't do any backhat link building, which apparently you didn't.
Once you start creating good content, over time you will earn links which ultimately and combined will give you an edge over your competitors. That just needs time, time and more time.
Hope that helps!
Did you verify your site with GWT?
If yes, go to "Search Traffic" > "Manual Actions" and see if there's something there.
Penalties could occur for several reasons, manipulative backlinks, stuffing, full spam, etc. Check there and see if you have any.
If not, then it could be Hummingbird or Panda affecting your site.
I would suggest you read the following post that outlines the pros and cons of keyword planner plus giving you some alternatives and ways to find out volumes:
http://moz.com/blog/keyword-volume-tools
Hope that helps!
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:
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.
What is usually firing the logging out is going to my profile from the Q&A after a couple hours not being active in the site (although checking the keep me logged in option).
OSE is also logging me out EVERY TIME.
Your site is indexed by Google (check screenshot).
There seems no manual penalty as to the quick backlink check I made, but did you check your Manual Actions to any possible penalty?
Keeps logging me out too. I already raised this question (http://moz.com/community/q/problems-staying-logged-in-again) but following the suggested procedure didn't work.
Hey Alberto,
If those 44 posts are set to "private" how is Moz finding them? Somewhere in your blog you are linking to them. Find those links and take them down.
Then you should consider 2 things:
Hope that helps!
No problem! You are welcome!
FYI, the page you gave me has almost no content unless a few lines and 3 pictures, plus the header with a little animation and the footer. However, it has over 10 scripts and over 5 CSS files. Heck, the first 135 lines are just the header, while the actual content of the page is from line 258 to 274 (16 lines). I would review all those wordpress files and remove as many as possible from the site while trying to merge all the others. You are making over 30 requests for a page that has only 16 lines of actual content.
Exactly what Moz is telling you. There are 2 H1 tags in that page.
The first surrounding the logo, which is COMPLETELY USELESS and by the way keyword stuffed as that text does not show to the user as it gets replaced with the Logo Instead, that, if in the case of browsers without images (almost non-existent already) it should only have 1 or to words, exactly as the logo.
The second H1 tag in the page has: "Why Wrapped Car and Vehicles advertising?" in it. That's the one you should keep.
However, seeing your page, it seems that the following text is more important: "Wrapped Cars and Vehicles", which actually uses an H2. I would consider putting that as an H1 and focusing the keywords you need on that phrase instead.
Remember the CSS changes you are going to need too.
PS: Remove that h1 tag from the logo.
Can you please share your URL? I think you are confusing the <title>tag with an <h1> tag.</p></title>
How come they are opposites?
It says that there should be only 1 H1 tag in the page and that it should contain your targeted keywords. How is that not possible?
Are you using the hreflang correctly? it contains both the language and location. If, for example, you french version is being served with the hreflang="fr" that means that users with a French browser should see that page, but not that users in France should see that page.
If you are running an German browser, searching in France, you will probably get the German version first, as the hreflang="de" it's doing it's job. If you'd like to have the french version even for German browsers, you will probably need to add an hreflang="de-FR" and point to the french version.
Even adding all the hreflang tags you may need, Google will ultimately serve what they think is better to the user. There's no way to "force" them, hreflang is just a "guidance"
RSS feeds as duplicate content? That's the first time I hear something like that.
Feeds are intended for feed readers, which basically is a file that tells the title of the page/story, a small portion of the content/summary and the location of the actual document, an URL where you can read all the article/page.
It also helps crawlers find new content in your site by scraping the feed instead of the whole site, but it does not SEO benefit, other that "perhaps" having your new pages indexed faster.
What do you mean by "inbound links on your homepage"? The links in your homepage link yo pages in your site. Inbound links are those who come from external sources.
I don't know what keywords are you using, but just the name michael harwinlaw returns an EXCELLENT result page (see screenshot).
Now, if we are talking about specific keywords, then it will need an inbound link assessment, review for any possible penalty, etc.
But to your main question: your index page being indexed, it is, and perfectly linked to G+ places, etc.
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.
I'll probably go with a nicely designed iframe, with the full text and a link to the site's original post so interested readers can read more by accessing your site.
Consider all possibilities, like the iframe size auto-adjusting to the available size, or giving the users the ability to choose from different sizes (like youtube does).
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)?
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 an author contributes on more than one site, then on G+ you should link to each author page on each site (within the same G+ profile). Each site should have the author page linking to his/her g+ profile. The authorship verification needs a "reciprocal" link to verify "ownership".
