ahh...thank you for your time

I track the website in MOZ tools - that is where the list came from - it is a screen shot.

Perhaps a MOZ staff member can shed some light on the issue?

I could not replicate it either.

Confused ?!?

Hi Bob

Thank you! Can I ask another question?

I have since found that the url https://www.ryanyoungdesign.com.au has been indexed by the Moz bot and has a Moz score of 30. The url https://ryanyoungdesign.com.au has also been indexed and has a score of 28.  The page http://ryanyoungdesign.com.au also has a score of 30. Please refer to attachment

We recently moved the website from one server provider to another - the latest server provider never set up a https for the website. Given the https has its own MOZ ranking does this mean the original server provider set up a https version?

FYI - this was the reply of our new current server host when I pointed out the redirect

'Yes, this is a known issues with Nginx. We are looking at a resolution.There should be no backlinks linking to the SSL version of the site - this would cause an error anyway'

they also stated that ...You don't want to be ranking the https. Not sure why it would be ranked - I would disallow it in your robots.txt if it's an issue.'

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if you go to

ryanyoungdesign.com.au

you will see it is different from

https://www.ryanyoungdesign.com.au

If i visit mywebsite.com.au, www.mywebsite.com.au and http://www.mywebsite.com.au - i get one website

BUT if I visit https://www.mywebsite.com.au  I get a different website - I also get a untrusted website warning

The logo in the bottom right of the https: website is the name of the webdesigner  where the website is hosted.

Is this a normal practice?

Hi

gardenbeet.com had the same problem about 4 years ago - do not be alarmed. It just means that the internal page has (probably) higher value links than the home page .

At the time I was advised to look at my site architecture to ensure the link juice gets distributed around the website (at least as evenly as the home page would redirect the juice)  (not sure if that point is still relevant).

thanks everyone ....its not my website

i will use the tag assistant

Google analytics code was removed from a website and then it started tracking a couple of days later to only stop again?

How can that happen?

Has the developer not removed the old code properly?

Can the code be injected remotely?

Thanks Robert. Yep all those accounts are in place. I understand that I can monitor the impacts of the change. But I would like to get an understanding of whether its worth making the change in the first place.

Anyone else redirected an established website (5 years plus with PR 3 +) to another country.

thanks for quick response - the URL will NOT change

the existing site is a .com

Currently I redirect the .co.uk and the .com.au to the .com

The website is targetted to UK via Google's Country Targeting setting

Am rather surprised to hear you have seen no changes! How old were these sites? Did they have much page rank?

Has anyone relocated a website from one country to another?

I want to replace all reference from one country (UK) to another (Australia)

Phone number change, currency change, address will change

Meta/products/content/urls will remain the same

The .com URL will be associated to Australia

Will the website keep its ranking or will it be damaged to the point where another website should be built from scratch?

I have not had too much experience with helping websites that have been hit by Panda - any tried and tested formulas I can pass to website owner would be great. He does not want to reveal domain name - its in the area of children/baby products

'Web site featured on page 1 of Google search results for many years (website 5 years old-  Australian domain) .

In April/May 2014, Google suspended our Google Shopping account because we used watermarks on all our images. We were advised that the suspension would remain in place indefinitely or until such time the watermarks were removed. We wrote back to Google to explain that these watermarks were put in place by our store back 2005 with the sole purpose of protecting our intellectual property. Needless to say, their attitude was unwavering. And as a result, revenue plummeted.

However, the perfect storm was about to hit our store without warning. In the same month, Panda 4.0 was unleashed and our store was hit once again. This update alone reduced visitor numbers by around 50% overnight.

The Panda 4.0 algorithm update was designed to target poor quality, duplicate content and unfortunately we had some of it.

We have now begun creating original content with many of the new products we're uploading onto our web site. It's slow and tedious. We have modified our web site to now include a

tag on a the home page (this was missing). We have removed many duplicate links from our footer (it was too big and contained hundreds of links that were also repeated from the header). We introduced a blog  and we have engaged the services of a local seo company to disavow any bad backlinks and add missing or improve existing content to category and brand pages.

No improvement in our situation is yet visible and with Christmas just 3 months away, poor sales during our 'bread and butter' period will mean even tougher times for our store in 2015.

ANY PANDA EXPERTS who can help please email me felicity@gardenbeet.com - looking for independent freelancers rather than agencies

with hindsight I should have redesigned the blog pages to convert. The potential spend of the lost traffic was not harnessed

Is there anyway of getting Google to slap eBay with a loss of page rank ? eBay.au has number one position for vertical garden in google.com.au. (search 9000). Fair enough I suppose because they are delivering a huge range of vertical garden products BUT the sellers are using images for their products that are not showing their products. Most of the sellers are flogging China copies - and I mean these are really bad copies.

But what angers me even more is some of their top sellers are using MY IMAGES. They have taken my images used on a UK website and have reused them in AUstralia. Sellers have even rebranded my images. GRRRRR

Is there some international sin bin where I can name and shame? Does Google care about such matters?

Hi everyone thanks for your feedback.

I will get those links no followed.

There are no manual penalties

I have no paid adverts linking to my site

I believe the drop in traffic is due to my reduction in online activity after June 2012 rather than a Google penalty. Would the graph that i have attached look more dramatic if there was a penalty applied?

http://imgur.com/MCxarkn

MCxarkn

My website (http://www.gardenbeet.com)  has 4012 links from http://cocomale.com/blog/ to my home page -a banner advert links from the blog -

I also have 3,776 from another website to 6 pages of my website

1,832 from pinterest to 183 pages

etc etc

overall there are 627 domains linking to my website

I have been advised by a SEO company that I was penalised in about may to july 2012 due to a large number of links coming from one domain or two domains

is that true? should I ask the blog owner to remove my link?

Hi guys - thanks for your response - yes good point I did not define outcome

Increase profits as much as possible with $500 per month.

The customer is in the homeware industry. Sheets, bedlinen etc - med to highly competitive search terms. Customer ranks OK for some search terms.

Really I am asking what has more sales impact in the homeware industry - SEO or Social Media?

From my observations I would suggest social media is the best for fashion  but I do not have enough exposure to homewares to be make the same call.

would a spend of 500 be better on offsite SEO or social media campaigns via facebook twitter pinterest

Yes target Orlando.  At the very least you will pick up some long tail search. I would target Orlando on the home page.

I would also set up pages for every single town/village/region that surrounds you. Google reporting is not 100% accurate - it is likely there are searches for obscure towns despite google reporting none. You may only be optimising a page for one or two searchs per 6 months but if you convert that customer surely it would be worth the investment (given legal fees are typically high)?

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I prepared an article for another related website and posted it on my website -

http://www.gardenbeet.com/garden_design_blog/garden-ideas/save-money-and-create-diversity-seeds-and-small-plants-are-better/

I was paid to write an article and provided a link to the related website at the end of the article - I declared the payment

a good 10 months later the page where the article sits has become the 2nd most linked to page on my website -  SEOmoz is giving it a Page Authority of 48 and all the links are coming from a wide variety of forums using one anchor text link phrase

in the latest google update my homepage PR dropped by 1 - I am assuming the penalty came because of this article

is it worth changing the URL to remove these spammy links to my website?

what is your service? do you want someone in your niche?

ah thanks 77% similar !!

A mixture of questions and discussion

Question 1. can the following two pages be considered duplicate content

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/gardenbeet/product/deer-head-wall-art

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/1/1/219933-deer-head-wall-art-by-garden-beet.html

• both pages are indexed and both pages have different meta - aimed at different search combinations

Discussion

The search for 'deer head wall art  gardenbeet' is generated by my PR company - we have done loads of print advertising for this item yet the sheer mass and volume of noths.com stops my store http://www.gardenbeet.com/garden-wall-art/58-deer-head.html from obtaining the number one position.

All is fair in the business world  I suppose BUT the original marketing machine for noths.com was claiming that they were assisting  the small business owner. I paid them over £600 to join and now they compete with me head on. Stupid me I suppose.

Let this be a key learning for those toying with the idea of investing in their own SEO or a 3rd party selling platform.

Ho hum

Conrad - I would not proceed with the subfolders

You started asking this question due to your positive experience in Australia. I suspect your experience has more to do with a less developed e-commerce market than a strong SEO strategy

I have worked the last 3 years in the UK  and am now working on australian domains - the level of competition does not compare

unique content for all your sub folders - then enjoy the strength of your domain

May 26, 2011Matt BurgessContent Coordinator at Tourism Queensland

I'm facing a similar situation. I recently asked Tiffany Oberoi (google) at the SMX Conference in Sydney whether she suggested taking our respective TLDs and moving into a subfolder format (ie. example.com/au, example.com/nz, example.com/uk etc).

Her response? Stick with the TLDs. I don't think the geotargetting option in GWT is as reliable as it's made out to be.

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Perhaps your success is to do with less competetion in the aussie  market place - I have noticed that websites in australia can get in the top 3 positions with very poor onsite optimisation and few links - of course it varies from industry to industry but I would analyse the backlinks etc of the other aussie websitesfirst -

try elance, peopleperhour, people from various countries will bid to do your work ....you may want to drop the term 3rd world -

my blog category pages began to rank higher for key converting search terms than my main website  - not good - sales dont happen on my blog.

So I stopped the indexing of my category pages....guess what happened?..my website is back to position 1 BUT my blog traffic reduced by half.....so consider EGOL's warning prior to making a decision

mmmm - maybe but I suspect there is paid linking and deliberate sculpting going on - Garden Beet is more active on social forums relating to gardens than one of its main competitiors

however in support of your argument  I recently witnessed Garden Beet shoot from the dark unseen ranks of 54 to number 8/9 following a tv campagin on a related term - but yawn yawn - the page is now hovering around 20  -

thanks EGOL - well best get sculpting I suppose

As the garden season begins to wane I notice yet again how my ranking for some garden specific terms - eg ' garden tealight holders' start to rise again.Since I am doing nothing much I can only assume that my competitors have moved their focus to more winter based merchandise.

Does anyone have a good understanding of how some websites are able to acheive high rankings during peak season only?

I am assuming they are buying advertising (with the follow) for say 3 months before the season peak and manipulating internal linking to direct link juice from one section of the website to the other.

Is this strategy risky. Has Google ever made mention of this issue?

If you have the resources and you are a well known brand its great to have both the generic and the real person.

But if your brand is relatively unknown, resources are limited and you are wishing to promote your company I would be using the logo. I use my company logo for Garden Beet. Many in my tweet network have got to know me over time and use my name on tweets as well. That has its own set of problems and benefits.

Nevertheless it loads easier to create connection with a person than a logo. I know I prefer a person to a logo - but that is not meeting my longer term goal of trying to get my brand - Garden Beet -  known.

hey thanks stephen....i'll send you a link when its sorted ..do ya wanna enter?

ah well yes i made it up!! so should clarify- umm i hope i am not in breach of some advertising rule

.Article Jam
Mix your article into our roadside garden and make it a story.

Its simple.

Take up the story from where the last story stopped. Fun creative segues encouraged.

•Story can  promote whatever you want – it can be factual or pure fiction.
•Shall be between 400-800 words.
•Each story must mention Gulliver. He is a man who is 42 and lives adjacent to the M25. He is always in the backgarden and everyone can see him from the M25. His garden beet grows well. Gulliver goes indoors every fifth article.

•You are only allowed one contextual link in the last paragraph.

Political, romantic, comedy, poetry, curent affairs are all welcome. Feel free to mention news events, Google announcements, Facebook campagins, whatever.

What is the best way to post an article jam - i think it will appeal to article writing people who are kinda bored with,  well,  writing content?

ha ...maybe but guess what ??? I have had 5 requests for articles in the last 4 hours ........maybe people are just lazy !!!

ahh ..people who ask for links are probably not the people reading my blog...which is where I ask for the blog submsisions ...but having said that I have had a blog submission heading on the top menu since february - the text only changed today - it use to make a strong plea for articles...

..all my submissions come through networks i have established ..usually tweeter ...so perhaps i am not on the radar...........

ha Shelly love your segue - now this is an interesting issue indeed - a garden as an investment - yes - all for it - a garden can be an extension to the living areas of a house....there has been a transition in people's approach to outdoor space and the spend - totally in my niche - would love it -

felicity@gardenbeet.com

ok - so you also reakon its black hat  -

what i am trying to do is 'make the trade happen' - if they wont write it - well my counter offer is 'you pay me and I'll write it'

Craig - I am shocked to hear that you dont get it? Surely I am not the only one who has this issue?

Of course I get blog requests but I get 20 x more link requests.

mmmm ...i hear you regarding google's policy

lazy SEO's seem to breed in my inbox, junk email and now in my spam filter

guest posts welcome

The amount of requests I get for links is mind numbing. Yet few respond to my request for blog submissions. What is going on?? People want links yet they dont want to write - its not that hard!

Rather than ignore all these requests for links i have decided to write the articles for anyone who now requests a link on my website (providing I like the site and its related to my niche area).

I charge £9.99 to cover my admin (It will need to go up). I do not want any links back I just want inspiration to write and unique content for my website.

So these are my questions to link builders - what do you think? Would you be interested now all the hard work has gone?

SEO experts - is this risking my overall site strength?

Hi there - well if you have any garden/home/eco/design related websites gardenbeet.com will write you an article and post it on its website - there is a small admin fee of £9.99 - but the website has to do good, look good or offer something good

OK thanks

yeah i suppose you are right BUT we were just about to start a link building program - if anyone was to do a SEOmoz analysis of the site surely they would think the website is questionable???

The website in question was hacked four years ago and there was porn on the servers. It was used as a peer to peer torrent streamer.  The images were deleted.

We have just found inappropriate inward bound links (with great link juice!!)  - how can we remove these links - or should we?

any advice would be appreciated

thanks

yes - they were my thoughts too - but how will google know they are paid links - he payment is for the review  - not the links - in theory anyway

google does not like duplicate content .....so do not copy word for word...but really as the MagentoWebDeveloper stated its much better to write original content - you can base the facts and figures from other website but re-write with a different style -