As Federico said they are already rather a few have already gone but remember they won't give any boost to SEO which I've spoken to some people who seem to think they do.
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As Federico said they are already rather a few have already gone but remember they won't give any boost to SEO which I've spoken to some people who seem to think they do.
Good luck getting you're chosen .guru
A long time ago the TLD .gov and .edu etc. used to be worth more but because of abuse they are not, they are worth the same as .com etc. It can still be a good link if its relevant to your niche though so don't think they are utterly useless and they can normally have good DA with them which can also be helpful.
if a user wants green shoes and goes to
www.sampledomomain.co.uk/low-traffic-greenshoes
but in fact then gets a page about black shoes what do you think they will do ?
I would think they would bounce and then turn your high traffic page to a low traffic page. It may make more sense to not try to trick users into going to pages, Google doesn't like tricks either.
If in doubt ignore SEO and look at it from a user point of view as that's what Google wants, it wants the best for a user. if you go to a site and you're redirected all over the place it doesn't make for a pleasant experience.
In Short, redirecting pages won't help in a longer term for SEO, making a good site for user experience with good content will help. Look at other ways to promote those pages, e.g make a review of a product on the page etc.
Hope that helps a bit.
301 them to the nearest page not the homepage.
If you don't have a page that matches try to do the best you can - e.g if its a eCommerce you could 301 it to a similar product.
301 everything to a home page will not only loose a lot of link juice, it will annoy any users trying to find a product via old links and Google isn't keen on a 301 to a homepage if its not necessary.
Take the time to 301 all the links to the nearest page to what the old link used to point to and it will save you time in the long run.
Hi James,
A homepage redirection would best. If you don't have similar content you would loose a lot of the link juice though and users looking for older content may end up as a bounce on your site so it may be worth letting them 404 depending on what you want from the redirect.
You may find the following blog post helpful -
Essentially you would be which is the problem, you could redirect homepage links and go through some of the sub pages find any that may be helpful to your new site but 404 may be better for keeping a high quality site, you could also disavow links from the old domain if you're worried about the cost but Google will remove 404 after a period of time anyhow.
I hope you know have a good idea and can make a better choice now anyway.
Hiya,
Yes I would agree it doesn't cause harm however it doesn't do anything else either. The canonical doesn't make a difference really. I wouldn't see how it protects you from scrapers or people stealing your content having your page indexed first is irrelevant of the tag. look at it another way if a scraper stole your content they could just stick a canonical pointing to them selfs and thus claim it was their content, it wouldn't work. It all boils down to who Google index's to and if most people are pointing to the original (in theory)
Reason I pointed it out was it may have been an error of Google getting in a muddle with the canonical and might of been worth a try
Hi Ash,
Hope I've interpreted your question correctly here so correct me if not.
Landing pages and your site are in the same boat, what I say this lets look at it this way:
Google looks at your LP but to better understand where this page stands it will look at eh surroundings of this page to work out whats relevant it will also look at links going in and out of the page to get an idea what the page is about and how related to a query it maybe.
Now the other thing to remember is the KW planner tool is to help you get ideas for PPC and what words its not a list of keywords Google uses on your page.
I wouldn't over think it too much, there are a million and one things for SEO and it all adds up but content is always a good start if in doubt think of the following: "Why should my page rank number 1?"
Make sure you put the user first, they need to navigate around your site nice and easy and have great content the rest will start to fall into place.
In short:
KW planner is a planner its to help get ideas for keywords not necessarily what keywords Google is suing on your site.
Hi there,
Looks like you've gotten to the bottom of it there. The canonical tag is best as you wouldn't loose any link juice but it would get the desired effect of not indexing the filter.
Looks like you've got a handle on it so good luck!
Assuming the info is the same content (duplicate) just with a colour etc.
www.example.com/electronics/apple/iphone/5gs/123456
I would put the tag on that page pointing towards:
www.example.com/electronics/apple/iphone/5gs
What the tag is doing is saying the page (123456) is a duplicate of the another page, here is the other page (the link in tag) then Google will put all relevant juice to the original.
The canonical tag is great for duplicate content but it by putting it on a page deeper in the structure it only affects that page not any others. You can sometimes get a bit ahead by trying to canonical pages that don't exists like www.exsample.com?yay
Google's pretty clever at working out what a page is, you shouldn't worry about key word density as it's an old practice that's not really that helpful any more. Work on making good content. Google will look at the content and links and work out you're about mens clothing.
If Google just took the keywords it would be very easy to manipulate and would be spammed which is why keywords density is no longer used.
The Disavow file is basically telling Google to turn the links into no follows or in other words you don't want to be associated with the sites. Removing the file could do one of two things give you a penalty if you were proactively removing bad sites it may give you a boost in search if you had some random urls in there. You want to ask your self why you put the links in there in the first place.
Hi Jesse,
I think they are fine, the reason why is as follows:
They are in the same related niche (I'm going off your examples) and they have been there for a while and if they've not hurt him yet and there are not thousands of them you may just cause more harm removing them and then have to explain why he has dropped in rankings.
What you could look into if it bothers you is remove them but attempt to replace the link value so there is no drop. However as i said earlier they are in the same niche and seems to be okay, you can always work on other links/areas so it diluted the above links in their profile
It's great to be proactive but don't be too scared of the Google and as long as the following is true you will be fine:
Make your site (and links) for the user
A user may go to - http://www.becomeabetterhunter.com and then want to buy some hunting equipment and so the link is in fact normal and fine.
Hope it helps. Good luck!
It's risky only you know whats in the disavow file you can always go through it and see if there are any links in there that maybe don't need to be in there just may want to be careful not to seem like you're trying to manipulate Google but overall it's a bit like changing lots of no follow links to follow.
If you want to try it you can try it on the safe site and analyze whats in there and over time see how taking a few links out at a time see if you get an impact its a bit more controlled as well as if something goes wrong you can see what links caused it.
Google has said its good to be proactive and remove bad links before they are a problem and its perfectly normal however I've seen people overreact a bit to this advice and remove links that where natural etc. so whats best for return on your time removing disavow or working on getting more links.
Here are some helpful links -
http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en
"This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site’s performance in Google’s search results. We recommend that you disavow backlinks only if you believe you have a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you. In most cases, Google can assess which links to trust without additional guidance, so most normal or typical sites will not need to use this tool."
Hope that some of the above gives you an idea
Hi there,
If we look at what SEO is - its about optimizing your site for search engines and unfortunately search engines still use links as a large factor in determining whats worth ranking but whilst they may be the bigger factor its not the only one. Many people would argue that if you make a site for users. Make it so great that they want to share it and that its the best it can be. Creating thousands of links won't work any more (and if it does its only temporary) so be careful on your SEO strategy. If you're unsure you can always ask to see previous work and you can shop around but your right there is more to SEO than just links. .
Best of luck.
I would agree with Dean just to explain that the reason www.domain.es/en is better than en.domain.es is because the /en keeps the authority in your site rather than separating to a sub domain which sort of helps you a bit.
Not to mention if you've set up preferred domain or canonical this doesn't even matter. The only thing you may consider is it easier to advertise (branding) with out www.
depends on how quick you want it to be remove, no index is normally the best, you can also ask Google to remove it from their index if its a more more urgent. - https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?rd=1
When you add a canonical its pretty much saying this page is a duplicate of the other page, which is fine. This normally means link juice would flow to the page you said was the original. Other options can be just linking to the original content, Matt Cutts has mentioned duplicate content isn't the worse enemy out there and as long as its not spammy it's not solely going to bring you down Take a read - http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2319706/Googles-Matt-Cutts-A-Little-Duplicate-Content-Wont-Hurt-Your-Rankings
So if the content is there legitimately and its to help the user of your site just link to the original article, obviously if you're doing this across multiple pages you might want to rethink it a bit but for one or two pages you should be fine.
Google has mentioned boiler plate duplicate content isn't the worse and is generally just ignored by Google but if you did want to be safe you can do as you suggested
Blocking robots / no index (same result)
rel=canonical tag to one main site with your policy this way you still get some form of link juice.
Do nothing- It's very rare if Google would give you a penalty for just having duplicated privacy policy not to mention I assume you would be tweaking it with the name of the site etc. any way.
Hi Kate,
Unfortunately it's always a guessing game but couple of things i did notice - you've got a Google plus page set up but you seem to have forgotten about Google local (because it's always fun to confuse people by naming all your products Google "something") - https://plus.google.com/113270767742987744992/about it can be helpful to make sure that it is up to date as it can assist any local searches.
You've got a rather large site which is fine just make sure its all optimized so every page is helpful, authoritative etc.
Another oddity is on my quick look you've got a very large volume of images (nearly 90% of your links) which is fine but they all have very similar names (and a lack of lat tags).
Although somewhat controversial don't forget to get people to review you! e.g your Google local is without reviews which can help identify your site as a great place people are using and a reason why you should move up in the SERP.
Hopefully there is some 'Leads' for you to look into from my very brief look (I also noticed you're in Brighton High five)
Just a quick disclaimer all the above is not a garuntee and it's only observations i made I'm sure some of the Moz "recommended" list can come with a very good action place to help your site if you wanted a bit better advice etc.
The last bit of advise is remember Google wants to give the best answer to a search so make your site that, with information that's going to help and then back that up with e.g shares/ reviews etc. show people found it helpful if possible.
Best of luck!
First off ignore PR
Page rank is updates once maybe twice a year, Google has said they don't really use it as much and if you base your metrics on it you're going to have a bad time.
FEAR NOT! Moz's domain authority or Majestic SEO's Trust flow or ahref's domain rank (or if you combine them all) are all good metrics to look at.
Hopefully that helps you base how well your doing better than pr. (pr can be an used on a longer term plan but i don't put much weight on it any more.)
Good luck!
Hello,
if you search the page URL (exact) in Google at the end of the Google search URL type "&as_qdr=y15"
This can also be used with the inurl command on searches for a whole domain, whilst not 100% its a start it also sometimes shows last cached version (don't forget there is a date filter on searches!)
I also wanted to give a shout out to the wayback machine http://archive.org/web/web.php
hope ti helps & good luck!
Is the URL correct on Moz pro? It also seems like your robots.txt is blocking Moz which you may want to look into.
1. The bonus of a subdomain is its still sort of linked to your site and can be easier to treat separate (organize) but the con is it doesn't really help boost your main domain
2. having it on your main domain e.g. /docs can help boost your main site (if people link to PDFs etc.) but can obviously increase site size (and sometimes load speeds) and can get a bit messy with orgnaising.
End of the day it comes down to your preference and whats easier for the user there are pros & cons for both personally I tend to lean toward having it on your main domain just to increase its authority and value to users (and thus Google).
Good luck.
"I have checked the URL, and it is not our own website that has the error."
is this the problem?
Could you take a screen grab of the problem it might help better.
A manual action is normally on links coming in not going out so you should be safe if you've cleaned your link profile etc.
You want to use the pagination tag like the canonical tag it will let you index the pages (sort of) but avoid duplicate content. Noindexing a site is a bit of a waste of SEO effort when there are other solutions so I'd leave that as a last ditch effort. If you've have unique content on the pages that's better than one (even if its low on the page)
What you don't want to do is make it look like your trying to manipulate your link juice / pagerank internally too much.
Was an update end of last month (source - http://blogs.bing.com/webmaster ) not heard anything more recent could be the end of the update or something fresh. I'm afraid all of my tools are pointed towards Google.
First off you might find this page handy - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
Canonical and pagination are the same (sort of) so you don't need both.
Canonical is when you've got a few pages that are the same and you're telling Google these are all the same but here is the original.
Pagination is telling Google these pages are all the same but they are in a sequence here is the first and here is the last page
Now there is no harm having both on a page especially if you've got some parameters, You should be safe plus duplicate content is not the worst thing to face and it's not going to cause that much harm if you've got a couple of pages duplicated.
Hope that helps.
Yes, which is why I thought the first page might be a bit more helpful as a reference point.
First off: did you try using the search function there are oodles of similar topics on Moz and you are bound to find something relevant.
In the Google's blog post about language mark up ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html ) they uses sub domains for an example which I would also recommend as you can really target it a bit more where as a sub folder you would have a mix of languages. However you can still use the mark up if you did want to use folders.
Hope some of that helps, good luck!
Hello,
Okay I'll try to break it down a bit more.
So imagine Google has a quality score out of e.g. 100 - we do not have access to that but what we do have access to is Moz's DA (whihc is trying to act like Googles score and give you a hint of it). Now whilst its not perfect it gives us a rough look at what might be similar to what Google ranks well, so its roughly helping you judge how well a site is and giving you a clue to how it might react with Google e.g. good / bad, page 1/page 10 etc.
Obviously that's all a bit over simplified but I hope it get the point across. Now knowing the above lets says you and your competitor both have 100 links.
Each links has its own value that can all add up, your links might all add up to 200 (lets say ranking 'points') but your competitor may add up to 250 "points" thus giving him a higher score (e.g. DA).
So in a less silly way what i am saying is you have more links than your competitors but your domain authority is a bit lower then theirs which might be a clue as to an area to improve, this doesnt mean you need to remove any links just means you might want to focus on getting some higher authority links etc. to help boost your link portfolio.
Let me know If I lost you there (think i lost my self a bit!) Having said all that the real problem comes down to the "how" on getting high authority links afraid you are on your own a bit on that, my best advice is find what the user is looking for and make it e.g. a fishing guide in the area?
Good luck!
You mention in the last week, Penguin has been drunkenly stumbling around messing with most SERPs as seen here - http://algoroo.com/ and here - http://searchengineland.com/holidays-google-breaks-updates-rules-gives-fresh-penguin-updates-210367
Could it be due to this?
A sub-domain acts like a normal domain, the problem you may find is people looking for your brand etc. so if they type out the URL and go to our company.com which could lead them to a different site etc. So in short you can still rank it fine though its perhaps a bit more complex, I would look at it from a user point of view and a branding perspective and go from there.
Personally I may agree with you on moving to a .co.uk (assuming you are aiming at UK markets) just so its not on a subdomain and its a bit easier to brand etc. but SEO wise its still possible to rank uk.com
Hope that helps a bit, Good luck!
Hi there Dev,
I'm afraid not, Tools like Moz, majestic and Ahref simply don't have access to the disavow data (some link detox programs let you upload the disavow file that it will remove from the results). Don't worry though they are still disavowed think of it like changing them from follow to no-follow links as this is essentially what is going on.
Another thing to remember if you download the data you can use some excel magic to remove the disavow data (if you have access) so you're only looking at none disavowed links.
Hope it helps, and good luck.
I'm afraid you are in the same boat as the rest of us of guess work. I tend to assume they have disavowed the low end stuff but there is no way of knowing I'm afraid sorry.+
If in doubt reverse your roll think if you would disavow it assume they have.
if you have a /sitemap.xml file you shouldn't need an html one unless you find users are using it and finding it helpful.
Have you referenced the article or published the whole article? If you've referenced it I'd recommend a follow link more than a canonical link as the canonical would mean all seo benefit goes to the other website (which is fine and well deserved if you've just copied the article) but if you've just referenced it ore even expanded on it I'd reference the blog and all credit to it but not have a canonical link to ensure you maintain some level or link juice on your website.
You can find info on yoast canonical in their knowledge base - http://kb.yoast.com/article/148-canonical-urls-in-wordpress-seo
hah you're right, what what I get for reading before my morning coffee!
As far as i remember Moz isn't so hot on detecting canonical links and/or pagination both of which are on your site. These essentially will Stop the duplicate content that you think you are seeing so don't panic. If we're getting more technical canonical and pagination shouldn't be on the same page really but worst case one is ignored so no need to panic.
TL:DR - Moz doesn't dismiss errors like the above based on pagination / canonical so you can ignore it as you have these implemented (can you even see these if you export a report (.CSV)
Hope that helps.
To clarify some other bits as I'm aware what your thought process is. I want you to firstly remember DA,Trust flow etc. etc. is just a measure and isn't Google, Google is aware of domain transfers and/or content changes on a domain. This means Google can/will change the 'value' of the domains when brought and used. Now for a simpler tool like Moz which just looks at links etc. (Moz is more complicated than this I'm just simplifying) it will still see the links and not so much the change of ownership/content etc. meaning it won't reflect some of the above.
Bare the in mind.
Hello,
It's always a challenge to diagnose and really comes down to a theory so I'm happy to give you mine! First off: it's not going to be due to your robots, sitemap and htaccess etc. unless you've blocked it but it seems you've not!
What it will most likely be is link profile and content. Google seems to think that your home page is the best result for that search term, this could be due to having some of the keywords in that page (especially right at the top!) it could also be your home page has stronger link profile, even more so when specific links are from Edinburgh related domains etc. this is compared to the pages you want to rank which are lacking in links etc.
Now you could possible do some fun local citation shenanigans to help or tweak the content to really give it some clout but really it comes down to tweaks... lots and lots of tweaks! as with most things SEO to get that balance and there is no golden rule, no keyword density that will result in the magic number one spot I'm very sorry to say.
So I say go out, show Google what for and make your pages the best gosh darn garden landscaping page in Edinburgh! This can be linking to some other neato pages that help with your point, get some people to link to you saying "look how gosh darn amazing these guys are" etc. and try not to worry too much on what page is ranking
i hope the above was at least a little insightful, i'm aware its a still a little vague.
Moz is just reporting what it sees. It doesn't and cant change how people act no more than the weather person can stop reporting what the weather is doing.