Is it a temp redirect ? If you're planning on move permanently you may want to think about 301ing the whole site to its relevant counter parts. a Direct Link is good for building up some authority and slowly migrating the site over time making sure each stage goes to plan rather than 301 the whole thing and panic if something goes wrong. It really boils down to your longer term goal.
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RE: Direct link vs 302 redirect
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RE: MozBar Login Change Update + Firefox Temporarily Disabled
You may find you get a better response with help@moz.com. Did you try a refresh on that page after you've logged in? Sometimes with an error turning the Moz bar on and off again ("Have you tried turning it off and on again?") resolves many issues.
Hope some of those help!
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RE: .edu or country TLD, which one would be better?
.EDU and .gov etc. don't give any extra rank bonus
https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4VaWg4TMM5F
I read a post by someone offering new top-level domain (TLDs). They made this claim: "Will a new TLD web address automatically be favoured by Google over a .com equivalent? Quite simply, yes it will."
Sorry, but that's just not true, and as an engineer in the search quality team at Google, I feel the need to debunk this misconception. Google has a lot of experience in returning relevant web pages, regardless of the top-level domain (TLD). Google will attempt to rank new TLDs appropriately, but I don't expect a new TLD to get any kind of initial preference over .com, and I wouldn't bet on that happening in the long-term either. If you want to register an entirely new TLD for other reasons, that's your choice, but you shouldn't register a TLD in the mistaken belief that you'll get some sort of boost in search engine rankings.more examples about too.
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RE: Direct link vs 302 redirect
A 301 is telling Search engines (and any links) that this link or site has moved permanently, this would then mean the value of the links would be moved to the new location. A link would imply the site is staying and a % of link juice would flow though it compared to more through a 301. Other problem could be you may have duplicate content if your moving the domain.
If you do get a 301 done make sure they don't just 301 it all to the homepage it should be moved each category moved to its counter part (or as close to) as possible to maintain the transfer of authority & juice.
Hope that helps, and good luck!
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RE: I sent a reconsideration request after submitting a disavow list. Response to the reconsideration request had examples of the very same domains listed in the submitted disavow list. Was my disavow list not taken into consideration? What next?
Also Google likes to see you work if you just send a list of domains they tend to ignore it more. Send them a list of how you tried to remove the links prior to disinvow e.g email webmaster no response etc.
If the links are your fault its also good to put your hand in the air and say they were a mistake and your sorry. Don't forget whilst this is going on its good to keep building high quality links to help counter it to a degree. Unfortunatly you do need to sit on your hands for a bit which can be a good time to look at your backlinks and work on getting good content on your site.
Did you just send them a list of domains or did you put some work in to try to remove them ?
Good luck
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RE: Baidu Spider Spam
Have you tried blocking it in robots ?
#Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider
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RE: Subfolders and 301's
Hi the canonical is great but to reinforce it it's also a good idea to have a link on the page pointing towards the original and it gives Google that shove that its the correct one.
Good luck with the launch!
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RE: Wordpress versus html and google ranking
Wordpress has the capability to do so much more than be a blog, its like saying a car is only for getting you from a to b whilst technically true there is more to it. If you don't like wordpress don't use it, use a format that gives you passion if you really enjoying coding etc. then do that it will come across better and the more passion you put into a site the better it normally is. Wordpress tends to have more plugins to help with SEO which is why it might seem better but isn't anything you can't get on a normal site.
TL;DR
Use a format you know inside and out and can work well with and you will get better results, Wordpress has lots of plugins that can help which is why it might look good.
Hope that helps & good luck
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RE: Affect of dissavow upload on Moz DA
Not the Mention Bing and other search engines.
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RE: Baidu Spider Spam
?It should respect the robots so may be some one pretending to be Baidu I would try HTACCESS if you're not looking to go near China etc.
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RE: I want your opinion?
Hi Tuzzell,
Yes my bad I did type the wrong number, I've fixed that now. Its what I get for opening them in tabs!
Number 1!
Thanks
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RE: Changing URL of posts
Hi there,
It also depends on your software if your using word press you can change urls and it would change overtime.
If its different DragonSearch gave some excellent advice to 301 to a new URL. You would not need to tell Google or do Fetch as Google as when it next crawls it would detect the change. If you want to speed up the process you can post the new url into say Google plus etc.
Good luck!
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RE: Is it OK to disavow directory submissions?
Hiya Gavo,
When you disavow you're essentially turning any links into no follow links so there isn't much point in disavowing no following links as it just makes more effort. You can however disavow as much or as little as you want but if you've not had a penalty it's best not to get too merry with that disavow list as you may find your position will drop (unless you counter it as you disavow).
Remember Directories are not all evil sometime they are okay, e.g yahoo & yell etc. if your niche finds you through a directory then in fact its good. Its the spammy directories Google's not keen on, so bare that in mind if people are finding you through the local listing.
So the things you want to ask your self is:
Do I have a penalty?
If I do what's caused it?
If I don't can I prevent one by removing links?
Am I getting referrals from these links, would be be better to keep the links and no-follow them ?
Best of Luck.
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RE: Going to Mozcon - what to do in Seattle
Sounds like a perfect excuse for a blog post Let us know what you found good when you get back.
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RE: Why have my external followed links risen from 271 to 9961 in three weeks?
Agree with Federico,
Take a look in other areas (e.g WMT or majestic) to confirm then look at what you've done recently to get the links. Have you run a viral campaign etc. if not are you suffering from some competitors spamming you to bring you down ? things to look at are anchor texts (are they spamming or from people shouting how great your site is?), domains (are a lot of them coming form one domain or more?) and authority (are they all really low domain authority etc.) That shout get you on the right road.
Good luck!
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RE: Getting Traffic to a New Website - Looking for Ideas
A good social media campaign can really help -
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RE: Changing URL of posts
Go to settings > Permalink > Select what you want.
WordPress will do all the hard work for you and Google will re-crawl your site (this can take time depending on the popularity of your site).
Hope that helps
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RE: Same blog, multiple languages. Got SEO concerns.
Hi there,
the rel=alternative sounds like a great tag for you, it works best on a whole page translation compared to part of it but that's easy to do. If you had a site like www.example.com/en/blogpost you could then set up the alt tag on that for other languages (English in the example).
Hope that helps a bit
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RE: 301 redirect of PR 6 domain to PR 1 site, Will it improve my site's seo?
Just for some additional resource might want to check out - http://moz.com/blog/save-your-website-with-redirects
Also Google's aware of a black hat method of just buying domains and 301ing them to your main site - its not as simple so be careful of assuming it will work.
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RE: Big hit taken on Google Search in Jan - Any Ideas?
Hi,
It's more what Google perceives to be good however its good you don't have any. Whilst it sucks Google rankings tend to fluctuate you could look at your anchor text which are all over the place (don't worry they look natural) but how many of them are linking to your site (e.g site name). It may be you need to focus a little bit on branding ?
Another step is with some minor research the following suggests something happens on the date you mentioned I would dig into that a bit more maybe too.
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-update-17935.html
Sorry if I can't help further they were some suggestions from a couple of minutes thinking.
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RE: Spammy brand mentions
"There are no links pointing back to our website"
I honestly wouldn't worry, you can't control everything that is said about you and as long as there isn't any negative looking links or the stuff is out ranking your brand terms then i wouldn't worry. I can imagine your customers are not looking at some of the sites any way so focus on who would read the stuff and will it affect their opinion of you and does it matter?
If you do have some worry you can always start to put out your own PR to put out better stuff that might help you.
Good luck and I hope that put your mind at ease a bit.
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RE: Changing URL of posts
If your planning on creating new pages (not renaming old) this plugin will help -
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RE: Nominet have made the geographic new TLD available for UK. How will this affect SEO?
let's for just a second ignore the technical point of view I know how easy it can be to get caught up and look at it from a different angle-
Which option is easier to brand and for the user? if you've got a .co.uk you can secure the .uk and as you mentioned 301 job done no worries it will also stop some competition with the same name same results go for .com really.
You don't get an real benefit from any of the TLD's they all work the same so don't panic!
I wouldn't worry about Nominet they are not some large evil cooperation trying to get money, they are trying to free up domains to create more options rather than think wow there are no more URLS left on the internet!
My advice if you are worried is get the .uk redirect it into your all ready established .co.uk then if you want to at a later date swap you can, if a customer accidentally goes to the wrong domain again it helps and as I mention it also stops any competition.
you can find more info here -
http://moz.com/ugc/an-seos-guide-to-acquiring-new-gtlds
http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain
Hope it helps & good luck.
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RE: Is hotvsnot penalized?
I always thought it was over priced for what you got
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RE: Are companies buying .company domains?
Hi Barry,
I'm sure some people are buying many of the new TLDs they do not give and more or less ranking benefit then .com etc. what matters the most is user experience and good content. There are some thoughts on exact match domains etc. but if you have a bad quality site with thin content it won't matter.
Hope that clears it up for you.
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RE: Changing URL of posts
Yes wordpress should do that, it wouldn't hurt to update the urls if you can though
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RE: Webmaster tools change of addresss
Use the site that you want to be your main url
so if you direct all your visitors to just htttp:www. use that
remember you also don't need to do it all at once you can migrate over time to help ease Google into it a bit more and help you not loose as much traffic in one go.
Hope it helps.
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RE: Should we pay for this attorney directory?
The other and more important way to look at this is would a user find the directory helpful? if yes then its worth it. the other factors are a bonus ontop of the user flow.
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RE: Google Penguin update
There is a bet on when it will be but its any day now. I suggest you keep an eye on seo new sites. We've just had panda so I'd give that a bit of time to settle.
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RE: How can i remove and image from google?
I suggest you read here -
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35308?hl=en
In short you need to block the Google image bot in your robots.txt
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RE: Webmaster tools change of addresss
If you've verified them all you can also tell Google your preferred version thus avoiding the headache as it would only use that one version and you wouldn't have to worry about three of them.
how to : https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en
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RE: Is there a we to get Google to index our site quicker?
Fetch as Google works well alternatively you can also post on twitter and it will get crawled from there depending on how popular your account is etc.
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RE: How can i remove and image from google?
Here you go -
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663694?hl=en
Before your request can be processed, the site owner (whether it's you or somebody else) must have removed the image. (If you’re the site owner, follow these instructions.) If not, this process won't work.
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RE: How to check if a web page is a dynamic web page? How to check one if it is a static web page?
the quickest way - resize the window if the website it will try to keep up and the content will try to stay in the window - its a dynamic page. If the website stays the same but the window shrinks (nothing happens on page) then its no doubt a static page.
It' can also be a fun game to see how small of a window you can fit a dynamic site into!
Hope that clears it up for you.
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RE: Backlinks and PDFs
Google can crawl pdfs so it does count as a link however it's not the strongest link in the world.
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RE: Google Algorithm change this month - theories ?
Thanks for the responses so far really great. Just a quick update Dr. Pete just mentioned the following - (attached)
Basically Moz cast just bottoms out at 40 degrees all time low!
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RE: Spam links - which link is most damaging to my rankings.
Now technically No-follow links should not affect your site however I'm not convinced that they are not used as some sort of signal plus if they supposedly are not used they shouldn't matter if you remove them (especially if they are doing you site harm). remember though if you remove follow links its a good idea to also counter the removed links by creating fresh links so you don't have a a deficit.
Short answer - No-follow like shouldn't affect your rankings. (but you can still remove them if you think they are harming you)
good luck.
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RE: What is the longest you would go back to ressurrect links that should have been 301's?
Really hope that they had a custom 404 page at least!
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RE: Has Google Authorship been completely removed from SERPs?
I'm afraid it stopped way back at the end of August. You can see it here - http://algoroo.com/ & here http://searchengineland.com/goodbye-google-authorship-201975
ad finally here - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6083347
John Mueller said -
"I’ve been involved since we first started testing authorship markup and displaying it in search results. We’ve gotten lots of useful feedback from all kinds of webmasters and users, and we’ve tweaked, updated, and honed recognition and displaying of authorship information. Unfortunately, we’ve also observed that this information isn’t as useful to our users as we’d hoped, and can even distract from those results. With this in mind, we’ve made the difficult decision to stop showing authorship in search results."
author rank is still a thing though so still worth using your G+
(just to edit the date was 28th August 2014)
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RE: My www. domain has less page authroity than my non www.
You can have either www. or none it really doesn't make a huge difference. When you find one you like you can redirect the other into it and tell webmaster tools which is you preferred domain. So find your preference of domains (it's not a big deal which has more or less PA though but if one is getting links naturally its probably a good idea to stick with it).
The redirect will fix any issues so don't worry.
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RE: Can anyone help me detect some SEO improvements onpage please...
Have you tried the Moz page grader ?
Screaming Frog is also a handy tool for your SEO tool belt
I highly recommend you try the page grader..
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RE: Does adding a backlink in google plus comments work?
One thing it is helpful for is getting things indexed a bit quicker, don't expect it to help you rank though unless you are lucky enough to have a good social gathering and are getting good click through rates etc. Generally any kind of comment link isn't really good.
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RE: Ranking Well in Google But Not Bing - Why?
Hi Andy,
I agree with most of your points but I would disagree with HTTP as a good example its very difficult to find much proof that HTTP really does give a boost, its so tiny you can't even measure it nearly. Bing does do somethings better than Google but really its neither here nor there.
If someone ever asked me to rank them in Bing I'm sure I would be far more lost than I should be but there are a few examples I found after a scoot about
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a
http://www.searchmetrics.com/en/knowledge-base/ranking-factors-bing-us-2013/
http://www.limecanvas.com/how-to-rank-high-on-bing-search-engine/
Let us know how you get on and I hope some of that helps.
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RE: My www. domain has less page authroity than my non www.
I think you are confusing your self a bit there. Once you 301 redirect it, all the authority is redirected too. you don't need to worry about putting a page or anything on it.
Google will re-crawl the links find the link redirects and then move the authority over to the new location.