Thank you Linda!
Posts made by Ideas-Money-Art
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What is the difference between link rel="canonical" and meta name="canonical"?
Hi mozzers,
I would like to know What is the difference between link rel="canonical" and meta name="canonical"? and is it dangerous to have both of these elements combined together?
One of my client's page has the these two elements and kind of bothers me because I only know link rel="canonical" to be relevant to remove duplicates.
Thanks!
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GA: Want to have a profile tracking only 3 out of 4 subdomains only?
Hi Mozzers,
I would like to track 3 out of 4 subdomains in a profile on GA.
I have 4 subdomains:
I would like to create a profile with only the first 3 subdomains without subdomain2.example.com. Can someone tell me what to do to get this?
I also have a profile called combined profile that includes all of them with this filter(attached). Can I add another filter to this profile? if it is the case what should I add and how?
if not, creating another profile would be the only other way, right? if it is the case how can I filter it to get
Thanks a lot!
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Is it ok to add rel=CANONICAL into the desktop version on top of the rel="alternate" Tag (Mobile vs Desktop version)
Hi mozzers,
We launched a mobile site a couples months ago following the parallel mobile structure with a URL:m.example.com
The week later my moz crawl detected thousands of dups which I resolved by implementing canonical tags on the mobile version and rel=alternate onto the desktop version. The problem here is that I still also got Dups from that got generated by the CMS.
?device=mobile
?device=desktop
One of the options to resolve those is to add canonicals on the desktop versions as well on top of the rel=alternate tag we just implemented. So my question here:
is it dangerous to add rel=canonical and rel=alternate tags on the desktop version of the site or not? will it disrupt the rel=canonical on mobile?
Thanks
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RE: Online Marketing Strategy book wanted!
Thank you Paul
Much Appreciated!
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RE: Online Marketing Strategy book wanted!
Thank you Dana!!
The first one focuses mainly on social media, is that right?
I am asking because I am more an SEO person and even though social media is becoming more and more important in the SEO world, would you still recommend this reading?
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Online Marketing Strategy book wanted!
Hi mozzers,
I am trying to develop some real online marketing strategies for my clients. I am really looking to build some great content that will make my clients, users, and the search engines happy! But for that, I need some guidance and was wondering if you had any suggestions for a book(or any other useful resources) that focuses on how to develop a great online marketing strategies?
I saw this book but not sure who this guy is: http://www.amazon.com/Web-3-0-Startups-Strategies-ebook/dp/B00BYZB68U/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1365798109&sr=8-3&keywords=online+marketing+strategy
Thanks
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RE: GA Regex Help Needed!
Thanks Mememax
Can you tell me more about the wild card (.*)?
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GA Regex Help Needed!
Hi mozzers,
I am just discovering the RegEx world so I need your help. I would like to create an advanced segment to track 40 specific pages that have very different URIs from each other.
Can you tell me how using RegEx?
The dimension would be "landing pages" then not sure...
Thanks
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RE: Are sliding text SEO friendly?
Thank you Steven for your answer. What do you mean by I.E?
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RE: Are sliding text SEO friendly?
Hi Chris,
I meant if you click on one of the FAQ questions, you'll see an answer sliding.
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Are sliding text SEO friendly?
Hi mozzers,
I am wondering if sliding text SEO friendly such as this webpage:
http://www.questexchange.org/?s=faq
If it isn't is there a way to make it SEO Friendly?
Thank you!
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One of my outbound links website go hit by panda!
Hi mozzers,
today I received a message from one of my blogger partners announcing me that he got hit by panda. 2 weeks ago I had him placing 2 anchors one in our main domain and a second one on our subdomain. I know panda focuses essentially on dups and I have paid attention to our webmaster tools to make sure we haven t got any messages Which we re good with.
What do you guys suggest, will this affect us at some point or we re good?
also in case that we re good will panda affect the blogger's authority therefore ours? if yes I should probably remove them, right?
Thanks
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RE: How can I resolve weird duplicates showing up because of my mobile website?
Hey Nakul
"It might also be easier to remove these extra URLs, but then you have device=desktop on your desktop site and device =mobile on your mobile site."
Are you saying that if I try to remove these URLs I won't be able to do so? Can you clarify?
Thanks
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How can I resolve weird duplicates showing up because of my mobile website?
We launched a mobile site a month ago following the parallel mobile structure with a URL: m.example.com
The week later my moz crawl detected thousands of dups which I am trying to resolve right now by implementing canonical tags on the mobile version and rel=alternate onto the desktop version.
So what is weird is that I found urls that were detected as duplicates on top of the regular duplicate:
www.example.com/name?device=desktop
m.example.com/name?device=mobile
These 2 urls double the number of duplicates. Can you tell me what are these? is this normal? and how can I fix those?
Thank you mozzers!
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RE: GA: How can non related kws show up in the organic report?
Thanks for your answer Francisco!
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RE: GA: How can non related kws show up in the organic report?
Hi Francisco,
we already created 2 separate profiles for Site A and Site B.
Any other suggestions?
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GA: How can non related kws show up in the organic report?
Hi mozzers,
I have a site A: www.example.com (with its own branded kws)
SiteB: subdomain.example.com
Site A and B are related and belong to the same company. Site B was released a couple months ago.
ISSUE: I have noticed branded kws from Site A showing up on Site B's GA which doesn't make any sense. I try to make searches in the SE with those kws and not a single search showed the Site B(subdomain).
What is weird is that 2 months ago had a an issue with bounce rate on site B showing a 0% bounce rate, then I discovered that we had 2 GATC on site, removed the extra code and bounce was back to normal. Since then I have seen a rise of branded kws from Site A to Site B.
Can someone help me here figuring out what is wrong?
Thanks
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RE: How long does it take for Google for deindexing pages?
Thank you Kevin... I just hope in the meantime it won't hurt our current solid rankings!!
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How long does it take for Google for deindexing pages?
Hi mozzers,
We just launched a mobile website(parallel) and realized that it created many duplicate content with desktop URLs. I decided to add name="robots" content="No index, No follow" /> to the entire mobile site. My only concern is that I am still seeing the mobile site indexed when it's been almost a week I added these tags.
Does anyone know how long it takes google to deindex your content?
Thanks
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RE: Where should I insert the code when I track an event on GA?
Thank you guys for this answer!
In summary I have to put this code in the header of the link that carries the pdf file? (As you can see I am not a mastermind in coding...haha)
@Max: Do i have to plug this piece in order for it to work, if so why? because I read quiet a bit of articles and none of them mention a "return false" or any of the bigger piece you added(below)?
function v_ls(link, category, action) {
try {var myTracker=_gat._getTrackerByName();_gaq.push(['myTracker._trackEvent', category , action ]);setTimeout('document.location = "' + link.href + '"', 100)}catch(err){}};
Thanks Guys
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Where should I insert the code when I track an event on GA?
hi mozzers,
I am trying to setup my first event to count the numbers of downloads of an infographic(pdf file) we just created on GA and after some research I figured that I should add this piece of code (below) but where exactly?
<colgroup><col width="386"></colgroup>
|_gaq.push(['_trackevent', 'PDF', 'Download', 'name of file']);
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Should I put it just in between _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'coit.com']); and _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); ?
Please provide details because I ve never done this before
Thanks
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RE: Mobile Site on Google Analytics
Thanks Benjamin for your answer
So I can go ahead and install the javascript GATC on mobile.
Do you know if Google has provided some sort of documentation regarding mobile setup on GA?
Thanks
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Mobile Site on Google Analytics
Hi mozzers,
We just launched a mobile site and I was wondering what are the main steps to follow for gettting your mobile site tracked via GA (m.example.com)?
We have a profile for www.example.com
- GATC: javascript or PHP to install?
- Should the profile be on a subdomain?
- What else to consider when implementing a mobile site on GA?
Thanks
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RE: Is Google analytics not working properly anymore?
Thank you for your answers. The site in question is a subdomain and there is only one code not 2. What I noticed is that the underlined part has a dot and the subdomain name when I think it should be just the domain name. Do you think this is causing the issue?
Thanks
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Is Google analytics not working properly anymore?
Hi mozzers,
We launched a website 2 months ago and when monitoring Organic data on GA we had an average of 23% bounce rate like a month ago but the last 2 weeks I noticed that bounce rate=0%. This is very weird especially that we haven't modified the existing pages and that multiple keywords show an average site duration of 0 seconds.
Any thoughts about this discrepancy? Do you think that there is an issue with the GATC implemented?
Thanks
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SERP Rankings: Breadcrumb appears near URL
Hi mozzers,
I was checking at the "carpet cleaning" kw national search and an usual result appeared(image attached):
-Title Tag
-Url + Breadcrumbs following
The Breadcrumb showing up near the url is the first time I see that happening!
Anyone has an idea why? Do you think it is a Google new trick or do you guys think it is the webmaster who added a hack to it?
Thanks for letting me know
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RE: Does a phone number in the title tag hurt your rankings in SERP?
Thanks for sharing your opinions and thoughts Tyler
Appreciated
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RE: Does a phone number in the title tag hurt your rankings in SERP?
Thank you for your thorough answer tyler!
I think that both of you have good points. On one hand Matt thinks that a phone number might sacrifice the opportunity of having a secondary keyword or a better description of the business. On the other hand Tyler thinks that adding a pn to the title might decrease traffic but generates more leads meaning a potential increase in sales which is exactly what a business wants.
But do you guys think that a phone number in a title tag won't hurt the SERP's ranking? assuming you add a phone number in all the main service pages and a different phone number for each of the 40+ microsites?
thanks
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Does a phone number in the title tag hurt your rankings in SERP?
Hi Mozzers,
One of my client is a carpet cleaner and I was wondering if adding a phone number into the title tags would hurt our rankings .
I am asking because the client has mentioned it and that we do have some space to add a phone number into the tag.
Thanks
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RE: The client's website serves as the main referral?
Hi chris
I checked the profile setting and the "website's url" is set as www.example.com.
and yes it is the top referrer which suddenly spiked on september 24th!!
Any other thoughts on what could it be?
Thanks
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The client's website serves as the main referral?
Hi mozzers,
I have this weird case where one of my client's first referral is its own website!! I am really confused especially that I have checked there www vs non www and the non www is redirected to the www. This means that it resolve to one version which is good!
Any thoughts on why the main referral is its own site?
Thanks
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CSS Issue or not?
Hi Mozzers,
I am doing an audit for one of my clients and would like to know if actually the website I am dealing with has any issues when disabling CSS. So I installed Web developer google chrome extension which is great for disabling cookies, css...
When executing "Disable CSS", I can see most of the content of the page but what is weird is that in certain sections images appear in the middle of a sentence. Another image appears to be in the background in one of the internal link section(attached pic)
Since I am not an expert in CSS I am wondering if this represents a CSS issue, therefore a potential SEO issue? If yes why it can be an SEO issue?
Can you guys tell me what sort of CSS issues I should expect when disabling it? what should I look at? if content and nav bar are present or something else?
Thank you
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RE: GA Subdomain Setup
Thanks ... DId you mean to say /$A$B1for Output To -> Constructor
In your comment yesterday you omitted the 1 after the B so I just wanna be sure I got this correct. I put /$A$B1 in my filter.
I very much appreciate the help.
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RE: Encouraging people to review my client's business on google places
Thanks I will definitely take a look at that!!
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RE: GA Subdomain Setup
Thanks so much for the info. Getting everything set up and just want to check with you regarding the dropdowns in filter setup.
In your instructions you wrote -->
6. Field B -> Extract B:
Select “Request URL” from the drop down.
Enter (.*) in the text box.
7. Output to Constructor:
Select “Request URL” from the drop down.Enter $A1$B1 in the text box.
but there isn't a Request URL in the dropdown choices. Only Request URI which I assume is the correct choice since we're talking about filtering URI's and not URL for main domain and subdomain.
Can you verify that choosing 'Request URI' is what you meant to write or let me know if there is a different selection that I should make?
I've attached a screen cap of my dropdown options.
Thanks in advance -- you've been a great help.
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RE: GA Subdomain Setup
Hi Kristina,
I created that profile combining the main domain and subdomain but what I don't understand is that never when creating the filter I am inserting the name of this subdomain.
So are you saying that the name of the subdomain is not necessary and GA will still track the subdomain in question?
Thanks
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RE: GA Subdomain Setup
Hi Kristina,
Sorry to bother you again but I still have an interrogation regarding the Reg ex you gave me. My concern is that no Reg expression is emphasizing on the subdomain i am trying to track.
I think in order to do that I would have to go under the "profile settings" and insert sub.example.com as the website's URL, right?
thanks
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RE: Encouraging people to review my client's business on google places
Thanks for you responses!! That is really helpful
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SEOmoz tool Issue?
Hi Mozzers,
I am doing a web maintenance task for a client and it's been weeks that Moz is detecting 49 duplicate pages ( contact page). I thought resolving the issue when creating the xml sitemap and excluding those duplicates. The moz tool would still detect them, so I went in making a search with some of these duplicate to check if they were indexed but non of them were indexed.
So my question is has anyone recently experienced similar issues? Is the moz tool not 100% accurate?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and answers
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Encouraging people to review my client's business on google places
Hello mozzers,
I would like to encourage visitors that come to my site's client to review their google places listings. In order to do so, I need the Google places badge or seal (if it exists) to place it on their website. Does anyone know if it is available or not?
If it sn't available what should i do to encourage Google places reviews?
Thanks