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Hello I am a bit stuck on what to put into this section of MOZ. As you can see from the attached image I have setup to catch any mention of my business name and root url. But beyond that I am uncertain of what to use to monitor who is talking about us. I'm also uncertain of what other abilities or usefulness this function would have.

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Cheers.

Thanks for that. I read the info and found it very helpful. Just need to start implementing it. Got a cloning device? I need 8 of me!

Thanks. That was a good read. I will make adjustments to that area soon.

Cheers. Makes sense.

Thanks Lynn, I contacted an old SEO person and he explained that it was a mistake and that it was done in 2011. I wonder how many other mistakes were made!   I have found more than one strange occurrences-- actually I estimate over 100.  It's a no-wonder why my site got smashed by Google in May last year.
I will have to go through and cull and disavow them all.

Hello,

I am reading about getting great links to my site and it mentions these blog aggregates.

• http://technorati.com/ (PR8)
• http://www.blogarama.com/ (PR6)
• http://www.bloghub.com/ (PR5)
• http://regator.com/ (PR5)
• http://www.icerocket.com/ (PR6)

Can someone explain how these work? And what is the best practice when using them?

Thanks but why are they occurring? What is causing them to appear?

Hello,

As I have said before I am new to SEO and especially new to this type of software. I am trialing MOZ, ahrefs and MajesticSEO. I just used the Site Explorer on ahrefs and it showed me that a bunch of backlinks was created today but I haven't engaged anyone in "SEO" for many months.

Why would this be? See the image for a screenshot.

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Thanks Jeff,

Yes I noticed that issue with "invisible shield" over the top there.  I have tried to solve it but had not luck. I will have to hire the developer to solve it.

I will lesson the links at the bottom and improve the look of the blog over time.

Any other suggestions you, or anyone, have I'll be happy to hear.

Thank you. I am trying to work out a solution to shortening the url's. I have Joomla 3 and I need to find an extension to help with it.

Hello, on www.ditalia.com.au are the links at the bottom of the page under: Latest Blog Posts, Most Popular Blogs, Fabric & Lace, Wedding Dresses..., useful or detrimental to SEO?

Hello, I notice some of the back-link anchor text uses html code for a '

The business name is: d'Italia

But it shows as: D’Italia.

Does Google decipher it as d'Italia?

Thanks. None of those will do what I need unfortunately.

I am using RSSEO in J3.0.
Unfortunately it doesn't have the option to change the urls to custom urls.
I installed: MijoSEF Popular but it changed the existing sef-url structure so it's contracts what I have already done. So I will need to keep the RSSEO in place.
So, what I need is a plugin/component to allow me to customize the urls and also creating 301's for the old ones.

Do you mean the "Most Popular Blogs"?

Wow. I haven't heard of that before! Looks good so far.

I'm using Joomla 3.0. Unfortunately the component doesn't give the option to customize the urls.

I have found another component which gives the option however, it changes the current url, so that would be I would have to do twice as many 301's.

Australia. Primarily the state of Victoria.

Thanks for the good answer.  Anyone got a spare 4 hours and feel like doing some charity work? he, he...

Hello,

I have just revamped my blog. I am not expert blogger. Do you have any recommendations to improve it? What can I add? What would people use? What SEO improvements should I make?

http://www.ditalia.com.au/blog

Thanks.

Hello, what are your thoughts on these urls. I have had them like this for years, I got hit hard from Google in May last year. Do you think this contributed? Would it be beneficial for me to make them shorter?

• http://www.ditalia.com.au/couture-dressmakers-seamstresses-tailors-couturiers-and-fashion-design-advice/cocktail-gowns

• http://www.ditalia.com.au/wedding-dress-wedding-dresses-and-bridal-gowns-designed-and-made

• http://www.ditalia.com.au/designer-fabrics-designer-fabric-italian-material-and-french-lace/french-lace

• http://www.ditalia.com.au/wedding-dress-wedding-dresses-and-bridal-gowns-designed-and-made/vintage-wedding-dresses

Thanks Jeff, it definitely is. I guess having the "rel=" at the end and not the start doesn't really matter.

Thanks Jeff. It's sort of helps... now I am uncertain if the plugin is working properly though.

Can anyone clear this up for me?

Thanks guys, this does seam like a good place to get answers and help in my area of expertise--design and layout.I have had a couple of SEO people work on backlinks and they say they didn't do any black-hat stuff. But, I guess I will find out during this research and fix.

• Did you get a manual penalty notice in Webmaster Tools?

• I haven't had any penalty notifications from Google at all. (other than some 404 errors)

• Have you examined your link profile closely for obvious spammy, dubious, unrelated links?

• I will check this.

• Are your inbound links heavy with keyword anchor text?

• I will check this.

• Is your textual content unique and give value to your visitor?

• Yes, every page is unique, however, I have not check for plagiarism--if others have stolen it from us.

• have you changed your meta content?

• Only recently when I made the new site--about 4 weeks ago. They weren't change just before May 2012.

• is the drop relating to certain keywords

• Pretty much all of them.

MOZ has scanned my site and is displaying data about it now so I will start researching the links, determine their quality, and research how to

Any advice you have would be much appreciated.

Hello,

May last year my site took a major fall. I am unsure why, and it's time I found out why. Recently I have rebuilt the site from scratch, except for the urls and content, and it's starting to turn back.

What is the best method to go about understanding just what caused the decline? What are the options I have?

See the image for a graph of the all-time traffic.  http://i.imgur.com/uL93yPj.png

My website in question is: www.ditalia.com.au

Thanks.

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Excellent questions thanks.

I wish to further the question by asking if Google or Bing actually penialise you for long url such as in the original question or as in my own site: http://www.ditalia.com.au/wedding-dress-wedding-dresses-and-bridal-gowns-designed-and-made

Do the SE's look in the urls for the search terms? I was told they no-longer do that.

Hello,

I have a Joomla site. I have put in a plugin to make the page source show: eg.

<link href="[http://www.ditalia.com.au/designer-fabrics-designer-fabric-italian-material-and-french-lace](view-source:http://www.ditalia.com.au/designer-fabrics-designer-fabric-italian-material-and-french-lace)" rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" />

Is this all that is need to tell the search engines to ignore the any other links or indexed pages with a url which is created automatically by the system before the SEF urls are initiated?

You have to remember the point of your website is to communicate something or to sell something.

Commenting in relevant forums or blogs, with useful information, is always going to be beneficial as the quality of traffic will be high--even if the link is no-follow.

The most important thing is that you get qualified visitors.