why would i get a thumbs down for asking where he doesn't see his title and meta description appearing? duh
Posts made by irvingw
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RE: Description and Title keyword Not showing in Google SERP?
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RE: Videos not displaying within YouTube search results (query starting with '@' symbol)
You answered the question yourself - because youtube has disabled searches with the @ symbol, most likely to keep spammers at bay as a deterrent from adding email addresses as titles in videos
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RE: Description and Title keyword Not showing in Google SERP?
I see title tags and meta descriptions noticed in Google
can you show a search example where they are not showing?
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RE: How can I boost page rank rather quickly
1. participated in forums careful!
2. gotten a number of reasonably high ranking websites in my industry to link to my page i.e. creating 100's of external, do-follow back-links excellent keep doing this!
3. created some external websites which are subject matter specific to my industry that are pointing back to my website. At this point, these sites do not have much in the way of page authority don't do this! It is site spamming
What do you suggest that I do that I have not done already?
remove any links that are on your site that are pointing to other sites if you don't need them, they are leaking the PR of your site.
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RE: Can having similar content on my company's two sites hurt our rankings?
Absolutely can cause a penalty. I would take down the dupe site immediately.
Also two sites are against Google TOS. Instead of having a second site, create city/state pages for your main site and get those ranked instead.
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RE: Question: .....
on page SEO is overdone
<title>**Asia** Travel, **Asia** Flights, **Asia** Hotels, **Asia** Airlines at **Asia**.comtitle> <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">keywords</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">**asia** maps, airlines to **asia**, flights to **asia**, hotels from **asia**, travel to **asia**, **asia**.com, hotels,airlines, airways</a>" /> One instance only of Asia in the title tag, lose the meta keywords completely they are useless and yours are spammy. also look at the sitewide linking. Way too many instances of "flights" in this menu. Put flights at the top of the menu and then just the locations below without "flights" in ever single link
<a class="attribute-value">Asia.com</a>">Bangladesh Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/China" >China Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Hong-Kong" >Hong Kong Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/India" >India Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Indonesia" >Indonesia Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Japan" >Japan Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Nepal" >Nepal Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Pakistan" >Pakistan Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Philippines" >Philippines Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Singapore" >Singapore Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/South-Korea" >South Korea Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Sri-Lanka" >Sri Lanka Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Taiwan" >Taiwan Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Thailand" >Thailand Flightsa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-country-info/Vietnam" >Vietnam Flightsa> span> div> <div class="<a class="attribute-value">sub_menu_box_col_1</a>"> <span class="<a class="attribute-value">sub_menu_list</a>"> <b>Chinab> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Beijing" >Flights to Beijinga> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Guangzhou" >Flights to Guangzhoua> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Hong-Kong" >Flights to Hong Konga> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Taipei" >Flights to Taipeia> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Tianjin" >Flights to Tianjina> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Shanghai" >Flights to Shanghaia> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Shenyang" >Flights to Shenyanga> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Wuhan" >Flights to Wuhana> span> div> <div class="<a class="attribute-value">sub_menu_box_col_1</a>" > <span class="<a class="attribute-value">sub_menu_list</a>" > <b>Indiab> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Bangalore" >Flights to Bangalorea> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Calcutta" >Flights to Calcuttaa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Chennai" >Flights to Chennaia> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/New-Delhi" >Flights to New Delhia> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Goa" >Flights to Goaa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Hyderabad" >Flights to Hyderabada> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Mumbai" >Flights to Mumbaia> span> <span class="<a class="attribute-value">sub_menu_list</a>" > <b>Japanb> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Osaka" >Flights to Osakaa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Tokyo" >Flights to Tokyoa> <a href="http://www.asia.com/flights-city-info/Yokohama" >Flights to Yokohamaa>
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RE: 2 links going to same domain but different pages
a) Different pages the link juice gets split, each time you add a link the PR passed gets diluted. Two links is fine it's not excessive, just make sure the targets line up properly.
b) The first link gets more credit supposedly if you are linking to the same page, so if you are linking to the same page it's better to have a text link to that page first in the content before linking to an image.
c) I would link twice in each article if it makes sense. Same PR being passes but more opportunity for text inter linking. Mix up the anchor texts always though. If you keep targeting the same main keyword overly you'll get penalized for that keyword in the serps.
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RE: Can I rank for 3 keyword phrases using one long tial Keyword Phrase?
yes you can definitely do that. the only problem is that "luxury towels uk" is not a real phrase like "web conferencing services" which fits into a sentence and has good search volume.
"web conferencing" and "conferencing services"
"luxury towels" might be but "towels uk" is probably pretty weak
So basically you would need to incude instances of the phrase in your content "Shop our store for a wide variety of luxury towels uk and see our quality" it doesn't read proper. I would rethink the keywords.
Also, yes include the singular as well as the plural and variations and synonyms. Put similar words on the page that Google knows are related to towels such as bath, beach, microfiber, cotton etc and you can rank for long tail searches as well.
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RE: Keyword with or without stress?
They are looked at as different keywords. If you are targeting in Google US then don't use the stress for primary keywords. If geo targeting for google.com.br then use the stress in your primary keyword.
Have the alternate keyword still appear on the site as a secondary keyword as well.
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RE: Add Videos Above or Below the Fold?
Put it wherever it makes most sense to your users, it does not matter for SEO. Are you self hosting the videos or embedding links? Self-hosting will give you the most SEO power with a potential to have the vidoe thumbnail in the Google search results.
Make use of:
1. schema.org video object
2. video sitemap
3. opengraph video tags
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RE: Is 301 redirecting all old URLS after a new site redesign to the root domain bad for SEO?
"Google is aware that 404 errors can't always be avoided since you don't have any control over someone creating a bad link on an external site. So the impact on your SEO should be little to none unless it's completely out of hand and occurring as a result of something internal such as a bad navigational structure."
I respectfully disagree, the SEO impact is not because Google will punish you for having 404's, the SEO impact is that the new corresponding pages will not rank and the old pages that no longer exist will lose their rank after a little while of remaining in the index and taking visitors to a 404 and not converting.
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RE: Wrong coded entities
don't pay any attention to that. nothing is wrong, it is just a SEO suggestion to add a bold or strong etc, tag to your keyword phrase on page to give it a little more SEO weight.
For example if your keyword is "Barack oBummer" they are suggesting you code somewhere on the page like this:
Barack oBummer or
Barack oBummer
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RE: /index.php/ page
it sounds like your arre talkng about the homepage having a duplicate page with index.php. If that is the case then 301 redirect it to the real homepage URL.
You can request the URL to be removed from Googles index in your WMT account too which is a good idea because as it sits now you have two pages that are identical indexed in google.
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RE: Increase number of pages crawled
make sure you are not unintentionally blocking pages in your robots.txt or meta robots tags and that the links on your site are search engine friendly links that the crawlers can follow.
submit the URL(s) to be crawled in google webmaster tools to tell the bots to come around again.
increase the crawlrate manually in WMT
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RE: Tags showing up in Google
well i would not do the robots.txt because you still want the pages to be crawled for better indexing of your post pages and the robots.txt blocks the bots from crawling in addition to indexing, you want crawling just not indexing.
Are you sure it's not in your search code, sometimes it populates in an unexpected place in your template - do a find command for "noindex"
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RE: Backlinks to site.com (without www)
yes, 90% or so of PR is passed when doing a 301 redirect. Try to get links to your site to be www from now on and if you are using a trailing slash (.com/) for example as your representative homepage URL it would be better to have that in the links pointing to your homepage as well.
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RE: Embed Same Video On Multiple Pages or 301 Redirect Into 1?
I wouldn't drop these pages that are bringing in a majority of your traffic and try to promote your new product on these pages.
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RE: Google Pushed Out Panda Update 3.9 Last Night
I track over 50 sites in my field of concern and I don't see any impact in rankings from this update.
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RE: Linking to each other: when companies merge
Andrew is 100% correct, the big sites definitely get a pass. Google cannot penalize a site like amazon because users will go to a different search engine to find what they are searching for. Your sites on the other hand Google does not care about because no one will miss it if it's gone.
The best is to one way link from the weaker site to the stronger site - I would not interlink them both because it looks like reciprocal linking which is a dead SEO technique. Also you want to pass PR to your more powerful site and retain the PR on that site by not interlinking out to other sites. And as William pointed out, easy on the anchor texts or you may find penalized rankings for those terms.
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RE: Can a competitor close your business on Google Places?
I don't think anyone can change it except the verified owner.
This makes me wonder though about Google needing to deal with the issue of businesses that may be owner verified and then go out of business. In most cases my guess would be that owners of failed businesses are not going to go in and close out their page or mark it as closed. So Google may have some need to close out claimed pages if they are getting data from different sources stating that the business is closed since they want to provide accurate information about businesses.
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RE: Issue: Duplicate Pages Content
i'm guessing it says 301 and canonical all variations to the one you want to represent your homepage
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RE: Should I report unnatural links via Webmasters?
Has the site been penalized or no? If not don't report anything. If yes then you need to clean it up and file for reconsideration, don't just assume that Google will lift the penalty you need to be pro-active.
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RE: Being penalized for unnatural links, determining the issue, and fixing the problem. What to do?
are these links pointing to the old domain that you mentioned you think is penalized? if so kill the redirect.
if the links building you did (which is the cause of the penalty) is to the new domain then you've got some work ahead of you if those links are pointing to the homepage. If pointing to internal pages then 404 them. If pointing to homepage then work on removing them, keep documentation and periodically submit a reconsideration request to Google each time showing them the progress you are making. what went wrong is too many low quality spammy links also using the same anchor text
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RE: Will I still get Duplicate Meta Data Errors with the correct use of the rel="next" and rel="prev" tags?
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html
3. While it’s fine to set rel=”canonical” from a component URL to a single view-all page, setting the canonical to the first page of a parameter-less sequence is considered improper usage. We make no promises to honor this implementation of rel=”canonical.”
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RE: Long URL
I wouldn't concern myself with this error - many of the large media outlets have long URL's and no issue with traffic. I certainly wouldn't change URL's unless I know I am not getting the expected rankings and traffic to the page. If this is your one error on their report - you are in great shape. kudos.
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RE: Will I still get Duplicate Meta Data Errors with the correct use of the rel="next" and rel="prev" tags?
Google no longer recommends setting up pagination pages with canonical tags. The rel tags are the way to go...
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RE: Will I still get Duplicate Meta Data Errors with the correct use of the rel="next" and rel="prev" tags?
You will still need unique title and meta tags to avoid duplication. It's in the W3.org spec: Anything unique will work, so you can start the title and meta description tag on page 2 with the words "Page 2: "
<a name="h-12.1.2">12.1.2</a> <a name="idx-link-2">Other link relationships</a>
By far the most common use of a link is to retrieve another Web resource, as illustrated in the previous examples. However, authors may insert links in their documents that express other relationships between resources than simply "activate this link to visit that related resource". Links that express other types of relationships have one or more link types specified in their source anchor.
The roles of a link defined by <samp class="einst">A</samp> or <samp class="einst">LINK</samp> are specified via the <samp class="ainst">rel</samp> and <samp class="ainst">rev</samp> attributes.
For instance, links defined by the <samp class="einst">LINK</samp> element may describe the position of a document within a series of documents. In the following excerpt, links within the document entitled "Chapter 5" point to the previous and next chapters:
_...other head information..._ <title>Chapter 5</title>
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RE: SEO traffic had significantly dropped
if you don't want the page indexed like the tag or category pages check it. confirm in your source code that it is showing up properly too
unchecked on the meta keywords tag, that tag is dead
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RE: SEO traffic had significantly dropped
your tag pages are getting indexed, they should be noindex follow. get the yoast SEO plugin for wordpress and manage your noindex and canonical tags so that you aren't spamming google with pages of low quality and duplicate content
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RE: Really, is there much difference between an unnatural links warning and Penguin?
haha been hit with a penalty because of spamming links? spam more links to your site that will fix everything! crazy
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RE: Article Marketing and Penguin
those are garbage links and treated as such by Google. best advice is tell him not to link to his homepage ever unless he feels like unwinding all those links that were created if he gets penalized.
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RE: SEO for Wordpress
"all in one SEO" and "Yoast" are great plugins
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-seo-wordpress-plugins.html
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RE: SEO traffic had significantly dropped
Of course it dropped, you deleted your site. The old site should have stayed up until the new one was rolled out.
There are so many factors that could have caused your drop in a site redesign, without seeing the old site and new site it's hard to make a determination just on a URL, but did the URL structure change and if so did you 301 redirect?
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RE: Could this be negative SEO?
use back link tools to see who is linking to you and from where. it's super fast to determine if someone is spamming links to your website.
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RE: When keywords are on the top of the google search engine then what to do ?
update content, keep it fresh
research keywords more and look to rank for mid tail and long tail
if you have something sellable to the US try to do the same in google.com - much bigger market
don't buy links, make sure the ones you have are sticking around
check your website for errors and performance issues and optimization opportunities always
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RE: Is it a reciprocal Link ?
You didn't devalue the links at all IMHO. If the reciprocal links make sense and they are placed in sensible locations, then by all means you should have those links. Google is only looking for spam links and they can tell when the links are unnatural based on location, anchor text, quantity and other factors.
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RE: Sites banned from Google?
Deindexed means banned - it will be completely gone in Google. if the site is still in the index it may be penalized but not banned. you really need to be doing shady stuff to get banned.
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RE: How do I remove bad web directory listings?
Beg and even Pay them to remove the links. This sounds rough, but it's the harsh reality of the web these days.
http://searchengineland.com/link-directories-want-us-to-remove-your-links-pay-us-128237
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RE: Can we use our existing site content on new site?
Looking at your external links using the SEOMoz Open Site Explorer tool, someone clearly had paid for links to your site. Many of your links have the words Dubai Hotel as the link text and it's obvious to me that these are unnatural links. You need to get rid of the paid links.
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RE: Same article published 3 times--do we still benefit from the links?
I would kindly disagree, if the article is on a major publication and an editor manually included it there, it has tremendous link value. The only time these articles don't have much value is when the major media sites add these articles through some automated process, like automatically adding press releases based on certain keywords in them. Google could easily detect the difference between the two.
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RE: Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links to our website
Google can definitely see that as spam - remove it and ask for reconsideration and see it that resolves the issue. Here's an article that was published by ScreamingFrog just today that may shed some light on this topic.
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/when-google-gets-penalties-wrong/
Hope u get out of the box soon ....
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Google Webmaster Now Shows YourMost Recent Links
I just saw this story today about a new Google Webmaster feature which lets you download a file of the most recent links.
http://searchengineland.com/google-now-shows-you-your-most-recent-links-127903
I downloaded the file today and I already discovered a major site issue. Our site blog was completely duplicated on a secondary domain we own and Google was showing that site as recent links. I already emailed the dev team to fix this pronto.
Anybody else using this new feature and perhaps can share if it helps you in any way.
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RE: Google indexing my website's Search Results pages. Should I block this?
Since you already released these out to the wild, I would analyze which search results pages are bringing in traffic and use that analysis to create new category pages on your site. I would certainly block the search parameter in the Webmaster tools and in robots.txt.. Most internal search results pages have little content value and the engines now look at your site as a whole and if a certain percentage of the site is low quality, the whole site will be penalized.
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RE: Long Domain Name - Subpage URL Question
how many characters is your domain name. the longer the worse, is this an established site, if not consider getting a shorter domain that's easier for people to type in.
without knowing your product and categories complexity it's hard to give advice on what your structure should be. but exceeding 70 characters is no big deal.
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RE: URL for New Product
a) the less deep you can go in directories the better, keep it as close to the root as possible so #3 is out.
b) marketplace should be in it's own directory since it's your brand and you should have a main landing page mindflash.com/marketplace
c) don't repeate keywords, looks like stuffing, so no to these ones:
mindflash.com/marketplace-training-courses/software-training
mindflash.com/training-courses/software-training
therefore i would research the best combination or three word mid tail searches that can capture two main phrases and all three for example:
mindflash.com/marketplace/software-training-courses
"software training" "training courses" "software training courses"
mindflash.com/marketplace/software-courses-online
or maybe more specific fits into your model
mindflash.com/marketplace/php-software-training
or
mindflash.com/marketplace/software-training/php-courses
if you need more hiearchy/granularity, but don't add folders for SEO sake - add folder if you need to organize the pages more logically
use dashes not underscores
use all lowercase no caps
no spaces of course
no funky characters
drop the .html or .php extensions
better to not have a slash at the end (don't forget to canonical)
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RE: Why is my key word rank so horrible?
see what google WMT says under site performance. your homepage is REALLY hanging for me over here in NJ when i try to get to it. takes like 20 seconds before i see your homepage render - see if you have any funky tracking, social media or other types of code that can be causing this. Google is not going to show results for pages that don't load.
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RE: Why is my key word rank so horrible?
If you create a new site keep it in mind but at this point i wouldn't change it. Once you create a site you are pretty much married to the domain and even more so as time goes by.
I don't think incoming links are your problem, did you get a "unnatural link profile detected" email from google in webmaster tool?
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RE: How to stop Google crawling after 301 redirect?
Google is most likely following links on other sites pointing to your old site and then 301'ing to the new site so you're seeing activity in WMT
looking here is still see two pages in the index:
you can go in and remove the site in WMT using the remove URL tool and see if that stops activity in that old WMT account. Crawling or not crawling, reporting or not reporting, there is not an issue here though - the 301's appear to be properly set up.
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RE: Mega Menus? A good or bad idea for link juice.
looks good.
a) anchor texts are lining up with URLs
b) gotta be good for user experience and conversion
c) Distributing PR well
I see no problems here! 100 link recommendation was from a long time ago, Google now has the resources and desire to follow everything they possible can.
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RE: Site Got Hacked! Need Help!
that sucks, hackers are criminals
if it's the entire site you could request root domain removal in WMT and they will deindex the entire site
then it's simple to get the site indexed again, submit URL to google, link from prominent places, resubmit new sitemap to google etc. This ensures the old adult junk will go away instantly and the new stuff will appear.
what are your rankings like, if they are good and you are afraid of losing them then just be a little more patient, don't request the site to be deindexed and work on getting the crawlers coming back.
check your robots.txt to make sure they didn't hijack that file! they could be blocking Google from crawling in robots.txt