erm,  you could just use the search. magnifying glass icon, top right of the page. works for me.

Been using Raven for a month or two now and Raven's reports are very pretty but a bit restrictive in what you can show if you don't like the specific bits of info their tools show...and them dropping serp reports is a real problem for us.

A good alternative is AWR from Caphyon - it isn't anything like as slick in terms of look of the reports as Raven, but it is very flexible. AWR can create scheduled reports, brand them and email them (or store in the cloud for you).

Google recently published info about gdocs scripts that are pretty straighforward to use for GA reports - so much so that I'm tempted to move our reporting over to using GA. The video is very easy to follow and you can set time triggers for your scripts to run. http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/automate-google-analytics-reporting.html and with some gdocs script wizadry you can probably schedule emails etc too.

hope that helps.

J

A relatively painless way (if .htaccess is too hard for your contact to implement) is to use rel canonical to point to the url you want since Google and Bing will (eventually) notice your canonical tag.

So, for http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/index.htm you could add a tag like the one below into your index.htm file in the head section:

You should also make sure that any links to the home page refer to http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com rather than http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/index.htm

See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394 for more info on rel canonical

Having said that, a 301 redirect is probably the best way to solve the problem.

BTW, I'm assuming it is an Apache server and so uses .htaccess - IIS can be a bit more tricky (see http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis#chaining for IIS redirects)

You could use something like this in the .htaccess file (always make a backup copy of the .htaccess file before saving it in case something goes wrong - typos etc.):

BACKUP EXISTING .htaccess FIRST!!!

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

may need to uncomment the next line depending on host

#Options +FollowSymlinks

add www for non www pages - you may not need these two lines

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cascadevillagehotel.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The following redirect is the one for index.htm assumes the default page is /

redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.cascadevillagehotel.com/

Hi,

A client had a message in BWT: 'Bing Webmaster Tools detected 1 pages infected with malware on ...'

The message was last updated 30/July but having checked the page and included javascript there's nothing that we can see which could be construed as malware.

GWT seems happy enough with it and I've tried a couple of online site scanners (e.g. sucuri) and they seem happy enough.

I'm minded to ignore it, but has anyone else had a similar experience?

Thanks

Hi Ade, didn't we meet up at LinkLove? Hope things are going well.

Try this:

RewriteRule ^chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-.+ https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana [R=301,L]

The underscore was a problem as was the $ at the end

using -.+ at the end to avoid matching the target url

I tried that with regexr and it seems to work ok, not used it in an htaccess

If you're sure that the files on mamp and what's on the server are the same, then perhaps your hosting company is doing something or there's something in the config of the web server.

Sorry Vanessa, that's as much as I can help with - guess you need to find someone who knows whmcs

Good luck, would be good to know how it works out and what the solution is.

Sorry, on the edge of my knowledge, perhaps try removing those lines and seeing the effect? (I'd try removing them one at a time starting with the second one).

Ha! love the question. I certainly associate lots of ads with crap content!

What's lots though? AdSense almost always triggers my, 'this is probably crap' filter and I can't remember the last time I ever linked to a site that used it.

I don't think that's it - that's a 301 redirect and the issue you reported is a 302.

If you see the same issue I do with cookies affecting the result, then I'd suggest that is a clue - as far as I know htaccess redirects don't make use of cookies.

I get this using httpfox.

302 Redirect to: / http://servicioshosting.com/

I also see the redirect on https://www.servicioshosting.com/index.php when I first switched to English language from the home page. Then when reloading https://www.servicioshosting.com/index.php there was no 302.

I also noticed that when I deleted servicioshosting.com cookies and reloaded https://www.servicioshosting.com/index.php the 302 was back.

So I suspect it is something to do with the way the CMS is using cookies, since crawlers don't set cookies they get the 302.

I guess you'll need to dig into the CMS/talk to a developer. Good luck!

Have you tried http://www.geoedge.com/ they even offer some free proxies in multiple locations.

Schmeetz, did you actually see a drop in rankings after creating a blog?  Seems odd. If that happened, there's probably other things going on that need looking at.

I would target the content for the 'jar' related pages towards jars. Perhaps create some internal links with jar-related phrases to those pages too.

Try and build some external links with partial or even exact match anchor text too - but try and keep the link profile looking un-spammy. (It may be worth doing some analysis of competitors to look at their link profiles before embarking on this.)

A blog that's about organic-type things that earns links in a folder vs subdomain? Keep it in a folder, the links will help the overall authority of your site.

In our PR agency, we find that it is true to say the top-tier guys rarely pick up news from a press release site, but it does happen sometimes (albeit rarely). For the top-tier we always send the release directly to the targeted journo/blogger/influencer and follow up.

We do get take up from mid-level blog and news sites from issuing releases via a wire service though (we like PRWeb and PR NewsWire - different services seem to work better in different territories) - those are a bonus and they usually give a link worth having.

I had a play with this (having been inspired by Tom's great SEO tools with spreadsheets article) I played around with Google docs and some of the sample code to query the SEOMoz API.

(BTW  I don't think all the data you're looking for is available with the free API.)

I knocked together a google docs spreadsheet that does the query, hope you find it useful as a guide till someone (Messrs. Critchlow and Lurie?) posts something more user friendly.

http://tinyurl.com/63ogm7s

To use it, make your own copy of the sheet, then:

1. enter your member ID and secret key in the blue cells (D1 and F1) - you can get your info from www.seomoz.org/api
2. type a number into B1 for the expiry interval,
3. the search query should be self-explanatory (cells A4,B4 and C4)

As you'll see from the code, I'm no Google docs expert, but hopefully you'll see how the call gets put together.

SEOMoz's own competitive link finder is pretty good!

Hi Luke, there are a few posts on the blog that might help.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media and http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings

I think the consensus is that social shares (by that I mean tweets, likes, facebook shares, +1s) do affect rankings.

If I understand the question correctly, A is the relevant thing here - social signals relating to the pages that you want to rank.

B - If we treat the number/quality of followers etc. as the 'social authority' (who said klout?) of your social media accounts then I believe (don't recall seeing any data) that social shares from high 'social authority' accounts will be more influential for ranking than others.

So, yes, put URLs in your tweets (probably want to use a shortener that gives you some metrics e.g. bit.ly)

Most links in social channels (and I'm thinking of fb and Twitter here), are no follow.

I do wonder, if another way of looking at it might be: I want quality traffic that converts...links can help with that, so can social media (i.e. even if you get no ranking boost from social media, if it brings you the right traffic  then that's a good thing right?)

I found somewhere a tip to put some code in the head.php file of your template (sorry can't find it at the mo, but I'm sure some Googling will discover it for you).

I ended up putting this in my head.php  (which I found here: templates/[MY TEMPLATE NAME]/blocks/head.php) BTW I didn't want the trailing slash in my URL - you'd need to tweak this if you do want it.

But you could probably get away with something simpler, there's some discussion about it here: http://www.brucerick.com/joomlas-sh404sef-and-canonical-links/

Oh and feel free to improve my php/regex...I'm no expert

Hi Paul, try something like this, but there are many variations of these on the web.

Posted this just as the yoast post was coming on.

#add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)([^/])$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1$2/ [R=301,L]

add www for non www pages

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^capitalist.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.capitalist.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I'm not sure that statement about rel canonical only working within your own domain - if you have some test data/similar that shows this to be the case, I'd love to hear about it.

Matt Cutts specifically says that cross-domain rel canonical is supported, see: the webmaster video on: iwww.youtube.com/watch?v=zI6L2N4A0hA

erm,  you could just use the search. magnifying glass icon, top right of the page. works for me.