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!

SEOMoz's own competitive link finder is pretty good!

thanks, but the 'scrape similar' extension in chrome doesn't seem to behave in the same way as importxml on google docs or xpathonurl in niels bosma's seotools for excel

Anyone managed to scrape the date from a google serp? I can get title, link etc. but the date just eludes me...please help! Here's an example of the kind of code google is returning:

• Latest UK News Headlines - Mirror.co.uk

  <cite>www.mirror.co.uk/news/</cite>
     Cached
      - 
     Similar
   
   You +1'd this publicly. Undo
      13 Jan 2011 – Get the latest News and Headlines from the Daily Mirror newspaper. Read breaking bulletins, front page reports, daily articles and celebrity ...

ALM gives you a 30 day free trial - you might need to download their AWR product which includes ALM.  It's here http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/download.html

BTW, I'm linking AWR, not so sure about ALM

Agree with Rasmus pm the whole.

I'd still go with the updated subfolder version even if google has crawled the pages...these things take a while to settle down.

If there are lots of pages, check out the tool Russ Jones shared for using Levenshtein distance to automate creating redirects http://www.seomoz.org/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-seo-chasing-the-elusive-passive-seo-dream

There's another great post for larger sites that could help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/scripting-seo-5-pandafighting-tricks-for-large-sites-14455

And here's another version that creates the htaccess redirects for you (though I've not tried it so don't know how well it works) http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2010/10/levinshtein_link_fixer_aka_the.htm

I had this problem over the weekend - was fixed on Monday, but seems to be broken again for me now too.

See  http://www.seomoz.org/q/anyone-seeing-ose-csv-exports-hanging suggest you email help@seomoz.org

All working now, thanks!

have logged on zendesk. thanks keri.

None of my reports are completing - even if left to run overnight - anyone else seeing this?

There was mention of this in http://www.seomoz.org/q/problems-with-ose-downloads but I get the sense from that thread that the problem was solved back in August.

Agree with Scott. Almost every forum I've seen that allows followed external links gets spammed so you'll need a strategy to combat that. If the links provide value I'm not sure if following/no-following will make much difference to community behaviour, but they might encourage the more seo-savvy users to post links (and of course, attract the spammers).

At the simplest level you could try requiring javascript from posters, but I suspect you'll need something a bit more sophisticated. There are forum posting and blog commenting tools that try and solve captchas so ultimately, i suspect there will be little alternative but to manually moderate the forum.

I've used geoedge - their proxy is free for search results (works with firefox).

You may also find this resource useful for Yandex info and this kw volume tool from Yandex

If you find any other interesting sites/info, please post here!

Daily tracking...perhaps for some industries, fortunately not so important for the ones I'm involved in

To be honest, I regularly see big discrepancies between the ranking reports and real results (using google/bing uk). I'd be happy if the results were more consistent first then more frequent could come afterwards.

Yep. Remember to do the same in Bing's webmaster app too.

Canonical will work yes, but I think it will be quicker and easier to change handling of the query parameter in gwt and bwc. If you use other query parameters canonical might be best.

Google and bing probably are ignoring them (you can check how they're being handled if you look in GWT or BWC at how parameters are being handled). To be 100% sure, tell bing and google to ignore the ref parameter.

I'm assuming you only really care about bing and google.

Hi Tim, if you haven't already, check out http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection which gives you some basics and then there are some good links in the answers to this question http://www.seomoz.org/q/htaccess-issue which explain how to get redirects working.

The other thing to consider is: were any of the old pages actually getting traffic? If not, it may not be worth your while to redirect them.

If you've only got three pages, just use something like:

redirect 301 /blah.htm http://www.newdomain/newblah.php

and so on.

Seems to me you might be spending some time doing this:

I think what you want to do is:

1. Discover all the old urls that were bringing traffic
2. 301 redirect them to the relevant new urls on the updated site using htaccess (assuming you're on apache)
3. [optional: submit a sitemap to google with the old urls to encourage the crawler to see that they're now redirected]
4. [if not doing step 3, might be worth doing this as the first step] create a sitemap for the new site (I have trouble with xmap so I don't use it, would love to though since it automates things - I know many people like it) try manually creating one with say xenu or integrity
5. submit the new sitemap to bing and google
6. sit back fingers crossed
7. keep tracking 404 errors in gwt to identify urls you've missed that can be added to the 301 list

there are posts on seomoz and elsewhere that cover how to do 301 redirects in htaccess, how to use xenu etc.

good luck!

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EDIT: One other thing to remember, (particularly if you've suffered data loss in the past) is backup - search for akeeba backup for joomla, it's free and works brilliantly.

Yep, 5k more - if it is important to you to be sure, you could run some ads and look at the number of impressions.

The adwords tool lets you see global and local searches for the territories you specify - does that answer your question?

About ranking on .com vs .no ....well, there's a bunch of things to consider there. A basic step is geotargeting - check out http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-webmaster-tools-international-seo-geo-targeting-site-with-worldwide-rankings you can set in GWT which countries your site is aimed at.

For a more comprehensive discussion look at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

Odd that some would work and others not.

The  /spanish/entertainment/ is definitely a 301 to /es/servicios.html but I can see /es/galeria/piscinas.html is a meta refresh to the /es/index.html page.

I don't think it helps that you seem to have at least one duplicated rule for the same url (search for spanish/services in your htaccess)

The rule you've got looks okay from what I can see of it. If you do figure it out, please post the solution.

I'd clear all the redirects and build them one at a time to see what's causing this - also perhaps use RedirectMatch or RewriteRule with some regex to make things a bit tidier.

Rankings to fluctuate from time to time, but I see your site ranking 9 for trendy golf clothes and 7 for funky golf.

It is probably entirely unrelated, but another user posted today about seeing his site fall off the serps for his phrases, but both I and another user saw his site on page 1 for his terms (that was google.com US though).

The one example I looked at: /spanish/entertainment/ is being redirected to es/servicios.html

That's what your htaccess file redirect does

Redirect permanent /spanish/entertainment/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.co...

Not sure I see the problem here?

Tyler, don't worry too much about the page rank - it only gets updated a few times each year and is (at best) a very, very rough measure.

Ads are fine and the one you've described sounds perfectly okay.

I'm in the UK and used geoedge proxy to search google.com - that showed your site about half-way down the serp. Try a new browser, if you use firefox, install chrome/safari/opera and try a few searches on one of them..but two of us have reported you're ranking okay...

You could also try adding &pws=0 to the end of the url after you've done a google search to try and de-personalise it.

Also, there are a stack of rank checkers...have you tried any, seomoz has one.

Are you seeing a fall-off in search traffic commensurate with the drop you're seeing in rankings? If yes, then investigate further, if no, then perhaps there's nothing to worry about.

I did a quick scan through the links on OSE and it seems like many of them are links with anchor text that matches your products 100%  - I certainly didn't do any kind of exhaustive or thorough review. Perhaps you could try using this http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-profile-tool-to-discover-linking-activity to compare your link profile against competitors?

By spammy, I meant (for example) your site appearing in a long list of unrelated sites - in what is obviously a paid link. I'm not sure if that would be the cause though.

BTW, I just noticed that I'm seeing a toolbar pagerank of 1, if the site had a higher toolbar pagerank before, that might be a clue that google has somehow devalued your site...but I'd treat that with a heavy pinch of salt.

Like Brian, I see you on page one of google US (I tried plastic bins) and DA is lower than others, in fact I'd say you're actually doing rather well compared to the other sites!

Google says you've got 21,800+ pages indexed and majestic says 496 linking RDs...so that sounds okay. Are any of the links spammy perhaps?.

OSE shows a lot of exact match links from forums etc. (at first glance) - did you know that?

They don't look particularly spammy... do you know how your link profile compares to competitors or (better) the people ranking higher than you?

Have you changed the urls from the old site to the new one? If so, I'd be inclined to create a sitemap with everything and submit it to encourage the pages to be crawled.

Some of the categories in the sitemap don't have any content - that looks a bit odd - (e.g. coronation street)

Also, if the URL structure is all new, have you 301'd the old pages?

Every tool is different, has different update rates, rules for inclusion of links etc. As a sanity check why not try majestic numbers too?

I usually find majestic reports  more links than ose.

You're welcome Luke.

Not seen any testing about the importance of those counters with respect to Google. I'm not sure they would have an effect...if Google can find the links in tweets etc. I don't think it would need to 'check' what a page says/claims the number of tweets is too.

I see those counters as more of a signal to human visitors...the 'implicit message of 100 tweets on a counter is: 'hey this is great, it got a hundred tweets, you should read it!'

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?)