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Can anyone direct us to an actual sample of the 500 word essay required and a list of all the documents required once the client is accepted as a Google for nonprofit community member?

Thanks, Jim

If one looks at a page on our client's website, (http://truthbook.com/urantia-book/paper-98-the-melchizedek-teachings-in-the-occident for example), there are a huge amount of links in the body of the page. All internal links are normal links. All external links arerel="nofollow" class="externallink"

We have two questions: 1.       Could we be being penalized by google for having too many links on these pages? Will this show i our webmaster reports?

2.       If we are being penalized,  can we keep the links (and have no penalty) if we made the internal links rel="nofollow" class="externallink" as well? We need these internal links to help people use these pages as an educational tool.  This is why these pages also have audio and imagery.

Thank you

Thank you Keri

We searched two words for a client so see how/where their site returned results. Depending on both the browser we used and the search engine, the results were so vastly different we were shocked. The site returned #2 or 3 on Bing and YahooSearch and not until the 3rd page for Google! And it also returned much worse on Chrome than any other browser, a Google product.

I know this topic must be covered somewhere, or perhaps someone would be kind enough to chime in and shed some light? We have been working hard to optimize for Google and failing, but doing very well everywhere else. What gives?

We have a client's domain that has been live for 8 years. truthbook.com. With the new changes to Google, no matter what we do, we cannot get the words Urantia Book to connect with the website and lift it's search engine returns to the first page where it was for the past 4 years.. It is clear, that no matter what Google may say, the most important factor is having the actual words urantiabook in the domain is imperative. We know it was that way before Google changes (they were always on the first page) but now the client cannot get back on the front page.

The mission and theme of the site is Jesus in The Urantia Book. So it is not a stretch to acquire urantiabookandjesus.com and forward it to truthbook.com

The question is, "will they get any bang for the change? If they considered changing the actual main domain to urantiabookandjesus.com or .org and forward truthbook.com to it, will they be hurt by that strategy? "

Thanks, Jim

I have read the two previous answers in the Forum about this subject but Google has seemed to have again changed the playing surface. Within the past 30 days, we have seen a huge spike in organic search returns seeming to favor .org as domain authorities.

Has anyone else noticed this shift and is it just coincidence or worth factoring in?

If it is a shift, will Google punish those that have .org but have used.com previously for switching the redirects to serve .org first?

I have seen previous answers in the Forum about this subject but Google has seemed to have again changed the playing surface. Within the past 30 days, we have seen a huge spike in organic search returns seeming to favor .org as domain authorities.

Has anyone else noticed this shift and is it just coincidence or worth factoring in?

If it is a shift, will Google punish those that have .org but have used.com previously for switching the redirects to serve .org first?

Thanks, Jim

While analyzing the Google Webmaster, we found several keywords that are ranked in the top 10 search results with words such as: they, was, mai, and chiang. ..

After reviewing the pages shown under the keyword "they", we did not find that keyword or its variant "them" repeated in the content of the page even once. I am not sure why "they" is ranking so high and of course, the word "they' is not effective for finding significant content.

Also the words Chiang Mai are never used separately but yet the two words are ranking far apart from each other?  Mai is ranked at 5 and chiang is ranked at 11? Impossible it would seem? I would think that the rankings would be very close together since the two words are usually used in conjunction with one another.

Can anyone please help explain what may be happening please?

While analyzing the Google Webmaster, I found several keywords that are ranked in the top 10 search results with words such as: they, was, mai, and chiang.

(For example:they)After reviewing the top pages shown under the keyword "they", I did not find the keyword or its variant "them" repeated in the content of the page. I am not sure why "they" is ranking so high and of course, the word "they' is not effective for finding significant content.

Also word such as Chiang Mai are never used separately but the two words are ranking far apart from each other. Mai is ranked at 5 and chiang is ranked at 11. I would think that the rankings would be very close together since the two words are usually used in conjunction with one another.

Can anyone explain the reason this may be happening please?

We ran a CSV spreadsheet of our crawl diagnostics related to duplicate URLS' after waiting 5 days with no response to how Rogerbot can be made to filter.

My IT lead tells me he thinks the label on the spreadsheet is showing “duplicate URLs”, and that is – literally – what the spreadsheet is showing.

It thinks that a database ID number is the only valid part of a URL. To replicate: Just filter the spreadsheet for any number that you see on the page. For example, filtering for 1793 gives us the following result:

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URL

http://truthbook.com/faq/dsp_viewFAQ.cfm?faqID=1793

http://truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=1793

http://truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=1793&pf=true

http://www.truthbook.com/blogs/dsp_viewBlogEntry.cfm?blogentryID=1793

http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=1793

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There are a couple of problems with the above:

1.       It gives the www result, as well as the non-www result.

2.       It is seeing the print version as a duplicate (&pf=true) but these are blocked from Google via the noindex header tag.

3.       It thinks that different sections of the website with the same ID number the same thing (faq / blogs / pages)

In short: this particular report tell us nothing at all.

I am trying to get a perspective from someone at SEOMoz to determine if he is reading the result correctly or there is something he is missing?

Please help. Jim

We searched two words for a client so see how/where their site returned results. Depending on both the browser we used and the search engine, the results were so vastly different we were shocked. The site returned #2 or 3 on Bing and YahooSearch and not until the 3rd page for Google! And it also returned much worse on Chrome than any other browser, a Google product.

I know this topic must be covered somewhere, or perhaps someone would be kind enough to chime in and shed some light? We have been working hard to optimize for Google and failing, but doing very well everywhere else. What gives?