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Thanks Francisco

I have noticed in my Google news website, that after publishing a post, it takes around 3-4 weeks till that page gains MOZ page authority

I am interested in knowing why it takes this set period of time.

Is there a way to shorted that period?

And am I correct in thinking that links from a page with MOZ authority of say 33 is more powerful then a link from a page with MOZ page authority of 1?

Would be great to understand more about this

We are looking at buying a business that has a number of websites

Is it against buying a business that has a Google News website and continue to use the site?

Once the business is sold, would google remove the site from its News?

How would I redirect this URL:

http://www.members.mysite.com/

to this URL:

http://www.mysite.com/

?

I cant figure it out

Hi Cyrus,

Thanks for taking the time to reply, really appreciated.

Yes understood, I shouldnt be worried about these strange link urls.

But I am now concerned about the behavior of my site in the way when you type in say http://www.dwww.mysite.com, it doesn't give you a 404 or missing page, it shows the home page.

Ive checked my other sites and added characters after the www. and most either redirect to home page or show a page not found.

Any ideas why this isnt happening on this site? Is it the htaccess?

Now there are over 500 links coming from strange URLS

Really need some help

Any body any ideas?

Having no luck at all

I've just check Majestic and have seen around 50 links coming from one of my other sites. The links all look like this:

http://www.dwww.mysite.com
http://www.eee.mysite.com
http://www.w.mysite.com

The site these links are coming from is a html site.

Any ideas whats going on or a way to get rid of these urls?

When I visit the strange URLs such as http://www.dwww.mysite.com, it shows the home page of http://www.mysite.com. Is there a way to redirect anything like this back to the home page?

Can anyone recommend an infographic best practice type article thats up to date?

I will be posting the infographic on my website, which is in Google news

I will also be doing a couple of press releases via PRweb

I have a number of partner sites that have agreed to promote it for me. They said they would have the graphic on their site or an article that links to the graphic. Its up to me

The goals is to get people to my site and to subscribe or contact us. But also to help to rank for the product the infographic is about

I have a "corner stone" page about the product, that many of my past articles link to. This currently ranks on page 2. I am hoping the infographic can help in boosting that pagges rankings. No idea how I can do that

I am about to post my first Infographic and have a question.

The graphic is fairly long and was wondering, is it better to split this graphic up in to chunks? So that it loads in stages?

I am new to this and would be great if someone could point me to the latest and best practices for infographics. I have seen a few articles but they appear to be old.

Thanks for your help

I see that there are some plugins that add copyright info to the rss feed, some have a finger print thing going on

Was wondering is there a plugin or trick that is standard practice

Only had my site in google news for 6 months so new to this

Ive noticed there are quite a few websites copying the content from my site I have in Google news.

After speaking to a friend, they told me that there are plugins to help prevent this from happening or leaving some sort of finger print in the copied content.

My site uses author tags already.

Does anyone have recommendations of plugins to use?

will check it out and let you know

Thanks for your help

I run a site that is in Google news and built on wordpress.

I have seen this type of post on a few sites

http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-december-21-2012-143315

Its basically a summary of posts for that day or week etc

I am wondering, does anyone know of an easy way to create these types of pages? At the moment we simply copy and paste and create all links manually.

Im wondering, is there a plugin that allows you to create a post like this but quicker?

Any ideas at all would be great

Thanks in advance

Great thanks. Yes I think you are correct, the H tag is the same colour as the non link text so you dont actually know its a live link.

I will ask them to change it.

Thanks for helping, appreciate your time

Hi Martin,

Yes its not site wide, its just in the footer on the page. We are a supporter of their business and they have put a small section about us on their site. The title of the section is our brand name and that is what is linked.

Would it be better to ask for the heading to have the link removed, and the link to be put in the text?

Yes their site isnt the best optimised from what I understand, but it does get a lot of traffic and has a lot of links to it.

Their site is a non profit company

I have found that my site is getting a link from a good site, but my concern is that the link is in a H2 tag in the footer of the front page of the site

Would getting a link from a site wrapped in H2 tags be safe?

The anchor is my sites brand name

Yoast SEO plugin now achieves this in my wp theme. Happy times

this is what I am looking for Thanks

Strange that there is no tool I can buy to do this in full without the 100 limit

Anyway, i will give that a go

Thanks for the reply.

I do not have access to webmaster tools and the seomoz tools do not show a great deal of the pages on my site for some reason

Majestic shows up to 100 pages. Ahrefs shows some also.

I need to compare what google has indexed and the status of the page

Does screaming frog do thiss?

Is there a way to get a list of pages that google has indexed?

Is there some software that can do this?

I do not have access to webmaster tools, so hoping there is another way to do this.

Would be great if I could also see if the indexed page is a 404 or other

Thanks for your help, sorry if its  basic question

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your reply, I do have the rel:author set up on my site.

I have just checked the copy site page and they have replaced it with their own author tag and they have rel='canonical' set to their page.

The page copy has the same URL and the full content copied.

Their site has the full contact details, so I guess I will contact them.

What in your opinion should I ask for? The removal? A link to my site? Allow them to only use a excerpt from my site?

I've noticed that there are a number of websites that are copying my content.

They are putting the full article on their site, mentioning that it was reposted from my site, but contains no links to me.

How should I approach this? What are my rights and should I ask them to remove it or add a link?

Will the duplicate content affect me?

Hi Luis,

Thanks for the links. I have seen these pages which give me some baisc understanding.

I was wondering more about how he achieves this in wordpress. Is there anything technical needed to be done in a theme or a plugin.

I have a similar site structure to his, but I am not seeing the jump links

If you check out his site, I am sure theres more going on with the internal links and permalinks.

Ive noticed that yoast.com › SEO shows up for multiple pages shown in the serps.

I have just seen yoast.com results in Google and noticed that nearly all the indexed pages show a "Jump to" link

So instead of showing the full URL under the title tag, it shows these type of links

yoast.com › SEO
yoast.com › Social Media
yoast.com › Analytics

With the SEO, Social Media and Analytics all being clickable.

How has he achieved this? And is it something to try and incorporate in my sites?

I have just done a test with another wordpress site I run.

I changed the permalinks and the old URLs got redirected to the new URLs.

I checked if the redirect was a 301 and it was.

I dont have the redirection plugin installed.

It appears as though wordpress does this automatically.

Ok great. I hope so lol.

I will be moving hosting from a shared one to a VPS and use CDN so we can really speed up the site.

I am guessing that the best time to do the permalink change will be when we move servers.

Anything you suggest I should watch out for?

To be honest, I'm scared to change the permalinks now!

Terrified the the site will take a beating and drop rankings

The wordpress site is built using Genesis framework and Ive got Yoast SEO plugin installed.

I cant see it as simply just change the permalinks in wordpress and everythng works lol I wish it was that simple.

Does the redirection pluggin automatically create 301's?

I am sure that wordpress has that built in if I am correct. I recall changing permalinks in past wordpress sites and redrects happened

Wow, great thanks Sergio. I have not seen the quoted info.

I understand totally, we always try to look at it from the users point of view.

We do not use the date archives on the site, so having the content in date folders I cant see adding any benefit.

I think the site can do a great deal better with the rankings certainly, but it is on the way up

We get a few interactions, but not many. Would like a lot more

Some of the URLs are getting very long also, so that another reason we would like to change the permalinks

I have also noticed that some of the older posts are dropping down the rankings. It appears a little faster then normal. This may not be anything to do with the permalinks, but its a thought i have had

It would be great if we could just somehow start all the posts from now onwards using the /%postname%/ structure. And all the past articles staying the same URL.

I dont see why we would have to change the already existing URL's of the past articles.

Is that possible do you know on a wordpress site?

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for your reply.

I noticed that some other big news sites dont use the date in the URL's, but the posts show the date.

My concern is that Google may lower the rankings over time as it knows these pages are time sensitive.

Thanks for the redirection plugin link. We currently use that on the site.

I have a site that is doing well in rankings, and its also been accepted in to Google news.

I have around 800 article live on the site.

My current permalink structure is -  /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

What I am wondering, would it be better to change it to - /%postname%/

The reason I ask is that most of the well ranking sites and sites built by SEO companies all seem to have the /%postname%/

Will I get a benefit from changing this? I know that I could republish content have the /%postname%/ permalinks.

Are there any other benefits?

If the is a benefit, I'd perefr to change it as soon as possible before the site grows even more

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help

Interesting, I've never thought about doing that.

So are you updating a 1 page post then re posting the same update article?

Are you using wordpress?

So, you aren't duplicating the content, your just reposting it so its higher date of being posted is updated?

Is that correct or am I being stupid here lol?

I have a Google News blog site, I am wondering would repostinng have the same effect or would Google just ignore it as it sees the same URL?

HI Michel, as I understand things, a sub domain is classed as a separate site in Googles eyes

I think I am correct in saying that.

Hope you get it sorted mate

Thanks for this.

But the post will contain 2 rel:author tags.

It will contain the one for me, as I posted it using my user login details, then it will have the guest posts rel:author tag too

Wouldnt that cause problems?

Thanks guys, appreciate your help.

I am wondering now if there is an easy way to give guest authors the rel:author attribute and links etc in say the bottom of their articles.

Is there a wordpress plugin that does this?

So for example, as the admin to the site, I upload the guest authors article, but then I somehow attribute it to them with all the rel:author tags and links options.

Any ideas?

wow I never knew that just linking my article to my Google+ page would make the thumbnail appear in Google.

I am presuming having the rel:author tag is required on the article page too, and not just a link to my G+ page?

Ive managed to set up the Rel:Author tag on my wordpress site, and the thumbnail is now showing in Google search results

Each article I write on my blog has a link to me Author page, which has on it a link to my Google Plus page.

So this works great.

However I write articles for another few websites and would like to get my author thumbnail image showing for them articles too.

How do I do this? Do I need an Author page on the other sites also?

I dont think I'll be able to get an author page on the other sites, is it not possible to somehow link direct from the article to my G+ page?

How would guest articles work too?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance guys

Most web 2.0 sites are sub domains or sub pages, so I dont own the domain or have access to the DNS etc

Its a nightmare as some of these web 2.0 sites I had ranked high and generated lots of traffic for me

Yes this is what I mean.

So if its been hit by a penalty and needs resubmitting, there is no possible way to do this?

Hi,

Yes I was also going to use the disavow tool.

However most Web 2.0 sites dont give you access to upload a HTML file to verify the site

I have 3 web 2.0 sites that look like theyve been hit by a penalty.

I have checked their backlinks and there are a lot of backlinks from sites that have been deindexed.

I have requested the removal of lots of the links, but now I need to resubmit the site to Google.

Is this even possible with them being a web 2.0 site? I don't have webmaster tools for the site so how would I do this?

Has anyone any experience with creating a PDF from a bunch of posts from a wordpress site?

I want to send some people a PDF of the latest posts within one of my blog categories. There is around 20 I want to pull in to a PDF

Any ideas how to do this?

Ah ok I see what you mean.

I will keep checking the links to see how many hang around from that friendsite.

Or I may even just request them to remove the links, so I can sleep better at night.

I've suffered a manual penalty in the past along with a Penguin penalty from an external person using BMR. Lost a lot of business, so I am very concerned about getting hit again even though my intention was always to do legit SEO etc.

Thanks guys for helping out. Its appreciated

HI Fredrik,

Tanks for replying but I dont feel safe waiting to actually get a warning.

Is there any other way to know if these links will affect my site.

It just seems far too "spammy" to get so many links from one domain and for them to disappear!

I have just checked my backlinks in Majestic and was shocked.

It appears I've gained 1500 back links in 1 day all from the domains friendsite.com.

I checked a few of the links and the links to my site have disappeared.

Looking at friendsite.com, it seems that peopel can bookmark a site, and when they do it appears on the "latest bookmerk" section which is site wide.

So my concern is that:

1. 1500 links have appeared in one day from one domain

2. 1500 links disappeared the next day

Wouldnt both of these cause Google to get suspicious?

What should I do? Should I ask friendsite.com to remove the links?

I have read a number of times tha it would be better for SEO to have forum.yourdomain.com

Can you tell us why you think it is better to have www.yourdomain.com/forum as I am also about to launch a forum

Thanks Maurizo

Just looked at the code and yes it does have rel=canonical

I had no idea that this would tell google its the same as the home page

Thanks for helping, really appreciate it.

Hi Duke, appreciate your help.

The URLs such as mysite.com/?674764 dont have a page. When you visit the URL it just shows the home page.

Ive just looked at another Wordpress site and added this /? in the URL, again it shows the home page without redirecting the URL

See here: http://yoast.com/?

Infact you can enter anything after the /? and it will still show the home page

No the URLs just show the home page and not a 404

There are hundreds of them, so would  it not be easier to make a 301 rule in the htaccess that redirects all urls that have /? in, rather then manually redirecting each URL?