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EGOL,
Great insights; thank you. Should I take action? Is this polish site duplication harming my website in the eyes of Google?
The site is in English on my browser. I assumed the site is endorsed by Benjamin Moore but now I am thinking this was an incorrect analysis.
I know the content is mine because I wrote it. I do recognize that in the new world I need to take steps to protect my copyrights.
Hi Robert,
Thank you for your response. I assume you are suggesting that I file a complaint because the duplicate content is hurting my website rank? I am usually nice but thanks for the reminder. My page ranks higher then the manufacturers page for the copy.
I did not use Google authorship in March 2011; is it worth while to establish it now for that article?
I wrote an article in 2011 A Brief History of Benjamin Moore Paint on my website ( I am a painting contractor). It is a content creators win; sited as an authoritative article on wikipedia.
Benjamin Moore Paint company has copied my content on their own corporate website; a deep page. Is this hurting, helping, or neutral?
This is scary but I am going to delete my listing.
Please see picture show I delete places & map?
I think google is confused; although I have over 80+ citations. My verified map location shows but not the google places for universal search or places SERP.
I moved six miles. I hesitate to delete my old listing...but I am out of options. Google communication has been boiler plate..do this, do that, wait a bit.
I have exhausted every option and explored every detail except deleting my listing.
Miriam, I see you recommend I delete old places and start again. All else has failed.
I moved last April and changed all my citations (yelp, angies, superpages, etc) I even use YEXT. All citations are identical.
I used to get 100-350 clicks from local serp until april 2012...so my business has been dramatically effected.
I used to enjoy the first place position for google places/local, and 30 reviews in the old pre-google local. I am a painting contractor in Seattle. Then in April 2012 I moved my shop six miles to a new location. My reviews were dropped and places moved to "pending" when I changed my address.
I am now in my 8th month pending approval for my google places page:
Seattle House painting local page
I have drilled down and exhausted every resource; including verification, having all my citations exactly in a row. All my review sites like Yelp and angie's list are address/info accurate. I used Yext to check all my local citations. I am set to do not show my address as Google indicates is best practice. There is nothing I have missed...but I am still "pending".
Do I need to hire a David Mihm? I am very frustrated seeing one competitor using multiple addresses and having two listings.
Any help or insight greatly appreciated.
Alan, Thank you for your considered response.
If I only alter some text, and differentiated certain content like images and video do you believe that is enough to avoid a duplicate content potential P?
John
I have two websites in a very similar niche(s)...I have good unique content article that I would like to use on both sites because it adds value to the visitor experience..
Example:
Science of Colors would be very useful for my seattle house painting paint colors page.
I want to have content so they do not need to leave the site to navigate to second site. Would the identical content trigger a penalty or would it be crawled, ignored, and not indexed.
Does having a rel=authorship on one site trump the site..Or is it a pile of BAD.
Scott, thanks for the feed back, good points. I will check out your blog.
Hi All,
In your opinion what are the advantages and disadvantages of
Livefyre
Facebook comments system
Disques
Thanks, John
Hey Moz Community,
I am looking for a content slider that can be easily changed by non-technicals for posting different styles of content/calls to action and this seems to be best:
I have installed a nivo slider on a Seattle Painting site, and flash slider on a commercial painting site. But I want my blog clients to be able to format..then copy/paste code..linke embedding a video.
opinions? Thanks John
Kyle do you mean a couple months ago as in February or so? I dont think the placement has changed since then eh?
As far as I can tell the tracker is placed properly..I think the diff is AW gives false counts for images loads as multiple page loads.
Thanks for the considered response Charles; good point about focusing on actual traffic increase vs. getting wrapped up in total accuracy.
Should have no impact, you are not missing any external inbound links..I guess the only other thing you might want to look at is traffic patterns in GA..are you visitor traveling to this page in any significant numbers by navigating from other pages on your site?
Hey Moz Community,
I am looking to get opinions on the best practice for analytics/traffic analysis. From experience I know that AW Stats reads high and Google Analytics reads low for traffic for reason in this article http://www.smartz.com/blog/2009/01/23/analytic-confusion-%E2%80%93-awstats-vs-google-analytics/
It drives me a little nuts how far off both are for some pages. I have one article that shows 100 views (GA) and AW stats shows 5 times that number of views.
Any suggestions or systems you recommend? Thanks
I have found that it takes 6-8 weeks for most links to show...sometimes up to 5 months. I once got a link from a reputable website in my niche in page anchor text do - flow link and it was a 5 month process on SEOMOZ..although SEOmajestic and Linkbuilder showed it as a link.
Marc,. great feedback about the SERP to site bounce rate..can you point to an article or source I want to learn more. Looking at my own analytics I can pour resources on those high traffic pages with higher bounce rates/times.
John
I will take a shot at the first question. If the current results are just directories, with a website domain with target keywords and some SEO work you should be able to rank top ten in short order. Google does a decent job of filtering out directories and real sites.
Phil..great feedback about buttons and comment form. Will make changes thanks.
YES.
The H1 places emphasis on what the following content should be about..so content about "blue sexy x" should follow after the H1. the H1 is one of several on-page optimizations.
Moz Community,
I would like Facebook promotion opinions. I have a local business (Seattle painting contractor) and have built a fan page which engages our clients, local & national suppliers, friends and other contractors.
Our original intent was to use the fan page to promote our main website; we never added a prominent "like us" button on our main page, we did not want to convert for facebook when our best content was on our site.
I have been pleasantly surprised this past year how many fans we have accumulated by promotion and by accident. The main benefit has been rewarding engagement from other industry marketers such as Benjamin Moore paint company, and introductions to local design professionals..and these conversations once started continue by direct communication (email..phone).
I have just added a facebook link on my blog..see attached picture Join our 2500+ fans. Primarily because the visitors to the blog tend to be the sort that engage on Facebook vs the type that want a painting contractor (Google analytics traffic data and click through behavior). I now have more traffic to the blog than the front end site.
What do you think of the button? What else should be promoting?
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Each page is like an independent piece of real estate, the strength of each page depends on the pages popularity (links, social markers etc.). In a natural organic process others will link to those pages in a random pattern depending on the quality of content. Use longtail keyword versions of titles and fill in content accordingly. so..
instead of
dog training, dog training, dog training
use
dog training, history of dog training, dog training locations
you will find some good info on this site http://www.wordtracker.com/find-the-best-keywords
What context for this iframe? how many other outgoing links on the page where this will reside?
Does it really matter if somebody takes your content changes it slightly and republishes it?
This is my original article on history of house paints which was also published on ezine in Feb.
and from google alerts I discovered this page http://www.franklinpainting.com/blog/home/a-brief-history-of-house-painting/ a minimally modified version. It is not easy to create content so these folks just copied and made a blog post.
Their are now many versions of this on the web..who wins?
Thanks Keith, i did not realize citations counted all the way down to the "space" level. Some citations auto generate.
I use Wistia...its great.
The XML site map points the video to one page...other instances of the video would not be duplicate content. Sometimes you want to allow others to embed your video for say a how to video.
House Painting Videos on this home page are embeds but are xml site mapped on their own pages.
Here is a video House Paint color tool that I may want to allow other sites to embed.
Good luck
Thanks Mike..great instructions to 301 via .htaccess file.
Gil...great answer I learn something everyday.
GA is deeper than Awstats and has integration if you have adwords campaigns.
Anybody good makes more than $30-40 per hour. You should consider offering a trade your grunt work for tricks sent your way.
Photoshop is the best with the most control...
but Adobe indesign; with its basic tool set would be a quick alternative..
PR is not as important as keyword ranking and traffic.
This may answer your question..
Duplicate content primarily refers to unique texts (articles). The primary way Google indexes video is by video XML sitemap...the XML sitemap entry tells google what the video is about. The XML sitemap points the video to one specific page.
Example: Wood stain video resides on a deep page and is indexed by google to that page. But the same wood stain video is embedded on the main landing page for this painting contractor site.
re: transcript..I would change the text or at minimum add additional text to the transcript so that each page has unique text.
Zgraph, you mentioned you use the Adwords Keyword tool..what other tools do you use? webmastertools or anayltics? You are clearly ranked 1st for "Daytona Beach Insurance" when view serp cloaked...it seems impossible that you would not have any visits.
Design and usability (and taste) become an issue when there are bottons and blinking arrows everywhere....the content gets lost. I use social markers on pages with videos only. Such as Benjamin Moore Paint Dealer or Golf Tournament
Good answer Yannick.
here are some resources:
http://www.free-seo-news.com/all-about-robots-txt.htm
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
Good luck
Bob, good looking site. For your landing page I would make it very visible..perhaps near /around your signup call to action. On subsequent blog posts use social buttons at the end of your post.
Many quality websites have deep pages that outrank their homepage. This is actually a natural organic pattern.
In general most homepages can be classified as director pages with clear navigation to content...it is these content pages that are usually linked to.
"Now I’m doing whitehat SEO for them and getting links through emailing bloggers and giving them reasons to link to us. Over 2 months (amongst over things) I’ve obtained links from around 35 websites, mostly PR 3 – 4 with a few up to PR 7."
This is quite an accomplishment...35 organic links. Give it some time. Every SEO has their own opinion on what is black hat and what is white hat. Are you using adwords? are you using google analytics to track traffic and conversion?
Adrian,
We always see an initial high ranking that last about a week then goes back down sometimes a few pages..Over a 2 month period we see the ranking usually restore.
Silver necklaces...then create content pages opt'ing for other versions of the keyword set.
Will thanks I was trying to give you the "good answer" tag but I guess i can only use three.
Can you name examples of "sadly, often it was the company itself"...just kidding.
Facebook....although everybody is putting a link to their facebook page from their homepage which is is giving juice to FB...unless you really have lots of engaged fans 1000+
