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what is best recommended when some of the pages on site goes from HTTP to HTTPS: 301 redirection or 302 redirection?
and why?

thank you

I was asked to elaborate so:

on my website I have open account pages. users are asked to fill the details. those page are secured and are HTTPS. the problem is that the whole website turned to HTTPS so they redirected most of the pages from HTTPS to HTTP.
the secured pages are redirected from HTTP to HTTPS.

I wanted to check if it's correct and what is the best redirection way (301 or 302)

Hi.

Do you recommend that a company's Facebook Page be just the Brand Name, or should it include some keywords in the title?

Thank you everyone for your input. Unfortunately, the situation is not resolved yet. I will update if there is any change or if I figure out a way to do this.

We were linking regularily from the website to both Facebook pages (posts that contained links to the website) - each page from its respective language on the website. Otherwise, the English website has more link-building done on it than the other language.

Hi,

One of my clients has company Facebook pages in several languages. The page in Arabic, which was targeted at Saudi Arabia, used to rank 5th place on the search for the brand name. The page has a steady growth of followers and a high engagement rate. for the past week it suddenly completely fell off ranking and instead the English page ranks #5 in the results for the brand name in Saudi Arabia. What could have caused this change and what can we do to bring the target language page back to its ranking?

So far, no.  It seems like the only option is transferring all the movies to the new account, but I would lose all our engagement if I were to do that. I'm debating whether to just wait and see if Google will have another update.

Before Google merged Google+ and Youtube, we had opened a  Google+ account for our business from one email account and a separate account on youtube from a separate account. Now that Google merged the two channels, it created a new G+ page for our youtube account. but I want to merge the youtube account with our formal Google+ page.

How do I go about doing that

Thank you

Joni

Hello again Jon,

I already do that, it's the same like Firefox; When the Mozbar is on "Hide Mode" it's work fast but when this cause the browser performance to be slower.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

thank you for your answer. maybe I missed something but I don't think that it answered my question.

it doesn't matter where I put my link, I want to be able to tag the link with google URL builder and than to shorten the address in a way that will include my domain name.

I want to track the data from google analytics and not from other platforms

hi,
in my business Facebook page I have my website address. I want to track how many people arriving through this URL address to my site. I want to use URL builder but the final URL is too long and not pretty. I thought about using bitly.com but I need that the address on my page will contain the name of my brand.

any ideas hot to shorten the URL address and still be able to track the data?

thank you all.

Hi Jon,

I have the latest version of Moz toolbar for Firefox (see attachment please).

I already tried Chrome version and it's feel like working a bit better but still affecting negatively on browser speed.

This is particularly noticeable when opening new tabs and crossing between tabs.

I hope we'll solve this issue asap.

Thanks

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I'm considering to implement google site search bar into my site.
I think I probably choose the version without the ads (I'll pay for it).

1. does anyone use Google Site Search and can tell if it's a good thing?
2. does it affects in any way on seo?

thank you

Hi Joel,

I tried to turn off all my add-ons and keep running with Moz toolbar only and it's still makes the browser very slower than before. When I turn off Moz toolbar the browser speed up again.

I really like Moz toolbar but which options do I have now to make it work perfectly with Firefox?

Thanks

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Hi,

I really like Moz toolbar but it's totally make my browser (Firefox 26) slower (open new tab, new site, close / open the browser, etc.)

What can I do to make it works faster With Moz toolbar?

Thanks

Hello,

One of my clients posts a daily review of the finance market.

it's been a discussion in our SEO team, whether to add the title to the URL or to write the date of the daily review in the URL instead.

Adding keywords instead of dates:

advantage: Adding keywords to the URL helping getting ranked for those keywords.
disadvantage: the URL comes out too long.

what do you suggest in this case? keeping the keywords in the URL or adding dates instead and lose one of the important factors which affects getting ranked for the specific keywords.

Hello,

One of my clients wants to know how many leads he gets from the organic search, he has Affiliate ID's for the Social media and for his affiliate websites, but now he wants to know how many leads he gets from the organic search.

According to his affiliate program there are some leads without affiliate ID's but not all of them from the organic search big part of those leads are from "refer a friend program" and leads that were entered the system manually.

Is there anyway in Google Analytics or any other program that can track the leads who come to my client website from searching for the brand name or concepts/long tails and registered/opened a new account ?

Hello,

I have a question about adding Affiliate ID's to links.

I receive a DoFollow link to my website with an affiliate ID in order to track the leads and the traffic that comes from each affiliate link/website.

• does this link (with the affiliate ID) pass Juice from the affiliate website? (I use canonical link element on my website pages)?

• how does Google deals with links with affiliate IDs ?

• is adding Affiliate ID to links reduces it's value?

Hello,

One of my clients has a Facebook page for his company, and his social media manager posts some promotional and educational posts on daily basis. the social media manager uses affiliate ID's in the destination URL to track traffic and leads that come from the social media and to make it look nicer he uses shortcut links service - bitly.

Now I have a few questions about this:

• I don't see traffic comes from bit.ly or bitly.com in Google Analytics, my question: is using 301 redirect makes Google Analytics understand that the last website which sent the traffic to my website is not the actual Referral website?

• Is using shortcut links in the social media damages the links value (even though they are <nofollow>links - but still considered as signals from social media</nofollow>

Thanks.

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Hello,

I have my landing pages located on a separated subdomain (LP.example.com).

I've created a new property in Google Analytics for that subdomain. My question is:

• where do I have to place the GA tracking code ? in the header ? before I close the tag or before I close the tag ?

I have another issue: I've placed the GA Tracking code on some pages in the way below:
in the body tag of that Landing page HTML Code I added this line:

Hello,

I have a page for opening an account in my website, this page is not accessible from my website menu, the only way to reach this page if you have the URL, I send the URL for specific users I want them to open an account in my system.

I have two questions regarding this:

• does this harm or cause damages to my website SEO ?
• blocking this page in Robots.txt will cause any issue/will help ?

waiting for your answer.
Thanks in advance,
Joni.

Hi,

I've noticed that Google indexing some of my pages as regular http, like this:

http://www.example.com/accounts/‎

and some pages are being indexed as https, like this:

https://www.example.com/platforms/‎

When I've performed site audit check in various SEO tools I got something around +450 pages duplicated and showing me pairs of the same URL pages, one time with http and one time with https.

In our site there is the possibility for people to register and and open an account, later on to login to our website with their login details.

In our company I'm not the one that is responsible for the site's maintenance and I would like to know if this is an issue, and if this is an issue - to know what causing it and how to fix it so I'll be able to forward the solution to the person in charge.

Additionally I would like to know in general, what is the real purpose of https vs. http and to know what is the preferred method that our website should use. Currently when URLs are typed manually to the address bar, all the URLs are loading fine - with or without https written at the start of each URL.

I'm not allowed to expose our site's name, this is why I wrote example.com instead, I hope you can understand that.

Thank you so much for your help and I'm looking forward reading your answers.

Hello,

I have a quick question: Is it secure and safe to link my Google Analytics account with Visual.ly

here's the link: https://create.visual.ly/graphic/google-analytics

I want to create easy-to-understand report from Google Analytics and if you have any experience with this service can you share it with me please.

Thanks.

Hello,

We have two Facebook pages for our company, one in English and one in Arabic.

A few weeks ago we wanted to change the Facebook page titles but this option was not allowed for both pages.

Now Facebook is giving us an option to change the title for both pages:

We had a lengthy discussion regarding the best way to name our Facebook pages.

Currently our Facebook pages titles are:

For the one in English: "X"

( X - our brand name in English*)

For the page in Arabic: "X - Arabic"

( X- our brand name in English*)

We agreed to change the title for the page in English to:

X - (The main 3 keywords in our brand's field in English)

( X - our brand name in English).*

for the Arabic page we suggested to change the title to:

X -  (The main 3 keywords in our company field in Arabic)**

( X - our brand name in English).*

**** We will translate the main 3 keywords to Arabic**

We have a few questions:

- How does the search work in Facebook? Does the open graph algorithm take into account the page's  content and/or its title and description?

- Is there any preferred way to name the Facebook pages? We were debating using the company's slogans versus the main keywords for our brand. ? Or should the title contain just the brand name?

- What components of the Facebook page title and URL affect our page's visibility  in Google for a search on our brand name? It's important to mention that Google currently does not show the Arabic page in the 1st page in Google.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi Dan.

Thank you for your response, I appreciate your help.

Our Google+ pages, Facebook pages and YouTube channels are reciprocally linked to our website (crawlable, of course). Both facebook pages contain the brand name in the URL.

I would appreciate more suggestions. What would you suggest to concentrate on doing?

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it.
Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to expose my company's official Facebook page's title.

I did check the 'about us' pages both in English and Arabic and they are not copy-pasted/duplicated.

This is really frustrating, as I can't understand why the company's official Facebook page doesn't appear for the search results of our BRANDNAME.

While I was rereading my initial question I've noticed that I forgot to mention an important thing:
In google.com.sa, when searching for our BRANDNAME , the 4th result is a Facebook HATE-PAGE someone had  opened. (The page has only 29 likes and something like 15 posts).

What could be the variables causing this issue, and what do we need to do to resolve it and get our official Facebook pages on the first page results?

Hello MOZ community,

Today my SEO team and I talked about the activities we do in the social media. And one of the things that we discussed is the post description/caption.

We upload a lot of unique, fresh and high quality content to our website on daily base, so we want our customers to reach these articles by sharing it on our social media channels.

My question is: what is the best way to share a post in Social Media Channels and specially on Facebook ? what description should we use ?

is it better to use the article's title? or new text with CTA (call to action) and ask the users to click on the link to read the article in our website ?

Another question: how can we use the keyword targeting in the Social Media ?

Thanks

Hi,

Our official company's facebook page doesn't appear at all, in all serp.

I'll elaborate all in details here below.

We have an official Arabic Company  Facebook page with more than 1.9k likes, the page itself is very active and constantly being updated by a person in charge of the Facebook page.

We also have an official English Company Facebook page - runs and operated in the same method mentioned above.

when I search for my company's BRANDNAME in google.com.sa - both official facebook pages (arabic + english) don't appear in the serp. I've went through all the way to end of the results pages - I couldn't find both pages anywhere.

On the other hand, when I search for the brand name + facebook, like this: BRANDNAME Facebook

I can find both Arabic and English facebook pages in the 1st page one right after the other.

Anyone can help me out here? I'm desperate for solution.

Thanks

Hi,

I have an issue deciding how my landing pages should be like and I would like to ask for your help.

Currently my landing pages are configured and presented like this:

http://www.example.com/fra/Landing75.php?t_src=example&t=AFF&t_cre=keyboard-price&t_trm=160o600&B=1496&A=371&TargetURL=

I would like to know if making a subdomain landing page is advised, maybe something like this:

http://LandingPage.example.com/Landing75.php?t_src=example&t=AFF&t_cre=keyboard-price&t_trm=160o600&B=1496&A=371&TargetURL=

Or if you suggest doing something else with my landing pages - I would like to know that as well.

p.s. - How I tell the webmasters (my affiliates) to make a clickable button that won't be a direct link to my landing page but will be some form of non-visible redirect?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

Thanks for you replay but what i'm trying to ask here is if this kind of links:

www.mydomain.com/?t_src=campaign&t=AFF&t_cre=links&A=371

www.mydomain.com/?A=371

Can make me a problem with my link building strategy? you see, those kind of link is not look like a direct link to my site even though it is! So i'm asking how google refer those links?

I going to start a new press release campaign and want to track all over the link & the conversation that come from there.

Hope to get you supper again.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

we have a system for tracking the leads that comes from a specific affiliate website. each affiliate has a unique tracking code.

not only for affiliates that work with us but also for the SEO team has an affiliate tracking code so our bosses can track the leads and traffic that come from the activity of the SEO team.

this means, links towards our website look like:

www.mydomain.com/?t_src=campaign&t=AFF&t_cre=links&A=371

www.mydomain.com/?A=371

I have few questions about this:

1. This is the right way to link to my company site? How dose  google crawl those link? It's can harm the link value?

2. What is my option to show my boss all the traffic / leads that our seo team brings to the site trough Google Analytics?

Hope to get your support.

Thanks in advance.

First of all thanks for your wonderful response.

Now, what is the first steps you will make to start build your reputation back-up?

1. Create a social activity like: Facebook, linkedin, Google plus etc?
2. Build you own site in a few languages with high quality contents via wordpress multisite / joomla?
3. Work on a press release plan?
4. How will you track and measure about the value of all actions you will do?

I have another small question for you pleas:

In case are you going to work with many affiliates for your online business, there is any way they will ranked higher then your company main site?

I suggest to build our brand for a few month in advance and then start to work with affiliates but our owner refuse to work this way.

Hope to get your help again.

Thanks.

In most cases the financial field created quite of reputation problems so that's why I'm trying to find a way (with your great support ; ) to create some kind of protections for our Brand in case there will be some reputation problems.

Hi,

What would do before you starting a new online business in the financial field for preventing reputation issues and start to branding your new company name?

Which services / tools would you choose to use?

Thanks in advance.

I created a segment in my Google Analytics account to show data without the visits to the landing pages.
when I checked which URL google analytics excludes I saw some pages that are not "Landing Pages" like the pages for another language www.domain.com/fra also "contact us","Agreement","Log in page", "Create Account" in addition to many pages that are not Landing pages.

My question is: is there any way to remove these pages from the Landing Pages group that google analytics created ?

• Can I edit this group and remove pages that are not Landing pages so I get clear data ?

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How can i create an absolute separation from the traffic I get to the landing pages and to my site? I just want to split the data to 2 sections:
1. Data only about the visitors in my site
2. Data only about the visitors in my landing pages.
I remind you guys that unfortunately in this time I have the same tacking ID in my landing pages and in my main site.
My goal is to separate the data and get clear data about each one of the visits to the landing pages and to the vists to my website.

It’s not better to move the landing pages to subdomain and create a new google analytics code for them?

Hello, I have a website and it contains landing pages.

after tracking and analyzing the data in Google Analytics  , I found out that the traffic for the whole site is affected by the visits to the landing page.

I mean, the bounce rate is less than one minute. this is because users fill their details in the landing pages and leave my website.

to improve my website, I need clear data about the traffic, bounce rate etc. in my website. I also need

can you help me solve this problem

• I thought about create another account in Google Analytics and set it to my websites pages (not including the landing pages). and keep the current code for the landing pages.

my question is regarding this: Is it legal to use 2 different GA code (each one of them belong to different account) in the same domain ?

• can you provide me with more information about Multi Account in Google Analytics, and how can I use it to divide the traffic in my website between the traffic and the data for the landing pages and for the website itself ?

Thanks for your replay!

In Backwards:

1. I don't have problem with bitly but i just wondering how google refer to those links that direct to site 1 (bitly) and redirect to my own site?
2. There is any way to track those link throughout google analytics ?
3. Do you have any idea were can looking for the script mentioned above?

Hi,

I wondering how can I track and analyze on all my shared links in my facebook business page without using short url redirect service like: “Tiny” url or “bitly”?

Thanks in advance.

First of all thank you very much for your replay.

Why I can’t just made all the changes in one shot?

About the url’s, Unfortunately our current status requires us to change them because they are really not friendly ; )

What are you suggest to do about that?

Hello everyone

This is my first post over here.

In the next few weeks we going to change the entire content and design in our site. The site has 240 pages with poor contents and design.

Except 301 redirects for all the old url’s I wanted to consult with you what is the right way to do it without harm my organic traffic that come from google?

How google refers to this kind of changes?

Which steps should I need to take to do it properly?

Hope to get your help in the issue.

Tahnks in advance.