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Make sure you UPDATE your database settings, and change all of your passwords. Also, UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE! I'm glad you got this fixed.

yea if you goto her profile you will see her site. I see what's going on. She owns the domain. Call hostgator - you own the hosting so they backup. Hurry before they "override it" with a newer version.

answered. I hope I was helpful.

Many hosts back up stuff like this.. I would reach out to them. You still the domain? Is this is a shared host? I imagine so.. Contact them right now and they will restore a backup then UPGRADE your wordpress to the latest version. change the database user and password, change all of your passwords.

It looks like hostgator is hosting your site. they do weekly/monthly backups I think.

**If you need me to upgrade your site for freee I will do it for you. **

Yes -- I actually just got done reverting back from HTTPS -> HTTP because of the handshake. Think about this.

• How many images does the page have? All of your images need to have SSL.
• How many styles and external style sheets? All of your style sheets need to have SSL
• Does all of the sites you link to have SSL as well? I found that if I link something it can sometimes red flag that there are elements in the page that are not secure.

It's a lot of work and a lot of maintenance and at the end: the visitor gets frustrated and leaves. Even if you are at rackspace and you have a dedicated SSL proxy server with load bouncers and it auto scales. The clients browser still needs to form a relationship with the SSL certificate for all of the images/scripts on your page.

..and just building a better site. you always need to try to maximize the value of a click. What do you want them to do when they land on that page? Where do you want them to go? What are they asking for when they come to that page?

Each page - has a purpose. You want them to sign up to the site? building leads to new jobs? Why not have a form where you send them new types of jobs when you have them posted.. Take a look at http://www.shoemoney.com - he thinks like this: sending out a email is like going to the bank.

build your email list.

GOOD LUCK!

I work with a dating agency and I see this a lot now where google would actually take the content from the site and display what they think is relevant to that search term. They change where the description would be..  with your page content. It's actually helped us. I actually haven't seen this case in the title but I imagine its the same kind of thing.

In another note: Did your meta data change recently? If so you would need to wait for Google to re-cache.

Well, since google is obsessed with speed and it's likely that the "handshake" -- I won't get that deep.

https:// and http:// are two different links. We all know that. .TLDs don't matter.. HTTPS:// doesn't matter. It's all the same. However maybe you can run a test: www.google.com/websiteoptimizer and see if the user engagement is better.

How fast is the site? Add: _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);  to your google analytics ( right after your _trackPageview ) and see how everyone else is handing it.

The bottom answer is: No. It will not effect your SERPs however if your sites not fast then thats something you should think about. I just installed: http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/ on my server and that does help a bit.

Multiple sitemaps help! There is a really good article here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/multiple-xml-sitemaps-increased-indexation-and-traffic and I think this is where you're going to need to start.

One thing you can do is help google with pagination: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

In google webmaster tools under site configuration there is a section for URL parameters. I would look at that too.

If you want to fix all of the url parameters like: ?profession=RN&speciality= then maybe use $_POST instead of $_GET or set up landing pages for all of the different types of pages.

What does: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20034082-crawl-diagnostics say?

I did get approved though. SWEET.

• In google webmaster tools you would need to verify the domain.
• Get a list of similar pages your website has with the other one you want to buy.
• 301 all of the pages to a similar page on your existing website.
• Tell google you did so in webmaster tools.

The reason you want to 301 these pages is because you want to rank for those as well and you dont want all of the people finding links on the web and being redirected to your home page. The authority will happen over time.

Thats a good question! I can't honestly say but if that is showing correctly then you don't need to worry about it effecting the rankings or your CTR.

yea me too: Listening to Matt Cutts here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/ If you want to fast forward to: 1:30 and it seems to me that hes saying that you can have a canonical from what I understand: anywhere. Hearing that and wondering how the search engines REALLY interpret iframes ( as they want to read a site more like a human ) how will they handle the canonical.

Sure not 100% of the site actually us a duplicate but the main stuff is. It makes me wonder. I'll really know if I see a backlink from eBay in OSE. ( not saying that that is the goal but the content is ours and if the shoe was on the other foot and we getting penalized..)

There is nothing you can do to prevent it and really, you're not loosing a lot either. It may have been just that one back link. Webmasters change their sites. Domains expire. You just need to build links.

This is an awesome tool: http://www.link-assistant.com/buzzbundle/ - and you can learn how to use it here: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/buzzbundle-review-how-i-drive-traffic-to-my-blog/

I would look in webmaster tools to see when it changed.. I dont know what exactly else could have caused it without really looking into it. What I would do if I were you is change the title and description a little bit. You really don't need to use graduate that much.

No, dont 301 to a 301 website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all - you just need to set the canonical of website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all

Good luck!

You want to use a 301 because 302 is only temporally. Does that make since? A case where you can use a 302 is when a site is under construction and you just redirect all traffic temporally to /under-constriction/ for maintaance or something. Not the ideal solution but to answer your question: 301 that. 301 = permanent move.

Im not sure how you will handle 301 without access to IIS itself. Is there a reason why you want IIS7? If you can run apache with "classic asp" then would that work for you:

http://www.apache-asp.org/install.html

I personally use rackspace. If you know how to install everything then the cloud sites with 1GB of rank would do good for you which runs about 50 bucks a month.

Do you have root access to the server? If you do then a rewrite map is a lot faster then a bunch of rewrite rules & conditions.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap

You can always just add comments with the hash tag: # what each thing does and group them. That would be cleaner.

Have you been watching your redirect log to see if there are any errors there? I would take a look at http://phantomjs.org and automate the redirect rules you have and watch the log file.

Also, go ahead and take a look here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html which is faster then the 301s you have in your htaccess.

Also for magento seo, you're going to want to watch this: http://moz.com/webinars/ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues as Everett Sizemore done a lot with eCommerce and magento. He goes through common issues.

Good luck!

many people run home businesses. I would say: Yes. They can send you a letter and you will get it. I have a DBA name with my home address. My answer is YES.

You also need long tail and branded links. Don't stop building links to justify the change. You should see a change back in the SERPs in about 3 weeks. I did the same thing.

Have you looked for panda triggers? The pages with the highest exit stats AND lowest average time on page mean low user satisfaction and is a panda trigger.  You want to make sure that the landing pages with the highest exit rate AND lowest time on page are best serving the "query intent" of whatever query the person made to get there.

Also I feel like you have too many ads above the fold.

Will you have more information about /amsterdam/ ? since we going with flowers in amsterdam then I would imagine a page about the different flowers in amsterdam.

So if you have more information of offer in amsterdam then I would say: /amsterdam/tulips

Then I would go with: www.example.com/tulips-amsterdam because there is no reason to have a / vs - www.example.com/tulips-amsterdam does fine.

Sure it says the same thing but if you look at it and you feel the message your delivering is better then you should be able to rank higher.

Think of it like this: /car/make/year/part/ How many people have that  url structure.. a lot. Just because you have the same url structure does not mean it's duplicate.

I just think your over complicating it.

answered. I hope I was helpful.

Hmm - if you did 50 per week for 2 weeks then did 100 for 3 weeks and 150 for 4 weeks then you wont be looked at as spammy. Think of this: when do you think those links will get indexed anyway? It's best to keep a chart of what you did each day and come back and check to see if it's there or not. ( like blog commenting )

If you are doing blog commenting them maybe you can subscribe to responses as well. But like EGOL said: natural. As long as you're not using software to build links then you will be fine. The question is: How many links CAN you build a day?

Well - you're loosing more back links a day than gaining: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks-new/prefix/www.graduate-jobs.com%252Fgraduate-schemes

link velocity is important but you prob. lost those one or two back links that pushed it to where it needed to be.

So I noticed today that there is now Real Time Data: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html and I cannot figure out how to access this.

I would keep the ending slash there. Not for any reason - just preference. Also, try to keep your URLs short and consistent.

I would say scrape all of your URLs and throw everything into excel have a old and new. Spend some time on this as you don't want to change the URL structure after this.

Sidenote: You don't want to stack 301s. Oldest URL -> Prev URL -> Current URL. Both Oldest and Prev should point to Current.

When you're done submit your updated sitemap to both google and bing webmaster tools.

I really like http://www.linkresearchtools.com and one of the many awesome tools, is the Link Juice Recovery Tool.

but when did it happen? what day? it could also not even be you but the sites you got backlinks from.

Take a look here: http://www.linkdex.com and it will be the best way to get this fixed. When you disvow these links, add comments and group things together. i.e. #possible link network - emailed webmaster joes@email.com - for removal.

#link directory - emailed webmaster@somesite.com

You dont have a lot of back links - and if you do disavow the links and need help qualifying them than reach out to me with the list you come up with.. or post them here. I'm sure we can help you qualify them.

but it's still user friendly.

Hello,

I have been through your reply a few times and I'm going to give some feedback here. I really wanted to shake your hand on your reply. I know you spent some time replying to it and giving it some thought. Thank you sir. Lets get to it.

You: it may be cheaper and faster to just start on a new domain.

Me: Yes, but thats not really possible. We have a million bucks a month in revenue streams.. not all from google but we're a big company. The name change would maybe be better for low quality sites that that does dropshipping - or affiliate stuff.. we have a huge brand following.

You: Remove all of the bad links that you can, and disavow the rest.

Me: Yes - I signed up for link detox http://www.linkdetox.com - and exported all the low quality pages and imported into LinkAssistent to start the outreach.

You: Perhaps building a better quality site will be all you need.

Me: Yes, that's exactly right and we actually just went live today with the new site. Though it still needs work, user metrics, engagement improvement has been impressive.

You: I would block the internal search result pages from being indexed using the robots.txt file

Me: Yes, I have done that.

You: regarding faceted navigation, it is often a great user experience, but can wreak havoc on your site's SEO strategy.

Me: I have not read any of those until today and I will just AJAX the layered navigation all together. Currently, it does add parameters to the URL but I have those noindex, followed and I went into webmaster tools and defined what they are in the crawl-url-parameters. This is how I set it up:

• Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? - Yes: Changed, Reorders, or Narrows page content.
• How does this parameter affect page content? - Narrows
• Which URLs with this parameter should Googlebot crawl? - No URLs

I approached this like this: First, I need to approve the user experience and get what I can done with SEO but later, I can fix all the SEO problems. For example, I know I could have used AJAX for the layered navigation but I was thinking - lets get it working and populated. It took 5 minutes of my time to use this tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters which is 2010 - when Rand did the whiteboard friday, this tool didn't exist.

You: I've heard of temporary escapes via redirects, but the site usually ends up in the same trouble again once the link graph has been updated.

Me: I'll let you know how it goes but my goal was to get the people who did have it bookmarked, or from old good links that would bring in traffic.. at least they would find what they we're searching for while I find the time to clean up bad links. Since I was restructuring the keyword strategy to be more target ( mens, ladies ) I needed to be able to do something with them. I felt, that the search results would be the best placefor them on our site, as it is right now.

What I have been doing today:

• We have a lot of similar products. So I am going through them and adding the rel=canonical or changing the content, url, etc, etc.
• Looking for a solution to getting a view all canonical in place on paginated results.
• Fixing small bugs.
• Thinking about how I can make the search better. For example, we are a eCommerce site but we also have a great blog with good, well written content. Now, how can I offer both of them in the search results as a good user experience.

I'm going to mark your post as a good answer because, I'm realizing that my case, my be different because of the architecture change and without giving a link to the site so you can really see - no ones maybe, going to be able to "grasp" it.

Do you have any case studies that measure how much it helps when you have a feed updated everyday? I like your answer.

Well, if you're on a VPS/Dedicated Machine. - I would take a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html

RewriteMap has 0 effect on the load time like if you were to have the same in .htaccess it will eat those redirect rules. Remember 301s cache in the browser so when you're testing have them all 302s until you're happy and then watch your rewrite log when you launch. If you need help let us know.

This does take some knowhow and learning but you should be able to get this done in a few days. ( testing, reading documentation )

Yes, it really is a good video! I had the honor of Everett respond to one of my own QAs. By the way, what a nice website you have there! I'm actually in the watch niche as well.

Let me tell you this from what I seen. I just moved a website from /store/ to root about 3 weeks ago and google still has all of the OLD /store/ links in the search engines however all of the serp results have / in them. So it's like it didn't update its index for 3 weeks. I have never done anything like this before so I am wondering the same thing.

http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguintool/ offers a cool overlay of your organic traffic.. and offers a good insight to see how you were effected by each known update.

Now from recovering. This will cost you money but you can recover in less then 2 weeks in my experience but its going to cost you about $600 in just tools plus about 300 or so in link removals.

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/products-overview/ - you need the superhero plan. Looking here they have a October sale which saves you a little over 100 bucks. Cool so there is 400 bucks. Next: http://www.rmoov.com/ go get this for a month. Its a 100 bucks. Now what you want to do is go through and run their detox tool. Get the ones that are not indexed and the toxic ones.

Open up both excel spreadsheets and copy the pages that are linking to you. Open a new excel sheet remove duplicate rows or if you want to do it quick you can just use http://textmechanic.com/Remove-Duplicate-Lines.html

Next you take your list of URLs and run that through rmoov. Next it will do its thing go through the campaign settings and check Add Report Back Link to Webmaster Email & FlipFlop Emails. FlipFlop Emails basically sends one time to one email for that domain if it found more then one - it will send next time to that one.

Once it finds all the contact information what you want to do next is go through and enter the campaign. There is a Show Problems checkbox. See what ones are missing contact info. Some of these are going to be tough to find so you will have to delete some of them but; please.. take your time and try to find out who it is. Sometimes its just as doing a whois again.. and you will see that they have a name or another domain you can google to dig deeper.

Now what you're going to want to do is go through each one of these and make sure there are no bad links here.. just make a triple spot check and qualify them. Sometimes the most I had to remove 4 or 5 but Im glad I did. Sometimes you will find that the links it found was just a different view of the same link. So you can just go there and clean it up.

Next what you want to do is send out the campaign email. What this basically does is sends out a email every single day to these guys until they remove it. I found that sometimes the webmaster doesnt even reply but just deletes them and if it goes though and sees that its a deadlink, win. You will get people asking from 3 bucks to 25.. I found that saying: if I disavow you - it doesnt help One guy just raised the price. Just pay them. I found a lot of people who have these directory networks and he found 1000s of directory links he could remove. That can get costly - I just make a note ( rmoov has a good note taker for each site ) and if they want 3000 bucks, screw them, disavow and thanks for the list.

After you run that for a week. Take the clean disavow and upload that. Next - run that campaign again and while thats running you can submit your notes in your reconsideration requests. I talked to so and so, I paid this and this is when. I even add paypal transaction ids. The next thing you can do is when your replying to the web masters is use the note system in rmoov, and when they remove it, and you check, click the link thats in the email which reports back to rmoov that its removed.

Now - I see that once you submit your reconsideration request it takes about 8 business days to get back. Everytime I do this ( more then once ) I get a email saying the manual action has been revoked.

Now that you have a list of what links you removed. Right? Now Im sure you have a link indexing service or a tool that does it.. run that to the ones thats been removed. Im not sure how much this step helps but we all know that the disavow list that you have it takes some time for google-bot to run through this and recheck and do what it does. So to speed up a speedy recovery, I do that.

At the end of the day, end your subscription with rmoov and just let it run for the rest of the month and you may get people mad and they just remove the links so you stop emailing them. So keep a eye on the email and you can get some more wins from it.

This got a little too long. Im sorry. When you do something so many times its easy to talk about.

I use rackspace | cloud sites. Is there a way I can request to have a domain pushed to a pool you have in UK or CA for example?

very good and well thought out answer.

good answer. Remember that it will take google some time to go back and index those links. A good trick is to use some indexing tools on the old links that were removed.

If you have a LinkAssistant you could put all those links in there and see when the last time they were indexed - this could speed things up.

A good way to check is go to google.com and type in your full URL like this:

site:www.domain.com

Then you will be populated with your sites pages of course. Now there is a link there that says: "cache" and you can see what it cached.

I think they may be getting better at knowing what's in a iframe. Look at how many sites use facebook comments on the blog and how do you think thats ran? iframes. Do you remember google and adobe working together at reading .pdf's and flash.

The little magnifying glass has some cool technology behind it that I'm sure helped them know whats really on the site. Without getting to far off track I do feel like they are better at reading iframes. Just my .02c in this thread.

yea, sometimes it happens. I noticed that he caches data too. For example a site used to have stuff in /store/ but later it was 301'd to root and for the longest time it would give me a alert ( it looks like this page redirects to /store/ do you want to look there instead? It would be so annoying but I learned to deal with it.

My client is generating templates for his eBay template based on content he has on his eCommerce platform.

I'm 100% sure this will cause duplicate content issues. My question is this.. and I'm not sure where eBay policy stands with this but adding the canonical tag to the template.. will this work if it's coming from a different page i.e. eBay?

Update:

I'm not finding any information regarding this on the eBay policy's: http://ocs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?CustomerSupport&action=0&searchstring=canonical

So it does look like I can have rel="canonical" tag in custom eBay templates but I'm concern this can be considered: "cheating" since rel="canonical is actually a 301 but as this says: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html it's legitimately duplicate content.

The question is now: should I add it or not?

UPDATE seems eBay templates are embedded in a iframe but the snap shot on google actually shows the template. This makes me wonder how they are handling iframes now. looking at http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml does shows the content inside the iframe. Interesting.

Anyone else have feedback?

How does the magnifying glass look that takes a snapshot of the page? If that looks fine then remember what the search crawler actually sees: http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

If you're blocking /scripts and your CSS is in there then yes - you are blocking it.

• https://ahrefs.com/index.php
• http://mixrank.com
• http://www.linkresearchtools.com

You can also check out Market Samurai!

If its a informational site with a blog, and you're using wordpress pages for the front of the site. It make since to have the blog its own "folder" - it makes since to filter down in google analytics because you have something to "hold on too" but I'm sure having blog in the URL does not decrease value its just how you want to structure your site.

If you wanted to send me links via PM and add me on analytics, I can take a look and let you know what I think. Have you checked WMT and see what pages people are landing on and the CTR?