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Hi David,

If you download the CSV, you'll be able to see the referring link. My guess is that there's a badly-formed internal link in your site.

Google is known for changing the titles in its SERPs as well.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-titles-match-12779.html

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-tag-13704.html

I'd also contact your host and let them know that you may be getting a spike in traffic on a particular day, and to please not shut the site down. Depending on the site architecture, look at putting in some type of caching and otherwise prepare for an increased load. Make sure the image file sizes on your home page are optimized, etc.

Try browsing through sites like Yahoo Answers, or sites devote to antique appraisals where readers can write in. You'll be able to get an idea of what words people use.

Why review your products on Squidoo and give the content to a different site that can rank above you? Why not instead make YOUR site the one with the strong content?

Google is quite aware that links from a place like Squidoo aren't exactly natural and are often set up for situations like this.

Hi David,

If you could drop an email to help@seomoz.org, they'll be able to help you out. Thanks!

You certainly don't want to block this content!

One thing I'd consider is the if-modified-since header, or other headers. Here are two articles that explain more about the concept of using headers to tell the search engines " this hasn't changed, don't bother crawling it". I haven't personally used this, but have read about it in many places.

http://www.feedthebot.com/ifmodified.html

http://searchengineland.com/how-to-improve-crawl-efficiency-with-cache-control-headers-88824

A thought for a content idea -- FAQs for someone who is new to oil heating. This comes from my own situation right now, as I sit in front of a wood-burning fireplace and I'm afraid to turn on our oil-burning furnace. We moved into this house a couple of months ago, and the neighbors told us that all of the walls were repainted because of the oil stains, and we're seeing stains by one vent near the carpet. We're using space heaters and the fireplace until we can get a gas line to the house and a gas furnace installed. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has relocated and found myself in this situation. It may not cause me to be a forever fan on your facebook page, but it might turn me into a heating oil customer if I were convinced there was a good way to get heat.

Are you prohibited from writing more text? What does the site sell / what is the goal of the site? Can you write more about the images?

Hi Matthew,

You present some interesting figures. You do say that "even though this may not be correct, but has worked for me." -- does this mean that the following percentages are things you have based off of you own testing, or do you have some references you could give that would help back this up?

Here are some common reasons why only one page may be crawled in your SEOmoz campaign. Let us know if one of these isn't the cause and we'll dig deeper!

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages

Yes, it is hurting the SEO. For more information than you might ever wanted to know about this, see the comprehensive blog post that Dr. Pete (an SEOmoz associate) posted last night at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world. That should be a good starting point to understand why you don't want this happening, and how to start to fix it. The comments touch on case sensitivity as well, even though he didn't include that in the post itself.

Actually, there is a fair amount public from each site. Here are some of the partners that Twitter has where you can access this data (in addition to going through the API yourself) https://dev.twitter.com/programs/twitter-certified-products/products#Certified-Data-Products.

Facebook also makes available ways for a person to see and show off how many likes their page has, for example (see http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/ for a plugin you can use). Here are a bunch of other things Facebook makes available through an API, either for getting data from or pushing data to Facebook.

Hi Jim,

I'd suggest writing about each model. Not everyone can easily look at a floor plan and see what's neat about it. Is the house great for multiple generations because it has a mother-in-law apartment? Good for aging in place because there's a downstairs suite and accessibility features incorporate throughout? If this is for a builder, does the builder offer options such as turning that fourth bedroom into a library or home office? If there's a home office with a separate entrance for clients, point that out. Talk about how wonderful the kitchen is, etc.

Hi Ben,

Welcome to SEOmoz! We're glad to have you here. Have you check out this post by Dan Shure, an SEOmoz Associate who specializes in Wordpress? He talks about how to set it up Wordpress for SEO success, including how to work tags, categories, what to noindex, etc. It's at

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

Our crawlers don't follow redirects, which could be one of your problems. Here's a list of reasons why you may be getting an incomplete crawl:

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-Why-Isn-t-My-Site-Being-Crawled-You-re-Not-Crawling-All-My-Pages-

If you still have questions, the best bet is to open up a support ticket at http://www.seomoz.org/help where the help team can take a look at your account. Thanks!

If you know right away what the parameter does, I'd go ahead and tell Googlebot what the parameter is or how to treat it. It's one more signal to help fight against duplicate content, and I'd take advantage of everything I can give Google to help tell them about how I want them to rank my site.

Your bio says you're with a brothel. While it may be legal in your area of Nevada, if the Google+ account had much relating to this, that could be a reason why it was suspended. Could you tell us a little more about the account?

You can only see a small percentage of the keywords driving traffic, due to (not provided) and Google not sending data on the vast majority of keywords.

This isn't the fast way, but it's the way to make it last -- make your page and service better than your competitors. Before you start trying to drive people to your site, make sure that your site is perfect. Have three people look over the text on your site for any typos or spelling mistakes or grammar errors. Make sure the page looks good in all of the major browsers. Make sure that your site clearly states why it is better than the competitors, and why people should use your service when there are other competitors available.

You usually get just one chance to make a first impression, and you want to make sure that you make a good impression when you're going out to send people to your site.

We understand your frustration, and know that having to download the CSV to find the 404 errors isn't the most obvious solution. It is on our list of things to work on. We do have some upgrades coming in the future, never fear!

Here's a sample robots.txt from the wordpress.org site itself:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress#Robots.txt_Optimization

It looks like the original poster knows of these sites but is having difficulty finding good freelancers from these sites. Do you have recommendations for finding good freelancers through these sites?

One other item of note is that the search engines often choose their own title and snippet to display in the SERPs, even if you've specified something in your code, so you don't know if the person actually saw the title or description that you used.

You may also want to read the Beginner's Guide to SEO, especially the section on building links at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links.

We're trying to address the problems of gurus in the industry Alan!

I've sent off a note to the team and we're looking into this. Longer-term, we are going to replace Guru and Journeyman, as well as replace the labels in Q&A with stars representing the levels, to make things visually easier to understand.

Here's some information from a Googler on a couple of reasons why they change the title tags. It happens to all kinds of sites, including Apple, and can happen depending on the query used as well.

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023139.html

Hi Shaun,

Since Followerwonk is now part of Moz, the best thing to do is email help@moz.com. Thanks, and sorry for your troubles.

The OP is actually asking about a post on another site that is not under their control.

My first thought is why do you want to split up your link building and content efforts among several sites, and have several sites to maintain instead of one?

This is an older thread, and it's probably best to either start your own thread, or email help@seomoz.org directly and we can help you that way. Thanks!

Sounds like you need to put a robots.txt on those subdomains (and maybe consider some type of login too).

Quick fix: put a robots.txt on the subdomains to block them from being indexed. Go into Google Webmaster Tools and verify each subdomain as its own site, then request removal of each of those subdomains (which should be approved, since you've already blocked it in robots.txt).

I took a quick look at lab.capacity.com/robots.txt and it isn't blocking the entire subdomain, though the robots.txt at fb.capacitr.com is.

Moz doesn't offer SEO services, but you might check out our recommended companies list at http://moz.com/community/recommended. We also have several blog posts on how to hire help with your inbound marketing.

The OP doesn't have access to the site, so that's not an option.

I'd say use both links for information that is relevant to the post and serves to enhance the post, and if those two links aren't enough, write such an awesome post that you'll be given an exception because the post just wouldn't work without those resources.

I manage YouMoz, where people can guest post for Moz. We don't have a number limit on links, it's just what makes sense. I'll have a post submitted with no links that I return because it needs links, I'll have a post with links that need to be removed, and I'll have posts that have a valid reason for each of the 25 links they include in the post. http://moz.com/blog/dusting-the-website-for-spring-optimization-seo-cleaning is one post that would not have been published if there had been no links, or we limited the author to just two links.

Hi Ash, and welcome to Moz! I've flagged this question for the help team to come in and answer, and you should be hearing from them soon about OSE.

Here's an introduction to get you started: http://moz.com/help/pro/introduction.

A campaign is generally the website you're working on, and the app is Moz. This just means to put in the website you're working on and we'll start letting you know about any problems we find.

Hi Tim,

The screenshot makes it look like this is your total traffic for the entire site, not just the traffic from Google (or rather, it's the total traffic for that profile -- I don't know what filters that profile has). First, drill down and look at just the Google Organic traffic, and make sure that it's truly the G organic traffic that's the issue, and not that there's a newsletter being sent out every other week that's generating traffic in spurts.

I'd be looking at the other sections of your Google Analytics (direct traffic, referring, etc) and see if Google Organic is the only thing that's off, or are there other things going on, and do you need to see what other things the marketing team and the developer team are doing. Also look at which pages it is that are getting traffic then dropping, that may help point you in the right direction.

Have you looked in Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any notices there?

Was the warning that you had unnatural external links pointing to your site? In that case, adding a nofollow to the links going from your site to other sites won't do any good. Instead, you need to look at the links pointing to your site.

Howdy,

We don't have that feature right now, but something like that is on our wishlist for the future. Thanks so much for the confirmation that this is something our community wants, and so glad to hear that you find Q&A this useful!

Also, the same analytics or adsense account is a tipoff. Check out spyonweb to see some of this type of information.

Hi! I'm noticing that the details for this offer it says that it's available only for new clients of SEOmoz, so it's not something that will work with your existing account.

What about searching for articles about care homes on BBC then seeing if any of those have missing links on an article-by-article basis? If you're lucky, they may also have a tag or a section that fits closely enough with your topic that you can find a listing of all of the articles that are withing that tag/category and just review those.

Jen wrote a good post about that at http://moz.com/blog/social-engagement-metrics-that-matter that may help you get started.

You're right, we did have to scrap the index that was supposed to be released this week.

A little background first. Before we release an index, we look at the quality of the index, data correlation, and a bunch of stuff. This time, the correlations did not match up, and we decided that it would be worse to release this index than it would be to keep with the old index.

We've got a post about it at http://moz.com/products/api/updates.

Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the delay.

Hi! So sorry about this. The calendar moved when we switched to Moz, and it's now at http://moz.com/products/api. The next update is August 26th.

David,

Have you read Dr. Pete's post about Should I Change my URLs for SEO? He talks about this very topic.

If it's someone from high school or my early work career, where they would have known me under my maiden name, I send them a note and let them know who it is. Otherwise, I personally only do friend / connection requests with people that I know will know who I am.

When I get a LinkedIn request from someone I don't know (and we have no connections in common, I have no community history, etc.) I'll report them as spam. When I get it from someone who might be familiar, I ask them to remind me how we know each other.

In short: be personal and don't spam.

We did just have an index update this afternoon, and it may not yet have reached the campaigns. I'd take a look in a few hours and see if there is still a difference in numbers.