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Excellent advice here. If it's on a subdomain, the subdomain can be claimed in GWT as its own site. You can put a robots.txt on the subdomain then request the entire subdomain be removed from the index.

You may want to go one step further and use something like PolePosition's Code Monitor that checks the code of any page once per day and alerts you if there's a change. In a similar situation, I had it monitor the robots.txt for the live and all development sites for where I was working, so I knew if the developers changed something and could react quickly.

So sorry to hear about the battles going on. I've seen some of those, and they're no fun.

One thing that may be of help: last month Google rolled out new user access to GWT, including a way to let view without changing any settings (Barry Schwartz writes about it at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-webmaster-tools-users-14838.html). Is there a chance IT would let your team have a read-only view if you let them know it was now available?

I don't recall the article off-hand, but we did recently have a post with a good argument against scraping contact info in advance. If you look at the third point at http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/5-pro-link-building-tips-to-improve-scalability you'll see why the author argues for getting the contact info right when you do the outreach.

As the owner of a niche site for an RC hobby, I get a lot of unsolicited emails regarding SEO services and selling of products where it's obvious that the sender has just harvested my email and has not really looked at my site. Trust me, you'll go a lot further if you actually look at the site and hand-gather the info.

April 10th! Our calendar is at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

Hi KS,

Many in the SEOmoz community prefer to use a more natural creation of profiles and links. You may still find some advice here, but this isn't the best community for those types of questions. What we can better help with are questions like how to find forums that are relevant to your niche, how to become a member of those communities without appearing to be there just for leaving comments with links, etc.

I'm verifying with another associate right now, but I believe it's an all-or-nothing. Admins can see all of the accounts in a profile, which is one of the reasons why it's good to set up a separate profile for each client.

Chris, MCC is an Adwords tool, not Analytics.

Quality edu links may be harder to get. But there are a ton of blogs on .edu sites with unmonitored comments. I don't think http://ask.buffalostate.edu/index.php?showuser=13006 will hold much weight in the engines, yet it's on an .edu domain.

I don't know on that. This is an older question -- you might try asking this as a separate new question, where more people will see it.

The one that doesn't promise me an exact number of links on a particular type of blog. I want the strategy that doesn't involve someone having easy control over all 100 links.

I've always liked Pinnacle Promotions at http://www.pinnaclepromotions.com/. The store is easy to use, has good descriptions, filters, product not found page, etc. I have no relation with them; they're just a site I ran across when looking for promotional goods that stood out to me as someone having paid attention to  a lot of factors that make a good site.

It is a fun feature! here's some more information from Google about it, written when the first started releasing it.

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html

Hi everyone,

I've asked the help desk to come over and comment on this, so we should hear back from them later today or tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!

Google trends has this. Check out http://www.google.com/trends/?q=unpasteurized+milk.

This post from the help desk should help too. http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page. If that doesn't fix things, please open up a ticket with the help team by sending an email to help@seomoz.org. Thanks!

Odd, it's showing up for me. What I'm looking at is the third and fifth results (Bilge Pumps and RC Model Warship Kits and Hulls). You should be able to see what I'm looking at by doing a [site:strikemodels.com/products] query in Google as well.

I'll highlight what I'm talking about and reupload too.

Google may be pulling information from a table. I've seen it on other sites in Q&A, and they're doing it on my own site too (see attached image). All of the information that they're displaying I have in an actual table on my site, and I've done nothing else other than put it in a table.

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There was some kind of bug where it was showing one or two votes up and a couple of thousand votes down for each URL. We took it down while we figure out where that was coming from. I'm not sure, but I think it will be back up when it's fixed. Glad you found it helpful!

Hi Steven,

As this is a year-old thread, it's not going to get too much attention. Can you please send an email to our help team at help@seomoz.org and let them know about this?

Thanks!

Dr. Pete has a good post on this 100 links guideline at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that should help you out, too.

If you send an email to help@seomoz.org the help desk can look and make sure that OSE is seeing everything properly.

This is also the way I would do it as well.

Were you able to remove your site? Do you still need any advice for this question?

Hi Alex,

Were you able to get this resolved? If you still have this problem, you might want to drop an email to help at seomoz dot org and have the help team look at it to see if they can figure it out. Thanks!

Keri

I wonder if you're thinking of doing the option that Google Custom Search has for doing your internal site search? They do have an option to comment out some of the content for searching, but it doesn't affect their main index, just your own custom search.

The zig-zag tears are just showing that they've snipped part of the middle of the page out -- they're showing you stuff that matches your query at the top and bottom of your pages, and removing some of the stuff from the middle that doesn't match your query.

You'll see the same thing in print regarding graphs if something is taken out of the X-axis.

Sorry that this thread wasn't updated, but the issue was fixed March 14th. Thanks for your patience!

If you haven't tackled this yet, I'd suggest the Redirection plugin for Wordpress for IF you need 301s.

I've only used Studiopress a little bit, but I imagine it has some features similar to Thesis. With Thesis, I can change on the fly what pages I want in my menus. The pages themselves (their contents and URLs) don't change at all, I'm just choosing to now have "About Us" shown in the menu and not show "USS Iowa" in that menu.

If my husband adds a new page to the site about flags for our ships, but forgets to put it in the products folder, I can edit that page and the Redirection plugin automatically creates a 301 redirect for me. Likewise if I make a typo in the page name and don't catch it until after the URL has been created, I can change the URL name and the Redirection plugin automatically creates the 301 redirect. This paragraph applies to any WP install with that plugin, doesn't matter the theme you're using, just make sure that option for automatically doing the 301s is checked.

Does this help at all?

Hi Steve,

How are your GA numbers doing now? Did you figure out what was causing the jump? Have they stayed high, or come back down? If you give us an update, we can try to help troubleshoot this for you a bit more.

Hi CFSSEO,

I'm going through some older Q&A questions and wondering how this project is going for you. Is there anything more we can do to help you convince management that 182 clones aren't in their best interest?

Hi! These three answers had some good resources. Did they meet your needs, or are you still looking for some more tools?

Hi Tyler,

Did these answers solve your question, or are you still looking for some more help?

Thanks!

Keri

Welcome to SEOmoz! Please feel free to ask us about the errors here or to email the helpdesk at help@seomoz.org. Let us know how things are going for you, we'd love to be able to help you.

Hi Rick,

I'm going through older questions that are unanswered. Did you get this one figured out, or are you still needing a hand?

Thanks!

Keri

Hi Gary,

I'm wondering if you have an update for us of how things are going for you?

Hi Feneris,

Were these answers enough to get you started, or are you still looking for some more advice? We'd love to have you check in and know how things are going for you. Thanks!

Knowing your URL would help, but I can understand if you don't want to share it here (you can create a private question and share it there if you like). Have you checked Google Webmaster Tools for any notices?

Has anyone recently done work on your site, where there might have been an unnoticed change to the code that put in the wrong canonical tag, or added a noindex tag?

Hi Adam,

It is likely that it's just a time issue. OSE updates about once a month, and the last update was February 29th. The crawl was completed before that date, and may have been completed before all of your redirections. The next update should be released on April 10th, and that should have much better results for you.

Keri

Are you still having this problem, or did you get it figured out?

A bit late with an answer here, but yes, Istvan is correct. The next Linkscape update is April 10th, so you should see changes then!

Hi! Did any of these tools meet your needs, or are you still looking for some help?

Hi Melia,

Your website brings back memories. In my teens, my career goal was to become a traveling OT for a firm like yours. A few twists and turns of life later, and here I am. Did the advice from Jeff and James help you make a decision, or are you still needing some more help?

Hi Mike,

Did Jeffrey's answer help you, or would you still like some more assistance getting this cleared up?