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Hi Sharon,

Did this answer your question, or are you looking for some more help? If you can share your URL or some more specific examples with us we can help you a little better.

Thanks!

Hi Utah Tiger,

I believe you're referring to KnowEm. The site lets you have them create social media accounts for you, rather than you doing the signing up to each one yourself. I don't believe they offer any tools to USE all of those sites, just to sign up for them. I haven't used them myself, but KnowEm does have a good reputation.

You might want to look through SEOmoz and a couple of other places on the web to see more about how TopSEOs does their rankings. A kind way that many would say is that they are not a disinterested third party ranking service.

Google's been doing this for a while now. Here's one post about it over at Search Engine Roundtable. http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023139.html

Here's the post on Search Engine Roundtable that discusses Google's comments about this not being a ranking change.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-subdomains-webmaster-tools-13968.html

I'd keep an eye on Search Engine Roundtable. Barry is usually quick to post when he sees people start talking about an update, and will also post when he gets any type of confirmation (or denial) from Google. http://www.seroundtable.com/

As far as I can tell is those are just plain Google Images in a universal search result. If you search [model warship combat hulls] in Google you'll see a similar result. I know most of those image results, and can tell you they are certainly not in Google Merchant. In fact, the first result image (of just a white hull with a pink interior) is from my site, and we're not in Google Merchant. We have made a point to make our file names descriptive, use alt text, etc, but I know that many of the results for similar queries have not even optimized this much.

I bet I know a couple of people over at the help desk who would love you to post an expanded version on the help hub.

Hi Bryan,

I'm asking one of our associates who works a lot with ecommerce sites to come over and add some advice to this question. You do seem to have an awful lot of navigation links.

As a side note, you might want to look at your on-site search. I saw that you had barstools with the Purdue logo, but a search for Purdue said there were no matching items. edit: change that to say look at the layout. There's a lot of white space so that the search results were shown below the fold, and I didn't realize there were actually matching products there. You might want to move that up a bit for user experience.

Harald,

The first link is discussing the head tag, not navigation headers.

The second link is three years old, and the information is very out of date and against what we generally advise at SEOmoz.

Hi Jeffrey,

I think you'll see that most people are adverse to having some type of intermediate step to take before they see the home page. Can you explain to us a little more of how you envision this to happen technically, and what you're hoping to accomplish with it for your business?

Harald,

You might want to view the example that the original poster is using. It's closer to a lightbox effect than the splash screen that either of those two links describe.

Hi Harald,

Thanks for including the reference in your post to help further explain some of what you talked about. The post is about a year and a half old, so people should be aware some things with YouTube have changed, and likely with Vimeo.

I'm interested in your statement "From SEO perspective youtube is the best video channel because it helps to perform better Google Search Results. It is so because youtube has more users than vimeo therefore it helps to provides better optimization." Can you explain that a bit more, and show us where you got that information from?

I'm also asking our SEOmoz associate who is an expert in video ranking to step in and add his commentary to this thread.

If Build My Rank or a couple of other networks were used at all for links, that may also account for some of the changes. But I'd be sure to check your analytics and make sure they're on Cloudflare properly.

edit: you said there were no ranking changes, so I'd really look at analytics at this point. Also, was the 300 uniques over three days a regular occurrence, or was it more of a spike from getting featured on reddit at one point then your baseline being much lower? Look at a couple of months worth of traffic as a baseline, not just a couple of days.

Harald, this isn't quite what the user is asking about. The first link is fairly old, and the OP is looking at a different type of technology.

Many people aren't in DMOZ, and Google will still alter their meta titles and descriptions to match the search query. Google employees have said that one of the reasons the titles are changed in the SERPs is if they look spammy (not saying that yours are, just stating what they have said).

Generally, if you can fix it with code, that tends to be a bit better than the canonical tag, from my understanding. I've emailed Dr. Pete and asked him to contribute to this thread as well, as he's an expert on canonical tags.

You'll want to fix everything first, then possibly ask for a reconsideration request. I've asked for an associate with more experience in this topic to contribute some help over the next day or so as well.

This is a bit beyond my skills, but I've asked another associate to step in. If you do a Google search with site:yourdomain.com you'll see a bunch of altered titles.

Ouch, it sounds like you might have been hacked. Did you have any other GWT notices? Have you tried crawling your site as Googlebot (again through GWT)? I'd first make sure that your site is cleaned up, then go on to worry about the other issues (which may clear up once you get any hacking out of the way).

If you can share your URL, we're happy to take a look to see what we can figure out too.

Welcome Beth! So glad to have you here, and happy to hear about your experience in Q&A. Feel free to come back with any other questions you have!

SEOmoz looks at the code on the page when it looks at duplicate content scores. My hunch is that there's a lot of identical code on those pages, which is causing the warning.

One thought is that it would add legitimacy to the comment, and get it approved. On some systems, the first comment needs to be manually approved, and after that the person can freely comment.

Are the pages blocked from crawling at all? I've seen that happen when Google can't crawl a page, but knows of it because of a followed link from elsewhere.

You should be able to access your SEOmoz account from any computer, provided you are using the correct login and password. Please send an email to help@seomoz.org and we'll look into it for you via the help desk.

Welcome to SEOmoz, and sorry for the frustration!

I know Google Places doesn't allow PO Boxes, and this might be against their terms of use too. I'm asking our local expert to add to this thread with some more information.

I don't believe that is the site being spammed. I believe the OP received a spam post on a different site, and the person posting the spam claimed that their URL was the JHU site.

I would think that actually a lot of local resources could be relevant for a real estate site to have. The OP is part of a pest control firm. If they did termite inspections, that would be a very relevant link from a real estate agent. Same for a moving company carpet cleaning, housecleaning, etc. Anything that might be used when someone is moving in or moving out. Even if I were a coffee shop, I might team up with an agent to do a welcome gift basket for the people moving into an area (to get them familiar with my brand) and see if there was a way to get a link in a local recommended business section.

Note that this is hypothetical -- my business is model warship combat boats, and I really can't think of a good tie-in with real estate there without stretching things a whole lot.

A starting place would be the Learn SEO tab on SEOmoz (http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo). That will help explain some of the terms your seeing in your report. The Beginner's Guide to SEO will help you learn about SEO so that you can either do the work yourself, or understand what an SEO pro is telling you.

You might first want to browse through Dr. Pete's post about how many links is too many at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

Enough words to give a better explanation than your competitor, and to make people want to link to your page. This isn't an exact science, but it's like I had teachers tell me -- write until it is done.

I just heard back from the help desk. They got your question a couple of hours ago, and just responded to it. I'll let them continue this conversation with you through the help desk.

I meant the help desk ticketing system (zendesk) was having problems this morning, and could be why you're having a little bit of a delayed response from them.

If you do a search on part of the comment, you'll see it duplicated all across the web https://blekko.com/ws/+%22study+a+few+of+the+blog+posts+on+your+website+now,+and+I+truly+like+your+way+of+blogging%22

so it is certainly a spam comment. The URL looks decently legit, but the email is a gmail address, certainly a spam author name, and comment is spam. Not sure that they're trying to defraud anyone regarding JHU, but it is certainly spam and I'd just delete it and go on.

The help desk usually gets back to you fairly quickly, though there were a couple of software glitches earlier this morning with it. This post from the help desk may also address your situation: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page

I don't know if it does anything more than an offline copy. I haven't encountered your use case before, so haven't looked for that. You might look to see if that program or others has those types of options that could help you.

I've used http://www.httrack.com/ HTTrack Website Copier before. Website copy software is one keyword search to get you started to find tools like this.

There are tools that will crawl and scrape your entire site and make a local copy of it. Would that work as something you could hand off to the agency?

I also would have fixed this with a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file. In addition, you have calusacrossinganimalhospital.com and www.calusacrossinganimalhospital.com that resolve independently, so you likely have at least six URLs for your home page.

Let us know if you'd like a hand finding the right rewrite code, or if your website developer is OK with just taking this instruction and fixing things for you.

I'm not quite sure I understand what you're getting at. Could you give a little more of a use scenario please?

I'm seeing very little visible content on your home page. When I do a view source, I see an H2 and paragraph that are display:none. That's probably not helping you at all, and may be hurting you. Do you have any noticed about your site in Google Webmaster Tools?

Can you share your URL with us?

Here's a post about the wrong page ranking, which may help explain some of what is happening.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions

Here's a post from Dr. Pete on SEOmoz about the 100 link warning and the subject in general.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

I myself haven't submitted an image site map before, as I have a small site and the images seem to be picked up just fine. When I go to images.google.com and do a site search for your domain, I do see a large number of results (http://images.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=871&q=site%3Adriftworks.com), so your images are being indexed. If I limit the site search query to images within the /shop folder, I see 73 results.

I'm guessing you've looked at Google's help at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636 and http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178644 regarding image site maps and troubleshooting site maps, respectively.

I'll check with the other associates to see who has image sitemap experience and can add to this thread.

Hi Harald,

I'm sorry to say it, but your reply doesn't make too much sense. Can you try rephrasing it?