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I'm going through some of the older questions, and wondering if you found a solution to your problem, or if you're still looking for some advice. Thanks!

I'm flagging this one for the help team to come in and take a look at when they get a chance (though they're a bit busy right now with some other issues so it might be a bit). I don't have an answer for this one myself.

There was an update to Open Site Explorer on September 13th that might account for the change in domain authority, and it may well be that your DA would have had the same change even if you hadn't touched your site. Here's a blog post from Rand about the latest OSE update: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-september-update-feedback.

Having the same PA across all of the pages doesn't sound right. For that, I'd send an email to the help desk at help@seomoz.org and let them know about it.

I'd say don't panic just yet!

Keri

Hi Salman,

Welcome to Q&A! You've posted your question in the public Q&A, which is open to all Pro members. You'll get a variety of answers from the Pro community here. If you want your question answered by just SEOmoz staff, you'll want to edit this question and mark it as private and you'll be guaranteed that staff will review and respond (though it might take a few days).

To be honest, the home page of that site, above the fold, looks like it's about Autodesk news and not about a company that provides some really cool services. Focus on the customer of the site, and make the home page really convey to the customer what the company does, and that will convey it to the search engines as well.

Do a site:wb-3d.com and fix the title tags that are missing the company as well.

I'm guessing it's a report from GoDaddy related to the Search Engine Visibility package? See a few more details at http://www.godaddy.com/search-engine/seo-services.aspx and that might explain it.

I don't know of a good way to find this out after the fact.

What I would do in your situation is look at their Google Analytics (or whatever analytics package they have) and look at the organic traffic and see for yourself what type of change has happened in terms of traffic and associated organic keywords.

If the page is not crawled or indexed by Google, then presumably they haven't seen the links and it doesn't count in the algorithm. It can certainly count in the minds of users who view the page. If I had a link to my site on a password restricted website that was used by the top writers at TechCrunch, I'd be quite excited because real humans are going to see that link, visit my page, and possibly write about me.

If a low-quality website has made a page that is titled "spammy link exchange page that I've noindexed and going to see how many suckers I can get to give me links that I'm really not reciprocating on" then no, that's not going to count for anything.

The meta keywords does make for a good laugh. Their terms of use also states you need written permission to link to them, which is a bit amusing.

Irvingw, did you see the YouMoz post from two days ago about accidentally noindexing the entire site? You're not alone, and if you need some ideas for getting the site reindexed faster, you might check it out at http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/accidental-noindexation-recovery-strategy-amp-results.

Yes, they do. Do a search for [excite at home] and you'll see it in several of the results.

I can't make a judgement on it, but you might check out Graywolf's recent post this month on masking affiliate links. http://www.wolf-howl.com/affiliate-marketing/how-to-mask-affiliate-links/

Would an analytics package like CrazyEgg meet your needs? You can look at exactly where/what people clicked on a page, even if it's just an image or a form or some random text.

Hi Alan,

Ryan is right that these are most likely a result of the way OSE is currently processing things, and they are not really links. The engineering staff has posted an explanation at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains, and the help desk can certainly take a look as well to verify that that's what you're seeing.

A quick Google search turned up a possible security problem with this site. I've sent the admin of the site a note, and PM'd Todd with details. I would personally refrain from using it at this time (my personal opinion, not an official SEOmoz opinion).

Barry Schwartz wrote about this yesterday on Search Engine Roundtable at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-25-14051.html. Some people had seen changes and he contacted Google, and they said "There was no update in the past couple days. The most recent update was in August, when we rolled out the algorithm change internationally to most languages."

So, you're not alone in seeing changes, but it's not an algo change according to Google.

When you're in your campaign, go to Edit Campaign then look at the very bottom of the page. There's an option there to delete your campaign.

Hi Michael,

It is not uncommon for Google to chose a page title to display and ignore your meta title. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable has written about this a couple of times, with examples, on the following posts.

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

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

There's no redirect needed at that point, since mysite.com is where you do want people to end up. If you type in the correct version, you don't need a redirect (adding the http:// in the browser isn't a redirect).

Sounds to me like everything is set up correctly for you now.

I'm following up on older, unanswered questions in Q&A. Can you tell us whatever happened in your situation, so anybody else that's in a similar situation might get some advice? Did you recover, or is this still an issue?

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

Rand talks about six commons reasons why the wrong page is ranking in the SERPs and how to fix it in this post.

Testimonials are also a great way to get some content in the first-person voice where it's unnatural to do so otherwise. You can have a testimonial that says "Company xyz helped me fix my computer" and it's a way to get the phrase 'fix my computer' in and sound natural.

Hi Michelle,

I think this might be best as a follow-on to the similar question you have in your thread at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-to-get-videos-to-show-up-on-serps-as-your-own.

What you're seeing may be related to last week's Linkscape update. Rand has a blog post about it over at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-september-update-feedback. Take a look at it and see if that answers your questions, and post any follow up you have here. Thanks!

I think you may be seeing Roger/OSE still finding some downloadable files and considering them to be links and messing up your OSE reports. Check out what one of the OSE engineers had to say on this similar thread. http://www.seomoz.org/q/competitive-edu-research-via-open-site-explorer.

I'd advise you not to panic, but instead email help@seomoz.org and ask if this what is happening in your case. They also need the feedback of which domains are still showing problems after this latest update.

First, a caution that a lot of blogs have disabled trackbacks because of spam. Trackbacks are when you look at a blog post and see the comments, then you see mentions of that post. The trackbacks are the mentions where other people have provided a link.

Used in an authentic way, you would write a post and link to someone else. The link to your post shows up on their blog, if they haven't gotten fed up and disabled it. I don't deal in this area too much, but my guess is those will be fairly weak links because of all of the spam that is out there.

Yes! You'll want to go to Open Site Explorer and type in their domain and you can move lots of switches and levers there to see all kinds of data. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/one-giant-leap-for-link-data-announcing-open-site-explorer is an introduction from when OSE was first launched and can give you an idea of some of the neat things you can do.

Rand also mentions something similar in his blog post from a few days ago at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-september-update-feedback.

What to Expect in the Next 3 Months

We're releasing a new version of PA + DA that are likely to be much better correlated with Google rankings (giving a superior metric to judge the ranking potential of sites/pages). This might, however, result in some sites + pages rising or falling dramatically. My best advice here is to use your competitors and industry cohorts as a bar for comparison rather than just looking at the raw numbers over time (since the metric itself is changing, a "40" in October might not mean what a "40" means today).

This sounds like something that the help desk should know about so they can fix it on their end. Could you please each send them an email at help@seomoz.org with the details and maybe a sample CSV?

Thanks so much, and sorry for the troubles.

Atul, did this answer your question, or are you needing some more help?

It's a measure of whatever page is in question. Usually site speed tools measure the page that you are currently on or the URL that you give them. It's not limited to the home page.

If nothing from http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page worked, then it's time to email help@seomoz.org and open a ticket.

You have a couple of options. You can try asking this question again in public Q&A, as the site has a lot more activity than it did in April. Another option is to use a private Q&A question and ask this where only SEOmoz staff and associates can see it. The advantage there is that the question is private and not indexed, and the staff/associates are under an NDA and won't disclose the contents of the question so you can use real URLs if needed.

You need to also consider user experience and if people find those links helpful. Try installing something like CrazyEgg or another click tracking software that will tell you which links (not just which URLs) were clicked on to see if those links have any value for the user.

The old links that are already in google need to be given a "forwarding address" (301 redirect) to the equivalent page on your new site. The user goes to the relevant page, and all is good.

If there is something common between the old site and the new site in the URL (where each had /productabc/ in the URL) then you can set up a rewrite rule with a regular expression that will take care of a bunch of the URLs at once. Otherwise, you do need to rewrite them individually.

Check out this post by Lunametrics on Designing a Google Analytics Friendly Site. You'll see that there is an advantage to having a little more structure and organization to your URLs when you want to go back and look at your analytics.

Hi Liors,

I'm going through older unanswered questions here in Q&A. Did those suggestions meet your needs, or are you still looking for some more advice about Google Shopping?

Hi Grayloon,

I'm going through older questions that are still marked unanswered. Did you come to a decision about what to do, or are you still looking for some insight?

Hi Mike,

I'm going through older questions that are marked unanswered and wondering what you decided to do in this case, or if you're still looking for advice. If you still want some opinions, you might try asking this again as a new question, with any additional data or insights you've gained since April.

Hi Robert,

I'm going through older questions that are marked unanswered and wondering how you're doing with this issue. Did you get it resolved or are you still looking for some input?

I agree with the other responders here. As long as it's on-topic, it's generally best to put your blog in a subfolder and keep everything on the same domain.

Hi Neil,

I'm looking at older questions that are still marked unanswered. Did you come up with a solution for this, or are you still looking for some advice?

Hi Jason,

I'm following up on older questions that are still marked unanswered. Did you figure out what to do here (and if so, what did you do) or are you still looking for some advice?

The correct link is http://www.seomoz.org/blog/diagrams-for-solving-crawl-priority-indexation-issues. Are you still looking for advice on this issue, or did you come to a decision?

If you're still looking for advice, you might want to ping @graywolf on Twitter. I believe I see him talking about having a lot of WP sites and he might have some experience or words of wisdom to pass along.

I'd suggest that if you can to not use any extension in the displayed URLs. That way the next time you change languages the URL won't change. As an example, see the SEOmoz URLs -- it's just http://www.seomoz.org/q/php-to-html-change-in-extension with no extension.

I don't know the code offhand for that, but I'm sure others can help you out with that.

Tom, it might be the same way that Acrobat Reader ranks first for the query [click here] even though those those words don't appear anywhere on the page or in the source code. In my results, I see only two out of the first 10 results that have anything to do with "click here". The rest are there because of anchor text or other factors.

Think of how many web pages you see that talk about "To get Acrobat Reader, Click Here" with the Click Here hyperlinked to the download page. The search engines take that as a clue that the destination is about "Click Here". It's the same way that George Bush's bio page ranked for Miserable Failure, and how many other "Google Bombs" took place (though some are now no longer working). You might take a look at Open Site Explorer and the anchor text on the incoming links to see some off-site factors for the ranking in question.

Diane, can you ask this in a separate thread please so we can move the answers to that question? It's a little confusing to the reader right now when the original question is about an email site and the first answer is about a hypnotherapy site. =]

Have you checked your Google Webmaster Tools account for any messages from Google that are warning you of anything? That's the next step that I would take.

Quick note to the reader that this is answering a comment from another answer, not the original poster's question (though a great answer).

There are solutions for call tracking available that shouldn't negatively impact your SEO. One solution is to use an image replacement, another is to use javascript and figure out what type of source is referring the traffic and show an appropriate number.

How granular are you wanting to track your data? Do you just want to know direct vs ppc vs organic, or are you wanting to know each PPC keyword that drove traffic and which of those keywords converted? That'll affect the number of phone numbers involved and the cost.

For your local SEO, you will want to submit your regular phone number, not any toll-free number or tracking number. To the best of my knowledge, there's no good way to track the calls from people calling directly from the local SERPs, but you need those phone numbers consistent with all of the other published information that contributes to your NAP (Name/Address/Phone). Having the yellow pages with one phone number, other links with other phone numbers, and your local listing with yet a different phone number is a Bad Thing. Sorry I can't quantify it for you, I just know you want everything the same for that listing.

I hope this has helped. In a previous job, I worked for a company that provided call tracking and ROI solutions which is where I got some of this knowledge. I myself haven't implemented call tracking on my website, but I'm aware of a lot of the factors involved.