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Hi Daniel, can you share with us the URL of your site? We can take a look at it and give you a more precise answer that way. Thanks!

You possibly have a unique ending to your blog posts now, so if you change, you'll not be able to compare prior to now in one easy step. That said, it may be time to look at your title tags site-wide and make things more uniform and have one ending for blogs and one for non-blogs.

Glad to be able to help! If you do decide to 301, that redirection plugin is real easy. It's also handy to have anyway, since it can log 404s and let you make redirects from your 404 log. That's handy if someone links to you and types the link wrong, or hyperlinks a period at the end of things.

The site: and other results are often just estimates that get refined when you put in additional information or change the parameters.

If you left your search displaying ten results and went to the next page, you'd likely have a change in the total number of results displayed. This will happen (or at least did) happen on Bing as well.

Google does give some more accurate data if you verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools. If you verify your site and submit a sitemap, you can see how many URLs are indexed out of how many you submitted for that map.

Another way to judge what's in the index is go to your analytics program, look at organic traffic from Google, and look at the URLs that are receiving organic traffic.

Hi Helen, I opened the thread back up for you so it's not marked answered anymore.

The title tags on that site have been somewhat inconsistent, which could actually serve you well. You want to see if all of your blog posts have " | Cucumber Marketing, Vancouver" at the end. The few that I looked at (other than your blog home page) did, while your other pages had slightly different endings on your title tags. If it is unique, that's one way you can separate things out in GA.

I use the Redirection plugin on my site, and you can set it so it automatically creates 301s when you update URLs. I did that when I added a directory to my site and moved some content underneath it. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

For URL structure that is friendly with Google Analytics, check out this post over on LunaMetrics. http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/09/22/designing-google-analytics-friendly-site/

I'm assuming this is for a customer service type of chat, and not a dating system type of chat?

I don't have experience with implementing one of these, but here are a couple of things I've seen go bad from the perspective of a user.

1. The chat software pops up on every single page of the website, not just once per visit. I have to hit an X to close it on each new page from the site I visit. The site had some things I might have been interested in ordering, but that chat was way too disruptive to me to stay on the site long and figure out my way around.

2. Who is going to be on the other end of this software? Do you have a service that will answer 24/7, or will you have a way to turn the chat software off if no one is there to answer?

You do want to set up the 301 redirect. Ideally, you want one and only one URL for each of your pages.

Yes, using the same anchor text and linking to the same page repeatedly doesn't look very natural.

Just today YOUmoz published a piece about one person's experience with buying Facebook followers. Most of them appeared to be from Eastern Europe, and possibly under 13 years old. He did not have the best experience. This was also at the request of a client who wouldn't back down. It might be useful to read, add a thumb if you agree, etc. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/social-media-fan-base-to-buy-or-not-to-buy

Hi David,

Can you send an email to help@seomoz.org with this information? They'll be the ones able to help you. If this is an issue affecting a number of people, they'll also come over and add a comment here to let people know, but they'll work with you via the help desk to get this figured out.

Thanks!

When you do post that new article, please post it in the same thread as this is related, rather than opening a new question. This really helps people know the history of the question rather than starting from scratch. Thanks!

Agree with Donnie -- this is a help desk question. Ask over there, and they'll get back to you right away.

Google just pushed out a toolbar pagerank update today. http://www.seroundtable.com/june-2011-google-pagerank-13615.html

There has been a TOOLBAR pagerank update pushed out in the past day. It's the first time in six months that the toolbar has been updated with the data that changes on a very frequent basis behind the scenes. Lots of places are discussing it, there are some links from the Search Engine Roundtable post at http://www.seroundtable.com/june-2011-google-pagerank-13615.html.

Just a note that your results for EVERYTHING (not just places) will be different if you are logged into gmail. If you're not using Safari as a browser, I suggest downloading it and using it to check what the SERPs look like. It has a great feature under the edit menu where you can Reset Safari and clear cache, cookies, history, etc. to get a cleaner search result.

I use FoxyCart on one of my WP sites. It has its flaws, but happy to discuss with you my experiences and lend a hand if that one looks like it meets any of your needs. There are some videos out there on it I know.

Open Site Explorer is its own crawler, and is separate from the Google index. OSE just may not have crawled that particular page yet.

Hi Gyi, I've asked the help team to come in and give this a quick answer for you, you should be hearing something back soon. Sorry for the confusion!

Elias, as a pro member, you do get one private Q&A question a month. You can submit your question with URL details to private Q&A and only SEOmoz staff members and associates can view the question, and it won't appear in any searches or indexes or be visible to anybody besides the staff and associates.

When I've needed to do this, I've been able to go to the control panel at my registrar (godaddy, namecheap, 1and1, etc) and have those domains forwarded with a 301.

One thing to consider with site structure is your analytics. Using a directory structure can give you some valuable information in your analytics -- you can look at a particular category of product in aggregate and see how it is doing, if it is set up properly.

This post from LunaMetrics has some more ideas for setting up a GA-friendly site at http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/09/22/designing-google-analytics-friendly-site/.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to let you know that I passed along these suggestions some time ago to the team. I can't say a timeline on getting anything implemented, but it is on our list. Even without these features, you guys are awesome with the way you're keeping up on things. Thanks so much!

Could you email help@seomoz.org? They might have an answer for you, since nobody has chimed in here. And if they don't have an answer, they can add it to the queue of suggestions for future improvements.

I looked at the URL in your traffic report, and went to a random page. I chose this one on finding business accounting software. http://www.urhowto.com/business-finance/accounting-small-businesses/

The inline ads are for umbilical cord banking and baby bags, the suggested websites are for solar power, and the most recent comments are for articles on babies, fashion, and relationships. Maybe looking at making your recent comments and ads and things more related by category? If I'm in a business section, show me only comments from business?

Do you have your analytics set so you can see where people are clicking out? Are they going to the resources you're suggesting in your text? Are they clicking on ads? ie are you actually making money, even if they leave?

Hi Geoff,

This is best answered by opening a help desk ticket at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/anonymous_requests/new or emailing help@seomoz.org. They'll get back to you over there about this issue.

Thanks so much for using SEOmoz!

The URL structure can be helpful for analysis when looking at your analytics. See this post at LunaMetrics for reasons why you might want a directory structure. http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/09/22/designing-google-analytics-friendly-site/

Do you have the option of not displaying the extension on your URL? That way no matter what underlying language you use, you have the same URL and don't have to worry about updating links in the future.

The dev team is aware of the duplicate posting issue. I delete duplicate posts when I see them, but occasionally get errors myself.

I think the software is eating some of the internal links. I'll try this without hyperlinking, and with using a shortener. I think this answers the original question and the questions in the comments.

The webinar and slides itself is at http://seomz.me/j61TSg.

The page with more information and graphs about the ranking factors is at http://bit.ly/rankfactors2011.

My main SEO conference experience has been attending several SES and SMX events. I personally prefer the SMX events because I think they tend to have fresher topics, and it's a more comfortable conference to attend in that you have better food, more networking time between sessions, etc. SMX Advanced is good in that it's a somewhat smaller show, and has more advanced topics.

I think some of it depends on your focus. A small, focused seminar like EGOL talks about may be just what you need, or you may want a conference with a wider variety of topics.

Just make sure that you're not violating copyright when you repost these. I've seen some posts that were compilations of copyrighted images found on the web, with some nasty comments on the post from the original artist.

Has the number of pages indexed changed? Specifically, do you have a sitemap and have you looked at what GWT is reporting for number of pages indexed? Maybe some of your pages dropped out of the index and that's why you're not getting as much traffic?

Also, do a quick look at your pages and make sure something silly didn't happen when the products were added, like a rel canonical setting everything to the home page, or 5000 items suddenly getting a noindex, or your analytics program suddenly being stripped from some of your pages and that's why you're missing visits.

My bounce rate is at 50% this morning, so that must have been it. What I liked about the plugin was that it automatically tagged the external links and pdfs. However, an accurate bounce rate is a more important metric for me.

There's another question in Q&A right now about using an analytics plugin. I'll add my experiences in a comment over there.

Thanks for the help/validation!

I've deactivated it, and will check back in the morning to see if the data looks better. I think before when I've looked at the code, I was logged in as admin, and the plugin doesn't insert itself when you're admin, so i was seeing just the one set of code.

I'm wondering if she put in the async code and didn't realize that it was also in there with the analytics plugin. I'll send her a note in the morning and ask if that might be it. I wanted to do a little figuring out on my own before I started running up her clock and my bill.

I've had an outside developer do a bunch of custom work in Google Analytics to get my site to integrate with Foxycart and accurately report sales in the ecommerce section. With a foxycart upgrade came more GA tweaking, and now my bounce rate is at 1-2%. I know this isn't right, and suspecting there is something triggering GA a second time, causing a second page load, or something.

Could someone that loves code look at http://www.strikemodels.com/ and tell me if they can easily spot what's obliterating the accuracy of my bounce rate calculations? Or do I need to go back to my dev and up the can of GA worms to troubleshoot things?

As you can tell by the code, I'm running the latest version of WP with a few plugins, Thesis 1.8, and on Apache.

Do you have areas of your site that are distinctively different in type, such as category pages and individual item pages, or individual item pages and user submitted content?

What I'm getting at is trying to find if there's a certain type of page that Google isn't indexing. If you have distinct types of pages, you can create separate site maps (one for each type of content) and see if one type of content is being indexed better than another. It's more of a diagnostics tool that a solution, but I've found it helpful for sites of that size and larger in the past.

As other people have said, it's also a new site, so the lack of links could be hindering things as well.

I just tried [site:nyc.gov kars4kids] in Google and nothing showed, so that's not an encouraging sign for you. And now I've had to turn on some music to get your commercial out of my mind.

In that tool, there is a comment about accuracy, which is based on the data points. What does it say about accuracy? To the best of my knowledge, their site speed report is based on other users with the Google Toolbar installed. If you have only a few users with the toolbar visiting, and they're all on dialup, you could get skewed results.

Highland is right, this is for indexing of ajax. I personally leave out the #! when linking, but that decision is based on I'm usually sending the link in email and those characters sometimes break the hyperlink.

Sorry, I don't have any ideas for you. My experience (being a moderator of a site that gets on one of those lists) with those lists is that they're outdated or incorrect when published, or that the sites that are on those list make the comments/submissions nofollow because they're tired of being spammed because they are on those lists.

That looks great!

Jacob, Celife does mention that there is a redirect in place. Right now we're just determining if it is a 301 redirect.

I would need to look online at a reference myself to see if that's accurate.

One thing you can do is go to http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/check-server-headers-tool/ (or your favorite search results for server header checker) and put in your non-www URL and see the server header code that is returned.

I think you're saying you have

mainwebsitethatsellsstuff.com
securesubdomainof.mainwebsitethatsellsstuff.com

and that you want to keep the main domain, and remove the subdomain, and that it's not a case of http vs https with the URL otherwise being the same, right?

You can verify a subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools and remove the entire subdomain. I've had to do this for a dev subdomain that accidentally got indexed. I was able to keep the main domain, and remove the subdomain. The key is to verify that subdomain, and leave the main domain alone, provided I'm understanding your question correctly.

If that automatically adding of the www is done by a 301 redirect, most or all of the link juice should pass. It also makes it so that if the user copies and pastes the URL from the address bar, they're getting your preferred version there, and are thus less likely to link to you with the non-www version.