Hi Teginder,
I think the solution would be for you to write to the beloved Help team of Moz.com. They will probably give an answer to you faster, than community members in Q&A.
I wish you luck!
Greetings,
Istvan
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Hi Teginder,
I think the solution would be for you to write to the beloved Help team of Moz.com. They will probably give an answer to you faster, than community members in Q&A.
I wish you luck!
Greetings,
Istvan
Hi David,
I was checking your source and it says:
Is it possible that missing a space in code doesn't stop Google indexing it? (I think that's causing your issue)
Here's a documentation how to implement it correctly directly from Google
Hope it helps,
Istvan
Later edit: btw: it should be something like this:
Exactly my idea! and you have everything in one spot. I hope it will work out for you!
Cheers!
Hi David,
For me it worked with Business account.
I have created an email for this purpose, went to an incognito page (Chrome) and made a page for my client. Then opened up the business account with the created email address.
I prefer to have a Business account for every Page that we administrate.
I hope it works for you also.
Greetings,
Istvan
Hi Jeepster,
I saw this question wasn't answered yet, so here I come with one:
What I would do in your case, is to check when the rankings or the traffic dropped.
Since, like you said, you have a child to look after, it means that you might not have a ranking history... well, if you have Moz PRO, then you could go to: Campaigns -> Ranking tab -> Change the "full rankings report to PDF" into "Entire keyword ranking history to csv" export it, and then look after the Keyword, Date, Traffic and Google Ranking columns.
If you are not a PRO member or you do not have a campaign set up for this particular website, you could analyze your traffic from Google Analytics and check aprox. on which date did your organic traffic drop.
After you have this, you could check the Google Algorithm Change history of Moz.com. Compare the dates and try to figure out what update has taken you down.
Regarding 17 Server Errors/575 soft 404s/17 Not Founds/Access Denied 1/Others 4:
I really hope it works out for you!
Cheers,
Istvan
There is no SEO software can help you determine if you have implemented correctly the canonical links(which page you are targeting with optimization). What they can do is to notice you about the fact that you have a canonical link present on that specific page. Which data you can export and analyze. Unfortunately this means a lot of manual work for you or your team.
Just think about the fact that you might Point a Canonical link from Page A -> Page A and from Page B-> Page B (because you have a script that will point a canonical to itself). Eventually these two pages are the same, it will be quite confusing to a search engine, right?
Or Page A -> Page B, Page B-> Page C and so on... that's also something that you would like to avoid.
Another case Page A -> Page B, Page B -> Page A.
With exporting the data that SEOmoz gives you and analyzing it in Excel (or a similar program), you will have the chance to avoid these problems.
I hope it helped and cleared the picture a little-bit
Istvan
Hi Godad,
If it was me I would go for the canonical version.
if you want to go with the no-index, then do not forget to use no-index, follow (so you do not miss the "link juice" those pages might get).
I hope it helped,
Istvan
Hey Turkey
Well I have just read a good case study, which amazed me: http://mattjanaway.co.uk/link-bait-mrcake-case-study/
I do not know about the exact number of links they have got, but the quality was really good: The Guardian, Fox News, Huffington Post,Metro.
I hope you like it
Istvan
Hey,
I've seen nobody answered your question, so here it comes
What you see regarding canonicals are notifications(and not errors). There is not system which could tell if the canonical link is pointing to the right one or not(which url is the one that you chose to target), what it can do is to point it out to you. Then you can export the list of URLs and check if you have applied them good or not.
Unfortunately this means a lot of manual work, but it can help a lot.
Just think about the fact that you might Point a Canonical link from Page A -> Page A and from Page B-> Page B (because you have a script that will point a canonical to itself). Eventually these two pages are the same, it will be quite confusing to a search engine, right?
Or Page A -> Page B, Page B-> Page C and so on... that's also something that you would like to avoid.
Another case Page A -> Page B, Page B -> Page A.
With exporting the data that SEOmoz gives you and analyzing it in Excel (or a similar program), you will have the chance to avoid these problems.
I hope it helped and cleared the picture a little-bit
Istvan
Hi Dusty,
It would be better to set up 301 redirects, instead of 302.
Check the article of Dr. Pete here. It really describes the status codes.
I hope it helps,
Istvan
Hi Joanne,
When taking such a decision I always read through again and again the article from Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105
Ideally it would be good to contact each webmaster and ask them to change the url from the .com to the .co.uk, but realistic that is almost impossible.
What I would do is download through OpenSiteExplorer all the incoming links, check in general which are the most important for me and at least contact those webmasters and tell them about the change of address.
I hope it helps.
Istvan
In my belief, working on quality, expecting to have link on sites that are really big fish in the industry, eventually will pay out.
Yes, there are still a high number of websites which rank well with those links, but time will come when they will regret that.
So don't worry about your principles just keep up the good work.
Greetings,
Istvan
Hi again,
I use the SEO plugin for Wordpress by Yoast.
The problem with qTranslate is that in the backend you have 1 post, with 1 Title where you will have EnglishTitleGermanTitle but somehow it doesn't do the job well.
Istvan
Hi Reggie,
Matt Cutts talks about this topic in one of his videos: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/
I hope that helped,
Istvan
Yes, that would be a signal. But the idea I have mentioned in my previous answer was to "host" different languages on different ccTLDs.
English version - .com or .co.uk (if you are targeting the UK)
French version - .fr
Spanish version - .es
We had 9 languages back that at that company and for each language we had different subfolders: /en/; /fr/; /it/ and so on... which gave us the possibility to geo-target each subfolder from Google Webmaster Tools, but we have seen our competitors next to us(and even before us) in most of the cases with their ccTLD version.
"Having different ccTLD's for each language but keeping the same site would result in duplicate content am I right?"
If you plan to keep the current versions + have new ccTLD versions then yes, you have a duplicate there. What you could do, if you migrate to ccTLD version is the create 301 redirects from the old URL to the new.
Istvan
Hi Lenia,
With qTranslate my biggest issue was the URL system for each page, which was the same indifferent by language (and since our clients website hosts 3 languages it was kind of odd to have a non-describing URL system).
Another back stab from qTranslate was that each post "hosted" every language version, but WPML gave me the possibility to work with every language on as a different post -> Different Title, Different URL, Different Meta tags.
This is why I have chosen to use WPML (although you have to buy it, but it does worth it).
I hope this helped,
Istvan
Hi Teddi,
I personally like the idea of having the navigation on the right side, but we usually test it for each client. Questioning your visitors with a feedback will even give you a better overview of how they like it.
That would be my personal approach for it, but I hope it helps.
Istvan
Hi BruLee,
In your case I would advice you to check the article of Danny Dover. It might be a little-bit old - 2009 - but it covers the pros and cons of choosing how to host the different languages.
I have experience with the version where you have one big site and different languages are hosted on different subfolders, which was good, but we could have done better.
If you have enough resources to have better link building campaigns I would go with the different ccTLD for each language.
I hope this helped,
Istvan
Hi Lenia,
I had the same issue as you have. Then I have changed the qTranslate plugin to WPML, which kind of resolved the issue for me.
Istvan
Hi,
Getting your URLs to be a little more "SEO friendly" (let's name it like that) is all about URL rewriting, which can be quite a headache if not implemented well.
I have done this on a Wordpress website back a few years ago and kind of freaked out when I saw how many 404 errors I have got.
The solution to avoid that is to implement URL rewriting and 301 redirects at the same time.
My problem was that I had only done the URL rewriting, and have seen from Google Webmaster tools the erros, then I have started to search for a solution and I found that I need to redirect all my old URLs to the new destination. Then I have resubmitted a sitemap to Google and the problem was fixed.
I hope you can learn from my experience.
Good luck!
Istvan
Hi Iain,
First of all, there are 3 types of rich snippets markup formatting:
Now Google says on their Rich Snippets page that they recommend the first one (Microdata)
In your case, in order to have apply the rich snippets you will need to edit the templates of your CMS.
For example if you want to add the review for a page you will mark-up the correct dynamic code that displays your reviews.
I am not really familiar with webEdition, but if you need help, shoot me a private message and we'll figure it out together, ok?
Greetings,
Istvan
btw: the example from Google's people rich snippet
My name is Bob Smith, but people call me Smithy. Here is my home page:
[www.example.com](http://www.example.com).
I live in Albuquerque, NM and work as an engineer at ACME Corp.
My friends:
[Darryl](http://darryl-blog.example.com),
[Edna](http://edna-blog.example.com)
it should look like:
```
My name is Bob Smith,
but people call me Smithy.
Here is my homepage:
[www.example.com](http://www.example.com).
I live in
Albuquerque,
NM
and work as an engineer
at ACME Corp.
My friends:
[Darryl](http://darryl-blog.example.com),
[Edna](http://edna-blog.example.com)
```
```
Now your job, in order to have it with your CMS is to find the code that outputs this and mark-up the code itself with correct microdata information.
Hi there,
You should watch Rand's Whiteboard Friday.
Basically if you copy 100% of your content on your other domain, that will not provide any extra value, so my question to you would be how big changes did you make to the content that was re-posted? Have you only rewritten it?
If the articles were almost the same you might be under a penalty for it.
I hope that cleared a little-bit the "image".
Greetings,
Istvan
Hi Davinia,
I will tell you a case of mine, so you know what I have been thinking about when I said other things. The category that I manage has two editors. We had a new submitting and the other editor picked it up, but wrote a note next to the website... then, although I found the website good and DMOZ ready (as per guidelines) I had to wait and see what the other editor have seen, why he didn't approve.
Now if you are waiting for months then it could be:
If someone is resubmitting all the time I usually double and triple check the website before approval. Although I am an online marketer, I am also a DMOZ editor and you need to know the DMOZ is not set up for SEO purposes only.
I hope that helped and good luck with your website.
Greetings,
Istvan
as an editor... I look at the category I manage and believe me. sometimes depends on something else.
Greetings,
Istvan
Hey,
It depends on lots of factors. Just be patient
Greetings,
Istvan
Hi James,
If you will have the on both of the pages it should do the trick.
Or another possible solution would be to create a 301 redirect for www.home.com/index.html -> www.home.com/
Beware if you use both redirect and canonical have the same link there.
I have seen infinite loops created with canonical and 301 created for search engines. Canonical was pointing to the "/" version and the redirect was with the non - "/".
I hope this helps.
greetings,
Istvan
Hi Rich,
On what kind of platform do you have your website?
Gr.,
Istvan
Hi Lindsay,
Your URLs are quite dynamic. What you need (from my point of view) is to have shorter and user friendlier URL system which describe the pages.
In order to achieve this you will need an URL rewriting. (Now this depends on your Content Management System, some of them have it already implemented, just question of set-up, in others you need someone to make it for you).
I hope this helped,
Istvan
Hey.
Maybe it would be an idea to use Copyscape.com. They have the so called Copysentry.
Gr.,
Istvan
Hey OT,
the canonical notice will show up as soon as you have a canonical on the page.
SEO Tools cannot analyze if the canonicals are set up correctly or not, they can just warn you if a canonical is there or not. The example link you provided is ok.
Gr.,
Istvan
Hey,
Long time since the Question, I was just wondering if you worked it out or not.
Gr.,
Istvan
Yoast plugin -> Edit files. That easy!
Hi David,
I would avoid having more then 50 links on a page in total because of two factors:
1.) It confuses the the client (just think as you would walk in a park and you get to an intersection where you have 100 ways to go, which path would you choose?)
2.) if we look at the pagerank formula (as we know it since the beginnings) think about how much would you divide the "link juice" (ex. you have a chocolate and you want to split it to a lot of people).
I hope this helped you make a decision.
Gr.,
Istvan
I totally agree with Wendy, the easiest solution would be to noindex the tag-archives.
If you do not want to do that, you could use canonicals, but that is tricky if you don't to it right.
Gr.,
Istvan
Hi Eliz,
If you have a Wordpress website, than most probable you have this issue all the time. If you "tag" a post with more than one tag than that specific post will appear as:
n. and so on
In order to fix this issue it would be advised to use a canonical link which will point out which is the "main" version of the article.
Although this will be picked up with the SEOmoz crawl, still Search Engines will see which is the main version that you are targeting.
Gr.,
Istvan
Oh, I understand... Well, I wouldn't. Instead try to figure out why your website isn't ranking that well, try to get yourself an SEO to do list and check both on-site and off-site, are you giving enough juice to contribute to the quality of the site? Where are your "weak" spots, how could you resolve those, etc.
If I would in your situation, I would approach first my site, am I really doing everything to rank or not? Then I would check competitors (but just in order to see which are their strong points, their weaknesses), use their strong points on your website, make it even better and try to avoid the same mistakes that they are doing.
I hope this helped,
Istvan
Hey,
Focus on quality vs. quantity. Your competitor might be collecting links from every scratch website, but if you focus on quality, with time you will beat him.
Gr.,
Istvan
P.S. If you are going to pay for poor quality links... Why would your website rank better?
Hi Chris, Maybe opensiteexplorer.org could be a solution? You could export the info and check anchor texts and links also. Gr., Istvan
Hi,
Another option would be a payed tool, it is called Ontolo.
Although it has quite some price, but it helps a lot.
Gr.,
Istvan
Hi Sarah,
If your notices, warning or errors increase and you want to analyse easily the data, then maybe you should try exporting the information (this is how I do it, it makes it more clear for me).
So the steps:
1. you go to your campaign overview
2. click on the crawl diagnostics
3. click on the notice you want to analyse
4. on the page export the info to CSV and click export
5. now download and open it with a Microsoft Excel or Openoffice Calc? (I believe that is the Excel version of Openoffice)
then in excel you can sort, filter, etc. the info.
Another approach would be to download all the information from the crawl diagnostics. Then you can sort, filter, etc the data from there.
I hope this helped,
Istvan
Hi Emmanuel,
If you want to have a quick crawl then maybe it would be smart to use: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test
I am not aware of starting a new crawl faster with the campaign which you already set up.
Gr.,
Istvan
if you wouldn't like to use subdomains, I would go for non-www.
Hey Ian,
choosing the preferred domain depends mainly on one issue: are you going to use subdomains or not?
If not, then probably you can go with the non-www version (but then do not forget to use canonicals or 301 redirects the same way).
If you would like to use the subdomains also, then I would advice you to go with the www version.
Gr.,
Istvan
P.S. maybe somebody else thoughts are different, but this is how I make my decision, when to go for one or the other version.
Hi Kumar,
Maybe you should email the guys from Customer Service I am quite confident they will love to help you out.
Gr.,
Istvan
(Their email address is quite simple: help (at) seomoz.org)
Hi Edreamis,
What you see in your SEOmoz campaign regarding canonical "errors" are basically notices from their crawler. Non of the online crawlers can tell you if there is a canonical issue, they can just warn you to check it, which is sometimes really helpful.
I believe all your pages have their canonical set to the same URL (I have checked aprox. 10 and this was the conclusion) so basically this is what SEOmoz is also trying to tell you with their canonical notices.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Gr.,
Istvan
You should add the Meta Description to your website not to your campaign. If you need help, I have sent you a Private message.
Greetings,
Istvan
Ok. So if you see that, than that is the report generated by SEOmoz in order to help you identify the potential problems on your website.
If you need help with SEO, maybe you could start up here: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo if you need further help let me know.
Gr.,
Istvan