It would also be smart to add the subdomains in Webmaster Tools in case one does get indexed and you need to remove it.
Posts made by Kingof5
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RE: Blocking Subdomain from Google Crawl and Index
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RE: Big variation in the number of search results. (person's name)
Is this the actual total number of results or the just the numbers it's showing at the top of the first page? The best way to tell how much Google really has indexed is do your search, go to the last page of results, choose to have omitted results included, get to the last page again, and multiple out how many results that is. I got 1,910 results using that method.
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RE: 503 error on Moz
Same here, got a 503 when trying to go to Community once I logged in. Had to go to Moz Analytics then directly to Q&A to get to the Q&A.
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RE: Moz ranking report shows massive loss in Bing SERP's. But it is not the case?
The Moz ranking reports aren't always accurate. They're a good guide, but if you see something suspicious like that (and there hasn't been an algorithm update or manual penalty to you), then it's probably wrong. I've seen it say a keyword has dropped out of the top 50 when it's still on the first page. A manual check is the best way to see where a keyword is.
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RE: Still Battling On With Link Profile Audit
Remember to think towards the future when reviewing your links. A link might pass for Google right now, but is it something they'll consider spammy 6 months, 1 year, or 3 years down the line? If yes, get rid of it now and save yourself the extra work.
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RE: Product Descriptions for a product with many designs
Yes, but with that you risk not having all the products indexed. Not good if you want to rank for something long tail like '[insert design here] dog id tag'.
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RE: Open Site Explorer results are not satisfactory.. is there any issue with it?
Every backlinks tool - Webmaster Tools, Majestic, AHREFs, OSE, etc. - will give you different results because they all have their own index. You can't rely on one to get a complete picture. The best method is to get backlinks from as many sources as you can, compile them in one list, remove duplicates, and then start reviewing.
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RE: Our organic search traffic went flat for 2 weeks Oct 2 - Oct 17\. It has since resumed to more normal numbers. Anyone have any idea why this would happen?
Was it just reporting as flat or did it actually go flat? Big difference there.
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Google WMT Turning 1 Link into 4,000+ Links
We operate 2 ecommerce sites. The About Us page of our main site links to the homepage of our second site. It's been this way since the second site launched about 5 years ago. The sites sell completely different products and aren't related besides both being owned by us.
In Webmaster Tools for site 2, it's picking up ~4,100 links coming to the home page from site 1. But we only link to the home page 1 time in the entire site and that's from the About Us page.
I've used Screaming Frog, IT has looked at source, JavaScript, etc., and we're stumped. It doesn't look like WMT has a function to show you on what pages of a domain it finds the links and we're not seeing anything by checking the site itself.
Does anyone have experience with a situation like this? Anyone know an easy way to find exactly where Google sees these links coming from?
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RE: The No of Sites linking to www.apollopowersystems.com is 50 as per Alexa, but Moz shows that the no of sites linking is 23\. The no has increased in Alexa but in Moz the no is 23 since 3 months. Why is this Difference?
There is no one best tool for looking at backlinks. AHREFs seems to have the biggest dataset, but they'll all give you different results. If you really want to see what you have, use OSE, Majestic, AHREFs, and any others you like, put them all in one spreadsheet and remove duplicates. Then you'll have your true backlinks picture.
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RE: Duplicate pages and slight product variations
We have a similar situation with one of our sites. Almost all our products come in multiple colors when we recently redesigned/relaunched on Magento, we did a canonical on all variations to a main parent SKU (generally the black version since it's almost never out of stock).
But we ran into the problem of Google only indexing the parent version and none of the rest, so we weren't coming up on any long tail searches. We've since changed the caonicals so every product points to itself and are hoping to get more indexed, plus we're considering ways to add more unique content to each color variation of a product.
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RE: Why are my keyword rankings dramatically changing week to week?
We have wild fluctuations like that for our sites every week, and many of them are not accurate when checked manually - sometimes they're more than 10 positions off. And then sometimes the changes as showing it out of the top 50 is completely wrong.
A Moz team member looked at our campaigns said we just have highly volatile keywords. That seems kind of ridiculous to me, it's not like we're in a super super competitive niche.
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RE: Wild Fluctuations With Yahoo/Bing Moz Report
Ours do the exact same thing. Keyword rankings for one of our campaigns were reported today and there were fluctuations from down more than 48 to up more than 26. One term is ranking 17 in Bing and 7 in Yahoo - and Bing dropped this week while Yahoo increased. Some terms rank on the first page for Google but not even the top 50 for Yahoo and Bing, and vice versa.
And then we have the whole issue of accuracy. This morning, one of our mid-level keywords reported as position 4 in Google with an increase of 9, but I immediately checked and saw that it was 14 (not logged in, non-personalized, location-neutral, etc). This happens every week.
A Moz team member looked our account and said our keywords are just highly volatile.
I don't know what else to say other than you're not alone. It's frustrating.
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RE: Enhanced Sitelinks for Large Ecommerce Sites
Nobody has any experience with this?
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Enhanced Sitelinks for Large Ecommerce Sites
We're about to set up enhanced sitelinks for our main site but I'm not sure about the best way to do this given the duplicate URL rule.
Ex. we have a campaign for X category of products. X category has 13 subcategories and each subcategory has 4 ad groups. So in total, campaign X category has 52 ad groups in it.
We planned to do a sitelink for every ad group, so 52 for this X category of products. But the duplicate URL rule makes this difficult considering how many will be in a single campaign. Making them links to related subcategories isn't possible as we'd run into duplicates really fast. Same with About Us, Contact Us, etc.
What's the best way of approaching this?
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RE: Anyone notice a 25% + drop in Google Traffic since the 23/24 August 2013?
No change in traffic to our sites, just normal weekly patterns.
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RE: Removing a staging area/dev area thats been indexed via GWT (since wasnt hidden) from the index
I've had to do this for our dev sites before - you'll be fine. Like you said, add the dev site in WMT, do a remove site by leaving the field blank, and proceed. It won't take your main site out of the index.
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Keyword Rankings Report Accuracy
How many of you routinely have inaccurate data in your Moz Pro keyword rankings reports? I just checked 5 of our terms that came in this morning - yes, it's a not logged in, non-personalized, incognito, cleared cache search - and none of them actually ranked where Moz said they ranked.
One was listed in the top 5 and wasn't even on the first page. One was listed at position 3 but was actually at position 8, a big difference when it comes to CTR. And the report will have stuff like our brand name not ranked at all one week, then jumping by 45+ positions the next week, then gone the next week. And it doesn't fluctuate like that.
I get that the reports are general to what most people see, but should such big disparities be expected?
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RE: What now? Do we believe Moz or Matt Cutts?
This comment on the SEL article sums it up best - http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-once-again-1s-have-no-direct-impact-on-rankings-170200#comment-1010348314
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RE: What's better ...more or less linking C-blocks?
C-blocks basically refer to where an IP address is located. C-blocks are like the neighborhood and sites that share it are basically your neighbors. More linking c-blocks is better.
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RE: Dev Site Out of SERP But Still Indexed
See my original post - I did that and in its WMT it still shows pages indexed.
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Dev Site Out of SERP But Still Indexed
One of our dev sites get indexed (live site robots.txt was moved to it, that has been corrected) 2-3 weeks ago. I immediately added it to our Webmaster Tools and used the Remove URL tool to get the whole thing out of the SERPs.
A site:devurl search in Google now returns no results, but checking Index Status in WMT shows 2,889 pages of it still indexed. How can I get all instances of it completely removed from Google?
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RE: Does this look like a Penguin drop to you?
Hard to give an answer without seeing the traffic graph for the time periods you mentioned the drops. If the drop in May was around the 22nd to 25th, it likely was a Penguin update. We got hit by it at that time.
Other things could've been dragging the site down over the last year and then Penguin may have hit and caused the free-fall. Definitely get rid of the directory links and any other links you think Google might penalize you for in the future.
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RE: Could this work for Google Reconsideration Request?
Keep in mind that Matt Cutts has said people should usually be taking a machete to their backlinks rather than a scalpel. Don't try and remove just enough to make a difference, remove everything you think could possibly hurt you. And remove anything Google's likely to crack down on in the future. In my experience with Link Deotx, usually over 75% of backlinks marked as suspicious warrant removal.
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RE: Best practice for the brand name in Page Titles
The brand name coming first is generally seen with big brands - Amazon, Walmart, etc. The reasoning I've heard is that it lets the consumer easily know they're shopping there and generates trusts. And obviously brands like that don't really have to worry about trying to rank for a particular keyword.
Unless you're super well known, I'd keep it Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword | Brand Name.
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RE: SERPS appearing and vanishing every 15 days
The positions Moz reports aren't always accurate. I've had it report a drop of 30+ positions for a keyword but we were still on the first page for it, and that's happened multiple times.
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RE: OSE Missing High Profile Linking Root Domains
I'm not surprised, OSE routinely misses many of our links. But none of the backlink checkers will be 100% accurate. Your best bet is to use a variety of sources - OSE, Majestic, AHREFs, etc. - and compile and remove duplicates to get a true picture of your backlinks.
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On-Site Directory - Delete or Keep?
We have 2 ecommerce sites. Both have been hit by Penguin (no warnings in WMT) and we're in the process of cleaning up backlinks.
We have link directories on both sites. They've got links that are relevant to the sites but also links that aren't relevant. And they're big directories - we're talking thousands of links to other sites.
What's the best approach here? Do we leave it alone, delete the whole thing, or manually review and keep highly relevant links but get rid of the rest?
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RE: Effect of Disavow the bad links
There's no telling. I'd say wait at least a month after submitting a thorough disavow to see any changes.
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RE: For those of you that used LINK DETOX.
I've used Link Detox for a while. I've found that all Toxic links are classified appropriately, but that's not always the case for suspicious and healthy. Links marked as moderate, low risk, or very low risk can still be coming from spammy directories, link lists, massive resource pages, etc. And on the opposite side, sometimes links from BlogSpot blogs will be marked as suspicious even though it's a legit blog that linked naturally to you. They're just flagged because they have few backlinks or low trust. It's best to do a manual review of each link to see what's really worth keeping.
I've used Link Detox with Rmoov in the past and had good results with it. Rmoov is easy to use and keeps track of everything for you in a Google Doc.
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RE: Can i 301 redirect a website that does not have manual penalty - but definetly affected by google
301 is not the correct way to do this. A 301 will pass the penalty from the old domain to the new one.
Not sure about starting a new website that's a copy of the old one. I'd imagine Google would be smart enough to see the 2 domains were owned by the same person and have the same content so they may still hold you down in search results. And yes, putting a blank page saying you've moved without automatically redirecting visitors is a bad user experience.
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Does Googlebot Read Session IDs?
I did a raw export from AHREFs yesterday and one of our sites has 18,000 backlinks coming from the same site. But they're all the same link, just with a different session ID. The structure of the URL is:
[website].com/resources.php?UserID=10031529
And we have 18,000 of these with a different ID.
Does Google read each of these as a unique backlink or does it realize there's just one link and the session ID is throwing it off? I read different opinions when researching this so I'm hoping the Moz community can give some concrete answers.
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RE: Moz reporting incorrect ranking
Not sure what causes this, but for our sites, it's been common to see some discrepancies in Moz's keyword ranking tool. It's not 100% right, but I'd say it's at least 90%. I see some that are off by one position but I've occasionally seen rankings off by 30+ positions.
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RE: Disavowing Links for Subcategory of Site
Virtually all our big keywords/category names took hits in rankings on the day of and day after this recent Penguin update so that makes it seem like it's Penguin. On average they lost about 5 positions, but some lost as few as 1 and some lost 15+. But it clearly affected our whole site. Our idea was to test out removing the links on one subcategory and if it worked to do it for the rest of the site.
The guy they had building links for years did all the typical stuff - directories, spam sites, reciprocal linking, links with non-relevant sites, etc. We sell outdoor products and I've found backlinks on penis enlargement sites, anchor text for products we've never sold, etc. The backlink profile is very, very bad. Even if Penguin wasn't the culprit, these backlinks have to be hurting our rankings.
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Disavowing Links for Subcategory of Site
Has anyone tried using Google's Disavow tool with only a specific subcategory of their site?
We're an ecommerce company and our site took a small hit with this recent Penguin update. We're certain previous linkbuilding efforts are the cause. But we'd like to try the Disavow tool with 1 subcategory to start, see if our rankings for that category improve (we used to be top 3, now ~12 or 13), and if so then roll it out through the rest of the site.
Looking for input from others on if they have any experience with this or if it'd be better to just go for the whole thing at once. Thanks.
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RE: Rankings & Linking Root Domains
So in the 145,000,000+ domains on the Internet and with almost 3 billion people online, you really think only 1 domain has a link pointing to Home Depot's grills subcategory? And only 2 have links pointing to Amazon's grills subcategory?
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Rankings & Linking Root Domains
How are the Linking Root Domains under Keyword Rankings being found?
We've noticed for many of our key terms that big brands like Amazon, eBay, Home Depot, etc. only list 1 linking root domain, while much smaller competitors in our industry have hundreds. Clearly big brands are going to get more links than a company most people haven't heard of and the idea that these companies only have 1 linking root domain to a specific subcategory on their site is not believable.
What's going on here?
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Duplicate (Basically) H1 & H2
We've about to relaunch one of our ecommerce sites and have a question regarding H1 & H2 tags. We use our primary keyword for each category in that category page's H1. We also include a block of text at the bottom of the page explaining the benefits of the products, the various styles we offer, personalization options, gift packaging, etc. We were planning on having an H2 at the beginning of that text that read 'About [keyword:]', but the question of duplicate H1 & H2 tags has come up.
Is penalization possible for having them almost the same? It's not like they're not relevant - the H1 is referring to the category itself and the H2 references our explanation of the category. Just curious what the best way to approach this would be.