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Xenu Liunk Seuth - its free and will go through internal links, external or both, it will also show you where the 404 page is being linked from.

Also can report 302s.

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Hi,

The best way to keep it natural is just to use the anchor text which would make most sense to a user, also i don't think using your brand as the anchor would ever look unnatural since it is the natural thing to use when linking to someone so that would be safe.

kyle

Hi,

I have a site which has a Pr5 index page, however level 2 pages only have a PR rank of 3 is this a sign of poor internal linking structure or maybe this is the result of too many on page links?

I would appreciate any ideas that you might have!

Kyle

Hi,

The best way to stop this issue would be to have the tag pages no-indexed since all they do is duplicate what is in the categories section.

Hey Greg,

There are black hat ways to fake page rank, so never trust a site based on page rank.

Because /index and /index.htm are two different pages if you look /index is being redirected not /inedx.htm

`Use the below line in your Htaccess file:

Redirect /index.htm` http://www.davidclick.com/

You only need to use a 301.

Ps. Your links are going to 404 pages

You need to 301 /index.htm to www.davidclick.com to stop those errors coming up.

Hi Thomas,

If you are looking to create a natural link profile why not host the videos yourself and then get people to link back to your site, then any link created would be 100% natural.

Kyle

You could always just use rel="canonical" which would be much better than completely blocking all URL parameters.

There is an enterprise version of SEOmoz which will do 1 million pages a month and up to 30k keywords which is well worth looking into if you have a enormous web property.

Hi Gary,

I am currently working on a link profile which is very heavy in exact match anchors, by going deeper into this problem  i noticed that there was such are large amount present because of  footer, blogroll or site-wide links with the exact match anchor.

I suggest you use Open Site Explorer advanced report tool and filter on the exact match text which you would like to focus on, once you have the CSV export you can go through the list of domains linking in on that anchor, then you could use SpyOnWeb to check how many sites share the shame IP address, should you find that site shares the same ip address as a lot of other sites it's most likely part of a link farm and it would be best to request the link be completely removed. (You could also examine it's link profile and content to check its quality).

All good domains you find linking in you could request them to change the anchor slightly to something branded or even just the URL, although i would probably just leave the quality links alone and create good content to make people link in which would be 100% natural and would balance your link profile.

Kyle

Hi Nick,

SEOmoz tools would be a brilliant start, but you could also use bing webmaster tools which is nice and easy to use.

Kyle

Hi,

Every time i try to create an advanced report with Opensite it will get to around 4-6k links and then start to finalize the report, however it says i have 750k links aiming at my root domain.

I have not used any of the page/domain authority filters, any ideas on why this could be cutting me off?

Kyle

I would defiantly not tell Google to ignore parameters since you have pages ranking high with URL parameters in them.

Be careful if you do implement a canonical, because you could end up removing a few good ranking pages since the URL parameter pages are the ones currently ranking best.

Personally i would just ignore these errors since Google has done a pretty good job choosing the best page already.

You could block Rogerbot from crawling parameter pages.

Hi,

I just had a quick look at your site and it seems fine, if you have found these through semoz.org under notices this is just to let you know they are there not that they are causing a problem.

Kyle

Hi,

The best way to fix this would be to implement the canonical tag, this would stop Google/Rogerbot thinking those pages are duplicated and focus on the URL you specified.

Check this post from Google explaining all about it.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Kyle

Hi,

If you mean 301 http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html to http://www.yourdomain.com/ then that would be ok, otherwise your index page would already be the most user friendly URL.

Kyle

Yes that will work.

Hi,

Duplicate content means the pages are the same!

Use link rel= canonical

If your not sure how to implement it read this post it will explain everything for you.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Most social bookmarking websites are "no follow" so they won't pass on link juice anyway,  shorter links also provide a better user experience and click through rate.

Hi Gabriel,

i believe that Google can handle missing meta descriptions relatively well and will read the page content to create one, however you will miss out on personalizing them to boost click through rates.

I would prioritize fixing the duplicated page titles and content over everything else, even then i don't believe it will make a huge difference as i removed about 2000 errors and warnings from my site a while back and i haven't seen a huge change in traffic or rankings.

Kyle

HI Gareth, Your robots.txt should look like this; User-agent: * Disallow: / User-agent: rogerbot Allow: /

Direct Download link for top 500 sites worldwide.  Based On Domain Authority.

http://www.seomoz.org/top500/domains/csv

I wouldn't think this would cause you to drop from the search results, check to see if anything else has change.

If not try removing the category keyword from the post and see if you rise again. If you don't rise, work on creating content to build links.

The directory /feed/ is for your RSS, this wont cause site wide drops in traffic so that isn't the problem.

If you have an RSS go to  { http://www.yourdomain.com/feed/ }

As long as it is in the header.php and that header appears on every page of your site your ok.

I don't think you will get "slapped" as long as your category pages are not listing loads of your posts where the titles is also shown, because that might look like keyword stuffing if it appears 10-20 times in a H1 tag.

Also it might have negative effects, because if your using that keyword for every page then their all going to be competing with each other in the SERP.

This looks like it could be a code issue, have you made sure that the analytic code is inserted correctly in either your header or footer. If you are 100% happy that you have it inserted correctly can you check through another source to see if you are getting traffic from them Bing or yahoo will do.

If Bing and Yahoo are producing traffic this might suggest that there is an issue with Google accessing your site, check your robots.txt to make sure that it isn't blocking Google accessing certain content.

Also check your keywords and indexed pages to see if they have dropped with your traffic.

Hi steve,

You can use OpenSiteExplorer to track links coming in but be aware it usally updates every 30-40 days so don't go firing anyone before it updates!

You can also use SeoSpyGlass which is the same thing as Opensite, but it tracks the links in more detail.

kyle

Hi Bob,

If Seomoz is picking up errors that Googlebot isn't then it could be something to do with your robots.txt, maybe you have it blocking one part of your site for Googlebot, however rogerbot isn't blocked so it is picking up errors that Google can't reach. I also believe that Rogerbot is a little bit more strict as well so this could also be why.

For the 301 problem it seems like they haven't been installed correctly, if you can access URL 3 and 2 without being sent straight to URL 1 by your browser then the 301 has failed.

Kyle

Something doesn't sound right here, i think anything that you need to change your IP for is maybe not the best thing to be doing in the first place?

I'm not sure duplicating your content everywhere is a good idea. Try to keep your content as unique as possible.

Hi Tim,

1- For normal search results it is the default amount of results per page, which for Google is 10.

2- I Don't 100% understand universal results but there is a great post here about it you should check out i am sure that will help you.

Hey Tracy,

Yes i think it would be a good idea to start from scratch if the bad links cannot be removed, because they are only going to effect your site more and more with every Google update.

You should check If the 1500 visitors a month are returning users then they can be made aware of the domain change and you can keep that user base, however 1500 unique visitors a month would suggest that you have some good rankings somewhere so i would check to see where there being referred from and if its a particular link on a website perhaps contact them to get it changed for your new one.

Also make sure you get your old site De-indexed so there are not any duplicate content issues if you wish to keep the content you already have.

Hope i helped!

OK so i have recently started working for a finance company in a very competitive niche. There current SEO guys are doing article exchanges with keyword rich anchors and our rankings are steadily falling since panda/penguin.

Our link profile is not great with around 95% of our links coming from keyword rich anchors and low quality sites. (article submission sites, and 301 domains).

I have tried to explain we need to create quality content and integrate with social sites better and stop the spammy article exchange techniques which are no longer effective.

They think these techniques are the best because you can see a link to our site instantly without having to wait for links to come in from linkbait, tools, articles etc etc.

How can i explain to them this is not helping us without them saying "Well this is what is getting us links" and being ignorant?

Thanks for any replies!