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Hi there,

The URLs are viewed as different due to the campaign tracking variables being appended to the end and hence it appears as though you have duplicate content.

You can resolve this by using the canonical tag.

hope this helps!

Have a gander at these:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-article-marketing-submission-for-seo

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/article-marketing-mostly-a-scam-whiteboard-friday

If I remember correctly they should give you a good idea about articles etc.

I'd concentrate on creating great articles for your own site, which will attract links.

Also have a gander at these:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-article-marketing-submission-for-seo http://www.seomoz.org/blog/article-marketing-mostly-a-scam-whiteboard-friday

If I remember correctly they should give you a good idea about articles etc.

The redirect is still a 302:

Checked link: http://www.plasticstorage.com/

Type of redirect: 302 Moved Temporarily

Redirected to: http://plasticstorage.com

Change the type of redirect to a 301 - this is done at the server level usually.

Its in respect to the data from the Google keywords tool api -

exact match - Allows your ad to show for searches that match the exact phrase exclusively

broad match 
Allows your ad to show on similar phrases and relevant variations

more info here:

http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6100

Hi,

I think the canonical tag may be useful in this situation.

If the URLs follow the same format you could create a regular expression for the 301, which in theory would prevent missing videos and would essentially be a much cleaner/elegant way of meeting your requirement.

Hope this helps.

I'd be tempted to first look at your competitors and evaluate their link profiles and link strategy amongst other things to get a handle on why they are currently ahead of you.  Once you have this info you can decide on your next move.

Hi there,

It will be due to the way theHTML is written.  You will have to alter the HTML to reach your desired outcome. I think the HTML is rendered in the order that it appears on the page e.g. from top to bottom.

You have lots of menu options and these are listed first in the html page.

I also recommend a general review of things as your title is not appearing in the cached page either.  Perhaps its because you are specifying it here as well:

name="title" content="NLP Training, Courses, Certification | NLP Institute of California" />

Hope this helps.

All the best!

Hi

I'd maybe create the pages from the second site on the first site (if it fits)and set-up multiple 301 redirects.  If you have any anchor text links the 301 redirects will match them up on the new site.

site2.com/wood-rafts >> 301 >> site1.com/wood-rafts site2.com >> 301 >> site1.com

whether its a good idea depends on your business goals etc

hope this helps/makes sense.

There is a strong argument for it being deemed unethical.   Perhaps the closer the industries/companies and their respective marketing strategies/goals are the stronger this argument becomes.

Good mention from Robert about transparency.

Sure it goes on loads though... what's your thoughts?

No usually that long.  Only ever 30-60 seconds at most.

Yeah so if you want pages on the acquired site to go to corresponding pages on the primary site like you mention above

www.aquired.com/interior-page-1 >> redirects >> www.primary.com/interior-page-1

then you can create 301 redirect with a regular expression pattern with wild card to capture the URL and reuse them in the target URL.

If you have lots URLs then this will be quickest way rather creating an entry for every possible URL.

Hope this helps

But as far as your onsite efforts go are you targeting keywords e.g. are your pages optimised?  If not then I'd recommend doing this first before changing any anchor text.

Beyond this I would start slowly only changing  few existing backlinks from sites with high mR/mT etc and changing the anchor text on these while also focusing on building new links from high mR/mT sites.

Hi there,

I doubt there will be any latency difference between the US and UK or Germany.  Just go with a provider who has good network/peering.

Here's a good video on where to host when targeting particular country etc.  Should answer your questions.

Hope this helps.

If its your domain then perhaps you can get access to the DNS file from your provider.  This will list all the sub-domains OR login to the control panel.

If you have access to a Linux command line you can run the dig command:

dig @your-domains-primary-name-server ea.com axfr

Hope this helps.

I think I understand better now.

Use the noindex,follow tag on the content you don't want included in the search index.

If you are using Wordpress then you should check out http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

Hi,

Check out About OSE.  Under the section 'Why Isn't there any link data for my URL'.  This will help answer your question.

As for the download problem I'm not sure.  Linkscape updates tomorrow - perhaps check back then.

In the campaign section you paste in keywords separated by comma tab or newline.

<embed id="Siber_embed1" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; position: fixed; display: block;" type="application/rf-np-plugin">

You can see it here:

http://royaloakshomesfl.com/robots.txt

So its in the webroot of your hosting.  You can change it via FTP to and change it to the following to grant full access until you have figured out robot access rights.  I think you need at least one Disallow: line without the / slash in your existing configuration to make it work.

User-agent: *
Disallow: 

Hi,

I've never heard of it.  That's not to say it isn't any good though.

Might be worth finding out the speakers in attendance etc.

You might also want to consider going to Mozcon  OR SMX.  I've never had the pleasure but once I get over my fear of flying I'll defo go to Mozcon.

Hi there,

This is from the OSE page:

"Sorry that you still haven't been able to see your links in Linkscape. Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Linkscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for many of reasons, including the crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories.

Just so you know, here's how we compile our index:

1. We grab the most recent index.
2. We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains).
3. We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 59,000,000,000 pages (which is about 25% the amount in Google's index)."

You can read more here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/about

If you can see backlinks to your site in GWT then they definitely exist.

Hope this helps.

One take on this would be to add a 301 redirect one of the URLs onto to the other.  As Vjay mentioned this would look after any inbound links to the page.

this post has some good info also

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/301-redirect-or-relcanonical-which-one-should-you-use

Maybe ask for a more detailed agenda

One good thing about non-profit is its easy to get people on-board.  For example when doing outreach it helps take the edge of things as its for a good cause and generally people are more than happy to help and be seen to be helping a good cause.  I think there is lots of potential here.  Same goes for the social marketing aspects.

specifics depends on the actual organisation you are promoting.

not quite sure what you mean exactly - can you expand with and example?

Thanks

I think you should return a 404 page if content no longer exists.  The internet is always changing and 404 pages are a normal part of that.

You can return a 404 page, which is useful to users.

If you have a 404 page, which has backlinks to it then you can use a 301 to redirect to a related page or correct page if someone has linked incorrectly.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

If you have access to GWT for the domain you could use the 'Fetch as Googlebot' tool and check out the how it fetches the page and data it downloads.

Hope this helps!

it will be related to the code/logic of your site creating the duplicate pages.  You could work out why/update the code so you only have 1 page for each product OR you could use the rel canonical tag to resolve the issue.

Just thought...as you appear to have so many duplicate pages it may be quicker to look at the logic of the site and fix it all in one go.

Hi,

If I remember correctly this post by Tom Critchlow about agile SEO hacks should get you moving in the right direction.

Hope it helps.

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Hi there,

You have to verify the sub domain e.g. www.domain.com and the root domain e.g. domain.com.

If I recall correctly to do this you just add another site within webmaster tools and verify it.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

301 them to corresponding pages on the new site if possible.

Yes that's correct.  So you will have 2 sites added to GWT - your-domain.com and www.your-domain.com

Now that the new site is ready maybe you can move it out of its set-up directory into the root domain?  I'd also set-up 301 redirects so the pages from the old CMS are forwarded to corresponding pages on the new CMS

www.yousite.com/blog/story1 >>301 redirects >> www.yousite.com/news/tech/story1

Is it a problem if http://www.mydomain.com is not optimized for anything?

The root domain is forwarded onto the directory with Joomla install so you can't optimize it for anything.  If you keep it like this make sure its a 301 redirect.

Hope this helps.