I did not, it was only one page so I used fetch as Google.
Posts made by LesleyPaone
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RE: How long does it take for google to update my meta tag des?
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RE: How long does it take for google to update my meta tag des?
I have actually seen it happen in a matter of minutes from using fetch as Google. I had a client that left debugging on, on the site and it was printing an error message as the meta tag. It took about 10 minutes to get it cleared out using fetch as Google.
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Would this be considered cloaking and would it be a bad move?
I posted this topic last night, http://moz.com/community/q/seo-dealing-with-a-cdn-on-a-site about issues I am having with a client's images falling out of index because they have a CDN now.
So I have come up with a work around, but it might be considered cloaking and I am not sure. A month ago we changed over to using a CDN and the images started falling out of the index after that. Currently when you land on a page the images are served from cdn.site.com What I am thinking about doing is detecting Google Bot and when Google Bot crawls the site serve images from site.com. The images will be the exact same images as served from the CDN so it is not a content switcharoo thing. It is just to try to get the images back in the index.
So would this be considered cloaking in your opinion?
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RE: Why doesn't Google seem to care about referral spam?
I am just guessing, but here is my guess. I think that this actually took Google by surprise. I bet they didn't even consider it when they made GA. So I can see them trying to rush out a system where a property ID has to be on a site that it is registered to or something of that nature. But I bet them not mentioning it is not them dismissing it, it is more of them mentioning the issue when they have a fix for it. That seems to be their typical fashion.
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RE: Is switching from a very old HTML table site to HTML5 going to make a big difference
I am imagining the site is not responsive if it is built with tables, so it will at least make a difference in the mobile search results if the site passes the Google mobile friendly test. Google says 50% or more of their search results are delivered through mobile now. If your site is not mobile friendly, it will not be displayed. So in short, it could right off the bat that way.
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RE: SEO dealing with a CDN on a site.
I have not actually set up the robots.txt in maxcdn. But the cdn is not indexing, which is what I am wanting, doing the site: search for the cdn shows no results. For the main site though the images are falling out of the index, even though there is a site map for them and they are still accessible from their normal url.
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RE: SEO dealing with a CDN on a site.
I am not using Wordpress, the site is using PrestaShop, so it does not have those plugins.
This is how it is set up.
cdn.site.com is a cname of www.site.com so images are accessible from www.site.com/image.jpg and cdn.site.com/image.jpg but when they are served from the cdn.site.com/image.jpg they have the canonical header that points to www.site.com/image.jpg I cannot understand why that would de-index all of the images on www.site.com though
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RE: SEO dealing with a CDN on a site.
That is actually what has been done, I have seen the article before. But there are two issues, one they are not indexing and it has been a couple of weeks. But the more major issue to me is that using the cdn url none of the link juice from the main domain is being passed to the cdn sub domain. I am trying to figure out why Google is not respecting the canonical header for the images. It would seem to me, that according to what Matt Cutts says that it would. But it is not.
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RE: How do we preserve images in google search after CMS migration?
I don't think your suggestion will work. Both of the platforms he mentioned are hosted, normally with hosted platforms you get very limited file access. I think to answer the question properly we would need to see a url format of your current images and the format of the new platform images. As it might have to be handled with re-directs, but you might also be able to pull some dns trickery too.
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SEO dealing with a CDN on a site.
This one is stumping me and I need some help. I have a client who's site is www.site.com and we have set them up a CDN through Max CDN at cdn.site.com which is basically a cname to the www.site.com site. The images in the GWT for www.site.com are de-indexing rapidly and the images on cdn.site.com are not indexing. In the Max CDN account I have the images from cdn.site.com sending a canonical header from www.site.com but that does not seem to help, they are all still de-indexing.
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RE: Blog subdomain not redirecting
You are going to have to add a manual rewrite rule to the htaccess, preferably at the top. This might help, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1321123/redirect-from-subdomain-to-domain-htaccess But like Travis said, be careful, make a back up, because you can break your site doing this.
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RE: Blog subdomain not redirecting
Can you access the pages at blog.yoursite.com? Do they show up in the browser? It could be an issue that has always been there that Google just found.
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RE: Can I include "commissioned" posts in my link building strategy?
I don't generally recommend buying press releases as a strategy unless you are trying to hide things in search. It really works well for that. But I would be willing to bet by PR agencies they are not talking about the places that you can go buy a $399 package and have a blast done. They are talking about a different kind of advertising agency that might call Paul in the tech office and say "Hey man, I want this to run, how much?"
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RE: Can I include "commissioned" posts in my link building strategy?
I think everyone is going to disagree with me, but I see nothing wrong with paid links. Sure Google does not like them, that has been established, but it is one of the best ways to go really and cannot be avoided if you want to grow. You want a link on a popular blog, Huffington Post, CNN, Elle Magazine, Glamour? How do you get it? You pay for it. We as SEO people and Google also needs to get over the idea that Adwords is the only way people monetize web sites. Links are bought and sold for every site that has traffic and paid writers. The SEO value of the link could be negligible, but if the link performs and you profit from it, why not do it. Now I am not saying go to a link farm and buy as many links as you can afford, but I am say the places that you want links, as a general rule they can be purchased. I had a client that sold things to women and she always wanted to be in Vogue. After she paid them for an article in their magazine there was a website write up included too. It worked out, she made money off of it.
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RE: What's the Story on Mozscape Updates?
Yeah basically on the split index. I think it would give people a better view of how they are actually doing without exposing their data across the internet. It also seems like it could be a way of more accurately determining the DA, PA, and trust as well. And could also add more value to the product. Right now the link index only picks up a portion of the total links and then tried to determine a ranking method off of that. But in GWT there is a totally different set of links usually.
I think if you merged the GWT data, GA data, and the Moz data together things could be very powerful.
I realize a lot of people want to see just what they can do to improve their ranking and nothing more. But I tend to look at SEO as a whole picture and just want more traffic. I could really careless if it comes from Google, Bing, or some guys blog. So I think a link section would also help too. This is what I imagine in my head. Another section in our account that scrapes the referral pages out of our GA accounts and shows us how our backlinks are performing over time. That would be nice, because part of what a lot of us do is buy links in some way or another. It would let us know at a glance if a blog we want to target again is still pulling the traffic it was before. Things of that nature. But I think a real value is putting everything under one roof. GWT and GA are totally separate, having the information from both of those platforms merged into one would be awesome for me.
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RE: What's the Story on Mozscape Updates?
I deal with a few enterprise grade clients on the server configuration end, just out of curiosity what language platform do you run on?
Also, while you are here I would like to make a feature request or inquire if it is in the pipeline.
I would like to see the index split into two subsets that are used to generate the rank / trust. I would like to see it use the GWT links and also the GA referrers. It could show a better scope and at the same time keep that data private.
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RE: What's the Story on Mozscape Updates?
Just out of curiosity are you running on your own network or off of a cloud like AWs or Google?
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RE: What sources do you use to keep on top of SEO news?
I have a feedly account with most of the sites mentioned here piping into it. I also look at a few platform specific ones, or ecommerce specific ones like elastic commerce. But those are mainly because I deal in ecommerce.
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RE: Can Google read content/see links on subscription sites?
I would say no. The content of the article other than what is seen is not in the source code. They could be showing something different to Google, but if they did it would be against Google's terms of service. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en
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RE: Can you use schema markup to do this?
No I would invest in Schema, but in this case I personally think that the attributes listed would not be implemented in any search engine soon. Some of them you would have to use the additionalType and that would be one of my last guesses for attributes that would ever be included.
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RE: Domain Extensions
There has been a lot of discussion about the different extensions lately, here are two that I have been in on
http://moz.com/community/q/london-and-long-terms-value-of-tlds
Personally I would not launch a site with them, it is unclear how search engines are going to handle them. There is too much user training to get them to use them currently as well. Buying them, for the cheap cost and the insurance of having them, sure, why not. But I would not do much with them. Maybe a static site with a contact form for the time being.
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RE: Can you use schema markup to do this?
Is it possible to mark that up in schema? Sure. Is it supported and will be shown by any search engine, no on both counts. I personally would not invest time in it, maybe you can make all of that information part of the description for the time being.
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RE: Penguin 3.0 - Very minor drops across the board. Don't think its a penalty, any ideas?
There are so many variables with SEO, I would give it at least a week unless you have seen a huge drop.
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RE: Many have stolen our content. Rewrite vs. DMCA content removal?
The issue is not claiming originality to Google if you file a DMCA request, it is getting it removed from the host. I personally would try to get it removed from the sites article by article and see how that works out. I would craft a letter and copy both the host and the email address you can find for the website on the same email. Then with each one see what happens. I think you will get a good number of them removed.
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RE: What's the new "Value" column in GWT about?
Does it stay when you click the "With Change" button?
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RE: Which SSL should I get or does it even matter?
I wrote an article a while back with some basic information on the different types, you might find it helpful. http://dh42.com/blog/prestashop-ssl-certificates/
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RE: What does Mozcape actually do and what types of businesses use it?
From my understanding Mozscape is the API for Open Site Explorer. You can build widgets with the Mozscape API if you wanted to offer the information in the Mozscape index to your clients. One example I can think of off my head is nibbler.silktide.com I am pretty sure they use link data from Mozscape.
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RE: How to point a framework to your website
There is a bit more complexity in using a cname, but a lot of big systems should be able to handle it as a standard thing, unless there is an inherit security risk. I use them both with freshdesk and maxcdn. Like take this http://cdn.dh42.com/certified.png and this http://dh42.com/certified.png The one with the cdn prefix is actually loaded from maxcdn, but it just looks like it came from my sub domain. Same with my freshdesk account, it is at help.dh42.com, but it actually is on their server.
I would prefer a cname to a 301, but sometimes you don't have a choice. Do you currently have anything at the site you are wanting to redirect to NJoyn? Or are your just looking to make it easier when you need to tell people where to go to?
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RE: .discount Domain Extensions
In general marketing terms a lot of people are not familiar with the next extensions. Like if I tell people to go to Moz, they assume I mean Moz.com. But if I tell them to go to Moz.discount, I think a lot of people might end up going to mozdiscount.com. You will have to train people away from .com's and to use the new extension. Just generally ask the non tech people you know if they know of any domain that is on the new extensions. I honestly cannot think of one. The only one outside of .com, org, .net, com.uk I ever use is .io.
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RE: Leverage browser caching
You would actually add it to your htaccess file if you are using a linux server. This should help, http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/leverage-browser-caching.html
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RE: Are doorway pages black hat or white hat?
Do they add value to the site? Are they adwords pages? I have noticed a lot of companies are getting around the doorway pages seemingly by having them displayed for adwords ads. Like say having a doorway page for a city, and it is targeted to the add <city keyword="">so when you open it up it is basically a doorway page. I think it is a sketchy area, I would love to hear what others have to say about it. </city>
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RE: .discount Domain Extensions
From an SEO perspective I have no data. But from a user perspective I would stay away from them. It is going to take a lot of time and marketing money for companies to train people about the new extensions. It is not personally something I would want to pay for.
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RE: Increase in authorization permission errors (Access Denied - Error 403)
It is because your email link in your top bar is not formed correctly. You just have your email address, you need to add mailto: in front of it.
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RE: Increase in authorization permission errors (Access Denied - Error 403)
Are you hosted on AWS or using resources from a S3 bucket? By default those resources do not send a 404 for not found resources, they send a 403 for some reason.
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RE: Example of outreach emails?
This is the best advice I have found. http://moz.com/blog/what-separates-a-good-outreach-email-from-a-great-one-whiteboard-friday
Funny note, I used that advice to outreach to Rand one time and it worked.
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RE: HTTPS entire domain Vs. one URL
What do you by doing just one url?
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RE: 404 issues
I really think that Moz lacks in this area. For finding things like this I use Raven Tools, they have a really good crawler. It clearly shows all of the pages that reference an error. My thoughts would be that either you missed some links to the pages or the redirects are not working properly, I would suspect that if Moz finds them, Google or Bing will find them.
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RE: Hiding h1 tags in Magento
My view is a little bit different, but to be 100% I would have to look at the site. If the application / module is using style="display:none" to hide the tag, I would not use it. The reason being is that multiple h1 tags on a page dilute or in some peoples opinion cancel out other h1 tags. There are valid reasons to hide h1 tags, like when you are doing fade ins or have a slider with it in there. So I am of the opinion that even if it is hidden Google will pick up on it. So you do run the chance of being caught for keyword stuff or it could cancel out your h1 tag that is displaying. (As far as I know there is no clear 100% information on how Google handles multiple h1 tags. I have heard all sorts of things including it registers the first one seen in code, it registers the last one seen in code, it combines the weight given to all of the h1 tags, and even that they don't matter it is text size above the fold that matters)
If it were me this is what I would do. I would remove the text from the banners and use the built in functionality for the text. Depending on the location of them on the page really depends on how I would tag them, they could be h2, h3, span, ect. But I would opt for on page visible text over using a graphic with text. I realize that you do not like the style that it uses, but it is just a style that can usually be mimic'd with a style sheet. The reason I usually opt not to use text on banners is twofold. It cannot be translated and it cannot be searched.
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RE: Domain Name Switch Considering Special Circumstances
I am going to have to go back to the drawing board with this, I was not aware of these issues. I am going to edit my post to reflect.
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RE: Sponsored posts against Google guidelines?
I might have used a bad example with Rand, but it is amazing how many companies take paid posts or reviews. Places like Allure, Vogue, Huff Post, NY Times, ect. What you are really hitting is the demographic that thinks they are reading something that is impartial, but in reality they are just being advertised to under the guise of "News". I always make sure the link is nofollow, so I do not really consider it blackhat, be shakey marketing, maybe. But in the end it comes down to dollars and cents. I regularly have posts that are paid in the 500-1000usd range. When you first do it, it is a leap, because there is no SEO value at all. But the largest return I have had was a post that in 3 days grossed 50k in sales on high margin products. The posts usually die fast, because people want the latest greatest thing. But they end up getting shared and work for the most part generally.
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RE: Duplicate Page Content
Could you add a short description to each video to dilute the content of the page?
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RE: Domain Name Switch Considering Special Circumstances
My thought is this, there is one type of spam that is becoming more pervasive in our industry that I never see anyone talking about. It is address and location spam. Google has a lot of the spam mechanisms together, but this one I think is very hard to combat. Companies without a physical address can basically buy a real address from companies like Regus and then be listed in local results. In reality all they are doing is making up mailbox numbers. Like 123 street Suite 3, there is no suite 3 but Google still recognizes it as a non PO box address and uses it in local results. I have had many clients that operate several facets of online e-commerce sites out of one office. They might have a makeup site, an electronics site, and a sporting goods site, all drop shipping from the same 300 square foot office. Generally I get them to ask their postal worker if there is an issue with changing their address into suites. They never say no, or haven't yet. But all the mail for 123 street suite #1, suite #2, suite #3 all gets dropped at the same box.
I have had a couple clients that sell products that are legal in their country and are now coming online as legal in certain states in the US. By them getting virtual office packages it has allowed them to move their businesses into local markets that they can service as well. In those cases I have seen it work exceptionally because of the strict geographical targeting.
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RE: Does Schema Replace Conventional NAP in local SEO?
When I can I keep both, I try to keep the normal structure and mark it up with schema mark up. I am almost positive that technically you can include organizational data without it being visible on the site, but I generally think it is a good practice to keep it visible even if it is not for SEO. Think about how a meta description is, they basically hold no SEO value any more, but the value they hold is to get people to click through the SERP's to your site. Having the normal NAP structure holds the value of people trusting your business. Also, things can change, I do not want to be caught with my pants down if Google decides that organizational data needs to be displayed on the page and hidden data is no longer allowed.
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RE: Sponsored posts against Google guidelines?
Generally it is against Google's guidelines if you are buying a do follow link. So in doing something like this you need to weigh the SEO vs Marketing value. I personally do it with a lot of my clients, but not for SEO purposes, it is for marketing / sales purposes. My clients are generally e-commerce sites for a little insight. See some markets have blogs that people read every time it is posted. Kind of like a Rand Fishkin article in our market. If Rand came out tomorrow witha whiteboard friday and said this product is great, it boosted Moz's organic SEO by 100% think how many people would flock to buy it. Most of the time since paid links should be no follow, there is no SEO benefit, but at the end of the day if it puts more money in yours or your clients pocket than was spent, then it is worth it. I will say that I buy links, I make sure they are not followed and I buy them when I think they can create sales for my clients. As far as I know that model fits in the Google guidelines because buy making sure they are not followed I am not buying them for SEO purposes.
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RE: Domain Name Switch Considering Special Circumstances
**The following is bad advice, I am just leaving the text so people can see what it is, so no one follows it. **
If it were me, I would do make a totally different site, on a totally different server (hosting company) with totally different registration information. From there I would basically maintain two sites, maybe get a second phone number, maybe even split the address so you can use local citations.
But, I would not move the main site over to the new domain. The hit you would take would take a long time to recover from like EGOL said.
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RE: Should I noindex my blog's tag, category, and author pages
I would, personally I have disabled my tag page and author page since there are no tags, and only one author. As for the categories I have them no-indexed.