Hi Michael,

When I check google.co.nz the website luggagenz.com shows up.

When the extension is .co.nz the sites will be classed by google as NZ. Checkout webmastertools --> Configuration --> Settings --> Geographic target

Thanks Tina!

I think http://myblogguest.com/ is still a good way to go.

Any alternatives?

Hi MozFans,

A client is interested in working with the guest blogging service of performancing.com. They seem to have a lot of good contentwriters and post on (most) niche blogs.

Guestblogging is a good thing for seo, when it's on relevant sites with a quality article.
The client hasn't got a lot of time to write and find blogs himself.

Any positive or negative experiences?
Or other options

Thanks!

Thanks Keri,

For now, the Good Answer

Thanks for your reply!

I did a test.

Url: https://example.com/example.html
Open site explorer: No data available
Raven: 2 links
Google webmastertools: 198 links, 9 domains

Hi MozFans,

I would like to check the backlink profile of https deeplinks on a site.
In open site explorer this isn't working: Link

Is there a other way to check the backlinks of a https website?

cheers,
Maarten

Hi MozFans,

I have got a question out of the field about www.coloringpagesabc.com.
Question is why the rankings and traffic are going down down down the last 4 months.

Costumer thinks he got hit by google penguin update(s).

The site has about 600 page’s/posts al ‘optimized’ for old seo:
- Almost all posts are superb optimized for one keyword combination (like … coloring pages)

• there is a high keyword density on the keyword
• titles and descriptions are all the same like: <keyword>and this is the rest of my title, This is my description <keyword>and i like it
• internal linking is all with a ‘perfect’  keyword anchor text
• there is a ok backlink profile, not much links to inner pages
  -  there are social signals
• the content quality is low

The site to me looks like a seo over optimized content farm

Competition:
When I look at the competition. The most coloring pages websites don’t offer a lot of content (text) on there page. The offer a small text and the coloring pages (What it is about :-))

How to get the rankings back:
What I was thinking to do.

• rewrite the content to a smaller text. Low keyword density on the keyword and put the coloring pages up front.
• rewrite all titles and descriptions to unique titles and descriptions
• Make some internal links to related posts with a other anchor text.
• get linkbuilding going on inner pages
• get more social signals

Am I on the right track?

I can use some advise what to do, and where to start.

Thanks!!</keyword></keyword>

Maarten

Hi Alan,

Ok we start cutting the htaccess. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks!

Thanks Anthony!

That's the strange thing, website is working only there is still a 403.

We will check chmod status.

Hi Mozzers,

I got a question about new website from a new costumer http://www.eindexamensite.nl/.

There is a 403 forbidden error on it, and I can't find what the problem is.

I have checked on: http://gsitecrawler.com/tools/Server-Status.aspx
result:
URL=http://www.eindexamensite.nl/ **Result code: 403 (Forbidden / Forbidden)**

When I delete the .htaccess from the server there is a 200 OK :-). So it is in the .htaccess.

.htaccess code: ErrorDocument 404 /error.html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^home$ / [L]
RewriteRule ^typo3$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^typo3/.$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^uploads/.$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^fileadmin/.$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^typo3conf/.$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php

Start rewrites for Static file caching

RewriteRule ^(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|uploads|screens|showpic.php)/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^home$ / [L]

Don't pull *.xml, *.css etc. from the cache

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^..xml$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^..css$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*.php$

Check for Ctrl Shift reload

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Pragma} !no-cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cache-Control} !no-cache

NO backend user is logged in.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !be_typo_user [NC]

NO frontend user is logged in.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !nc_staticfilecache [NC]

We only redirect GET requests

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET

We only redirect URI's without query strings

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$

We only redirect if a cache file actually exists

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html -f
RewriteRule .* typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html [L]

End static file caching

DirectoryIndex index.html

CMS is typo3.

any ideas?

Thanks!
Maarten

Thanks Ryan!

So it will be a Canonical tag

Thanks!

It's for a site in the Netherlands and google is about 98% of the market. Bing is comming up so a thing to check.

No-roboting is a way to do it i didn't think about! thanks for that. I will check with the client.

Thanks Ryan!

So link is like:

On the site a i will use the canonical to point everything to site A.

Hi Mozfans!

I'm working on seo for one of my new clients and it's a job site (i call the site: Site A).
The thing is that the client has about 3 sites with the same Jobs on it.

I'm pointing a duplicate content problem, only the thing is the jobs on the other sites must stay there. So the client doesn't want to remove them. There is a other (non ranking) reason why.

Can i solve the duplicate content problem with a cross-domain canonical?
The client wants to rank well with the site i'm working on (Site A).

Thanks!

Rand did a whiteboard friday about Cross-Domain Canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

Thanks! All great answers, really helpful!

Hi,

I am working on a SEO project for a client.
Some of the urls have a + between the keyword.
like www.example.com/make+me+happy/

Is this good or bad for seo?
Or is it maybe better to use - ?

Thanks!

Thanks for your reply. 
I'm just doing a scan, so this wil help

the non-www and www issue i will let the client know.

I think it is a Ajax issue:  http://www.vacatures.tuinbouw.nl/xmlhttp/vacatures/ this feed is installed with ajax

I found that the jobs are in some kind of xml feed:

http://www.vacatures.tuinbouw.nl/xmlhttp/vacatures/

How do i resolve this?

Hi Mozfans

I'm doing a sitescan for a new client. http://www.vacatures.tuinbouw.nl/

It's a dutch jobsite.

Now the problem is here: The url http://www.vacatures.tuinbouw.nl/vacatures/ is in google.
On the same page there are jobs (scroll down) with a followed link.
To a url like this: http://www.vacatures.tuinbouw.nl/vacatures/722/productie+medewerker+paprika+teelt/

The problem is that the second url don't show up in google. When i try to make a sitemap with Gsitecrawler the second url isn't in de sitemap.. :S

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks!

I'm there for the first time this year. All the way from Holland. The flight wasn't very cheap. But i'm happy to join MozCon! I'm so excited!!