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Honestly, just by doing my stuff I do for Google, all my words rank super high in Bing. It just happens there. They seem to also stick much better in Bing, very little movement once I am at the top.

Such a quick increase in links could mean spammy/low quality links or the ratio of follow/don't follow went awry and that would also decrease it.

In SEO it isn't as black and white as more links == better.

What is the age of both domains?

If they are of no value to anybody, I'd just block them.

If this is all that happened the next crawl should fix it. Just sit tight and they should bounce up again in a week or so.

Yup it's spambots like xrumer or w/e there is. Blackhatters tend to blast out like 10k links at once of which most won't get approved. It's quite annoying. Every WP blog I started  so far was getting buried in these. Thank god for anti-spam widgets.

Chrome takes care of that pretty well. I am not aware of any widgets per se. I assume you are looking to install this on your website, right?

Wordpress or Joomla strike me as the obvious choices. Both are free and really easy to use.

If the link is embedded in the Flash part of the website, Google will have a hard time indexing it so most likely you will not get much out of it sadly. Flash components appear as a big nothing to the crawler.

Make sure you log-in on top of it. It worked for me just a moment ago.

I doubt Google can algorithmically filter this out in an easy way and probably won't do it manually. As long as the blog has content normally and only does that occasionally I don't see how it would be a problem.

SEO just did or is about to hit mainstream. Many more people know what SEO is and try their luck at it than even a year ago. So far OSE is holding up fine, and I don't see how that would change. I do not foresee a sudden explosion in use. (Unless Apple decides to put it into the iPhone, then people will use it, no matter if they need it or not)

Alan,

I think you misunderstand the situation, they don't seem to be stealing content, but actual products.

You could try the approach you suggested, but be ready to be 'ripped apart' by a mostly malicious community on this kind of pages. They usually do not take lightly to outsiders.

If you want to stop piracy, I assume contacting the admins for removal and filing DMCA claims would be the way to go.

Try

Disallow: /PhotoGallery.asp

I put wild cards all over usually just to be sure and had no issues so far.

I wish there was a nicer solution to that, but that's the least painful way.

These member profiles etc cause a lot of problems. I just restricted the crawler from forums/*/members and it fixed A LOT of problems. I don't see value in Google having access to the members list on the forums and it is a common 'blackhat' technique to sneak links into profiles on forums.

The second format looks blatantly like SEO-'phishing' and I would not go to a website like that. Having the spaces in there could also cause some serious issues. You can always have the final destination being verbose:

MountainBiking.com/adventures/mountainbikingadventuresinwhistler

Although this looks crappy again. I think just having all these in your domain will be enough, so go with the clean, compact format, for your visitor's sake.

I experience exactly the same, often keyword go up and down by 1-2 every other day until they suddenly leap up 10 or so and then drop 2-3 where they stay. Your theories both make sense and it might be just that the crawl gets to your site and does an in-depth 'scan' of everything.

The way I handled it is to have the brand in the root domain and wherever it fit at the end. Otherwise, I used non-branded keywords primarily as organic links generally will give you branded anchor text rather than keywords. You don't want to completely neglect the brand name, but it tends to build itself much more than other keywords.

These are sitelinks and Google sets them up automatically once your site is deemed 'important' enough, I think. I am not aware of a way to force this other than making your website well enough connected to be considered "worthy".

Here is more information on it: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334

Hey folks,

I have a weird problem and currently no idea how to fix it. We have a lot of pages showing up as duplicates although they are the same page, the only difference is the url structure. They seem to show up like:

http://www.example.com/page/ and http://www.example.com/page

What would I need to do to force the URLs into one format or the other to avoid having that one page counting as two? The same issue pops up with upper and lower case:

http://www.example.com/Page and http://www.example.com/page

Is there any solution to this or would I need to forward them with 301s or similar?

Thanks,

Mike

Give it a bit of time and it should fix itself. Google will crawl it and find that it is no longer broken.

If you are getting this information through the SEOmoz crawl, clicking on the red 'Error' button should give you details which URLs exactly give 4XX errors. It will show you which  site returns the error, not where the link is though. If you forwarded the missing pages that would somewhat fix it. Another good idea to improve this would be to create a useful 404 error page that allows people to find what they need. Some advice on how to handle this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo

I would leave out the punctuation to be honest. Not just in favor of the keyword match, but also for the users. I, personally, would be much more inclined to click on a website with the title "What is Actinide?" than "What is...Actinide?". Better in both ways.

I track it all through the PRO campaigns and manually search in a browser in privacy mode with personalization disabled to get more up-to-date information should I need it for short term analysis. Since only long-term matters for most I found that the PRO tools are sufficient 90% of the time though.

You could just nofollow the links you don't want to lead to nonindexed sites. This way Google will stop there. Other than that editing your robots.txt to exclude what you don't want to show up would work.

Yes, two websites will compete with each other. Why not forward one to the other. If it is a for-profit, I'd go with the .com and Non-Profit with .org. While this per-se might not be the rule, in many people minds the association is made that .org is non-profit. Might just add some trust to your website.

I don't see a way to edit it, so I'd recommend to just start a new campaign with the correct name.

Yes, it basically spreads the word about your content.

As Ping-o-Matic puts it:

So why would you want to be on these sites? One word: traffic. Blogrolling scripts like blogrolling.com and WordPress check update services to see if you've updated and then shows it on everyone's site -- usually by moving you to the top of people's blogrolling list or putting a recently updated indicator by your link. Services like Technorati spider your links to track who links to you and who you link to; almost in real time. If you show up on someone's Technorati link list (often called an "egorati search") they're likely to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure. Other sites like weblogs.com and blo.gs list recently updated blogs. Lots of people browse these when they're bored. Many of the services offer their own forms for pinging their own service, but keeping track of all those services is a hassle.

Hey,

Wordpress has a huge list of pinging services available:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services

I would think that one of those will do what you need.

Sit tight for a few days. If it still stays bad, compare your linking profile to competitors, maybe there is something shady in there (not accusing you of anything) that Google caught outside of a major update. They adjust their algorithm about 500 times a year according to a recent video, so chances are there are daily minor changes. Could be a fluke, too. We had rankings drop down from 5/6  to 10 for a week, and promptly bounce back up again without any interference.

Barry is spot on. You either have the meta robot line, or you do your robots.txt. I prefer to use the txt because it shows me all the rules I impose on the website at a glance and doesn't make me go and search each page individually if anything needs to be changed. Imagine having a website with 20000 pages where each is individually adjusted. If you suddenly need to change something it will take you forever. With a robots.txt it will literally take seconds.

I would suggest you contact Facebook support instead. While somebody might have an idea here, they will be able to help you for sure.

This should work, I would maybe suggest to change it to */answers/ just in case, maybe even put a * at the end. If it is not crawled nor indexed, it won't count as duplicate content. As far as Google is concerned, it does not exist. If it was crawled, I'd remove it through Webmaster Tools after adjusting the robots.txt and custom crawl it to make sure it works as intended.

If the question was if it was duplicate content: Yes, it would be. Ajax is not being crawled, so Google would just see whatever text is on the website, if any. If you have multiple sites just with Ajax, they will seem the same.

Mike

If they are very technical, just write down the specs or steps that you are discussing at the side, kind of like a guide you can follow while seeing the video.

I have the same problem. There always was a lag, but not as bad as now. It does show the update from 8/15 in my keywords, but not the overall traffic report.

Another vote for vBulletin. Overall much more refined with the possibility of adding many plug-ins and customisations.

Try using SKUs or bar codes / model numbers. This might additionally help you if people use barcode scanners or the like for search.

Tedious is what SEO tends to be at times. In addition, reciprocal links will do you very little good. I'd suggest making some content that people will link to. If you have a nice page that you want to link to your site, make sure you make some content that they will like specifically and you should get a nice link. Reciprocal links get very little value from Google, and are generally low quality.

Mike

Hey,

There is a intro webinar available on how to use SEOmoz right here: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/seomoz-pro-tool-overview

If you need any more instruction or have specific questions, this webinar runs every Friday, so you could join then and ask all you want.

Mike

If it gets you conversions and ultimately more money, of course. Just ranking highly doesn't make you more money, conversions are what matters in the end.

What are you trying to rank for?

If I include TM in a keyword string, does this make it another keyword or does Google ignore that?

Example:

Kentucky Hot Sauce vs Kentucky Hot (TM) sauce.

Of course the TM would be done properly via

Cheers.

Hey,

We just got a bunch of great links on sites like TechCrunch and similar, but our SERP rankings and related remained unaffected. How long does it generally take for such links to "kick in" and help the website?

I am in a similar situation. Your best bet would be a blog or something similar covering industry news or company related information, such as new features or similar. Also guides or so could be one source. It is difficult for this kind of website though to release content without it seeming out of place.

SEO cares about domains, not what space they use. If they are set up as domain and sub-domain they won't be affecting each other.

You will need to do the whole SEO shebang: Generate Content, optimize the website and get quality links. Just getting a lot of anchor text with the targeted keyword won't work as it looks very unnatural and might actually back fire in the long run. You'll need links with and without anchor text.

404s are something do be avoided as it makes your website look 'abandoned' in a way. If possible, I would set up 301s or similar to send these links to your main website rather than to 404 pages. You could also create a nice 404 site.

See these for more information:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/personalizing-your-404-error-pages

A bit of work can go a long way.