Haha - I was wondering the same thing recently. Thanks Matt!
Posts made by MarkScully
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RE: SEOMoz Private Message Settings
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RE: I am cleaning up a clients link profile and am coming across a lot of directories (no surprise) My question is if an obvious fre for all generic directory doesn't look to have been hit by any updates is it a wise move recommending tit for removal?
Hi Mark,
I've had to do a lot of backlink analysis and removal before so this is my view.
If the directory lists links in an unnatural looking manner (i.e. just a long list with little text about the link), I would remove it. Some directories have managed to avoid any algorithm updates for now but I'm sure they will eventually get hit.
The volume of link removal you do will really depend on how large your back link profile is. I had to work through about 20,000 links which needed to be removed as they were from low quality article sites and directories. We received the unnatural link warning in GWMT and filed a re-inclusion request. This got turned down and so we had to dig even deeper into the links pointing to our site.
Just be consious of how many 'good' links you do have. If you go straight into removing a lot of directory links and leave yourself with very few 'good' links to your site, it could be an issue for you. It's really your call.
Personally, I'd remove them if the directory looks poor, has no social media presence and looks spammy.
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RE: Duplicate Content
Hi Feilim,
You can use http://www.copyscape.com - I just tried a search for www.housesalesbulgaria.com and some duplicate content was flagged as appearing on www.housesalesturkey.com
I'm sure there are better tools available though. That's free and easy to use.
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RE: Hello every one please give me idea about offpage techniques for keyword ranking for first page on top 5 all search engine ,and it must be durable for long time. If i will not use on page optimization?
Hi Debal,
Maybe I'm interpreting you wrong but there is no quick answer to this.
You appear to be ignoring the advice already given to you by Brad. You need to spend more time reading about link building, and more time reading about on-page optimization.
There isn't one thing you can do to achieve the rankings you desire.
Cheers,
Mark
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RE: Hello every one please give me idea about offpage techniques for keyword ranking for first page on top 5 all search engine ,and it must be durable for long time. If i will not use on page optimization?
Sorry, what do you mean specifically?
How long will it take for specific keywords to achieve high rankings?
This really depends on the level of competition for these keywords, the amount of on-page and off-page work you do and so many other factors. No one can guess a time frame for this.
If your client is being quite forceful about this, you really should pass that 'Beginners guide to SEO' onto them as well. Achieving rankings takes time. And even then, there are no guarantees.
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RE: Hello every one please give me idea about offpage techniques for keyword ranking for first page on top 5 all search engine ,and it must be durable for long time. If i will not use on page optimization?
Hi Debal,
The first problem I encountered with that site is that it's very slow. The images in the slideshow are around 150KB each.
I really think you need to focus on a lot of on-page optimization before off-page is even considered.
As Brad suggested, them guides are a great first step to finding the best practice. You really can't use 10 keywords in a URL and also, you can't target 10 keywords per page. You should be focusing on a keyword or at most two keywords per page. If you go beyond this, you might have keyword cannibalization problems.
Please read the guides Brad linked to. It will answer the questions you have.
After reading them, we would be more than happy to help you.
Cheers,
Mark
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RE: Article marketing, keyword research, traffic kaboom and you tube views?
No
No
And no
To be honest (don't take offense), you need to learn to do real marketing. Everything you've mentioned is not proper marketing. It's a cheap and deceitful way to gain traffic and no, these methods are massively frowned upon.
If you ever stop to question the approach you're taking, it's probably the wrong method.
Write proper content. Create great engaging videos.
Keyword research tools such as Ubersuggest (which is free), Adwords Keyword tool are a good place to start.
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RE: Has anyone use this source to submit articles?
Yeah - It would be very foolish to use this or any article submission sites.
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RE: How long should does it take before I see SEO results?
What type of website do you plan to launch?
As it's nearly November, personally I'd feel that maybe you're a little bit too late. Without considerable time and resources, it would be quite difficult for you to make much progress with this.
You might be able to rank for a few low competitive keywords depending on what industry you're in. It would be quite interesting to see the search volume for your site this year so you could be very well prepared ahead of next Christmas.
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RE: Would you be able to add functionality to rankings report?
Hi there,
It might be worth sending your request directly to the Moz team so it doesn't get missed -
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests
Annotations would be a pretty cool addition,
Mark
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
What's everyones opinion canonicali URL being setup site-wide?
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Determine the best URL structure
Hi guys,
I'm working my way through a URL restructure at the moment and I've several ideas about the best way to do it.
However, it would be good to get some views on this.
At the moment I'm working on a property website - http://bit.ly/N7eew7
As you can quickly see, the URL structure of the site needs a lot of work.
Similar websites -
One of the sites has http://www.domain.ie/property-to-let/location/
And the other has http://www.domain.ie/rentals/location/property-to-let/
I could do with some guidance about the best steps to take with this.
I've a few ideas myself but this is a massive project.
Cheers,
Mark
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RE: How to make a best SEO strategy
I think Francisco covered these points very well.
You need to speak to management about the business objectives. Only then can you identify a suitable SEO strategy to help the company meet these objectives.
Are there specific money keywords they want you to focus on?
Does the site itself get large traffic but few conversions? Could CRO help to improve this?
I think you really need to ask management what it is they want you to focus on. Developing an SEO strategy is too broad of a request to expect from you.
They need to provide guidance so you can focus on specific areas. If you need any further help, we'll gladfully help you.
Best of luck,
Mark
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RE: Crawl credits how to buy more?
I've got to agree. Crawling a site more than this just seems a little bit pointless.
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RE: Crawl credits how to buy more?
I believe 2 crawl credits per day is the limit set for all PRO members. You can't buy more.
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RE: Does having the same descrition for different products a bad thing the titles are all differnent but but they are the same product but with different designs on them does this count as duplicate content?
Yeah that should be fine. Sorry, you didn't mention before how closely related the products were.
Just try to keep the description as unique as you can, as hard as that might be when exact same product but a different colour.
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RE: Does having the same descrition for different products a bad thing the titles are all differnent but but they are the same product but with different designs on them does this count as duplicate content?
Hi David,
If it's exactly the same description used for different products then yes, it still counts as duplicate content.
Why are you not writing unique descriptions? It would be much more informative for the customer if the description was specific to the product they wished to purchase.
Multiple product pages with the same description is a large problem now with Google Panda.
Avoid doing it.
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RE: How to make a best SEO strategy
Hi Mohammad,
I'm not sure what level your SEO knowledge is at but judging by your questions, I'd guess you're just starting out?
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
Take a read through SEOmoz's guide above and you can begin to identify the key areas of your website which need to be addressed.
Typically, I would recommend starting with a full site audit for an already established website. Identify the on-page and off-page factors, prioritize them in terms of important and place a time scale next to them.
You don't need a tool to develop a strategy. You need to know the underlying factors affected your website.
Best of luck,
Mark
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RE: Are links safe from friendsite.com?
Hi John,
I think you're worrying too much here. Google's algorithms are not harsh enough to penalize little blips like this in a persons back link profile.
If worried, you could do as Fredrik suggested and setup a WMT account for your site but I honestly feel like you've nothing to worry about.
I've been victim of an unnatural link warning from Google but it was justified due to 1000's of unnatural links built by a previous agency. In your case, you had 1500 links live for 24 hours. I'd be surprised if Google crawled and acknowledged them all as backlinks to your site. And even if they did, that many links means very little since they all come from one domain.
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RE: Footer Content
No problem Neil - Just focus on the end user and the decisions should be easy to make in regards the footer etc.
I mentioned page load time issues with Twitter because of experience I've had. It's always been 3rd party content which has resulted in site speed issues.
Social media feeds/widgets are just sometimes not worth the issues they can cause.
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RE: Footer Content
I think you need to look at it from two perspectives.
Is it really needed? Does every page of the site really need this content displayed on it? I would be hesitant about recommending you putting all these things into the footer of every page.
Secondly, Twitter feeds can slow page load time. This will impact on the bounce rate of your site and since site speed can impact ranking, you really gotta ask yourself again about the need for this on every page.
A couple of footer navigational links are fine. Just avoid stuffing the footer with Twitter, newsletter, navigational and blog post links.
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RE: Footer Content
Can you offer a link to your website Neil so we can see whether the use of links in the footer is excessive?
If the content in the footer can be justified for navigational purposes from Google's perspective, then you should be fine.
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RE: My Website Ranking is terribly drop
Hi Angie,
From GA, what date did you notice the drop in keyword rankings and traffic? I ask because it could be attributed to an algorithm update from Google.
From looking at OSE, the domain and page metrics of your site are basically non existent. How long has it been operational?
Up until now, what have you been doing in terms of on-page and off-page SEO to achieve the rankings you had before? The more information you can provide, the easier it will be for us to offer advice
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RE: Some inbound links which i have removed long ago, still showing in GA and in Open Site Explore, how do i remove them from their?
OSE can still report links that have been deleted due to it not being updated on a daily basis
The last Open Site Explorer index update was on the 8th October. How long ago did you delete these links?
Just to clarify, inbound links from other sites? If this is the case, are you still receiving traffic from these links which is being reported in GA?
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Will do - cheers Matthew
I'll probably take you up on that offer.
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Hi Matthew, thanks for chipping in.
At the moment we do have canonical URLs setup for property listings such as the example you given above.
We'll still be going ahead with cleaning up the URL structure and ensuring categories following the correct practice as well.
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RE: Linking back to my domain but they dont show up
I think we need a little bit more information here. Can you provide a little bit of an explanation about what you've done?
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RE: Does anybody really think that SEOMoz provides much value?
I couldn't disagree more. I think you need to look beyond a few things and realize what you have to use.
If keywords ranking is incorrect, are you sure you're checking against the correct country?
Yes, SEOmoz can't crawl as well as some dedicated tools and it can sometimes be a little outdated. However, you have to realize that it's still great to have it.
From OSE, Followerwonk, keyword difficulty checking, on-page optimization, discounted services, this community etc...I think $99 really is very little.
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RE: I've set up my own site which is still fairly new but I'm a bit concerned that there is a bloackage SEO wise somewhere because when I try to crawl the site on SEOmoz it only crawls one page.
Seems to be working fine now Josh. I still would check issues with your host.
I was able to crawl 193 pages with ScreamingFrog. I don't see reason why you're encountering problems with it setup in your Moz account unless it's setup incorrectly.
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RE: I've set up my own site which is still fairly new but I'm a bit concerned that there is a bloackage SEO wise somewhere because when I try to crawl the site on SEOmoz it only crawls one page.
Hi Josh, I tried crawling your website with ScreamingFrog and received a connection error. I can't even get your site to load at the moment. Are you sure it's not largely a server issue?
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Hi Christian,
That's a really good question - Can anyone shed any light on this one?
Personally I would have made the URL you mentioned be the canonical one.
But seeing I'm here asking for advice on it, maybe someone else would be better placed to help.
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Thanks Marcus - Agreed
Once URL structure has been improved, I will look into ensuring that specific property pages have canonical URLs and all relevant categories are appropriate setup as well.
Quite a bit of work to do but it should be worth it in the long term for the business.
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Hi Marcus,
Just problems with the Moz tools.
We haven't been affected at all by any algorithm changes so far.
I still think it would be best to follow best practice going forward. I've just began work on this site and want to get to the root of any underlying problems.
Cheers,
Mark
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Marcus, thank you for giving such clear examples to me. It's a great help.
I'm a little bit embarrassed by the fact that it was causing such confusion up until now but it's clear to me now what needs to be changed.
With SEOMoz Campaign setup for the site, we have been receiving many duplicate content errors.
Hopefully the use of correct canonical URLs should help to eliminate many of the problems we have been having.
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RE: Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the advice
Optimization of the URL structure is certainly something which I'm focusing on at the moment.
Taking on-board what you have mentioned, with the URL structure replaced, I presume that similar canonicals would need to be setup on each property listing to avoid duplicate content?
Do you think it's an issue which I should look into for other areas of the site as well?
Apologies for my questions. As you can guess, I'm trying to get to the root of any issues we're having with duplicate content.
Many thanks,
Mark
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Canonicalization - Some advice needed :)
Hi guys,
To be honest, it's a little bit embarrassing to throw out this question but it's one of the weakest points of knowledge at the moment for me.
I've tried to get a grasp of canonical URLs and what it all means. From my understanding, it's informing Google which page to take into consideration when there's the possibility for duplicate content. Right?
However, with the site I'm working on I'm not sure if it would be worth putting site-wide and the impact it would have.
Site I'm working on - http://bit.ly/N7eew7
With the nature of the site, there would be a lot of duplicated content as there's the possibility that several properties listed could have a similar address due to being in the same building etc.
From what I can see, no canonical URL was setup on the homepage.
The other variations of the homepage URL are 301 redirecting to thee http:/www. version.
Can someone explain it all to me in simple terms? Honestly believe that I'm getting more confused by the minute.
Thanks guys for your patience
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RE: Mass 404 Checker?
Agree with Screaming Frog. It's more comprehensive than **Xenu's Link Sleuth. **
It costs £99 for a year but totally worth it.
I had a few issues with Xenu taking too long to compile a report or simply crashing.
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RE: Google Results Title Tag HELP
Yeah - I would suggest a more optimized page title. You have 'Days Inn' duplicated twice.
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RE: On page content and PDF - Dup?
Hi Jason,
This topic has been covered before with some great view points on this
http://www.seomoz.org/q/can-pdf-be-seen-as-duplicate-content-if-so-how-to-prevent-it
I hope you don't mind me directing you to this topic!
Hope it helps,
Mark