Totally agree with this move. Thumbs down is too easy, not specific, and too anonymous. If a reader really has constructive feedback then they should be prepared to post a comment.
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RE: Why did Moz remove thumbs down from blog posts?
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RE: New "Static" Site with 302s
Nice! (for speed at least)
I would show your team some examples of external URLs pointing at the non trailing slash versions of your pages and explain the downside of the 302 redirect. Also consider that people and bots visiting those URLs will be adding overhead to your server, and on Amazon that will equal increased cost (small as it may be, the pennies add up!)
Reading the link you provided it looks like the default behaviour of the page metadata redirect under the s3 console is to create a 301 redirect. That makes me think the 302 is coming from somewhere else. Look at the following URL:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HowDoIWebsiteConfiguration.html
It looks like you can add advanced redirects under "Enable website hosting -> edit redirection rules". I'd explore if there are redirects listed there and maybe chat to your developers further.
While you are it I spotted two other issues for you to consider. Currently the index.html files in your directories resolve to the same page as your main directory. I would 301 those pages back to the parent directory (slash version). Or you could add canonical URLs pointing back to the parent directory (with trailing slash). I'd make a case for adding canonical URLs to all pages.
Also, you currently have a number of redirect chains e.g.
http://www.strutta.com/resources/posts/share-your-contests-and-sweepstakes-all-over-social-media 301 redirects to http://www.strutta.com/resources which 302 redirects to http://www.strutta.com/resources/.
You need to find the original redirect and change it to 301 redirect to the trailing slash version of the directory. Screaming Frog can help you find these redirect chains.
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RE: My Campaign is gone? What happened to it?
If you created a campaign in Moz Analytics but then switched back to the old Moz Pro interface you won't see the campaign there. Navigate to http://analytics.moz.com/manage-campaigns and check if your campaign is listed there.
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RE: Google Authorship. Is there a way to check all the articles by one author?
No one query or site that I know of that will show all of a G+ authors articles but here's a few things to try.
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Check the authors Google+ profile about section and look at the sites they list under contributor to and links. Do a site: search + the authors name and see what articles you can find.
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Grab the authors author snippet profile picture and run it through Google image search and see what that brings up.
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If the author generally includes a bio at the end of their posts search for unique text from their bio.
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If the author has an author profile on their own website, these will sometimes include an archive of the authors posts on that website. Run a backlink check on that author profile page with Open Site Explorer. This will potentially show you where they have written content internally and externally.
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RE: MOZ Starter Crawl not happeneing
Probably best to submit a support ticket to the Moz support team through http://moz.com/help/pro.
I had a similar situation but in my case the Moz Analytics wizard process didn't complete properly. Despite adding the relevant details to the campaign afterward the campaign didn't gather any data. I just had to delete the campaign and add it again. That did the trick.
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RE: Nginx 403 and 503 errors
More discussion of this on Google+ too: https://plus.google.com/114779041142136013466/posts/U5PTFcRtbdT
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RE: New "Static" Site with 302s
Hey Danny,
As Maximilian suggested above the best solution is going to be to change those 302s to 301s. I generally like to redirect to trailing slash URLs for directories and non trailing slash URLs for files/pages (that's that standard convention). I find in practice hardly anyone who links organically ever includes a trailing slash when linking to a page, but when it's the homepage I don't worry about it too much, browsers and Google can figure that out.
Basically you need to figure out where the 302 is coming from and hopefully it is in your .htaccess file. If you can edit your .htaccess file you need to change that to a 301 redirect, or you could remove the redirect and just use a canonical URL pointing at the / version of the page. I would prefer to go with the 301 though. Just be sure to look at how these redirects are being implemented and in what order, you don't want to end up with redirect chains either.
Can you get access to your .htaccess file or is the server running something funky?
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RE: Nginx vs. Apache, All Things Considered
From the little I know of Nginx, I know it is meant to be faster, less intensive on server memory and able to handle more concurrent connections, but Apache is more widely supported across different servers and is more flexible out of the box.
The one thing I have had to get my head around in working on clients sites that run on Nginx is the different URL rewrite rules i.e. http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/converting_rewrite_rules.html