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That is definitely a 301 redirect to the trailing slash URL.  Good tool to check with is Fiddler.

Unless you have amended the htaccess file directly then a plugin must be making this setting, possibly something like the Robots Meta plugin.

I can answer that question from a slightly different perspective.  I worked with software that parsed varying file types and csv files were so slow to process because of their size.  It was the same scenario writing to them.  So i'm not at all surprised at the slowness of exporting your data to them - not really Moz's fault.

I'm not sure I understand the question?  It seems you are asking if there is any link value in Google search results.  If that is the case then the answer is no.  Links to a Google results page could only possibly benefit Google.

"As it's a sidebar link, it shows up for every page on the site (easily thousands due to all posts having a page, tags, categories etc)."

Irrespective of Googles stance on sitewide links you have to ask yourself does that look natural and is the link there to offer value to the visitor.  Invariably it looks spammy and planted - and ignored.

I would definitely avoid without no-follow.

Did you follow through to this - http://moz.com/blog/googles-multi-week-algorithm-update

May be of help?

Have you only recently updated your website, maybe the tool has not re-crawled yet?

What results do you get in Google for site:www.yourdomain.com?

What results do you get with https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test?

A reputable business will have a trading address on their site, therefore the actual trading address and listings will differ.  In this case every aspect of NAP will differ.

There is a list of recommended businesses via a link at the foot of the page.  Most SEO guys are now very experienced in dealing with penalty issues as it has become so common.

You cannot do this.  If you have a poorly domain or homepage redirecting just injects the problem to the new location. You need to determine the problem links and deal with them by disavowing - http://moz.com/community/q/link-disavow

How many URLs are indexed in Google if you use site:yourdomain.com  Has that figure dropped too?

Have you got anything in your robots.txt that could be blocking?

...and check the last reply in this http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-determine-which-pages-are-not-indexed.  I have not tried but it looks promising.

Also to muddy the water a little further a person may physically be in Chelsea (or that area of London) but the ISP IP address is placing them elsewhere.  For example, apparently I am about 60 miles north west in Bath according to Google.  

So it also depends on your market, for location in this manner.  Businesses may very well be exact but residential users are in the hands of their ISP and you toss a coin as to whether those users go in and manually set their location.

I'd disavow the domain.

A completely natural link profile will have a range of authority sites with the strongest group probably being around 35 to 50 as they are probably more common, with a few either end.  In that link profile will be a healthy smattering of no-follow links because otherwise it would be engineered.  You will not be penalised/disadvantaged for having 100 no-follow links and 2 do-follow, as with 2 no-follow links and 2 do-follow.

I would keep focusing on your social media channels along with sourcing opportunities on good authority sites you can get a do-follow link on like interviews, articles, reviews etc.  Also bear in mind that good content on a popular site with a no-follow link can still draw referral traffic.

There is nothing wrong with comments as long as the only reason for them is to participate and add value.  If there are any hints of spam, off-topic or piles of vague 'great post' replies on the post or elsewhere on the site then leave alone.

I think you mean the other way round.

If you have a new site and you get a link from an authority site the chances are that site page might (and it is a might) get crawled more often, which then leads Google back to your site and stands you in good stead for Google to crawl and index your site.  Other methods include submitting your sitemap to Webmaster Tools.

If good quality sites are linking to yours then that's great as it's telling Google your site is of value and will help with your rankings.  You do not want to link back to those pages, you want to go out and find more sites to link to you.

I'm going through the same issue with a client with 2 offices - both are shared.

I'm taking heed of the advice given at http://moz.com/community/q/local-seo-how-to-handle-multiple-business-at-same-address and http://moz.com/community/q/multiple-businesses-at-the-same-address-avoiding-google-places-trouble

For sure you don't want the company name at the front of the title tag.  The title should ideally start with the main keyword for that page. Google truncates at around 65 characters so if the keyword is long just stick with that.  The title and meta should all be about being interesting and relevant to the visitor.  In many cases unless it is a well know brand having the company name in the title can waste space.

Google will catch up with them, you can be sure of that.

Forum links have little value, so I would not participate just for the links.  But if you've something to say, can build your authority as a source of good knowledge. you'd get a weak sniff of link juice and possible referral traffic - and possible linking opportunities elsewhere on the back of that work through relationship building.

There is some excellent stuff in here - http://moz.com/community/q/best-to-spend-marketing-budget-on-high-quality-articles-or-link-building-services that might help sculpt your attitude/approach to a strategy.

A new site can dance all over the place and stable good rankings are dependent on so many factors including

• competition
• architecture
• content
• optimisation
• link profile
• authority
• and on...

There are site-wide footer links too.

Webmaster Tools is not a current accurate reflection of what is actually indexed.

A search in Google for site:yourdomain.com will show the accurate information.

If you want to get rid of the html files you could try the following in your htaccess file.  The rule looks for anything (.*), until it gets to the .html then rewrites the first part dropping the .html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)+.html$ $1 [R=301,L]

thanks. You've confirmed my thoughts on doing a thorough spring clean.

I would suggest blog commenting has no real benefit for a link profile as it has been hugely abused.

However, there are very good reasons to do this with good authority, somehow related, spam free sites using quality comments.

• If no-follow they still give your link profile a natural mix
• Opportunity to develop relationship with the site
• Opportunity to write informative,authoritative comments to be seen as an authority
• Slight possibility for referral traffic
• still a small signal if part of a much bigger link strategy

It depends how many visitors hit that landing page on that day.  In Analytics if you drill down Content >> Landing Page to the page in question then Secondary Dimension select say keyword that may give you a clue.

Otherwise if you have an event set up for the contact from that specific page you can track back to the source.

Books are ok,but there is nothing better than to get your hands dirty. As Steve says Beginners Guide to SEO is a great starting point.  Then when you start working on a site you soon realise there is no one size fits all and all sites have their own peculiarities, needs and restrictions.  That's when places like Moz will really help as you can research, absorb opinion, learn proper strategies and put it all into practice.

If you add rules to robots.txt that does not mean those directories will be removed from the index. You will also need to remove them in Webmaster Tools >> Google Index >> Remove URLs >> set Reason to Remove Directory.

Having said that why not use canonical tags on pages like /design-your-own-jewelry/classic-bracelet/AADE17E9BB964352B7A3912294BB5DF8  - http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions

No it isn't.  As I said -

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

This is saying that the condition is off - so non HTTPS URL calls then have the rewrite rule to switch to HTTPS.

Apart from reaching retirement age before your link is live in DMOZ and spending a fortune for Yahoo I wouldn't bother. I would only consider doing these as 'an also' activity.

I would focus on reaching out to high authority, highly relevant sites and seeing if there are ways you can work with each other to get great content on their sites with a natural link back to your domain.

If your rankings are still faltering you may need to go through your link profile with a fine tooth comb and remove anything that is not good quality or spammy.  Also ensure all your content is unique and you don't have multiple pages with thin content.

In Webmaster Tools go to Health >> Fetch as Google and check your homepage as well as a few others indicated in your problem.  If they can be fetched then Google can crawl your site ok.  This will not effect your PR.

You could also use Fiddler which a great tool for checking all the header responses per URL.

Agree with comments about Alexa.

It looks like you are redirecting any URL back to itself.

You want something like this which will remove index.html and enforce a trailing slash-

RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

This post last year gives a good answer throughout.  In summary yes it does but the edge gets taken off the link 'power', just as a 301 doesn't pass 100%

http://moz.com/community/q/noindex-follow-is-a-waste-of-link-juice

I completely agree with Sheldon.  I've been in the position to pre-empt a potential slap by requesting removals (repeatedly) then Disavow.  I am no expert but in my opinion as long as there are removal requests as backup and to put in Sheldon's words the pruning is for health and diseased reasons rather than purely ornamental it shows good intent.

Perhaps you set the link to mydomain.com rather than http:mydomain.com and your setup has prefixed with the domain.

ScreamingFrog is good.

your directories have duplication.  For example: http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/about-us.html and http://www.titanappliancerepair.com/about-us

You may also need   RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301**,**L]

Any URL that you want to remove from a particular TLD needs to be done in the specific TLD Webmaster Tools property.

I don't know what the image is but I would imagine it is likely to be promoting the site somehow. If that's the case it must be no-follow.

Why don't you put /staging1/ in your robots.txt, then remove that directory from index in Webmaster Tools.  Backing that up with canonical tags in case any similar slip through the net.

also there is a small overhead with the initial https handshake which can impact time to first byte and page load speed.  Therefore session length and caching play an important part in determining the cost of using https.

If the page ia a 404 not found it will sometime soon disappear from the index.  You can force this immediately by going into Webmaster Tools >> Google Index >> Remove URLs >> enter URL >> select 'Remove page....'

"sponsored" = paid for.  Therefore if you don't want to break G's webmaster terms any links must be no-follow.  But taking look at the first one you wouldn't tell straight away it's sponsored.  But now you have posted here and told Google

I don't think there is a problem in removing the 301s.  You are not doing anything underhand.  The 301 is in place because for whatever reason you have decided it is better for your visitor to reach the redirected page.  There could be many valid reasons why the original pages are now valid, you aren't always to know a redirect is definitely temporary. Just in the same way you may need to amend a 301 to a new URL.

However, I would introduce the URLs back in small batches and monitor rankings and traffic.

You have a robots.txt file in your root - http://www.in2town.co.uk/robots.txt >> add

Disallow: /staging1/

In Webmaster Tools go to Google Index >> Remove URLs >> Create a new removal request >> enter http://www.in2town.co.uk/staging1/ >> Continue >> set Reason to remove directory >> Submit Request.

For canonical refer to http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions

I hope this helps.

Either switch javascript off in the browser or search cache:www.yoursite and see if you spot any content missing.

not yet, not a sniff.