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Jay, you think I will say No or no thanks to it?

I am always hungry about new stuff coming from the Mozplex.... Count me in please.

I think I have to agree about most of the things that Patrick discussed already but make sure that visitors are considering at one that can easily be done by having a similar design, cross promotion, easy access from blog to website and from website to blog and more.

Also, it is advisable to do a small awareness campaign that give a clear idea to user that these two different domains are owned by one.

I have a very simple logic to deal with this problem. I agree that having too many links on the page is not a very good idea both from the search engine as well as from the user point of view in many cases but there are times when you can’t do anything about it.

I think the better idea is to see if the link that you are placing on the page are important from the user point view if they are then let it be but if you can reduce them, then you ideally should. The idea is to think about users first and then about search engines guidelines.

Hope this helps!

Obviously it is a good idea as this very Google will have an idea about what page is the preferred version by the website owner plus when two different pages (containing the same content) will become one they will share their link power and duplicate content on the website will be reduced.

Hope to do that?

There are quite a few ways, you could do this but by looking in to your URL example it seems like your website pages are based on ASP so in ASP this is how you can set 301 redirection.

Here is the code you can use:

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<%

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";

Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.newlocation.com");

}

%>

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For more information regarding this, http://www.301-redirect.info/en/301-redirect-with-asp-net.html might be of help!

If the slider is crawl-able, i dont think there will be a much advantage of normal static links.

#personalopinion

My answer might not go by the book but reality is if they didn’t get caught, its fine but they got caught, the game is over J

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Benjamin,

I don’t think the issue is with the slider but there are other issues you should be considering as important. I will quickly go over it.

1. 3XX errors. I am not saying 301 redirection is bad but too many 301s can damage your website so try to minimize them where possible.
2. Few URLs contain “underscore”. Not really a very good practice. Also there are one or two URLs that contain upper case as well.
3. Not saying it’s a ranking factor, but it can affect CTR which again is a ranking factor. You have missing descriptions on different pages of the website
4. Images are not properly optimized.
5. Page load time can be improved.
6. Your DA is not really impressive, so I guess few more links here and there will obviously help!

Just a quick overview! Hope this helps…

Ok here is how I will respond to this question.

There are tons of signal that Google uses in order to rank a website against a query. CTR can be one of them but I see two problems here:

1. Bounce rate. The bounce rate of the traffic will be high and this might give Google a hint that the website is getting a fake or unrealistic traffic.
2. Amount of traffic from one source. The website that you are going to use will send the direct traffic or referral traffic from multiple (yet) limited sources and I am sure none of them will be reputable in the eye of Google which again make the case suspicious.

We might see an increase in rankings in the beginning but it might fall down again in weeks of time so I guess for long term, this idea is a waste, plus this can hurt you as well.

Now, I will move to the EGOL’s idea of how you should be working instead. I think the better idea is to work on legit ideas that give a real boost to your website rankings will help in the longer run and make you a brand which otherwise is not possible.

Hope this helps!

Alan, if I would be at your place, I would have moved to a program like link detox instead of the manual labor and here are some reasons why!

1. You are emailing to the real people so no matter what trick you use, there are chances that you may fail, especially if they have decided not to remove the links.
2. The removal ratio can dramatically increase if you offer a small amount to remove a link but again disavow is a better and easy option that will help you save your time and money.
3. Manual Labor to do a work that might or might not work is a bad investment in my opinion, on the other hand manual labor will be much more expensive as compare to a tool like Link Detox.

Link Detox will find bad links, email them and give you the list of bad links that contain your website link. You can get that data and create a disavow file and submit it to Google.

All in all, I understand your point but in my opinion it is not a very good investment.

Hope this helps!

Some very powerful resources shared by Patrick as always but while I was reading the question several ideas were popping up in my mind.

You are saying you have several different products that are in different sizes. If this is the case, why not you make it one product and in the product section offer the size in the dropdown? #justwondering

In my opinion the best URL structure for you would be domain.com/category/product-name.php

Once you decide what URL structure you will follow, do go through the instruction given by Patrick so that there should be no technical problem with regards to indexing and ranking.

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Alan, If you are looking for some tool that can check your bad links than, link detox seems to be the best option around but as you said that your link profile isn’t long to doing it manually isn’t really a bad option either.

While back I wrote a post about how to find bad links in your link profile. In that post I discuss the anatomy of a bad links so just keep that in mind while sorting bad links from the good one and you are good to go for creating a disavow file.

Remember DA does not count the quality of domains so expecting a jump in DA because you are increasing the number of quality domains is not ideal.

Hope this helps!

I think I have to agree with Patrick. Whenever you have soft 404s on your website the best way to deal with them is to think about users and then about search engines.

Again as Patrick said, if the products are gone forever, redirect the pages to most relevant product and pass the link juice to other pages as well so that right kind of product started to get ranked. If the product are temporarily unavailable my advice is to show the product details, images with a tag about out of stock  and a popup may be that guide to other parts of the website.

Whatever you use, think about your users and if they are comfortable, just go with it and I am sure search engine will follow you accordingly as at the end of the day what search engine want is the happy user.

Will soft 404 hurt? In my opinion few soft 404s on the website should not hurt but again as you said it might grow in thousands, in that case this is can be a problem and can affect your SERP rankings.

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The shortest and the most honest answer to your questions that you are getting it all wrong. You are using blog comments to build links? Bad idea!

Blog Comments is a great way to build connections and relationships that later can convert in to quality links but building links using blog comments (dofollow or not) is a bad idea all together.

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Ok, the language seems Thai to, how do I know it? I am a Castle fan and just watched the recent episode of it J

Anyways, the reason why it is appearing is because someone is searching for these keywords and your website is appearing in the search results at his end. This could be a bot, a machine or may be a real human.

If the search number is one or few, you don’t really have to worry about it but if its in a decent amount like 10 or so in that case you should take preventive measure like check your security, as someone can try to hack your website or some other issues.

Why your website is appearing? Again many reasons, the kind of links pointing back to your website, one or few of them could be shady, the content you just shared went a lil more viral in other part of the world or several other reasons.

My idea is to do a bit more research about where this traffic is coming from, how often and what is the amount of traffic that you are receiving, how much time a people spend on the website when enter using this keyword and more.

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A Directory according to Moz SPAM checker tool looks clean to me but the process you are talking about is known as reciprocal linking!

According to Google guidebook reciprocal linking is not ethical and it’s not a good practice to build quality links back to the website.

So, If a directly ask you to do reciprocal linking, its probably a website you should not get a link from but if they are offering a one way link and the website backlink profile is clean then you probably should go for it!

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Obviously Dirk is right but again you will lose the opportunity to rank in search engines from the related key phrases and if you have played around with real estate industry before, you will have an idea about how difficult it is to rank and what are the advantages of ranking for that particular term.

In my opinion, duplication on page works like when the page is 60 to 70% identical to another page on the website and this is exactly what is happening in your case. I do agree the fact that you cannot change the descriptions but you can actually add the section on the page that explain more about the property. A custom box where you can include your custom written content.

I agree it’s a lot of work at your end but at the end of the day you will get a chance to rank well for those important key phrases that can offer you great amount of conversions.

Just a thought!

Completely agree to Thomas! Including keyword Meta tag in the page will never really help you with SEO or any kind of rankings but on the other hand it will exactly tell your competitors what you are focusing on each page of the website.

This might help them align their strategies against you and kick you out from the better SERP positions in search engine from the targeted key phrases.

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If you are using Joomla duplication will be a gift you will receive with that! Anyways, this is a basic level duplication. All you have to do is to 301 redirect the duplicate URL to the version that is preferred by you!

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As far as my understanding goes, Domain Authority counts the number of link coming to your website and not really the quality of links so if you want to increase your DA you not only have to look in to quality but quantity as well.

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I am not a developer myself but I can say if you have purchased HTTPs for SEO purposes, adding a redirection will help but if you have actually added https because of the visitors and providing security to the website in that case this might not help.

The best is to contact your server and discuss an issue with that and I am sure they will be able to resolve this issue.

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PA and DA might indicate how many links are pointing back to your website but this is not the only thing that is important to consider when plan ranking better in SERPs from the targeted key phrases.

Again, DA increases when links pointing to your website increases but it does not measure quality of link and how relevant it is to your website. Other things you should consider including is quality of content on the website, internal linking, how powerful the link is and few more.

There are times when you actually deserve better ranking but some websites are outranking you using tactics that are prohibited by Google. In that case you can report them to Google or wait for the update as these things usually cutoff as soon as  the Google launches the algo update.

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I believe when you are talking about 1 to 5 million URLs it is going to take time no matter what tool you use but if you ask me screaming frog is a better tool and if you have a paid version of it you still can crawl websites with few million URLs in it.

Xenu is not a bad choice either but it’s kind of confusing and there is a possibility that it can broke.

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Jason from Philippines is the one person I know who have a great idea and experience with Affiliate websites so if you want to learn more about it the best idea is to reach out to him and get a recommendation.

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I personally believe Moz should have come up with this tool a lot earlier but I am glad that finally Rand Fishkin announced that officially. Now when Moz have the tool it’s easier to understand that how many of links that are pointing to the website are good quality and how many of them are bad.

How to analyze SPAM manually?

Other than just tools you can check manually that what inks that you are planning to target contains quality. All you have to do is look in to the targeted links profile and see the kind of links they are receiving them self. If the links they are receiving are good, chances are the links will be good but if the link profile your target link contains is suspicious you probably should avoid building that link.

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I think the setting of the URL is very much depends upon how you are taking your website and how deep is it. If you ask about my website, my main goal is to offer free education to the readers and then there are service pages so I thought it would be fine to go with the direct approach as my service pages are limited.

My URL structure is: http://www.example.com/direct-page

But if your website is deep then making divisions make sense like services/name or blog/post-post

b) I think the division should be basic and not very deep as this will hurt user experience.

c) I really didn’t understand this part but if you mean a text before read more is bad so the answer is NO!

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Usually when Google updates the title on its own it’s because the title is not optimized or too general against the desired query. The best idea is to redevelop your title and see if it works out for you!

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As far as my experience goes you are looking for a person who can audit your website and pinpoint the areas that are week and more importantly answer the question that why your competitors that haven’t really done any on-page is ranking better than you.

Once done with that, you obviously want them to work on the project accordingly. My idea is to look for the list of service providers that are recommended by Moz: http://moz.com/article/recommended

Another option could be to meet service providers in your local area and have one-to-one conversation about your website. Ask them some tough questions and if they are answering satisfied question my idea is to go with them.

I did a post about how to hire a digital marketing consultant for your business. Check this out and see if tips here can help!

http://www.setalks.com/how-to-find-quality-seo-consultant-for-my-business/

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Ryan totally nailed it!

Here is right principles will remain the same. No matter how big or small the size of your website is, you have to avoid duplicate content, include unique title tag, Meta descriptions, robots.txt site maps and more.

When you talk about building a strategy to win the online industry, now this can always be different and also changing on continuous basis depending on the dynamics change within the industry. Try to build a strategy that suites your condition instead of going for industry trends and common factors.

Obviously, building links is a principle which will remain the same but where to build link is very much based on your strategy.

I will second Cyrus webinar as it contains pretty much everything you are asking for!
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Don’t really want to add anything more, the one word answer to your question is “Screaming Frog”!

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Three quick things you should do and I am sure the indexing ratio will go high!

1. Index your website to Google Webmaster tool. If you are already there submit your xml sitemap to GWT and make sure it’s approved from there.
2. Make sure the internal linking is done correctly. Don’t overdo it but atleast to some extent so that bots can move to other relevant pages on the website.
3. The URLs are not indexing consider pushing them via social (twitter tweets would be ideal)

Bonus: If you can get quality links back to those pages that are not indexed would be mindblowing as this way the indexing will guaranteed.

Also check your robots.txt file to make sure no URL is blocked from Google index.

Hope this helps!

Personally I never worked on this CMS before and if you have an investment to change the CMS system my advice would be to go for Wordpress as it’s simple, easy to use and have support available world-wide.

Anyways, after reading your question, I did a bit of a research and found this post that discusses SEO for Weebly in detail. According to this the option of setting up 301 is available within the system. I believe you should check this out!

http://justforwebsites.com/weebly-search-engine-optimization-seo/

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This is what I get from the details you have provided. The competitor of your client is getting lot of traffic from an article that is ranking number one for one of the money making keyword. Your client is getting traffic but not as much as the one that is ranking number one on that article.

If this is the case, here is how you should deal with it.

1. You talk to the blog owner or the author of that blog and see if there is any possibility of you writing another blog or change ranking that they mentioned. As you said they are the tech crunch of your client’s market, this I am sure isn’t really an option you can go for because this can hurt you as well.
2. Another thing you can do is to find relevant blog within the industry that have a similar authority as the blog that is ranking and reach out to them and see if you can create some valuable pieces for them that target the same keyword.

If all goes well, the next thing you should do is to build some links on to that blog post and get it rank number one for that particular keyword.

Why not my own website? As you said the industry is competitive it will be very difficult to beat the blog that have a much higher authority as yours.

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Here is what I think about this!

If people actually search for specific size then my idea is to go with 210 different products as it will be easier for one to rank in search engine for specific size.

If people search for products name in that case going with 7 different products and offer different sizes on the product page.

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As far as my information goes, it’s more or less a monthly thing. They usually update their index on monthly basis and this is the time when DA got updated.

But, the best idea is to email support@moz.com and you will get the exact information.

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I don’t think there is a way to move the dates but if the problem is still there it should be appearing in the issues section. If not that most probably means the problem has been resolved.

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with regards to rankings? nothing but if you do entertain leads from these countries so they might not be able to access your site.

The idea is not to get confused and dive a little deeper in to your analytic data.

Get in to day by day traffic and see where do you see the big falls in traffic and compare those days with the dates on which Google updates in penguin and panda algo (you can find this on moz.com)

If it matches the dates as given in the Google algo update chart then you are defiantly hit by a penguin or panda update and you should check WMT for the confirmation.

Sometimes you don’t receive the email but if the dates match you should plan your backup.

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Blocking them will not only help you decrease your bounce rate but less chances of getting your website hacked.

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I agree with Matt, in order to get the advice particular for your situation you need a real pro that look in to your website and backlink profile but here is a general advice.

If there is no manual action on your website, it’s a good part in my opinion and you have time to fix things up before Google actually put the manual penalty on it. My advice is to look in to your link profile and see how many bad links you have and separate bad links from the good one and ideally you should disavow all bad links to tell Google that these links have nothing to do with you and you are not looking for a link juice from all the bad websites.

The next step is to see what good links you have and get as many relevant and authority links as you can and you will see that the rankings will go up with increase in DA as well.

Again, this is a general advice for anything in particular you need to share your URL here!

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Ok, my advice would be a little different from Joey!

No matter what the domain is if the link profile is heavy it’s always more powerful as compare to the new domain but as far as my research goes in multiple niches mostly new TLDs are not ranking above .com and other general TLDs and that is why from the business perspective I will go with general TLDs as compare to new TLDs.

Again, I see Google give less and less value to on keyword so if the new TLD is more valuable to the business I will go with that too so its always depends upon the situation.

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I think we are totally done with this debate… everyone want their name to be out there and no one want to speak out loud J

I believe the link Danna shared contain what it takes.

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Just to be clear, here we are talking about URLs and not the domain name because when it comes to domain name my personal advice is not to go fir hyphens as this is not a common practice plus its usually a practice of spammers to use shady domain names.

As far as URLs are concern it’s a wonderful idea as Lina said they are better than underscores.

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as in the m. version for mobile users only? i would say its not a bad idea but you have to be very smart when redirecting URLs based on the device.

If you ask me what i would have done if i was facing the similar scenario, i will go for a responsive website as its a one solution for all devices and different size screens.

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The best part about EGOL sir is that he is very knowledgeable and at the same time have amazing way of explaining that always stops me from saying anything mostly because everything I ideally wanted to say was out in his answer.

Today is no different!

My only point was to go for a hosting that care for you and wanted you to grow instead of offering unlimited services that might cause a down time. You ideally don’t need a down time as this will hurt your traffic and branding to an extent.

My only advice when it comes to hosting is to choose the best instead of choosing the one that offer the best rates.

Hope this helps!

Whatever I am about to discuss is purely hypothetical and if anyone have a better understanding of it I would love to hear this answer from them but this is what I believe how this should work.

The whole idea of “did you mean” feature is to provide better search experience to user and give them the right options when they mistakenly write the wrong word. When it comes to spellings it should be easy to guess that they are getting the right spellings from dictionary but when it comes to the correct spelling of the brand they in my opinion are guessing the user behavior.

I search my own brand on Google with a wrong ccTLD “setalks.co.uk” and it says “did you mean: setalks.com” (the correct version of my domain) and I don’t see any other reason but because I have different quality and relevant website linking back to me with my domain name, brand name and mentions.

Again, I am not sure but if you get link or even mention from authority and relevant sources to your website with the anchor text of your URL or brand name probably Google will learn better about your domain name.

I know the PA and DA of your domain is better but still getting more quality links will only help. Also, social media can also help so try and share your products on social media as well and see if this solves your problem.

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I totally agree with Dana, Google consider this mobile friendly website as part of their ranking algorithm. If you would asked me few months before I would have said its important to have a mobile friendly website as it will serve your users better but from the ranking standpoint, its ok to live with the current version of the website but now after the Google official announcement its must to go either responsive or a separate mobile version of the website.

Whatever you choice but if you don’t have a mobile website it will hurt your rankings no matter what.

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I agree with sir here as most people consider these URLs are spammed but yeah normally good shorten URLs are 302 so there is no impact of it on the original URL you want your audience to land on!

Just a quick participation!