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Jason
Yes, that changes. If you are targeting / going to target google.de eventually, it makes complete sense to acquire schädlinge.de.
I checked ranking data on Google.de for both schädlinge and schadlinge and what's interesting is that "schadlinge" is actually considered a mis-spell of schädlinge.
Are you currently only targeting Google US or other countries other then Germany?
I agree with Virage. As long as it makes business sense and the volume of your OOS products is not more then your current products. I would not want to have 500 OOS products and 50 In stock products on a site.
Stop linking to that page from your navigation (obviously) and then if somebody does indeed navigate to your OOS product page from elsewhere on the web, then they can see it's OOS and see related products and so on. That's a much better user experience in my opinion vs a 404.
Based on the SERPS in Google US for your keyword, it looks like you don't need it. Just using it in the page title should be enough. Further, if you do need it at a later date, you could technically have an inner page like schadlinge.de/red-schädlinge if needed and so on.
https://www.google.com/search?q=schadlinge
I hope this helps.
I think Google automatically learns from the way people link to certain words, surrounding text, linking site's anchor text and surrounding text and so on. Think Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Optimisation and so on. So yes, I would say they learn things. I have seen rankings for Wholesale keywords coming in without using wholesale anywhere. Same thing for Discount/Cheap and so on.
I hope that helps.
http://ahrefs.com/
http://www.majesticseo.com/
I hope these help. Can't wait to have OSE back up and running 
I see an opportunity here. If it's user generated, it's relevant to the page content I am sure. Why not truncate it at 95 characters as @Irving recommends and then use the full thing again in the body of the page somewhere. Does that make sense ?
I hope this helps.
Well, that is telling Google those pages are related and are part of a series. I don't think that has anything to do with the duplicate page title / description directly. Can you do a "Page 1 - Current Page Title" on these paginated pages in the title or something like "Page 1 of 26 - Red Widget Photos from Amazing Gallery" or whatever you might have.
I hope this helps.
I would ask you this question. Does your website have a decent number of other good links ? Does your website have a lot of good quality content ? Do you spend over a $1000 per month on marketing the website ? And if this $300 is a part of this month marketing expense, go for it. If however, you could use that money to build some more / better content, that would be a lot more worth over time.
Directories like Yahoo, BOTW and some others, it just depends in the situation and circumstances of that website whether it makes sense or not. Unfortunately there's no simple yes or no in my opinion.
I hope this helps you resonate with yourself and decide.
Nash
I would suggest building a very good balance of links between your homepage and the inner page(s). Do not just build links to one of your internal pages. For example, you could/should probably have some incoming links to your http://www.motorsonwheels.com/vehicles / Inventory page as well. Similar, any other pages/sub-pages that make sense.
Let's say Honda came up with a new model of a car, you could potentially do an information article on your page, maybe a press release etc with a link to your check our Honda ABC Inventory, Buy Honda Used Cars in Houston, Houston Car Finance, Houston Used Car Finance and so on.
I hope this helps and ignites some thoughts :).
Interesting link Majid. It does detect the malware on Emily's website.
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/funeralhomeoptions.com
Clearly, it's the code injection we have been talking. I hope you are able to find the malicious code and remove it.
This is a code injection kind of spam that you have been hit with. I suggest you go ahead and upgrade your wordpress to the latest version as well as the plugins and themes.
The code injection is either placed within mySQL database in the wp_options table or inside your header files.
Check this article for an exact fix - http://www.mydigitallife.info/wordpress-hack-recover-and-fix-google-and-search-engine-or-no-cookie-traffic-redirected-to-your-needsinfo-anyresultsnet-golden-infonet-and-other-illegal-sites/
I see that you have variant anchor text links, which is good. I see an opportunity to try and give your links some internal juice. Can you get Belize and related keywords linked internally to respective pages ?
Other then that, I would continue to build content and links. I see you are ranking #2 for the misspelling, but nowhere for the correct spelling. It's not any kind of error, but the competition. You have the perfect domain. I think all you have to do is keep on building it.
The reason why your rankings could have dropped is the competition from what I have seen so far and the fact that Google has been trying to take reduce the effect of Exact Match Domains. In this case, you just need "strength" to be ranking #1.
How do you rank for other keywords/long tail etc ?
I would suggest not to over do any one kinds of link building. Like you mentioned 100 more articles for article marketing. I woud continue to build quality content instead.
Are users interacting with your content ? Can you do a listing in some other authority websites ? Look into the possibility of some info-graphics in the Depression/Anxiety niche.
All you have to do is when you build any links, use natural variations of the anchor text.
Business Name Location
Business Name Keyword
Keyword Location Business Name
Business Abbreviation City
And so on. Too many links with the same anchor text are always unnatural to me. They scream manipulation.
Same problem still. I am sure SEOMoz team is already aware of the issue and working on it.
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Has to be a temporary data glitch. If not, you might want to post a message in the google webmast community forum.
Sure. Here you go. I used your example of redirecting old page to new page.
Redirect 301 /products.php http://www.bxxxxxseo.com/product_list.php
The pages that are being crawled under https, are the same pages available under http as well ? If yes, can you just add a canonical tag on these pages to go to the http version. That should fix it. And if your login page is the entry point, your fix will help as well. But then as Rebekah said, what if somebody is linking to your https page. I would suggest you look into making a canonical tag on these pages to http if that makes sense and is doable.
Delete the old pages and setup 301 redirects from the old pages to the new pages.
Make sure all your internal links are going to the new site pages only. As long as you can set the 301's, you are all set.
I hope this helps
Just do 301's and you should be all set. Also watch for any 404's once the site is migrated to make sure you did not miss anything. Also, try to build some new links to the new pages over a period of time, slow and steady...
Good Luck.
Darren, nopes. You should be good doing this. You are essentially doing a 301 redirect and you are trying to tell that (current) page is the most important / most relevant page and that's the information/directive that Google is seeking from the Webmaster.
Just do it.
I second what Brent said. It is your YDIR listing. The domain is 301'd to a sub-folder of your website.
I don't know if it's just me, but I have a strong feeling that this is coming off your ODP listing, but then you have the noodp. How long have you had the NOODP in your meta ?
Well, these links like any/all/most other links add to your domain authority and then based on how competitive your niche is, you may or may not see any real effect just from doing these 2 directory submissions.
I am not sure whether that's a good solution or not, but look into the option of providing no product description in your feed. Just the Product Name, Categories, Tags/Attributes etc. Maybe a shorter version of the description...First 100 characters maybe ? That would at-least protect from future datafeed consumers....
I agree with what you are thinking. The biggest effect would be if you can move them all onto one domain name (sub-folders) and setup 301 redirects. Keep hosting those domains forever since the 301s would stay only as long as you own the domains and continue to host them to serve the 301.
Moving them to sub-domains might be minimal / zero effect. I only see risk in doing that.
Ask yourself: Does it help the users in integrating all the content into one big website ?
I second all the responses from Ryan, Marie and Martin.
As a simple answer, I'll say if you are spending considerable amount of time, money and resources in the business, it can't hurt to have it renewed/registered for 5/10 years. It can't hurt right other then the extra $100 expense. If it bothers you, just renew it and move on
Once you are logged into OSE, use this link. This should be all your external links to the entire domain.
I hope this helps.
Very interesting question Donnie. Although pretty simple, it's a little complex at the same time.
Here's what I am thinking: It does make sense to have it unique on every PR, somewhat related to the theme of your PR. However, it's an about us...not about the PR. I think although right from the SEO perspective, it might not be 100% right from a PR/business standpoint.
My mind is also relating this to the fact that if we have a header and footer on every page, it's the same/duplicate content. Should that not be unique then ? I think Google is way past these things. Google understands what duplicate content is (to a very great extent) and I would not worry about it if you are doing less then 10 press releases a year. However, if you are doing something like 1 press release every week for the client, then it might make sense to have a relatively unique copy written.
But before you decide, I suggest you discuss it with a PR professional. Sometimes, for us, it get's difficult to think outside the box (SEO Box :).
If you have SEOMoz connected to your analytics and and you have it blocked in GA, you are all set
Margaret
I agree with Tina. I would also suggest you check your website for "keyword cannibalization". I suspect that you might also have this situation causing some of this. Solution by Rand at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization
If not, just concentrate on building some more content/links and it should be a matter of time. Watch your competition and see what you can find in their backlinks and content that you can't find in yours.
I hope this helps.
This question was there a few days ago as well (http://www.seomoz.org/q/mozcon-2012-videos)
Looks like they should be coming up pretty soon
Indeed is. It's Friday and I'm posting at seomoz while waiting for my flight at the airport...lol.
How many PDF files are we talking ? Are they indexed ? Is there unique text content or images that have text that google has OCR'D ? If yes, I would suggest keeping them on www and therefore keep it simple. Again, it depends how many PDF files in number as well as their size in gigs would make it an easy answer.
Since you said you are using Wordpress, try implementing http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-image-sitemap/ or another similar plugin. Once you do that, check in Webmaster Console how many images are indexed. You might also want to try doing a site:yourdomain.com search at images.google.com My guess is your images are indexed, but not ranking.
I agree with Greg. No need to worry about anything. These plugins take care of a lot of basic stuff + give you the ability to do template(d) Meta Tags (Titles and Descriptions) based on your Focus Keyword (Yoast). All In One SEO also does a great job doing basic SEO without too much effort and then give you the ability to do more with custom meta tags for each page and so on. The URLs won't be impacted. You can tweak the URLs with your permalink settings so as long as you are not doing that, these plugins won't impact it.
Is your blog blog.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/blog/ or yourblogdomain.com ? As Raymond recommended, I would suggest doing a cross domain canonical and you should be good. I hope this helps.
How big is your website Greg ?
Is your blog self hosted or hosted by Wordpress.com ? If it's the one in your profile, then it's hosted by Wordpress.com which would then limit your abilities but then probably shouldn't have server "stress" issues. If it's self hosted, then you can try some of these plugins and see if they help (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=spam) Depending upon the software being used to spam your blog, one of these for sure will be able to reduce the issues. So yes, it's automated tools that do all this comment spam.
Greg
A paywall is referring to content that is hidden behind a paid/membership system / member's only access. So if it's restricted to the bots, there's no SEO value.
It's like if you click on particular sections of SEOMoz, which are members only, they are not really open to the bots, in which case, there's no real direct traffic from Google hitting that page, so no SEO optimization needed. (Although there's a way to provide bots access to data behind your paywall and then it "could" be indexed. The question then becomes, would you want it indexed ?)
Anything that is restricted to the bots, not index-able...behind user/pass / paywalls can't be indexed (normally). So if that's the case, I would not worry about optimizing it for Search. It should still be optimized for users through :).
Greg The crawl is limited to 10,000 (Total) for all your 5 campaigns. As far as whether or not Roger-Bot should ignore Noindex - Here's what I think - I think the intent of that tool here is to find issue. In this scenario, Roger bot is making sure you are aware of the fact that some of those pages have a noindex. Roger does not know whether it's intentional or not. You can also do a deeper crawl and do a deep dive into your website by using Screaming Frog SEO Spider http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ It does a great job of doing a deep crawl when you want it since it's a desktop software and you can set all sorts of options and identify issues.
Andrew
I would essentially suggest to use the crawl report from SEOMoz as a starting point and see which ones translate into real issues and then the effort/reward/prioritize based on time and resources available as well as the importance of that change.
@Maximise is right-on, you can ignore the canonical "warnings". They are more like an FYI.
I agree with Donnie. I would also suggest you look at www.webmasterworld.com Forum.
If your video URL is www.mydomain.com/video/?bctid=1776978, then your canonical tag should be this as well. Canonical Tag will essentially help you get rid of possible duplicate content issue when the CMS generates URLs like: www.mydomain.com/video/?bctid=17769780&whatever=here www.mydomain.com/video/?bctid=17769780&display=fullscreen and so on. Does that help. ? in the Canonical Tag is not a problem.
Just give it 24hrs, you should be good by same time tomorrow. As you said, you have already submitted the XML sitemap and also updated the robots.txt and that should be it.
Is the homepage also 302'd ? Are the pages indexable ? Have you tried to do fetch as Google Bot ? Check the HTTP headers to see what it returns for the homepage as well as some example URLs linked from the homepage. Also check to make sure there's no meta noindex or anything like that. I would also check the robots.txt In my opinion, the 302 could be the least likely culprit, but it might be something either related to that or something from the above. I hope it helps. If not post or pm me the URL.