If we decide to put a variety of our images under a creative commons license, can we require that individuals who choose to utilize these images link back to us?
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Can you require link attribution under the creative commons license?
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How to determine the correct number of ad units post-Panda
What guidelines are you using to determine the correct number of ad units? Also is it number of units per page or the size of the ads (visually)?
Any additional guidance or links you can point me to regarding ads in a post-Panda world would be helpful.
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Best way to condense content on a page?
We want to add a video transcript to the same page as the video, but it doesn't really fit the design of the page. Is it fine to use CSS/DIVs to either have a "click to read full transcript" or a scroll box?
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How to pull data for number of tweets per page?
Where is it possible to find a total number of tweets by URL?
So, for example, domain.com/page1.html 2 tweets
domain.com/page2.html has 20 tweets, etc.
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Free tools to discover traffic for a website?
Are there any free tools to learn traffic data (especially organic traffic data) from a site or blog?
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RE: What is the difference between "external backlinks" & "referring domains" on Majestic SEO?
I've noticed some cases where the referring domains are more than external backlinks. How would that be possible?
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What is the difference between "external backlinks" & "referring domains" on Majestic SEO?
According to Majestic SEO's glossary, a "Referring domain, also known as "ref domain", is a domain from which a backlink is pointing to a page or link."
Given this definition, I'm not sure what an external backlink is?
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Is it possible to 301 re-direct an entire subfolder on a subdomain?
So, for example,
subdomain.domain/folder
subdomain.domain/folder2
Is it possible to set up a 301-re-direct for an entire folder on a subdomain?
If so, how? What is the correct code for this?
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Does having a high number of reciprocal links hurt you?
I know reciprocal linking isn't ideal, but does it actually hurt your site? Is there any penalty for having a high number of reciprocal links?
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Why is noindex more effective than robots.txt?
In this post, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/restricting-robot-access-for-improved-seo, it mentions that the noindex tag is more effective than using robots.txt for keeping URLs out of the index. Why is this?
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Does a mobile site count as duplicate content?
Are there any specific guidelines that should be followed for setting up a mobile site to ensure it isn't counted as duplicate content?
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Does link text "more information" have more weight than a normal link?
Does the anchor text "more information" hold any additional weight than any other anchor text? My suspicion is no, but just wanted to confirm.
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Why is Adwords Keyword Tool showing zero search volume for popular keywords?
When I try to ascertain search volume for the the words "pills" "drugs" and "medicine" it is showing "-" for all types of search volume, including phrase, exact, and broad. Why is this?
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Best way to find new studies?
I'm wondering how sites break news without dedicating too much time researching.
Are there any tools that you use? For example, if you wanted to be one of the first people to know when a celebrity was diagnosed with a health condition, how would you go about doing that?
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What does "base" link mean here?
On http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394, it says:
rel="canonical"
can be used with relative or absolute links, but we recommend using absolute links to minimize potential confusion or difficulties. If your document specifies a base link, any relative links will be relative to that base link.Where would a document specify a base link? And how?
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How much of an issue is it if a site is somehow connected to a site that was penalized by Google?
I am working with someone that is about to launch a new site, and one of the sites was affected by the Panda update. Does it matter if the two sites are connected? Share the same hosting provider and same Google Webmaster's account?
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How important is adding Google Analytics for SEO?
Ann Smarty mentions in a post (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/200-parameters-in-google-algorithm/15457/) the addition of Google Analytics adds SEO value.
We have a different analytics tool, do you think it is necessary to add Analytics? How important do you think it is?
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Best way to find all url parameters?
In reference to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/improved-handling-of-urls-with.html, what is the best way to find all of the parameters that need to be addressed?
Thanks!
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Questions regarding Google's "improved url handling parameters"
Google recently posted about improving url handling parameters http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/improved-handling-of-urls-with.html
I have a couple questions:
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Is it better to canonicalize urls or use parameter handling?
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Will Google inform us if it finds a parameter issue? Or, should we have a prepare a list of parameters that should be addressed?
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Parameter handling (where to find all parameters to handle)?
Google recently said they updated their parameter handling, but I was wondering what is the best way to know all of the parameters that need "handling"? Will Google Webmaster find them? Should the company know based on what is on their site? Thanks!
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Javascript bad for SEO?
If we utilize javascript to pull information from a database to display on a site, is that bad for SEO? Can search engines still see the data?
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Does it hurt your site to syndicate content on other sites?
Does publishing an article from your site on other sites hurt your site if you require a link back to your site?
If website B, C, and D publish an article found site A, but they link back to site A, does that hurt or help site A?
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RE: What is the best metric to evaluate keyword difficulty?
That is great advice, but difficult to scale when evaluating thousands of keywords...
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What is the best metric to evaluate keyword difficulty?
Which is better seomoz's keyword difficulty tool or wordtracker's KEI index? Or, do you have another metric you utilize when evaluating a large list of keywords?
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RE: Does content have a shelf life for link building efforts?
What do you think causes the "freshness factor." Someone asked and I wasn't sure how best to explain it. Thanks!
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Does content have a shelf life for link building efforts?
Do you think that content (that doesn't have a date attached) has a shelf life? Especially content that is effectively timeless such as a quiz?
I've noticed in my link building efforts that most links are achieved within the first couple of weeks, and that there seems to be a point of diminishing returns. Why do you think that may be?
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How important is keyword density?
Several leading experts say that keyword density isn't all that important. What do you think of keyword density? Do you incorporate it into your day to day activities?
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Removing large section of content with traffic, what is best de-indexing option?
If we are removing 100 old urls (archives of authors that no longer write for us), what is the best option?
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we could 301 traffic to the main directory
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de-index using no-index, follow
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404 the pages
Thanks!
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Ad units or % of ads vs content?
When looking at content "above the fold" is it more important to look at ad units or the visual % of unique content to ads? For example, if there are 6 small ad units or one large ad unit that takes up 30% of the page, which is better for search engines?
In general, is 50% unique content above the fold with 50% ads adequate or what % do you try to optimize for?
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Setting a 404, best practices
Is it enough to just delete a page, or is it necessary to do something else to 404 a page correctly?
Is there a great link to explain how to set http status codes?
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Is 404'ing a page enough to remove it from Google's index?
We set some pages to 404 status about 7 months ago, but they are still showing in Google's index (as 404's). Is there anything else I need to do to remove these?
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RE: What to do with content that performs well in SERPs, but is dynamically generated?
I can't provide the exact url, but the dynamic content is a customized search result. User data seems to show that users prefer the content. The CTR is very high as is pageviews, and low bounce rate and they are some of the top pages in GWT. We would de-index all of the urls, but they drive a large percentage of traffic to the site.
Thank you.
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RE: What to do with content that performs well in SERPs, but is dynamically generated?
I can't provide the exact url, but the dynamic content is a customized search result. User data seems to show that users prefer the content. The CTR is very high as is pageviews, and low bounce rate and they are some of the top pages in GWT. We would de-index all of the urls, but they drive a large percentage of traffic to the site.
Thank you.
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De-indexing search results noindex, follow or noindex, nofollow
If search results were not originally blocked with robots.txt, and need to be de-indexed, is it better to use noindex, nofollow or noindex, follow?
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What to do with content that performs well in SERPs, but is dynamically generated?
A new client developed an application that generates dynamic content. They were hit hard from Panda, and I believe it is in part due to this application.
About 500 of the urls from this application perform well in SERPs (rank well, drive traffic to the site, low bounce rate, high page views per visit, etc). And there are an additional 9,000 urls (and growing) in the index that don't drive any organic traffic.
We are thinking of making the 500 url that perform well into static pages and de-indexing the rest. What are your thoughts on this?
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Where is microdata (schema.org) already being used by major search engines?
I know Google recently launched their recipes search, but apart from this where else are you seeing microdata being used?
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How important is it to create a subdomain?
I was just reading an article about how Hubpages claims they pulled through from Panda by dividing their content up on subdomains. I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar success?
Also, Panda aside, how important do you think it is to separate different types of content out on separate subdomains?
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URL Structure "-" vs "/"? Are there any advantages to one over the other?
An example would be domain.com/keyword/keyword2 vs domain.com/keyword-keyword2
Are there any advantages / disadvantages to one over the other?
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Is site:domain.com + keyword a good indicator of the quality of a page?
Are the results provided by site:domain.com + keyword a good indicator of the quality of certain pages?
For example, should the first result be more relevant, have a higher number of links, etc than the second result?
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How important is quality control for UGC?
In this post, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/ugc-gets-an-a-on-google-test-with-panda-update-12260, it mentions that UGC content performed well after the Panda.
One of Google's 23 questions mentions spelling errors. I am wondering how important it is to ensure there aren't any spelling errors or grammar errors in UGC content post-panda?
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With Panda, which is more important, traffic or quantity?
If you were to prioritize how to fix a site, would you focus on traffic or quantity of urls? So for example, if 10% of a site had thin content, but accounted for 50% of the traffic and 50% of the site had a different type of thin content but only accounted for 5% of organic traffic, which would you work on first? I realize both need to be fixed, but am unsure of which to tackle first (this is an extremely large site).
Also, I am wondering if the simply the presence of thin content on a domain can affect a site even if it isn't receiving any traffic.
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What is the largest page size a searchbot will crawl?
When setting up pagination, what should we limit the page size to? When will a searchbot stop crawling a particular page?
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RE: Best tools to find topics (not keywords) to write about?
They are a media site but not an on-demand media site.
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Metrics to measure the quality of content?
When trying to decide what is low quality content, page views & bounce rate are the main indicators I use for pages already on site.
But, how do you measure the quality of content that you are trying to produce? Is it entirely subjective?
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RE: Best tools to find topics (not keywords) to write about?
Twitter & news sites wouldn't work for this particular client as they plan their editorial calendar months in advance. Any other suggestions? thanks!
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Best tools to find topics (not keywords) to write about?
What are the best ways to find exact topics to write about? Tools? Forums? Any suggestions are welcome!
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De-indexing thin content & Panda--any advantage to immediate de-indexing?
We added the nonidex, follow tag to our site about a week ago on several hundred URLs, and they are still in Google's index. I know de-indexing takes time, but I am wondering if having those URLs in the index will continue to "pandalize" the site. Would it be better to use the URL removal request? Or, should we just wait for the noindex tags to remove the URLs from the index?
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RE: Would this be considered keyword cannabalization?
Wouldn't technique #1 described here http://www.searchenginejournal.com/pagination-and-duplicate-content-issues/7204/ be an example of keyword cannibalization as well?