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Hey Ruth!

Thanks so much for the response and answers to my questions. You helped solidify what I was already thinking. I was wondering why the rel=next and rel=prev tags weren't being used. I thought for sure SEOmoz would be on the forefront of new on-page SEO techniques. Totally get the whole "do as we say, not as we do" mantra though.

One question though: You said you noindex category pages' pagination because of duplicate content; that the items also exist in the main blog's pagination as well. But, don't the items on the main category landing pages exist in the main blog as well? So wouldn't that be duplicate content as well?

BTW - Congrats on the new role as the Lead SEO, must be exciting!

Thanks,

Ken

Hey Everyone

My brain isn't working (only had 1 cup of coffee so far - #2 on it's way) this morning and I could use some help.

We're creating a blog on a site for a client of ours and I've been looking at the SEOmoz blog for best practices when it comes to the implementation of pagination, canonical tags and noindex.

My questions:

1. There is no use of the canonical tag on the main blog page or any of the paginated pages but it is being used on blog post pages. Why not use it on the main blog pages as well? I'm assuming because the blog pages are always changing with different content there is not much point?
2. Paginated pages in the category sections i.e. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/1?page=2 are noindexed but paginated pages in the main blog section i.e. http://www.seomoz.org/blog?page=2 are not. Is this because of a duplicate content concern since the posts in the category sections are in the main blog section as well? If that's the case, why wouldn't the main category page i.e.http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/1 be noindexed as well?
3. What's the reason for noindexing the "Show # Posts" pages i.e.http://www.seomoz.org/blog?show=5 ? I'm assuming another concern of duplicate content?

Any insights into these questions would be greatly appreciated and would help with the implementation of our clients blog.

Thanks,

Ken

Thanks Miranda

That's awesome news!

I think seeing the growth rate of Facebook "likes" and new Twitter followers week over week would be amazing. Seeing fan interactions with FB posts and tweets week over week would be cool to.

Ken

Just wondering if there are plans to integrate the social media reporting section with the new "Reports" section.

Having a social section in the new Reports interface that could show weekly/monthly/yearly Facebook and Twitter interactions would be awesome to have all in one PDF report with the rest of the reporting options.

Hey Ruth!

Thanks so much for the response and answers to my questions. You helped solidify what I was already thinking. I was wondering why the rel=next and rel=prev tags weren't being used. I thought for sure SEOmoz would be on the forefront of new on-page SEO techniques. Totally get the whole "do as we say, not as we do" mantra though.

One question though: You said you noindex category pages' pagination because of duplicate content; that the items also exist in the main blog's pagination as well. But, don't the items on the main category landing pages exist in the main blog as well? So wouldn't that be duplicate content as well?

BTW - Congrats on the new role as the Lead SEO, must be exciting!

Thanks,

Ken