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For CSS/JS, I do it manually. Just combine the code from each of the files into 1 file. I also ran a search and found some possible tools they can assist you - http://code.google.com/p/scrinker/
For images, you will want to combine then via css sprites. Use a free CSS sprite generator (like this one) to help you generate the right code.
If its the places page that is ranking locally, it shouldn't affect it. Had a client in the same situation, made a new site and changed the places page URL to the new site and haven't had any problems.
G Docs is probably better. For all they know, you could be linking them to a virus file in DB.
So do the second part, resubmit the disavow list with appended comments.I would throw in a big comment at the first line explaining the situation as well.
Good luck!
If this is for reconsideration request, you should make a google doc of your xls and link them to it within the reconsideration request.
If its for disavowing links, read this article
You need to basically turn that .xls file into a .txt with proper disavow formatting. Add comments for each link that you attempted to contact and remove.
Seeing the same problem on chrome and firefox. However, the video starts working around the 56 minute mark.
My guess is that the video file is messed up and somehow is fixed around that time. Maybe they can reupload?
They are not taken into SEO consideration so you will never benefit from having them.
The negatives to having them is that competitors have easy access to all your keyword research, saving them work and letting them compete with you more easily.
So I agree with the SEO page tool - do remove meta keywords from your pages.
The top one is better. Faster processor, more HD space (1TB vs 500GB), same bandwidth, + RAID card (in case your HD is fried/hacked, have a backup).
In my experience, having an aged domain is a big bonus for ranking. If you say that there are only less than 30 links to a brand name, you should be able to change the link profile rather easily. If you had hundreds of links to an unrelated text, that could change the way G perceives your website relevance and make it more difficult to rank for your terms.
However, I've also seen sites rank very well from having getting 301 redirects from popular, completely unrelated websites. I would expect your to see something similar to this benefit.
Other factors that may affect the value of domain: length of blank site, change in registrar, theme of last site
So will it help, yes. Worth the cost? Depends on the price. There is a lot of speculation in the domain registration/dropped domains value of SEO and nothing concrete from G, but based on my experience, buying an existing domain > starting from scratch.
Does it still have links pointing to the site? I would do a link audit and see the quality of links pointing to the website (quality of backlinks, # of backlinks, anchor text). If they are links you would want to your new site, then it might be a worthwhile investment.
Yep, its the expanded knowledge graph (knowledge carousel). First time I saw that though it was awesome too haha
I know it also shows up when you search for an author's books and "things to do" searches. Haven't seen it for many other things.
Ideally yes. The only reason to use the H1 tag twice would be for screenreaders.
However, I'm fairly certain you will not see a change in rankings if you choose to repeat your H1 text twice on one page.
Woops, good call. I just assumed he would be forcing https - which is hands down the easiest method and takes care of the duplicate issue.
I don't think SEOMoz has that option but you can check out ahrefs and majesticseo - they both track backlinks gained/lost.
Good question. I don't think it would make much of a difference since you aren't diluting the keyword value of the heading tag. However, you can always just make a CSS class that mimics your H1/H2 look identically.
Have you checked the links that dropped? Maybe your link or that page just no longer exists. Likewise, G could be discrediting some negative links and therefor you aren't seeing them. There were many updates last month (October) and a few in September.
If your traffic is only slightly down, I would just continue to build high quality links to your site and not do anything drastic.
It should not affect your rankings. Just make sure you take out any references to insecure (http) files so that the pages are fully encrypted.
If you focus on getting links from high quality, relevant directories, that will not hurt you.
If the directory accepts every link that is submitted to them, that's when you are going to start running into trouble.
Tough call. In general, if used excessively, Google frown's upon it.
Excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you")
However, I've seen plenty of sites rank very well with just these kinds of links.
Link only to relevant pages that you believe supplement the purpose of your site
Make sure your link quantity is not unruly - if you have 300 links just thrown on a page, users trying to find a specific link will get confused. Try to add value to your links and make sure they are are manually reviewed.
If you really want to do it right, don't make a links page for the sake of reciprocal link exchanges. Instead, try to link to helpful sites naturally and ask them to reciprocate the link.
And of course, don't link to or get links from crappy sites.
I'm pretty sure you don't need to worry about that for duplicate content.
I've never used Shopify but believe they host the website for you. In that case I would ask them to fix this issue for you. Here is .htaccess code to remove trailing slash though:
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R,L]
remove bad links (via contacting webmasters and disavow - make sure you KNOW what links are low quality before removing)
continue writing unique, high quality content (about relevant topics that get searched and would ideally be shared)
build new high quality, relevant links (reach out to other sites that link to related content and give them a reason to link to you)
Follow those 3 and you should be golden.
Could be a www v non-www issue. I'd have to know the site URL to tell you for sure.
Just add more content to the product pages then.
If you have your site layout right, a review page shouldn't conflict with a product page... if anything it should promote it and funnel in better qualified leads.
Your code should work, add it then test a dynamic url via GWT > Health > Blocked URLs
You can also set custom parameters to either be tracked or not tracked via GWT > Configuration > URL Parameters
Not sure how you are checking. I clicked through the first 10-20 links and found a few that didn't redirect.
Definitely go through every link and double check.
Check this out for joomla canonical link setup
It won't be automatic and depends on how often google crawls your website. Link to your site from some social sites to make it happen faster. In addition, noindex the old site (via robots and a tag on the page). The more direction you give G, the faster it will fix all the links.
where? In general, you should write about things that people are searching for.
Cool general tip though: Go to industry related forums > newbie section > read some of the questions being posted and write up some awesome articles answering those questions.
'training' is definitely considered to be a synonym of 'course' (search for "~training") - just a matter of to what degree.
Run some queries in google and see how different they are. If you get the same results, they are exact synonyms. If the listings change, see how many of the same domains/pages are the same. That should give you a good idea whether they are considered close synonyms or not.
Add the word "temperature sensors" more often on site B (only has it once vs site A's 5 or 6 times)
B should rank higher, but the page content should be even more related to the term "temperature sensors"
Let me know in 1-2 weeks if your rankings change!
-Oleg
Its because your new site is a duplicate of your old site (the listings that appear in SERPs). I would 301 all the pages from the old version to the new one and create canonical links on the new pages. That should fix your problem.
I think it's due to all your links being dynamic. Look into rewriting your URLs to be more keyword friendly (and spider friendly).
In reality, you have more followed links and G knows that as well (since you have 60k+ indexed pages). I wouldn't worry about that metric from SEOMoz in your case.
Cheers,
Oleg
One thing to keep in mind is that you will probably lose your rankings for that 2-4 week period. So do it ASAP but not during a peak sales period.
Usually, you would only put links you want indexed into the sitemap.xml file. GWT is just letting you know some of those links you posted are being blocked by robots (and wont be indexed). Shouldn't hurt your rankings if you don't want to index those pages anyways.
Check out the Optimization > Sitemaps > # errors link in GWT for more details.
You all get similar links? It's a good strategy to find links that competitors have and try to get the same ones because..
you know they work since your competitor is ranking (strong links)
they are linking to sites very similar to yours so you would be a good fit (high relevance)
Not sure what you are asking...
i compared our (www.bighunter.net) and competitor pages.
Compared how? On what metrics?
Only 4 internal Followed Links are in result page .
What result page? 4 links on your site are followed? 4 external inbound links?
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If you can give more info, I can try and help you out more.
yes, yes, yes
I've added author to non article/blog post pages and had it appear in SERPs. Having the image in the listing usually improves CTR.
Stumbled upon some additional information and decided to update you...
According to the internationalization FAQ...
Q: <a name="q5"></a>Can I use automated translations?
A: Yes, but they must be blocked from indexing with the “noindex” robots meta tag. We consider automated translations to be auto-generated content, so allowing them to be indexed would be a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines.
So if you decide to autotranslate the text, you should use a noindex tag instead of the hreflang tag.
You can just use a canonical url and have both pages. Ideally, you would noindex the /tags/kw and link to /kw directly from everywhere but that would probably require a decent amount of work.
You can either 1) update current analytics profile with new url and use the compare feature in analytics or 2) export all of the old data in excel for data comparison and create a new analytics profile.
The 301 concept remains the same in both scenarios.
In general, you should either have the tag OR categories OR archives page indexed, the others noindexed. Having all 3 creates duplicate content issues (usually they have the same post content snippets in different order/page #s).
If you choose not to noindex them, you should mod_rewrite those URLs to looks like.com sacma.com/blog/tag/inbound-marketing/. And the /blog/ page should have a canonical set to itself to avoid dupe content.
If you properly set up a 301 redirect, the old site shouldn't be sending any tracking information as the page's content shouldn't be loading.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Make sure you change the URL inside Google Analytics settings as well (Load account > Admin > select profile > Profile settings)
If you are willing to pay, go with vBulletin.
phpBB would be the best free alternative (there are plenty of mods/plugins that can make the site very SEO friendly)
Hmm, you should either set a canonical url to the main site or noindex the other pages.
Since your main site already has all the information, the other subdomains won't rank for any terms anyways and you may be hit with duplicate content problems. Setting a canonical link will prevent the subdomains from ranking and any links built to that page will help your main site rank better. On the downside, the subdomains wont rank.
Depending on the plan you have, the spider crawlers 10k - 20k pages per campaign
Ah, misunderstood you. I don't think what you are trying to do is possible but you should ask someone who works for SEOMoz to confirm.
Well the subdomain should have its own folder where you can create you own robots.txt file for. That would only block the subdomain from being crawled.
If you don't have a separate folder, check out this Q&A.
Everything you need to know in video form from Matt Cutt's himself
Recap: underscores combine the two words (apple_pie.htm = applepie) and dashes indicate a separator (apple-pie.htm = apple pie). So stick to dashes but it really doesn't affect seo.
No, stay as on topic as possible - just focus on getting higher quality links. If I understand you correctly, you already have 3k links and still want to improve you ranking. This tells me that you probably have a lot of low-med quality links and you should now focus your attention on getting high authority links.
News sites, authority health blogs, I would participate in health related forums instead of a random edu one, write an educational resource that cites other authoritative websites, contact webmasters in related niches and get backlinks from them, etc. Focus on quality over quantity.
Edit: Yeah, what Keri said. You need great content to get those high authority links you need to get your rankings to the next level. Especially in the uber competitive acne niche.