And that is why so many developers prefer to work in flash or silverlight. HTML will never be a standard as long as major browsers only support parts of it. Those development languages include the validation in the complier.

It is only asking for misuse of a schema to release a 'standard' with little documentaion and no validation. Arrh, the good ond days of IE6 and every second line of HTML being a test for what the browser is.

I have been looking at the data that Roger is reporting for the duplicate content and in ALL cases there is either a 301 or a NoIndex. So now I do not know why Roger is reporting them as a duplicate, robots should not see the second entry.

I did not think of looking at the csv report. I see it now thanks Ryan. There should be a soft 404 handler in place to process the bad urls, I will have to see why it is not working.

With tumblr, I was looking for an easy way to add a blog to the site.

The RSS is coming from tumblr as is all the content.

When we specify Tags in tumblr it creates urls e.g. mypage.com/article/tag1 mypage.com/article/tag2 mypage.com/article/tag3 which all contain the content of mypage.com/article with out a canonical to the original. It is a really strange non-seo friendly approach, and so I wondered if anyone had similar problems.

I removed the links and just left the text so these will cut and paste now. It confuses me where Roger found the links.

Thanks for running the Xenu scan. I have tried other site scanner and come up blank.

If you only have a few pages and then lots of the same with just a different id you could mark it as parameter in Google Webmaster Tools as Barry Suggests and add the canonical as John suggests. The one thing you would need to do in those cases is change your 302 to 301 on http://www.arenaflowers.com/flowers-fun/flowers/message page when it redirects to home otherwise you will loose link juice.

I would also suggest you run your site through http://gtmetrix.com/ as the image load times were up to 15secs and print.css is returning a 404 error.  You should also run your home page through the On Page reports on SEOMoz.

It Monday and Roger has done another crawl and now I have a couple of issues:

1. I have two pages showing 404->302 or 500 because these links do not exist. I have to fix the 500 but the 404 is trapped correctly.

http://www.oznappies.com/nappies.faq & http://www.oznappies.com/store/value-packs/\

The issue is when I do a site scan there is no anchor text that contains these links. So, what I would like to find out is where is Roger finding them. I cannot see any where in the Crawl Report that tells me where the origin of these links is.

2. I also created a blog on Tumblr and now every tag and rss feed entry is producing a duplicate content error in the crawl stats. I cannot see anywhere in Tumblr to fix this issue.

Any Ideas?

I was in the process of adding videos to the site and when I saw the whiteboard Friday with the Bing interview, I thought this would be a good time to add the markup. Since the examples are very limited, I wanted to ensure my interperation complied, but alas it looks like I will have to wait for Google to index the page and see what happens. It does surprise me that they release a 'standard' without having a validator available. I have also posted on Microsoft connect to see if I can get a beta tool via MSDN.

Thanks for looking up those references for me Donnie.

Hi Donnie,

I know that one, but it does not test the schema.org markup as yet. Google makes note that although they support the new markup, the current rich snippets tool does not and they hope to have a new one out shortly.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-schemaorg-search-engines.html
states the following :

4) Test your markup using the rich snippets
testing tool.
...
rich snippets previews are not yet shown for schema.org
markup. We’ll be adding this functionality soon. 6/5/11

Coming from the other side of the fence as a developer and business owner and not an SEO person, I find that this is a great resource channel to discuss ideas. I will ask questions at time that will be basic, sometimes because I see different view on here or have a answer from the external SEO company we use. I like to know why something is done, not just that its is done. There are many responses I scan on here to find that information, and if I cannot find it I ask. Having spent many years on cutting edge software, I am used to asking questions in forums and just getting silence, it is refreshing in here to see prompt answers, support (thumbs up and good answer icons) and discussion on various topics.

The title of this discussion prompts me to say: 'The only wrong question is the one not asked .When you assume you know the answer to every problem then you become the problem.'

I was searching Bing and Google for a validator for schema.org but I can not seem to find one. It seems a little odd for them to promote and use the new standard but not give developers a way to ensure the markup is correctly parsed.

I am looking for something like the rich snippets tool Google has.

Thanks for that info. I will look at that option.

Unless the load balancing is causing your system to 404 or 500 I cannot see any SEO impact. We did have to change the way we handled session state when we switched to load balancing to ensure state was valid on our shopping cart calls but that is more a developer issue than SEO. Most major hosts now tend to use VM, Cloud or other resource load balancing behind the scenes to keep their costs down without impact to SEO of their clients.

We currently rate #10 on google.com.au on Modern Cloth Nappies and the #4 site is a dead link to a page http://www.modernclothnappies.org/ who's total content is:

Index of /

<address>Apache Server at www.modernclothnappies.org Port 80</address>

<address></address>

<address>They have been at that rank for a quiet a while and even the cached version is full of broken links.</address>

<address></address>

<address>It seems Google is quick to jump on low value sites or ones with duplicate content, but what about stale links and sites? Has anyone else had similar experiences of being out ranked by domant or dead sites?</address>

Have a look at this video from 'whiteboard Friday' about the schema.org markup that Bing, Yahoo & Google are now using to describe content such as Author. It will most likely be more useful in the long run as the big 3 adopt the standard and give ranking bonus to sites that use it.

I am having similar issues where a keyword will be top 10, then show not in top 50 then go to 9 all in the same 24 hour period. It has been timing out a lot lately too. I tend to use the weekly campaign scan now and check Google for any large movements.

Since the site has been stale for sometime, have a look at the crawl graph to get an idea of how often Google visits and follow Ryan's advice to give it a nudge.

I Agree with Egol, and actually http://www.videoconference.com.au/ and http://www.videoconferencing.com.au/ are both parked domains and probably for sale. Check http://whois.domaintools.com for owner details.

Our competitors, good to know what the chatter is about.

If you only show the car image they were originally looking for and also the current ones available in 'mustang' then that would work for cross or upselling the customer. It could also give them the idea to get in quick if they like a particular vehicle, before it sells to. You could get fancy and track the click throughs on a give vehicle and show a heat map of level of interest, but that only works if you get reasonable interest on most vehicles.

It helps a little, but I have only a fraction of the sites showing up (even in export)

Our site has a lot of non-followed links showing up on the latest SEOMoz Competitive Link Analysis update and I would like to know how to get a list of the sites that aresettin no-follow.

It does depend on if you have similar cars to sell. If so you could create a page with links to other vehicles that a buyer may be interested in and then add a 301 redirect to the new page. Depending on what your site developers are using, they could include an optional heading to specify that 'car xyz is no longer available, but we have many others' where xyz is determined from the refering page. This would give the new page where you have similar vehicle SEO juice and keep your customers infromed of what is in stock.

I would look at getting all the on page perfect for the chosen keywords.

Making sure the urls target those keywords and all the canonical tags are set up to avoid losing juice to upper/lower case issues.

Having good human appreciated headings but still using keywords without overuse.

Get the links and blogs rolling with good anchor text.

See where you competitors are making errors in these areas and just do it better.

Find the keywords that provide the best traffic (your competitors will be using them) and focus on the best 2-3 word phrases.

Most of all keep it white-hat, or the hard work will be short lived.

Our business www.oznappies.com is ranking on page 1 & 2 for the main keywords within 2 months using that strategy and following reports and tools on SEOMoz. We have an SEO doing the links and blogs and I am doing the on-page work.

The linkdiagnosis tool was very helpful - Thanks.

I have Google reporting different capitalization as duplicates, so now I ensure all pages have a with the lowercase version of the page. This ensures Google does not split the juice between, what it thinks are two different pages. It is a spin off from when Fresh-fish.hmtl could refer to a different page to fres-fish.html etc.

so, the two terms being accepted as different keywords is just mimicing how Google handles these terms. Check Google Webmaster tools to ensure no pages are being reported as duplicates, or let Roger do his weekly scan and check the results.

I looked at wordpress, but I am having trouble getting it to play nicely with MVC.

I saw the note today that the link index did it's monthly update, yet our site www.oznappies.com still only shows 1 linking root domain and I know there are many more links now.

What do I need to do to get open Site Explorer to use the latest data?

I enter our site, create the report and only see old information from 6 may 2011's link index.

I have the same issue with competive link finder, links I know we have on the sites listed for our competitors are not showing for our site.

Is there any way you know how to host a tumblr in a sub-directory or do we need to get a custom written blog app for our site?

Is it possible to get a subdomain blog.site.com that is on tumblr to count toward site.com. I hoped I could point it in webmaster tools like we do www but alas no.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The content is only hidden in the form of jquery collapsing panel via $(this).slideToggle() so that some content is displayed to the visitor and then replaced 10 secs later with new content. This is common in flash where a given piece of screen will be replaced with changing content.

How do you suggest this type of changing content should be delivered to make it SEO friendly? I thought of having javascript collapse the panel onload by that makes the screen resize and do nasty things in Explorer.

I have initial content that is dislayed for 10secs and then collapsed and replaced by a div that was hidden (display:none). Will the hidden text be used by Google or will they consider it as page stuffing? If so, is there any recommendations on how to handle this. The goal was to maxamize screen real estate for the human visitor without adding clutter.

If you are already looking at a site rework under aspnet the have a look at incorperating this with MVC which offers a much more structured approach and allows handling of redirects 301 and produces much faster loading pages without all the cookie state stuffing of straight aspnet.  It also handles security much better with attributes to control protocol and access rights.

If you must have a seperate page for each product rather than the 16G/32G options then you may be able to describe them differently rather than cut an past the text. There are many ways to talk about the features of a given product.

Alternatly, are you able to use an opening page to to talk about the specific features of the iPhone and branch to the version the customer wants to purchase?

We have a site based in Australia that has been using the .com domain. Recently the .com.au became available and we purchased it and use a 301 redirect. Does having a site hosted off-shore and a .com rather than .com.au for a company affect the ratings in google.com.au for Australian traffic?