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Mike is right

If its s e-commerce site (selling to the public) that is a very typical pattern, Monday being the busiest day  with the weekend being quieter.

I think the important thing is not to do a knee jerk reaction here, if you don't migrate to https correctly you will be  in a world of pain!

Lets remember, right now it is a very weak signal and check your competition,  are any of them https? probably not, so right now you're not losing anything.

Its the long term that worries me, it seems google is planning to strengthen this signal over time, the question is at what rate and ultimate how strong will it get ( my gut says it will never be a huge signal, but then every little helps).

In my view moving from http to https is the same as any migration ( to a different url or new platform with different url structure), if done correctly it should be painless but if done wrong can be disastrous.  The other factor is if you have absolute links for elements pointing to http: they all need fixed,  if you miss any then that page will flagged an insecure to the user.

Something I'm unsure about, I thought https is slower than http (and one of the main reason people don't https their whole site), maybe someone with more knowledge about https/ssl can correct me here.

that page seem fine, and it also indexed by google, so I'm not sure whats the story with that.  Might be best to contact seomoz support (help@moz.com I think)

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you have to give them a good reason to remove your from the blacklist, if you have been spamming the wiki, then I don't think they will remove the ban.  You have to propose the removal from the link above giving reasons why.

SEOmoz's bot does not take instruction from No-follow, it crawls your whole site, unless you use robots.txt

Also I think its bad practice to No-follow internally,  better to use no index on the page, if you don't want it in the serps.

If most of your users come from 1 region is there any point having a CDN?  Or is it better (fast) for https?

I can confirm chris is correct, our crappy CMS does the same thing (for certain pages), and the pages are not indexed

Our system does this and I think its a bad Idea (for us any way),  our target market is UK and Ireland.  But when google was crawling our pages they were only getting the US version of the site, so all that nice text we had for the UK and Ireland pages was was missed by google (the US page was the systems default page, with no custom text).  I just copied and pasted our UK & Ireland text to the US default page, then we started to rank for some of the targeted keywords.

Now our problem is that is google bot is getting the prices us dollers instead of Pounds or Euros so for some of our rankings it picking up meta data and showing $ prices in the serps for the UK.

So my advice is be careful, it might seem like a good idea for users, but google will only see the US version of the site

To answer you questions:

• How will Google index these pages? Will it index the www.mywebsite.com (Japan version) in its Asia archives and the www.mywebsite.com (US version) in its North American archives?

It will only index US version for all

• Will Google penalise us for showing different content across Geo-locations on the same URL?

To my knowledge no  (we used they system for 3 years and rank modestly)

• What if a URL is meant to show content only in Japan?

Not sure what you mean, but you need different urls for different content

• Are there any other issues that we should be looking out for?

See what I said above

he means when you manuly search google gives you personal results that can be very different to what everyone else gets

so if you search oasis-land.com, the url is :

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=oasis-land.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs

add &pws=0 to the end of that url

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=oasis-land.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs**&pws=0**

that will give you results with personal results turned off

note: we track .co.uk and have had no problems with moz's tracking

I have seen this before, it looks like <a class="attribute-value">http://www.osce.gob.pe</a> has been hacked, but you have said that you have tried contacting them to tell them they have been hacked.  Looks like they are only showing google your scrapped content but redirecting everyone else ( its a broken redirect for me), i'm guessing the hacked site has a higher authority than your site and that is why its out ranking you.  This seems to be a common trick for these guys to make a quick buck for a few weeks before google catches on whats going on an corrects the serps.

Maybe try reporting it on googles forums, maybe a mod will escalate it for you.

Keep us updated

the mozbot updates about every 2 weeks, but the data its based on is from a few weeks before that (over a few weeks)

So best case it will be 4 weeks before the mozbot will show your changes to your PA/DA, but more likely 6-8 weeks

I was having the same problem ( for me it seemed to be Bings ads bot) .  I used this guide below and it seems to filter out most of the bot visits.

http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2013/09/05/filter-bots-google-analytics/#sr=g&m=o&cp=or&ct=-tmc&st=(opu qspwjefe)&ts=1403614027

check his "Link Anchor Text" via OSE, see how natural the back links are (he might be using a lot of anchor text in these new links)

You could also use "Just-Discovered" in OSE, to see what he is up to.

If hes buying links and breaking penguin rules I wouldn't be that worried,  but it is always worrying when you see a competitor start to seo stuff, some day he might start doing it right

I tried it again about 20 mins later, and its now working

google might recognise it as an affiliate link and therefore unnatural and so reduce or remove its seo value.

just want to check, does it says that "caribbean-peach" is dupped with "lipstick-plum-red" pages?

if so that's because they are very similar which can trigger a dup warning. Canonical can not fit that as they are different pages.

maybe a cropped screen shot would make it clearer

Its sucks, but they will get caught out eventually (as Christina says it happening already).

Its a temping trick to try and copy, but they have such a head start it would be hard to beat them at there own game.  Best concentrate on white hat backlinks, then when the reckoning comes, you will have the head start on them

I think Screaming Frog will tell you the page it found the weird url, then you can check the source, and find out whats producing that link.

"noindex" takes precedents over "index" so basicly if it says "noindex" anywhere google will follow that.

1: not sure, but it opens ok.   but if you submit to WMTs it would warn you if there is a problem

2: to my knowledge, its ok to have more than 1 sitemap (seen a few places have 2 with no issue)

I agree with Tim, Moz's PA/DA is based purely on links  and does not consider spam pages, google's PR (that is shows to the public) is very unreliable.

Google may have missed those links , or maybe have simply devalued them, we just don't know.  But what we do know its the type of practice that google is tying to stop, so someday they might do a big penguin update an start penalizing sites with back links like that.  My own rule would be if is easy for humans to spot then it either easy for the algo to spot or some day the algo will spot it.

Yahoo is directory is different as you pay to be considered to get on their list, so its not a direct pay for a link.  But I think because yahoo is a trusted site they get away with it, I don't think a no name directory would get away with the same trick.  Also I would question how good a yahoo directly really is  (some people this its worth the money, others think its not)

ok I did a quick screaming fog and I think I have an idea, you just have to follow the breadcrumbs

You said in you example "In Links 9", you need to find out what those pages are and follow it back to the point of origin As I think its just one bad link that cause this nested link effect.

eg

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/HeutinkICT.aspx

is being linked from

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/StationtoStation.aspx  (as well as others)

You just have to follow that trail till you find the source of the problem

Your of course right, aiming to have the best user experience for the user is the best long term strategy for ranking in surps ( and building a loyal customer base)

I also completely agree, blog content should be for users not for search engines (should have made that clear in my original post).  I tell people unless you make a real effort in you blog to make good content that people want to read/ link to, then the blog is pointless. I would use the "first link rule" as an technical example as why a crappy keyword blog is pointless ( was telling this to a small business owner just last night).  Reading Michaels comments made me think twice.

Sorry I can't give you a link for these "SEO experts" as it normally from cold callers selling SEO services, and it part of their package.

I would add, at best case scenario its a PR7 page divided by 600+ links, so the actual page authority passed would be very small.  Then consider your link would be at the bottom of that list so you would getting even less, if any.

In (very) short, "Seo"  does not cover all what Moz now does, it has expanded from that. (+ there are other reasons, see article above)

So yeah this has nothing to do with rich snippets,  goojle is just figuring the product count.  So if you look at the example size, they have the text showing "Showing 53 products"  so google has worked out that there are 53 products,  but on your site it says "showing 1 - 52 of 156",  note it does not say "products" so google not picking up the meaning  of "showing 1 - 52 of 156",  I would guess just by adding "products" to the end of that text, google will pick that up.

Hopefully I'll never be in the situation you found yourselves in, but a great read and now I know what to expect if I ever do (touch wood).

This might have been better as a youmoz post than a forum post btw.

Generally the reason is it was the bad links is what was making you rank so well in the first place, now they are removed you don't get the benefit they where giving you.

I had a quick look at you backlink profile with OSE, and I can see some good links there (channel 4), but also aload of junk directories.  OSE just does not consider the quality of the back link so in the stats you may have better PA and DA but when you look at the backlinks your competitors might have better qualty links (not spam)

also there is a chance that the "seo company" you used might have disavowed some good links by mistake, but if they are any good they would not have done that.

I'm not sure but  I think the Moz bot will report dup error even if the page is canonised. If they are canonised then they are fine (and screaming frog is not reporting them).  Best thing is to randomly pick some example links its reporting as dups and check them out manually see if they are correct

Just to follow up, on our site we have on categories that have more than one page it says "Showing 1 to 24 of 32 results ", and in the serps it says "Results 1 - 24 of 32"

For categories with one page , its say eg "Showing 15 Item(s)" and the serps says 15 "Item"

But for a category that has only 3 products "Showing 3 Item(s)" the serps does not show anything, so there is no guarantees that it will work.

(on a side note, I must change the way we display the number of products, "results" and "items" are not really the right terms )

First you want to decide if you want open-source vs a closed platform.  As a general rule open source need more work and at least some technical knowledge, but there are cheap/free and you have complete freedom with them.  Closed platforms are generally easier to setup and easier to maintain but are more expensive (up front costs at least) and because its closed you have little freedom ( at the mercy of the company the develops it)

Note that is a very general rule and every platform is different and there is always the argument (normally put forward from closed platforms) that open source is can be  expensive in the long term because the costs of upgrading/maintaining it, espically if you our sourcing that work out.

I have used Zen-cart alot. big bonus is its free, its got a nice community (but not huge) and its a decent platform, but can require a bit of work to get it the way you want. big negative is that it can't do stock control for products with options eg you have a shirt that comes in an option of red or black, it just tracks the shirt stock not the amounts of red and black shirts.  If you are not using it for stock control then its not an issue (as I believe they are working on a fix for this) .   Over all Zen-cart is a good start if you have a low budget.

Starting to use Magneto, and even though its also "open source" it frees alot more commercial than zen-cart, but has a far bigger community and tons of extensions.  It still need a bit of work to get setup but it alot more flexible than zencart and has more 3rd party modules. There is a reason its the biggest E-commerce system in the world.

Never used Open-cart, but I did look into it and it looks nice ( but a know of a competitor that moved from open-cart to magento enterprise)

Another one I looked at is visualsoft, people that I know use it are happy with it as is easy to use and because it a closed platform you don't have to worry about alot of the technical stuff.  The basic price for it is ok, but they really  get you with the addon and can soon add up on price (that and you don't have the freedom of opensource is the reason I did not go with them)

I'm sure there are more platforms that are just as good if not better that the ones above, but I can only tell you about the ones I have experience with 

The title  is "Our ranking as not returned after penalty, Why" So I would take that their rankings are not well

When they said looking at "Moz tools we have great results" I took that to mean PA/DA, Domain trust etc.

it can take an month or two for it to be picked up.  The current crawl data was collected over May 19th to June 26th

(more info here: http://moz.com/products/api/updates)

But if the link is  on an obscure site or buried super deep, it might not pick it up at all

Great Answer EGOL.  You should write a blog post on moz, your insight  would be very helpful to a lot of people (including me).

I think there is a good chance that you getting a Bot crawling your site and thats were most of you high bounce rate is coming from.  As Bas said try and narrow down where the us traffic is coming from.

I have had problems with bingads bot giving me huge bounce rates, but it was easy to spot as they all come from one town in the US same browser, 100% bounce rate.

there is http://www.majesticseo.com/ which alot of people use (and like/prefer).

Moz's crawl is not perfect, but for me it does the job  (the links it misses most likely don't have much, if any weight anyway).

Can't blame you for that.  Just have to keep checking out your posts in the forum

if there are no links from the main site (or root domain) to the development site, then there is no way to find the sub domain.

Even if it was on the main domain in a sub-folder, but had no internal links to it, the Moz bot could not find it

As Dean says, we can't see that link, but I would say that having a bigger PA/DA does not mean you will rank better.  PA/DA do not take into account the quality of the pages that are linking to you (bar their own PA/DA), so you could have a very high PA/DA but its mostly junk links.  Also their on site seo could be better for that keyword or they have some match text anchor links for that keyword.  There are also a load of other factors.

Simply it takes a while

The last update was on the 20 June, and that is based on data crawled from the 4-6 weeks  before that date, so there is a high chance you redirects have not been picked up on the current crawl data.  The next update is due 24 July, so you should have been picked up in that one.

http://moz.com/products/api/updates

Yeah, moz know about it:

http://health.moz.com/

I'm guessing you mean the seomoz, bot crawling your site?  If so why do you want to crawl them separately, because google won't, they are on the same domain.

to answer your question, I don't think it can be done

Personally I think its madness to "no follow" any internal links.  When you "no follow" you are throwing link juice out the window, the days of sculpting links ( the practice of "no following" some links on a page so more juice flows though other "follow" links)  are long gone, yet is still see it being attempted all over the place.

To contradict Highland, I have used zen-cart for a e-commerce business and it has done very well with it (ceon seo module is a must), but it does have its limitations but as its open source so anything that it did not do out of the box or there was no add-ons for, we can hire a code from eg odesk to do for you.  If your on a small budget then zen-cart might be worth looking at.  I also found the zen-cart community great, its not huge, but it very close nit.

I'm currently looking at Magento to migrate an e-commerce store too ( not zen-cart).  Open source wise it the biggest system out there, and has a big community, lots of add-ons etc, and it does more things out of the box than zen-cart.  The only issue seems to be it can be slow if the hosting is not setup right for it (  seen alot of shared hosting sites have this problem),  But there are a lot of hosting companies that specialise in magneto hosting.

you will just have to pay around the the include and exclude filters to get the results you want.  If you could "mark" your landing page commonly that you can then exclude them filters eg a string of text or something, You will just have to have a good think about it

Sorry I could not have been more helpful, but there are loads of guide on how to use filters in this way on the internet.

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Bill is correct, developer is wrong

we recently replatformed our main site and switched to https.  For the first 2-3 weeks after we moved organic traffic was great, we did not lose any ( increased a little), but then it dropped off significantly.  Attached is a screenshot from one of our main keywords that dropped off.

You can see click (blue) and impressions (red) dropped off, and the position became unstable, but in the last week it has stabilised to about the same position it was before, but the clicking and impressions are still very low.

The keyword is generic (for our industry) and there would not be any major seasonal changes in the search volume. I  can't  make sense of this data, could be be wrong?

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