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.
Posts made by PaddyDisplays
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RE: Direct traffic is up 2100% (due to a bot/crawler I believe)
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RE: Magento Help - Server Reset
yikes! not much help to you now, but you should really at least do weekly backups of the ftp and nightly of your database. And definitely always to a backup before you do anything major (like a reboot).
you should go to you host, they possible might have a back up of your server, fingers crossed.
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RE: Moz Analytics Campaign Landing Pages Update
I posted the same question last week, the David_Lee (staff) replied :
Sorry about that. The blank pages is a known bug which has been fixed and we are hoping to have it deployed before the end of the week. I will let you know when this is released and will want to make sure your data appears.
then 2 days ago
Our engineers have resolved the issue and the fix will take affect during your next scheduled update!
my rankings updated the next day but I'm guessing it need a full update after the bug fix.... will know next week
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RE: Should we add our company's name in page title tag or not?
to add to what Dean said, think about how that title looks in the SURPs, what would improve its click rate?
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RE: Is This Going to Hurt?
I would seriously doubt that it would do any damage. If it could damage your site then loads of people with use it for neg seo (which is not happening) I wouldn't worry about it.
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RE: Magento Help - Server Reset
this is the right place to ask about this, you would get a better responce on the magento forums or you could look something like freelancer or pph and find an magento expert with a good review history.
Do you have a backup of your data base? if so you should be able to restore it, if not, check if your host company has a back up.
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RE: Magento OR OpenCart OR osCommerce OR Zen Cart OR WP e-Commerce OR WooCommerce
I agree with lesley, make a short list of which platforms your are looking at, make a list of what you want, then see which ones check the most boxes. Might be worth visiting the forums of each and asking questions there.
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RE: Magento OR OpenCart OR osCommerce OR Zen Cart OR WP e-Commerce OR WooCommerce
I would add some hosts have 1 click installs for some open source e-commerce and then auto upgrades. That could make your live easier as it sounds to me you only want a simple e-commerce system so pretty much any opensource system will do the job for you.
Most systems support paypal by default, but paypal rates are not the best, but if your not selling much then they are still the best option as proper payment gateways have monthly costs, so only make sense if your doing decent numbers (and they can take some work to get setup).
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RE: Flash Banners in 2014
Since apple's products don't support flash you are losing a big chunk of the public from the start. With Html 5, flash is on its way out but alot of people/ places still use it. BUT I wouldn't develop anything in flash in this space year 2014!
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RE: Magento OR OpenCart OR osCommerce OR Zen Cart OR WP e-Commerce OR WooCommerce
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
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RE: Yoast's Magento Guide "Nofollowing unnecessary link" is that really a good idea?
With a follow link the link juice on that page would get recycled (depreciated of course) thought out the site via site Nav. If the link is nofollowed then all that link juice is lost. Am I missing something?
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RE: Help: keyword position on google.ro (country: Romania)
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.
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Yoast's Magento Guide "Nofollowing unnecessary link" is that really a good idea?
I have been following Yoast's Magento guide here: https://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/
Under section 3.2 it says:
Nofollowing unnecessary links
Another easy step to increase your Magento SEO is to stop linking to your login, checkout, wishlist, and all other non-content pages. The same goes for your RSS feeds, layered navigation, add to wishlist, add to compare etc.
I always thought that nofollowing internal links is a bad idea as it just throwing link juice out the window. Why would Yoast recommend to do this? To me they are suggesting link sculpting via nofollowing but that has not worked since 2009!
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RE: Website starts ranking on Google then always drops - Targeted for Australia but most traffic from U.S - Bounce Rate at 94.49% - HELP!
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.
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RE: MozBar URL Flag shows wrong country
The flag in the toolbar is based on where the site is hosted (as you guessed). Where the site is hosted can* be a factor but really a very small one ( I have a site targeted at N.Ireland that's on cheap US hosting and it ranks fine for brand name). Have you setup Geographic target in WMTs?
*Edit: some say its not a factor at all, but at best is a very small factor
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RE: "Items 1 - 24 of 75" Appearing in Meta Description - How Do I Remove It?
This is not always the case, I have notice that alot of zencart sites show like this in the surps, but there in nothing in the source code passing this info ( no rich snippets, no info in the meta tags). Even when the meta descriptions are done manually, it does not remove it.
Zencart show eg "Displaying 1 to 40 (of 90 products)" on product pages but this is not tagged in anyway, just sitting in the Div. But in the surps google shows "Products 1 - 40 of 90" so it is not just copying the text on the page, but understanding it and reinterpreting it.
But I think EGOL is making the point, why do you want remove it? it makes you page stand out of the listings.
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RE: "One Page With Two Links To Same Page; We Counted The First Link" Is this true?
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.
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"One Page With Two Links To Same Page; We Counted The First Link" Is this true?
I read this to day http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-one-page-two-links-page-counted-first-link-192718
I thought to myself, yep, thats what I been reading in Moz for years ( pitty Matt could not confirm that still the case for 2014)
But reading though the comments Michael Martinez of http://www.seo-theory.com/ pointed out that Mat says "...the last time I checked, was 2009, and back then -- uh, we might, for example, only have selected one of the links from a given page."
Which would imply that is does not not mean it always the first link.Michael goes on to say "Back in 2008 when Rand WRONGLY claimed that Google was only counting the first link (I shared results of a test where it passed anchor text from TWO links on the same page)" then goes on to say " In practice the search engine sometimes skipped over links and took anchor text from a second or third link down the page."
For me this is significant. I know people that have had "SEO experts" recommend that they should have a blog attached to there e-commence site and post blog posts (with no real interest for readers) with anchor text links to you landing pages. I thought that posting blog post just for anchor text link was a waste of time if you are already linking to the landing page with in a main navigation as google would see that link first. But if Michael is correct then these type of blog posts anchor text link blog posts would have value
But who is' right Rand or Michael?
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RE: CSV Reports Reports comming up blank
I tried it again about 20 mins later, and its now working
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CSV Reports Reports comming up blank
I was running some backlink reports in OSE and exporting them on different domains (external only, root domain), the first exported fine, but the last 3 have been blank ( one was a redo incase it was just a one off error).
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RE: What is the best way to stop a page being indexed?
"noindex" takes precedents over "index" so basicly if it says "noindex" anywhere google will follow that.
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RE: Our ranking as not returned after penalty, Why?
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.
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RE: Our ranking as not returned after penalty, Why?
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.
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RE: Open Site Explorer Recently Discovered Links Question
Hi Evan
It can take 5-8 weeks for a link to show in OSE, its just depends when in the OSE crawl cycle you got the link. The last update was on the 21st april but that is based on data gathered from the 4+ weeks before that date so if that link appeared in the middle of that craw it could have been missed. Also there is a chance it just missed that page during the last crawl.
The next update is on the 19th of May, so hopefully your link will show then.
Btw if the link is showing under "Just-Discovered Links" is OSE then you know it will be picked up. (
more info http://moz.com/products/api/updates
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RE: Is skimlinks-unlinked organic and valuable?
google might recognise it as an affiliate link and therefore unnatural and so reduce or remove its seo value.
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RE: Why is this site not indexed by Google?
That is a weird one, even googling the url its not showing it. Stinks of a penalty but you have no msg in GWTs and the backlinks look clean (even a backlink from RTE, which should be golden). And it seems google is caching it ok
The only thing I noticed is that www.butteritwithdairygold.ie is 301 redirecting to it, and I thought that maybe that domain is burnt, but again its backlink profile seems clean.
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RE: Is skimlinks-unlinked organic and valuable?
Skimlinks is a automated affiliate marketing company. My first guess it whatever cms they are using (word press?) is using a plug in that automaticly put that into all there links.
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RE: AdWords/Analytics Paid Search conversions not matching up - any idea why?
I had the same problem with conversion data not matching up. Adwords and Analytics track conversion differently. Adwords takes credit for any conversion from that visitor up to 30days after they clicked on the ad, while analytics tracks the direct visit that lead to the sale.
So for example, customer A clicks on an ad on Monday, looks at the site but does not buy then. He comes back on Thursday via directly typing in your address ( or clicked on an organic link), he then buys. Adwords will claim that sale, while analytics will say it was a direct visit sale (or organic link, or wherever was the direct visit come from).
Only thing is it should be Adwords showing more conversion (not analytics's) normally.
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RE: Is Google not Penalizing aggressively anymore for on page manipulation?
I would be very surprised that the hidden text is actually working, and I would think that google is just ignoring it and other factors are making it rank. Something like font size = 0 or same colour as the background, would be so easily picked up by a bot/algorithm compared to some complex things it can pickup on.
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RE: How to remove countries viewing my website
Gregory is on the money with adwords, and I agree with organic, its not worth the effort. Also ips address are not always right, I have seen some ip ranges for UK visitors show as Ireland and some Ip ranges for Ireland visitors showing as Austria!!
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RE: Need some expert help – My Client bought out competitor and now wants to completely duplicate the current site with the same stock & categories using the Competitor brand
If you have it setup in WMT that the .CA site is for Canada and .com is for US, then it should be fine
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RE: What is the difference between a "Just Discovered" link and an "Established" link in OSE?
Generally it can its about 4-8 weeks before mozscape will start showing the new back link.
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RE: Is it possible to track rank history
As far as I'm aware there is no such tool, and I would be surprised if there was.
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RE: Welcome to the Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking sub-forum
"We have set the GEO targeting for the respective Countries" I'm guessing you mean in WMTs. Normally that is enough, but I think considering that the .ie is very strong compared the the .co.uk backlink wise, google is deciding that the .ie is a better result.
Just to be clear for me the .ie Is no.1 and .co.uk is no.2
I haven't looked at your backline profile but if you have alot of links from the UK pointing to the .ie domain, that could be working against your .co.uk ranking higher than .ie in the surps. changing or adding local links to the uk site might swing to the No.1 spot.
You could use geo ip to auto redirect or maybe a light box popup asking if they want the uk or ireland site. Note that alot of N.Ireland IPs register as London (thanks virgin media), and I have also heard some some UK ips registering as Dublin (isp servers in dublin),
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RE: On Moz and Google analytics are showing high numbers of unknown searches.
S_Curtis is correct
Your actually lucky, my "not provided" is closer to 90%
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RE: How/why is this page allowed to get away with this?
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.
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RE: How/why is this page allowed to get away with this?
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)
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RE: Does the order of results from "site:www.example.com" tell us anything?
On every result on the first 6 pages the domain name is in either the meta title or meta description ( Bar the very first result which is the homepage). The landing pages do not have the domain name in them, So Matt's point that "site:domain.com" is really "site:domain.com domain.com" makes a lot of sense.
Also a good few of my landing pages are ranking, while 95% of the search pages ( that are on the first 6 pages) are not ranking ( 5% that do rank were once link to from the main site , which has been removed, but google is still stubbornly ranking them over the proper landing pages even though they don't have any back links anymore)
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RE: Does the order of results from "site:www.example.com" tell us anything?
what Matt-Antonino said in the other thread makes more sense, as I said above, the domain is in the meta description of the search pages ( and not in the landing pages). once I put a keyword into the site: search then my landing pages are ranking first
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RE: Does the order of results from "site:www.example.com" tell us anything?
Ok that makes sense, the internal search results pages have the domain name in the meta description, so that is why its showing them first. When I do site:example.com keyword then my landing pages come first, then the search pages ( thank god)
Now I just have to work out why its picking up the search pages in the first place
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Does the order of results from "site:www.example.com" tell us anything?
Does google rank in order of page authority with "site:www.example.com" or is it random?
As most of the results of the first 6 pages for our site are internal search results pages ( eg www.example.com/search/product-results)
The fact that search results are index at all is frustrating, they are not linked to internally or externally. The open site explorer does not have any back links for any of the search pages, and I checked the submitted site map and no search urls are submitted, so I don't know how google are finding the search urls. Also tested some of the search urls with aherf and no back links.But since its ranking the search pages ahead of the category(landing) pages with "site:" has me worried that not only are they indexing the urls, but they giving them higher page authority
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RE: Network of websites
you don't need to transfer the site, just the domain (which you should own). Before you move go though you old site noting all the pages (urls) you want to redirect (and where you want to redirect to on the new site). Then setup your .htaccess file. They only thing you need hosted on the old domains it the htaccess file (assuming that the new cheap host is an Apache server)
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RE: Network of websites
can't you just move the old domains to some super cheap hosting and set-up a .htaccess file with all the redirecting?
Remember its the old domains that are doing the redirecting, not the new one (just make sure you do it right, there are loads of good guides online, I think MOZ has one from when they moved domain)
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RE: Potential spam issue - back links
I tried a reverse lookup on that IP, but no luck
http://mxtoolbox.com/ReverseLookup.aspx
I also tried pinging the IP, no response
Maybe its a mistake, or what ever it was it gone now
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RE: Search Engine Submission
You don't have to submit urls to the main search engines anymore (in the US and Europe anyway). All you need is to get google to craw it either by a backlink or submitting at sitemap in webmaster tools. To answer your question, it does not matter if it google.com, .co.uk or even .ie
If you google search "site:abc.co.uk" you can see all the pages that have been indexed by google
If your site it not ranking in co.uk its because you have not given the right signals to google to rank it in UK. Have you setup webmaster tools and get the target county to UK? (note this might drop rankings in .com(usa))
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Huffingtonpost selling anchor text backlinks?
I found this article on huffingtonpost.co.uk
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-maclachlan/top-5-most-influential-ma_b_3682369.html
In the 2nd paragraph it has the words "mannequin retail displays", linked to a site that sells mannequins. The link has nothing to do with the story and it seem ( to me a least) its been paid for.
Looking at other old posts by the same author its does not seem to be a one off:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-maclachlan/celebrity-honeymoons_b_3962560.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-maclachlan/cruise-holidays_b_3898661.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-maclachlan/five-of-the-worlds-most-important-rivers_b_3761599.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-maclachlan/the-top-4-manliest-jobs-in-the-world_b_3694431.htmlI'm just surprised that a site as big as the huffington post selling back links in this way
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RE: How you can manipulate your MOZ DA
Interesting article and I understand your frustration, but my understanding is that DA and PA are just a guide line, mimicking google's algo on a much smaller scale and will therefore will miss a lot of the smaller back links.
Also you should not compare DA from month to past months as its value is constantly recalculated, and should on be really used to compare to other website from the same time frame.
But its a good point if a dodgy "SEO Service" used DA as proof of progress to clients they could manipulate the DA to look more impressive.