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I was thinking along the same lines as you guys, just wanted to see what the general conciseness was.

Thanks for your replies

I found this post from Rand from 2008

http://moz.com/blog/headsmacking-tip-1-link-requests-in-order-confirmation-emails

5 years later I'm wondering in a "no-follow" for all unnatural links in the google world we currently live in, is it still a good idea?

Also does is really work? or does it annoy the customer?  would it be better to use that space to up sell to your customer?

As you said this has come up many times and my answer is always the same, NEVER use No-follow on internal links... ever.  No-follow just throws page authority out the window. I haven't seen a good argument for using no-follow on internal links (bar on pages like "create account" that you don't want to index, but I think no-index on the pages themselves is a better option)

So another month passes and it is eventually fixed.  Our account merchant account was suspended for about a month due to an issue with the feed (about 8 months ago),  but that was fixed and the account was unsuspended 7 months ago.  Google support said that this was causing the seller reviews not to show (even though the guide lines say you don't need a merchant account to have seller reviews).

My advice to anyone that finds themselves with the same problem is to contact google asap and keep chasing them until its fixed

Not sure about MaxMind, but yes you do have to be carefull with GeoIP targeted content, A simalr question has come up about it before, hopfully that will help you.

http://moz.com/community/q/showing-different-content-according-to-different-geo-locations-on-same-url

Got a response from google adwords help team  (first contacted them 2 weeks ago):

"I have heard back from the technical team and there seems to be an issue in your merchant center account. I am checking with the team about the next steps and will get back to you as soon as I receive the same."

I'm surprised the issue is with merchant centre because in the guide lines : http://goo.gl/ZaAN7N
"You don't need to have a Google Merchant Center account for your ads to be eligible for seller ratings."

That was over a week ago, so I chased them up:

"I have reached out to my technical team and we are trying to figure out why the seller ratings are not showing.We have established that the settings are perfect from the AdWords front end, and it meets the criteria also."

So guess I have to wait until google fix it

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

Its not a "redirecting to itself", its just tell the user and bots "this is the master/true url"  and my understanding is there would be not problem doing that ( I seen a good few systems doing that with no problem)

Hi Mark

I'm assuming it only banner ads which you are looking advice with.

We started banner ads a few weeks ago, with mixed success (so far).  I would recommend remarketing, it converts well.  I would guess there is a little bit of cannibalation going on, but I still think it works (reminds customers of you, and make you look like a big brand)

Because of our industry the categories/topic are usless to us.  (In my last job in the furniture industry, we found the categories/topic more useful)

The Keywords are very tricky because you will find you ads appearing on sites that have little to do with you business, just happens to have the word on the page. So far we have not had a conversion yet from keywords, but a free "ad seen and converted".  I'm also having problems with analytics's picking up all the banner clicks, but I think its because of a quick bounce (analytic does not even get loaded to record the bounce)

I would start with a very small range of keywords and monitor it closely and use negative keywords and block site that are no good to you (flash game site are the worst for 100% bounce rate).

We started in on region, and once we are happy with the banner campaigns we are going to expand them out (we are already going to expand the remarketing campaign as its working)

Hope this helps

I asked them before, but they basicly just copy and pasted from the FAQ, saying its up to google.

Thanks for the reply, but looking into that, its over a year old, and that  issue seems to be resolved  (the trustpilot reviews are being show on the page the original poster is linked to)

Also the Trustpilot FAQ says that its review should show in adwords (but it takes 2-4 weeks), but it can not guarantee that it will show.

Trustpilot basicly advertise the fact its reviews are included in google adwords:

The reviews your customers publish on Trustpilot may appear in 3 places:

• Google’s normal organic search results
• Google Shopping Merchant Reviews
• Google AdWords Merchant Reviews

Note: "Google’s normal organic search results" , I have never seen this before with any 3rd party review site, review scores in organic search always come from rich snippets (that I have ever seen)

We have been building up our reviews (with trustpilot)  over the last few months, which has been picked up by google's reviews, and on the 2 July we passed the 30 reviews mark, (takes about a week or two before it shows the reviews on google reviews).

So we have had + 30 reviews for over 6 weeks now,  our score is 4.8/5  but are "Seller Reviews" is still not showing on our adwords.

Is there any other reason our seller reviews would not be showing yet?

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

If the page is something like 90% the same then you will get a dupe error warning

Also moz report does not take into account canonical urls

The report will let you what pages that its is a dupe with (where it says "Other URLs" click on the number)

mine is updating fine, you should contact support

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).

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

My experience is the average to the public e-commerce sites are that, but other like b2b sites mid week is busier,  but mostly all are quieter at the weekend.  But granted that different sectors will be.... different

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.

why would you want to do that?  Https is usually slower than http (so you might lose rankings on that alone)

"If you get Admin rights for a particular profile it doesn't give you access to the other profiles."

Bill is correct, developer is wrong

This blog post by one of the moz team should answer your questions

http://moz.com/blog/domain-migration-lessons

Unfortunately it seems that the e-commerce (which is closed sourced) is built around this geo IP location system.

When I checked the cached version of the site it was indeed the American version, which was just the default simple version of the homepage (no keyword text)

I then google searched stings of texts from our UK / Irish homepages, and no results found

So I then created an American version of the homepage (just a dup of the uk/irish homepages)

A week later did my search test, and got a hit.

Now we are starting to rank for a few more keywords on the homepage

Thanks for the reply Andy

If you don't mind PMing me once you have a good look at magento vs opencart and come to a conclusion.  I think we are doing similar tasks, so maybe we can compare notes?

the link I posted shows you how to identify the bots and filter them from analytics

http://www.blastam.com/blog/index.php/2012/06/block-web-monitoring-bots-in-google-analytics/

I was leaning towards Magento, but you have given me something to think about with opencart.  How big is the community? are there many opencart developers out there for doing small jobs? is there a plug in for payment gate ways like realex or sagepay?

luckily I have never had that problem, also it seems that you will be alerted in you webmaster account if someone requests a takedown.

Still an interesting "black hat" technique to remove competitors out of the serps that might not have webmaster accounts

Requests for delisting

When requesting that a URL be delisted, you should give compelling evidence as to why it should be delisted. Cases of this could include (but are not limited to) hijacked domains being returned to their rightful owner or a site with content that violates copyrights cleaning up their act.

Relevant links:

• Proposed removals – Use this section to request that links be removed from the spam blacklist.

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.

could be a bot of some sort, I think I had this problem before, I signed up for a free site speed test program call yatoo or something, and they give me loads of false positives for visits, so I just filtered it out of analytics.

http://www.blastam.com/blog/index.php/2012/06/block-web-monitoring-bots-in-google-analytics/

I have also heard of some Russian bots doing stuff like this

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.

Instructions on how be to removed are here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam_blacklist

yep, if you paid for it you would like to own the copy right.  If they keep it, then they can resell it to anyone legally, which I'm sure you would not be happy about.

short answer: yes

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

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'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

You really have one arm tied behind your back on this one.  I like the idea of the image as a solution, but I worry that might see it as "gaming" in some way as its an very unusual thing to do, especially if the image is very big.  Its hard to know without doing on some selected pages and see what happens.

I think you would be better off convincing your client that is  bad practice (maybe show him them comming up as dup error in the moz report).  Maybe he harsh with him, tell him he can keep the text as it is if he wants, but he will never rank with those pages.

Have you looked at the report to see what pages its saying are dups and what pages it a dup off?  Some times its the same page in a different language version or they are product pages that are so similar they are reported as a dup.  But the detailed report will give you the clues.

I agree with Alan, just make sure you point the domains to the right targeted country in Webmaster tools.

A recent blog post that should help you

http://moz.com/blog/save-your-website-with-redirects.

Your situation should make the move easy enough as the urls will be the same bar the root domain. This can easily be done in htaccess, here is a guide:

http://www.orderofbusiness.net/blog/redirect-old-domain-to-new-domain-via-htaccess/

edit: Andy beat me to the punch

Don't think is possible currently, I label my keyword in groups of importances as an alternative, But linking to googles external keywords would be better.

You could also down load the ranking to a CSV and the search volumes from the google as a csv and then merge the files (I do this every so often)

Pro is for 5 campaigns (limited to 10,000 pages crawled per campaign and 300 keywords ranked check over all campaigns)

If you are looking more I think you need to contact support and they can put a custom plan together

Option 2, but also try and change some of the back links to A/B to point to C  if you can.

Forums that have this kind of spam, either don't have it very long (forum mods remove it), or the forum has been abandoned and so is full of spam, so therefore google knows not to take anything seriously from the forum.

It would be a bigger problem if this type of spam was on a page with some authority, (but they why waste a good backlink to your own site, to instead spam 1 of your competitors)

As long as you have some decent authority, I don't think these methods will ever do any real damage, (and if they do it will be short lived)

That's my 2 cents anyway

how recently has the site been ranking?  Maybe the site got a load of targeted backlinks very quickly  (black hat) and OSE has not picked them up yet.

I have seen this before were the site will rank for a few days ( maybe a week +)  before google realises it spam and dumps it.

Most likely OSE has not pick up on the links yet (give it a few weeks), or the links are too deep to moz bot pickup on them  (in that case they mostly don't have much authority to pass anyway)

I think you have to take it with a big pinch of salt.   I know Virgin media in N.Ireland shows their customers as London (ip address wise), Not even the correct Island!!

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However, as you have highlighted this we are going to place a rel no follow in all links other than the title.

No!! don't ever no follow internal links ever! you are just throwing out google juice. (not sure what happens if they are duplicate links)

Also this will not stop seomoz giving you a too many links warning.  But its only a warning, that it might be a bad idea, but I would not be worried if I were you