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Thanks a lot, Highland! Seems like we have to update our applications!

Hey there Mozzers!

For one of our clients, we've developed an application on both Android and iOS. In the app, there is a link to the regular website. Can I see these visitors from the IOS/Android app in Google Analytics? Can I find them via Refferals?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Partouter

Hi there Mozzers!

I have a subdomain with duplicate content and I'd like to remove these pages from the mighty Google index. The problem is: the website is build in Drupal and this subdomain does not have it's own robots.txt.

So I want to ask you how to disallow and noindex this subdomain. Is it possible to add this to the root robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /subdomain.root.nl/

User-agent: Googlebot
Noindex: /subdomain.root.nl/

Thank you in advance!

Partouter

"Are you saying GA is displaying the entire URL when you view reports?"

Exactly. For some reason, Google shows the full URL for this subdomain. I don't want to work with multiple counters on one website, because multiple counters can obstruct each other.

Do you have experience with accounts that contain both filters and subdomains?

Thanks John!

Partouter

Dear John,

Sorry for opening this question again. We now encounter another problem:

Sub4: http://subdomain.website.nl/

Is it possible subdomain to measure this subdomain as well, without GA displaying the entire URL? (E.g. "http://subdomain.website.nl/page" instead of "/page")\

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Partouter

Thanks a lot for your detailed answer, John!

I'm using the old Analytics UI, could that possibly be a problem?

Hey there Mozzers!

One of our customers wants to seperate one Google Analytics account into multiple accounts. The website is divided in three parts:

• Main: www.website.nl
• Sub1: www.website.nl/sub1
• Sub2: http://www.website.nl/sub2

And they would like 4 different reports under one account.

• R1: Total count
• R2: Website.nl (without Sub 1 & Sub2)
• R3: Sub1
• R4: Sub2

I know multiple counters will get in conflict with each other, so I have to implement some filters. E.g: We can configure a filter for R3 on "astmakids" in URL.

My question is: is there a safe way to implement multiple Analytics filters on one website? And how will R3 see visitors that come from the root domain astmafonds.nl? Are they referrals?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

Partouter

Hey Mozzers!

I just received a question from a copywriter: How does Google see part of keywords?

E.g. When a page is optimized for "Pain", does the word "Painkiller" also have influence then, because "Pain" is a part of it? The question is about how he should use keywords for the right density.

Love to read some answers from you guys, thanks!

Ok, but a 'slightly change' is not the explanation for the numbers above, I guess.Is it possible that there's another reason for this?

Hi all,

I was working on some monthly SEO reports and I noticed that the number of inbound links was a lot less compared to last month. I measured these number of inbound links with the mozBar, e.g.

May 2011 - 49.306, June 2011 - 10.659, July 2011 - 1.010

Do you have any idea how this could be possible? I'm really looking forward to your answers!

Thanks all!

Hi Mozzers!

SEOmoz just finished crawling one of my websites and this crawl found 3 errors. One of these errors was the (custom) 404-page, because of the http-status 404.

What's you suggestion about this? Should a 404-page have a status 404?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Hi all,

One of my websites has been crawled by SEOmoz this week. The crawl showed me 3 errors: 1 missing title and 2 client errors (4XX).

One of these client errors is the 404-page itself! What's your suggestion about this error? Should a 404-page have the 404 http status?

I'd like to hear your opinion about this one!

Thanks all!

Yeah, good idea Keri. Wanted to challenge mozzers first but will move on to SEOmoz help.

Yes, that wouldn't be too smart. I agree. I have tested that with 2 of my websites Dutch version linking in footer to English version and vice versa. That impacted the rankings extremely negative from Top 10 to Not in Top 100.

But now I was wondering about the effect internally.

What are your experiences?

I agree on that. I couldn't filter a negative effect from the ranking factors either. But I have seen it here or there on SEOmoz (as a side note).

When you check the footer of SEOmoz.org. It used to have these categorized links to some parts on the site. However, if you check the current version of their footer, they only use a few links and certainly don't mention any hot parts on the site, let alone mention keywords.

I have tested it on my own site and it did impact my rankings negatively but I wondered if that was coincidence or not.

Based on bits and pieces of information I've read on SEOmoz, am I correct to state that:
"Keyword-rich footer links effect pages negatively in terms of the keyword referenced in the anchor text?"

This means footer links in

Thanks in advance fellow Mozzers!

I wanted to emphasize the scannable aspect in terms of bullet points etc. But, yes, I guess it's the same

I agree on that. That's a very important step. Reassurance that they are in the right place before they hit 'back'.

• scannable (aid people in natural scanning proces)

I love all the data Roger gives me if I ask him politely. It's awesome to turn that data into a nice looking Excel file for analysis. There is however one situation that gets me into trouble.

When I export CSV, open it in Excel and convert text to columns (seperated by comma) and e.g. a Page Title contains a comma (which often happens); my file seperation is messed up.

Anyone got some tips to handle that?

Thanks in advance mozzers

The copying is a manual process and I don't want any risks for the live environment. A Httphandler for robots.txt could be a solution and I'm going to discuss this with one of our developers. Other suggestions are still welcome of course!

Thanks for your quick reply, Theo. Unfortunately, this htpasswd will also get copied to the live environment, so our websites will get password protected live. Could there be any other solution for this?

Hi all,

I have a development subdomain, which gets copied to the live domain. Because I don't want this dev domain to get crawled, I'd like to implement a robots.txt for this domain only. The problem is that I don't want this robots.txt to disallow the live domain. Is there a way to create a robots.txt for this development subdomain only?

Thanks in advance!

Yes, if a service is no longer active, we would 301 it to the landing page on the main domain.

Are you using different domains (.com .co.uk)? Or different folders (.com/uk)? Just out of interest sake.

In order to identify true competition, I always add "allintitle" to my query to exclude 'less focused' competitors. Do you agree?

In essence we want to go after 1 main keyword phrase on that one-page, and we'll mention that in the metas. But your suggestion of adding more text to widen the keyword cloud is great.

I ran out of Good Answers clicks  

I agree with you Rand. The SEO in me wants to extend to a few additional (keyword focused) pages as well. It is indeed a shame to waste good authority. Even though the website owner has a good (broad) authority website, he really wants to widen his net by adding these one page exact domain match website... and I just want to be super-prepared

Thanks for the link Darren - My site search on SEOmoz wasn't as successful 

Hi

Are there any SEO guidelines for "one page websites". I'm looking into the 'benefit' it might have in combination with exact match URLs.

Many thanks in advance.

Thanks for taking the time to respond Josh.

I think you've summed it up nicely - and therefore helped me made up my mind (at last)

I agree with Adam.

How would you define article spinning? What is the purpose of article spinning? What's the benefit for users?

I'm afraid the purpose is to generate as much automated content to boost the number of pages artificially on your website. I don't see any benefits for users.

Looking forward to our feedback.

I've been reading up on this subject, but I still can't clearly decide which is better. Your insights will help me a lot.

I work for a client with 1 powerful corporate website and many small dedicated websites to individual projects. Which strategy would I focus on? The powerful corporate or the small individual websites?

As I see it:

Which is better?

1. One powerful domain with lots of pages dedicated to a single subject
   1. PRO: more inbound links, more pages, sometimes URL exact match
   2. CON: less focused on a single 'theme'
2. Different domains dedicated to different subjects
   1. PRO: more focus per domain to a subject
   2. CON: less inbound links, less pages... less power

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, we do use a rank tracker (seo powersuite). We've put it at its lowest crawl speed. We're 3 people using the tool, not even simultaneously.

Great visual, btw. Guess I'll join you in that category (proudly though).

I start at 8 AM and 2 hours later we see the captcha's getting to a ridiculous level. The IP doesn't seem to be on a black list. No, the IP never change.

I get the captcha's as a result of using Rank Tracker by Seo Powersuite. However, it is at it's lowest crawl level. But you can imagine a team of several people tracking ranks that is raises flags at Google. What would you suggest we do as a team to avoid this?

I apply a "noindex, follow" as a standard procedure for privacy policy pages. You could do nofollow but it won't help your other pages. If you can make a few relevant good links in your privacy policy to your top pages. You'll make the best of those in-content links.

Thank you. Very helpful

Our office has a number of people performing analysis and research on keyword positions, volume, competition etc.

We have 1 external static IP address. We installed the static IP so we can filter out our visits in Google Analytics. However by 10 AM we get impssible CAPTCHA's or even get blocked in Google.

Do you have any experience with such an issue? Any solutions you can recommend?

Any help would be appreciated!

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