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Im not able to change my primary email from there, and thats the problem.

I can only change primary email by deleting it, and im afraid that will erase alot of content on my YouTube channel.

By a mistake, Google have added on of our employeers gmail as the primary mail, that are attached to our YouTube channel.

We want to delete that gmail, but without loosing our data, and all the information we have on our channel.

We also want to connect to G+ with a new gmail, but now it seems that Google have created a G+ profile related to the "wrong" gmail.

Have anyone got experience with this problem, and have a solution for this?

Hi

Im about to establish a G+ account, and i just want to know if anyone inhere has some insights that might be useful in that proces.

Its gonna be a company profile, and its important that its combined with our SEM-account.

Is there any pointers in order to do this, any good advices on how to create a profile?

Hi

Thanks for your reply - it was excactly what i was looking for :-).

This is not only a SEO-excersice, its also an excersice in giving people relevant information about our company - and using the right channels to do that - and as far as im concerned the two things are close related, and will be furthermore in the future.

Twitter and Facebook are a given for our company, we need to be on those social media, and i don't know if there is anything we can do in order to optimize those for SEO-purposes?

And then i will start creating a Google plus profile, and trying to integrate Google +1 oppertunities on our site.

Your thoughts about Tumblr and Pinterest are very interesting, but it seems that where we are located (Denmark), it will be Instagram that will be the 3rd biggest social network, behind Facebook and Twitter, so if we add ressources into a fourth social network (besides Facebook, Twitter and Google+) it will probably be Instagram.

Hi

At the moment im trying to make a social media strategy for the company i work in, whcis is a big insurance company. Of course i want to add value on the different social media, but i also want to take into account which value the social media can add to my SEO.

Facebook
We have a profile on Facebook, with around 5.000 likes, and as far as im concerned the important thing on Facebook is to get people to share your links?

Google+ At the moment we dont have a Google+ account, but my suggestion would be that we create one . maybe not to generate alot of content, but in order to get more info on the branded search results - and i have a presumption that Google will put more and more emphasis on Google+ in the updates that lies ahead.

Twitter We have a profile, but are there anything we could do in order to optimize the SEO-effect via Twitter - what i have heard is that because their links are no-follow it dosent have any effect on SEO.

Instagram
Is there anything to gain on SEO if you create a profile on Instagram?

Please let me hear your views on this.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Thanks for quick and competent reply.

I guess the reason that google only have registred 8 pages, is that many of the pages we have csref on are campaign pages, and they havent "lived" for so long yet.

As i understand you, there are two ways to proceed with this. One beeing informing in Google Webmaster Tools that google should ignore the csref-parameter, and the other beeing the canonical links.

The first is quite straight forward i guess, its just a matter of registrering in Google Webmaster Tools, that all URLs with www.tryg.dk as main domain, should not be followed by Google.

The latter im not that sure of how to proceed with, its a matter of registrering every page with csref with a cannoical link? Or how is the best way to proceed with that.

Hi,

Thanks for reply - yes, we have the 301 redirects in order.

We are quite a big company, and high profiled, so we have to be aware of competitors or other people who wants to damage our brand, but then again, we also need to cut our costs :-).

So the way i will proceed with this is:

1. Make sure we have the most important branded URLs, or actually all of them, so all ourdomain.everything, so that we also have www.ourdomain.xxx.

2. Go through the URLs we have, and keep the ones that give us link equity - i will test this via Site Explorer, and get rid of the ones that does not have any link equity.

Hi,

At my company we have alot of URLs (around 500), which are purchased for different reasons, some for defensive reasons, some because we think we potentiallly could use them in the future.

Now we want to "clean up" this list, in order to minimize costs, butt im unsure about some of the URLs, and have some questions that in some way all are SEO-related.

• How used are the .xxx domains, we have alot of them of defensive reasons, but im not sure that we have anything to fear, whats your take on that? - and arent .xxx domains excluded by the search engines?

• We have alot of URLs which we redirect to our main domain, some of them have been their own domains before, and some of them are just redirects. When i remove these, i get two challenges:

1. If someone links to that domain, i wont be able to redirect them anymore.

2. If the domain have a good Page Authority in itself, i loose that link juice.

• How do i proceed in order to get knowledge about the above two factors, that are crucial in order to decided wheter to keep or delete domains?

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

It is excactly a URL generated based on our tracking codes, f.eg. when i look in the list of duplicated content on our page here in SeoMoz, i get the following URLs:

http://www.tryg.dk/om-tryg/fakta-om-tryg/samarbejdspartnere/index.html?csref=Disclaimer_Nordea http://www.tryg.dk/om-tryg/fakta-om-tryg/samarbejdspartnere/index.html?csref=Bundmenu_Om_Tryg_Vores_Partnere

http://www.tryg.dk/om-tryg/fakta-om-tryg/samarbejdspartnere/index.html

The latter beeing the "original" page for this, and the two above beeing page URLs generated by URLs with csrefs, which are generated by our tracking via Omniture.

So my question is how i make sure that it do not have a negative effect on our SEO.

Hi,

When i go trough my page, i can see that alot of my csref codes result in duplicate content, when SeoMoz run their analysis of my pages.

Off course i get important knowledge through my csref codes, but im quite uncertain of how much it effects my SEO-results.

Does anyone have any insights in this? Should i be more cautios to use csref-codes or dosent it create problems that are big enough for me to worry about them.

SEMOZ have counted a numberous of errors (and some warnings as well) on our site: www.tryg.no

But: How does these errors effect our ranking?

I know that the errors are coming from the PRISSESSID (insurance
calculator). Some keywords are registered with 11 different URLs, wich create errors like Duplicate page content and Duplicate Page title and warnings like Long URL.

SEOmoz thinks this can affect my rankings because they assume that pages will end up competing with each other. But will Google "think" the same way?

Vennlig hilsen

Espen Vigeland
Web Editor

Hi Kate,

Thanks for your reply, im glad for yours and all others contribution, it really make me reflect on which direction i should choose.

The whole page is an insurance page, but there is many different things you can do, you can buy insurance, calculate prize, make a claim and so on, so the frontpage has many purposes.

The reason why i want to be ranked on the frontpage, is because it converts better, and im sure i can get it ranked higher, in the long run, because of the link building oppertunities i have on that page.

So right now, it maybe would preferrebly to focus on /insurance, but in the long run i think the frontpage will be stronger.

It's also important for me to underline, that im a part of a big company, and its not entirely up to me to decide changes and etc. on the homepage.

Hi,

Thank you, and all other, for your replies - it's very helpful.

The reason i want the traffic on the frontpage is the following:

• It's alot easier for me to get link juice to the frontpage, at the moment we havent been working focused with link building, but when we start doing that, it will be alot easier to get links to the frontpage.

• Im quite sure the frontpage is a better landing page for this traffic than the /insurance page, so the conversion rates and etc. will be better on the frontpage.

Hi Keith,

the page is www.tryg.dk and it is ranked, i just want it to rank on keyword "insurance" as well, as the link building oppertunities on that page is alot better than on www.tryg.dk/forsikring.

A 301 redirect wont work, since i still want people to be able to access www.tryg.dk/forsikring.

Hi, the domain is www.tryg.dk and it is cached and indexed in Google.

Because of the possibilities to link build to my main page, i would like to optimize that to the keyword "Insurance", and that process i could start right away.

My question is if there is any possibility to get Google to "understand" this, or i has to work my way up with my main page, whilst i stop focus on www.tryg.dk/forsikringer - that is at this moment the page getting the highest ranking on "insurance".

Hi,

I will try to make my question clear, although it is a bit complex.

For my site the most important keyword is "Insurance" or at least the danish variation of this.

My problem is that Google are'nt indexing my frontpage on this, but are indexing a subpage - www.mydomain.dk/insurance instead of www.mydomain.dk.

My link bulding will be to subpages and to my main domain, but i wont be able to get that many links to www.mydomain.dk/insurance.

So im interested in making my frontpage the page that is my main page for the keyword insurance, but without just blowing the traffic im getting from the subpage at the moment.

Is there any solutions to do this?

Thanks in advance.

I want to use the Rank checker for a bunch of keywords, but i don't want to set tracking to them,

It's just a one time only check i want to perform, but im not sure how to add many keywords (it's about 150 keywords i want to check).

So if anyone knows how to do this, with SEOmoz Rank Checker tool or another tool in SEOmoz, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.