Thank you Oleg,

I appreciate your quick response.  I do plan on move forward with image sitemaps but would you be able to provide any websites that are currently utilizing image sitemaps?

Thank you Peter,

Would you happen to be able to provide any actual websites that are utilizing image sitemaps? I cant seem to find any.

Hey Martijn,

Thank you for your response, our website is going to grow 10 folds soon and we are going to be coming across some crawl budgeting issues.  I checked our your sitemap and its very sophisticated "Tip my hat".  The only thing is I didn't see image urls within your sitemap.

Hey Mozers,

2 part question

1. I'm reaching out to see if you all think Image Sitemaps are totally worth it for a big company.  I can totally understand its value for a smaller mom & pop company.  With a larger company they would have way more products so is it worth it having an image site map?

2. I cant find examples of image sitemaps online.  Would you be able to provide a website that is doing it?  I can only find video sitemaps.

Hey Kane,

Thank you for answering.  According to Webmaster tools There are over 2,200 of these Check price pop ups.  They happen when a customer clicks on "Add to cart" which actives the ajax popup which asks the customer to enter a zip code to check the price.

The source code of this pop is very small I almost feel like there is no

** Example URL:**

www.example.com/AjaxPages/PopUp/CheckPrice.aspx?itemId=00aa5e7e-2d81-64c9-36bd-253a7565af70&ReturnUrl=

I was thinking of putting "Disallow: /checkprice" under our robots.txt

PnQEOTv

Hey Mozers,

I was looking through my Google Web Masters Tool under HTML Improvements.  It looks like I have 2,200 pages missing Meta Titles and I was about to lose it thinking HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN! I came to realize that the pages were "Ajax Pages".  This is specifically a checkprice pop up and I dont want this page crawled by google.  It looks like to google I have over 2k pages missing Meta Titles and they are all "check price pop ups".  How would you suggest I block this.  I thought about going the easy route and removing the subfolder and putting it in the Robots.txt document and I'm scared of that because we use AJax for a bunch of calls.  I'm also scared of putting in the head   <metaname="robots" =="" noindex,nofollow"="">because it requires hard coding</metaname="robots">

I Know i'm not the first to come across this issue, Any Ideas??

Looks like my stystem is set up to 301 to a 404.  Which do you think Google with honor? (the 301 or the 404)

Also wouldn't having a 301 to a 404 keep bots crawling our server because its a redirect instead of the server providing a 404 or 410

Hey Mozers,

What are your thoughts of this situation i'm stuck in all inputs welcome

I am in the middle of this massive domain migration to a new server.  Also we are going to be having a very clean SEO friendly url structure.  While I was doing some parsing and cleaning up some old urls I stumbled upon a strange situation on my website.

I have a bunch of "dead pages" and they are 302'd to a "page not found" probably a old mistake of one of the past developers.  (To clarify the HTTP Status code is not 404)

Should I try to fight to get all these "dead pages" a 404 error code or could I just leave the temp redirect 302 > "page not found" ( even though I know for a fact theses pages are not going to turn on again)

Hey whats going on is it a XML sitemap or HTML?

Thanks Thomas from Blueprint Marketing,

That answer was excellent,  I was just using the capitalization as an example.  I am only using lower case on our URL's.  I hope with my cannon issue any page that has a CID in the URL gets pointed back to the version without.

I have a Canonical tagging situation on my website.  With every page created a caon tag is automatically placed on the page pointing to itself (example:  Page A pointing to Page A)

So my concern is that placing an analytic query string to my page is going to have a canon tag pointing to itself (example: www.pageA.com/?CID=1324 with a canonical tag pointing to: www.pageA.com/?CID=1324)

I currently do have all my pages canon tagged to themselves my developers set it up in a way that is complicated to make "Page A" Canonical to "Page B" and i'm working on that change.

The analytic team is wanting to play a CID= into the URL structure and i'm scared that it will cause duplicate urls

I just went through this huge process to shorten my URL structure and remove all dynamic strings.  Now my analytics team wants to add query strings to track clicks from the homepage.  Is this going to destroy my clean url structure by appending a query string to the end of the URL structure.

Hey Mozers,

I was brought on to the team to Optimize the old website to make it more SEO friendly and I was able to get some cool features up.

What Analytic Key points should I keep track of? The website launches in 2 weeks and I think Now would be a great time to start gather data bout the old site.  I'd like to make sure I keep the website under a microscope to make sure there are as little errors as possible.

What am I missing I already have:

Page Authority

Domain Authority

Bounce Rate

Time on page

Visitors/Sessions

Unique Visitors/Sessions

so what does the 330 mean then exactly? an average of 330 similar c-blocks ?

is it an addition of total potential c-blocks

100 c-blocks from A

100 c-blocks from B

100 c-blocks from C

Ahh I understand the point your trying to make and I completely agree thanks for that.

So the 330 c-blocks that i'm seeing in my report isnt necessarily telling me that I have 330 urls from the same c-block is it?

I was following you until you said. "You want more linking C-blocks to your site and less links coming from the same C-block, in general."  that statement threw me off.  Could you explain?

ahh Thanks!.  What is considered as to many?  330 c-blocks seem like a lot of ip addresses from the same location

Sure,

you could find an example in your dashboard under the following path

Links > competitive metrics > History

Thanks for the quick response.  I have a pretty good as to how c-blocking works and what It is thanks for explaining though I do appreciate the help

My question was more so for the Moz tool.  It states that for the month of November I had 330 and I'm trying to get a better understanding as to what that 330 is referring to.  Would this mean My website had 330 websites that had similar c-blocks?

Affiliate marketing is a great way to expand your brand awareness.  There are various sources of publishers that could work perfectly with your brand.  Blog publishers, mobile publishers, charity publishers, coupon publishers, loyalty publishers etc. the list goes on and on.

In my experience my top Affiliate Networks are , Linkshare, pepper jam, Commission junction

Hey Mozers,

I see Moz has a reporting tool for C-blocking and for november I had 330.  Does this mean 330 Ip addresses came from the same location in the month of november?

Awesome thanks for checking but I see that is the XML sitemap and I'd need a HTML version that is customer facing.

SiteCore is the CMS that I am using.

Hey Mozers,

I have a CMS that is able to create a XML sitemap but I would have to build out the HTML sitemap on my own.  Would the fellow smart people of the Moz world be able to help guide me in the best direction.

What is the best HTML sitemap generator on the market?

Hey Mozers,

I currently run a catalog type website and there are no prices listed.  Would you happen to have an article of some sort that could back up why not listing prices is bad?

I'm trying to express the importance of listing prices on the website.

Can anyone help,  The more articles the better!

Hey I would do a dual tool If you were looking for inspiration.

Use the Adword Keyword tool planner to generate generic terms related to that main term.  Export to CSV then sort by largest to smallest volume.  Then take the top, lets say 100 keywords and drop them into moz's keyword analysis tool and get the highest local/global traffic and sort by keyword difficulty.  This way you have an awesome starting point.

Well it was more so a concern for me applying this method to my own site more so than a concern for Zappos getting flagged lol

Im curious to know would it do anything at all to the page Authority if you have it Canon tagged to itself?

I would assume that by having each page canon tag itself your basically telling google "Hey I am aware that this is a duplicate but treat it as its own page and not as a version of another".  My concern is by doing so your losing potential Page Authority

example:

www.testwebsite.com  ---Canonionical--- www.testwebsite.com

www.testwebsite.com/duplicate ---Canonical --- www.testwebsite.com/duplicate

Hey Mozers!

I've noticed that on www.Zappos.com they have a Canonical tag on each page referencing it self.  I have heard that this is a popular method but I dont see the point in canon tagging a page to its self.

Any thoughts?

Thank you! Question answered!

Hey Mozers!

I'm reaching out to you today because I'm trying to find out more information about Atom & RSS Feed.  I'm not sure which my Retail company should use for the sitemap.

Atom?

RSS?

XML?.

Why would you choose one more so than the other what are the benifits?

The task I was given was to find the average search engine ranking for the "Brand Name".  My company has multiple stores in all the states in the US.  Lets say over 150+ stores,  How would I check the search engine rank position for "brand name " or "Keywords" by either zip code/city/state

Hey,

I did a quick run through your homepage and it looks like you have no Open Graph tags,  No Schema Markup,  You Meta title is way to long try to say as short and concise as possible.

You have no meta description which is your marketing call for the consumer to click on your link in google's search results.

You have WAYYYYY to many

's you should only have 1,  you should make the rest

Consider adjusting your Alt Text so that they actuall describe all your images because currently they all say "link to video" which is spaming

Hope this helps and is a great start

Strange I'm not seeing that with Chrome.

Hey Ruben,

Let me know your findings Please :)!

Hey Thanks for the response but I to am using the moz tool bar but on chrome I cant seem to find the Proxy.  Where on the tool bar are you looking?

Hey!!!

I asked a similar question a week ago and a Director at Moz reached out to me and provided me this excellent explanation on the effects of social on SEO.

http://www.slideshare.net/jennifersablelopez/social-medias-influence-on-search-going-beyond-rankings.

Hopefully this helps you bud!

I have multiple stores across various zipcodes and i'm having difficulty trying to provide an average Positioning on SERP by region.  I do know that your SERP varies by region because different areas use different vernaculars.  Does anyone know of a way that I can provide a SERP for keywords/terms by county or zip code?

Wow! Jennita that was a spectacular Link to a very through share slide THANKS!

Do you think it would be fair to say that Twitter and Facebook do not hold any value with Ranking in SERPs with google but they would influence the PA & DA?

Hey So I've been doing some research and it looks like theres a "human authority" and a "Page authority". I dont know if it is still relevant or if it has all changed because of Panda.  Does social media still hold any SEO value? Do social media platforms like Pinterest and Youtube and twitter drive any valuable Anchor texts to your domain boostin your domain's authority or the page that it is linking to's authority?

I have never done a migration of a website with so many URL's it is kind of overwhelming.  I do have a 404 page with the catchall rule in place.  See i'm coming from the business side of SEO i'm not really the developer getting in there and actually doing the migration ( I tip my hat to all you developers without you I am nothing but a voice).  I'm guiding my developer to the safest route.  Doing the migration all at once does make sense to prevent both sites being cached

Hey could you provide a little bit more insight to your request?

I'm assuming your looking for people's questions to find write up the proper articles to answer their questions.  Marketing 101 find the demand and create a supply.  There are multiple ways you can go about this:

1st List all your competitors and see what they are doing on the web.  What exactly are they writing about

2nd. Do a pull of their backlinks and see who's linking to them and why so.  Whats their anchor text, the anchor text is important because it shows what people (blogs/websites) think about their site.

This should be a good start for you being you provided limited information.

Best of lucky buddy

Hey Thanks for the response!

I'm currently dealing with a site that has a large duplication problem and i'm Canon tagging them all to then 301 them all over.  Why shouldn't I do a phase approach though?  Wouldn't it be easier to see where errors happen if I come at this migration with a phased approach?

Hey Everyone!

I'm currently working on a project that we have A Lot of product pages and we have thousands of URL's that need to be 301'd over.  I know this can be a major issue and could lead to tons of errors.  What is everyone's thought of doing such a huge Migration, Should I do it all in phases? or should I do them all at once so they can all be indexed together?

What would you suggest to be the best way to go about doing such a massive migration?

Hey!

Welcome back to Moz :),  are you refering to the tool? Maybe your talking about the on page grader? if so you can check it out on the following link: https://moz.com/researchtools/on-page-grader

I understand linking to the page only if it makes sense.  What are your thoughts on the location of the link? should they be placed at the top left/right or just place them in the footer.

The major differentiation between the two examples of branding I gave were one brand is promoting its sub-brand with a 1 way link they are not linking to one another (example : Brand A is only linking to Brand B & Brand C while Brand B&C do not link to Brand A).  The other example is all of the brands are interchangeably linking to one another (example : Brand A is linking to B&C while B&C also Link to Brand A)

Greetings fellow Mozers!

How Do Major Companies Promote Their New Sub-Brands

I'm curious to see everyone's thoughts on how and what is the best process to promoting your companies new brand.  I see companies like Wayfair.com promoting their sub-brand "All Modern" and "Wayfair supply" (maybe "sub-brand" isn't the best term) in the top left of the page as a link.  I believe this is only a SEO play because they are only outbound links to the brand website.  If you go to "All Modern" there are no links back to Wayfair.  I then looked at a company like Gap.com and notice that all of their other brands are promoted on the website and are also interchangeably linked to one another.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the best way to link and or promote your smaller brand that could potentially turn it into a Major Brand.  Do you think this is just a SEO linking play.  I'm curious to see everyone's thoughts