You're not being dumb. I had a typo! Sorry. Slide 21. I'll edit my original comment to so someone else doesn't run into the same issue. Cheers!
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RE: Link Acquisition Assistant redirect to Open Site Explorer??????
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RE: MozLocal in Australia?
Correct. It's pretty much US focused, per their "how" page:
Q: Do you support listings in all countries?
A: Moz Local currently supports U.S. business listings only.I don't know if they're planning on expanding though.
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RE: Does Google Analytics' Enhanced Link Attribution cause any SEO problems?
I think your tech might be missing something. When done properly, GA's Enhanced Link Attribution merely adds an attribute to the clicked internal link and sends along the information via Google Analytics. The content isn't seen as duplicate by Google in these cases and most people when linking to a specific page will use the address from the URL bar or some kind of sharing button.
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RE: A question on keywords that rank 51+
Hi. Typically you should have some idea of the keywords a page is targeting, i.e. What is it called? What's the title tag say? What's the content of the page? And so on. Also, in general, you can model your pages using a break down of Moz' http://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors where applicable for your content. If you have a list of keywords that you're trying to rank for, have you associated that list with different pages on your site? That would at least give you a start.
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RE: Visits from Google with ccTLD are showing as referrals
You'll notice that a measurable amount tagging in Analytics can be hit or miss. For example you'll also find a lot of referrals from places that are clearing clicks from someone's online email account (lots contain 'webmail' or 'email' in the referring domain) but you could filter these to be counted as organic / email channels respectively. You just have to write up the rule that does so or adjust them on the back end when working with the data in a spreadsheet.
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RE: Multiple sites in the same niche (Should we redirect these to our Main Site)
You'd want to get the redirect to go to the most applicable place as possible so if it's OLDSITE.com/apple it'd be best to send it to NEWSITE.com/category/apple if you have that level of information from old to new. Otherwise, domain to category would be second best. Third, domain to domain.
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RE: Multiple sites in the same niche (Should we redirect these to our Main Site)
I think redirecting the information to the most applicable place on the new site will do the most good. It also gives you another reason to go around at the link building / networking stage to say, "Hey, our old site X is now pointing to our new site Y.com/X while still being relevant to the sources that originally linked to X.
that the new site increases your time and productivity should go towards the old area being updated more frequently as well, which will further help it to perform better. Cheers!
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RE: How can I change the currency Google lists my products with in the SERP?
It sounds like you'll want to contact your cart platform regarding that. That example you sent also uses CDN instead of CAD, so maybe that's part of it.
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RE: Splitting Google analytics data
It sounds like you'd want three different views. One that filters out business IP(s) 1, and business IP(s)2, and is thus "public". The other including only business IP(s) 2 and is thus Business 2, and the third including only business IP(s) 1 and is thus Business 1. This can be done by creating three views, named something like Business 1, Business 2, and Public then applying the applicable filters in the admin panel. Within filters >> Create New >> Name >> Predefined >> Include Only >> traffic from IP adressess >> etc.
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RE: Representing categories on my site
Hi Mark. Rand's comments here still hold true: http://moz.com/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls, especially these in relation to your question, "Fewer Folders" and "Keep it Short" Looks like you'll be hitting on both of those while still maintaining an appropriate amount of keyword usage. Cheers!
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RE: Facebook reach being restricted?
There was an interesting blog post on this lining up well with what you're experiencing it seems (especially in the comments) here: http://moz.com/blog/1-dollar-per-day-on-facebook-ads. The video they reference is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag which is pretty interesting as well. You might have to employ more cross-over in your social, i.e. using twitter to drive better Facebook engagement. Ultimately though it seems to be more alignment within Facebook's walled garden approach.
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RE: Is minor duplicate content on my website okay?
Per Google, "Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar." (from: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359) Substantive meaning most or nearly all of the content on two pages being the same. The examples they provide bear this out.
- Discussion forums that can generate both regular and stripped-down pages targeted at mobile devices
- Store items shown or linked via multiple distinct URLs
- Printer-only versions of web pages
In each case they're talking about URLs that would be nearly identical, not the blocks of navigation or sidebar content that are common through out a site. Your website should be ok.
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RE: Link Acquisition Assistant redirect to Open Site Explorer??????
If you'd like to see the old list of operators that Link Acquisition Assistant appended to Google searches you can see it on slide 21 in this blog post: http://moz.com/blog/link-building-with-ose-a-host-of-other-tools, and then create your own spreadsheet to spit out the searches. Cheers!
Correction: Original response said, "...slide 31in this blog post..." The information is on slide 21.
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RE: Keyword not ranking but keyword within a phrase is?
Hi Liam. You might be over optimizing for the term with your on page work. I'd pull it back. Get rid of the meta keyword for "E-Liquid" and take a look at where you could be over doing it with your internal linking. The copy of "the best e-liquid..." is heavily repetitive. Didn't bother taking a look at your back link profile around this exact phrase, but you'll know if you've been over doing it on that too.
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RE: Does it matter? 404 v.s. 302 > Page Not Found
Ya, that's a mess. Either 301 to a live page or let the 404 be delivered on its own.
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RE: 'And' vs '&'
You can use both interchangeably. Search engines can parse a domain name like appleandoranges.com into apple and oranges fairly quickly with a few other signals. That's just an example though, when using whatever it is that you're trying to rank you'll need to take into consideration the strengths of the results that are currently in place: backlink profile, social presence, on-going work, etc. Cheers!
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RE: 'And' vs '&'
Hi Uzair. Per Google, most punctuation is ignored (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433) the & sign included. That said, a lot of times you'll see the & symbol in title tags due to it being shorter than 'and' and thus allowing more characters. In most cases the differences between using 'and' vs '&' are so miniscule you won't have to spend any time optimizing for them as separate entities. Cheers!
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RE: Directories
Right, as was said a little earlier in this thread, "quality over quantity". Getting a write up in a local paper or being listed on the directory of a local township site are all great signals that you're legitimate and doing the thing you say you do.
Don't ignore advertising either. As Rand mentions in the latest Whiteboard Friday, "advertising can show returns in many organic channels, including SEO." http://moz.com/blog/advertisement-investments-organic-roi-whiteboard-friday. Cheers!
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RE: Directories
Hi Ben. Ideally you'll want to get your links from a source that could also provide referral traffic as well, so if it's a directory that looks useful to several local businesses or specific topics, great! Same goes for a blogger that seems to be getting comments and some level of interaction on their site, excellent! In addition you'll probably find new ways of networking that older sites didn't do well early on and could target those. Working on developing the PR side of the business will go a long ways too as you'll be building relationships with people that make content on the web. Look into researching sites in other areas or other types of food service, maybe places that are highly competitive, to get an even broader idea of tactics.
What's hard to tell in just looking at the numbers is how many of those old links that seem somewhat spammy have been discounted anyways a while ago. Cheers!
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RE: Good idea? bad idea?
Right. It'd just be things like spammy links, paid links, the usual things that could get a site in trouble. Doesn't sound like you'll be doing any of that. Plus it seems like a good way for local people to get involved. Cheers!
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RE: Good idea? bad idea?
Google will most likely associate the mini site with Sussex Chef per their doc on frames: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34445, but the content seems relevant and related to the site as a general theme so I don't see how it would hurt unless there are manipulative practices going outside of this setup.
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RE: Does it matter? 404 v.s. 302 > Page Not Found
It sounds like they're 302'ing to a 200 instead of a 404 to a page that says, "page not found"... In that case, you should get them to be legitimate 404s or 410s. A custom 404 page would be a nice touch as well to help clean up the navigation.
By the time you migrate (via 301) you could point these to the most applicable section of your new site where they should have pointed on the old site and be pretty much done with your clean up.
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RE: Duplicate Content Pages - A Few Queries..
I think the nav menu works well from a UX perspective so complete removal might be a little drastic. You could look into using the term 'cruise' a bit less within the menu as you get, "Africa Cruise, Alaska Cruise, Baltic Cruise... and so on," but I'd also check these changes against Google performance instead of just the Moz tool alone. If they aren't performing whatsoever and duplicate content looks to be an issue it could warrant a change.
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RE: Duplicate Content Pages - A Few Queries..
I think this is partly due to the size of the navigation menu. If you look at it in a text browser, it's several pages of the same text and links before you get to the main page of the text. From a UX the menu is very unobtrusive and the body text is the center of focus, but a crawler is going to see the header, sidebar, and footer when calculating out the totals.
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RE: How do you build your pre-sales seo audit
These guides should serve you pretty well: http://moz.com/pages/search_results?q=checklist A lot of what you do depends on the situation.
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RE: How to find which directories to submit my new site?
Hi Alec. I'd use the Link Intersect tab on the Link Opportunities tool in Open Site Explorer: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/opportunities/link-intersect?site=yoursitehere.com, to compare your site with some of your competitors. In this way you'll find sites that are more like niche hubs for your topic and get an insight into how and why sites in your field are gaining links. These types of sites (or just pages within a site) make up more links than the classic directories like DMOZ or Yahoo. Cheers!
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RE: Good or bad adding keywords in Pinterest description?
You'll want to avoid creating pages that are keyword stuffed that then point back to your site as you'll be creating a page that could become a negative signal as an inbound link to your site, similar to a spammy link on a different domain. Moz covers this pretty well in their Search Engine Myths and Misconceptions here: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/myths-and-misconceptions-about-search-engines, specifically, "One of the most obvious and unfortunate spamming techniques, keyword stuffing, involves littering keyword terms or phrases repetitively on a page in order to make it appear more relevant to the search engines. As discussed above, this strategy is almost certainly ineffectual.
Scanning a page for stuffed keywords is not terribly challenging, and the engines' algorithms are all up to the task. You can read more about this practice, and Google's views on the subject, in a blog post from the head of their web spam team: SEO Tip: Avoid Keyword Stuffing." Even if you have one degree of separation it's still not a benefit and not a best, or safe, practice.
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RE: Moz_pagespped and seo
The benefits of quicker page load times are probably going to outweigh the dangers in having new URLs for your images. There might be some cases where inbound links to your site are pointing directly to your images, but that's rarer than links to the page for most sites. Google Developers offers a pretty extensive FAQ on the features as well as specific trouble you might run into here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/faq so if you are having an issue like a 404 they provide some pointers there on how you can resolve it.
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RE: Improving SEO Structure of a Page
I agree. I'm advising you to leave them in the index.
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RE: Improving SEO Structure of a Page
I wouldn't NOINDEX a page that accounts for 60% of organic visits as that would be a major blow to your site overall. Are the other full-text pages not receiving any organic visits currently?
While the content is duplicate in the sense that it's pulling snippets from the full-text pages, the combinations on the listing pages are unique.
I would look into ways to enhance the full-text pages if they're currently not receiving visits from search before deciding to NOINDEX the listing pages. Cheers!
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RE: Improving SEO Structure of a Page
What kind of performance is the page getting currently? Any traffic via google/organic?
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RE: Is CDN Good For International Website?
I've seen both, usually VPS targets a specific country / area and the company using it tries to get one as close as possible to that area. For less specific international targeting CDN tends to be a good balance. Still a lot of sites use both to speed up javascript, imagery, etc. as much as possible while also having a server close to a big user base.
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RE: How to Interpret results in OSE?
You're in the clear using a Google custom search box because Google is the one delivering the results so they know not to double up on those. You're right that the pages that are getting indexed in Google on the other site are from a different process and an attempt to trick the engine with sparse, dynamically generated content.
Hint? Huh? I'm not nearly that clever. Cheers!
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RE: Upper to Lower Case and Endless Redirects
I'd give the sitemap a submission as soon as you get the URLs cleaned up. That should really help. Cheers!
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RE: Why would google favour overseas retailers? Really weird results..
I see. Page 2 and 3 is pretty far down the chain. My guess is that Google knows how much people in the UK interact with the .com version of websites via social, email, price comparisons, research, and on and on, to the point that they include some results no matter what--unless, like you said, someone specifically says UK only. Is this a negative? Maybe for some searches, but on average users are going to the .com as well by choice.
I guess that's an issue for a retailer that's solely UK based, but a non-issue for the percentages when you get into them at the level Google deals with. ultimately they want to keep providing a service that people find valuable, so if it gets too far afield they'll go to Yahoo or Bing.
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RE: Rel="self" and what to do with it?
That is odd. I'm unfamiliar with that markup other than as an RSS emulation here: https://gist.github.com/jonathantneal/5096851 and used with RSS / Atom feeds: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287. Maybe your forum software is doing them in this way in order to provide users with the corresponding RSS feed when subscribing to the post. I'd look into the documentation for your forum software to try and get a better insight into why it's there. Cheers!
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RE: Upper to Lower Case and Endless Redirects
Which ones are in your sitemap, uppercase or lowercase? Have you double checked any and all internal links on your site to make sure everything is lowercase? Are there other sites out there pointing to uppercase? Are you 100% certain of a complete purge?
If you are, then they should eventually stop crawling the uppercase. Still, having them crawl the upper case and receive a 301 redirect doesn't involve much bandwidth.
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RE: How to Interpret results in OSE?
Hi Mike. Regarding your questions...
- No, having Google index your site's search results pages is contrary to their guidelines, specifically, "Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines." From: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769. If you did it, you'd run the risk of having your site reported as webspam here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport.
- Plenty of other strategies could help your site. You might also find ways to increase your links internally by a healthy amount; you can link out to highly reputable sites pertaining to your pages; you can get social signals referencing your pages; and on and on. Lots you can do!
- The Internet is kind of big. This specific site, and these specific results are like a few blips in the trillions of other signals Google handles.
It sounds like you're working on your site the right way. Focus on being a better user experience like you are and even if you're getting a few less visits by ranking a little lower than your competitor currently you're still going to have much better results. Cheers!
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RE: Want to change URL for a page
Hi Angelos. Yup, you can do that. Here's a full guide here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection and you'll want to pay attention to the parts regarding page to page redirection, such as: RedirectMatch 301 /poker-face http://www.example.com/poker-faces
You can typically find further redirection support from your server host and related to whichever CMS or web software you're using. Cheers!
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RE: Why would google favour overseas retailers? Really weird results..
I don't think it's on a term by term basis. Either people are experiencing search directly from google.com or they're being redirected to google.co.uk and getting results there. If you look in the search preference section of your various browsers you'll likely see that it's set to google.com by default and is relying on the search engine to redirect you to google.co.uk based on your IP. if you change this to google.co.uk within the browser you won't get sent to google.com.
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RE: Htaccess Question - Is this the way to go to consolidate?
Excellent addition. Probably a combination of both since he states that the client wants to migrate to HTTPS. We'll have to get clarification from Giles.
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RE: What about re-life expired domain ?
If the domain was recently expired, you might see some short term success, but long term success will be dependent on what you put into it after launch.
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RE: What about re-life expired domain ?
I see. Yes, I'd plan on it being like a new website when adding content and building out the site.
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RE: What about re-life expired domain ?
Ok. If you decide that you're going to buy the domain, once you do use a 301 redirect to send all former links and references from it to your present domain. Here a guide on that: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection.
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RE: What about re-life expired domain ?
There might be some, but if the domain is off brand and not a name you want to use, you're probably better off universally redirecting it to your present domain. It's important to investigate the history of the domain though. Is it associated with Spam? Either as a source of spam email or a spammy link profile? Try to get as much insight in that regard as you can.
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RE: Why would google favour overseas retailers? Really weird results..
Hard to say. It looks like this has been more pronounced issue recently (https://www.venndigital.co.uk/blog/2015/01/is-google-killing-uk-businesses-organic-traffic/) and could be partly a glitch. There have been several big shifts going on in this time frame though...
- Ongoing EU legislation / voting to break up Google.
- Firefox makes Yahoo the browser's default search engine.
- Google incorporates Google Wallet into Gmail in the UK.
- And per that article, Google.com starts appearing in search instead of Google.co.uk.
There's even more coverage of it here: http://www.thesempost.com/google-chrome-redirecting-uk-users-google-com-instead-google-co-uk/ but my guess is that these things are somewhat related. From that article, John Mueller from Google suggests you submit this form if it's affecting you: https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ip. Personally I've seen the behavior in other browsers other than Chrome: Opera for example.
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RE: What is the best use for Moz tools specially keyword difficulty for startup ?
Hi Eslam. You're on track with considering keyword difficulty in the early stages. You might also want to take a look at the Fresh Web Explorer and see how popular your considered blog topics are. That will give you some better ideas on social engagement. What topics are coming up quite a bit or generating a lot of conversation. Follwerwonk can give you similar insights into Twitter.
To get a better idea on the difficulty around the percentages in the keyword tool, put the pages that rank for your given term into Open Site Explorer and see how many links those pages have, what kind of domains they're on, the strength of those domains and so on. You'll be able to begin to get an idea around difficulty in that way.
This post: http://moz.com/blog/the-right-keyword-data-for-the-right-job has nice insights into keyword research as does Cyrus' recent Mozinar: http://moz.com/webinars/seo-basics-the-fundamental-signals-used-to-rank-our-content-higher. Cheers!
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RE: Htaccess Question - Is this the way to go to consolidate?
Hi Giles. You'll end up with something similar to this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]RewriteRule ^page1(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/page1$1 [R,L]
The first being an example of redirecting an entire domain to HTTPS and the second, a specific page.
The effects of the redirection are immediate in the sense that once the .htaccess file is changed the redirection will be in place. What takes a longer amount of time is for the change to carry over in Google's ranking and throughout the web. Using the tools in GWT and Bing can help.
Here are a couple of guides that you might find useful: http://moz.com/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos and http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection.
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RE: Link Acquisition Assistant redirect to Open Site Explorer??????
Hi Howard. The Link Acquisition Assistant has been upgraded and renamed "Link Opportunities" and is now here: https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/opportunities/link-intersect?site=fillinyoursite.com. Cheers!
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RE: How to enter hours in Moz Local for multiple hour sets per day
Per Sam Weber's answer a few months ago, "You should be able to do that. You'd just need to make sure it's formatted correctly. For the hours you listed, it would look something like this for Sunday:
1:09:00AM:11:00AM,1:02:00PM:06:30PM
If the hours overlap, then we wouldn't be able to process it for you."
http://moz.com/community/q/more-than-one-set-of-hours-per-day-in-moz-localI notice your code is missing the leading zero: 09:00AM. Cheers!