So you have individually been banned? You're probably out of luck there.
Posts made by RyanPurkey
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RE: 301'ing old (2000), high PR, high pages indexed domain
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RE: Duplicate page titles and Content in Woocommerce
Hi Joost. The reasoning behind noindexing category and tag pages is because they have a high tendency to show up as duplicate content--as you've just experienced. People like to keep them as part of their site due to user friendliness but often these pages on their own are a reshuffling of content and can be highly repetitive from a search engine perspective. Ideally you keep your top level categories that are unique within the index and noindex the rest. Feel free to keep links within your site as followed. Cheers!
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RE: 301'ing old (2000), high PR, high pages indexed domain
Couldn't tell ya. If you have an existing relationship with an account rep there I'd work directly with them on both points. Personally the linking of a banned site to a clean account sounds very high risk.
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RE: Facebook Connect login preventing traffic source conversion data. Any solutions?
There's a take on this at Quora here: http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-track-Facebook-Connect-signup-goals-in-Google-Analytics where the attribute is getting applied via a query string. In his example "redirect_to root_url(:new_facebook_user => resource.new_facebook_user)" 'resource' would be replaced with 'adwords' or whichever attribute you'd like. Cheers!
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RE: Sitelink demotion
Hi Gavo. Sitelinks are generally an amalgamation of your most visited pages, high search intent pages, and UX considerations. As such you can often control them by modifying your overall navigation and site structure. It might seem like a lot of work, but getting more people to visit the pages you want as sitelinks really doubles your efforts when those pages also become sitelinks.
As for the timeline, Google says, "Once you've demoted or undemoted a sitelink, it can take some time for search results to reflect your changes." Nice and precise! ;^) It will take eventually though, and not in months, but maybe days. Their resource is here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334 Cheers!
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RE: 301'ing old (2000), high PR, high pages indexed domain
Hi Steve. EGOL would be the expert on this question for sure. And just to clarify it was only a site that triggered removal and not you as an individual or company? Beyond that, here's the official guide on how to get a site reinstated based on appeal:
We're always willing to work with you to resolve any issues you might have. If you feel that this decision was made in error, and if you can maintain in good faith that the invalid activity was not due to the actions or negligence of you or those for whom you are responsible, you may appeal the disabling of your account.
To do so, please contact us only through our appeal form.
Once we receive your appeal, we'll do our best to inform you quickly and will proceed with appropriate action as necessary. Please understand, however, that there is no guarantee that your account will be reinstated.
Once we've reached a decision on your appeal, further appeals may not be considered, and you might not receive any further communication from us.
From: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/57153#q2 Chances are you've already tried this and the appeal was rejected. Did you go over each and every point of their reasoning behind invalid activity? Did you go full kimono? You could try once more but I'd preface that as FINAL appeal and then let it rest and look for different advertisers.
If you do pursue linking the old, banned account to a new one, you'd probably run afoul of, "My account was disabled for being related to another disabled account. Can you tell me more about this relation?" from that same page... Good luck!
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RE: My website's pages are not being indexed correctly
Thumbs up to Don's rec. Also when you look at the text only cache what kind of page are you seeing, if any? Sometimes the site: search is a little inconsistent so you can try forcing the delivery of certain pages with the inurl: modifier. One last caveat that comes to mind is that if the comparison listing is similar to an internal search results page, Google may not ever list it, "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 Cheers!
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RE: Migrating Youtube Channels
The official Youtube take on it is here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2404846
Unfortunately, you can’t merge or link separate YouTube channels. Similarly, you can’t transfer data from one channel to another (this includes videos).
However, you can download your videos from your own channel. Once you've downloaded your video, you can re-upload it to a different channel. View count and other statistics will start over for the new upload.
That's the official version.
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RE: Is <title>different from <h1> and "meta tag title"?</title>
Hi Jason. For Volusion specifically, here's their instructions on it: http://support.volusion.com/article/setting-meta-tags-volusion-store-homepage ...
- Log in to your Admin Area and go to Marketing > SEO.
- Select Enable Search Engine Optimization Friendly URLs under the Search Engine Friendly URLs heading.
- Enter values in to the Meta Tag Title, Meta Tag Descriptions, and Meta Tag Keywords fields for the default values and any pages you want to assign specific tags to and click Save.
- Advanced users can enter their own custom meta tags by selecting Meta Tags Override and entering custom meta information into the Meta Tags Override fields for each page.
So you'll want to edit/add what they call the "Meta Tag Title" in order to clean up those errors. Cheers!
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RE: Finding blog ideas and syndication
Thumbs up to Tom's suggestion. That reminds me that you can also run searches in Google on Yahoo Question's repository, so something like: furniture site:answers.yahoo.com or get more specific inserting wildcards like: *** furniture * site:answers.yahoo.com** Cheers!
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RE: Finding blog ideas and syndication
Hi Joshua. Sometimes it's all about finding something outside of the box when it comes to being able to create content on a regular basis. Tom Dickson probably didn't find his idea for Will it Blend? in the forums or common Q&As, still he tapped into a model that let him regularly demonstrate and solidify his brand. It also doesn't have to be solely tied to your site. If you have something that people enjoy your brand name often becomes part of the search. Just a few ideas: which couch does the dog prefer? Which couch does the cat prefer? Which lounge chair wore the throw pillow better? Etc. Cheers!
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RE: 404 issues involving Yelp
Hi Sarah. In the bottom right hand corner of this page: http://silodistillery.com/tag/windsor/ you have a list of social icons. The Yelp one contains the link to the 404 page. Cheers!
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RE: Removed Subdomain Sites Still in Google Index
Right. I get that they don't exist on your site currently, but when they did Google indexed them so they exist in some form within Google, but Google had never been told they had permanently moved (via 301). The good news is that you don't have to resurrect the entire site. You can simply modify the appropriate file (htaccess if you're on Apache, IIS if Window's server) and make certain that Google knows any page it's looking for at devsite.yoursite.com is now at www.correcturl.com. Cheers!
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RE: Removed Subdomain Sites Still in Google Index
Hi Sarah. Have you put in 301 redirects in the htaccess file for these subdomains? You may want to consider going through the change of address tool in Google Webmaster Tools as well. The problem seems to be that Google crawled and indexed the old subdomains and still has references to the old pages that existed on them. Ultimately using NOINDEX on development sites and then using a catchall 301 redirect should help clean this up for you. Cheers!
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RE: .ca for Canada-specific business currently using .com?
If all your marketing materials reflect the .com I'd keep that; however, you can consider rolling out the .ca for localized branches. Still, there are trade offs there as well, for example, if you're currently hosting your local branches on the .com main site they're likely experiencing a boost from its domain trust and authority. Things like that would be in play specifically for the branches. For corporate I'd leave it at .com. Cheers!
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RE: Does backlinks in images equal naked backlinks?
Hi Eslam. A link via an image is perfectly acceptable especially if they're natural links. Some sites will tend to have an abundance of these if they're things like images sharing sites, online comics, meme generators, etc. And many of these sites do perfectly well with a high percentage of image links. The bigger concern is that the site isn't spammy, see Moz's new tool that's part of OSE: http://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk and http://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday Cheers!
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RE: How to get rid of ezinearticles links etc?
Good work Adam! You pretty much have to go with the contact method at first if at all possible. As more sites transition away from this sort of thing though you'll likely run into more success as you do. It's abundantly easy for Google to spot sites like goarticles and ezine and spank them if they choose. Who knows, that could be something that comes up in the EU...
Generally forum links that are from useful and accurate comments don't bother me as they're semantically relevant to the conversation and pretty well established in the global scope of the web. I wouldn't expect them to bring too much value though as well, especially the sig ones. Still, if you're ranking highly within the forum, and your comments are adding to the conversation, the sig link would be good just from a users perspective. I'd leave it for that alone.
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RE: SEO'd Title Tag for Product Pricing Page with Little to No SV for Product Pricing Related Terminology
Hi Richard. One thing you could do is run a PPC campaign directed at this page using only Company Name branded terms (thus helping with a low CPC) and split test all the different titles you're considering. This way you'll find one that gits your needs as well as one that generates the best CTR based on your tests. Cheers!
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RE: Cross-linking for mobile SEO
Ideally the value and trust associated with the domain and desktop version of a site should carry over into the mobile version once the hurdle of having a mobile version that Google accepts is met. Of course this is the "ideal" situation and there can be lots of little hiccups along the way. In general terms though, if the site is responsive, on the same URLs, and and loading quickly across devices it should perform similar to desktop.
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RE: Possible problem with new site (GWT no queries/very low index vs. submitted)
Good work James! And nice outline of your steps involved. This will be an asset for people experiencing similar issues I'm sure. Cheers!
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RE: Is Moz going to provide mobile ranking tools?
My hunch is that Moz is going to be going after this as well since it is such a large scale change...
In the meantime you can get an idea on your mobile rankings by looking at Analytics results segmented out by mobile and organic search referrals. If the percentages align with your desktop rankings you've got a very basic correlation. You could even segment further by bringing in comparisons of top performing pages or regions that tend to deliver more mobile.
Within GWT you can also filter by mobile within the Search Traffic >> Search Queries report. Expect some changes here after the 21st as well. Cheers!
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RE: Can I have schema.org links as relative on my site? Getting an html validation error.
The error is looking for an absolute URL (including the http or https) so it doesn't look like it'll parse without it there. There's a nice discussion from a year ago at Stack Exchange on this as well, with the conclusion being, "Regarding HTTP vs. HTTPS, see also my answer to a similar (not duplicate) question: I’d recommend to always use the HTTP variant of Schema.org URIs." From: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71857/schema-org-itemtype-identifier-should-it-use-relative-urls-or-https-links Cheers!
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RE: How to get only the most needed css for faster loading?
This seems like something that's a little beyond the scale of an app. SitePoint did a great breakdown of the whole ecosystem of page rending here: http://www.sitepoint.com/optimizing-critical-rendering-path/ that details the steps to go through regarding loading pages as quickly as possible. That said, a CDN like Cloudflare would be better suited to the task: https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer. Cheers!
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RE: Google Signal for Site Speed: PageSpeed ranking, Time To First Byte, or something else?
Thumbs up to Matt on this. The over all load time of the page is what's critical, although several of the suggestions within the PageSpeed tool are aimed at making the first visible content within the page load as quickly as possible.
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RE: Mobile Friendly Issue
It's likely that as the mobile update takes place Google will remove the tagging as it'll be redundant. Nearly everything in their mobile results should be mobile friendly.
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RE: Do you know any competitive landscape tool ?
Hmm... This is really tough to automate as it can become really inclusive; meaning, often there's a one/two degrees of separation within search results where your client or their competitor could be discussed within the top ten of the search results. For example, the search could end up pulling a review site that's discussing client/comp products and then linking to them. While clicks would show up from this site as referrer the value associated with the ranking should also be part of a report like that.
What you might be able to do to convey the same idea but with quicker iterations would be to really lower the number of keywords that you're reporting on to a smaller level and then clustering them into representative batches. If they become a client you can bump up the reporting details, but at the initial stages you're really pitching your knowledge, service, and system. I think you could get that across with fewer keywords and deeper dives into the marketplace. That way you could present on options like advertising on sites that feature reviews of your competitors, print options in smaller / low-cost markets, image-map-knowledge box results, etc. Cheers!
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RE: Implemented Enhance Ecommerce but Event tracking showing double
Hi John. It sounds like you have some legacy tracking in place that is causing the events to be tracked twice. Take a look at this discussion as an example of what might be taking place: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/5gdOQA_44cc
While it may not be the exact same situation it's probably similar. If not, providing the link to the page with the problem code would help further. Cheers!
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RE: How many times have you reauthorized your facebook account for Moz analytics?
Two's company, three's a crowd. Getting third-party connections to always play nice can be aggravating from time to time. Hopefully it gets cleaned up for you soon Ruben. Cheers!
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RE: Deciding whether to list multiple locations
I would list all five as it gives the customer a better since of which location is nearest to them as well as your size of company. You can also consider including the locations within your footer of the site as well.
Getting consistent Name Address Phone across listings is definitely a best practice and one of the core aspects of local optimization. That's one thing I'd make a priority. Cheers!
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RE: Local SEO case with two physical locations
Great! Glad you got it straightened out.
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RE: What is the optimal approach for a new site that has geo-targeted content available via 2 domains?
Hi Ben. Thanks for the link. After looking through the site I'd stick with my above rec and just make them both as branded as possible for their respective locations. With some color coding and visuals you could incorporate both pretty well. You can also advertise the city site internally via linking, the addition of related articles, and so on. Basically the stuff you see done on other sites with systems like Outbrain could be done internally with these two sites as well.
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RE: What can Google tell about a website from Chrome or its toolbar?
Danny Dover wrote a nice post about this back in 2008, but it still applies today and is a great read here: http://moz.com/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring-googles-user-data-collection
The list is almost mind boggling when you add it all up... especially if you consider the different facets of Google that might not necessarily share data, but certainly could: things like Google+, Adwords, Doubleclick, Registrar Data, Server logs, mobile, Google Accounts, Gmail, Chrome, Android, and so on..
I don't want to spoil Danny's report though, it's still a great read on perspective, even after 7 years. Cheers!
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RE: Why are "noindex" pages access denied errors in GWT and should I worry about it?
Thumbs up to Monica's answer. I'd just add that you could redirect some of those pages to thin out the use of no index if possible, but it sounds like you've kept them around as they're marginally useful. You can also click the 'ignore' button for given error messages and they'll go away.
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RE: What is the optimal approach for a new site that has geo-targeted content available via 2 domains?
Hi Benny. I don't know if the small scale geotargeting is the best way to handle user intent. It'd probably be best to keep content tied to location as defined by the domain. For example, if I'm on the coast, researching a trip to the city, and get to a site about the city, but the logo is about the coast, I'm just confused.
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RE: Date Range Control On Custom Reports?
Ah. Sounds like support will have to chime in on that one. Quick question though, do you have a month's worth of data to report on yet?
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RE: Domain prefix changed, will this impact SEO?
Hi Georgina. Having pages go missing after a redirect change is fairly typical for a given time period but they should come back eventually, minus any normal fluctuations associated with rankings. You can do a few things to check on your progress, such as site:YOURDOMAIN.com searches with the addition of inurl:SPECIFIC.STRING to try and find certain sections or products. Cheers!
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RE: Are 1x Event pages considered thin content? Should they be archived or redirected?
It might depend on how large the event is. For really large scale things (sporting events, annual conferences, etc.) it makes more sense for there to be an archive of some sorts. With more iterative events that are collectively focused on topical awareness, I'd be more inclined to redirect those page sot which ever even in the series is most current.
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RE: New Spam Analysis Tool Results Questions
The disavow tool is a the last step of a process Google outlines for dealing with spammy links. The first step being asking for the links to be removed... Since you control those sites and have deleted them you've accomplished the removal of the link, so no need to disavow. Mozscape will catch on as the index is recrawled.
For the second question, the spam score is calculated on site, so if the site where the content finds a new home has a low / non-spam score the content should lose its spammy associations. It sounds like you're cleaning up things appropriately.
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RE: Domain prefix changed, will this impact SEO?
Hi Georgina. This could definitely have an impact but since it's a more minimal change (root domain is remaining the same) hopefully it will be mitigated (or very minimal) since the 301 redirect was used. Something else you can do though is go to Google Webmaster Tools, verify ownership of both the www and non-www and set the non-www as your preferred domain within that tool. The same can be done within Bing as well. In addition you can update your sitemaps by uploading them there so that they include the non-www links as the target pages. This should help speed things up and make the change over less pronounced. Cheers!
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RE: Titling and H1 Tag Question
It's a pretty old page, so take it with a grain of salt. Mostly what they're getting at I think is their preference for facts over sales copy when it comes to granular data. Still, things like page counts plus author and illustrator information within the H1 and Titles could help diversify your hundreds of thousands of pages.
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RE: Titling and H1 Tag Question
Thumbs up to Dirk's spot on answer. It's also instructive to look at Google's copy on Meta Descriptions as a general guide on the type of information they're likely to pull, from: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624 they suggest a meta description of:
Obviously this isn't sales or marketing driven copy, but does give you a bit of insight into their point of view. Framed correctly it could help increase conversions though. Cheers!
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RE: How do I correct the facts in the information boxes to the right of search results for an individual.
It's partly due to the sources where they're pulling information, so for the Garrison Wyn profile, since he has an IMDB listing, it gets added in. Brian on the other hand seems to be getting his data scraped from Wikipedia.
Dr. Pete recently wrote a great article on the process he took in working with one of these and detailed it all in a blog post here: http://moz.com/blog/how-we-fixed-the-internet . Since he had access to the source material it became a little easier for him to alter, but it still took a while for the changes to take place. Further on he provides other examples.
In short, it's not an easy or rapid process at times, but if you address the source material to get the facts straight it should eventually get picked up. Cheers!
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RE: Moz Local users: Specs for Images?
Right. Moz Local uses the matching verifired Google + and Facebook listings to verify those locations. So what you have there is what gets applied to the myriad of others. See: https://moz.com/local/how and:
Moz Local takes the time and hassle out of managing your listings across multiple sites and directories. When you submit a listing on Moz Local, it must match an existing Google Places or Facebook listing across all of the following attributes: Business Name, Address, Phone Number, and Website. Because you've already gone through the phone or postcard verification process with Google and/or Facebook, your Moz Local listings will be validated if they exactly match Google or Facebook.
Some of our partners—such as Infogroup and Best of the Web—may call or email to confirm your listing information is accurate, but no postcard or PIN entry is required.
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RE: Moz Local users: Specs for Images?
Since Facebook will scale it they'll have a range to apply them from and it should work pretty well across the platforms. Submission errors come across one at a time so you should see which 3rd party services have issues with the submission, if any. Cheers!
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RE: Local SEO case with two physical locations
Currently your client is at a disadvantage due to not having physical, staffed, testing centers and thus doesn't qualify for Google Local in the same way as competitors that do. Even if your competitors have one receptionist staffing the building during non-testing hours but is open to receive inquiries and appointments that puts them ahead of your client. If the outlay isn't there for an additional phone number then I would compete on service and service area, not trying to outstrip the competition with fictitious locations. If you're successful at that then perhaps growing to the point of having fully leased centers makes sense. Cheers!
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RE: Keeping SEO benefit of an old URL by changing content
Google is very good with semantically relevant information and updating posts like this with new results and further information often also provides a fresh content boost. With the volume you're talking about, I'd recommend rolling out the new content in phases so that you can see how it impacts results and decide best for your situation. Cheers!
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RE: Local SEO case with two physical locations
Hmm... This is kind of borderline with the physical location requirements outlined by Google, "If your business rents a temporary, "virtual" office at a different address from your primary business, do not create a page for that location unless it is staffed during your normal business hours." Even though it's staffed for testing it's not staffed when you'd expect people to contact you or 'visit'. That only happens with your online interactions. It'd probably be most accurate to do the business as a brand, with addresses for the testing centers. They likely don't need separate phone numbers as they're not staffed locations. Anyone visiting outside of testing hours would find an empty building.
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RE: Local SEO case with two physical locations
I'd definitely invest the minimum $$ required to get a phone number per location. These could all be setup to forward to the one mobile number--still keeping things simple that way while also allowing for each location to have a number.
Some questions though, are these physical locations client owned/leased and operated? Like is a permanent establishment with regular office hours and such? Or is this a testing service that is renting space just in time to deliver the course?
Cheers!