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Hi everyone. We have had a new site up for over a year now. When I search site:sqlsentry.net the old url still shows up and while those pages are redirected to .com I'd like to get the .net URL's out of google forever. What is the best way I can go about that?
How could I begin to research this to find out why we have less total links and a lower domain authority.
Our DA has gone down two points and our total links dropped by a few thousand. I'd like to find out why that happened but I'm just not sure where to start. Thanks!
I totally agree but the issue is we have sections of our site we now can't control title tag and descriptions for because we use that anchor jump menu all over the place. That was what I was trying to get to the bottom of. I did find a jquery solution for it that we may try. Thanks everyone!
I've noticed an issue with our site, which uses parallax on multiple pages. Here is an example:
If you search for About SQL Sentry, you get the correct title tag and description
If you search for SQL Sentry Careers (which is on the about us page) it appears that Google has made up a title tag and description for it. Is there any way to force a separate title tag for a part of a parallax page?
Thanks everyone. I have to report on keyword progress and just noticed those things and wanted to be sure it was ok. I'm having a hard time reporting on the progress of keywords as I can only go back to August in Moz. If anyone has any other suggestions for a way to see historical progress I'm all ears. Thanks!
I have a product page and our home page ranked for the same keyword.
On August 6th the product page was ranked #14 then plummeted to #60. On August 13th our home page was in the #2 spot (line just appears out of nowhere) and it is now in the #1 spot.
I also see the same pages appearing for some keywords ranked in multiple positions then plummeting and one coming back up. I'm having a hard time understanding how the Keyword tool in Moz is reporting exactly. Thanks!
To add to this: From Oct 8th to the 15th we jumped up from #60 to #16 for one keyword and then by Oct. 22nd are back down to #60. I have a huge spike on the 15th. Wondering if that had anything to do with any algorithm updates?
Here is another example of content taken from our site and being used on some spammy website: http://editionsmicrobuss.com/wiki/sql-server-performance-monitor-sql-sentry-software.html
What is the point of someone doing this and is there any point to having it taken down? This is our exact content taken from our website and also some of our competitors content.
Would the 301's from sswug be a concern? I'm more concerned about the phoenixhollo site just leading people to bad ads and looking spammy with our name attached to it.
Is that a free thing you can do? I wish I knew what to do about these other links. It's just tons of duplicate meta descriptions and it looks very spammiy.
One last thing to add. There are many sites using some of our content as meta descriptions (or google is) that are totally irrelevant.
Their domain was brought up to me yesterday as we used them in the past for some marketing or we were considering it. I'm not 100% sure. I also found this site: http://www.phoenixhollo.com/fr/SQL_10.html which opens a copy of our site then opens a pop up to an ad once you click anywhere. This also seems really sketchy.
I was doing an audit on our site and searching for duplicate content using some different terms from each of our pages. I came across the following result:
www.sswug.org/url/32639 redirects to our website. Is that normal? There are hundreds of these url's in google all with the exact same description. I thought it was odd. Any ideas and what is the consequence of this?
Thanks. We made sure a 301 redirect is in place but the error is still there. It's been days now. I'm not sure what else to do.
I actually just work for this company and have shifted from a support role into an SEO role. I agree about less hands in the cookie jar but as you said, it doesn't always work that way 
Unfortunately I have no way of knowing what the developers do so they could have modified it. I've asked that it be righted. Thanks!
Message reads as follows:
Property sqlsentry.com is receiving data from redundant hostnames. Consider setting up a 301 redirect on your website, or make a search and replace filter that strips "www." from hostnames. Examples of redundant hostnames: sqlsentry.com, www.sqlsentry.com.
We have had our preferred domain set to www for months and I've never seen this error before today. A quick search shows others getting this as well. I did notice our 301 is no longer working so I am going to set that back and see what happens.
Thank you!!! I really enjoyed your session. Opened up a whole new way of thinking for me! Can't wait to dig into the SEER blog. 
I was watching his session and it sounds like he is saying tag crab or tag cloud? As someone who has never heard of either or anything close I would really like to know what he is talking about. Appreciate any help!
Ok cool. We do have a dev environment. It's published sort of infrequently but I can use that. Thank you!
I have created a test view but that is not helping with skewed data. Do you all just create a total separate profile with a different GA account for a non-indexed domain? How can I test tag manager and other things without messing with our data? I have our IP filtered out so it doesn't show up in reports but other event tags from outsiders will.
Title tags are generally placed in the head section of a website which yours is in the head tag but comes below your navigation it looks like. You could try moving it above your keywords tag. The keywords are not widely used anymore btw. Good luck!
They had switched the title months back but once I shortened the pixel width it righted itself. Thanks for the answers it is much appreciated!
I have a few keywords in there. What led me down this path was an insane drop off rate that I noticed for that page. We have an 89.2% drop off from that page as a landing page when I'm looking at our behavior flow report. I decided to check the SERP's to see if anything stood out, to me, the description that google has used when you search "SQL Sentry Plan Explorer" seems misleading. It looks like you are going to get to a blog post from one of our MVP's and you would in fact be going to a product sales page. I was wondering if that could account for the drop off.
I do not believe it is pulling it from a rich snippet. I do however see a different result depending on how I search for the keywords for that page. That is really strange. Doesn't seem like there is much I can do about this one.
I finally got our title tags honored and now Google is just making the descriptions whatever it wants. This is happening on pretty much every one of our pages. An example: http://www.sqlsentry.com/products/plan-explorer/sql-server-query-view
SERPS = SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand shares a demo kit for Plan Explorer to give you better insight into the advantages of the tool, and to help you share its virtues ...
Description tag = SQL Sentry Plan Explorer is a free query plan analysis tool that will allow you to find the most expensive operators by CPU, I/O, or both.
I can see the description tag when I view source so I know that it is pulling it from the table correctly. What can I do to fix this?
Mine is working just fine. All items are reporting as usual. Maybe you can uninstall and re-install?
I would at least try to get him to review it and say you want his name on it. If he won't or cannot review it then put it out there with his name on it anyway
I was reading Danny Dover's book and decided to try some websites and so far everyone I have looked at has had navigation that does not work with disabled javascript. Is this still as important as it was at the time of publish (2011)? Thanks!
Google changed some of our page titles and they were actually longer than the accepted pixel width. I'm not sure if this is the case for you but may be worth a try. You can find more information about that here: http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool.
Is it harmful to have two of these which are identical in the section?
Hi everyone. Google has recently started using our old .net instead of .com in the SERPS. I went to do a change of address for the old http://www.sqlsentry.net and it gives me the "There is no change of address pending for your site." I've tried for both www and non-www and still get the same result. All pages seem to be redirecting to the new site with no issues. Is there anything else I can do to change this? Or is there a step I'm missing? Thanks!
For one of our white paper campaigns we are getting multiple URL's some how but we only have one version of the page. So do I put the rel canonical tag on that one single page? Will that fix the other url's from being indexed? I'm assuming people are typing in the urls with underscores and capital or non-capital letters and it's showing up that way in analytics. Thanks!
Interestingly if I search it without quotes it comes right up just fine.
Thanks. That has been a big concern for me. We consolidated quite a few pages into one long page but our organic traffic has gone up so I guess so far so good? We are in the process of re-vamping our keywords and re-adjusting our content to match. I'm not sure if I should bring this up or not.
This is a parallax type page and the navigation basically points you to the homepage every time. The sub-menu on the secondary pages only ushers you down the page to various topics. This design has concerned me for some time but I'd like another opinion.
Hey David thanks for your response. We are not using wordpress or joomla. We use currently IIS, ASP.net and MVC. This will be going on a software company website.
I want to add some structured data to our companies website via microdata through schema.org. I have been asked to gather all of the requirements so that it can be done server side and automated when things change. I honestly don't know where to begin as there are many areas where it can be added. Has anyone done this server side before?
I have 181 keywords that I have been asked to track rank on. So first I will track against our url then our competitors. With a 250 word limit will that count for every url I want to track? Is there any other way to do this than using rank tracker?
I did some keyword research for our company. Some of the terms we got 100,000 search volume for in 2011 now have only 90 monthly searches. I am doing exact match for both US and Global and neither are any where near those high of numbers. Now I can't say how the old report on this was done but we are all a little skeptical of these numbers. Is there any other tool out there for search volume on Google? The Moz tool while it lists Google as an option only does Bing. Thank you!
One of our sales team members has created a 25 page word document as a topical page. The plan was to make this into an html page with a table of contents. My thoughts were why not make it a pdf? Is there any con to using a PDF vs an html page? If the PDF was properly optimized would it perform just as well? The goal is to have folks click back to our products and hopefully by after reading about how they work.
If you view source you will see my actual title tag http://www.sqlsentry.com/products/performance-advisor/sql-server-performance
The google results are showing a completely different title tag that we do not want used. This was working properly and I'm not understanding how it got changed. Thanks!
Hi everyone. We have implemented the new google ad tracking code and realized that on paid keywords we get the keyword in our UTMZ tracking cookie. However, if someone just searches a term we are not paying for we get "not provided" in the cookie. Does anyone know how to resolve this issue so we can track our keywords?
Well we had to leave the urchin code as we cannot figure out how to get the new UTMZ cookie into our code. We did however put back the new UA that we need so results did start to appear again. Thanks for all the help. If anyone has info on the UTMZ cookie please let me know.
Yep they all re-direct. I think this has something to do with putting the old urchin code from the .net on to the .com. I'm going to see if it can be removed. We were unable to figure out how to implement the .js to get a UTMZ cookie setup.
Let me also add that in Analytics I am seeing that now the traffic is back on the .net and no longer showing up on the .com. I have no clue why this would happen. It just dawned on me that my boss re-implemented our old urchin code on top of our new analytics code. This corresponds with the time that the .com stopped showing results. I can only assume this is what is causing the sudden drop off in traffic on the .com.
My only thought at this point is that someone else with access could have already made the change. If that is true will the .net sites eventually go away? Are they still receiving traffic because google just hasn't picked up all the redirects yet? Thanks for all of your suggestions it is most appreciated
Thanks I have read all of that. Not sure why I don't have the change of address option. I am assuming because we launched with redirects already in place. I added both the www and non-www versions and did choose preferred domain. The .net www and non-www as well as both for the .com are still showing in webmaster tools if that is where you "select a site".
Redirects are all in place but when I go to do the change of address it says no change of address is pending. I don't see any other options.
So my company has gone from .net to .com. I have analytics up and running as well as WMT. I noticed today that on the .com we only had 1 visitor yesterday and 0 today. We have just put out a major press release as well as other PR related things and I'm only seeing slight traffic on the .net. Any ideas? What should I do with the .net in WMTs and Analytics? Do I need to turn something off? Is this normal behavior about a week into a migration?
Also I am being asked to check this against our old website which was a .net. We have just migrated to a .com. Is this going to yield mixed results?