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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'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?

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?

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?

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.

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!

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.

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?

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!

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!

http://www.sqlsentry.com/ 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.

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?

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?

I know with ranktracker I can see a page that will rank for a certain keyword.  What if I have multiple pages that rank for this keyword?  How can I see all pages that rank for it?

I'm really upset, I have used it to work on a spreadsheet with thousands of words and today I decided to check and a keyword we rank #1 for showed as not in top 50.  This makes me very nervous.

Hello everyone, We are in the process of going from a .net to a .com and we have also done a complete site redesign as well as refreshed all of our content.  I know it is generally ideal to not do all of this at once but I have no control over that part.  I have a few questions and would like any input on avoiding losing rankings and traffic. One of my first concerns is that we have done away with some of our higher ranking pages and combined them into one parallax scrolling page.  Basically, instead of having a product page for each product they are now all on one page.  This of course has made some difficulty because search terms we were using for the individual pages no longer apply. My next concern is that we are adding keywords to the ends of our urls in attempt to raise rankings.  So an example: website.com/product/product-name/keywords-for-product  if a customer deletes keywords-for-product they end up being re-directed back to the page again.  Since the keywords cannot be removed is a redirect the best way to handle this?  Would a canonical tag be better?  I'm trying to avoid duplicate content since my request to remove the keywords in urls was denied.  Also when a customer deletes everything but website.com/product/ it goes to the home page and the url turns to website.com/product/#.  Will those pages with # at the end be indexed separately or does google ignore that? Lastly, how can I determine what kind of loss in traffic we are looking at upon launch?  I know some is to be expected but I want to avoid it as much as I can so any advice for this migration would be greatly appreciated.

My company has previously added on extensions to a url like the example below http://www.test.com/product-name/extra-keywords My question is since there is no difference between the pages http://www.test.com/product-name and http://www.test.com/product-name/extra-keywords and you don't leave the product page to reach the extra-keyword page is this really necessary?  I feel like this is probably not a best practice.  Thanks for any suggestions.

I have added hundreds of keywords to "Add and Manage Keywords" how do I get those over to Keyword rankings? Its showing 5 that I manually added.  Do I need to manually add them one at a time?  That seems a bit crazy.  Is there no way to import them over from add and manage?