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Hi Alick300,

Unfortunately this has not resolved the issue.

For example, if there was a blog post with the URL www.moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-stuff then if French, for example, was chosen in the front-end multilingual dropdown menu, the selection would display www.moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-stuff?lang=fr**- **which is a page that does not exist, so I can't even redirect anything

A client set up a website that has multilingual functionality (WPML) and the back end is a bit of a mess. The site has around 6 translated versions of the 30 or so existing English blog posts in French, Italian and Spanish - all with their own URLs.

The problem is that on the remaining 24 English blog posts, the language changer in the header is still there - even though the majority of posts have not been translated - so when you go to change the language to French, it adds **?lang=fr **onto the existing english URL, and is a page not found (4xx client error). I can't redirect anything because the page does not exist.

Is there a way to stop this from happening? I have noticed it's also creating italian/french/spanish translation of the english Categories too.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks!

We believe it is the YOAST SEO Plugin.

Hi, I believe this is probably the case.

However, not knowing too much about breadcrumbs I am unsure what sort of 'offending code' I would be looking for and how to resolve the issue.

Could you offer some advice please?

Thank you.

Hi all,

My recent site crawl shows 27 4xx issues on this website http://www.rrbusinessconsultants.com/

All of them are for 'posts' on this wordpress website.

Here is an example of the issue: http://www.rrbusinessconsultants.com/rr-business-consultants-on-the-rise-of-glassdoor-and-how-companies-are-coping/void(null)

The blog page seems to be creating links ending in void(null) which are defaulting to 404 pages.

I cannot see the links on the site so cannot see how to remove them.  Can anyone provide any insight into how to correct his issue?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi There,

I want to set up my Moz report to send directly to a client however there are currently 885 duplicate page content errors displaying on the report.

These are mostly caused by an item listed in multiple 'categories' and each category is a new pages/URL.

I guess my questions are:

1. Does Google see these as duplicate page content? Or does it understand the categories are there for navigation purposes.

2. How do I clear these off my Moz report so that the client doesn't panic that there are some major issues on the site

Thanks for your advice.

Hi Matt,

Yes of course, the following a showing 'missing meta description' on the report.

http://panatlanticinc.com/services/

http://panatlanticinc.com/industries/

http://panatlanticinc.com/who-are-we/

HI there,

I am using Yoast SEO plugin on a wordpress website.  I am currently showing 70 Med priority crawl errors 'missing meta description' on my Moz pro account.

This number of missing meta descriptions has increased over the last 6 weeks. But every single page / post / tag / category has both the title and meta description completed via Yoast.

I requested a google bot to crawl the site a few weeks ago as thought it perhaps wasn't been crawled and updated.

Any idea what the issue might be?  Could the Moz report be incorrect for some reason?  Or could something be blocking Moz / Google from seeing the Yoast plugin?

I get a lot of duplicate page errors on my crawl diagnostics reports from 'categories' and 'tags' on my wordpress sites.

The post is 1x link and then the content is 'duplicated' on the 'category' or 'tag' that is added to the page.  Should I exclude the tags and categories from my sitemap or are these issues not that important?

Thanks for your help

Stacey

Hi There,

I have a new client who wishes to rank in Google UK for 'Antique Fireplaces London'.  Currently they rank 49th.  They do not know their logins for Google Local (where they have 40+ positive reviews).  And have very mess social activity (which i am trying to sort out).

The domain is around 8 years old - website has just been redone (drupal) where a lot of the former SEO errors were corrected) but they seem to be outranked by much newer websites that have much lower domain authority and less inbound links.  My client also has much more recognition in online trade magazines and newspapers than most of their competitors.

Would buying some additional domains with the keywords they wish to rank for help? Or will this look dodgy to google?

Any other quick tips to give them a boost?

I've had a similar issue - haven't sourced a solution.  Also, I noticed even when you change the page to a 'community' page so remove the 'review' option - the old negative reviews still show via Facebook mobile app.  Did you also have this issue?

Hi There,

I wanted to get some opinions on onlin merchant loyalty schemes such as Bellycard.com & Stamp.it?

A quick Google search reveals lots of these businesses.

Who in your opinion is the top provider in this field and why?

Thanks Stuart.

That is the admin login page but I'm not sure about the link they mention Example: http://inter-italia.com/en/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

It just shows up as a 404 error - can't see that the page actually exists?  Not sure where Moz pulls this info from and if its worth being concerned about.

I've just taken over the management of a website and am getting 4x  4XX (client Error) issues.

Example: http://inter-italia.com/en/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

Can anyone give any guidance as how to fix this wordpress?

I also see a lot of 'temporary redirects' due to multilingual plugin - is there anything I can do to fix this?

I have a google+ company page set up and have recently added a Google local listing but have noticed it automatically sets up an additional company G+ page.  Is there a way to merge the two?

Can not see any reference to this issue on Google Q&A.

Thanks,

Stacey

I agree with Miriam.  I have had success with landing pages for different cities / countries with a few different clients.

Perhaps also try some inbound links from .ca for your canadian pages and .co.uk for your London city landing page.

I've used journalism.co.uk for this and it has worked quite well.

This is exactly what I have been searching for. Thanks so much!

I am building a new website and it has 500+ photo images.

I've got less than 100 in there at the moment and the page speed is already very slow.

I'm trying to reduce the size of the images before uploading but without a photoshop application it is very difficult.

Are there any great plugins for wordpress that can help?

Thanks for your answer.

I have received this message from Google

**http://www.sourcemarketingdirect.com/ **using the Meta tag method (less than a minute ago). Your site's home page returns a status of 500 (Internal server error) instead of 200 (OK)

It looks like the permalink structure has changed but I'm not sure how.

Thanks Matt.

There is no robots.txt as far as I can see. Is there a plugin I can use for wordpress?

The site was down for 2 days last month while hte original host transfered the site over to me.

Right now a site search says their are 13 pages indexed.

Just concerned that this site has always ranked number 1 for a company name search and now they are not on the first 10 pages in Google.

I am receiving the following error message through webmaster tools

http://www.sourcemarketingdirect.com/: Googlebot can't access your site

Oct 26, 2012
Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 35 errors while attempting to access your robots.txt. To ensure that we didn't crawl any pages listed in that file, we postponed our crawl. Your site's overall robots.txt error rate is 100.0%.

The site has dropped out of Google search.

Google is placing less and less importance on keyword density.

As a general rule always have the keyword/phrase in the Title, summary and opening paragraph and enbedded in any images/videos attached. And include some variations of the key term throughout the content eg. using synonyms.

I would recommend sticking at around 3% anything more than that definitely looks spammy

A little bit 'old school' but a tool you can use is http://www.visiblepr.com

You just enter in your top 3 keywords/phases and copy and paste the text into the box and it will tell you the density.

As mentioned through Google will probably appreciate the synonyms throughout the content over high density keywords.

When you have competitiors that are a more well known and have a bigger budget than you..... you just need to come up with alternative keywords that are less competitive.

Think synonyms.  By targeting a small niche you will get a better result than trying to compete for more competitive terms that your competitors already dominate.

Would also suggest releasing some positive PR.  A newsworthy press release, eg. about a specific area/suburb that you have listings in will get you a good ranking in Google and link people back to your site.

There are a lot of newswires out there but I find Ireland to be a tough market in general so rather than starting with the 'big/expensive' newswires I would test how much coverage you get with these....

Free Distribution   http://www.irishpressreleases.ie

Paid Distribution   http://www.24-7pressrelease.com

SEO 101

The first thing to do once you have built the website is submit a sitemap to Google.

If you are using Wordpress or similar there are a lot of free plugin's you could use to do this automatically for you. It important to have a sitemap so that search engines can navigate your website effectively and index each page.

Or the old fashioned way is to google 'submitting URL to google' and copy and pasting each URL.  (not the best way but still can work).

To check which pages are indexed try site:http://www.aplacetorent.ie

Once google knows you exist you need to ensure you are targeting the right keywords for your market.

You can use http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/keyword-density-tool.html to check the keyword density for your on-page SEO. And then ensure your are using the same or similar keywords as the anchor text for inbound links to the site.

Next, ensure all of your social media sites are integrated into the website.  Search engines are placing more and more importance on social presence so definitely get on top of that.

I work with a few clients in Ireland and find Google loves adverts.ie and boards.ie so see if you can use their services in anyway to assist with your link building efforts.

Hope this gives you something to start with

Great idea your friend had.

I too have a friend who successfully changed Google suggest by indexing pages on a variety of websites & news distribution channels for more desirable keywords.

I have noticed if you don't teach Google what to suggest then it will sometimes offer 'negative' suggestions even if there is no content to be found.  To avoid a 'crisis' you a best off choosing your own keywords and teach google what is relevant and what is not

I think the only time you need to be worried about this is if you have the exact same content published on your own website/blog.

If you do, ensure you add a rel="author" link  (to either author page on site or Google+ profile) and that your webpage is indexed in the search engine before any other site publish identical or similar content.

Thanks Irving, thats good advice. A few of the distribution sites take 48 hours to be approved so will have plenty of time to get the website indexed first.

Great- thank you for this advice. I will suggest some of these options to my clients.

I use newswires to publish press releases or articles for clients. Almost all are published on one site such as PRWeb and picked up by newspapers/publishers. Each of these pieces reference the source as PRWeb (for example).

Each press release is then added to the company website. Do I run the risk of search engines believing this to be plagiarised if not referenced to the 'original source' being PR Web?

Thanks

Thanks fatwallet,

Unfortunately, associating these brands with the term 'scam' is not an option.

I need to figure out a way to teach google that is irrelevant.  Most of my efforts have led to additional related term to be added but have had no luck removing the negative ones.

I am having problems for a few clients where google is suggesting negative related searches.

I have had success getting Google suggestion (auto-complete) to suggest the keywords we want to be associated with the brand but the 'Searches Related to....' at the bottom of the search page is a big problem.

Many of the terms are negative of sometimes defamatory and have absolutely not relevance to the brand.  Even upon clicking on the related searches the pages Google displays are about other businesses.

Can anyone suggest how to teach Google these term are irrelevant or any other suggestions as to how to remove them?

Thanks Marcus.

It is wordpress I am using and already have the Yoast WP plugin. I'll try nondexing the author and date taxonomies too.

I have done so with the tags but they still show up on the SEOmoz report.

Good idea about varying the categories - will give that a go and see if anything changes

Hi All,

I am getting a lot of warnings about duplicate page content.  The pages are normally 'tag' pages.

I have some news stories or blog posts tagged with multiple 'tags'.

Should I ask google not to index the tag pages?  Does it really affect my site?

Thanks

Hi There,

I have work on a lot of reputation management for my clients and negative reviews is an on-going battle.  There are a few things you can do to improve things for your client.

The quickest and easiest way is to published fresh, relevant and current news about the brand.  If you are distributing press releases or news stories through the right channels you will get great coverage.  If possible ty to avoid the free publishing sites as many of them are are associated with other negative attributes.  If you have a budget to work with I would recommend PRWeb, Marketwire or 24/7PressRelease wire.

I have successfully pushed negative reviews off page 1 in Google by using well writen, relevant and news-worthy press releases.

I have also had some good results with Google+, by linking google plus into the brands exposure Google will give a high ranking position for the Google+ brand page and even display images.  I have found this diverts people away from negative reviews.

Has your client responded to the negative review? Offered a refund, apologised etc etc. Often a reviewer will remove the complaint etc if handled in the right way

Also, depending on your location (and local laws) some review sites will amend the title tag that shows up in a Google result to make is less 'nasty' to avoid a legal battle with the brand.

There are a lot of things that can assist with negative reviews - hope you find some of the above helpful