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Posts made by StalkerB
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RE: Could somebody suggest a GOOD Wordpress XML sitemap generator?
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RE: Image Size for SEO
Agree with Wayne, but for reference I'll have a large, good quality image at around 70kb and a standard image at around 20 - 30kb. If I can get it in for less without it looking terrible I will.
If you have photoshop it shouldn't be much of a problem playing with the save for web setting and seeing how much you can trim off. 60% is a good standard for jpg files.
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RE: Is link cloaking bad?
So you use robots.txt to disallow indexing of anything under the /bet/ folder, you link to 'bet/XYZ' using nofollow and 'bet/XYZ' has a redirect on it?
I'm going to go with safe. It's a fairly common practice.
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RE: Familiar with the malware reinclusion process?
If Google's stopped telling me what the problem files are, any idea how to find out what they are seeing?
I think I've plugged the problem and removed the suspicious files, but I can't really be sure.
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Familiar with the malware reinclusion process?
One of our sites was haXX0red and at the moment I'm thinking it was a non-updated paid for WP plugin using the old version of timthumb.
While not important to my question, the hack included .htaccess files in all the /uploads/ to redirect to a site (tonycar dot com) which I assume installed some sort of malware or spyware.
I changed all ftp and admin log ins, updated the timthumb files and deleted all the .htaccess files, for added measure I've currently made the upload folders read only.
I've requested a review through webmaster tools and the image that WMT claimed to be an issue has been removed as being an issue. That is to say if I clicked on the malware warning in WMT, it told me imagex.jpg was a problem and now it doesn't tell me anything is an issue, though the malware warning still persists.
As I no longer have any indication as to what (if anything) is wrong, I tried going through some contacts at adwords to no avail, though they have said there's a note saying there's no malware currently on the site (I'm hoping that's by them and not just my reinclusion request).
Assuming the all mighty G is now satisfied there's no malware on the site (or being processed by the site), does anyone have any idea how to get rid of the warning?
Alternatively if the warning is accurate, how can I find out what's being effected?
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RE: Best way to link to an affiliate site.
Michael Gray does talk about that in the first article, along with making things easier to update if you want to change where the link goes, so there are some valid reasons for doing it
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RE: Best way to link to an affiliate site.
You're looking to mask your affiliate links to preserve link juice, yeah? I'd consider masking the links for a couple of reasons.
Have a quick read of this - http://www.wolf-howl.com/affiliate-marketing/cloaking-affiliate-links/ - and maybe this will help too (if you're on Wordpress) - http://yoast.com/affiliate-links-and-seo/
If you need more specifics on how to do it, then ask away.
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RE: Our site has been up almost 2 months and no rankings yet?
Keyword density?
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http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-myths-that-persist-keyword-density
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/some-opinions-on-the-seo-myths-realities-fight
http://www.miislita.com/fractals/keyword-density-optimization.html
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization
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RE: Tracking pdf downloads
You want to track individual pdfs?
Off the top of my head adding ="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/spoofpage')>anchor text will spoof a page view to your spoofpage in analytics.
That will require individually tagging each pdf though.
Let me have a think if there's anyway to change the 'spoofpage' to the href 'url' to allow you to add the same code to each.
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RE: Looking for some help adding a 301 redirect for my Site
`Is that right? Should it not be` RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] or even RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [L,R=301] To be fair, I think all three of these will work.
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RE: How do I know which page a link is from
From another post I answered
"Maybe XPATH and PHP could get this? I'll point you at this - http://www.css-resources.com/list-a-websites-external-links-alphabetically-using-xpath-and-php.html - but don't ask me how to do it ;)"
Maybe ask Richard here - http://www.seomoz.org/q/list-of-links-pointing-out-of-my-site - and see if he found a way
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RE: In order to improve SEO with silos'urls, should i move my posts from blog directory to pages'directories ?
I'll jump in even though you didn't ask
Really I think it makes the URI unnecessarily long.
While thinking about your site in terms of 'levels' the URI doesn't play that big a part (if all the posts are linked to from the home page for example that's still a second level page [for the most part]). However it is located at site/blog/category/page in the URI, which has at least one unnecessary directory.
Also, as a personal preference, I'd rather call my blog 'news', 'updates' or 'notices' in the URI.
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RE: In order to improve SEO with silos'urls, should i move my posts from blog directory to pages'directories ?
I'm going to assume you don't already have many links into these pages since you're going to be messing around with them. If they do (and really even if they don't) make sure and set up the redirects correctly.
Site structure really depends a lot on the content that's on the site.
'example.com/category/title' is quite a good way of doing it.
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RE: Can Other Websites You Own Affect Your Rankings?
It could; but unless you've been very bad, I wouldn't imagine that you would be penalized .
Google is a registrar, so has access to the whois details on all your domains, but if it's used I doubt it's for any sort of automatic penalty.
If you host your sites on the same server, again, Google can see that, but is unlikely to effect each other unless there's some cross linking - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/ - (I presume that link is still mostly true).
If you don't link the Google account to the new sites then there shouldn't be any automatic penalty applied either, just make sure and follow the rules regarding not opening a new adwords account.
Always exceptions, but you're probably okay.
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RE: Sequence of heading tags (H1, H2, H3, etc) important?
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Doesn't matter too much.
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Yes.
Things to maybe think about though is HTML 5 and the
<header>tag for sections. Read - http://html5doctor.com/the-header-element/ - and - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5
At the moment there will be some accessibility issues with screen readers when using multiple
s but that should get better.
Headers aren't a big ranking factor - http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-five-least-important-ranking-factors - http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-6
A vast majority of the web isn't coded correctly and the above points to it not really mattering, however, it's worth thinking about your structure and still only really using one
if you can.
</header>
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RE: How do you get Mozbot to crawl your website
Bribes or maybe just dinner and a few drinks
Alas, you can't force Roger to crawl your site
"**Q. I just fixed a ton of issues. Can I get a new crawl?**SEOmoz crawls your site once per week. The start date is based on the date you first set up your campaign. Unfortunately, there is no way to change this date or force an earlier crawl. However, you can use the SEOmoz Custom Crawl tool to crawl up to 3000 pages of your website. We’ll email you the resulting CSV file within 24 hours."
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RE: Rankings failure?
A lot of people are having issues with the SEOmoz rank tool at the moment.
Double check your rankings manually and if they're fine assume it's the tool.
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RE: Furnace Filter & Furnace Filters
Already a lot of good info out there if you search, either use the forum search or go here - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=seomoz+plural&pws=0&hl=en&num=10 - (the .co.uk results are better than the .com results).
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RE: Blocking all robots except rogerbot
You've made it upside down
Roger sees the first * and then goes "okay :(" and goes away.
Simply change it to:
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow:User-agent: *
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RE: Does description, alt and keywords tags are influence on density for google?
Keyword density?
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http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-myths-that-persist-keyword-density
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/some-opinions-on-the-seo-myths-realities-fight
http://www.miislita.com/fractals/keyword-density-optimization.html
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization
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RE: WP description plugin
My vote's for headspace2.
I like that I can add js and css on the fly to specific pages with it easily.
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RE: Does the browers type affect rankings?
Make sure instant search is off though. I think the URLs mess up if that's on.
I don't use instant much though, I hate it
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RE: Does the browers type affect rankings?
It disables personalised search.
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RE: Does the browers type affect rankings?
Have you tried adding &pws=0 to the end of any search query. Does that make a difference?
Even though you're logged out, Google knows
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RE: Robots.txt file getting a 500 error - is this a problem?
robots.txt isn't a requirement, indeed it's only voluntarily followed by spiders (as in they can choose to ignore it), so I think you'll be fine without it. The default is to 'allow all' and 'follow, index', so they should still be crawling the site correctly.
Check in Webmaster tools by fetching as Googlebot or alternative find a page and put cache:pageurl.html into google and see if it's cached it correctly.
That said returning a 500 instead of a 404 may be causing an issue that isn't obviously apparent and 500 is a bit too generic a message to say specifically what, but I would try and solve it as quick as possible. The benefits will depends on what you put in your robots.txt file
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RE: Why do people try to get random pictures on the first page of reddit?
How are they Reddit pyjamas? There's no up or down arrows
Pictures will almost only do well if it's a comic or hosted on imgur.
AmAs are good because of the reason you mentioned. If it's a popular AmA then you can get a lot of traffic.
News stories that make the front page can send hundreds of thousands of visits, but Redditors hate marketers with a passion, so you have to have a genuine story. Posting any old nonsense will just get you downboats.
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RE: Mechanical Turk
This is a reasonable read on how it can be used for SEO - http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/how-mturk-protects-my-site-from-panda/
There are also a whole bunch of other legit and (as you say) semi-legit reasons, from the +1/like/retweet suggested by the walrus to UX testing.
Dodgy stuff could be negative reviews for competitors or positive reviews for you on various sites.
Really you're only limited by whatever you can come up with.
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RE: Any Case Study of Reversion of Canonicalization?
Only thing I can think of is Dr Pete's experiment - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/catastrophic-canonicalization - but that's not quite the same as the example you're proposing.
I think you should still get a good idea of what happens after removing canonical tags though.
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RE: Too Many On-Page Links on a Directory type website?
397 links on the homepage :s
Well, it's definitely something to think about primarily because of how PR flows through links. You may want to consider consolidation for some pages - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-consolidation-the-new-pagerank-sculpting
It's not really a metric that you should worry too much about unless you're going overboard with it (and while I've no idea what counts as overboard, 400 is a lot) but check out these if you're worried
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0
Unfortunately, with no hard-fast rule, it's down to you as to how much you think this may effect you.
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RE: Does the browers type affect rankings?
It's much more likely that you're logged into a Google profile on one browser and not on the other, so your results are being personalised to a degree.
Could it be this or do I need to think about it more?
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RE: Newly acquired links not showing up on link analysis
Possibly months, but more likely (if they're good quality links on high-ish profile sites and not buried in a directory somewhere) it'll be at least a month.
The last index update was August 23rd (check on the OSE homepage to see), so I would expect another update around the end of September or thereabouts.
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RE: WP description plugin
What do you mean? Just a character limiter that takes the first 165 characters of the post and adds it a meta description? Or one that uses the excerpt? Or something else?
All in One SEO does auto descriptions, not sure how they're generated though - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
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RE: Use of the tilde in URLs
Tildes are okay these days, but 'unsafe'.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/rfc/2396/full.html#2.3
Tilde was (begrudgingly) added to the unreserved character list a while ago, so Google should treat them fine without encoding.
However, if you can avoid using them I would, so leave the old addresses but from now on I'd use a hyphen (in preference to an underscore, still) instead of a tilde if you can.
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RE: Meta Description Template
Yup, Google should just grab a piece it thinks is relevant.
Additionally if your meta description doesn't match what the user is searching for (but other content on you page matches) Google will sometimes show that instead anyway.
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RE: Opinions Wanted: Links Can Get Your Site Penalized?
The post seems to have been updated with a retraction of sorts, saying that it's rare but can happen, which is my stance (indeed I mentioned it in a question a couple of days ago).
I actually think it's more rare now than it used to be, but there was a time when you could do a lot of harm to someone by pointing these bad links at them.
Alas I'm not going to be able to back that up with any solid examples, because I was too much of a n00b and on the fringes of SEO when I first learned about it 4 or 5 years ago and it's not something I've been a participant in myself since.
EDIT: What I will say though is we're not talking about getting low quality sites pointing links in to you, that's almost never likely to harm you. Pharmacy links, malware, spyware, paid networks and such like which can be traced back to an offending site are more along the lines you want to think about.
Spending time setting that kind of thing up and putting just the right amount of effort into making it difficult, but not impossible, to trace to a competitor was the sort of thing people were being paid a decent amont of money to do.
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RE: 12-pack Now a 6-pack?
I've got a six pack in real life.
Shame it's 2 litre (70oz) bottles. Fat fat.
Anyway, yeah, I only see 6 packs now too. Sites that had 12, 10 and 8 are all reduced to 6 when I search.
Fairly happy with that to be honest and it was too much real estate.
UK for reference.
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RE: Not using a robot command meta tag
Doesn't matter if the line's not there if you don't want the robots to do anything. Not including it just assumes the position that they can do whatever they're doing ie Index, Follow
All of those sites do have a few things in robots.txt though (and the meta is really for people that can't edit robots.txt)
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RE: Reg Ex Question about Rewrite Rules
If you're looking to understand regex then you could read the SEOmoz post from a couple of days ago - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/an-seos-guide-to-regex - or this tutorial site is okay (if dry) -http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
Hang out around stackoverflow as well for specific questions.
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RE: Anybody use Twibbon to promote a website/cause/event?
Old as the hills (well, couple of years old).
I used it to promote a site's first birthday celebrations on Twitter and Facebook. Got a decent take up on Twitter and a few on Facebook, but I don't see a lot of people using it these days.
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RE: External Links on a Front Page
Well, another concern if they're completely unrelated links is that they may look like paid links which you could even be penalised for.
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RE: External Links on a Front Page
Thank you, but never blindly trust anyone on here Make sure what I'm saying makes sense!
I wouldn't necessarily say it was bad, but I see your concern.
Your homepage is (almost) always going to be the strongest page on your site. Each link added dilutes the value of the other links on the page.
While this post deals with nofollowing links, it highlights how link juice is passed by linking - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-maybe-changes-how-the-pagerank-algorithm-handles-nofollow
Effectively you'd be giving away some of the most powerful links you can control to other people, presumably in the same sector. So for that reason, if you have to link to them and can do so elsewhere then do that instead.
This the sort of thing you were looking for?
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RE: External Links on a Front Page
That's quite a vague issue
What are your concerns about having external links on the homepage? Preserving link juice?
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RE: Where do you find quality content writers?
It's quite time consuming to find good quality writers, also a bit more expensive.
If you can be bothered to weed through tonnes of useless writers you'll be able to exploit people starting out on Digital Point
Along the lines of the oDesk of this world I'd suggest - http://www.studentgems.com/ - pretty good for pretty cheap.
If you're looking for proper quality writers you could start scanning Linked In for journalists of industry magazines and such like.
But the real quality writers I've either poached (found articles in the same niche I've liked and approached them) or made through contacts in the industry. Never a substitute for networking
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RE: Blogspot blog on sub domain
Well, your first issue is having a blog only for SEO, search engines aren't that bothered if you have a blog, users might be and if users like it and link to it then search engines might care.
Anyway, you're almost certainly better to focus on developing one good blog than five okay ones.
If you're talking about developing a content syndication strategy, then there's a lot more to think about.
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RE: Best Practices for web layout dimensions
I'm not sure where this overlay originally came from, but - http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/tcbrowsersize.png - shows user browser sizes.
However your best bet is to investigate responsive websites.
Perhaps try reading - http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/ - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ - and maybe - http://thatcoolguy.github.com/gridless-boilerplate/
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RE: Do affiliate links count for Google?
Again, not totally clear cut. Depends if the links are within the content, site wide, above or below an affiliate link, withing one or several pages.
I would err on the side of assuming that if there's affiliate and non-affiliate links then the clean links won't count for as much.
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RE: Do affiliate links count for Google?
Fairly complex to get decent value out of affiliate links and technically I believe Google wants you to nofollow affiliate links, so gaming them for more positive SEO value could wind up with you getting in a little trouble.
The blog post Atul linked to is a good place to start, however I think if you were really serious about it there's a lot more depth you can go into.
In your example you can start by ignoring the aff parameter in webmaster tools and I assume you'll canonicalise the page.
It's possible to get affiliates to give you a clean link, then drop a cookie on users based on the referral header. This has the advantage of requiring no work on the affiliates side (they simply link to anywhere on your site as normal) but it's very easy to game for other affiliates. If there's money to be made a lot of people are going to take advantage of it. A variation on this is you can use # links and then interpret them server side (so affiliate links to example.com#aff=123456 convert to example.com/?aff=123456). Again that's game-able.
A possibility would be to set up affiliate landing pages that override cookies (a force vs a default), so that affiliates can link into this page cleanly and visitors get cookied at that stage. You would then have a stripped down navigation to sections of your site you most wanted to promote. You'd have to make this page accessible to search engines though, which means there's a possibility of that page showing in SERPS. On the other hand it could also give you a chance to be in the SERPS for their brand if you do it right
Another, somewhat dodgy (all right, actually dodgy), thing you can do is look at a list of your affiliates and see who's not bringing in many sales, especially those with high traffic. You can then offer to match or beat their affiliate payments for their continued endorsement with a clean link.
Assuming you manage to impliment a decent solution something you'll need to overcome is that affiliates are increasingly masking their affiliate links to keep the link juice. See this post for an example - http://yoast.com/affiliate-links-and-seo/ - though it's possible to do the same thing without the plugin. No real solution to this beyond interacting with the affiliate and discussing it with them.
Also affiliates may not be too happy about providing SEO friendly links as it makes it harder for them to rank/earn. One solution could be to offer additional rewards for SEO friendly links over traditional links.
A small negative to solving this if you have a widespread affiliate program is that you could suddenly have a lot of low value links pointing into you, diluting to a degree some of your stronger links. I'm not saying that getting a whole bunch of links could ever be bad, per se, but, depending on your niche, I still think some affiliates operate in 'bad neighbourhoods'. I wouldn't worry about it too much, but if possible roll these links out instead of flipping a switch.
The only real concern is if you then revert or change your affiliate program. I'm 95% sure Google doesn't care if you pick up a whole bunch of links quickly, but if you LOSE a whole bunch of links quickly you're going to set off some alarm bells. Although I could be significantly overthinking your question, just the sort of things that go through my mind
If I think of anything else I'll update.