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Hi,

As I understand it you'll need to map all the old URLs to the New URLs with a set of 301 redirects.

This will tell google that the old page has permanently moved to the new location. You should get all the rank juice but I think you may loose a little.

Hope that helps

Steve

EDIT - I was writing my response while Andy was posting his...

Hey,

This is just the type of thing that I've seen happen to me. From all the digging I've done (not extensive) I can only assume that Google makes a decision on the fly as to weather to show the image or not.

Maybe it's something to do with the  search terms used?

What is the USR you are testing search for. Maybe the MOZ community could search for your keywords and see if the image shows?

Regards

Steve

Egol,

You are a mine of information! Thanks for pointing out the LSI being done by Google. I'd been trying to get those semantic keywords in to my writing but I see that it's not really needed.

"cat photos" gets me cat pics, cat images, cat photographs, cat pix so I can see that Google are interpreting the intent pretty well already.

Steve

Hi Immanuel

I used scribe for a while and it helped me a lot to begin with. My understanding of how to write grew from the knowledge gained out of Scribe.

I'd say try it out and use it LOADS in your first month subscription, I mean REALLY use it every day so you get the feel for what it's telling you.

It's produced by those great guys at Copyblogger so I'd say they know what they're talking about when it comes to content marketing.

Hey Egol,

This is an excellent (and funny) answer. Just as I'd finished reading some articles on Copybloger about content creation.

Brightened up my whole evening.

Regards

Steve

Hi

Not quite sure what your question is but the Schema.org page on video is here:

http://schema.org/VideoObject

They've use a Embed Flash example but you can change that out for YouTube video (as I understand it).

There's a good article over at Koozai too:

http://www.koozai.com/blog/social-media/video-marketing/using-schema-org-markup-for-your-videos/

Hope that helps

Steve

Seems to me that Google are under pressure to be more secure with the data they collect so it's a natural progression I feel to hide all the data from us website owners and SEOs; so I'm not one of those who think that it's a ploy to get us all to spend on AdWords.

However, I'm not sure that hiding the keyword data rather than anonymising it was the best way for them to go. After all having the keyword data and knowing what keywords are performing best helps us and webmasters to fine tune content and deliver a better experience for our website visitors.

Still google ain't gonna change just because a few SEO whine and whinge about it. Rather they'll strengthen their security position and maybe remove more data from our view.

I predict that they'll remove the New Vs returning visitor stats on the same security basis. After all you would not want a web site owner knowing you came back to their website. That'd be a massive infringement of their right to privacy!

The campaigns came in a day or so after your response.

Thanks

Steve

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

That should explain all response codes for you

Hey Carlo

I would go for a separate domain but try buying an aged domain that's clean with some existing back links. Failing that a new domain with keywords in the domain. Yea it still works!

Hope that helps

steve

I read somewhere that BING use the keyword tag as a spamming signal. Anyone else see that?

EDIT: Read that here:

http://www.semrush.com/blog/tips/the-myths-behind-meta-keywords/

Would it be more confusing to have:

http://itsupportservice.myelectronics.com rather than http://myelectronic.com/itsupportservice/

At least you get the leverage all the SEO work on the main domain!

It may depend on the brand and sub-brand though. What's the main main brand and sub-brand?

For what it's worth, my opinion is that you should go for a /folder/ off the main domain...

Regards

Steve

Try using ScreamingFrog (app for mac and pc). It's free and will crawl your site and list all the errors an dresponse codes 9inc 404s) you can export these as a CSV file.

HTH

Steve

I'm guessing that you deleted a whole site without 301'ing.

What is the base URL? (myDomain.com)?

There is a chance that you could use an .HTACCESS file with some redirect rules to send whole batches to a new domain but these are all guesses without further detail from you.

Good luck...

Steve

Hi

I've created 3 new campaigns but results not showing as usual. I know the full results take up to 7 days but I usually see some basic info in a few minutes of creating the campaign.

This problem happened a while ago and the campaign was never quite right in SEOMoz.

Thanks for your help

Steve

Hey

Set up Moz Campaign OR use ScreamingFrog.

I use both.

ScreamingFrog for a quick assessment of the on site work needed before I agree costs with the client and then Moz.com/Pro Campaigns to manage the rank, link and other performance factors.

HTH

Steve

So that video from Matt Cutts really just says the 1 page solution isn't optimal. At least that's my interpretation.

Google is having trouble keeping up with the new design paradigm of single page with dynamic content reveal using css and javascript.

Still too much reliance on meta title and URL keyword inclusions rather than ranking the content of a site and working out the relevance and usefulness for a particular search term.

Hi Sara

If I understand you it sounds like your products are Geo specific. If this IS the case then including the location in the URL is going to be a benefit right now as URL keywords still work, at least in Google.

Once the search engines figure out how to properly rank webpages without taking account of the URL then that little trick will have no effect.

Are you including the same geo-specific info in the product details too?

Regards

Steve

Hi Koko

If you really are having a problem getting an answer then you could try tweeting @randfish - it's a little public for many but it can work and Rand Fishkin is VERY responsive and a pleasure to deal with. I recommend a soft ask on twitter for Rand to take a loo into this for you.

I'd be interested to know why you feel MOZ is not for you.

It is a great service and helps me loads.

Best of luck

Steve

Thanks Kevin,

I'll need to work harder to get them some rankings then

Cheers

Steve

I have a client who I've been working with for 4 months but getting NO TRACTION at all on their SERPS.

This is unusual for me!

The only difference to their site from other clients is that the whole site is https so I'm wondering if that's making a big difference.

The site is: https://www.cnc-ltd.co.uk

Any help of hints would be great

thanks in advance

Steve

I don't see any reason it'd be different for google.co.uk over google.com.

I did a browser search in google.co.uk for medicx - Interesting results.

Your domain is #1

#2 medicxpharmacy

#3 www.medicxfund.com/

#4 www.medicxfund.com/investors

Seems www.medicxfund.com are listing 2 pages for 1 term.

HTH

Steve

I have managed to rank for "stephen counsell" multiple times on page 1. So it is possible.

What's your domain / business name?

Hi Matt

Hmm, sounds like you actually want to compete with yourself.

So, If I was going to do this I'd create a number of pages with different and unique content targeted at different angles on the key phrase (your business name).

The I'd start to create a set of backlinks for each of the pages so that they all have a similar ranking for the term.

I see why one would want to do this. Page 1 domination for a key term, but don't get too hung up on the Business Name. In my opinion you'd be better spending the effort creating really great content about the service or products you provide.

Good luck an dI hope this helps.

Steve

Hey All,

I've a new client who is a local business directory designed to promote local businesses across the UK but starting in it's home town of Brighton in the UK.

I'm a little stumped to know how I can start to optimise this site as most of the pages being created are from very different businesses and focus on different subjects.

I realise this is going to be a long haul but wondered if there are any tips you guys know of.

My client domain is: call-us-first.co.uk

Thanks

Steve

Thanks Marisa.

With they add that feature. It'd be really useful for tracking franchise sub-sites...

Oh well...

HI,

I guess there are updates happening all of the time with Google algorithms where they're always trying to improve the quality of results.

So my questions to you are:

Are you sure that you've not been doing what google might consider "naughty tactics"?

Have you had anything flagged in your Webmaster Tools account?

How far down the listings dod you drop and how are the competitors ranking. Are there any similarities between your site and the main competitors. IE if they didn't suffer, what are you doing differently?

I know it's not really an answer for you but some food for thought that I hiope helps.

Best of luck

Steve

Hi All

I've just take on a new client and need to be able to compare their performance with a competitor's sub-folder site.

The competitor is http://thebestof.co.uk/local/brightonandhove/

I've tried to add that to the competition structure in my campaign but can't use "Path" info.

What do you guys do in these types of cases.

BTW - TheBestOf.co.uk is a franchise with a /local/CityNames across the UK

Great advice.  Not thought of that.

Thanks so much.

Looks like it's all OK. I know.

BUT... only 1 keyword in the top 50 "Ace-Alarms". That's to be expected though.

Thanks for the quick response.

Cheers

Steve

Hi

I have what most of you may think is a dumb question but here goes. please be nice...

So I have a client (http://www,ace-alarms.co.uk) who are having a real problem ranking for ANY of their key words.

I know it's a reasonably competitive area but I've not seen such a stubborn domain and it seems that no matter what we do there's nothing listed.

i'm thinking that there may be a problem with the domain name.

My question is; how can I find out if this is a problem domain.

Thanks in advance

Steve

Hi All,

A new client in a competitive market (international car hire - Car Trawler affiliate) is using Comment Hut to gain links to his site.

I have not used this service so am wondering, with the latest google stuff, what the good the bad and the ugly is on the comment hut service.

Does it work?

Should we avoid it?

Thanks in advance

Steve

HI René

I use UK2.net exclusively.

They offer 100% uptime Gauranteed.

In the last 3 years I have experienced 1 outage lasting about 2 hours (about 18 months ago.)

I have a reseller account which allows me Unlimited everthing.

They offer a range of services for individual domains including unlimited.

Their customer service can be less than excellent but their trouble ticket response is very good.

Hope that helps.

Different computers on the same network / IP segment not loading the site could be a Proxy server OR DNS Setting.

I'm on Mac so that's what I know about.

What are your Mac network settings?

Do you get an IP address?

Can you load other websites from the same virtual hosting server?

Can you load the website via the IP address?

Whats the URL of the website?

Steve

Hi Ahtisham

The sites they publish to are pretty OK (PR 3 or 4). You don't get a list as such but you can see the post and link for each of the links. I believe they have almost 3000 sites to publish to.

I use this as a supplement to any other SEO for my clients.

Why not try it out? They run a 30 day free trial (no subscription charge). If you want their writers to create a 150 word post and link you'll need to pay $2.50 for each post. I use their writers most of the time and find the posts to be of average quality.

Of course you could write 150 word post yourself.

Hope that helps

Hi,

I am currently using BuildMyRank and IndusNet to link build for me.

I'm seeing good improvement in ranking for my clients after using both these services.

Could you let us know the URL and the keywords you're targeting?

Hi Michael,

Take a look at StudioPress.com (Wordpress Theses) - They have some excellent tutorials and help and have created the Genesis Framework and a whole load of professional designs that are easy to configure to your needs.

They have also created a set of free plug ins that make altering the detail of the designs easy. Like "Simple Edits" which allows you to change the footer section / copyright notice.

I've been using these for about a year and find them super easy to use.

Hope that helps

Steve

Hmm, I'd release the new pages gradually. 10,000 pages hitting the index in short order may get your site noticed and maybe treated as spam.

Maybe someone else on here can give you better guidance on the release schedule but I'd go with maybe 100 to 150 pages a day. That's a 3 month release plan.

Steve

OK, for each new page you implement, 301 redirect the old one to the new (when the new is complete) that way you won't loose any traction from google.

a 301 Permanent Redirect tell the SEs that your content has MOVED PERMANETLY

Make the 301 redirect another action on your make live list for each page.

HTH

Steve

Hi,

Presumably you'll be getting "404 errors" as you migrate / remove the old pages. My view is that you'll need to carefully construct a 301 redirect in a .htaccess file.

This may be a real bind if there is no real pattern to your old structure that you could "translate" to the new URLs.

I'm not good on redirecting using GREP so maybe someone else here could advise. Could you post some URL examples (old => New)

Steve

Not sure how your server is configured but mine is set up so that subdomain.mydomain.com is a subdirectory like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/subdomain/

in robots.txt you would simply need to put

User-agent: *
Disallow: /subdomain/

Others may have a better way though.

HTH

Steve

Rather than look at definitive rank position you might concentrate on improvement week on week / month on month.

That way you'll get a clearer picture of how the things you do affect your overall rlevance and google ranking.

I do this for clients to good effect. I can't promis to get them any position but I can say if I can make improvements in their overall relevance. Mostly I focus on improvements per keyword. Linking tis to content is a good way to improve the website overall.

Create great content that is keyword focused and build links to that content. Your clients will love you for being transparent too.

In Campaigns, Traffic Data. Click on Change Profile.  In the next screen is Disconnect From GA.

Hi Catherine,

This is a problem I face all the time with clients viewing SERPS for the same or similar search keywords from their browsers.

You're right that SERPs are dependant on many factors not least of which is the end user search history.

The way I explain this to clients is.

"Your browser has a history, your location has a history, your individual IP address has an effect on the results so it's impossible for you to make a search that is not influenced in some way by what Google or Bing already know. Our Rank Tracking through SEOmoz runs on a clean, server based software that helps to remove the types of factors that a computer browser makes. That's why we're seeing a difference."

I usually see the rankings around the other was (SEOmoz = lower / Browser = higher) so it's not usually a problem apart from client trust relationship. IE do they trust me when results are different.

Bit of a bland answer but I hope that helps.

Steve

Agreed. It's a problem waiting to bite you in the proverbials....

I'm no expert on this but I think you'll be fine IF you:

1 - 302 redirect (temporary redirect) to the non-www page

2 - Add a rel canonical on the non-www page giving the WWW version link credit.

When you've fixed your tech issues remove the 302 redirect.

I THINK google will play nice on this.

Hope that helps

Steve

Hi

This sounds like you already have a model to use as Site B has product on it already.

What are the comparisons for similar products on Site B adn the Single Product Site A in terms of traffic.

I'm assuming that you have SiteB/ProductPages already so do you know why Site B/ProductPage is different from SiteA?

What was the strategic reason behind splitting off SiteAProduct?

I would make my decisions based on the answers to the questions above.

Hope that helps

Steve

Pushing your SITEA content down one directory level to "SITE-B.com/SITE-A" will probably have an effect on ranking that content.

lower directory = less Importance

I tend to agree with kjay on combining the content.

Do the two sites compete for traffic?