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Great reminder Ricky, if you are getting paid, then disclose and no-follow. Thanks Ricky

Databases?  Optimize any database queries that are slow This should help: http://www.techfounder.net/2011/03/25/database-profiling-and-optimizing-your-database-the-generic-version/

Now before you pass anything over to the IT this issue is a heated one in some cases where you have people saying that TTFB is not might not be the key metric to go after, here is more food for thought:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/ttfb-time-to-first-byte-considered-meaningles

"At CloudFlare we make extensive use of nginx and while investigating TTFB came across a significant difference in TTFB from nginx when compression is or is not used. Gzip compression of web pages greatly reduces the time it takes a web page to download, but the compression itself has a cost. That cost causes TTFB to be greater even though the complete download is quicker."

I've seen this personally happen to me, and my guess it is something on Google's side as they are trying to fiddle around with what information best to display from your site to SERPs. I'd love to hear others experience with this as well.

Hi Dana,

Yes TTFB is something you can control with the type of server you use. And where that server is in relation to your visitors. You cannot control the browsers they use, but hear are some thoughts on possible optimizations:

Server side: http://createdevelop.blog.com/2010/10/12/how-to-reduce-time-to-first-byte/

Location (plus other suggestions): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd188562.aspx

Hi Oomdo

For local seo, your citations aka your NAP in youtube description goes a long way because in local seo world it works as a link

If you need more info Dana DiTomaso did a great post on earlier this year: http://moz.com/blog/you-asked-i-answered-qa-from-you-probably-think-this-citation-source-is-about-you-dont-you

**3. Couldn't citations on sites such as YouTube and Flickr be flagged as spam?**Only if you're being spammy in your citation building. If the photo or video could contain a relevant address, I don't see an issue. For example, if the photo or video was taken at your business, then you're just saying (with a full NAP) where the photo or video was taken! I can't see how that would be considered spam - it's relevant information for the visitor.

I agree with Dana that somethings will look spammy but your NAP in cases like a youtube video should not.

Hope this helps

Hi Jeremy

Congrats on a great link and a great placement.  I would question your comment that its in an area that is clearly designated for advertisers, even thought the right column has been used many times for ads.  There is nothing that tells google it is in a place for an ad. Also you do have the benefit of attracting young population who are not so familiar with ad tactics and just see it as a great link to great products, that the magazine endorses.

In some ways getting a link that takes so much of website real estate on a nice layout.  Your link is in a great position.  And its a followed link. Plus the link is actually in a sidebar which is used in post of their pages so your link is not just on the homepage it is as good as getting a footer link that applies to all pages

Again congrats, and hope that helps.

Hello Search Guys,

Here is some food for thought taken from: http://www.quora.com/Does-Google-limit-the-number-of-pages-it-indexes-for-a-particular-site

Summary:

"Google says they crawl the web in "roughly decreasing PageRank order" and thus, pages that have not achieved widespread link popularity, particularly on large, deep sites, may not be crawled or indexed."

"Indexation
There is no limit to the number of pages Google may index (meaning available to be served in search results) for a site. But just because your site is crawled doesn't mean it will be indexed.

Crawl
The ability, speed and depth for which Google crawls your site and retrieves pages can be dependent on a number of factors: PageRank, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, site architecture, status codes and speed."

"For a zero-backlink domain with 80.000+ pages, in conjunction with rel=canonical and an xml-sitemap (You do submit a sitemap, don't you?), after submitting the domain to Google for a crawl, a little less than 10k pages remained in index. A few crawls later this was reduced to a mere 250 (very good job on Google's side).

This leads me to believe the indexation cap for a newer site with low to zero pagerank/authority is around 10k."

Another interesting article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2062851/Google-Upping-101K-Page-Index-Limit

Hope this helps, and easy response is to limit crawling to the most needed pages as aggressive as possible to remove the unneeded links leaving only needed ones

Hi Brett,

• Create awesome content and the links will come?

• Yes thats exactly what Google is implying.

• Create Awesome Content and Outreach a bit?

• Yes on this too, the way I interpret what you said however is, create awesome content and tell people that you have created it, share a link on your twitter, G+, Facebook, etc. this is totally fine. What I am not saying is going out and bluntly asking/persuading/paying people to like share or link to your content.

My thoughts here.

Hi Aoife,

Googles Response:

Q: My site isn't indexed yet!
A: Crawling and indexing are processes which can take some time and which rely on many factors. In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed. When looking at a site's indexing in Webmaster Tools, make sure that you have both the "www" and the "non-www" versions (like "www.example.com" and "example.com") verified and have a set a preferred domain. Keep in mind that while a Sitemap file can help us learn about your site, it does not guarantee indexing or increase your site's ranking.

We have several Help Center articles that explain these processes:

• Google Basics - explains how crawling, indexing and ranking works
• My site isn't doing well in search - explains common questions and issues
• Google-friendly sites - provides some information about how to create a website so that it can easily be crawled and indexed
• Google's Webmaster Guidelines - provide technical, content and quality guidelines for webmasters
• Adding a site to Google - for specific advice and additional tips
• Your site in Google's index - gives some simple ways to check your site's indexing

My response:

Generally few hours to couples of days to a week or so

Hope this helps

Good suggestion/experiance AC Pro, Google Local is not the easiest to get your location listed, and advice like this really goes a long way

Hi Vlad,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1oSjCTKpw

To export your indexed pages to CSV/Excel to add to a report:

http://www.mathewporter.co.uk/list-a-domains-indexed-pages-in-google-docs/

Hope this helps

Hi James,

This is Google's reply:

Google Places for Business are not available in my country. How do I add my listing?

You can create a local Google+ page for your business and verify it by post. Local pages include a map of the business’s location and feature its address, phone number, and hours of operation. Local pages also share the functionality of other Google+ pages - you can create and manage circles, start and join hangouts, and share content like posts and photos.

Alternatively, you can add information about your company in Map Maker, if it’s available in your country.

Have you tried the above methods?

Notices are exactly what they are. They confused me a bit off the bat too since they are on the same page as warnings and errors. But they are just what they are notices.

For example if you had no idea that your site was rebuilt, you would appreciate the notices for rel can, to let you know whats going on. But again these are not errors or warnings

Hope this helps!

Hi Konstantinos,

This should help: http://moz.com/community/q/google-webmaster-tools-and-open-site-explorer-s-links-not-matching-up

Summary from Keri (from Moz's) response: "SEOmoz and Google use different crawlers. We're not quite the size of Google, and the server farm we have doesn't quite match theirs either. Simply put, we don't crawl as many URLs as Google, so we won't show as many links."

In terms of which to use, use all tools including OSE, GWT, Bing, and others you find at your disposal.

Hope this helps

They exist for Google maps local and so it might be connected now: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/richsnippetslocal/

People have seen it as early as May/June of this year: http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-local-important/6642-more-google-local-changes-location-links-rich.html

My reviews were real too, but now are gone.

I doubt its dynamic sitemap is the issue. Like I said Google is doing many unpredictable things with this feature and so it might be expected, maybe someone else with a similar issue can post a success story of how he was able to get them back. As mine are off, actually on some pages my reviews have been replaced with the rel=author snippet

Wish I had more experience to help ya

reciprocal link building is significantly down-valued by Google which means it should not be a long term link building strategy. Some even consider it in the same pool as link farms etc.

Link-building like I said is an art its not a one on formula but different methods of outreach

this might help: http://moz.com/ugc/category/link-building

Actually 301s are good, and many times the way to go, for more clarification check this out:

http://moz.com/blog/301-redirect-or-relcanonical-which-one-should-you-use

Hi Instabill,

You can also create another landing page, with home being your initial landing page, create the second one at hompage.com/offshore-merchants-accounts and see how it fares

Hello SamuEU,

1. Just creating folders or pages for the sake of keywords is useless thing to do solely for ranking, unless it helps with categorization for example, shop.com/shoes/nike/

2. en.blog.com vs blog.com/en/ work the same way, If you are moving sites, its a bit easier to move a blog/en/ site you dont have to deal with subdomains.

Another thing to consider generally the closer the page is to the domain tends to rank more.  All else equal:

shop.com/nike/ will tend to rank higher than shop/clothes/shoes/nike/ but its a small factor again if categories are needed and make sense go with categories.

Hope this helps

Great, to a great future working with Wordpress it is by far my favorite platform to publish content online. Its definitely worth investing some time into it!

Hi Nicholas,

Most SEO spammers won’t bother posting irrelevant/spammy links to blogs or forum posts if they know they will not get to publish a follow link. So a good questions would be to ask who is asking for these do follow links your loyal followers or spammers or people who just want a free link?

This is on the newer version of WP, see attached. Let me know if this helped or if you have any more questions

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Ok I see what you mean, it doesnt create a separate page, but opens up the image in the whole window, but you can treat it as its own page.  When you upload an image you have options to select what you use as a link for it right now you have selected to link to the image itself.

If you click on link to NONE the image will not open in a new window. See attached. This might be the older layout of WP but the functionality show be the same

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On one of my sites Google displayed customer reviews for a while with star rating having like you said used rich snippets for a review, then one day it disappeared as well.

I am sure you wont like this answer and I dont either, but Rich snippets come and go in SERPS (what you refer to the organic search)

My understanding rich snippets for google is still a new thing and its working out how and when to display them, especially since many found ways to game the review snippets to show that they have 30+ 5 star reviews on spammy pharma links.

On the other hand, from my experience author rich snippets are likely to stay on much longer

Hi Christopher,

I have used wordpress for many years now and on many sites, what do you mean WP generates a page for images? do you have a link to show or take a screenshot? Thanks

Hi Nick,

Since this is a moz product you can and should submit a support ticket and actually guys working on the crawler will be able to respond to your concern.

http://moz.com/help/pro (submit a ticket)

Hi Fabrizo,

This has been addressed before hope this helps: http://moz.com/community/q/seo-moz-poor-rankings-reporting

One great answer is contacting moz aka submit a support ticket

Hope this helps

Being in a position not to be able to give out links is a great thing in a way, because 1) mutual link methods are generally not allowed by google aka give me a link and Ill give you a link. 2) Links pointing to your site, without a link pointing to theirs gives you more link juice, then if you had to link to their content where the link juice would have to be shared with them.  Does that makes sense?

As far as getting people to link to your site its an art in itself its called link-building in the SEO world or generally getting the word out about your great content, and then people sharing, linking, getting the word out about your content.

I thought your graph displayed traffic and not rankings, how are you SERPs did they drop? Or are you still ranking in the same position for your keywords?

Because if the rankings are the same, it could be (I know generally this gets sorted out within first few months) but could be the issue of google still trying to figure out where to rank you: http://www.linkbuildr.com/reasons-why-new-pages-rank-well-then-drop/

I just gave a suggestion you have to do your keyword research to see what keyword makes sense to go with, aka the one that gives most focused traffic that you are after.

As for body text vs title, the general consensus is to keep the keyword same in the title as in the body text, alt tags, meta description etc.

Hope this helps!

Hi Steven,

How are your rankings have they changed?

Significant repetition of the word "Kingspan" will not cause a negative mark, excessive or keyword stuffing will. I am not sure exact ratio that moz uses for their keyword stuffing, or bettter yet not many know Google's ratio for keyword stuffing. In your case it looks natural.  You have short descriptions and single word mentions of kingspan. If you had much more text, and say kingspan in every sentence, or better yet if you had two or more word keyword, ex: appliance repair atlanta in that exact order in every sentence that would look un natural..

Also your page is a shop page with various versions of the product aka a list so perfectly normal repetition. Great work you've earned "Grade A"

Hi Seonubblet,

You can create redirects, or here is an interesting method to retain .html structure by changing the permalink to /%postname%.html in Wordpress, check it out:

http://www.cybercoded.net/convert-static-html-site-to-wordpress-easily/

Let me know if this helps

There is a way to display a lot of content (assuming its great relevant content) but not all at once:

http://jqueryui.com/accordion/ accordion and similar hide-until-clicked-to-reveal features will allow for clean design and allowing you to add great content.

Btw jquery is by no means the only way of making this happen there are different code snippets or even frameworks and shortcodes if you are using a content management system to make this happen

Let me know if this helps

In this example follow your natural human instinct, not your robot/SEO instinct.

Human instinct: personal driver in los angeles

Robot/SEO/keyword mindset, personal driver los angeles.

However another way of doing this is "los angeles personal driver" doesn't need stop-word and sounds natural.  Also sometimes los angeles personal driver might be searched more often than personal driver los angeles see an image I attached as an example

But again in all of this try to write content for the person and not the search engines, so keep that human instinct on when you do this. Hope this helps

QOTTyUb

Also according to http://clicky.com/compare/woopra (last updated June, 2013) says both seem to have desktop alerts with sounds etc.  So it might be worth checking up with Woopra to see if they still might have this feature

Many like and use clicky.com. Check it out, and let us know what you think!

Unless others have any input, I believe redirects are the sole method of linking to changed URLs. Search engines seem to be quite happy with them.

Hi Cemal,

I found this from Shopify's Knowledgebase:

You can find the Redirect feature in your Navigation tab in the admin, at the bottom of the page.

Redirects are a great way to point old product URLs to your new URLs when migrating from another store or cart service to Shopify. A redirect is defined by the path which accesses it (for example, "/categories/sports/boomerang"), and the target location to which the site visitor is redirected (like "/products/wooden-boomerang").

Note that the following paths cannot be used when redirecting:

• /application
• /cart
• /carts
• /orders
• /shop
• /products
• /services
• NEW also queried URLs can be redirected from, for example: "/store/products.php?=yellow-kite"

Link: http://support.shopify.com/customer/portal/articles/75541-can-i-create-url-redirects-

Let me know if this solves your issue without causing like you said damage. But do remember even redirects can take 30-90 days for successful link juice passing depending on the scope of URL redirects.

Mttompsons, Google does not or should not "index" pages that return a 404, which means the page is not there.

What I mean by should not index, is that there is an instance where the old page is still in the index and from what I read that site will be dropped next time Google goes to try to reach/crawl that URL.

Links without anchor text = hidden link (regular user cannot see it, but the link is still in the code) so yes you should worry about it, and remove if you can.

If you are wondering why they are there? Someone may have tried to remove the link and instead just removed the anchor text leaving the link.

If you are wondering how to search for these links, search for ">" and "> " might be a good start

Hope this helps