They might be blocking you believing you are a bot trying to fetch data. You can maybe send them an email and see why it is showing up that way.
Posts made by William.Lau
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RE: What has happened to pingler.com
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RE: SeoMoz reporting 301 redirects I can't find
Judging by the code and the link examples you shown above seems to be it.
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RE: What has happened to pingler.com
That is odd because it is definitely working for me and all my other browsers. Might just have to wait it out or try another PC. But on the good news is that its not closed!
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RE: Best way to publish same content on 2 blogs?
What is the purpose of putting it on the WP site if the full content is already on the e-commerce site?
Its not best practice to do what you are currently doing and Google could penalize you or devalue those links anyway. Plus the WP site doesn't really have much authority, so it doesn't really benefit you at all. Just a bunch of links coming from one site(that pretty much only links to your site) to your e-commerce site.
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RE: Best way to publish same content on 2 blogs?
If you really must interlink them, you will have to decide to have the primary source. Which in the case would be the e-commerce site. On the WP site, just create a short summary of the whole post from the e-commerce site and include a source link.
Just to let you know Google frowns upon linking methods similar to that mentioned above, especially if this is done often.
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RE: SeoMoz reporting 301 redirects I can't find
Use Ayima's chrome extension. It tracks the type of redirect the pages use. It will be hard to tell where and what the redirects are to since we don't have the actual link.
But the redirect extension works pretty well and usually flashes a redirect code when there is a redirect.
Extension: 'Redirect Path 0.6.3'
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RE: What has happened to pingler.com
pingler.com is coming up for me. Have you tried another browser or clear your cookies?
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RE: Titles in google serps incorrect
This was published by SEOmoz earlier in the summer.
Read it and it will answer your questions.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/long-title-tags
Cliffs: Your title tag might be too long.
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RE: Web page is showing up on Google but doesn't show when it was cached, so is it indexed?
Use Google Webmaster Tools to see when it was last crawled. I know that a lot of other people have problems finding the 'cache' link.
And to be honest, it won't really matter if the site not live any way. New sites don't really rank much till you start populating it with content.
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RE: Duplicate home page /index.asp /index.php etc
Thats odd. If there are no such URLs they should not longer index automatically.
You can go into WMT - Webmaster Tools and Optimization>Remove URLs. Also resubmit your sitemap if it doesn't get done automatically.
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RE: Duplicate home page /index.asp /index.php etc
If you just moved to Shopify, they should not be removed from the index right away. This can take a few days and varies. I would make sure WMT settings are correct and check on how the crawls are doing and if any errors.
The redirects are good and should be fine within days.
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RE: How Tro transfer Keywords from one campaign to the other
I'm sure customer support can help you with that as I don't see an export/import button.
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RE: This would not be considered selling links would it?
That is fine.
You can create nofollow for the vendors just to be safe to show Google it is not to be manipulative but just business.
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RE: Content Organization Advice with Big Commerce
I would personally keep the blog on another domain just for ease and future benefits. You can always use the blog to post non-related items that are in your e-commerce as well as developing a following.
Using WP on another domain can create a better experience rather a new page within bigcommerce. The better experience the less users bounce off the page. You can also use it as a free advertising platform if the site develops well. I also believe influencers will more likely point their readers to a blog rather than an e-commerce site with a blog.
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RE: Google+ Personal Page pass link juice?
Thanks for that info Rob.
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RE: My PR 4 website won't rank for keywords that have very weak competition
Google recently devalue and valued EMDs, depending on the content.
What you would need to do is focus more on connecting with your users. Always creating fresh and unique content can gather links and a following. This will always in return give you links and consistent traffic.
At this point I can point a few things you can fix immediately.
-Complete the website
-Remove 'admin' as author, give you site a name and face
-Decide what niche and what crowd you are trying to attract
-Learn and observe how other sites similar to your niche are successfulHope this gives you an idea of what to do. You can always read up on the SEOmoz blog, a lot of contributors provide great and insightful information.
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RE: How reliable are the external link metrics found in the Open Site Explorer research tool?
No links can be tracked 100%. You can use a variety of tools like ahrefs, WMT, majesticSEO, and OSE. You have to check all of these to get a general idea of the links.
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RE: Google Instant Search? REALLY?! Why is this the result???
Ha, I was joking. Its not offensive but I can only imagine what other searches are showing up with sometimes.
I'm in NYC.
Sorry with late response, Sandy and slowed my internet resources.
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RE: My PR 4 website won't rank for keywords that have very weak competition
My reply was a little after you posted this information.
So some general things, your domain is fresh and PR doesn't mean anything at this point. You have 0 links according to OSE and your keywords are highly competitive 'hedge fund trader x' has A LOT of exact match domains and subdomains. This might be the reason why you are not ranking.
If you originally thought they were weak competition due to PR 0, etc, than you were mislead. The competitive is strong with those EMD. Your site has only 1 post and is not using a TLD, so this all can be the reason those sites are outranking you.
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RE: My PR 4 website won't rank for keywords that have very weak competition
One of the thing that pops out to me is:
"I bought a real 1Yr old PR4 domain and used it to make a blog"
So was this just a domain and never had a blog before hand?
People have to realize PR is no longer a huge factor anymore. Its a measurement that can rarely be measured by anyone outside of Google.
How many actual quality links do you have to the site? There are millions of blogs and if you are in a competitive niche, it will be extremely hard to rank on the first few pages.
For more advice you should post domain and keywords you are referring to.
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RE: Google Instant Search? REALLY?! Why is this the result???
I got 'WEED'. I do not smoke pot at all and this is offensive!
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RE: Reconsideration Request a Success!
I sent a request on Oct 14th and got a response on Oct 18th. I've been removing links around Aug.
Responses whether denial or success seemed to range 1-2 weeks.
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RE: Different subdomains v. subdirectories?
That is a lot of different variations. I suggest combining the similar ones and keeping the others on different domains.
Like brand1, brand2, brand3.
In my opinion, if you already have different domains and have significant links, that will only benefit you. Combining them would not do too much good and it might cause clutter.
Having multiple powerful and authoritative domains can be really beneficial.
Just my 2 cents.
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RE: Using a non-visible H1
I have personally created an H1 tag in an image, I didn't see no negative effects. H1 tags are not as important but should be implemented, so even if it had any impact maybe it was minuscule.
H1 tags don't generally have to be visible like in my case, it was an H1 tag for the logo. I'm not sure where you are putting the H1 tag but if its an image I say why not, but if it is a regular text, why not just keep it as an H1 without hiding?
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RE: Does Link Exchanges and Reciprocal Links Is Dead - Now Days ?
IMO, I believe he is referring to I link you on this page, and you link me on this page. Possibly home page will most likely be viewed as reciprocal to Google.
SEOmoz and Distilled are already very authoritative sites and are partners. Google understands partnerships and all general aspects of partnerships.
You are right though, Google will vastly judge it by the balance of reciprocal and organic links. The OP seems to be referring to reciprocal links as a method of link building. Reciprocal links should not be considered link building but considered as content to benefit the user.
If I go to each of your home pages and can easily detect reciprocal links on both ends, that would just be too obvious.
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RE: Does SEOmoz give a way to know what link on what page produces the 404 errors that SEOmoz is telling me I have??
Yes.
Click 'Crawl Diagnostics'
Click 'Errors'
Click '4XX (Client Errors)'
Scroll down and there are the links.
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RE: Does Link Exchanges and Reciprocal Links Is Dead - Now Days ?
Reciprocal Links = Not good.
Only time even if good = if it helps users.
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RE: Much better authority and content than some competitors, why do they appear first?
How long has it been since DNS change?
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RE: Much better authority and content than some competitors, why do they appear first?
I would check WMT if there are any penalties on your domain.
Switching DNS usually will not cause any problem, there may be a delay due to DNS propagation and maybe Google crawled your site when it was down.
And authority and pagerank does not necessarily mean you will rank better but are just numbers to give you an idea. You can totally be in penalty with Google and have a PR7 and DA 70.
You need to see what your WMT says in messages and search impression numbers.
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RE: Press Releases
If PRweb is working great for you, I'd stick with it. You can try the latter, as it doesn't hurt to try!
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RE: Rankings not working
I agree with Bryan.
What makes you believe your rankings are not working?
I say this pretty often, SEOmoz should be used as a reference, when it comes to actual rankings, they can change hourly, daily, weekly etc. SEOmoz only updates it that week of that time.
Like Bryan stated check your actual rankings and also check your analytics.
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RE: Banner Ads help seo?
If the ad is being served through an ad server like Zedo, OpenX, they are not counted. If they are just image ads with a link, then that would be counted.
When using an ad server the links do not count in Google, and if anything they count for the server, not the redirect.
I don't think many will use image ads since they offer no way of tracking other than url tagging.
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RE: What's the best practice for handling duplicate content of product descriptions with a drop-shipper?
There is really nothing you can do because someone else is copying your description.
The only thing I can initially come up with is asking your dropshippers to not copy descriptions.
However, the content that is duplicated and might not really negatively effect your SEO. Google understands e-commerce and a lot of the times products on e-commerce sites are very similar and they do not get penalized. Another thing is that you originally created the description and Google does index according to freshness. As long as you are indexed first with the description, I don't see how Google can penalize you.
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RE: Reconsideration Request a Success!
Yep, One of the things that have surprised me was previous reconsideration requests that allowed me to communicate directly through email.
It was surprising to actually talk to someone from Google via email about a free service. The emails were pretty personal and one time even gave a link example.
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Reconsideration Request a Success!
Hi all,
Well I've finally gotten been able to get the penalty removed judging by this email:
"Dear site owner or webmaster of xxx,
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider xxx for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
Previously the webspam team had taken manual action on your site because we believed it violated our quality guidelines. After reviewing your reconsideration request, we have revoked this manual action. It may take some time before our indexing and ranking systems are updated to reflect the new status of your site.
Of course, there may be other issues with your site that could affect its ranking without a manual action by the webspam team. Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms. We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking pages. As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make updates to present the best results to our users. If your site continues to have trouble in our search results, please see this article for help with diagnosing the issue.
Thank you for helping us to maintain the quality of our search results.
Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team"
This was after a reconsideration request was sent prior to disavow tool being released. In addition I also applied a disavow of all the links I was unsuccessful in removingwithout contacting Google and letting the original reconsideration request run it's course.
I am making this post just to let everyone know that the hard work pays off and Google is just trying to make sure you are doing your best in removing the links. As 'Ryan Kent' always emphasizes, you must really be diligent and honest when trying to remove links. You also need to keep documentation, I anchored contact pages and email addresses, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th attempt dates.
Now with the disavow tool, I believe if you do a "good faith" in removing the links, and it is well documented, you can use the disavow tool after multiple attempts, correlating both the disavow links and the spreadsheet sent to Google is and should be very important in a reconsideration request.
Good luck!
Also I received the message from WMT, and wondering does anyone know how long is 'some time' before site is reindexed? So far our organic traffic is still about the same prior. So I would like to hear what other's experience are after a successful reconsideration.
Feel free to ask any questions!
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RE: Google Webmaster Tools not displaying all backlinks
You may want to try other backlink checkers. I don't believe any tools get 100% backlinks. Use WMT, Open Site Explorer, Majestic SEO, and others to get a good number.
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RE: Do nofollow links affect link profile?
All is taken into account. But don't go out of your way to get like 20% this 20% that and 20% of this. Do it naturally and you will have nothing to worry about.
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RE: Google launches their Disallow Tool
This is gonna be interesting how everything works out.
I've sent a reconsideration request a day or two prior to the release. I will see how that request goes and then update the spreadsheet with new links I've removed as well as using disavow.
So far my webmaster response is about 10%, so you have no idea how much this tool can relieve some pain after so many attempts.
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RE: Developing a link profile.....
Less official directories are no longer worth as much anymore. Its because anyone can do it, which just saturates the directory. Its a good place to start, but doesn't mean putting your site on 100 directories will do you any good.
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RE: Does PRWeb.com Still Work?
Paying for press releases are somewhat not a viable option anymore. Many believe that using that budget to create an awesome content would be a better choice.
As well believe, good contents will lead to backlinks. The problem with PR sites is that they mass send these to news sites, and unless your content in your PR is good, it won't be picked up and you would have paid $100-$200 for just 1-2 links.
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RE: How can I submit my sitemap file to SEOmoz? (I mean the same file I send to google and bing, not the sitemap page)
Hi Fernando,
I don't believe SEOmoz has any feature that requires you to submit a sitemap. It is not a search engine, and SEOmoz's Roger bot just crawls your site and pulls all the needed information(no tracking cookie, how awesome!).
Once you submitted your domain, full crawls just takes a few days and you will have all the data you need.
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RE: Bulk BackLink Chcecker
A good and reputable site would be:
http://www.majesticseo.com/reports/bulk-backlink-checker
There are other sites but other sites also have spam on it
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RE: First 500 Twitter Followers....
A lot of people misinterpret social media. You end up with more spam than anything else using the above services.
Some are legitimate but majority are just spam. The main reason behind this is because the insights and stats from your social media accounts will be inaccurate and hinders your future goals and tasks.
Lets say I get 10000 followers and 100 of those are actual followers that liked my page from a post or my website. If I am only getting 25 followers to click my links on Twitter, 25/10000 seems like crap. But 25/100 is pretty good. We are given these numbers, but using places like Twiends and buying followers are just not helpful and ruins your stats and analytics.
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RE: Noindex Pages indexed
Yep, that should stop them. Now just need time for Google to crawl.
You can also check WMT to see if the robots.txt is being read.
WMT > Health > Blocked URLs
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RE: Unnatural Link Profile
If its 1K, LinkDelete can probably do it for about $400-$500.
But the main problem is that the links aren't guaranteed to be removed. Its based on cooperation of those webmasters, which usually are not helpful.
Another big problem is that this is a gamble.
1- You don't know if the links can be removed (uncooperative webmasters)
2- Even if you remove a good portion of links, it doesn't GUARANTEE an accepted reconsideration from Google.
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RE: What should i do to get success with PPC only
PPC and SEO is different.
SEO is organic.
PPC is pay per click, which you're paying for.
PPC is effective in getting instant traffic and a direct line to your customers/users. You have to analyze which keywords are most effective and which convert the best. This takes time and adjustment, thus PPC management is very important to keep ROI high.
The SEOmoz blog has tons of useful blogs on PPC posted by members of SEOmoz community. Here are a few that you might be interested in.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/8-ways-ppc-and-seo-are-better-when-used-together
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-essential-ppc-landing-page-optimizations
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/useful-ppc-tactics-for-online-retailers
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RE: Does Alexa ranking consider unique visitor only?
Don't give too much weight in Alexa, Compete, Quantcast. They all measure in different ways and Alexa in specific although widely used, is only for those who have a toolbar.
The reason why your traffic is dropping and Alexa is rising, could be because you are pointing webmasters and other related users like SEO agents to your site. A lot of webmasters have wide range of toolbars and they are likely to give Alexa rankings lower.
If you visit webmaster sites, you will notice their Alexa ranking is easily lower, but doesn't mean they get lots of traffic.
Bottom line is don't pay too much attention to these stats as they are not accurate.
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RE: Content Update
It will not have any real effect other than changing your on page SEO.
If the dates are changed, and content is updated with a good portion of information, the post may get ranked higher just because of freshness. Google loves fresh content and fresher content usually rank better but fall a little below later on.
What you may try is making a new post with a link referring to the old post. See if that works for you and if not you can always update the content on the original post...which is what I would do.
Keeping content updated with changes is a good way for your users/readers, not just for SEO
Good content and updated content can have others point back to your site, i.e. "hey check this page out, they update this information quite often!".
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RE: Noindex Pages indexed
robots.txt will block it, noindex is still usually able to find via search if you look specifically for it.
User-agent: google-bot
disallow: /sampledir
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RE: Unnatural Link Profile
Hi Aran,
Some link removal services are rmoov and linkdelete. Google those to find exact site.
As for using a new domain, it is brought up a lot. It really varies for what your client's goals are and what you hope to achieve. The site was previously ranking at 3 but that was with spammy links. Now without those links would they still rank? Probably not.
If the site has SOME good links I'd suggest keeping the domain and removing those 1k links as it is not THAT bad if they are on same domains. But getting them removed is a hard task.
If the site has no good links and the domain isn't anything special like an EMD, I'd say just dump it. This is assuming the domain is not anything important like brand name.
You will have to consult with your client and see what they want and what their budget is. Removing links is hella annoying. LinkDelete does a lot of it for you and customer service is good overall.