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Hello,

I've seen a similar thing. My client inconstantly ranked #1 for traffic cones for over a year, then this last panda update we got put behind by a big brand. Not completely sure why because the brand has almost no unique content on the page. Thanks google!

I would probably 301 the non-www version of your domain to the www version. This is your best bet becasuse if you don't already, you may have duplicate content issues arise in the future. Godaddy's DNS 301 works fine, i've used it before with no adverse effect.

What I would then do in Google Webmaster Tools is verify both domains, and specify the www version of the domain as the preferred version. This should solve the issues your having.

If you have any more questions i'd be glad to help.

Zach Russell

President, ProTech Internet Group

I agree,

Just kind of describe what it's showing of a specific picture. Just keep in mind the "real" use of alt text, Accessability for people without a monitor, if you keep that in mind, you should be golden.

Hello Lance

In general, a 301 redirect tells google, "hey, this page moved and is now at this URL." With that being said, here are some best practices:

If you are literally just merging pages into one, within reason, then there is no problems with redirecting them to the new page.

If your just completely trashing the page because it serves no value, than have the redirect go to the next category up, or, have the individual features page go to the features page once you delete them. I would ask myself this question, "If I was a user following a link that links to the 301d page, where would the next-best pertinent page be?"

Be aware of the number of 301 redirects any specific link has. Ideally, there should only be one.

If your concerned with link juice, which you stated you are, what is stopping you from contacting the webmaster of the site that links to that page and ask them to change the URL on the link, stating that you redesigned the site and the URLs have changed. The worst they can say is no, or nothing at all, or they can take the few minutes out of their day and change it.

A great way to do this is use OSE to get the links to any given page on your site, and then run it through one of the numerous tools to find the whois contact info of that domain, or just use their "contact us" page.

Hope this helps,

Zach

I agree with kadesmith,

If you have a PRO Plus or higher ($200+/mo) then you can upload your own logo. You will be prompted for this if you create a new campaign in SEOmoz, and I also believe this comes up when you create reports as well. SEOmoz also has specific things for image sizing recommendations, so just be aware of that.

I'm dabbling with link building in a non link-happy industry, traffic safety (IE Traffic cones, barricades, safety vests, etc...). We currently are doing #RCS in terms of giveaways for college students as well as discounts in a wider EDU Outreach campaign as well as legitimate guest posting.

I have started to use Link Prospector, and got a list of links/resources pages that we can get info from. I found some great links through here, including ways to get links from higher-profile .gov domains, but was wondering if it is worth it to go after the high(er) quality links/resources pages. By higher quality, I usually set a floor of a DA 25-30 and have a limited amount of external links per page. These would be for branded keywords (IE the company name/domain) and not exact match anchor text.

I'd really like to see how other SEOs feel about this.

Thanks

Zachary Russell

President, ProTech Internet Group

Hands down that CSS is the preferred way make dropdown menus. Google and on a lesser note, other search engines, have improved drastically with their ability to parse JavaScript / jQuery, and you may be able to get away with it, but it really should be avoided if possible. With the "new" CSS3 styles, you get almost any style you'd like with that.

SEOmoz recommends batch requests of 10 URLs according to their API wiki http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/url-metrics it states that any batch request larger than this will output a 400 error from the server.

Hope that helps!

Zach

I'm a huge fan of using things like screaming frog to get a lot of raw information, and then pushing them through something like link detective (or the links extension for excel) to get data on all the pages.

Screaming frog will give you some valuable info like

• title length
• meta description length
• h1-h6 info
• Meta Keywords info (basically to know if anything is there so you can remove them)
• Duplicate meta descs. titles etc

It's also free for less than 500 URIs

Hope this helps

Zach

I do agree that you may want to elaborate more, but "IF" it is a banner that has an internal link, meaning that the link on the banner is to your own site, you should be okay. If you don't have it already, I would suggest making relevant alt text for the image though.

Aaron,

That kind of sucked, I always like Moz's better than the keyword tool, it was a little more aesthetically appealing.

Any reason why Google Revoked Access across the board? I know Raven lost access as well, but I thought it was because of finances, not because google decided to go power hungry.

thanks for the update though

Check out this article, it's the Google Requirements for Removing content

There are multiple ways to do this:

Ideally, robots.txt is the way to go, you can also noindex the page. There is no need to do both. If your looking for the page to disappear as well, i'd let it 404.

Another option is to request the URL to be removal request in Google Webmaster Tools along with these things it's under optimization>Remove URLs.

Hope this helps

Hello,

I would agree with what was said, this is DEFINITELY duplicate content, and is also exteremely Spammy. I unfortunately see this as well on a lot of sites, especially for local SEO, without getting in to detail of these strategies. My view of this is that these concepts are adding absolutely no value to the web, and really should not be done by any legitimate online marker as a means of increasing rankings.

Here is a recommendation, since I don't belive that the "if you can't beat them, join them" approach would be helpful, why don't you create specific pages for each zip code/locality, and create unique content for every page. As a rule of thumb, I try to have 55% of content on any given page unique. Some strategies that work for me is to use local landmarks and events.

I think as google's algorithm progresses strategies like this will be beaten down, but who knows how long it'll take for that to happen.

Hope this helps

Zach

Hello,

In this case a 301 Redirect would be the smart move. This is where some issues come in with plugins with many of the mainstream CMSs, some things tend to have a mind of their own and make new URLs and the like.

You definitely want to remove the English content from the multilingual pages or disallow search crawlers for the pages that would be considered duplicate content, as you don't want your English pages suffering for Spanish content (or lack there of).

Hope this helps

Zach

Hello,

I'm a relatively active member for a website support forum for the Genesis Framework - studiopress.com/forums. Right now I have a plain text signature, but I am thinking about linking to my website (a WordPress Development Firm) with branded anchor text. I understand the risk of Penguin for non-branded, keyword-heavy anchor text -- but If I do this with simply a link to my website's homepage or Genesis development page, do you think i'd be at risk?

Thanks

Zach

I know that SEOmoz was having issues referencing the AdWords API, which may be why your having this issue. They also had an issue a few months ago where their keyword tracking went down.

Hope this helps

This means that the hack was removed.

What it would do before is redirect people to their ad sites. With it 404inf, that is fine, google just has to remove this from their indicies now.

Hello,

The site i'm referring to is http://www.pokeronamac.com, it was hacked via something called the "WordPress Pharma Hack" http://theblawblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/restoring-a-pharma-hacked-wordpress-site-wp-3-4/

We restored it as far as I can tell, but if anyone can confirm this by doing a site search and not getting redirected it would be appreciated. You will see that some search results still show up as spam, but when I click on them, they 404.

I want to know If I should submit a reinclusion request, I wasn't notified by WMT of malaware, so I want to know the SOP here.

Thanks

Zach

I am in the middle of optimizing sites for SEO, and am wondering how big of a factor it is to get page load speed under 1.5 seconds?

I am prioritizing tasks and I want to know how much this could affect trafiic?

Thanks

I personally haven't had this happen, but I have a few friends who have had their posts promoted. I'm pretty sure it is a 301 Redirect. What happens is your post gets syndicated to a lot more people (more people subscribe to the main blog than the UGC).

An interesting thing that my friend made me aware of is that if your YouMoz post does get upgraded to the main blog, you lose all the social shares of it as a YouMoz Post, personally I think Moz should try to fix that , but it may be impossible (because if they keep both posts then it's duplicate content, unless they noindex the page, but I digress).

Depending on the volume, I might just want to integrate both blogs into one, but delineate the equivalent of a YouMoz post as a "Guest Post" which is what YouMoz is.

Hope this helps

Zach