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  • BradBorst


    My SEOMoz stats show that I have duplicate titles for the following two url's: http://www.rmtracking.com/products.php and http://www.rmtracking.com/products I have checked my server files, and I don't see a live page without the php.  A while back, we converted our site from html to php, but the html pages have 301's and as you can see the page without the php is properly redirecting to the php page.  Any ideas why this would show as two separate url's?

    Technical SEO | | BradBorst
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  • fastestmanalive


    I a looking through the on-page SEO reports in SEOmoz for one of my sites.  It suggests that I change the url of a particular page to match the desired search term I want to rank for.  In this case it is a site for a local business and the url is example.com/testimonials. when it probabaly should have instead been example.com/city-business-reviews. I have just a couple links to this page and I'm stuck towards the bottom of page 1 in the SERPs currently.  Questions... 1. Should I change the url to include the exact keyword term I want the page to rank for? 2. If yes, what is the best method to ensure that any existing link juice to the current url is retained?  Would I change the url, then create a new page with the old url and apply a 301 redirect to point it to the new page? Thanks!

    On-Page Optimization | | fastestmanalive
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  • Gyi


    Does anyone have any recommendations or resources for best practices in using Google Analytics. Specifically, as they relate to SEO and managing and monitoring several websites (i.e. registering/managing multiple accounts vs. master account, etc).

    Reporting & Analytics | | Gyi
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  • seanmccauley


    Hi All I am a newbie to SEO and have a quick Q. Assuming that appropriate steps would be to; a) Ensure all onsite matters are are correct, title tags, meta descriptions, redirects, canonical issues. b) Submit to Directories c) Build Links I am approaching step b) Which Directories are worth submitting to? For those which require payment, how can I decide which are value for money or should I just use SEOMOZ list of links and assume that theyre worth the $50 - $100 if my higher ranking competitors have links from these directories. Also, can this be looked opon as grey/black hat 'buying of links'? Thank you Sean www.pretavoir.co.uk

    Link Building | | seanmccauley
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  • SCyardman


    We joined our Chamber of Commerce for the "link" as much as anything.  After 9 months of having a link from our local chamber it has never showed up anywhere.  You can see the link on my Chambers page, and you can click on it and it works.  But it does not show up anywhere else....Not in any backlink checker,  not in SEOmoz, not in Google Webmaster Tools. When I hover over our link on their page I see "javascript:encodeclick........my url" Is this link worth anything?  What is a javascriptencodeclick?  Does Google know it exists and give me credit for it?  Our Chamber is clueless... they hire someone to do their website.  Their webmasters response to my question was: Hi, These links look like this because this is just the way our system parses URLs that are entered into the membership directory so they can be clickable when displayed in the lister. These links will not have a negative effect on Google or SEO indexing purposes if that is what you are concerned about. They are not encoded or encrypted, this just happens to be the name of the Javascript function.

    Technical SEO | | SCyardman
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  • increation


    Hi Just wondering if anyone here has used the services of  a company called Bulrbpoint? www.blurbpoint.com I am considering using their directory submission service for a new site, as they offer placing sites in the Yahoo Directory, which is £150 alone. If anyone ha any feedback on their services, that would be great. Cheers Mik

    Link Building | | increation
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  • tylerfraser


    How can you see what pages are cached by bing. I'm basically looking for these google approaches for bing: cache:domain.com site:domain.com Thanks Tyler

    Technical SEO | | tylerfraser
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  • BlinkWeb


    So I am trying to track ecommerce transactions on a Prostores site and GA is dropping the source because the checkout is on prostores domain instead of the store domain. All ecommerce transactions show a source of the actual website as a referral. I've read googles documentation on tracking across multiple domains but just can't quite get it right. Can anyone help me out? Here is my tracking code: ss:commentdo nothing</ss:comment>

    Reporting & Analytics | | BlinkWeb
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  • tylerfraser


    Hello, I worked on my site using a sandbox, this site got cached!!! So now all my pages on my regular site have several links from this IP address. I know this isn't that big of a deal. But I would like to get it straightened out. I've had disallow on the robots.txt for several weeks. How should I go about getting this IP address out of the google index? Thanks Tyler

    Technical SEO | | tylerfraser
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  • cindyt-17038


    In trying to figure out navigation for a new website, I am struggling with the first link rule vs. the reasonable surfer patent where the first link rule implies that Google "counts" the first link to a page including navigation, and the reasonable surfer patent that implies that navigation links carry less weight than body copy links. What is the best solution for creating main navigation so that it doesn't take away from the body copy links?

    Web Design | | cindyt-17038
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  • BarrettAhern


    After looking at Google Shopping results, I was wondering how the "Relevance" is determined.  It would obviously be hugely beneficial to be ranked as one of the top 5 most relevant products, since that is the default sorting criteria. Originally, I thought it was a combination of Price and Seller Rating.  But after examining a few examples, that doesn't seem to be the case. When doing a search for "Radian XTSL" - a car seat that our website features - JustKidsStore.com appears at/near the bottom of the Google Shopping list, despite having a competitive price and ranking well for that term organically (8-13). http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=radian+xtsl&hl=en&safe=off&cid=15471698622239402479&os=sellers# Do you know what the ranking factors are?  And if so, can you give a few pieces of advice for best practices? Thanks!

    Affiliate Marketing | | BarrettAhern
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  • UWPCE


    Our website moved to a new domain a year ago, and we have our original domain to redirect to our new domain. We're working on contacting people who still link to our old domain to ask them to update, but 7% of our traffic is still coming as a redirect from our old domain. My question is, when should we just shut the old domain down entirely and stop redirecting people to our new domain? Or should we just keep it up indefinitely? What would be the positive or negative impact on our new domain's SEO if we shut the old domain down? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | UWPCE
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  • TheEspresseo


    So one of my client's wants to know why he shouldn't just hire GoDaddy to "do SEO" for him! He found this page: http://www.godaddy.com/search-engine/seo-services.aspx Without actually trying it, It looks like a bunch of stuff I already do (rank tracking, PR tracking, traffic tracking, ROI projections), stuff I shouldn't do (site submissions to search engines), and stuff I probably don't need ("keyword wizard"). That said, I am intrigued by: the dedicated phone number with track and monitor (is it better than Hosted Numbers?), the business listing (is it a link worth the $6/mo?), site analysis and optimization, and ROI dashboard. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does any piece of it have any value?

    Reporting & Analytics | | TheEspresseo
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  • modhop


    Hi, I'm running a wordpress blog (modhop.com) and am getting the "too many links" on almost all of my pages. It appears that in addition to basic site navigation I have plug-ins that create invisible links that are counted in the crawl...at least that's my guess. Is there a good way to control this in wordpress? A nofollow in the .htaccess? A plug-in that does this? (I'm sort of at novice-plus level here so the simplest solution is ideal.) Thanks! Jake modhop.com

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | modhop
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  • Dan-Petrovic


    Let's ignore the "social metric" value of Twitter links and mentions and look at it from the pure link juice point of view. Twitter accounts such as http://twitter.com/randfish used to have their own PageRank and were treated as separate URLs. Twitter changed that to http://twitter.com/#!/randfish consolidating all their content to a single URL. When I search for "randfish" in Google, however, the result is the first URL version. Some clarification on this matter would be much appreciated.

    Technical SEO | | Dan-Petrovic
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  • BlinkWeb


    Comparing X-Cart and Magento, which do you think is better for SEO and why? I am leaning towards Magento and wanted to get some opinions?

    Web Design | | BlinkWeb
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  • RogersSEO


    We all know that a company's address must be in the footer on every single page.  But what if that actual address resides inside an external php file.  Meaning the entire footer is an external php file. Will that affect local seo negatively? thanks for your help.

    Technical SEO | | RogersSEO
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  • JeanYates


    I have about 500 products with multiple urls for the same product, but different versions. I sell wine and have a different page for each vintage. I've decided that is not the best way to go, and want to point the older vintage pages to the latest version page, and make that the only page for the  product as time goes on. Do I have to put a link in the text from each older page to the newer, or can I use a 301 to redirect them to the new page? I don't want google to think I'm pulling something funny.

    On-Page Optimization | | JeanYates
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  • jonigunneweg


    Hello there! Most of the websites have links to low-value pages in their main navigation (header or footer)... thus, available through every other pages. I especially think about "Conditions of Use" or "Privacy Notice" pages, which have no value for SEO. What I would like, is to prevent link juice to flow into those pages... but still keep the links for visitors. What is the best way to achieve this? Put a rel="nofollow" attribute on those links? Put a "robots" meta tag containing "noindex,nofollow" on those pages? Put a "Disallow" for those pages in a "robots.txt" file? Use efficient Javascript links? (that crawlers won't be able to follow)

    On-Page Optimization | | jonigunneweg
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  • H-FARM


    Hi all, we've been asked by a blog to help them better indexing and ranking on Google News (with the site being already included in Google News with poor results) The blog had a chronicle URL duplication problem with each post existing with 3 different URLs: #1)  www.domain.com/post.html (currently in noindex for editorial choices as showing all the comments) #2) www.domain.com/post/index.html (currently indexed showing only top comments) #3) www.domain.com/post/ (very same as #2) We've chosen URL #2 (/index.html) as canonical URL,  and included a rel=canonical tag on URL #3 (/) linking to URL #2.
    Also we've submitted  yesterday a Google News sitemap including consistently the list of URLs #2 from the last 48h . The sitemap has been properly "digested" by Google and shows that all URLs have been sent and indexed. However if we use the site:domain.com command on Google News we see something completely different: Google News has indexed actually only some news and more specifically only the URLs #3 type (ending with the trailing slash instead of /index.html). Why ? What's wrong ? a) Does Google News bot have problems indexing URLs ending with .index.html ? While figuring out what's wrong we've found out that http://news.google.it/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=inurl%3Aindex.html gives no results...it seems that Google News index overall does not include any URLs ending with /index.html b) Does Google News bot recognise  rel=canonical tag ? c) Is it just a matter of time and then Google News will pick up the right URLs (/index.html) and/or shall we communicate Google News team any changes ? d) Any suggestions ? OR Shall we do the other way around. meaning make URL #3 the canonical one ? While Google News is showing these problems, Google Web search has actually well received the changes, so we don't know what to do. Thanks for your help, Matteo

    Technical SEO | | H-FARM
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  • CNMOnline28


    Hello We have a large ecommerce site, as you are aware that ecommerce sites has canonical issues, I have read various sources on how best to practice canonical on ecommerce site but I am not sure yet.. My concert is pagination where I am on category product listing page.. the pagination will have all different product not same however the meta data will be same so should I make let's say page 2 or 3 to main category page or keep them as is to index those pages? Another issue is using filters, where I am on any page and I filter by price or manufacturer basically the page will be same so here It seems issue of duplicate content, so should I canonical to category page only for those result types? So basically If I let google crawl my pagination content and I only canonical those coming with filter search result that would be best practice? and would google webmaster parameter handling case would be helpful in this scenario ? Please feel free to ask in case you have any queries regards
    Carl

    Technical SEO | | CNMOnline28
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  • musillawfirm


    I clear the cache and log out from any accounts and I still get different results for the same keyword if I use different browsers. Any idea whats going on? And which browser would have my true ranking?

    Technical SEO | | musillawfirm
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  • bubliki


    I'm interested, weather bad network neighborhood could cause some penalties in Google indexing and search? For checking your site neighbors follow this URL (enter your site URL in the end): http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=domain.com

    Algorithm Updates | | bubliki
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  • BTeubner


    We've recently (in the past 6 months) implemented rich snippets into one of our websites, which lists events around the USA. We've run our code through Google's testing tools and all looks good. When we search for terms which we compete for, many of our competitors display the event sub-links in the SERPs but we still do not. Does anyone have any experience with rich snippets with regards to whether site reputation or  (we're a new website) others factors will impact if/when google will display our rich snippets in search results? Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BTeubner
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  • DarwinChinaSEO


    hi guys, a question please. if site:112.65.247.14 , you can see google index our website IP address, this could duplicate with our darwinmarketing.com content pages. i am not quite sure why google index my IP pages while index domain pages, i understand this could because of backlink, internal link and etc, but i don't see obvious issues there, also i have submit request to google team to remove ip address index, but seems no luck. Please do you have any other suggestion on this? i was trying to do change of address setting in Google Webmaster Tools, but didn't allow as it said "Restricted to root level domains only", any ideas? Thank you! boson

    Technical SEO | | DarwinChinaSEO
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  • JonathanLeplang


    Hello everybody, my question is really simple: what's the purpose of a sitemap? It's to help the robots to crawl your website but if you're website has a good architecture, the robots will be able to crawl your site easily! Am I wrong? Thank you for yours answers, Jonathan

    Technical SEO | | JonathanLeplang
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  • OhYeahSteve


    The Home page Title Tag on my Wordpress CMS Website doesn't update. It has the Thesis Theme and All in One SEO plugin. I've updated it exactly the same on the Home page, for SEO plugin, and in the Thesis Theme - but still it displays the old one.. The site was last cached about a week ago - 3X since I've been attempting to change it. The other page's Title Tags update instantly when updated, but not the Home page. I've been digging for a solution and can't seem to find an answer. What could be the problem? (www.austinfitnessgyms.com  -It should be: Austin Gym | Kickboxing in Austin | Impact MMA Fitness)

    Technical SEO | | OhYeahSteve
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  • randallseo


    I feel like although directories carry a lot of weight and links, I'd think that my client would be able to gain a top position, since none of the others are competitor pages, nor are the directories engaging.

    Algorithm Updates | | randallseo
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  • Hakkasan


    I had several sites regarding a core subject. The main site was xyz.com and then I had multiple sites for the inner categories of xyz.com . I decided to consolidate everything to a single site and so did a change of address in webmaster tools and 301 redirected all niche sites to the appropriate page on the primary site of xyz.com. Shortly after we lost rankings for those niche pages. Any thoughts?

    Technical SEO | | Hakkasan
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  • qlkasdjfw


    I've seen a few companies pop up offering 'facebook likes' for sale. I'm assuming these are all dud accounts that are subject to get deleted in a second if facebook catches on. Anyone else have something to add?

    Social Media | | qlkasdjfw
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  • AdamThompson


    A friend pointed out to me that a University site had been hacked and used to gain top Google rankings. But it was cloaked so that most users wouldn't notice the hack. Only Googlebot and visitors from Google SERPs for the spam keywords would see a hacked version. See http://www.rypmarketing.com/blog/122-how-hackers-gained-an-easy-1-google-ranking-using-a-university-website.whtml (my blog) for screenshot and specifics. I've dealt with hacks before, but nothing this evil and sneaky. Ever seen anything like this? This is not our client, but was just curious if others had seen a hack like this before.

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | AdamThompson
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  • LabadieAuto


    I'm seeing a lot of companies in my industry loading the homepage with text by using a scrolling text area.  Do the search engines see this as valid text or is it a cloaking method that carries less weight?

    On-Page Optimization | | LabadieAuto
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  • AdamThompson


    What's your favorite 100% white hat link building tactic? Well, maybe you don't want to reveal your favorite...just a good one...

    Link Building | | AdamThompson
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  • Thos003


    Is Google saying, "Why keep offering a service that doesn’t work?" or "Let's make more money."?

    Paid Search Marketing | | Thos003
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  • AaronParrish


    So I did a site analysis over at Majestic SEO and it told me that I have 100 Referring IP addresses and 92 are Class C subnets. What does this mean? Are they good, bad or irrelevant?

    Technical SEO | | AaronParrish
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  • purch


    Where to start on building links for a news website? Should I focus on promoting individual articles or create linkbait and create friends with influential blogger/editors/ and news websites in the same niche?

    Link Building | | purch
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  • BlinkWeb


    What do you think is the best solution for preventing duplicate content issues on printable versions of product pages?  The printable versions are identical in content. Disallow in Robots.txt? Meta Robots No Index, Follow? Meta Robots No Index No Follow? Rel Canonical?

    On-Page Optimization | | BlinkWeb
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  • SEOPractices


    Hi mozers, I have a new client who contacted because his organic traffic dropped all of a sudden from 5000 visits per month to 300 visits per month. I have been reviewing his website profile and there are several reasons that take me to beleave the agency that managed his account until 3 months ago, was doing PPC to show improvement in the orgranic (SEO Service) traffic. 1. The Website was showing traffic for several highly competitive keywords 2. Most of the traffic 95% was driven to the home page with several groups of keywords 3. The website has just a few external links with anchor text not related to keywords sending traffic. Is anyone familiar with this type of practice? Thanks in advanced.

    Paid Search Marketing | | SEOPractices
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  • Mulith


    Hi All, I am setting up a new website with a fresh domain on an existing server. I can foresee that linkbuilding is pretty easy in this sector and it wouldn't be that difficult to build as many as 200 links a month. What I wanted to ask was whether it is possible to put a figure on the maximum number of links I could build without incurring a spam related penalty? Could I for instance start with say 50 links / month and then in increase that by 25 links / month for the next couple of months to seetle for something around the 100 links/month mark? Thanks in advance

    Link Building | | Mulith
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  • Chas-295721


    Here's a question - does having a "website designed by" reference in the footer of every page of one of your clients  help or hurt? I have a major university .edu that I designed a site for one of their departments and it is just about to launch and they've allowed me to put a reference in the footer. I've had pretty good luck with this on my other clients' sites, but didn't know if this practice is seen as spammy. Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Chas-295721
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  • EricVallee34


    I've set up several goals for one of my clients in Google Analytics.  The ones that relate to things on the site -- such as clicking on the "Contact Us" button -- work just fine.  However, I set up one that is tracking when someone clicks on a purchase button, which sends the user to a third party site (PayPal).  This one doesn't seem to work.  (I purchased and item and the goal was not recorded).  Looking to see if I have to do anything different when setting up the goal.

    Reporting & Analytics | | EricVallee34
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  • CeeBee-304918


    I use links with href="#" to trigger ajax functions in order to filter/sort and refresh  search results on page. Since several other html tags could potentially be used to bind a javascript event, (ie. span, img, div, etc), could there be a compelling reason to avoid using the anchor tag for this purpose? My concern is link juice dilution since many different pages will have the same links to: Sort by number of bedrooms or Filter by neighborhood. It is also common practice to use links with href="#" to submit ajax forms which are not html forms at all. I am just trying to rethink this practice and implement a best practice method. Thx

    Link Building | | CeeBee-304918
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  • BigBlaze205


    What is the relationship one vs. the other. What if DA is high and PA very low? I guest the best is to have the highest PA & DA? Will it influence results to have a link from a site with a DA of 80 and a PA of 0 for example? Thank you, Jean

    Link Building | | BigBlaze205
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  • BigBlaze205


    If find sites like: http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/ and http://www.free-press-release.com/ where you have to pay to post article, they have very good domain autority, what is your advice on those site? eon.businesswire.com/ is asking 225$ for a lifetime registration but they have a DA of 91, is this a good investement for building incoming links and increasing DA? Thank you, Jean

    Link Building | | BigBlaze205
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  • mascotmike


    A large number of the pages on my site are pages that contain things like photos and maps  that are useful to my visitors, but would make poor landing pages and have very little written content. My site is huge. Would it be benificial to noindex all of these?

    Technical SEO | | mascotmike
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  • mandinga


    Hello, I am sure this newbie question has been sent millions of times, but I couldn't find it with the new Q&A forum search... So, how many characters should I use in my description meta tag ? Thanks for sharing Loïc

    On-Page Optimization | | mandinga
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  • BigBlaze205


    If I get a new link from a external site with a high DA, will it show has soon has the link is available on the referring site? My new site as NO Domain Authority, I guess a link with a DA of 83 will in-cress it.

    Link Building | | BigBlaze205
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