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  • Seiyav


    Hi Everyone, I've been using many of the articles to find out the best way to create a list of long tail keywords I wish to target. Anyway, I used Google AdWords Tool in order to find out how many Global/Local Searches per month, and the Keyword Difficulty Tool on this site in order to find the difficulty score. With these two metrics, I've compiled a good list, but I wanted to know how people prioritize keywords. I was thinking of creating a formula in excel in order to compare both the difficulty score and the amount of searches, but I wanted to know other people's advice and how they decided to prioritize the long tail keywords they compiled. I am still a bit of a newbie at this, so any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

    Keyword Research | | Seiyav
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  • GardenBeet


    HelloMy website http://www.gardenbeet.com has been rebuilt using prestacart and there are 158 duplicate title and meta descriptions being reported by google.My developer advised the following Almost all the duplicates are due to the same page being accessible at the root and following the category heading. e.g; /75-vegetable-patio-planter-turquoise.html
    /patio-planters/75-vegetable-patio-planter-turquoise.html This is hard-wired into PrestaShop. Was the Canonical module (now disabled) responsible for the confusion by not including the category name? The Googlebot shouldn't be scanning the root versions now. I don't believe this to be a serious issue but I'd recommend a second opinion from someone more SEO savvy just to be sure.Opinions??

    Web Design | | GardenBeet
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  • mdimov


    Hi all, I'm working on an e-commerce website about car tuning and car parts. There are main categories like ( Aerodynamics, Power tuning, Interior, Wheels, Tires, etc. ) and in the products are organized in sub-categories representing the product manufacturer, car manufacturer and car model + modification. Unfortunately this kind of structure creates duplicate sub-category names. For example we can have parts for Audi A4 8K in Aerodynamics and ABT, and the same time we can have Power tuning from the same manufacturer and for the same car, or Sport brakes for the same car by different manufacturers. So here are how some links look-like: /alfa-romeo-147-c1070-en /alfa-romeo-147-c234-en /alfa-romeo-147-c399-en These are totally different  categories, with the same anchor text and almost the same url addresses ( the only difference in the urls is the category id ). Can this be affecting the site's indexation, and which can be the better way to create the internal link structure ?

    Technical SEO | | mdimov
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  • haekel


    I continue to get link exchange invitations. Apart from the fact that the links I connect to should be relevant, is there an ideal no. of outbound links that I should maintain - or maybe a ratio or something? Should I even consider their page ranks - and do I have that right when mine is not that high (the last question may be stupid but I still want know). Thanks.

    Link Building | | haekel
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  • JasonJackson


    Does anyone know of some good plugins for wordpress for self hosted video?  Thanks in advance!

    Content Development | | JasonJackson
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  • BMGSEO


    A site we are working on is a large gift retailer in Canada. They have a language option for French, but the page URLs are the same. If you click 'French' in the header, a cookie is set and then all pages are dynamically served the French content (and all nav/site elements of course change to French). The URLs then are exactly the same as it's the cookie that determines the language option to serve. e.g. www.site.ca/index.php?category=7&product=99....    would be the same regardless of if I'm set for English or French. Question: Does this setup have a negative impact on any SEO factors? The site has several thousand pages.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BMGSEO
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  • scottsemple


    I went over the list of possible reasons, but I don't think any of them apply to the site in question: sarahhueniken.com. Any other reasons only one page would be crawled?

    On-Page Optimization | | scottsemple
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  • dbuckles


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    Algorithm Updates | | dbuckles
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  • jingliang3_rogers.com


    Hello, How do i know if a forum is indexed or not indexed?

    Link Building | | jingliang3_rogers.com
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  • WebLadder


    I recently took on a website design client and ran his website through a battery of tests using Pro to take a look at the crawl errors. One that seems to stump me is the error "Too many On-Page links" concerning his blog. (http://franksdesigns.com/wp/blog) This is the first time I've seen this error and am rather confused. The report says there are 104 links on this page. However, I'm having trouble grasping this concept or finding the 104 links. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!

    On-Page Optimization | | WebLadder
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  • digisavvy


    I've got several pages that have "too many on page links" and the pages mentioned have already been noindexed. Do these pages need to be no followed too? Here's one of the pages: http://digisavvy.com/site-map/. There's several pages like this, most of which are category or tag archives, which I've noindexed... Do I need to nofollow these, too?

    Technical SEO | | digisavvy
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  • GriffinHansen


    The developers want to use hidden divs to display links to each page of our photo gallery from the first page to Google but only previous and next buttons to users. Will this be a problem? Is it the best solution?

    Technical SEO | | GriffinHansen
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  • MarloSchneider


    I am doing SEO for a website that has constantly rotating and only temporarily pertinent subjects on it.  Let's say these information and subject cycles go for about 6 months.  Assuming this would it be more effective to optimize exact match domains for each 6 month cycle or make a main domain with a few of the keywords and just target a page for each roaming subject? Advantage of the subject is I get domain authority to feed off of, advantage of the exact match is, of course exact match domains are a powerful tool to rank highly and it is only a medium competitive market, usually about 40 domain and page authority. What do you guys think?  Do you have any techniques to dominate temporary and rotating markets?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MarloSchneider
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  • driftnetmedia


    I'm working on the site www.qualityauditor.co.uk which is built in Moonfruit. Moonfruit renders pages in Flash. Not ideal, I know, but it also automatically produces an HTML version of every page for those without Flash, Javascript and search engines.  This HTML version is fairly well optimised for search engines, but sits on different URLs. For example, the page you're likely to see if browsing the site is at http://www.qualityauditor.co.uk/#/iso-9001-lead-auditor-course/4528742734 However, if you turn Javascript off you can see the HTML version of the page here <cite>http://www.qualityauditor.co.uk/page/4528742734</cite> Mostly, it's the last version of the URL which appears in the Google search results for a relevant query. But not always.  Plus, in Google Webmaster Tools fetching as Googlebot only shows page content for the first version of the URL.  For the second version it returns HTTP status code and a 302 redirect to the first version. I have two questions, really: Will these two versions of the page cause my duplicate content issues?  I suspect not as the first version renders only in Flash. But will Google think the 302 redirect for people is cloaking? Which version of the URL should I be pointing new links to (bearing in mind the 302 redirect which doesn't pass link juice).  The URL's which I see in my browser and which Google likes the look at when I 'fetch as Googlebot'. Or those Google shows in the search results? Thanks folks, much appreciated! Eamon

    Technical SEO | | driftnetmedia
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  • tmtoseo


    In the campaign manager, is there a way to track trends in the average ranking of a labelled group? We divide our keywords into aggregate buckets which we maintain on week-to-week basis and we're more interested in how we're doing for each bucket as opposed to individual keywords (which fall in and out of buckets over time) If this isn't possible - is it part of the product roadmap? Thanks

    Moz Pro | | tmtoseo
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  • EssEEmily


    Alright, I'm taking a chance and stepping into the developer role here...something completely out of my comfort zone so bear with me. We have a pretty site built in PHP (www.dassant.com) and we are coming across some duplicate content issues. For example, these are supposed to be the same page: http://www.dassant.com/products.php and http://www.dassant.com/products So the SEO in me states the obvious: We need a 301 redirect stat! Unfortunately, our developer went MIA and I am having the hardest time getting a 301 implemented. After some research I found the code that I need to paste into the PHP (for this specific page): Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
    Header( "Location: http://www.dassant.com/products" );
    ?> However, when I paste it in, upload and refresh the page, I get these error messages in the (multiple) browsers I use. (See attached) http://imgur.com/a/1lar5 With my limited knowledge I can't find these supposed other redirects so I'm stumped. Can anyone shed some light? Thank you in advance! 1lar5

    Technical SEO | | EssEEmily
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  • AnthonyYoung


    Will I lose or gain seo benefit from using rel=nofollow on my SSL certificate?  every page on the site refers (links) to the cert and the server call to display the cert adds over 500ms to my page load speeds. <updated question="">  Is there a way to display the cert to cut down on load speeds?  Also, would Google discount or penalize the site if the cert were nofollowed?</updated> Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AnthonyYoung
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  • inhouseninja


    Anyone  know if its important that the target keyword is used AT THE START of the meta description, or is it enough that it is anywhere in the description...? I have a few big ones that are at the end of the description and I was wondering if I should move them up to the front... Thanks!

    On-Page Optimization | | inhouseninja
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  • brianspatterson


    With Rand's new post about the correlation between FB Shares and rankings, I wanted to ask... How is Google able to see what links are being shared?  Does the profile have to be public?  Or do they get anonymous info direct from FB as part of some deal?

    Social Media | | brianspatterson
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  • ayabi


    I own more than one website. Can I have more than one website under this account? thanks Al

    Moz Pro | | ayabi
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  • Adviso


    I have a website with friendly URL, My product page are generated from a database. When I click on the product, I go 6 folders deep. (ex. nameofthesite/courses-and-seminard/blablabla-catalog/information-technology/blablabla-window/blabla-server/active-directory-with-windows-server-2008.html I'm thinking about moving the product page to the thrid folder, so it would become nameofthesite.com/courses-and-seminars/course-catalog/active-directory-with-windows-server-2008.html I want to know, would it be a major element in my SEO. Is URL length is a really important factor. Because I need to move 450 pages. Second, if I move the page, do I only need to add redirect 301 or I need to do something else. I suppose  I also need to change my breadcrumb navigation also.

    Technical SEO | | Adviso
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  • BigBlaze205


    Looking for links, I found a association http://nafahq.org/ with a yealy membership fee, they have a DA of 53. Before sending my money, I would like to know your opinions. Is a DA of 53 something I should conseders? What is a good DA number? Thank you, Jean

    Link Building | | BigBlaze205
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  • Dan-171803


    I have a client that is creating separate websites to be used for different purposes.  What is the best practice here with regards to not looking spammy.  i.e. do the domains need to registered with different companies?  hosted on different servers, etc? Thanks in advance for your response.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Dan-171803
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  • NiftyMarketing


    I have been asking a lot of personal friends (who own SEO companies) this question and have found that it seems to be on all of their minds. From BlueGlass to a small start up consulting firm, it seems that everyone is doing things different and constantly shaking it up.  I am wondering what SEOMozers are doing/have done for their company structure?

    Industry News | | NiftyMarketing
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  • EricVallee34


    I'm just starting to learn about cblock root domains and linking.  I'm wondering about the following: Are there articles or websites to learn about dos and don'ts about getting a large number of links from one cblock? How do I know when a site has too many links versus the number of unique cblocks? I've been using Link Harvester on SEO Book and it seems like not many sites have more than 170 unique cblocks.  Is this the total number of unique cblocks on the web or am I using the tool wrong?

    Link Building | | EricVallee34
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  • seohive-222720


    Hi I am in the process of writing meta titles and meta descriptions for a clients product portfolio.  I have the complete list exported from the cms system in to excel. I know I can add some clever logic to build the meta information but for this purpose I want to do this manually.  Does anyone have a editor online or an excel sheet that shows you the charactor limits when writing the titles and descriptions. This would be handy if someone has, otherwise it's a case of having to write the excel sheet to do this, not that hard to do but i thought i'd ask the question.

    On-Page Optimization | | seohive-222720
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  • legalseo


    We have successfully rolled out 5 sub-domains using very industry specific KWs as the sub, e.g. familylawyers. We're rolling our an employment focused sub.and ideally would use employmentlawyers.XXX.com. However I'm tempted to use a long established (5+ years) sub-domain with a topic related KW that now hosts a non-active blog with PR3 -  employment-law.XXXX.com. It has 49 indexed pages, some with PR2. So there's potential for getting a kickstart on traffic and trust with some redirects. Should I go for instant gratification or build for the long haul with the slightly more beneficial URL KWing? I should add that this sub-domain will have thousands of pages that are geo and sub-category focused - a typical URL would be. sub-domain.XXX.com/TX/Austin/wrongful-termination-lawyers.html THX for any opinions.

    Technical SEO | | legalseo
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  • klars524


    I came across this today when doing a Google search - a site that has a small promo code listed on their page shows a preview with that promo highlighted...I dug around their code a little bit, but couldn't find if it was something they were doing to manipulate their preview in the search results. Is Google automatically highlighting promotions in previews, or did getmarried.com/magazine/ somehow manipulate the page to make their promo highlighted?  And if so, how? You can see the site at http://www.getmarried.com/magazine/ and you can see the preview with the promo highlighted attached. ZDY52.png

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | klars524
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  • PerchDigital


    Just double checking this one. Is it less than ideal to have a blog on a subdomain rather than as a sub folder on a domain?

    Technical SEO | | PerchDigital
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  • BoxLimited


    Hi, Does anybody know of any good UK Link Building training courses or trainers? I have read loads of information on here and other sites which tells you that you need to get good high quality links but have not found much information on exactly how you go about doing this (apart from looking at competitors links - which is easy). So I would love to get some training for me and another team member here on Link Building specifically.We have all the other areas of SEO pretty much covered and get pretty good rankings for long tail and some broad phrases.  We just need a bit of extra Link Building help to boost some rankings up even further. Thanks in advance Andy

    Link Building | | BoxLimited
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  • FirePowered


    We are a web hosting company and some of our best links are from our own customers, on the same IP same IP, but different Class C blocks. How do search engines treat the uniqie scenario of web hosting companies and linking?

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | FirePowered
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  • DanHill


    I need some help with doing the Mod Rewrite on our htaccess file. Basically I've a URL like this : www.example.co.uk/new-toy-search?keys=xbox and I want to rewrite the URL into something else (such as new-toy-search-xbox.html) Could someone please take me through the steps of how to do this? I've had a look at the Apache site but it's really confusing the way it's explained!

    Technical SEO | | DanHill
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  • Champions


    For example, we have optimized all of a clients interior pages to the point where it is competing with some of their competitors main pages.  Unfortunately, they do not show up on most of the Google Places keywords.  Their competition, who are lower than them organically, automatically show up in Google Places while they do not show up at all.  Organically they are 2nd or 3rd in most of their keywords, but no one near the top in Google Places. Thank you!

    Keyword Research | | Champions
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  • BigBlaze205


    I have a eCommerce store over BigCommerce platform. It is possible to sell via Shopping Comparison Sites like: Nextag, PriceGrabber, Bizrate, Shopping.com, If I decide to advertise my products over those sites, will it be consider a trust link for Google? Our store is new and we don't have links referring to us, I need solutions. Also, there is a yellow pages site, http://www.yellowpages.ca/ that ask for monthly fees to advertise on there web site, advertising will be business name, addressee, phone number and web site, will it be a positive link for Google or just a paid link? This is our store: Furnace Filters Canada Thank you for your help and support, BigBlaze

    Link Building | | BigBlaze205
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  • DanHill


    With the nofollow tag used very widely on the internet these days I was just wondering about how an RSS feed might help me find a way around it.  Basically my question is this : I post a comment on a blog, it's approved and my comment together with my link(nofollow tag applied) is there. Now when the blogs RSS feed updates, does this nofollow tag get applied to the feed? As far as I can tell it does not - but I'm not too clue'd up on how the feed is generated. Anyone want to help me understand how it works and if what I'm suggesting would be 'a way around the nofollow tag' ? Thanks 🙂

    Technical SEO | | DanHill
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  • Pariplay


    Hi All My site is live for a year now. I;m getting tons of traffic (alexa 54k) and business are good. The only problem is that I have 0 page rank....I have checked again and again the site;s structure to see if there is anything wrong with the site but everything seems to be ok. Google just added search links to the site (megamoneygames) which looks very nice. For example, none of my competitors have search links but they all have page rank of 4 while I have 0. In addition, for some reason the site's age (days) shows 0 although it is live for a year now... Do you have any idea of what is going on? do I have errors in the site? Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Pariplay
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  • Filolari


    Rank tracker can't find sonosurgery.it ranked for sinus lift on google.com (us), but If I perform a real search thru google.com I can find it ranked at 15 . Why ?

    Moz Pro | | Filolari
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  • turnon


    Wehave 2 websites for the same keyword Website 1 is indexed on place 2 but we do not like that name any longer it does not fit our long term marketing Website 2 is indexed on place 5 and this domain fits better What will happen if we redirect website 1 to website 2? Fall down to postion 5 Fall down to position 5 and after a certain period we get back at position 2 or 3 thanx in advance for your reply

    Technical SEO | | turnon
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  • poolguy


    Is it bad to NOINDEX, FOLLOW your pagination pages?

    On-Page Optimization | | poolguy
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  • mkoster


    Here's a question I can't seem to find an answer to. Does web hosting within a targeting city make a different in the engines? For example, a site targeting the Denver area, with web hosting in Denver. Will this boast the ranking or is targeting limited to countries? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | mkoster
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  • EricVallee34


    Does Google (or other search engines) penalize websites if they have a too many inbound links from a single domain? (Say for instance, I have 500 inbound links, and 400 of them are from one root domain.)

    Link Building | | EricVallee34
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  • jamesjk24


    What's up guys, Having some troubles with SERP rankings. My sitemap (navigation) is appearing instead of my actual keywords. I have tried a few methods to fix this; setting a preferred domain, using a 301 redirects, deleting out of date pages via Google webmaster tools. Nothing seems to work. My next step was to refresh the cache for my entire site - does anyone know how to do this? Can't see any tools... Any help would be great. Cheers, Jon.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jamesjk24
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  • mreisbeck


    Hello All, I wanted to ask something regarding a link-building tactic that I was thinking about trying. Many sites have what seem to be automated systems for adding a URL to a page in a site, but first require a reciprocal link to be posted from a page on your own.  I was thinking about starting up a separate small blog/information site that related to subjects in my industry, and posting links to related resources on other sites as well. Could I use this as a vehicle for acquiring links that point to my main domain, while reciprocating links from the separate domain where the blog/informational site was located?  Has anyone tried this before? Do these automated systems only accept a reciprocal link request if a link is verified from the same domain that you request your link to be pointed at? I realize that some webmasters who verify links manually may have an issue with this, however I feel I can overcome that concern more often than not by delivering quality, relevant content on the informational site (as well as promoting that site separately).  I think any savy webmaster would prefer it this way as well. I'm certain this has been tried before, but would like to find out what kind of results I might expect.  Any experience or advice that may be given here will be much appreciated. Mike

    Link Building | | mreisbeck
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  • SparkplugDigital


    Please share your tips for improving your chances of getting approved for Google News. Thanks Mozzers!

    Content Development | | SparkplugDigital
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