You could refresh your sitemap, then re-submit it to Google webmaster tools. This usually works for us
Posts made by CaseyKluver
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RE: Once we make changes to our site is there a way to force the engines to re-crawl it faster?
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RE: How to write 301 redirects in WordPress
Is the old site in WordPress? Try Simple 301 Redirects or a similar plugin to 301 individual pages/posts.
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RE: Is it bad (black hat) to have an H1 text as a text indent?
Hiding text through CSS is against Google's TOS. So basically it can be classified as "black hat".
Your H1 should tell your users what your page is about, if you have to hide it for whatever reason, there may be something wrong with your design.
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RE: Question for a developer out there...
Could very well be in the functions.php file also. If you want you can shoot me an email(listed in my profile) with the functions.php & header.php file - I should have time to take a look for you today at some point and at least point you in the right direction.
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RE: Can 404 Errors Be Affecting Rankings
Its hard to say if that alone is causing your ranking drop (72 is alot!), but Google certainly isnt going to reward you for having an abundance of 404 pages on your site. Thats just like telling them "I dont care about my pages or website" - There is an error on your website and its not fixed.
I would say the best thing to do at this point is to keep on 301'ing them or rebuilding content on those pages if possible and see what happens.
There are many blog posts on this subject, I would list them all here but it seems Google has most of them on page 1.
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RE: OSE lists dead links
It usually takes a couple of updates to refresh some URL's. OSE is only updated like once a month, so because its there today, doesn't mean it will be there tomorrow.
It sounds to me like you hit a gold mine perhaps with all of those broken links. Google search "broken link building" to take advantage.
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RE: Question for a developer out there...
Hi,
It looks like the meta description isnt 100% duplicated, the YOAST version has another sentence than the other description.
I would check the header.php file located in your theme, (or from the WordPress dashboard go toAppearance>Editor>header.php) Try to find the meta description and canonical url in that file and just erase them. Dont worry this wont erase the YOAST settings or tags (as that is pulled in through the wp_head hook).
Once your in your code, if your not sure on what to edit, post a screenshot of your header.php file here
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RE: HELP - got the following message - Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links
Hi!
It may very well be a direct correlation of your previously mentioned link building methods. You mentioned guest blogging - this is one of the best ways to build links if done to reputable sites, so that might not be the cause..
Could you go into more detail on some of the other techniques they used? How many links, how long of a period they were build, and perhaps a live example of something they did? We should be able to tell based off of that info.
Thanks,
Casey
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RE: Do you bother to nofollow links out to Facebook etc?
If your going to be linking out to your own Facebook or other social pages, there is no reason why you should nofollow these links! Your linking to a reputable domain that has your own content on it. In my opinion do not nofollow these links.
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RE: Onsite SEO tools
What do you mean by "website checker" and "score" ? There are soooo many things to "check" on a website, did you have anything in particular you wanted users to check, or just overall onsite seo?
Are you thinking of a user just entering a URL and a keyword much like the SEOmoz onsite report card?
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RE: Can anyone recommend Boston/New England SEO conferences/events?
Your in luck! Link Love is coming up in Boston on April 2nd.
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RE: Duplicate Title & Content in WordPress
"The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each of the posts to be displayed on the current page and formats them according to how they match specified criteria within The Loop tags."
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
Its basically the code that displays the list of posts in your category & tag pages.
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RE: Duplicate Title & Content in WordPress
Hi Sean,
Just because you removed them from the sitemap, doesn't mean they wont still cause that duplicate content errors as the page still exists, same with the NO INDEX and NO FOLLOW, the content is still being "duplicated" in multiple locations of your site.
Adding good solid category descriptions before the loop has changed this for me in the past.
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RE: Testing your code and site
Hi John,
7 errors all related to 1 plugin shouldnt be a big deal - especially when it comes to social plugins. A lot of the social share buttons themselves dont validate.
Im also not sure what you mean "the way WordPress appears to work"?
Could you post some of the errors here so we can see and try to help? The W3C error itself should let you know what you can do to fix the problem
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RE: Google Keyword Tool - Competition - How does it compare to SEOMoz Keyword Difficulty?
Hi,
The Google keyword tool was made for Adwords. The "competition" column just lets you know how many other Adwords advertisers are bidding on that keywords - which is great for PPC, and almost useless for SEO.
Stick with the moz keyword difficulty tool for SEO.
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RE: Personal and Company Blog
Chances are that content from your company blog should not belong on your personal blog.
'Not only is it a bad duplicate content practice, it doesn't make sense for a user. What motivation does a user have to visit your personal blog, if the same content can be found on your company blog?
If your looking for the correct method, posting good unique content on individual sites is the correct method.
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RE: Duplicate content issue
Hi Jeff,
index.php is the same as index.php?something=something&anotherthing=somethinglese
Each page should have a different url like index.php and page.php instead of always using index.php
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RE: Best AdWords Training?
Hi Czarto,
Speaking from experience, There really isnt a better source to learn Adwords IMO than Google itself. http://www.google.com/adwords/professionals/
They have all of their exam certification training guides online for free. There are about 14 chapters, some of which you can skip but by after reading it all, they will all have a pretty good understanding of Adwords.
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RE: Working free for high-profile website, best way to scratch my own back ?
Well, a link is a link no matter what and will be worth something. While the DA isnt super high, its in the 50's which is still pretty good.
What kind of work are you doing on the site? Do you have any type of control on the content that is published on the site? If you can somehow creatively come up with content remotely close to your content, and can use an analogy that ties them together and drop a link in there, the link could be worth more.
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RE: Optimization for an Car Image Gallery Site
Well, you should be creating thumbnails of each image(or your gallery script should make them for you). This way the page load is significantly faster.
As far as usability, users will much rather see the image gallery on the same page as the article is on. I takes a step out of their research process and thats ultimately the goal.
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RE: How to "Cause" a google alert
Hi David,
Any time I have published a blog post, it will generate a Google alert for my brand name. You just have to get your content out there on a crawl-able site.
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RE: Open Source CMS
Hi KJ,
We use WordPress for everything from small landing pages to large corporate sites, there is really no replacement for it if used correctly!
As far as SEO, you can set anything up to perform, WordPress just makes it easier out of the box.
Thanks,
Casey
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RE: How do I find backlinks and/or SERPs for a subdomain
You can do all of that in GA:
On the left side go to Content >> Site Content >> Pages
Then sort through Secondary Dimension
Im attaching some screenshots which should help
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RE: How do I find backlinks and/or SERPs for a subdomain
Hi Dian,
You can do most of what you are looking for through SEOmoz tools. Try http://www.opensiteexplorer.org to check your backlinks. You can check your SERPS with SEOmoz pro, or with rank tracker.
I would recommend installing Google Analytics to track all of your traffic.
Hope that helps!
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RE: Renting Directory Listings
Hi jenadams,
I dont think I have ever heard of "renting" a directory listing, you can buy directory listings though which might be what they were talking about. This form of link building can be helpful in the right circumstance, but it certainly isn't worth paying money to buy a link from a directory. Plus buying links are against Google's TOS.
If you do end up creating directory links, just make sure that your doing so to related in topic directories.
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RE: Attracta.com / "weekly submissions to top 100 search engines"
Hi Will,
Today, there isn't much value in search engines besides the top 3, Google, Bing & Yahoo. There is really no difference in those 100 search engines to the top 3.
That being said, Google, Bing & Yahoo are all sophisticated enough to crawl and find your website without it being "submitted". It is a great idea to submit a sitemap for sure, but you dont need to submit it every week. If you follow the http://www.sitemaps.org/ guidelines you can set it up where the search engines will automatically revisit your sitemap and crawl your content on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc basis.
Also, If you are using WordPress you can download a free plugin to create your sitemap that makes it easy to set up the crawl basis.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Casey
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RE: Should subdomains be avoided for brand new websites?
Hi Jon,
If you are just trying to create a page on your website about "keyword" there is no reason you should be using a subdomain. Every piece of content on your site should be on the root domain.
You will get no ranking benefits from a subdomain over a subfolder. That being said if you create the best content out there you can rank anything, but this will set you back.
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RE: If i become a PRO member will my reports, emails, etc all show my logo or will my clients be able to see I am using this service?
Yes, they will be branded SEOmoz for the pro plan. With the pro plus plan they wont be.
If you do however copy their .PDF reports into Photoshop its pretty easy to just cut/paste your logo. But it takes a bit of manual labor.
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RE: Ranking Videos on First Page of Google
We have had success ranking YouTube videos in the past by just doing some "old school" SEO by just optimizing the title and description. Placing a link in the description seems to help it also.
Getting a video to the first page is tough. First, are there currently any videos on the first page for your targeted keywords?
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RE: SEO capability on web pages v blog posts
Assuming your using WordPress, you could have installed a plugin or functions.php hack to add tags to your pages, which would have been much easier to manage and maintain.
Assuming the URL and the page template is the same, there is really no difference from a SEO standpoint in a page vs post. They are both in essence a "web page".
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RE: Buying mutliple keyword rich domain names and directing them to one site
Instead of building a site around that specific keyword on a domain like that. Just develop a piece of great content on your website around your keyword string. Its going to help in the longevity of things.
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RE: Buying mutliple keyword rich domain names and directing them to one site
For some reason on the local level, these domains are powerful. I am not sure about just buying a brand new domain and forwarding them, they will be next to useless. But developing microsites with these domains works quite well, I could see if you build one up and then redirected it, then it would help ranking for one site.
I would recommend doing it a different way as this method is currently on its way out. Its been a declining trend for the last couple of years.
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RE: To Meta Keyword or Not To Meta Keyword, That Is The Question
No, at this point all it is doing is giving your competitors a clearer picture of what your targeting. There is no current weight for meta keywords.
As a matter of fact, SEOmoz's on page report card advises you to "Avoid Using Meta Keywords Tag"
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RE: Duplicity Problems - What to do with similar products in e-commerce?
It looks like on those two examples its just the table% and depth % that are different? Any way you could just combine the similar products, and just make it a option to select the different table % and depth%?
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RE: Best tool for drawing sitemaps?
While its not made specifically for sitemaps, but for small to medium sites we use MindNode for mac, Its a really easy to use tool. Clients seem to like the look of it also. Its also free!
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RE: Inexpensive Daily SERP Report Service
I dont see why you would need to check rankings every day, sounds a bit like overkill for any site. But you can check out http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/ If you want to save and print out reports you will need to buy the enterprise edition.
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RE: Telephone numbers on page getting classed as 404s by SEOMoz
Having the same problem here! At first it counted each page as duplicate content, then 404's. I took the code off until further clarification.
One thing to note, iPhone and any newer Android will detect a phone number and should automatically make it a clickable link.
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RE: Unique root linking domains - clarification
Correct, Each unique linking domain linking to each page will be counted. One thing to keep in mind though, if you are receiving both links from the same page on externaldomain.com the second link to your domain will be diluted some. So if your going after multiple links from a same site, try getting them on different pages where you can have a unique link on separate pages.
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RE: Linking domains vs Inbound Links
Right, personally I have never seen a aged website with the same linking domains as inbound links.
I am not saying its bad, I just havent seen it and wouldn't recommend that because of that observation. Dont go crazy over it as obviously you cant get multiple links from every source you find.
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RE: Linking domains vs Inbound Links
Linking domains is the total number of domains linking back to you.
Inbound links is the total number or links you actually have. Each domain could be linking to you from different pages on their site, adding up to the total "inbound links".
I think its important to have both. You obviously dont want 1 domain bringing you 1,000 inbound links. If you build up your linking domains, total inbound links will naturally rise. Just dont keep it at a 1:1 ratio
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RE: Is there ever legitimate near duplicate content?
Hi Adam,
75% of duplicate copy in a single piece of content is very high. You can never say for certain with Google, but most likely it will raise red flags.
When faced with similar situations in the past, we have contracted several different writers with different styles to come up with multiple pieces of content on each subject. This way each page will be unique and from different perspective, eliminating the chance for a penalty. You may be forced to pay a bit more hiring different writers for the job, but it will be worth it for the clients goals.
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RE: Why do I have few different index URL addresses?
Yes, that is the main URL you should use, based off of standard practice.
Correct, that code should be set up perfect for your situation, and should decrease any other duplicate content errors down by at least 50%
Message me if you have any issues implementing the code
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RE: Why do I have few different index URL addresses?
First, you will need to redirect non-www URL to the www URL (or vise versa, thats up to you).
Second, you will want to redirect index.htm to the root.
You can fix the problem with a htaccess rewrite. Create a file named ".htaccess" and paste in the following code, then upload it to the root of your website.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^cssyes.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.cssyes.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.htm
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.htm$ http://www.cssyes.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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RE: When editing your dofollow signature in forums, what happens with old posts?
Your old posts signature will be replaced with the new signature, there really no way around that.
Your best bet is to keep the current links on your current account, and create a new account for the new client.
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RE: Seo-friendly way to post blog content to homepage?
Assuming your using WordPress for your blog, you can get the latest posts with get_posts http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
Either just displaying the_title or the_excerpt will be just fine for SEO
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RE: Different domains
Hi Andrew,
If it is all content for the same company/site it is best practice to keep all of your content under 1 domain. The biggest issue I see here is your blog being on a different domain than the main site.
Any links or authority your blog has received is not passing directly through to your main corporate site - which is what you want. Thats one of the main benefits of your blog, to support your main structure.
For the sub-domains, what sort of content is on them?
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RE: Are there any negative effects to using a 301 redirect from a page to another internal page?
Hi David,
From what you describe, you will have no negative effects from using 301 redirects to a new URL structure. Thats what 301's are for
Rankings may dip for maybe 3-7 days (depending on which pages are ranking, etc) if at all, but after that you should be good.
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RE: SEO directories
We cant really base a conclusion of why they are ranked first page just from a list of 4 link sources.. Post the URL and we can dig in deeper to see why he is ranking higher..
About the reciprocal link, they may have added one in the past and as soon as they got accepted they could have removed the link.
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RE: Better to optimize page, post or category in WordPress
There are no SEO benefits to having a page over a post, or a post over a page. They are essentially the same thing. The only difference is that posts can be categorized.
Creating a category would do you little to no good because you would then have to fill that category with content from a post. It would make no sense in having a blank category filled with category description content when you could create a page/post easier.
So as far as you choosing to publish a post or a page thats up to you. If its a blog entry that has personality and you want users to engage in the content with comments then I would publish it as a post. If the content you are publishing is "static" info then you could make it a page. It sounds as if "Seattle Rocks" would be best suited as a blog post though.