Great news William! Good job. I imagine the wait time is going to be at least whatever your normal crawl rate is.
Thanks for sharing your story.
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Great news William! Good job. I imagine the wait time is going to be at least whatever your normal crawl rate is.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Ahh OK. I don't think you're missing anything. Facebook will use a thumbnail, yes.
In that case, I don't think there's much you can do if people are just liking your photo and not clicking the link. Perhaps including more text describing the benefits of clicking through would help them click and then include sharing capabilities on the post will influence some of the visitors to like/share.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
Use an image in your post and then open graph markup on your blog pages. Then when you post the link to your blog post to Facebook, Facebook will pull in the image from your post and maintain the link to your post (not the image).
Here are a few posts for how to do it:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/structured-social-sharing-formula-whiteboard-friday
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/rock-your-seo-with-structured-social-sharing-mozcon-presentation
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-interactive-cheatsheet-for-seo-and-the-open-graph
Hope this helps!
You should be able to search by the filename and/or by the Alt text used to describe the image. I would start with the filename. If the filename is generic (e.g. 001.jpg), then it will be close to impossible to find, and this is a very good example for why your filenames should be more descriptive.
Hope this helps!
Must understanding is you can create multiple Business Pages. You should be able to do that by visiting this URL: https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php (when logged in).
You may want to use a different name for each page being sure to include the business name.
For example: For a business named "Pizza Place" with 3 locations west, south, and east, the pages might be named "Pizza Place West", "Pizza Place South", and "Pizza Place East", respectively. Then use the appropriate address on each page.
From what I know of the Business Pages, you can't have more than one address per page.
Hope this helps!
Are you talking about the "crawl notices" in your campaign summary?
If so, those are just notices letting you know the crawler "saw" them. You can review those notices to be sure your canonical URLs are set up correctly, but other than that you shouldn't need to do anything.
Canonical tags are used to cover these duplicate content situations so you don't need to "eliminate" pages. I think you are good. Perhaps someone else can join the discussion for further clarification too.
Hope this helps!
There is nothing technically wrong with this, so yes it is OK. I've seen this done before.
Some people also choose to use an index page at the directory level so that domain.com/xyz-products/ resolves with say "index.php". You would need to make sure you provide the right canonical/redirect combination if you do choose to go this route of course.
It's really up to you and your marketing team I suppose. Maybe ask which sounds better (e.g. "for the best jambalaya in town go to www.jambalaya.com!" vs. "for the best jambalaya in town go to jambalaya.com!").
I prefer www.example.com myself.
I don't think you will lose any link juice.
I also don't think it matters which URL you use for domain root. That said, it would matter if you were using http://www.domain.com versus http://domain.com. Otherwise, I don't think you need to worry.
Hi Marty, there is really no difference between root domain URLs with or without trailing slashes.
Note, however, that this is not true for absolute URLs: http://www.example.com/page is not the same as http://www.example.com/page/. For absolute URLs that are not the root domain, you need to be pretty explicit about whether or not it has a trailing slash. Many content management systems (e.g. WordPress) will let you choose to have trailing slashes or not.
At this point, I don't think you need to do anything with your homepage canonical URL since it is the same as adding a trailing slash.
Hope this helps!
Hi Brian, yes indeed it is worth it. But don't just take our word for it, take the word of many others in the industry:
Use it to increase traffic: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-author-photos. I built my profile for this express purpose. Authorship is important too and you need a Google+ profile to hook things together. Danny Sullivan provides examples where Google+ is pushed over the other social networks.
How to take advantage of Google+: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tips-to-use-google-for-seo.
There are too many reasons to do it and not one reason not to (IMO).
Hey Brett,
Try this recent post on Searcher Intent:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/searcher-intent-my-main-focus-when-it-comes-to-keyword-research
I would say arrange for how it makes sense for users/searchers and not necessarily for search engines at all. Look to the audience and you'll be on target IMO.
Hope this helps!
Paul's advice is sound Dana, shouldn't take too long to do either.
Then yes, I would migrate the archives to the new site if it was me.
I suggest taking things one step at a time. Your reports from SEOmoz may include tons of errors, but you can often fix tens or hundreds of these errors with one fix. I see some technical updates you can make to your pages that will help clean up the source code and perhaps make your pages load faster which will help.
A couple quick technical tips:
Clean up the inline CSS used on your pages. Use your external CSS files to hold this information.
Don't use relative URLs if you don't need to. You can fix a number of linking issues by just using absolute URLs.
Here's a helpful post from Paddy Moogan:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/common-technical-seo-problems-and-how-to-solve-them
More to come later. Hope this helps!
From my point of view, the idea is not so much that the social shares themselves are a signal; but rather, the more your content is shared, the more likely it is to be read by influencers. It's more about getting your content in front of the eyes of people you want to visit your site, engage with your business, and also link to you. This is a great way to build natural links.
Have you tested it with one URL to start?
It would help us diagnose your issue if you provided a link to the website you are having issues with. Thanks!
If it's a high quality link you shouldn't need to worry. If you are paying for the review, I suggest being careful. Check out their link profile and see if it is really something you are interested in. I would be wary of any type of paid reviews/links.
Don't do either of those and start here instead:
http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/143993
Paddy has some great stuff.
For example, this post:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/eight-link-building-tips-whiteboard-friday
Personally, I would go with example.com/blog and host it on your own site. Why? Because it increases your branding, provides a better sense of security (what will you do if Google folds Blogger?), and gives you more control.
Are they both on the same domain?
From a maintenance standpoint, I think it makes sense to move its archive to the new website. I wouldn't want to maintain old content on an old site forever. By maintenance, I mean continuing to update to the latest versions of the blog software, plugins, themes, etc...
With proper redirects in place, you shouldn't lose much in the migration.
I suggest looking through previous Q&A forum results for various answers that have been provided for this question. Here's the query to find them: https://www.google.com/search?q=seomoz+base+href.
Basically, you are right, you should use absolute links instead of relative links. You only need to use a base href if you are using relative URLs on page and the base href is needed for them to resolve correctly.
The base href you are seeing in the code shouldn't be causing any issues for Google when following internal links. The issues, if any, would be caused by the relative links themselves if they are not set up correctly (this should be easily tested).
Adam is right, downtime like this is unacceptable and this should be the card you play to convince the client to change hosts. You have the data you need (25 page one rankings dropped) to support your argument. The costs involved with moving to the new host will be worth it. Oftentimes you can even see hosting cost savings by switching to a better host.
If you can't move, yes your rankings should come back after the site is re-indexed. The only strategy I am aware of to handle this issue is to use a host that has more redundancy built-in. It doesn't sound like the local provider is able to provided this in-house and in the future they may themselves need to use an off-site location for hosting their servers.
You should use "noindex, follow", not "noindex, nofollow". In my opinion, you don't need to use "nofollow" at all here.
Also, some people say it is OK to index your category pages, but if you do there should be some unique content describing what the category is about.
If you're using Wordpress, you can use Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin to set your tag and/or category pages to "noindex, follow". This will tell search engines not to index those pages (which will take care of the duplicate content), but will also allow your links to continue to be crawled.
Hope this helps!
The sub page (both versions). This other version you've just linked is also an issue. There are a number of posts out there about optimizing Joomla! Try this recent one on the YOUmoz blog: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-your-joomla-website-in-11-super-easy-steps.
If it's not a 301 (or 302), it might be viewed as duplicate content if the first page is already indexed.
If the redirect is a 301, Google will only treat the second page as the actual page with the content. So no. If it isn't a 301, then you do have a potential issue. Does that answer your question?
It doesn't sound like you will have duplicate content problems because the redirect appears to be happening.
However, it would be best to 301 redirect to the www version of the sub page rather than always to your home page. This sounds like an issue with the .htaccess file and how it is written to redirect.
Here's a pretty good guide for getting 301 redirects and .htaccess working correctly for Joomla!:
http://www.hyde-design.co.uk/joomla-training/sef-joomla/urls-htaccess-redirects
The main piece being that you will want to use something similar to the following in your .htaccess for Joomla!:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,NC]
Your .htaccess appears to be doing the last two steps a little bit differently and this is sending those redirects to your home page instead of the www version of the sub page.
For some questions like this one, it is beneficial to do a quick search to see if your question may have already been answered.
For example, here is a previous post that is very similar: http://www.seomoz.org/q/should-i-remove-meta-keywords-tags.
You can use the "Search for a Question" box above and to the left, but I prefer to do a Google search for the keyword phrase I am looking for + "seomoz". Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=meta+keywords+seomoz
Hope this helps for future questions!
Hi Rick, the short answer is yes.
The long answer begins with the Google Analytics developers website. You can do some cool custom tracking on your website using Analytics code snippets. I'd start here.
From there you will likely read further and want to know about Event Tracking.
Once you've set up Tracking for your site, you can use the Event Tracking Code Snippet to add the event to your URLs.
For example:
[AnchorText](#)
Replace LinkName, ActionClick with whatever you would like to show up in your Analytics and replace AnchorText with what you are currently using now.
Hope this helps!
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Thanks! The Q&A forums have really broadened and sharpened my SEO expertise as well.
Today I've reached a personal goal of mine in the SEOmoz community. I've breached the SEOmoz Top 100 in Community Ranking.
By participating in comments on the YOUmoz and SEO blogs and by answering questions here in the Q&A forum I've been able to accumulate 599 mozPoints. That's a long way from the 28 points I had when I sat down to write this post.
Hopefully my participation in the Q&A forums has been helpful and continues to be helpful as I push for my next goal of becoming an Authority.
Thanks for the great community everyone!
Many sites use JavaScript effects to provide a better user experience like you are describing.
Here's a link to what Google has to say about "hidden" text:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353
Generally, if you turn JavaScript off and your page renders all of the text on the page, that text is considered accessible (note: this is important not just for search engines, but also for users who may need to use screen readers to access your site).
An accessible web page is one that search engines will like. You can continue to use JavaScript to create the user experience you are describing as long as all of the content is accessible when JavaScript is turned off. Do this and you shouldn't have any problems.
Personally, I wouldn't think you need to position the text off the screen in this case, you can simply use CSS to display:none until your JavaScript event goes off.
Hope this helps!
In the footer of this page, http://www.soobumimphotography.com/portfolio/sports/, to the left right below your "share" links is a little icon that looks like a folder. To the right of that folder is a link to http://www.soobumimphotography.com/pcategory/sports/ with anchor text of "Sports".
So to answer your question, these URLs are being produced by the code that produces your portfolio entries. This is in the code provided by your theme.
My suggestion is to either remove this link altogether from your theme or to change it to your main category and not this "pcategory" type of page.
Hope this helps!
You use the exact match keyword phrase "auto insurance Fremont CA" 13 times on your home page and then in your page title. Your content is not really meant for humans.
This doesn't even make sense: "If you are driving the car during commuting hours auto insurance Fremont CA carrier base on the law of large numbers have found you are more susceptible to having a claim."
Keri is right, focus on your customer and not search engines and you will see better results.
I wish you luck, but you need to work on your content before adding more pages to your site.
To answer your question though, I wouldn't continue to use the same keyword term on each page. Each page of a site should have its own focus. Why have two pages for the same keyword phrase? You can provide better results for users by producing one best page.
Sounds like you don't need to manage the threat of duplicate content; you are producing the duplicate content yourself. You are instead wanting to minimize the effect duplicate content has from one site to the next. The only way I know of to get eliminate the risk of duplicate content penalties is to noindex, 301 redirect, or provide canonical URLs.
Since you want both sites to continue being indexed, you can either keep doing what you're doing (and hope you don't get hit) or use canonical URLs and pick which site is best for each page.
Hope this helps.
Dangerous.
I would read more about Penguin before going further. Also here's another post that may provide insight:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-directory-submission-danger
Hope this helps!
No problem hope you found what you were looking for.
There is always a risk your site might be hacked, but that risk is present for both open source and in-house software.
For Wordpress in particular, it is best to make sure your installation is up-to-date with the latest release each time they provide an update. In fact, Google itself will provide a message in your Google Webmaster Tools if it notices your site is behind on releases.
Are your designers/host in-house? If the risk is too great for them, perhaps they can serve your blog content from a different server.
If your designers/host are not in-house, they may be telling you this because of their own limitations whatever they may be.
My suggestion would be to ask for more information. Why is the risk high for your website? Can the blog content be hosted on a separate server to alleviate the concern?
It's never too early to add great content to a site.
I think you might want to read up on the subject to determine just what you would like to do. Personally, I wouldn't "noindex" the pages themselves if they provide useful information for students (and/or others), but I would "nofollow" outbound links by default if I was unable to control what types of links will be placed on those pages.
Here is some reading on the subject:
http://www.blueglass.com/blog/to-nofollow-or-to-noindex-that-is-the-question/
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml
Hope this helps!