Webmaster tools will tell you how many pages you have submitted in a particular site map, and how many pages are indexed in each site map. If you're able to put your new content into a new sitemap, that's one way to judge.
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RE: How can you tell if your new content has been indexed?
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RE: Crawl Diagnostics Report 500 erorr
Hi Yoseph,
Did you get this figured out, or would you still like some assistance?
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RE: Target the homepage?
Hi Tommy,
I've asked our associate who specializes in local search to come take a look at this question. She should be able to give you some helpful advice with how to proceed.
We understand that many times you cannot divulge information about your client or their business, especially if they haven't launched yet. Do feel free to tell us if that's the case here.
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RE: Bounce rate consistently dropping
Just to be on the safe side, I'd also check to see if there were any changes made to pages between December and January -- is there a section of the site that has GA code installed twice and you're getting no bounce rate for part of the site? Or some other element or GA configuration that is causing something else to load? That drop is fairly dramatic between December and January.
I discovered I had a custom GA script on my site and had left the Wordpress GA plugin active, so I had GA twice on my site and had about a 1% bounce rate. 12.35% is an awesome low bounce rate, but I'd poke around a little bit in my analytics and see if I can find particular pages or sections with a less than 1% bounce rate that might indicate an installation or code issue.
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RE: Do I need redirects for a .asp to a .htm?
Yes, you do need to redirect. They are actually different URLs. It's like you moved from 123 Fifth Avenue to 123 Fifth Street.
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RE: 2 Titles
I'm seeing two titles in there. View source on the home page, then do a control-f for find in your browser, and search for the word title. The second one is right below the msvalidate.
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RE: Since the 6th June there has been a serious drop in search impressions and clickthroughs in my GA + webmaster accounts.
Is there a reason why you're putting content on other sites instead of building up your own site? Original, quality content that earns incoming links will beat putting out spun text and questionable backlinks any day.
You might want to start your own thread here in Q&A with specific questions. If you can give a URL, that'd be even better, then we can all take a look at it and give you some advice.
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RE: Wordpress Website + 404 Errors
You can do a crawl of up to 3000 URLs from http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test, which would let you know if the site is still giving off 404s. Also, you could run a server header checker tool to see what header codes the URLs give and make sure they're not returning a 404 even though they're loading fine.
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RE: Title Tag Not Relaying In Google Search
JohnMu from Google gives advice as to why Google may rewrite your title tags, and Barry Schwartz has summarized it at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023139.html. I'm thinking it may be because your title tags look a bit stuffed/spammy.
In short, John says it may happen when:
- Titles are particularly short
- Titles are shared across large parts of your site
- Titles appear to be mostly a collection of keywords
What do you do if this happens to your titles? John said:
One thing you can do to help prevent this is to make sure that your titles and descriptions are relevant, unique and compelling, without being "stuffed" with too much boilerplate text across your site.
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RE: Do i need a new dedicated server to increase my website speed
One thing nobody has brought up is what your time is worth, and the opportunity cost of trying to do so much yourself.
If you are spending four hours doing something that someone else could do in an hour, that's four hours that you've not been earning income by having appointments with clients, or four hours that you could have spent writing content where you're the expert.
One thought for a cost-effective way to do things yourself would be to go take classes at the UK equivalent to the community college. Take a class in Joomla and learn how to put together a site from a professional, and learn how to set up a development site for testing so people don't see the results of a test gone bad on your live site. Take a class in photoshop and digital image techniques so you can have professional-looking images on your site.
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RE: Has anyone had problems with google webmaster tools verified sites
Diane,
In another thread, you mention Google had problems accessing your site. Could this be a symptom of Google having access problems is that they couldn't find the verification either?
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RE: Duplicate Page Content Issues
You need to wait for the next week's crawl or request a custom crawl to see a reduction in your duplicate content. For the canonical tags, it's a notice and not an error -- just a "hey, be aware that it's there, and make sure it's implemented correctly" note.
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RE: Google Analytics Title tag vs landing page visitors numbers
Do you have parameters in your URL? Trailing slashes? some with .php and some without .php? If there are multiple URLs (either via parameters or completely different pages) with the same title tag it would account for this.
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RE: Searching in Google using the Site:www.example.com specification - is it in an order?
Matt Cutts answered that on a YouTube video a couple of years back at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qigo05nAqKw. I've copied the transcript of his answer below.
In general, we don't promise that site colon queries will rank in the exact same order that other pages would rank in. So we do use a few different factors. We do use some version, roughly, of page rank, but it's not exactly in page rank order. We also look a little bit at, for example, maybe how short the URL is, and those tend to be URLs at the root page or one directory down, and those tend to be the pages that would attract the most links anyway. So it's kind of a combination to sort of trying to surface the pages that we think are useful, either according to page rank, or interesting in terms of being relatively short, so it's something that's pretty important or pretty close to your root page.
But I wouldn't necessarily say that, and it's not the case, that it's strictly in page rank order or anything like that, at least the last time that I checked. So it's a relatively good proxy of the pages that might be kind of interesting, but I wouldn't treat it as a perfect list. You can always go through your server logs and figure out which pages are driving the most traffic, and sometimes those are going to be deep URLs, for example, that might get a very specific link or that rank for some other reason.
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RE: Main page deindexed by google.
I'd look at the source code to see if a robots noindex got added, or if there's a weird canonical tag in the source. If you can't share your URL publicly, consider using a private question credit -- the private questions are not indexed, and only viewable by staff and associates (and we're all under NDAs).
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RE: 500 errors and impact on google rankings
Hi Ryan,
I suggest creating a new Q&A question for your specific question, and include what details you can about the errors you are seeing and the URL of your site, if you can.
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RE: Canoical tags how do i use them
Dr. Pete goes into some detail about the canonical tag at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/which-page-is-canonical.
It's basically telling Google that "I can't fix this with a 301, but domain.com/page1, domain.com/page1/, and domain.com/page1.php are all really the exact same page even though it has three different URLs, and the canonical URL is the one that I want you to show as the real URL"
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RE: I have one page on my site... but still get duplicate name and content errors.
Even with just one page, you can get duplicate content. Consider:
www.example.com
www.example.com/
www.example.com/index.html
example.com
example.com/
example.com/index.htmlMight this be the case for you? It's hard to know without seeing your URL.
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RE: Ideas for a strange surge in direct traffic
I had a similar situation once, and determined that it was not 100+ visitors each visiting one internal page by a direct visit, but one visitor going to 100+ pages and something with the browser configuration was not passing the referral information to Google Analytics. I happened to have a secondary analytics program on the site that showed it was all from one computer. Really threw off my stats though.
You might look and see if all of those have the same version of flash/javascript/os/screen resolution. If there's a bunch of "identical" browsers, it might actually be one computer.
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RE: Blog zero PR
Toolbar page rank only updates a few times a year. Usually the best use for it is selling or links. Otherwise, a much better metric to look at is how is your traffic doing, are you getting visitors, conversions, etc.
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RE: Duplicate Content - Potential Issue.
Hi Craig,
Be very careful of using other people's material in your blog, both because of the search engines and because of the law. Much of the content that is out there is copyrighted, and you really want to avoid getting into a legal battle because of copying content from others.
Search engines want to present users with a variety of content, and don't want to show users ten results that all have the same content. They're going to look for who published the content first and which site is generally more of an authority, and then generally give credit to that site.
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RE: Direct Traffic Source?
Do you have an email newsletter that goes out with deep links? Is there a forum that discusses your site, with the option to subscribe by email (and thus people getting the forum notifications in email)? Was there any type of print mention of your URL?
Is this happening to just one or two pages, or a bunch of pages? Does the direct traffic have anything in common when you drill down to city, screen resolution, etc?
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RE: How to remove the duplicate page title
When looking at duplicate content, we look at the code on the page as well as the text. If the only thing different between two pages is a couple of words, we're going to flag that as duplicate content.
The best suggestion is to write unique content that involves more than swapping out a few words.
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RE: Is image load part of traffic stats in AWstats?
They should be counted under the "hits" section. Here's a list of definitions of the various sections that should help: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_glossary.html
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RE: What might make Bing.bot find a URL that looks like this on our site?
Dana, you might also want to contact Bing at https://support.discoverbing.com/eform.aspx?productKey=bingwebmaster&ct=eformts&scrx=1. I sent a quick note on Twitter to Duane Forrester and that's the URL he provided.
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RE: Swear Filter - SERP Impact
Your best bet there might be to find someone you know who works in IT at a company that's really picky about what their employees see.
The problem I've run into is (I believe) a filter on a keyword in the URL for my site that won't let people at Vandenberg Air Force Base go to strikemodels.com. The site is about model warships battling each other, not about people modeling, but I'm pretty sure it's keying on the word model in the URL. Other sites from that host can be viewed from the base, and other sites with the same WP/Thesis framework can also be viewed.
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RE: Anyone else having webmaster tools delays?
Like John said, it is a known problem. Here's a post that Barry wrote at SER about it:
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-webmaster-tools-reports-stalled-16756.html
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RE: Linking without loosing link equity.
Wouldn't it look a tad odd to the search engines to have a site that didn't like out? Are you trying to do this for all of your links, or just some? Can you give a little more background to your question?
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RE: Do you recommend www.submit-it.com?
In addition, there are basically two search engine indexes to worry about -- Google and Bing (as Bing now powers Yahoo!). If you're in Google and Bing, that covers most of your organic search traffic right there. They each have their own way to submit if you're not already in their index, and they each have their own webmaster tools that can give you a lot of information about how your site is performing and what might be causing problems.
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RE: Analytics bounce rate change
Having it there twice can cause issues. I myself have an old post with this exact issue. What happens is that the tracking code fires twice.
My simplistic understanding, which may be good enough here:
Firing only once in a session: visitor didn't go to any other page, they're a bounce.
Firing more than once in a session: visitor did something else! they didn't bounce!
IIRC, my pageviews and pages per visit were also higher. Get the duplicate GA code off, and make an annotation in Google Analytics itself of what happened, so six months or two years down the road someone can look and understand why the metrics are wonky for that time span.
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RE: Acquiring a blog
Charles, saying that "Google will penalize you" for doing something is a fairly strong statement. Can you point to your source on this subject? It's helpful to give additional information in cases like this.
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RE: How much the Page Rank matters in SEO?
Hi Ganesh,
Keep in mind that what you're seeing as PageRank is the toolbar PR that Google updates once every few months and is not necessarily what Google internally uses (which is updated very frequently).
I'd look at other metrics. Are you making sales/conversions? Getting leads? Getting targeted visitors?
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RE: Has GA changed how it calculates bounce rate?
Glad it was figured out so quickly. You might want to put a note in Google Analytics about what happened, so six months down the line you'll know why the bounce rate was low and there were higher page views.
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RE: Crawl Results
There are a couple of different components here. The back link count is updated every 2-4 weeks, when Mozscape is updated. We have our own crawler, just as other sites have their own crawlers, so we'll all have different numbers depending on how many URLs we've crawled that cycle.
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RE: Starting point of Most Common Errors & Warnings.
Have you checked out our Help Hub that has some more information about the crawl report? It's at http://www.seomoz.org/help/crawl-diagnostics
Some of the answer also depends on the cause of the error. Is the duplicate page title because you have five sort options so you're getting five URLs for essentially the same page and they all have the same title? That's one type of fix, versus you just have your company name as the title tag for all of your pages, which is a different type of fix.
Regarding the too many links on a page, check out Dr. Pete's post for some more information at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many
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RE: Why does a selection of sites I have written guest posts on not come up on my link analysis?
Hi Michael, a slight correction here. That crawl test will crawl a site and list any potential issues, but it does NOT add a URL to Open Site Explorer. They are two different, independent crawlers.
Eoin, Moz doesn't have quite the server farm that Google does, and we're not able to crawl as much of the web, and thus can't report on all of the links that are out there. It can also be a few weeks for a new URL to show up. As long as Google sees it, that's the important part.
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RE: Do I need Redirects?
I'd suggest the redirection plugin for Wordpress. You can easily redirect the missing pages to the correct pages without having to create any pages. It also logs 404s for you, and you can create redirects from the 404 log
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RE: Error is not going away and crawling
In addition to what Dana said, you can run a custom crawl test at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test at any time, and it should be really fast for your eight pages. That'll help you make sure you fixed the error correctly.
Keri
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RE: What does the word false or true in front of Moz keyword analysis mean?
It means there was a bug in our system that I believe was fixed last night. So sorry about this!
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RE: How to fix errors and warnings on a wordpress.com hosted site ?
The OP is on wordpress.com, not self-hosted wordpress, so that may not be an option. I'm asking another associate to come in and add some comments to this post.
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RE: Error is not going away and crawling
Yes! You're also not limited to sites in your campaign, so you could run them on potential client sites, etc.
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RE: Deleted Rarely Visited Pages - Traffic Dropped (Big Time)
Be sure to make a note of this in GA, so that when you look back two years later (or someone else takes a peek), you remember what happened. Probably also doubled your page views, too.
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RE: How do i find a trsuted joomla developer expert
SEOmoz has a recommended list at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended.
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RE: Too Many On-Page Links
Dr. Pete also has a good post about this at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many
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RE: Deleted Rarely Visited Pages - Traffic Dropped (Big Time)
It's only because I've been in this same situation myself -- put on GA code in both the footer and in a WP plugin, didn't detect it because I was viewing the source while logged in as an admin, which had suppressed the plugin's script, and wondered why my bounce rate was so low.
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RE: Website not crawled
This page references several reasons why only one page may be crawled. If it isn't any of these reasons, please contact our help desk. Thanks!
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RE: 404 crawl errors with all url+domain
Look in your footer at the contact information, right below the information email. There's an http:// missing in front of www.gestoriabarcelona.com.
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RE: Deleted Rarely Visited Pages - Traffic Dropped (Big Time)
Also, I had to ask on this forum myself to figure out the low bounce rate. So glad you figured it out! On the plus side, this is one thing you're likely to never overlook again in the future.
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RE: What is meant by to many on page links
Thomas,
Do you have some resources that can give details about knowing for a fact it will hurt your rank?
Thank you for pointing out Dr. Pete's post at http://moz.com/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many regarding how many links is too many, as that is a good discussion about this report.