If you control the anchor text and linking points for most of the backlinks, that's the wrong way to go about getting a good link, and it isn't going to look very natural to Google.
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RE: Seo category or specific seo page?
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RE: Strange Spike in Direct / None traffic
Agreed on looking in at the city/network. I've seen this before, and the cause was a website monitoring service we signed up for that was actually triggering javascript.
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RE: HTTP Vary:User-Agent Server or Page Level?
Thomas, I think the voice recognition software botched some of your reply. Could you go through and edit it a little? There are some words that seem to be missing. Thanks!
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RE: Pages crawled dropped like a stone
Here's a post from our help desk on why sometimes only one page is crawled. https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages If that doesn't solve your problem, please send an email to [email protected]. Thanks!
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RE: What penalty might have hit here (screenshot attached)
In this case, it's the voice of experience. If you go back a year or two in Q&A, you'll see that I asked the question about my bounce rate and had someone else point it out to me. I was on wordpress, and viewing my code and only saw one GA instance, but it was because I was logged in as admin and one of the instances was being suppressed so that admin visits didn't go into GA.
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RE: Articles and what to do with them
Are you speaking of the site that's listed in your Moz profile?
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RE: Website pages missing from seomoz crawl
Actually, the SEOmoz crawler should be crawling all of the pages -- it's OSE that doesn't crawl everything, but the crawler from your campaign should show all that it could find. If you email [email protected] they'd be happy to help you figure it out, or if you want to share your URL here along with some pages that are missing, the Q&A people could help diagnose things too.
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RE: Huge Spike in Direct Traffic from IE7
Adding a fresh reply here so people get notified in their inboxes (editing a previous reply doesn't generate a new email).
This is a problem with AdRoll and Perfect Audience, and both are aware of the problem (and invite you to contact them with any issues regarding your account). An update post is at http://www.seroundtable.com/adroll-invalid-traffic-18922.html
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RE: What would be considered a bad ratio to determine Index Bloat?
If only people realized how much good information members drop in Q&A...
Once again, thanks for this EGOL!
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RE: Website pages missing from seomoz crawl
Hi! It's probably best to email [email protected] about this. You can give them your full URL and they can help figure out why Roger isn't crawling everything. Thanks!
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RE: How can I see what Google sees when it crawls my page?
Google webmaster tools also has an option to fetch as Googlebot.
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RE: Blocking Test Pages Enmasse on Sub-domain
If you want nothing on that test subdomain indexed, verify that subdomain as its own site in Google Webmaster Tools, exclude that subdomain from being indexed in robots.txt, then request removal of that site (subdomain) in GWT.
And consider setting up a page monitor like https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php on the robots.txt of your test site (and live site). It'll check the contents of those pages once a day, and email you if there's a change. Handy if there are multiple people working on the site.
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RE: Disappearing Rel=Canonical Code
Hi! Those are actually rel=canonical notices, not warnings. It's a note to let you know that they are there and to make sure everything looks OK, not that there's something wrong.
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RE: No PageRank Update...Why So Slow?
Google updates their internal page rank regularly. What they don't do very often is update the approximation of page rank they show on the toolbar to the everyday user. It's been updated, they just don't show it to use, and don't show us a very accurate picture of it when they do update the toolbar.
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RE: Too Many On-Page Links Reported By SEOmoz
Here's a good post Dr. Pete wrote on the subject about too many links that may help.
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RE: *Dramatic* reduction in bounce rate, why?
This wouldn't be the Moz crawler, as we don't trigger javascript.
What often happens (and I've done this myself) is that Google Analytics will be in the header or footer, and ALSO added as a Wordpress plugin. This drops the bounce rate to nearly zero.
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RE: ECommerce .com or .co.uk
I'd opt for the single site, both of the duplicate content issues and for your sanity. You'll have one site to maintain instead of two, one site to build links to, only one entry instead of two if something changes for a card, one place to make price changes, etc.
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RE: How to evaluate a 404
Hi Michael,
If you download the SEOmoz report in CSV format, there is a column that says where the link is coming from. Hope that helps!
Keri
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RE: *Dramatic* reduction in bounce rate, why?
Oh, and if you look at the source code for your site, do so from an incognito browser -- most WP setups will suppress one of the GA instances from firing if you're logged in as an admin.
Voice of experience again here, as I had to have someone else initially point this out to me on this very forum a couple of years ago.
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RE: I need an SEO Specialist to take a look at a few things for me
Hello Salman,
Moz staff does not step in to delete questions unless there has been obvious spam or someone's privacy has been violated. Deleting a question is unfair to everyone who volunteered their time to write an answer, only to have their work (and moz points) removed.
It's best to be cautious and only say as much as you are comfortable with saying in the first place.
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RE: Good idea to use hidden text for SEO purposes due to picky clients not allowing additional content?
Could you provide some background on the statement about not being spam? I'm more familiar with the statements that urge caution, such as this one from a Google employee (Maile Ohye) at http://maileohye.com/html-text-indent-not-messing-up-your-rankings/.
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RE: Hi all I want some help
If you also control the site, then it's not considered a natural backlink.
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RE: How Long Until Manually Removed Anchor Text Links Stop Showing Up?
Sorry for the delay in responding. The holidays caught up with me! I'm not sure why OSE would still include those links so long after the site was taken down. Could you email [email protected] and give our help team the details, so we can investigate and see if there's a bug?
Thanks!
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RE: How To Get Started?
For figuring out the reports, be sure to go to the help hub that Mike mentioned at http://www.seomoz.org/help. We have a lot of details there about what each of the notices and warnings mean.
Do feel free to come here and ask questions. Welcome to SEOmoz!
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RE: Hi all I want some help
These are all broad questions that require an in-depth analysis of your site, your competitors, and more by someone that has experience in ranking adult sites, especially in your country. You may not find that experience here in this particular forum, though you can get some general information at http://moz.com/learn/seo that should help you with a good SEO background.
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RE: Help Understanding GWT Message
I'm searching for that anchor text with a site:sexualproblems.net, and once the site comes up (it takes a while), I'm not seeing that anchor text on the site itself, though Google did see it at one point. I wonder if their site got hacked?
Travis, it'd be great if you told us which tool you used. Thanks!
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RE: Rank Tracker - above 50
We only report the top 50, as it usually doesn't make much sense to report beyond that. Whether you're on page six or page ten, there's still not going to be too much traffic.
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RE: Are bad links the reason for not ranking?
In cases like this, it may be advisable to go ahead and pay a professional for an audit/evaluation of the site. This is the type of thing that takes some time to examine, especially with so many moving parts. Q&A is great for some questions, but some of the larger ones like this (especially with a foreign language and different version of Google) are better suited to someone who can spend a few hours devoted to your site and your competitors and figure out what is happening and give you some advice as to the next steps.
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RE: Moz Crawl shows over 100 times more pages than my site has?
It's not going to be a penalty, but it'll be good to have a bit less of a load on your server (bots no longer crawling thousands of pages) and just have your real pages in the index.
Places to look for interesting changes in site metrics would be your organic traffic in analytics and taking a look at your Google Webmaster Tools account to see your impressions, pages crawled, etc.
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RE: How similar do pages need to be in order to utilize the canonical tag
Hi Conor,
Welcome to the Q&A forum! Since this is an old topic, it may not get too much visibility. You may want to start a new question in its own thread.
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RE: HTML Improvements is not updated
No, I'd just wait for it to drop out on its own and not try to inadvertently mess things up.
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RE: Has anyone herd of or used link-assistant.
I took a quick look at that video, and can tell you we've all been on the receiving end of auto-generated link requests where the sender has obviously never looked at the site. Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan have fun on occasion when they write about these types of requests. Lots of red flags go off when looking at this site, especially the guarantee about top rankings.
No, I don't have any personal experience with this site, but in general this type of thing is something to avoid.
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RE: Different steps on the funnel competing with each other on the SEPR
If you don't want the second page showing at all, exclude it in robots.txt.
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RE: Add multiple H2 tags on a single page. Good or Bad?
Multiple H2s are just fine. We do it all the time on the Moz site (just check out our blog posts).
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RE: Would you truste this link building buissness ?
In looking at the site, they don't build the links, they just provide you with a list of links, not always relevant, and you are the one that needs to go out and comment on the blogs and get the links yourself.
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RE: Remove Directory In Webmaster Tools
Are the URLs gone? Or you just don't want them to be indexed? It's better to set things up in Wordpress (if that's your CMS) to not index tags and categories than to go and tell GWT to remove them.
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RE: What Is the Best company for Seo that Scan and all errors automatically For me. thanks
The services mainly help you identify what needs to be addressed, then an actual human comes in and needs to interpret the results and make the changes. There's no magic software out there where you can click, have everything fixed, and get on the first page of Google.
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RE: Very simple Link question: Ziggy Marley homepage
And a user's money still spends the same on the site, whether or not they came through a link that is or is not followed. Sure, would be great to have it followed, but I'd much rather have the link there and it be nofollowed than to have no link at all.
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RE: Redirect URLS with 301 twice
This type of structure also fits in nicely with your analytics package. You can look at all the visits to /toyota/ to see how popular that is compared with all the visits to /ford/, for example.
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RE: EMD vs brand? I'm new to moz
Thanks for the answers, EGOL and Andy. Really appreciate the time you both spend in here!
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RE: I cannot get any links indexed to this website http://atglimo.com.
I went to search.yahoo.com, entered site:atglimo.com, and also found the 10 external links to the domain -- including mashable. I've attached a screenshot.
On a different note, if you ever do get access to the server or can even just adjust the images, reduce the file size of your images, convert pngs to jpgs, and consider removing that picture at the top of every single page that pushes the content down on the screen. Your header, background, and main images all have large file sizes. Page load time is one factor in Google's ranking algorithm, as well as a factor with user experience.
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RE: Site wide no follow links
If you nofollow a link, the PR just evaporates. Google changed this in 2008 or before, according to Matt Cutt's post at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/.
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RE: Page Title & Meta Description Getting Cut Off In The SERPs
Title tag guidelines have changed. Check out this post by Dr. Pete at http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool
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RE: Article spinning - is it a spam or legitimate way to build SEO
A badly-spun article can also make your company look bad and incompetent. Do you really want your company name attached to an article that was written by a machine? And do you want a backlink from a spammy blog or directory that is filled with other such articles? You're not getting on most of the good sites with that type of article, as the good sites have humans that can spot these articles and leave them in an unpublished purgatory (at best) or ban the submitter/destination URL from that entire site.
Now that it's been a couple of months later, can you tell us what you decided to do, and anything interesting you found?
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RE: Post Site Migration - thousands of indexed pages, 4 months after
What happens when you go into GWT and fetch fancydiamonds.net as googlebot? Is there some reason that perhaps googlebot isn't seeing the redirects correctly?
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RE: My site's articles seem to never show up in Google.
When I search "Multitasking is Bad for You, Mkay" in Google, I do get your site, though as the last out of four results (in incognito search).
Have you checked to make sure your Analytics code is properly installed? Do you have access to server logs, such as awstats, where you could look for a "second opinion" to see if GA is misconfigured and you are getting organic traffic from Google?
When you went into Google Webmaster tools to fetch as googlebot (from the answer in the previous question), did you have any messages in GWT? Also, look at the information given to you there about the impressions and clicks you're getting to also help see if Google is actually sending you traffic.
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RE: Do http:// links to a http://www. site count the same to Google?
If that automatically adding of the www is done by a 301 redirect, most or all of the link juice should pass. It also makes it so that if the user copies and pastes the URL from the address bar, they're getting your preferred version there, and are thus less likely to link to you with the non-www version.