Go ahead and link to the post -- seems quite appropriate and on-topic.
Posts made by KeriMorgret
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RE: Issue with Joomla Site not showing in SERP's
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RE: Why do people rarely give each other Thumbs Up?
As someone who has just spent three hours today going through the public Q&A entries (I'm an SEOmoz associate), I have seen responses with multiple thumbs. I think the most I've seen (or noticed) is 3-4 thumbs, but I do see two thumbs quite often. The Public Q&A is fairly new, and the most recent two weeks are restricted to pro members (I don't know if free members can add thumbs after two weeks, or just view the answers), so it may be just a lack of people so far. I do thank you for your thumb usage and participation!
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RE: URL Duplicate Content Issues (Website Transition)
Hi Paul, did you find a good way to automatically do the trailing slash redirect?
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RE: Google Ads not showing
Have you had any impressions, or were you able to figure out why nothing was showing for the UK campaign?
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RE: Can you help me get started using the crawl diagnostics report?
Hi Susan,
Are you able to share any particular area of the report that you need assistance on?
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RE: Keywords Ranking Dropped from 1st Page to Above 5th Page
Hi Melinda, I see your site showing as the first result for a query of your domain name without the .com in Google. Have you regained some of your rankings yet?
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RE: Home and index.html isted as duplicate page
Hi Ben,
Do you need any more advice on implementing this, or are you good?
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RE: SEO Friendly Calendar System
Were you able to find anything that worked for you? I see reviews of calendar plugins, but nothing talking about the SEO-friendliness of the calendars. The only thing I see related to that is questions other people ask, wanting to know a good recommendation.
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RE: How to fight the Panda/Farmer update?
Giorgio, I'm wondering if you've re-submitted your XML site map, and if you've started to see any positive changes yet from the better content.
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RE: Redirecting /default to domain ??
Hi Monique,
How did things go with IT? Is there anything we can do to help convince them that this can be redirected?
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RE: Google place 7 -> 40, why??
If you have some lessons learned that would make for an interesting blog post, feel free to write it up and submit it to YOUmoz!
Glad to be able to help, and sorry I didn't get in here sooner with the GWT link [my avatar doesn't readily show it, but I am an associate for SEOmoz and I try to help provide timely help].
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RE: Question about when new crawls start
Hi Brian,
Did your site get crawled again and is everything good now?
Keri [SEOmoz associate]
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RE: Is there a Tool to compare Duplicate content for non web Live content?
I've never seen a percentage similar type option in Word, but you can merge and compare two documents to see the differences. I don't think it'll work enough for your case, it's more helpful for two documents that are in the same order and spotting the differences between them (like a draft proposal and final proposal).
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RE: Google place 7 -> 40, why??
Or quickly in some aspects at least. I'm glad for your site it's working well. A thought -- have you done a change of address in Google Webmaster Tools (if the old domain was verified)? Wouldn't hurt. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106
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RE: Old SEO keyword "articles", are they hurting rankings?
Just curious what your company ended up doing about this, and if you've seen any impact yet if you have made changes.
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RE: Google place 7 -> 40, why??
Timon, how is your site doing now? Has it recovered, or are there still issues?
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RE: Issue with Joomla Site not showing in SERP's
The site looks visually nice, except for the list of keywords at the bottom that Adam mentioned. I agree that some good backlinks are needed.
For user experience (and a bit for ranking, but primarily user experience at this point) I suggest looking at the file size of the images on your page. My first impression was that the site was slow to load, and I noticed you have several large image files that could be reduced either by saving a png as a jpg, or compressing the jpg (investiate smush.it from Yahoo).
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RE: How can I reduce my webpage load time?
The logo actually reduces a whole lot via smush.it, so that can help a little. Have you looked at the graphic elements that came with the theme that you didn't necessarily create?
Yahoo's Y!Slow extension for Firefox can also point out a lot of other areas for speeding up the site.
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RE: Xenu Alternative for Large Sites
There's a post in the last 24 hours about Xenu and Screaming Frog, it's worth a read to see if a) screaming frog my work for you and b) if the 64 bit version of Xenu mentioned in the comments can solve any problems.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog
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RE: The SEOmoz crawler is being blocked by robots.txt need help
Jason, if you can post the contents of your robots.txt file, or give us a link to the site in question, we can help you diagnose what is happening.
A second question is -- what type of content is being blocked? If it's a directory like /admin that is being blocked, the robots.txt is likely working as intended.
You can also verify your site in Google Webmaster Tools and look in there at the crawling section, as it will tell you what pages Googlebot hasn't been able to crawl. Google offers some help at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/03/speaking-language-of-robots.html.
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RE: Is it more beneficial to have internal links without the full file path?
And if you're scraped, the links still point back at your site.
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RE: How can I reduce my webpage load time?
Keep in mind that (to the best of my knowledge) Google is pulling the above data just from visitors that have the Google Toolbar installed, and does have a low number of data points for this conclusion.
In looking at your current home page, I'd say the image file sizes are something you can easily work on to help speed load time and increase user experience. In Firefox, right click on any image, and click View Image Information. It should take you to the Media tab of the Page Info dialog, and show you all of the media you have on that page, including background images.
Your theme files are large in some cases. The main-right.jpg file is 20k, header.jpg is 35k. Your logo is a 12k png. There are also several post images in the 20-40k range.
Yahoo has a tool called Smush.it which offers lossless compression, and there is even a Wordpress plugin that will compact new photos on upload, and reduce file sizes of existing images in the media library on demand http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smushit/. For time invested, the plugin is probably the easiest fix to reduce your file size and speed up your page load time, in addition to fixing the images in your theme.
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RE: What is the best way to push your video in Youtube?
Marty Weintraub from Aimclear has a YouTube SEO Cheat Sheet from his Pubcon presentation in 2010 to share at http://www.aimclearblog.com/2010/11/09/youtube-seo-cheat-sheet-for-pubcon/.
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RE: Dealing with PDFs?
This doesn't address ranking, but the YOUmoz post does talk about best practices for optimizing PDF content and may help you. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-optimize-pdf-documents-for-search
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RE: Page title in SERP question
Barry Schwartz has written about the last part (when it's not a DMOZ listing) at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html. There have also been several comments in Q&A about Google not using either the site's title tag or the DMOZ entry for the title in the SERP.
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RE: Best way to display maintenence mode on a website?
The Google Webmaster Central blog advises to use a 503 for planned downtown (and bandwidth-overruns) in their January 2011 post at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-deal-with-planned-site-downtime.html.
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RE: Removed listings: 404, internal links or redirect?
How often do people repost the same ad after they expire? Or do the ads expire? I'm thinking of Craigslist, where the ads expire after a certain number of days, and people repost the same ad. I would think you wouldn't want four copies of the same ad indexed, and especially for people to come to an expired version of the ad when there is a fresh one. Also, you'd be competing against yourself with multiple copies of the same content.
You'd need to make clear to the user that the ad could still be indexed, and give them a way to totally remove the ad. I agree with the other comment about wanting to strip out any contact information.
I don't know the best answer from a technical perspective (though I'd lean towards a), but wanted to point out some implications of other solutions.
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RE: Page speed tools
If you're using wordpress or a CMS of some type, look for posts and tools related to that particular software. The SmushIt tool is available as a wordpress plugin, and it will compress pictures on upload, and will compress (on demand) pictures in the media library.
I use Irfanview for batch resizing images (in the same directory).
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RE: For an optimized site, any available stats / guesstimates on what is avg % of traffic to homepage vs. second-level pages?
Have you checked to see if they have access to any log files, such as via awstats, that you could look at? Log file stats are never going to match javascript stats, and may even show up to double the traffic, but it would give you an idea of the ratio of homepage to other page traffic.
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RE: Rel=Canonical URLs?
rel=canonical is one of the things google will not always follow, if they think it may be implemented wrong. Barry Schwartz reported from SMX West on a slightly different question about implementation (paginated results) at http://www.seroundtable.com/seo-canonical-pagination-13094.html. The following excerpt should apply to your situation (emphasis mine). I have seen other reports too where Google has determined that canonical wasn't implemented correctly and ignored the instruction.
Not only that, if you do, Google may ignore it because Google uses methods to determine if the canonical tag command is actually something valid for that case. So if you canonical page 2 to page 1 and page 2 is not similar enough to page 1, Google may ignore your canonical tag.
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RE: Title tag showing in Google that we are not setting
As Barry's blog post title says, you're not alone with Google not always listening to your title tag. He has a post about it on Search Engine Roundtable at http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html. In short, it's Google, it's not you.
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RE: Google has not indexed my site in over 4 weeks, what's the problem?
Have you been indexed yet? Wondering the status on this, and if you need any more assistance.
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RE: Crawl Diagnostics bringing 20k+ errors as duplicate content due to session ids
Asif, here's the page with the information on the SEOmoz bot.
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RE: User Signals A Factor?
Also consider the root causes for the bounce rate, and that those themselves might also be a negative factor in the algorithm.
For example: if the site has added images with large file sizes that take forever to load, users may leave because the site is slow, and Google may use site speed in the ranking algorithm for queries to that site. If a marketing department decided that all of the content was going to be in the images because that way the exact font from the company style guide could be used, then the engines would not being seeing this text content, only images, and it'd be harder to rank.
Do you have a URL you're willing to share, or any more details? We can take a look and give other input about what may be causing the high bounce rate, if you would like.
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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: Search Engine Blocked by Robot Txt warnings for Filter Search result pages--Why?
Like Rick said, it's just a "hey, make sure that you really wanted to do this" type warning, since you can easily write a robots.txt that blocks things you didn't really think would be blocked. Or someone else can modify the robots.txt without telling you, and this can be a warning that you need to go find someone and get that fixed.
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RE: Acrepairdallas.net went away
I see a number of pages indexed, including the home page. I notice that you're running on an older version of WordPress. While likely not related to your question, I highly suggest that you make a backup of your site, and upgrade to the current version of wordpress to prevent attacks on the site from security vulnerabilities (that can end up killing your rankings).
I also suggest logging into Google Webmaster Tools, if you haven't already, and seeing what information is there about your site that could help.
I agree that the sub-pages seem a bit keyword-stuff and repetitive.
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RE: Is robots.txt a must-have for 150 page well-structured site?
The phrase "blog entries" makes me ask are you on a CMS like Wordpress, or are the blog entries pages you are creating from scratch?
If you're on WP or a CMS, you'll want a robots.txt so that your admin, plugin, and other directories aren't indexed. On the plus side, WP (and other CMSs) have plugins that will generate a sitemap.xml file you as you add pages.
Google will find pages if you don't have a site map, or forget to add them. The sitemap is a way to let Google know what is out there, but it a) isn't required for Google to index a page and b) won't force Google to index a page.
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RE: Duplicate Content Question
Not a direct answer to your question, but from a user's perspective, when I click the "read more" I'm expecting to see more regarding maintaining the exterior wood decking, not the entire intro sales pitch repeated again -- more like the page on How to Clean a Deck that you also have linked from the home page. If you did it that way, you'd only have the paragraph of duplicate content at the above question would be a moot point.
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RE: Would you truste this link building buissness ?
And OpenSiteExplorer, of course.
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RE: URL length does it really make a difference
Mike, I'm getting a 404 when I try to visit that page and find out the context of the example. Their example doesn't make much sense, as having subfolders like "direct" really aren't telling you if the traffic is direct.
I agree that it is better to not have a site 10 layers deep, but it's also beneficial to not have 20 parameters on a URL.
However, considering the OP is on Wordpress, I imagine we're talking about the post structure where you have the date as part of the URL. If the site in question is the recipe site from your profile, the following URL doesn't seem too horribly bad.
http://www.copykat.com/2009/02/07/cheddar-chicken-spaghetti/
However, if you're redesigning anyway and want a cleaner URL, you may want to consider a structure that does not include the date. The date really doesn't hold a lot of meaning in this case. I honestly don't care if your spaghetti recipe is two weeks old or five years old when I'm looking for a recipe. I use the Redirection plugin on my Wordpress site, and that plugin has been updated a bit more recently than the other plugin listed so might work a little better with the newer versions. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
Would love to see other comments and opinions.
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RE: Is this considered as duplicate content?
If two paragraphs are the same and the rest is unique (as long as it isn't just a one sentence news item) I'd consider it unique content and NOT use a canonical tag. How long are the news items? I don't see much of a problem if they're of a decent length and not just a couple of lines.
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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: 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: Premium Themes Use or Not?
There are many sites that use those premium themes. I use Thesis myself, in part because it had features that WP itself didn't (easy way to adjust drop-down nav menus for one). I've also used Genesis with one of their templates. If you're in a specific niche, buying a theme can reduce the amount of time you spend customizing the site because others have already added in the features you need.
Michael Gray (graywolf) and Rae Hoffman-Dolan (sugarrae) both use Thesis and have detailed reviews and tutorials on their sites. Copyblogger runs his site on Genesis, and I believe he has detailed reviews there as well.
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RE: How Google Carwler Cached Orphan pages and directory?
Try putting the URL into Google and see if you find any pages linking to it.
I knew a company that created a test site that was a copy of a live site (made with a specific hosted CMS). Didn't exclude the test site in robots because "we all know we won't link to it so it'll be ok". Site got indexed, and it was because a person at the company was having problems with the implementation of the test site, went to the help forum (which person didn't think would be indexed) and posted the URL to the test site.
I found the above by just putting in the URL of the test site into Google, and I saw the post in the help desk. You might try the same to see if somehow there is a rogue link.
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RE: Facebook Page vs. regular website
Sounds like the start of a great YOUmoz post!
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RE: Methods for tracking changes?
I have a spreadsheet where I keep track of half a dozen metrics, and I just add an entry for a date and list the things that I've done. Also like James, I use the annotations in Google Analytics, and that can really help.
Be sure to record any outside influences to the site to help keep track of things. Did the site get a mention in a print publication? Record that, so it can help explain an increase in branded search traffic and/or direct traffic. Did you start or stop a PPC campaign? Send out a press release? etc.