On Google Webmaster Tools or Moz?
On WMT, you can just mark things you fixed as fixed, and they will go away immediately and won't come back unless Google sees them again. For Moz, you should just have to wait till the next crawl.
Best posts made by Linda-Vassily
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RE: Crawl errors are still shown after fixed
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RE: Why MoZ Bar gives different PA and DA to my homepage? Surly they should have the same metrics?
All pages on your domain have the same domain authority. Each page has its own page authority.
The page authority of the home page can be the same as the domain authority, but it does not have to be.
For example, the page authority of moz.com (homepage) is 92 (looking at the moz bar) and the domain authority is 93. For www.macys.com (homepage) the page authority is 90 and the domain authority is 87.
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RE: Finding competitors best keywords?
You can use Google adwords keyword tool; just enter a competitor's url in the "website" field and choose the "keyword" tab. This will give you a list of keywords that Google suggests for the site which should give you an idea of what they are targeting.
SEMRush (a paid tool) makes it easy. It will give you the words your competitor is ranking for as well as the words they are using for paid search.
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RE: Why MoZ Bar gives different PA and DA to my homepage? Surly they should have the same metrics?
The root domain does not have the same data as the homepage.
The domain authority takes the entire website into account and the homepage page authority takes only one single page, the homepage, into account.
Look at Moz again as an example. The homepage has 342,922 links from 11,650 root domains. The root domain has 15,899,372 links from 46,201 root domains. So they are not the same.
I do not know the mysterious details of how the authorities are calculated, but they are taking different data into account and one is looking at a single page while the other an entire site so it is not at all surprising that they can be different.
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RE: Tool for discovering outbound links?
Screaming Frog will do that. http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
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RE: My Backlinks are Coming ZERO in Open SIte Explorer
Just to elaborate a bit on the canonical part, people often put a canonical pointing to itself on all pages to avoid duplicate content in the case of session ids or other parameters being appended to the basic url.
This would not hurt your backlink situation, in fact it could help. If by chance there were backlinks to alternate versions of your base url, you would reclaim the link authority which would otherwise have been lost if Google dropped that page from its index seeing it as duplicate content.
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RE: SEO Conferences...
I have been to PubCon (a large conference covering a lot of things) and Conversion Conference (which might be of interest to you because of the focus on conversion) and I liked them both. Next year I am going to MozCon, which I am very excited about!
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RE: Tips and advice for startup website launch
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Invite test users who were not involved with the development to try out the website and see what they find.
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Check your robots.txt, meta noindex, and other exclusions to make sure you are not blocking your own content (once you are live).
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RE: Tips and advice for startup website launch
BrowserStack is the one we use--it seems to work pretty well.
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RE: Check canonicalization work implemented on URL
I like Ayima's Chrome extension "Redirect Path."
When you go to a page, just click it and it will tell you all the URLs you visited on the way there and what the http status codes are for each. Nice.
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RE: What does it mean that "too many links" show up in my report - but I'm not seeing them?
If you look at your source, there are a lot of @import and javascript urls; perhaps this is what is being picked up.
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RE: Overnight Drop In Rankings
This might not be anything you are doing; Google is having a little stormy weather right now. You can take a look at Google's volatility here: http://mozcast.com/
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RE: Google+ Listings - Strange
Here is an article by Mark Traphagen: Google+ Profile PageRank: The Real AuthorRank? - SMX Advanced 2013 in which he mentions G+ pages in the SERPs. The Google+ Fitness and Nutrition community was apparently ranking on the first page for "fitness and nutrition", though this week they are on page two. Perhaps we will be seeing more of this.
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RE: Website Name Before Search String in Google SERP
As far as a reference for the answer that the keyword should be near the start of the title, Moz's Beginner's Guide refers to this.
But what I find interesting is that if you look at those pages (not just the serp), only two of them actually start with the company name in the title on the page. The others are just displayed that way.
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RE: Fetch as Google - removes start words from Meta Title ?? Help!
If you use the words Weber 522053 in the query, Google is likely to return the title with Weber 522053 in it, even if it doesn't return it that way for a different query, because Google sees that Weber 522053 is important to the querier.
But this does show that Google knows what the intended title is and is shortening it for its own unfathomable Google-ish reasons. (I did notice that Weber 522053 is not visible on the page at all, so possibly that is what makes Google think that it is not important information to display in the serps.)
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RE: What is the longest you would go back to ressurrect links that should have been 301's?
When I first started my current job, I found out that in the past there had been a separate, small website for one of the products, which had been abandoned a couple of years before that. (The site, not the product.)
The site still seemed to have some good links pointing to it, so for the heck of it I 301'd it to the main page on the current site for that product. That page quickly grew to be one of the strongest pages on the current site.
This is just one anecdotal data point but based on my experience if it's not a huge amount of work, I'd try redirecting, at least for the pages with the best links.
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RE: Google cache tool help
Yes. Once you get to the cached page, on the bottom right of the grey bar at the top is a link that says "text-only version". Click on that, and there you have it.
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RE: What is best source to find keyword use stats
You can still use the Adwords Keyword Tool (now called the Keyword Planner). You do have to create an account, but you do not need to be running any ads. Wordstream also has a Keyword Tool, through the free version is limited.
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RE: In the Google search results, the company name (with the drop down arrow) next to the result URL is incorrect. The company being displayed here is a company we acquired many years back. How do I adjust/fix this?
Along with Patrick's great ideas, take a look at Wikipedia and DMOZ (Open Directory Project). Is the old company listed in either of those? Sometimes signals from those sites can be very strong.
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RE: How do I code SEO for a secondary site without impacting the main site?
Yes, presenting the reasons you should keep it on one domain [duplication of effort between two sites, splitting up potential links, duplicate content on the sites, possibility of Google thinking you are creating a link scheme by linking between the sites] might convince the decision-makers.
If there is no way to convince them, for the magazine site I'd optimize for long-tail search terms relating to "magazine" or "travel" or whatever is unique to the publication's content. [And from reading the media kit, it sounds like luxury lifestyle content is an intended focus, so I'd probably emphasize that.]
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RE: Does the order of meta data matter ?
Yes, once you get back into doing it everything will come back to you quickly. Have fun!
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RE: Page rank check
Wait till Google crawls your page again. You will know when this is by checking the date on the cached version of the page, which you can find by doing a search for the URL of the page you are interested in, then clicking on the little green down arrow next to the URL in the search result.
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RE: Is the Adwords keywords planner accurate ?
The date on that post is 2010-- a lot has changed about Adwords since then!
Here is a more recent post, hot off the presses: http://www.business2community.com/marketing/google-updates-adwords-keyword-planner-tool-advertisers-need-know-0861602 -
RE: In the Google search results, the company name (with the drop down arrow) next to the result URL is incorrect. The company being displayed here is a company we acquired many years back. How do I adjust/fix this?
You request an update in DMOZ, explaining about the change. They are much quicker at updating an entry than at adding a new one. (I know, because I had to do an update myself.) There is also a handy meta tag you can use on your site, , which tells robots not to use Open Directory information.
For Wikipedia, if you know a friendly editor you can ask them to make the change, or else you can request an edit on the company talk page.
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RE: Old school SEO tools / software / websites
And of course DMOZ, if you are talking old-school directory. And the keyword meta tag (not exactly a tool, but it got the job done).
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RE: Privacy Policy: index it/? And where to place it?
I keep our privacy policy indexed. I figure that if someone is thinking about interacting with us in some way and doesn't happen to notice the link in the footer or the call-to-action boxes, it should be findable in search so that we don't look like we are hiding something. And for the second part of your question, I think having your privacy policy readily accessible helps users feel more secure and that is a good thing, so I would still have it in the footer.
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RE: Is Google indexing something I can't see on my page title?
This has happened to me as well, having an old name show up in the search results. Google does not always use what you put in the title tag for the page title if it thinks that something else is more relevant.
In my case, there were still a good number of external links to the site with the old name being the anchor text, which is where Google got it, I assume. I see on your site that variations on "Colour Pages" are used in a number of your links; maybe that's where Google is picking it up.
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RE: Different landing page "stole" keyword.
It is hard to answer without seeing the pages in question, but there are ranking factors other than on-page that affect position. Maybe page B was less optimized but had a better backlink profile, for example.
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RE: Using PPC in informational searches
If you set up a ppc campaign for something you'd like to rank for organically, you can get information you could not get from Google otherwise, such as what searches are bringing up your ad, which can help your organic efforts going forward. It is also a way to get people to see your information when they may not have been able to find it organically yet. It sounds like you have the money available to test this, so try it and see what results you get.
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RE: I have a page that I took down a while ago, but it's ranking on the first page for it's key word, and displaying a 404 :(
If it is a true 404, it will drop out of Google's index on its own. If it is a soft 404, returning what looks like a 404 page without a 404 response, you should fix it so it returns the correct response code. (Though it will still drop out eventually, because the content is not there.)
Fetch as Google is handy if you want Google to recrawl your page, to make sure it sees the current content.
Assuming the keyword is still relevant, why not update/rewrite it and keep the page one ranking?
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RE: H Tags for an Events Page
Yes, I think Party_Experts is right, that duplicating the date will help the user's experience because they'd be able to see all of the information together. As far as H tags, anything lower than the H1 tag is probably not going to have a lot of influence, so I wouldn't worry about that part too much.
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RE: Is Google indexing something I can't see on my page title?
There is a wikipedia article using the old name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_Colour_Pages
I bet that editing that would go a long way to fixing your problem...
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RE: Anyone Else Frustrated with the new Keyword Planner
Yes! I am having multiple problems, including values that would change when I sorted my columns.
I contacted Adwords support and was told, "Unfortunately the information in the Keyword Planner Tool is currently not the best source of data for your analysis."
She went on to say that she would get back to me when the tool was usable. I have not heard back yet, so I am not using it.
At the very least, they should say that this is in beta and have it on the side, rather than as the primary resource that someone who wasn't paying attention might use, and end up spending money based on bad data.
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RE: Standardising of Company Name Across The Web Question
How is the name written in other types of official correspondence—letterhead, signage, etc? The look of the name should be standardized across all sources, but that's a bigger issue than just SEO.
In terms of search, using "and" or "&" in searches will likely give you different (but very similar) results—try searching your company name with each one and see what Google already thinks of the two variants.
Using symbols like "&" can be more eye catching than just letters so that can be a benefit on a crowded search results page, depending on what else is there.
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RE: Do we need to maintain consistency in page titles suffix?
The page title should be what makes the best sense for the page, so no, you do not need to maintain the same pattern across all pages—just make sure the keywords you use describe the page. In many if not most cases brand will not be the first keyword you want in the title. Read more about titles here and here.
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RE: Homepage Not Displaying Changes
I have not had this problem myself, but a search turns up the possibility it is your plugin, W3 Total Cache. Here is a link about how to clear the cache, in case you want to try this: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/recommended-wordpress-plugins/clearing-cache-in-wordpress
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RE: How to rank well on 2 keywords - 2 separate pages or 1 combined page
Web MD which ranks at the top for both dog allergies and cat allergies (the plural form seems to be more popular) has them on separate pages. The content on the pages is similar, but not identical. (For example only the cat page talks about allergic symptoms from being licked or scratched.)
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RE: Sending Domain Authority from Root www domain to *
He should be redirecting one to the other via a 301 redirect (usually people choose the www version as the canonical one). If he is not doing this he will have other problems, like massive amounts of duplicate content. A 301 redirect will pass along most of the authority from the links, >90%.
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RE: Standardising of Company Name Across The Web Question
It would be very unlikely that using "and" instead of "&" throughout your site would confer any advantage and it might confuse your customers, if that's not the way they are used to seeing your name. So stick with the & you use in your branding.
As always when these types of questions come up and you are not sure of the answer, go with whatever is the best user experience and you are likely to be rewarded. (Also, take a look and some big sites like Lord&Taylor and see what they do—they don't give up their branding just because there is "and" in their URL.)
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RE: A page will not be indexed if published without linking from anywhere?
If a page has no links and has not been submitted another way, Google won't see it.
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RE: On-page SEO opinion on this Wordpress theme
Also, it is a fixed rather than responsive layout. Google has announced that as of April 21 they will be expanding using mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal, so that would be a drawback. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search.html
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RE: I have a lot of internal duplicate content as intros to a series of articles, is this bad?
They load for me.
Would it be possible to put your introductory material as footnotes, after the articles, rather than at the beginning? Google tends to give "above the fold" material more weight.
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RE: Links to "boring" pages
Internal linking is not counted as heavily as external linking, but yes, it is still very important. If all of your well-ranked pages link back to your business page, you are pointing a lot of authority at that page.
[I have personal experience with this. When I had some new pages (which didn't have any links yet) that I wanted to do well in the SERPs, I made them one level below the homepage (www.example.com/top-page) and pointed good internal links to them. Before long, they were among my highest-ranked pages, even before they got any external links.]
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RE: Google showing 3 different results for homepage
That is apparently what Google thinks is the most useful result to return. The searcher knows the URL of the company, but maybe wants to know the name associated with it.
It's hard to tell sometimes exactly why Google does what it does. (Which is what keeps SEOs employed.)
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RE: Rel canonical on other page instead of duplicate page. How Google responds?
This sounds like you will be pointing/canonicalizing the two similar pages to the third one that is different from them? I am not quite sure why you would want to do that.
If you don't want the 1/2 content available but the pages have some authority (good links), 301 redirect those pages to 3 (if the topic is close enough and you don't have a more similar page) or if they are not strong pages, just remove them and let them 404.
If you do want the 1/2 content available on your site, but don't want it competing with page 3 in search, you could redirect 2 to 1 and rewrite 1 to make it stronger for whatever it is that makes it different from 3, so both 1 and 3 could potentially rank (for different things). Or you could redirect 2 to 1 and noindex 1.
Canonicals are intended for pages with very similar content, however people sometimes do use them as a type of redirect for not-so-similar pages. The problem with this is that a canonical is just a suggestion to Google and, as you mention, Google may ignore the canonical, especially in a situation like this.
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RE: Is The HREF Link "Title" Tag Needed on Mobile Websites?
The title tag is what Google often shows in the search results. And external websites, especially social, often use title tags as anchor text for links. So even though you don't see it at the top of the page in mobile, it is an important element.
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RE: Website view diffrent in Chrome than FireFox and IE
You have 191px of padding on top of your div "inner-page-wrap has-no-sidebar clearfix", with the grey box and photo of three people in it. Eliminating that will eliminate whitespace above it.
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RE: DMOZ Directory Impact on Rankings
Yes, dmoz is still accepting listings. It is a large, human-edited directory and submissions can take a very long time to process, depending on your area. They also don't accept all sites. As far as value, it is certainly not the golden ticket it once was and the general consensus probably is that it has little or no impact. That being said, it's not that difficult to submit a site and it wouldn't hurt to be accepted.
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RE: Why dont we get G+ profile images in SERP?
You have it set up correctly. You can use Google's structured data testing tool to see how the images would look: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Google doesn't guarantee to show authorship information, that's just a possibility and can depend what the person was searching for.
For my site, I find that the pictures that are most likely to show up in the search results are the pictures of the authors who write the most.
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RE: What happens when most of the website visitors end up at an "noindex" log-in page?
Noindex doesn't mean the page is invisible to Google, it just means it won't show up in search results. So no one "disappears."