You can try this one: http://tools.seochat.com/tools/search-spider-simulator/
Posts made by Linda-Vassily
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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: Duplicate content issue, across site domains (blogging)
Do they use canonical URLs on their website? Do the cross-posted blog posts have canonicals that point back to the originating site? If so, the duplicate content should not harm their website and their website should rank above the bigger players for their content (though not necessarily--Google works in mysterious ways).
In general, it is a good idea to keep your best, fresh content on your own website but sometimes it can be good to get the added exposure of a high-traffic website, assuming that it is clear where the content originated.
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RE: Any tool built into MOZ that can help tell who the owner of a URL is?
You don't need a special tool, just go to whois.net and check the domain.
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RE: Is Google Analytics Connection with Moz broken?
Yes, I have been having the same problem.
[There was another discussion about this recently: http://moz.com/community/q/analytics-account-will-not-stayed-connected-listed-fixes-do-not-work ]
The reply I got from Moz said in part: "We are trying to improve our relationship with Google so this connection can become less finicky." So it does sound like there is an issue there.
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RE: Inbound links acquired link to some domain prior to redirecting back to us - is it worthy ??
I like to use this Google Chrome extension for looking at redirect paths: http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/redirect-checker.html
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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: Analytics account will not stayed connected, listed fixes do not work.
No, my tokens were fine. I just reconnected it several times till it stuck.
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RE: Analytics account will not stayed connected, listed fixes do not work.
Yes, my account is connected right now. When this has happened before, it was on-and off for a little while, then on for a long time, then on-and off...
I did receive a nice response from Moz Help, which said in part: "We are trying to improve our relationship with Google so this connection can become less finicky."
So it sounds like this is perhaps a problem with the connection between Moz and Google in general?
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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: Analytics account will not stayed connected, listed fixes do not work.
I have been seeing this exact same thing and also have been having this problem on and off for quite a while. It recently got worse again and when I contacted customer service, they just told me how to reconnect it. (Which I already knew from previous experience. I mentioned that I was not happy about this.)
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RE: Basic skills for correcting and tweaking SEO issues
I assume you are talking about learning basic html? Codecademy.com is good for this, but it is not in a video format.
Lynda.com has lots of videos, including one called "Optimizing your page for search engines" from "HTML essential training with Bill Weinman" (I know nothing about that video in particular-- I just did a search on the site).
Lynda.com costs money, but they do have a free trial you could take advantage of.
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RE: Meta Description Lengths?
Meta descriptions play an important role whether or not they are counted in ranking. When done well, they can cause a searcher to click on your result over the others. If the clever description you write for your page is too long, it will get truncated or Google might choose to show something else entirely (which it might do anyway, especially depending on the search term). I like to use this tool when writing page titles and descriptions: http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html It allows you to see what your result might look like in Google's serps (it uses 70 characters as the allowed title length and 156 as the allowed description length).
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RE: Can any of the MOZ APIs give me the top 10 google results for a keyword?
The keyword tool can do this. Research tools > Keyword and ranking tools > Keyword difficulty . You can enter up to 20 words at a time.
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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: How Can I Check New Backlinks?
The dates are a little tricky to find.
Click on "Links to Your Site" in the Webmaster Tools side menu, then click on any of the links on the page that comes up. This will bring you to a page with "Download latest links" as an option. Click on that and you will download a list of your links with "First discovered" dates.
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RE: How Can I Check New Backlinks?
I also like Majestic SEO, and it is free to use for sites you own. I use it in combination with Webmaster Tools and of course Open Site Explorer.
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RE: Appropriate use of rel canonical
Since the error message you get is "no more than one canonical URL tag," I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the affected pages have more than one canonical.
You can check this by looking at the source code of the page (which you can do by going into the menu of whatever browser you are using and choosing "page source" or "view source"- it is different in different browsers- look around or use the browser's help feature) and doing a search for rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>"; this should only appear once. If it appears more than once, remove the ones you don't want.
The canonical should be the URL of the page that you want Google to see as the one to index and return in results. For example, if you are using canonicals because you have tracking codes appended to a URL and that creates the appearance of duplicate content, use the URL without the codes as the canonical one.
Just remember that when you put a canonical URL on a page, you are telling Google to ignore the actual URL of that page and consider it to be the canonical URL instead.
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RE: To use or not to use YouTube - That is the question!
We currently put our videos up on our YouTube channel and then embed them on our site. We are exploring the option of self-hosting new videos and then "archiving" them on YouTube.
This might give some of the best of both worlds- no competition when they are fresh and more eyes when they are a little more mature.
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RE: .pro TLD, thoughts?
In general, I think a non-standard top level domain does not inspire as much trust in users as the standard ones but I do not have experience with .pro domains (probably because they are not common).
One thing I want to mention (though I imagine you are aware of this) is that Google itself just rolled out a new service, called "Helpouts" which is a live advice service online. https://helpouts.google.com/home
Big competitor!
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RE: Rel=publisher
Absolutely; you should implement it anyway. Even if Authorship doesn't turn out to be as important as it was first thought it would be, it is another signal to Google.
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RE: Rel=publisher
There is some question about the fate of Google Authorship; in fact AJ Kohn says that the Authorship Project at Google has been abandoned and Google will be using other ways to extract identity from pages.
http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/authorship-is-dead-long-live-authorship
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RE: Links in a Flash document
Thank you for your response!
I had looked at that article before I posted, and it also has this paragraph:
Googlebot can index almost any text a user can see as they interact with any Flash SWF file on your site, and can use that text to generate a snippet or match query terms in Google searches. Additionally, Googlebot can also discover URLs in SWF files (for example, links to other pages on your site) and follow those links.
This makes me think the link might be a problem. It is only one link out of a large link profile, so I am not too worried but it's always good to be prepared...
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Links in a Flash document
How do I tell if a link in a Flash document is follow or nofollow? Or doesn't it matter?
(I just found out that my company placed an advertorial in a Flash publication and I want to make sure it doesn't wind up as a paid, followed link.)
Thank you!
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RE: I need an interlinking report for my site, is there a report in Moz or another application that tell me how all of my pages are linked to other pages on my site?
There is also information on internal links in Google Webmaster Tools; under "Search Traffic" in the left column, choose "Internal Links."
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RE: Homepage de-indexed, rest of site all there...
Looking at your code, I see:
name="robots" content="noindex,follow,noodp,noarchive,noydir" />
That page appears to be noindexed. Check your settings.
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RE: We currently do not support the location
There was a question about this back in March; here are the links to the March question and the Google forums link.
http://moz.com/community/q/google-places-we-currently-do-not-support-the-location-2
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/business/OqKS72sqrzA/wP_h7yhEwL8J
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RE: Crawl Diagnostics: Exlude known errors and others that have been detected by mistake? New moz analytics feature?
I don't see a feature like that; you can download the report as an excel file and make your notes there. I don't know of a list of features.
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RE: Should I add 'nofollow' to site wide internal links?
Matt Cutts says not to use nofollow on internal links. He says that causes pagerank to evaporate and that Google has made changes so that pagerank sculpting doesn't really work. He is pretty definite about this.
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RE: Arabic Keyword Research
I don't know anything about this myself, but I remember seeing that Econsultancy had a Middle East and North Africa SEO Best Practice Guide; the author's name is Husam Jandal. The landing page says the report talks about keyword selection; maybe someone over there could help you out.
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RE: Viewing Page Authority and Domain Authority History Graph??
Go into your campaign overview, at the bottom of the Competitive Link Analysis is a button that says "See Full Competitive Analysis." Click that and on the next page, under the menu that begins with Overview, Rankings, etc., are three little blue links. Click "History" and there you are.
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RE: Duplicate page content
When you download your crawl diagnostics as a csv, column A is "URL", column L is the true/flase column for "Duplicate Page Content", and column AF "duplicate_page_content" contains the urls of duplicates to the url in column A.
To look at duplicate content, I sort by column L, delete all of the false rows (because they don't have duplicate content), then I delete all of the columns except column A (URL) and column AF (duplicate_page_content), save the spreadsheet as "yyyymmdd-duplicate-content" and work from that. (Easier to see what you are doing without all the other data in the way.)
Also note that column AF "duplicate_page_content" can have more than one url in it if you have multiple versions of the same content. In this case I use Excel's "Text to Columns" function (under "Data" in the ribbon) to put each url into its own column so I can deal with them individually.
And yes, if there are just small differences Google is likely to see pages as duplicates.
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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: Which number is important for backlinks?
The number of links can be looked at as the total number of links, the number of links from a domain (one domain can have many links to your site) or the number of C Blocks (which suggest whether IP addresses are linked). Make sure you are comparing the same unit of measurement.
Another good backlink resource besides the ones you are using is MajesticSeo (they have a free tool you can try).
Links are very important, but there is no set value (at least that Google will tell). Moz and SearchMetrics have recently released ranking factors; you might be interested in taking a look at those.
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RE: Google+ pages in search results
G+ results have been seen in the results pages on page 1, though I can't say I've seen much of this. Google+ Profile PageRank: The Real AuthorRank? - SMX Advanced 2013
Moz and SearchMetrics have both reported that a URL's number of Google +1s is very highly correlated with search rankings. Matt Cutts has said Google doesn't use that as a ranking factor. (And correlation doesn't equal causation, as we know.)
I don't know of a good metric (though I'd be very interested in hearing if anyone does) but at least for now, I consider Google+ an important factor.
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RE: Duplicated content in news portal: should we use noindex?
As a news portal, duplicate content is unavoidable (unless you make up your own news, which actually has been known to do well...)
If you are selling articles, the buyers will tag them for their websites. If they leave them index, follow and put their own canonical on them (common, in my experience) be aware that they can outrank you for your own content if their site has more authority. And having the same content on many sites with conflicting canonicals probably is not going to be worth much SEO-wise for any of them.
As far as articles that are given to you, you should use the canonical of the originating site to give them credit for creating the material. This won't get you search traffic, but readers on your site would have the content right there at their fingertips, and would not have to go to another site to read it. I tend to think that noindex-nofollowing a substantial fraction of your site might raise some red flags.
The assumption here is that the content duplication is being made simply as a convenience to the readers. If you are doing it to increase your rankings, it probably won't work. Excellent, original content should stay on your own site and not be sold.
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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: Authorship on Pages
It might not matter what you do.
We had been using rel=author on pages that were articles written by specific people, but not on information pages such as contributor biographies. However Google started showing the contributors' pictures in the results when the bio pages came up in search.
After some head-scratching, I noticed that in the bios that were affected, the phrase "by [Author Name]" was in the body of the text. That is to say, the sentence, "A number of wonderful articles have been written on various subjects by John Doe, a really great guy," would cause John Doe's picture to appear in the serps next to his bio result, even without rel=author being on the page or "by [Author Name]" being an actual byline.
Google plays by its own rules.
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Have you used an ad network other than Google Adwords?
We received a cold call from a company called Division-D. They make a lot of promises which sound good (but that's what marketers do ). Advertising on a non-Google network probably would have fewer restrictions than an Adwords campaign and they say that they are fully transparent. Would it be worth it to listen to their whole pitch?
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RE: Anyone Else Frustrated with the new Keyword Planner
Bing's keyword tool is of course based on Bing searches, so not directly correlated with Google search. (Though I imagine there would be some similarity.) I too really like Bing's webmaster interfaces.
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RE: Why still the moz index showing "Next Update on August 26, 2013"?
The last Mozscape index update was 7/11/2013. In August, they put this up:
"Dreadfully sorry, but we've decided to not release our most recent Mozscape Index, since it was not up to our quality standards which we measure with index correlations.
Why did this happen?
Our scheduling algorithm always tries to add new URLs to the schedule to make sure we expand our coverage over time. Unfortunately it seems to have hit a new section of the internet that we never crawled before. This resulted in a huge set of new URLs that seem to be of low quality, and the this has skewed the rankings slightly (a little more than we are comfortable with). Large domains seemed to be most impacted and showed a marked decrease in external links.
What do we plan to do now?
We are attacking this from multiple angles:
- We are removing the new "section" and emphasizing the crawl of high-quality domains.
- We've added additional monitoring to alert the BigData team when the schedule becomes imbalanced and does not display its normal characteristics.
- We moved a quality check to earlier in the index generation cycle so we can discover problems quicker.
- Finally, we created a new schedule of high quality and are re-crawling.
When can you anticipate the next index release?
August 26, 2013"
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RE: H1 Page Title Tag Placement
The h1 tag belongs in the body. It defines the most important heading, the main topic of the page. The h2 tag is for subheads, h3 for sub-subheads and so forth.
What you see in the head is probably the CSS styling for this tag. It describes what the content within that tag will look like.
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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: Landing pages in rankings report?
The on-page optimization reports (aka report cards) do this for the keywords you have in your campaigns.
Your report cards show which page ranked for your keyword and how well optimized that page is for that keyword (according to some basic on-page guidelines).
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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: Are duplicate photos a problem?
I would be amazed if it were. On my website (and many others) authors will often have a picture of themselves on articles they write, and these go on many, many pages. One image is such a small part of the content of the page, in and of itself it would not cause a duplicate content issue.
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A heads-up about problems with the new Google Adwords Keyword Planner tool
I noticed that when I was using this tool, the data in the tables would change, often by a lot (up to 50%) when I sorted the columns. (Did nothing else, just sorted.)
Since I was starting a new campaign and really needed data, I contacted Google about this and was told: "I understand that the estimates are changing in the Keyword Planner tool when you sort the data. I reproduced this on my end as well and was able to confirm that this is a known technical issue on our end." "Unfortunately the information in the Keyword Planner Tool is currently not the best source of data for your analysis."
They then went on to suggest I just test things blindly.
So, what do you do to get information about keyword traffic and ppc estimates?
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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 am i doing wrong?
Also, if you look at your link profile a lot of your links have that exact match anchor text "stainless steel fabricators"; in fact 176 out of your 270 links have it. I do see that that is the name of the company, but perhaps Google might think that is unnatural linking.
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RE: How to hook up a ppc campaign to a google + Page
I have not tried pointing a ppc ad at a Google+ page, but I did create a business page for a personal account.
If you log in to the individual's G+ account, under the home menu on the left sidebar there is an option called "pages." Click on that and it will prompt you to set up a business page; maybe Google will like that better.
(If you do find something that works, please do post the answer; I am curious myself.)