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More than likely it was one 3 things, a DNS issue, a peering issue, or a temp ban. If you were currently ftp'ing into the site and had too many threads open, usually above 4 or 5 but all depends on the server setting. They can issue a temporary ban on your ip address for the site. Depending on how the server is set up, you can either get an explicit message, which is bad. Or you can just get an error like you, which is good and it means the server is shedding the load. A DNS issue could be that a name server is down somewhere or having other problems. You generally cannot do anything about this and they are generally fixed quickly because of the amount of sites / information hosted on them is vital. A peering problem, like a DNS issue is usually spotty. More than likely that is what was happening. A peering issue means you cannot access the "chunk" of internet that the peer directs traffic through. So say you can access 99.9% of everything you want, because it is not going through the peer with the issues. The best tools you can use to diagnose these problems are TOR, it is a socks proxy that routes your traffic so essentially you will be accessing the site through another isp, who could not be having peering or DNS issues with the hosting isp. Also you can use http://www.whatsmydns.net/  which will let you know what different dns servers around the world are returning. It will let you know if a major DNS server is having an issue. For general checking you can use this as well, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Use the Yoast SEO plugin and focus on making your descriptions relevant with a bit of a call to action and you should be OK

Is your on-site SEO tags for Google news setup? Are you in Google news program? I don't know why exactly Google's crawl rate changes, but that is something mostly out of your control or anyone else's. But I have seen this happen with site switches where before on a php site the blog post would be indexed within minutes to hours and now, a lot of changes take a lot longer to be reflected. mind you this is a #1 ranking site too for its niche. have a look at these, make sure your on-site tags are all good and apply to google news. http://searchengineland.com/library/google/google-news-keywords-tag also, have you submitted a new sitemap to GWT since the update to site? other things to consider: blogger is a google service, they get priority clearance anyway blogger ha a huge domain authority, your site doesn't blogger gets millions of visits a day, your website will never perhaps you can come up with a way to use the above 3 points to your advantage. run a canonical version of the site on a blog, get it indexed, get your links exposed and overtime, google will figure out that it needs to crawl your site rather fast.

Fantastic, guys, thank you! Yes, I have a slow connection (getting it sorted soon). That's why I couldn't 'see' there 'is' a website responding correctly,  although slow to load. Ok, this gives me an excellent starting point. I'll run both pingdom and Google's speed check and see what comes up. Thanks again! Happy friday

Hi Graeme No need to worry about it. Either way, youll get the extra traffic which is a bonus

Hi, yes Google does not care about the keywords meta tag but abusing it is also not recommended as some other search engines still consider this tag a little bit. Moreover, abusing or over optimizing keywords meta tag tells a lot about the intent of a webmaster which is even more dangerous. Best, Devanur Rafi.

I am not the best person to ask for reviewing code. I suggest waiting for someone else who does more coding for this type I assistance.

Moz doesn't check only on the title or other meta tags. You could have an entirely different title and if the page content is the same it will bring up a duplicate content flag. As an example, on our blog we had duplicate content alerts between categories and tag pages (ie Category page 2 had the same content as tag page 20). Instead of changing the contents of the pages (as it was nearly impossible) we decided to add a meta noindex to the tag pages. All duplicate content issues resolved Anyway, Moz crawls your page once a week, if you did the changes recently, check the date of the last crawl under your campaign overview.

Hi, Yes/No, it is true the meta keywords are not used by the BIG search engines such as Bing, Google, Yahoo, Ask but what do we know about the smaller engines?  People are still using them for small engines that still uses meta keywords and might still be passing them traffic. For example, I believe Baidu (China search engines) still uses meta keyword.  I may be outdated on that. Yes, true but even without the meta keywords, competitors can tell from your URL, Title tag, and content of the page.  Nothing to hide in the SEO world. Like what I said in #1, BIG engines don't use it or just ignores it.  Actually, for News websites, Google allows them to use meta keywords; however, with certain restrictions.  You can read more about here http://searchengineland.com/google-announces-news-keywords-metatag-133759 Hope this helps.

I think you have it correct there.  I always like to end in a slash for index pages http://inlinear.com/ - this is your home index page http://inlinear.com/products/ - this is your index page for the /products/ folder/group http://inlinear.com/products/page.php - this is a page within the /products/folder/group. Hardly anyone ever sets up index web pages like index.php or index.htm anymore, they are really not needed as they just make the URL longer. End in the slash and make sure that you are consistent with ending with that slash (vs dropping it off) when you link to your index pages. You would need to test the script you mention that rewrites the URL.  It looks like it is making sure that the index page ends in a slash, but I could be wrong. Side story -  I have had a CMS that uses  http://inlinear.com/products as the index page for  http://inlinear.com/products/ and this creates all kinds of issues Most people are used to not having an index page and the URL simply ending in a slash.  So even if you had a non slashed version as your index page, people would link to the slash and then you have to setup 301s to fix that.  Otherwise you end up with all kinds of duplicate page issues. I know Google Analytics looks at the slashes to group your content into reports. So the example index page of  http://inlinear.com/products would NOT be included in reports with all the pages in the /products/ group e.g. http://inlinear.com/products/page.php http://inlinear.com/products/anotherpage.php as /products is not "within" /products/  You then have a report on /products/ that leaves out the index page and this is normally your most important page! Good luck!

Sorry you're stuck in that spot. I really would be worried that this "fix" would make life worse for everyone, but it's tough to come up with solutions that don't seem like band-aids. Best you may be able to do is get more aggressive about the de-indexation, focus on improving some core content, and maybe re-work the internal linking to focus more on key pages (and spread internal PR a bit less thinly).

Exactly my point. You show the "http://www.domain.com/login?return=the-actual-linked-page" to non-logged in users and bots. while you show "http://www.domain.com/the-actual-linked-page" to logged in users. By doing that you don't have any 3XX redirects.

Firstly, I'm unclear as to where the subdomain lives - you say it's hosted by someone else, but then use "mysite.com" as the example. If I understand you, it's hosted by someone else, but lives on your domain - is that right? If you don't have the same Google analytics code on the search pages, it will look like a user disappears, leaving the site, then potentially coming back. You can check this by viewing the source and looking for your GA code on any search page. This is purely a data and analytics issue, not a search optimization issue. As far as SEO is concerned, I wouldn't worry too much about it unless the functionality of your site depends heavily on searching. You should probably block any search pages in robots.txt anyway, as for most sites they add no value. If your site works exclusively with search, you might need to find a new solution.

Technically, it should be ok, but this is a scenario that behave unpredictably, and it's why many mobile SEO folks seems to be recommending more and more moving away from alternate domains. You're doing it the way Google recommends for your situation, as far as I'm aware, but I would monitor the situation very, very carefully, and make sure that there's not crossover or duplicate content issues. It's a bit technically challenging, but you may also want to make sure that Googlebot-Mobile is hitting the proper site. See this advice: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/redirects

Thank you Gagan!

I can partially answer your question and safely say that business2community do not accept anchor text links anymore and huffington post need proper journalist application before you contribute content. Not sure about the rest but I suspect it is going to be the same as they have a very high PR and obviously will not allow just random guest blogging. Not sure about PR, maybe someone else can advise.

Its been almost 3 months since I changed the title for www.stradiji.com, even though Google crawled the homepage, it keeps the same title tag on search results. Isn't it strange?

Hi there! Which plugin (name, version and maker) are you specifically referring to?

Hi Daniel, Looks like you got the answer you needed! OK if I mark this question as Answered?

I thought it would be super cool if someone would post the exact syntax to use in .htaccess to make this happen.  For all the hordes of info out there on redirects and htaccess, it's amazingly hard to find the code for this one.  Here is what worked for me: <code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]</code>