Category: Technical SEO Issues
Discuss site health, structure, and other technical SEO issues.
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Issue Duplicate Page Title
Add the "noindex" tag to subpages of archive pages to fix the duplicate page title and potential duplicate content issues. Alternatively, you can add page numbers to you template (but that won't take care of the duplicate content problem). This feature is available in Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin. I recommend migrating to it from All-In-One. AIO may have the same feature -- check the Settings panel.
| edwardrj0 -
Sitemaps
Hi Dana!! I have implemented pagination tags prev and next already and I saw that video. It's great. What happens if I have a sitemap.xml and I omitted articles? Are sitemaps complementary or if you upload a sitemaps then google only use that and nothing else? If are complementary I can do it monthly and append the new articles per each area of my web page, is that correct? Thanks you Dana
| informatica8100 -
Confirming Robots.txt code deep Directories
that's right! Disallow: /root/this/ will bock the complete directly whereas, Disallow: /root/this/that will only block the "that" within "this" hope this helps!
| MoosaHemani0 -
My Website Ranking is terribly drop
Dear Larry, Yes yes I can try doing that. Have been trying to figure out about building back-link and stuff. But I actually had link back to my website www.cma-academy.edu.sg from www.awardslab.com and www.madglobal.org but I don't know why my metrics doesn't show any number about it... Is there any special tips about building link back to the page? If my domains are under the same hosting, does it count by domain or by my main hosting? Do I have to give exact seperate link or in-content link is okay? Many thanks all of you for valuable advices!
| AngieDang0 -
302 Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
I don't think it matters where the 302 is coming from, 302 means a ranking drop. The fact that you saw no effect probably means there were other changes to offset it, or that it just take Google longer to respond to it. Regardless, I wouldn't leave a site with 302 on a ranking pages, it's just asking for trouble. I hope this helps.
| corwin0 -
Canonicalization of index.html - please help
When you do your 301 redirects as outlined by John don't forget to 301 redirect your non-www URL version to your www URL version (or visa-versa). Here is an example of all the URLs that could be on your website. http://www.domain.com http://www.domain.com/index.html http://domain.com http://domain.com/index.html
| Unity0 -
Does this count as a link exchange in eyes of google?
Link Exchange is basically you giving a anchor text to another website, and they do the same. Hence link exchange. It used to influence rankings a few years back, but seems to have lost power. The trick now is to put valuable content out there, and people will link to you. No need to exchange anymore.
| AREA203SEMTeam0 -
What are the best tools for back links?
You aren't going to get much support for an automated link building system around here. You may want to check into some black hat forums for that kind of feedback. In the end, if it's a tool or system that everyone can use than you are going to find that Google is already of aware of it, and that it will give you no competitive advantage because anyone can do it. Having said that, many SEOs get a short boost from spamming tools, but at the cost of loosing all rankings in the future. If you want to play a game of constant building and burning then you are free to live the treadmill life of nonstop running.
| Thos0030 -
I need help to define which is the best friendly url structure
Hi, just a quick question for Visiblics, because I'm kind in a similar situation as Leonardo who has posted this question. I'm about to change the complete URL structure of a website. In your comments you posted that the URL structure should always be meaningfull (I was always in this mindset). But one of the webinars of this year (july 2012) from Everett Sizemore http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues is actually saying a bit the opposite of what you suggesting. see video approx after 34 min. He's is saying, take out of the Category and subcategory from the products URL's. Could you please give more insights why you still think keep the Category and subcategory in the URL? ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues
| Letty0 -
How to use rel canonical?
Hi Nico, This article should help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
| Bryan_Loconto0 -
Doing SEO for site that publishes articles everyday?
No, you don't need to submit each one to the search engines but, as CMC-SD mentioned, if you plus one them on Google plus they will get indexed faster. I also agree with his advice on title tags and meta descriptions as well as the url title. Other things to do are to make sure that the content is grammatically correct and that your keywords don't show up too often. If a keyword appears as more than 4 or 5% of the text the search engines don't like it. Other than that, use your social media networks to get the links out there and keep up the good work!
| TomParling0 -
How do I get Update Date in SERP snippets?
Option 1. Put text at the bottom of the page that says "updated on..." (example) Option 2. Update your page and resubmit it to google through GWMT. Option 3. Regularly update your page and Google will figure it out on their own.
| Bryant-Jaquez1 -
Link Indexing Thoughts
Thanks- Always original content - that's for sure. Maybe I will have to link to the articles from my PR 2 and go from there.... Thanks
| OnlineAssetPartners0 -
Has anyone had to deal with malware found on their website?
Start by making sure all of your WordPress themes, plugins, etc... are all up-to-date. It might also be a good idea to re-install if you have a backup of everything (including the database). I'm not sure what is flagging as Malware, but it also might be a good idea to perform searches on the names of all of your plugins/themes used to see if any have been related to Malware in the past.
| GeorgeAndrews0 -
Ideally should a 301 or 302 redirect be used from https://www.site.com to http://www.site.com? Is there a valid reason to use a 302 in this situation or would using a 301 have any negative impact on seo?
302 is temporary and 301 is permanent Personally I'd only use https on pages that actually needed it, like a payment page but I'd recommend you go with a 301 redirect for each respective page. And don't forget to redirect your non-www URLs to your WWW URLs as well.
| Unity0 -
Rel="author" showing old image
Just an update, on Oct 15th, 2012 I added the links in my various websites to use Rel=author. Today, October 30th, 2012 (only 15 days later) I see my image live in the SERPs! Ya hoo! and that's for all my websites I added including my company site, books website, and my blog sub-domain. Thanks SEO Moz for an awesome suggestion to do this. I really stand out now. P.S. I just did my happy dance before writing this.
| Twinbytes0