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OSE only does crawl a portion of the web. We are trying to crawl more URLs, but also make sure our data is fresh. It's a bit of a massive undertaking to try to amass data at this scale. Check out the blogpost for our May update at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/may-mozscape-index-update164-billion-urls for some more information about OSE, where we're at, and where we're going.

Search Engine Land & SEO Roundtable are probably the 2 best news sources when it comes to keeping abreast of the latest algo updates: http://searchengineland.com/ http://www.seroundtable.com/

Get rid of the embed text in the header (create text in a css layer) and make these hyperlinks to relevant pages. Not a big issue, but may help. Good luck!

Adding to what charles1 said, I have noticed that the 'old-fashioned' ping a blogpost/content to Google isn't really relevant anymore. Instead, if people are viewing your content - and getting to it from different sources (Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc.), then it's more likely to be indexed sooner. The sooner someone interacts with your content, the sooner it's indexed!

Completely agree with Cesar. I also feel the need to explain the context in which they could be harmful. Some spammy article sites would use tool tip type functionality to display adverts when a user hovers over particular keywords. In the past I've found this really annoying, but what your suggesting sounds like a helpful resource. However I would be very careful with the implementation and ensure it does turn out to be a helpful gadget and not a hindrance. Best of luck with it. Aran

Thanks so much for your response - and for reminding me to be patient. I've tried leaving the pages intact with a link to the new url and found that the five or six pages of old vintages all pointing to the new page resulted in hundreds of almost empty pages. I thought that it was effecting my SEO, having so many pages with almost nothing on them. I have to put the info about all the older vintages on the current product so the customer can get the full story. So I can't put the info about each past vintage on its one page and then put all of the content on the current page. Google counts that as duplicate content. I'm not sure what you mean by "archive them"? Thanks again, Jean

It's probably natural, as lots of sites have and continue to do this. The problem comes when lots of domains are 301 directed all at once, or there are spammy link pointed to the 301 domains. In the old days, misspellings and exact match parked domains got a fair amount of traffic, so this practice was much more common than it is today. Now, Google is much more sophisticated and these types of domains don't pack much of a punch. On the flip side, you're probably gaining little or no SEO benefit from this either. If you are concerned about it, you might test stopping the redirection for 30 days and see what happens, or change the 301's into 302's, which don't pass PageRank and are therefor considered a little safer in shady situations. Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!

Hey Everyone! This is Megan from the SEOmoz help team.  Sorry about the odd MozBar activity.  Unfortunately, the toolbar picking up iframe information is a known issue and our engineers are working hard on getting a fix out for it. We hope to have the fix released soon, but we're still working out a few more kinks. Thanks for your patience in this bug!

Good point on owning the page! Phasing out the EMD's over time sounds like a good way to go.

not sure if this is any help to anyone but I have almost the same issue but it's a 500 error and the description says: Traceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/downpour/init.py", line 391, in _error failure.raiseException() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/python/failure.py", line 370, in raiseException raise self.type, self.value, self.tb Error: 500 Internal Server Error Talking to my hosting provider they said when the seomoz bot crawled my site it put my cpu usage over 25% causing the errors...  We will see if this happens on Sunday.

Thank you and yes, you were spot on in your analysis.  I will give your paln "B" a shot in that the htaccess file is unavailable as far as I can tell.  I am a small CPA firm and luckily picked up the domain name ATLANTACPAS.COM for $2,500.  In that I am already analytical, I have chosen to learn SEO and do it myself.  Any feedback through this forum is greatly appreciated. On thing I found interesting is that SEOMOZ has not updated there "Beginner's guide" to address the new Penguin algorithums.  I would think that would be of key importance. I will

Hi Richard If the content about various subjects is distinctly different then even tho' the site structure is kept similar you should be able avoid duplicate content by creating quality content for each page of each site and following best practice basic SEO. Even tho' the hierarchy is the same you'll probably want to include keyphrases in your navigation where appropriate and in url structure, headings, meta tags, images, file names etc as well as page content. But too rigid a structure, even tho' it's easier to manage, could effectively stultify any natural growth of these sites and affect their value and of course the chance for back links. AND If there is a move to employ cookie cutter content, either manually or though consuming feeds etc you might struggle with not only the duplicate content issue but for a range of other best practice areas. Additionally you'll want to be careful with linking and hosting between the sites so as not to be perceived as linkwheeling  etc. Best Shiv

Depending on the pagerank of your site, it should take at most a couple weeks to a couple months before Google re-crawls the entire site and notices that the malware is gone.  If it's been longer than that, then likely something else is the cause. Rankings and traffic fluctuate all the time, so first of all don't panic. If you think about it, there are only 3 things that can affect your site's rankings: the content on your site, the links to your page, and google's changing algorithm.  So ask yourself, has anything on your site changed?  Have you lost any links lately, or have your competitors gained more links?  Has there been an algorithm change that affected your site? If it's an onsite issue, then fix the issue and focus on building more good content.  If the issue is links or an algo change, focus on building more links.

I originally thought this myself. The problem I have with that is that it occurred on only one of the websites. If the issue was content duplication wouldn't both sites have the issue?

You can try creating templates for your pages, and fill them in with details for each appointment type.  For example, something: "Thank you for you interest in X, which is one of the best properties in Y.  To request more information about X, simply fill out the form below, and one of our representatives will contact you right away.  You can also find more information at Z" Just add a simple template like that to your pages (obviously flesh it out more, include images, etc), and fill in the variables with specific details from each listing.  Your developer should be able to automate that for you.

Have to disagree here.  First of all, meta tags ARE used by a number of smaller search engines, including Bing, which uses them when they have no other information available about a site. Also, beyond search, many directories and social bookmarking sites auto-pull meta tags to generate content for their pages.  If you use either of these linkbuilding tactics (which can be beneficial in moderation) having the meta tags will save you time. I also don't buy the argument that meta tags will help your competitors.  Any competitor worth there salt will be able to figure out what your keywords are-- if it's obvious to the search engines, it's going to be obvious for them too.  So having your keywords in a meta tag isn't going to hurt you.

I appreciate the kind words, thank you