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No problem, my advice further to this is also to try and get your site included into Google news as this is going to be one of your best traffic sources for local news.

Thanks for the follow up. AdWords won't directly affect your organic rank. I would take a look at how www.speedtest.net is allowing sharing and historical tracking of users' speed tests. I believe they allow users to do what you're looking to achieve while at the same time not publishing each test's results in the Google index.

Hi levelencia1, This could have been caused by many factors. Was the robots.txt the only change you made? Other things that could have caused it could have been meta "noindex" tags, nofollow links, or broken navigation structures. In rare instances, sometimes rogerbot has a hiccup. Let us know if things return to normal on your next crawl. If you have any difficulties feel free to contact the help team (help@seomoz.org) and they should be able to get things straightened out. Best of luck with your SEO!

Hi dpaq2011, you don't have the rel=canonical tags but you don't have an issue. It might be that the server you are using automatically has a redirect on the .htaccess

Crawl notices are just that; notices. You should be aware of them but I haven't seen any notices in my campaigns that would be something that needs to be fixed. I would focus more on errors and then warnings, in that order. Those are the items that can hurt you most when trying to increase your site(s) rank. Hope this helps!

Hi Syed, thanks for the feedback. I just think it looks suspicious - the sheer volume of links. I'm aware of Panda 3.3, however the site has never been affected by previous versions of Panda... although, the sudden appearance of these nofollow links could have meant that the site fell into the Panda net I guess.

Overall I think we are OK, but I just want to point out that since we'll be adding click tracking, we could have numerous urls that all resolve the same page.  The "tg" element in my example will change just due to what specific link a user chose to select (but the content of the page will be exactly the same). One page http://www.oursite.com/section/content/ Internal links to that page http://www.oursite.com/section/content/?tg=zzzzjj6 http://www.oursite.com/section/content/?tg=zzzzww2 http://www.oursite.com/section/content/?tg=zzzzyy1 http://www.oursite.com/section/content/?tg=zzzzvv4 The tg is irrelevant as an identifier for the page.  I don't think that is a problem but it is a slightly different use case as outlined in the referenced Google article.

Hi Edward, I currently have the same situation where "half" of our site is html 5 and the other is still using div's and such. The html 5 tag's have been slowly being added to the site for about 3 months now and we have seen no negative impact because each version of the code is still considered valid. The only thing you may want to look out for is making sure that your site renders properly in older browsers. -Brent

(1) How many 301s are you talking about? As Highland said, you could lose link-juice (especially over time), since the new home-page for the blog won't seem as relevant to the redirected pages. I've heard of issues with 301'ing 1000s of pages, but those wer eusually temporary. (2) Sometimes, post-Caffeine, Google crawls so fast that a 24-hour outage can cause some problems, but they're almost always temporary. You won't be penalized, per se - you could just see some rankings bounce while Google sorts things out.

Just a note that it may not impact MozTrust. mT is based on links from a trusted set of seed sites, so unless it's a link from one of those sites, the mT wouldn't change. mT doesn't measure your total authority - mR and DA/PA do that.

I haven't seen any evidence that it's a problem, but John's point is correct - Bing does officially say not to do it. Actually, Google originally said this, too, but then eased off (if I recall correctly). It's gotten so common that I don't think either engine can really penalize it, honestly. I do it all the time.

I used to be an ebay powerseller, an amazon affiliate and then an amazon vendor. I am really careful around those domains.  They are really powerful and can throw brand new pages high into the SERPs.  So, if you make a listing there for your purple widget you could wake in the next day and the amazon page with it is above your bread and butter site in the SERPs.  If you place your whole inventory there you just invited the wild hordes into your SERPs. On ebay the more items you place into a category the more powerful that category becomes.  Linking to items on either of these sites can be like waking the wolves. I am not selling on these domains now because of the labor involved and the high fees.  No regrets. As you can see, duplicate content was the least of my worries - but in this Panda environment that makes these domains even more problematic.

Ok Roland, My main guess that the position is changing due to the type of content that your blog is posting. You may have had a more relevant article on the top of the front page (it was likely the only article when you first posted). Now as you write more and more posts, you older articles move down and the relevancy of your page content changes. I suggest you do the following: Make sure that the home page of your blog only shows a summary (excerpt) of the article rather than the whole article as we do not want to duplicate our content across multiple pages. You can see an example on my blog. Your title is very important, so rather get to the point and mention what you do right away. I suggest: Airline Games | Air Traffic Control Games (ATC) | Best Flight Sims I see you are using the All In One SEO Pack, I suggest you remove the keywords tags altogether as they are more a waste of time and do not affect your SEO results at all. You are a new blog so I suggest you write more quality content. Three articles is just not going to cut it just let. If you want to rank under "online flight sim" then you need to write a post that highlights all the top online sim games and back up your opinion with great facts. Try not to make your post names to similar: "The best of the airline games!" & "The History of Airline Games " are very similar. Are the 7 social media buttons necessary for a new blog? Rather stick to FB, Twitter & Google +1 for now until your blog becomes more popular. When you first published you blog I am guessing that Google's FreshBot (A bot that looks for new content)  was giving your pages priority as they were new and fresh (this is why we post new content). A FreshBot listing can usually puts you way up on page 1 for a few days until the Google Deepbot comes along and puts you in your rightful place.The easiest way to tell if your listing is a temporary fresh listing is to look and see if there is a time stamp on the listing (eg: Posted 2 days Ago), if there is then it is likely that Google is giving that page priority for being fresh. So do not be discouraged, rather keep writing good content and eventually your organic listings will get stronger. There are many many signals that affect your ranking, but if you do the basics your site can perform well.

Hi David, According to Google's webmasters help page, it states that the crawl rate option is just about how fast it crawls your site and not how often it does. Check out the link for more information about it. Also, I wouldn't stress to much on the settings because the search engines are going to do what they do, just make sure to create good content and get it out there, the search engines will see this and depending on how well it is they we come more often on there own. Hope this helps! http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48620

Thanks John & Naghimiac, Both your responses helped me understand the robots.txt file and the proper ways of implementing it. Thanks again for all your help!

You are welcome... good luck in your changes!

Thank you!! Very helpful:)

Thank you guys for being so helpful!!:)

It's best to have the keywords that you're targeting as close to domain as possible although it wouldn't matter when you have just two short folder names such as /letters/abc. Good luck!