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  • NicB1


    Hi Jamie -- I noticed the mobile version of our website is appearing in the Bing search results (from a desktop) --- can you employ the same technique as Google and specify to the Bing/Yahoo! mobile bot to only crawl the mobile version of your site and restrict the normal bot from crawling mobile version?  Thanks for additional guidance.  I assume this would clear up this issue of our mobile site appearing in normal non-mobile search results. Matt

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  • omarfk

    This topic is deleted!

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  • MercyCollege


    You can't use different releases that looks really bad from a PR standpoint. And I'm not using the releases as a form of SEO for inbound links.

    | MercyCollege
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  • gooner1


    Suggested cause of problem shouldn't be related to original issue. It's however something that needs to be addressed. Also you should probably add redirect from http://www.subsidesports.com/index.html to http://www.subsidesports.com/uk As for your original question. When have you put redirect from .com to .com/uk. Maybe it just needs some time for googleBot to properly index it. Kind regards Bojan

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  • Alexey_mindvalley


    Thanks o much for your help!

    | Alexey_mindvalley
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  • mypropertyaddress


    If you do a search for the one block of text that is on your page, in quotes, I get 16 results.  (I'm assuming that the text is the mls info?)  What is interesting though is that your site is not one of those results, even when I click on "see similar results". My guess is that Google sees that the entire site is a duplication and as such has severely penalized it.  Try changing the wording up so that it is original and see what that does. I run a real estate site as well, and for our own listings I will always make a completely original page so that we stand above the crowd full of duplicate mls info.  The other thing that I have found is that building one or two links to the page using the address as anchor text is often enough to skyrocket us to the number one position. EDITED to add: I should add that for our sites we do not do individual pages like you have done.  The only benefit to this as I see it is to show your client that they have their own website.  Rather, what I would do is to create a page on my website such as www.mysite.com/1boydstreetalbertpark and I can redirect 1boydstreetalbertpark.com to that page.  This accomplishes a few things: -you have the power and trust of your existing domain to back you up -if potential buyers end up on your site but don't like that property, they may end up looking at your other listings, or your about us page -if links get built to the page then it benefits your domain.  For example, we had one client who was so excited to see the fantastic photos of her house on our site that she shared our page with thousands of facebook friends and VOILA, we had a huge influx of visits from potential clients.  In this case it wasn't a link, but a facebook share, but it certainly could have been a link.

    | MarieHaynes
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  • alfonsmr


    Nope. I would buy the .com, and if/when you're ready explore international SEO with it; but for now I would just 301 it to the domain you've had this whole time. It's the one with links to it, the original content, and the right top-level country code for your target audience. I say this generally because the TLD isn't going to have the impact. But, I don't know anything about either domains. Was it used for a very similar business model/is it getting traffic, all that other stuff? Simply age and domain extension aren't enough reasons, but if you're buying a running and successful site, consider how you want to use that content.

    | JGar-28032
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  • tonis


    I'm totally with Nicholas on that one. Generally the <title>is the more appropriate method.</p> <p>A bunches of years ago I worked for a company that provided a closed CMS to their clients. They didn't have access to the <head> section, so this was the only way to actually get a title; but that was many years ago, at a company that had no idea. </p> <p>Just to clarify, they totally don't do that anymore. This was a really long time ago. </p></title>

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  • mfrgolfgti


    Hi Everyone, We recently started using a new crawler that had a few shortcomings we've been working to improve. This issue may be related to changes in the new crawler. If you write into us at help@seomoz.org with your campaign information and the email address associated with your account, we can look into the issue for you. We look forward hearing from you soon. Chiaryn

    | ChiarynMiranda
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  • PedroM


    Awesome guys. I think I can manage from here. Tks alot for sharing the knowledge

    | PedroM
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  • SheffieldMarketing


    Common perception is that "nofollow" links still deplete your link juice, but the other site does not benefit. That being said, there is no correlated data saying that linking to high quality sites will hinder your rankings (if done in moderation, and properly).  In fact, the correlation is very minutely in the positive.  So, if you think something is good enough to send your customers to, just let the link go free.  My only suggestion would be to control your anchor text, and make sure it's not something you would wank to rank for.  Ultra safe scenario would be to link with their brand name.

    | ResslerMotors
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  • Entrusteddev


    Duplicate post. Please respond at http://www.seomoz.org/q/do-links-hold-there-value-after-12-months

    | KeriMorgret
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  • Morris77


    Interesting - I've very rarely had issues with GWO, but if a new URL was created and someone linked to it, I can see where you might have a problem. (1) None of these things are absolute, I'm afraid, but typically, yes - a rel=canonical to a different page should keep the first page out of the index. (2) Usually, but it depends. The problem here may be that Google just isn't crawling the test variant very often, so they may not be processing the rel=canonical yet. If it's just a couple of pages, I'd give it time - it's probably not an emergency situation. Again, you could just tell Google to remove them in GWT. I think you're doing the right thing with the canonical tags, but it can take Google time to process them the way you want to, in practice.

    | Dr-Pete
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  • Artience


    As per Google, depending upon the user-agent you should display the website. So, for Googlebot-mobile only mobile site remains visible and for Googlebot (desktop) only desktop site is shown. Google preaches adding a 301 redirect to mobile version depending upon user-agent detection. Find complete article here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/02/making-websites-mobile-friendly.html This change should solve your current issues with the rankings

    | Webmaster_SEO
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  • adaptiveconsultancy


    Hi Markus, Absolute links leave less room for confusion and mistakes when it comes to crawling. Google recommends using absolute links here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35156 Keep in mind, this recommendation has nothing to do with your rankings. When properly configured, relative links are as effective as absolute links. There is just a higher risk that a relative link is malformed and broken. On the other hand, relative links are extremely convenient when you want to change domain name. With absolute links, you would have a lot of search and replace. Something to keep in mind when making a decision.

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  • Confections


    These are both helpful answers, thank you both. Ryan, in answer to your question, the products are all the same with different designs. Unfortunately right now I don't have the option of recoding the site so I am trying to work with what I have. Thanks again! Shara

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  • Paul78


    Hi Alan, It's not really about converting money with these articles, it's about having good content on our own company blog, which we can use for SEO purposes, email marketing and so on... Initially I was thinking that i could backlink from this website with all these articles into the commercial website, although how much value would this website give the commercial website having hundreds of different backlinks to different product pages throughout the website? Kind Regards

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  • EugeneF


    Here is another way you could handle it, in a separate program that detects a smartphone. For a phone that can handle it, you do a redirect and for one that doesn't, you do something else (obviously, I haven't tested this, but this way also has the upside that it tracks the clicks. If your site uses this style of URL Call 555 555 5555 Or this if you handle URLs this way Call 555 555 5555

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  • Tolod


    I had this on the last crawl.  There was no mention on the one before and I haven't changed anything in between so could be a glitch ?

    | Yorkie
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  • Boogily


    I'll just accept that the previous link building that was done was crap and the links are too deep.

    | Boogily
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