Category: Technical SEO Issues
Discuss site health, structure, and other technical SEO issues.
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Can you please explain more? I am seo beginner, so for now I am just correcting the things that seomoz pro tells me, errors and warnings. I have reduced errors to 0, and I am trying to reduce warnings also.
| levalencia10 -
Should you block search results?
Yes, I block my images so people don't steal them. I paid $20 for some of them. Also I don't want my quote page or receipt page to get indexed so I block them. So to answer your question... only certain parts of my sites are blocked, but not the whole thing.
| Francisco_Meza0 -
Track outbound links
What you want is called event or action tracking. This is the Google Analytics help page for that. Hope it helps! -Dan
| evolvingSEO0 -
Smart phone shows both mobile & desktop version of www.innoviafilms.com
Well it does the same thing on Android. I'd have to point to a software flaw somewhere not detecting the user agent correctly and feeding up the wrong version. Have you considered using a subdomain (like m.innoviafilms.com)?
| Highland0 -
Sandboxed
Lawrence, The link-building is a important part of off-page SEO. In my point of view, you should start creating a strategy to associate your site with others of the same area. Also if you have a blog you should creat relevant content with texts and share them on the social media plataforms such as Twitter (that you already have), Facebook and also Linkdinn. You must have the Goolge +1 on the site aswell. Last but not least as I see in Woorank (http://www.woorank.com/en/www/playgrounddevelopments.co.uk) you have alot of work ahead of you......on-page and off-page..... Regards, Pedro M Pereira
| PedroM0 -
Track outbound links
If you worry about the 100 milliseconds it's OK. A second is 1000 miliseconds, so 1/10 of a second is between the click and the trackEvent.
| Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
How ehow beat Panda?
eHow is run by Demand Media. You may want to look into that direction instead. As far as I know, a person cannot simply create an eHow account and start typing away. Recently I hired a Demand Media editor. She said that there basically is no more work for them and that many had to leave. She also said that the topics are very focused. Here is a straight copy and paste of an email from her: they are starting to focus more on expertise focused articles, so unless you're, say, a mechanic who also knows how to write, you're out of the loop over there now.
| Francisco_Meza0 -
SITEMAP.asp having 10,000 pages
I just want to verify that you're talking about a sitemap for the users, and not the xml sitemap for the search engines to crawl. The sitemap for the search engines can have 50,000 entries in a sitemap, per the specifications at http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html. One example Ryan Kent likes to use is Verizon's sitemap at http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/sitemap.jsp. They don't have every one of their pages listed, but you can easily find what you are looking for via their sitemap.
| KeriMorgret0 -
New Site Search Critique
Re: item 1 - the answer can be found in the first response to this Q&A: http://www.seomoz.org/q/i-need-help-with-htaccess-redirect If you would like to learn more about htaccess, an excellent resource is here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/the-ultimate-guide-to-htaccess-files/ Re: item 3, no damage Re: item 7 - I did share a suggestion. I prefer to use the home page to target the site's brand. I use inner pages which are 1-click from the home page to target the site's main keywords. Your site can target 100s of keywords so unless one particular keywords is highly dominate over the others, this approach is my preference. Re: item 10 - no. The W3C is the governing body for HTML/CSS code. I was referring to using their validator tool to ensure the code used on your site is valid. Re: sitemaps, there are numerous software apps available to create a sitemap. Find one you like and set a CRON job to run as needed to generate a new sitemap.
| RyanKent0 -
Is there ever legitimate near duplicate content?
Thank you both for the feedback. We've been in the insurance industry for about 15 years and know it pretty well. It sounds like our best bet is to find out how many different ways we can talk about something as fascinating as crop insurance and auto insurance. On one hand, it’s nice to work with a client like this because we can focus on an area we know well. On the other hand, it’s hard to say the same thing in several different voices and from different points of view. Not impossible, but about the 25<sup>th</sup> time it becomes a stretch……. Let me ask the same question a little bit differently. Our goal is not to see how little we can do and still get away good results, but I am looking for some guidance on where Google draws the line on similar content. Does anyone have any real word experience with how similar two 250 word articles can be? Does every sentence have to be different? Every paragraph? I’m not trying to be too nit picky here, just looking for some real world experience. Anyone ever gotten slapped down on a similar project? Thanks !
| mavrick0 -
Why is it that in the exported CSV there are no refrerring pages shown for 404 errors?
Hi there! Sorry to hear you are having issues with the csv export. I would email our help team at help@seomoz.org. Make sure to include a copy of your csv and your account information in the email, and they can take a look at what is happening. Thanks for writing in Sander van Vossen. Cheers! Jackie
| JackieRae0 -
Local business with multiple sites
Hi Keith, If these businesses are in the same metropolitan area, then I definitely give thumbs up to consolidation. Yes, put 301 redirects in place. Regarding optimizing the footer, there is not a problem with listing several addresses. As long as you have 10 or less locations, consider this a fine practice. I do recommend using hCard for the the formatting of the addresses...and do make your Contact Page a good strong page featuring both addresses in hCard. Also a good idea to make a Google MyMap for each location and embed and link to it on the contact page. Make the copy clear that you've got the 2 locations from the homepage forward. I feel you are making a smart choice for this business. Good luck!
| MiriamEllis0 -
I can buy a domain from a competitor. Whats the best way to make good use of these links for my existing website
This was recently mentioned on another Q&A post; you'll want to check it out. You may not get "credit" for the backlinks to your competitors domain, depending on the situation.
| TheEspresseo0 -
How to rank lower, fast....
You're perfectly correct, but I thought I'd point it out. Sites can rank with no on-site SEO, but what I was trying to say is that it's much, much more difficult. Thanks for correcting my mistake
| pointblankseo1