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where is that little button next to my crawl warnings that lets me open urls, or explore links to that url using OSE?

Obvious questions maybe but could it be something to do with a change on your site rather than SEO reasons? E.g. navigation, checkout process or loss of a payment option

On the tags and category pages, you should have a rel=noindex, follow tags. That would ensure that crawlers (seomoz custom crawl or Googlebot) dont have duplicate content issues. This was a problem with wordpress blogs as well, which has been handled nicely now.

The speed load of the entire is site is much more important. That, in correlation with the IP location can help you in some extent with your ranking but overall it's a small signal. My opinion is to focus on the site speed (related with your question) and I strongly believe that since both Vancouver and Montreal are in Canada there won't be a difference as far as geo location of your host. More then that if your site is fast, even if you host using a US host your ranking won't be affected. Since you have those options within Canada It's best, in my opinion, to go with the Montreal option as there is no difference as far as SEO benefit between the two options you've mention. Hope it helps !

And along the same lines, there wasn't a rogue line of code that set the canonical URL for all of your products to the home page or added a noindex to your pages, right?

Making such radical changes is always something that shouldn't be taken lightly, that's for sure.  And if it's done, you'll need to have a spreadsheet where you can enter a column with all the page names, a column with their current URLs, and one with the new URLs, because implementing 301 Redirects is critical but can be a nightmare otherwise. What it comes down to is evaluating the value of other SEO (on-site, link-building, and social) that can be done to improve things as compared with architectural changes.  Judgment calls.  Not always fun.

We're working on it!

Hey Jon, I agree with both David and Kayden--readability, emotional impact, and great content should take priority over the mechanical SEO-rewriting. IMO, the best option here is to teach your copywriter the basics of writing with SEO considerations. Investing that time up front will save you the pain in the long-run of "re-cooking" his content. One suggestion would be to develop a checklist, or a system of some sort that helps your writer incorporate SEO best practices while writing the posts (think: synonyms for latent semantic indexing, rich anchor text, proper use of headings, etc.) Teach a man to fish...

Thanks for the help - that fixed it! If you lived in Austin, TX we'd give you some free Muay Thai classes!! logo-figure-solo-12.jpg

This would be really hard to pinpoint without seeing the page. As it all depends on what's on your page. For example, if it's a blog post that you just wrote, but put the timestamp at last year by accident, google will see that in the code and use that. Another example could be that somewhere in the text you've written "in december 2009 SEO was a lot different" it could incorrectly pick that up and place it within other snippets.

To follow up on this. Look what I've found in the Google News Forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/news/thread?tid=248ef4e6fe372e91&hl=en The problem is almost the same. Google News not indexing URLs with the trailing index.html. The only person who answered was a Top Contributor suggesting to contact directly Google News team.

I think you were right.  I did what you said and found it linked from a flash file.  Since this is the only one showing in the csv crawl report, I think it's fixed.  Thanks very much for your help! Brad

Not always, use the robots.txt to be 100% sure.

There is no search operator, but you can access the cached version in the search results. Just search "url:websiteurl.com" then click the arrow > and it will open up options for the page. There is a link to view the cached version. See the pic below. The site: search operator works just like it does in Google on Bing! H7lv4.png

Hi Rich, JavaScript links are an issue! There is a seriousvrisk that this link will never be counted the way it stands. Here is a recent post on this. http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/41582/javascript-links Also the webmasterbis not being entirely honest with you. They may be linking out that way in an effort to sculpt their own PageRank, preserving it for themselves instead of their members. I would be irritated by this if I were you.

thanks Roger, yes I did submit sitemap and i agree that is TIME Length issue.

Nofollow should not be an issue if Twitter feeds raw data to Google directly via firehose. I do of course appreciate the fact that there are secondary benefits to nofollowed links.

I highly recommend checking out the Webinar Friday Rand did on this very subject: Getting Value from XML Sitemaps, HTML Sitemaps & Feeds.

Also verify that sandbox domain in Google Webmaster Tools and the other search engine webmaster tools. Once you do that, you can remove the site with the URL removal tool.