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Fresh Web Explorer is working and I got the email alert this morning thanks again

Do you use any site review system now? I use YotPo and it is really effective for measuring where traffic came from, what their experience on the site was and I even customized it to poll visitors on why they chose not to shop with us. If people are placing orders on the site, you can also make it a required question on an order form. That would give you basic information as well.

Thanks Egol, you have some good points.  There has been too much focus on determining (second guessing) where the sweet spot is, hoping that one visitor bites.  Yes retargeting seems to me to be something to follow up. I need to do some convincing so the site becomes an unmissable source for information.  It's tricky because each of the potential key players will have different information requirements, but we have to start somewhere.

Hello! As a follow up to Donford who gave a relevant answer it could be a variety of things. This could include your hosting provider blocking our crawl as our server from Dallas can reach the site. The other thing may be delayed loads on the page due to the slider. The last thing that could be is if there are any javascript of dynamic redirects happening on this page Roger may turn away. I would first check with your web host to see if they are blocking crawlers or if anything seems odd in your htaccess files. Next check the page for any unwanted or unneeded redirects. Hopefully after these two items are checked you'll be back in action but please let me know if there is anything else we can do from our end.

Hi, You've worked really hard at putting together a business, a site and now a plan. When I read your list, I was left asking "Why?" What drove the decision to distribute one press release per month? Is it for a tangible reason? For example, so you release a brand new product every month? If so, then okay, there's a business reason for that frequency and that goal.  But if not, Why once a month? Is it because you think that's somehow going to get you attention in the search engines? My same question/challenge transfers to everything else in your plan, You mention Web 2.0 submission Web at Squdoo, Hubpage , Tumblr , Blogspot , WordPress. Why those? What made you choose those? Was it driven by data that tells you that your users are hanging out in those places? Or was it driven by what you think Google is going to reward in the SERPs. I'd personally revisit every item in the plan and determine whether or not there's data to support that decision, if not, move on and find some other way, some other place to promote that's directly relevant to your particular business. A linkbuilding plan shouldn't be arbitrary. It needs to be intentional. Just my humble opinion. The days of a formulaic/quantity driven approach to link building are long, long gone. Cheers, Dana

Using the page title as the H1 is bad form? I thought that is pretty much the best use for it...

Thank you very much Monica. Ill defiantly will use Google analytic.

Hi There, That seems to be a bit strange and to be honest I have not seen that before. In this case I would recommend writing into help@moz.com and attach the CSV that is giving you trouble to the email. We generally prefer to work through emails sent to help@moz.com because you can speak directly with a customer service representative and we can give you updates if we need to speak with our engineering staff. In the meantime if you have any other questions or concerns please feel free to ask and I would be happy to help. Have a great day and I look forward to speaking with you soon.

Ok, if I would be at your place, I will choose one of these solutions. -          301 the URL to appropriate live URLs so that when traffic lands, it go to relevant page or a custom 404 page that tell user the page is not available (and give links to other parts of the website). This is a good idea to retain visitor to the website even when the page is dead. -          If you really want to remove the URLs from Google, in webmaster tool there is a remove URL section, use that and it will remove from the index for 90 days and as the header status of those URL is already 404 they will not come back again. Ever! Hope this helps! 404 hurt rankings? In my personal experience, too many 404 on the page does!

Hi DennisSeymour, Many thanks. I agree with your assessments and have communicated these conclusions to my client. So hopefully I'll see some positive changes soon.  There's been a steady traffic decline year over year. The individual keyword tracking wasn't great a year ago, so it's difficult to say what keywords are driving the downward trend. I'll keep chipping away at the imperative tasks. Thanks again!

To my knowledge, Pinterest is a very high quality linking source. Having several links back and forth should mean that you have an equal amount of images, products and/or pages. No matter how good the source is, when you over use something it doesn't look natural. From what I understand, Penguin 3.0 really targeted linking "neighborhoods". This means that you could see an effect because of link associations that your linking sources have. That could be Pinterest, but my gut tells me that it is probably some other source. These social media sites are pretty safe and usually have ways to prevent bad associations. Have you used Open Site Explorer to compare what you have in GWT? I would just take a look and see what the quality of your links are and if there is any low hanging fruit you should disavow. You want to find high quality linking sources, these are the safest. I would try to eliminate links from low ranking domains with not a lot of root links behind them. You might be suffering the effects of someone else's bad links. Have you received any manual notices in GWT?

following on from my question above... If i have lots of filters to narrow down products - i can dynamically change lots of content on page with each filter, including things like the title tag etc... I am curious, if i had dynamic title tags depending on what filter was chose - how would that effect the page from an SEO point of view. Also, would google etc learn the different content for different filters? by that i mean it is a cctv system page, one of the filters would be for "IP CCTV systems", i could change the content for that filter so the title said "IP CCTV Systems..." if i searched IP CCTV Systems in google  - would they show the "IP CCTV Systems" title with URL showing filter selection - or would they show the generic title with no filters selected?

Check Google Webmaster tools if you actually got a manual penalty, and what their reason was/is.

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These two URL's http://simplycrowngreenbowls.wordpress.com/ http://simplycrowngreenbowls.com/ Should 301 Redirect to http://simplycrowngreenbowls.co.uk

Simple google for "title length for best seo" would show that after about 55/58 chars your title tag drops off...and I noted that your own is 69 chars...that's "old" thinking. Search here at moz for title length etc and I remember that there are a couple of great blog posts on just how to craft same...

Hi Lindsey Our engineers have confirmed that rogerbot will flag pages that are 100% identical but can sometimes miss pages that are 99% similar. The crawler is deliberately written to err on the side of not reporting false positives which means it sometimes can report false negatives which has occurred in your case. Using a combination of tools such as Webmaster tools can help isolate any pages we have missed. Hope this helps!