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Best advice: Do it right the first time. What does that mean: 1. Having the sitemap.xml file accurate and ready to be submitted.  2. Not focusing just on Google. Submit your site and links links to all webmasters. 3. Making sure your site is complete, meaning all meta, titles, and urls are all unique and filled out with relevant information. Some of your titles are not specific, such as: http://www.sbat.com/livescores/ - Page title is Live scores...think of how users will search for your page. A More appropriate title would be "LIve Sports Scores | Live Soccer Scores from Around the World" or something similar. 4. Getting rid of duplicate URL's. If you are using a CMS, then you want to make sure you follow this rule: One url to one page of content. View more on this topic here: http://www.webdesignandcompany.com/5-htaccess-rules-to-avoid-duplicate-content 5. Making sure your images and alt text is properly filled out. For example: Dont label images image123.jpg, name them what you want to rank for, such as stl-cardinals-jersey.jpg or something like that. You never know how users will search for content or answers, so optimize as broad as possible. 6. Submit all pages in webmaster tools using "Fetch as google". This allows you to submit individual and sitewide crawls of your site. Helps in getting pages indexed/reindexed faster 7. Plan ahead. Launch of a website then hoping it will rank well is a fast way to not rank. Think of ways to gain additional validation and backlinks. Press releases can be a great way to do this when you are just starting out. That should get you started. Hope this helps!

Wondering if this ever got resolved? I have a few clients on Hubspot as well and we are concerned that since the blog lives on a subdomain (blog.website.com) we are concerned that the core site is not getting the SEO credit it deserves. We have had to submit the blog sitemap to GWT separately just as you would a www. version of the site. When asking Hubspot about this they were not able to really answer since it's more of a Google/SEO question. Thanks in advance... still on the hunt to find out more!

It's absolutely ridiculous that our industry lays down and accepts stuff like this from Google. It is unacceptable for them to not be able to determine who originally created the content. They have the data to do it.

Hi, I just run those with Screaming Frig - as a basic crawler - all is good. Source code also looks ok. There are no issues there - you should be safe. I see the issues on the seobook crwler - it's for sure an issue there not on your side. Cheers.

Thank you everyone!  I've come to the conclusion that I'll be waiting to make the transition until after the busy season. I appreciate all the help!

Finding a UK based SEO firm will help immensely....Dave's great - but a google for same shows there's thousands who will come up...just pick your shortlist with some degree of expertise...and DO inisist on getting references you can check!!!

Thanks, I will check that out.

Hi, If you have a lot of images and you need to speed up the indexing process then yes, it's worth adding an image xml sitemap. It also helps with the " image index managmenet" of those files. More on: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636?hl=en Beside this though - there is no advantage - I mean you won't get any rankings boosts or anything like that. Cheers.

There was an excellent app a few years ago arbitrage.io which looked for arbitrage opportunities between Amazon, Ebay and some Chinese sites. It's gone now but you could easily do something similar Get someone to write a spider/scraper for your target sites Take the product keywords from here and get search volumes and page difficulty Cross reference that with the arbitrage opportunities to maximise revenue per development hour Build your site

By DW do you mean DreamWeaver or DemandWare? I wouldn't build an XML sitemap in Dreamweaver, and I'm sure DemandWare would have a built-in tool for this. You can go to Google and search for "Free XML Sitemap Generator" or something similar and find a few good options. I use the one from Audit My PC from time to time still, but there are many others. The one below does include images and video, but I don't know if they segment them. Worth a try: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ .

Thank you for the responses.  I finally got it to take.  There was simply a massive delay before it showed up.  In short, I just have to wait a long time.

Thanks , i have done that, but also asking my fellow mozzers here since want to know if issues are effecting others too or just a continued problem with my account in particular All Best Dan

Thank you, Eyepaq. It didn't crash our Google usage here at work, so I'm assuming it works a little differently than Rank Tracker. Sounds like it works just like Google analytics would, but I have no evidence to back that up.

Hi there, We are planning to switch to https soon and would like to keep our Moz campaign intact but I am slightly confused. This thread says no action is required while that one says that a new campaign needs to be set up for the https version of the site. Assuming that Roger can crawl https and the domain stays the same (only the protocol changes, with 301 redirects in place from http to https ) there is no need to set up a separate campaign, correct?

Hi there! Setting up an alert for using the rd: parameter should pull up results for any sub domain for that domain. So rd:cnn.com would pull up blog.cnn.com, wwww.cnn.com, etc. Based on what you provided it sounds like things are set up correctly, but it's hard to dig into things like this without specific examples to review. If you're uncomfortable sharing the query here, please send in a ticket with the information so we can look into this further for you. Thanks!

Do you have 1300 landing pages? If you don't why not go on the basis of landing pages as that is already the underlying site logic? You could then experiment with a subset of landing pages to see if subsetting them into different ad groups works better or not.

Hi Lewis, Can you share an example? Am I correct in thinking you mean external links from your blog posts (trackbacks) are going through 302 redirects? Craig

Thanks both - I wasn't expecting that answer. I suppose you learn something every day. I have now submitted the reconsideration request so hopefully that will go through fine!