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Hi Roshni Can you email us with the URL you are attempting to add at help@moz.com or reply here if you don't mind sharing. Just want to make sure you are adding a sub-domain, root-domain and sub-folder and not a page which will not work. You also want to make sure you are adding the URL as it resolves if you have any re-directs, especially 302 re-directs. If your site re-directs from domain.com to www.domain.com then you would need to enter www.domain.com Let me know if this helps

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I think those look good and you should give them a shot. You can always do some fine-tuning to them over then next month or two. Happy to help and good luck! I look forward to see how this helps your conversion rate.

Hey, I'm not sure if this is resolved for you, but as you suggest you can do something with robots.txt. Specifically, you could use wildcards to capture these URLs and tell Rogerbot (Moz's crawler) to ignore them. Here's a great Stackoverflow query to get you started and details on how block Rogerbot, you can take a look here.

You would use Google Webmaster tools to remove a page from Google Search index. On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want. On the Dashboard, click Google Index on the left-hand menu. Click Remove URLs. Click New removal request. Type the URL of the page you want removed from search results (not the Google search results URL or cached page URL), and then click Continue. How to find the right URL. The URL is case-sensitive—use exactly the same characters and capitalization that the site uses. Click Yes, remove this page. Click Submit Request.

Theoretically it might be better from an SEO to have English on the root. If there's already something established on the root, it could be the right choice. Google sees subdomains as brand new domains, so you're starting from scratch. If you have a lot of other languages that already visit the site, though, you msystem turn off more people than you attract.

Hi Denise, A couple of points here. First, it's not that you necessarily need the same number of pages on your mobile site as your non-mobile site, it's that any content that you have on your non-mobile site should be represented somewhere on your mobile site. It's possible that your competitors are ranking with their desktop sites because they're targeting content that you are missing with your mobile site, and maybe on your desktop site as well. Second, yes and no. Your mobile site is a separate site, but if you connect your mobile pages to their corresponding desktop pages with rel=alternate and canonical tags, Google should transfer some of that link equity for you. Google breaks it down here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details Good luck! Kristina

Hi there, The good news is that this issue is very common for Joomla installations! Have you checked out the following guides?: Duplicate Pages in Joomla: Causes, Most Common Errors, Solutions Avoid Duplicate URLS - Joomla SEO Joomla and Duplicate Content: Fixing htaccess

Hey There! I'm glad you've asked about this. From your description, it sounds to me like you may not actually be running the 'right' type of Facebook page for the businesses in question. Moz Local validates against Facebook Place pages only - not social/brand-type pages. In order for validation to succeed, you would need to have a unique Facebook Place for each of business locations. Facebook Place pages can typically be identified by the fact that they have: Reviews A map Complete name, address, phone number, website Visits (not just likes) If you discover that you need to change the type of Facebook page for a business, you can investigate this directly with Facebook by going to: https://www.facebook.com/help/343548832389235/ Click on the heading ‘How do I add a map or address to my page?’ to see Facebook’s guidelines for changing the type of page. Alternatively, we can validate against a Google+ Local/Google My Business page, instead of Facebook, but likewise, each location will need to have a unique page, and the pages must be postcard-verified with Google in order for us to see them. Hope this helps. If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to ask. If you need to show me the Facebook page in question, and don't want to post it publicly, you can PM me. You can also start a ticket at our Help Hub for private assistance.

Hi Alan, automation is generally bad. By linking through to other relevant pages using a variety of anchor text you give a google a warmer feeling about your site - avoiding over optimisation penalties. Cross linking between pages. There's a lot on site link structure and what is optimum. I tend to ignore this and thing of my customers buying behaviour. So in your case  If in real life you'd offer a couple of buildings to a client then link them on the website. If not, then don't. For me social media is a waste of time. We're a B2B industrial market. See what brings traffic and conversions. The end goal really is to produce something amazing - a labour of love.  think of it as investing a dollar a day in the website. To start with nithing is going to change much. After a while compound interest is going to start giving you momentum and there will suddenly be a crux point where you realise how much of an advantage you have over your competitors. It'll take a while though.

Not really a big deal but their tool is pretty useful. If you dont have to spend more than 2 minutes, just do it.

Chris & Egol - you guys are a couple of jokers

Agree with both reponces. What is the imperative to have SEO done now? If you are in a seasonal retail business makes sence, but if you are not, what is the reason for this need now? Bruce

I agree with Andy - Just make sure to remove the redirect from site 1 to site 2 before making the swap. As for the sites existing rankings... who knows. All you can really do is hope for the best. Good luck

I'd try and get some data on this to inform my decision Most sectors will have multiple variations on their name. Use google keyword tool to help you identify all these. Then use excel to generate a list of all your sector variants + region and your sector variants + city. Then look at the data and see which is going to give you the search volume and proceed that way. It may be that you will have to add in city and village as well. I imagine florists are often searched for on a very local basis whilst chemical plants are often searched for on a national basis. Psychologically we prefer a simpler taxonomy - but so do your competitors. If a more complex taxonomy justifies the complexity and delivers the additional traffic......

Hi Rob, The general rule of thumb is don't worry (too much) about no-follow links, although there are times to also ignore this as well. Key factors that will be making a difference, are the content and the do-follow links. You can't just look at the back-links as the reason why you aren't ranking well. Without seeing them, I would be tempted to just not worry about the no-followed links, and concentrate on: Making sure the do-follow links are of good quality and don't fall into the spammy category, and Look at your content and how good it is - does it match up to the competition? It never hurts to do some competition analysis to see how your competitors are beating you. -Andy

It sounds like part of the reason for your question is frustration and uncertainty about what to do next. I often feel exactly the same. So you may want to read this post which helps you work out where to start and puts the issues with disavowing well down the line http://savvypanda.com/blog/guide-how-to-use-google-disavow-tool.html In a nutshell Use google webmaster tools to figure out where most of the links are coming from Work down the list in order and email the websites to ask them them to remove the links Once you hit diminishing returns start using the disavow tool. This is a good approach as it makes the problem manageable and you can then be systematic about moving forward. If it's like everything else I've ever done - 20% of the sites will be responsible for 80% of the links and at least some of them will be nice and take stuff down. That will give you a nice morale boost when they do it, and then another one when you get some rankings benefits. And then you will be over the hump and  it will just be another task you have to undertake Hope that this helps Denis

When it comes to formatting URL's, I think it's important for the URL's to make as much sense as possible from a hierarchical stand point. Moz has a really good article on the optimal URL structure. So you can sort of think of the blog keyword as the subcategory keyword from the example in that article. Further more, look at how both moz and Matt Cutts structure their blog URL's. http://moz.com/blog https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/ Hope that helps!