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I'll refer to a question we had no very long ago on the same subject - http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-tell-the-date-a-link-was-created Quick note even though you didn't start using them the bot still would have crawled the site etc. you just wouldn't of been able to access the data.

I'm trying to achieve this, but the import file needs to be a csv. so the coma between the 2 records does create issues. any help ?

There must be something else. I am using Bulletproof security and it does not have anything in the access fuel that should block you. Even if it did (1) I deactivated it and tried setting up the account and it still threw me an error, and (2) I have several other Wordpress installs with Bulletproof Security and Moz can crawl them with no problem. There must be something else here. What should I do? I need a solution to this quickly as its already causing me to be behind schedule. Thanks!

Hey Julie, Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion. Our link index is not created using our crawl test or campaign crawls of a site. The index is actually a completely separate database compiled by crawling the web and following the links we find there. Your site will only be included in Open Site Explorer if we find links to your site from outside sources. Just so you know, here's how we compile our index: We grab the most recent index. We take the top 10 billion URLs with the highest MozRank (with a fixed limit on some of the larger domains). We start crawling from the top down until we've crawled 90,000,000,000 pages (which is about 35% the amount in Google's index). Therefore, if the site is not linked to by one of these seed URLs (or one of the URLs linked to by them in the next update) then it won't show up in our index. Most new sites and links will be indexed by our spiders and available in Mozscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for many of reasons, including the crawl-ability of sites, the amount of inbound links to them, and the depth of pages in subdirectories. As Pixelbypixel mentioned, Majestic SEO and Ahrefs often have a larger index than we do because their tools are exclusively focused on links, while we have a wide variety of tools with an overview of a site rather than on one specific aspect of SEO or marketing. I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else. Chiaryn Help Team Ninja

Hey David, Thanks for the input, that's the answer I was looking for. We are actually working on a more robust and user-friendly top navigation. I'm hoping that the new structure of the site will help spread the link juice around and make us more relevant for our important keywords. I'll leave the footer links alone and work on better structure and internal linking for now.

You've probably solved this already, but you first need to figure out whether it's a Panda or a Penguin penalty. This is probably a link-based penalty, but I can't say without seeing the site. If so, you'll want to work on link removal. A good place to start are on links with a high spam score. Try to get them removed, and add any spammy/purchased links to a disavow. Let me know if you still need some eyes on it.

There was a Panda update that happened on September 5th. For reference: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-update-19126.html http://www.hmtweb.com/marketing-blog/panda-update-september-5-2014/

That code should automatically 301 redirect all urls with www in them to non www versions - you can check if this is working properly with this tool (for the moment I do not see the redirect working though). So for any duplicates you are seeing because of that specific issue this will fix them. You should then wait for the next moz crawl to happen and should see less duplicates (since these ones will be removed) - this will show you what duplicate issues are still apparent (as mentioned there are a number of reasons that duplicate content can occur) and then you can focus on what kind of duplicates they are and what fix(es) may be needed to address them. It is best to fix one thing at a time and not pile a whole bunch of changes you are not sure about on top of each other - it keeps it easier to bug track if something goes wrong!

This is one of those things that just takes time. We moved our blog from /blog to a blog. subdomain about 2 months ago and have only recently seen SERPs reflect that. Also, the SERP results got better gradually rather than shifting overnight.

Tanveer, what I meant was using the Social Media meta data tags in your page. Before we used the meta data tags Google didn't use our given Title and Description. After we entered it in the Meta Data tags for Facebook and Twitter (We used the same title for SM and our page, as did we do with the description) and all of the suddon Google used our Title and description. Hope you understand what I meant now. Regards Jarno

Agree with Justin, There is no right or wrong (www. vs none) pick one which suits you and go from there. You can learn setting preferred domain on webmasters here - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231 301 redirects depend on your CMS but don't forge to redirect to each relevant page. Best of luck BJS. (in short) 1) Hosted on the root domain instead of subdomain This is your preference 2) 301 all incoming requests on domain to point to www.domain (subdomain) Yes 301 so you're only using one site not both (e.g use www. or htttp:// but not both) but it doesn't have to be the www.

You've taken good steps so far and kudos for continuing to put time and effort into the cause. Great collective feedback. Additionally, have you run a keyword density tool on the home page? Your other top level pages are good candidates as well. Check All Text and Headlines. Other SEO's can chime in but rule of thumb has been no higher than 4% keyword density on a page. A high density in Headlines could indicate an issue as Headlines has historically been a key component in Google's algorithm. I haven't studied at this granular level but others may have. All the best.

In the search console I have 900 links from different linguee domains and I not sure if I have to take actions. After reading this post and the previous one I'm not sure what to do. Does anyone has any experience to share about linguee links?

Hi Lee, In my 2nd message I included these URL's: Hahaione condos pages: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu/hawaii-kai/hahaione-condos/ Hahaione houses page: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu/hawaii-kai/hahaione-homes/ Obviously, 2 different URL's. Do you have any evidence or detailed blog posts showing that using same wording in breadcrumbs or inter-linking in general to different URL's is OK, as long as the URL and / or H1 clearly shows what the page is about? Again, my concern comes from the fact that I have been sold if I interlink with the anchor "Example" then I need to make sure "Example" always points to the same landing page, as search engine's otherwise will be left confused. I somehow think this line of thought is outdated, but any evidence or insight to clarify would be helpful

If you are planning to redirect old domain from the new one you probably have to have a complete plan. Make a list of what you ideally want to achieve from the website and how redirect can help you with that. If you have links on different pages of the website so ideally you should do page to page redirect so that all the authority of website one (on any page of the website) will redirect to the new version. Make sure all the redirects are 301 and not 302. Hope this helps!

Hi Guys, I know this topic's a little old but my e-commerce website is basically at the verge of undergoing the same changes, and I've got a lot of ranking-based concerns here. Our website ist called absinthes.com. It's available in 3 languages, so we created sub directories absinthes.com/de and absinthes.com/fr. The English version basically is always the default version when visiting absinthes.com. For various reasons, our company decided to split absinthes.com into 3 separate shops: absinthes.com for English, absinthes.fr for French, and absinthes.de for German. Now here's where I start getting worried: We're moving contents from a subdirectory (absinthes.com/de) via 301 page-by-page redirects to this new domain, absinthes.de. Am I supposed to let Google through Search Console know about this move, or will it think the entire site (absinthes.com, absinthes.com/fr) has then moved to absinthes.de? Is it enough to put rel=canonical tags and 301 redirects in place to make sure we're not losing any of our rankings on both ends? Would really appreciate your quick opinion on this, thanks so much!

Hi because I have not seen the exact stats on your site I cannot tell you this for certain but Normally I would use a tool like deep crawl as this would allow me to see how many URLs should have indexed and how many your site contains. Along with many other metrics. You say your seen a drop of search traffic by 80% over the last eight months and now it feels like you are getting no traffic? Normally that is a really bad sign as Google tends to take sites that do index out of the index prior to issuing a manual penalty some what of a warning. Because you have told me you did build links I am going to assume you took a link from any site you could get? Because this is honestly a pretty severe problem I would check Google Webmaster tools before going forward if you do not have an account with Google Webmaster tools all you need is an e-mail address you can sign up for free and check if you have been penalized? If you want to remove the links which you have built I would agree you should do this because briefly looking at your link profile I see a lot of very spamming links if you want to do it on your own I recommend http://www.removeem.com/self-serve.php If you want an expert to handle this for you I would call Ryan at http://www.vitopian.com/contact-us / removeem will tell you if it believes the link is bad and it does a pretty good job of doing that. However in these situations I really do not think it can substitute for human being. It depends on how much money you want to spend on saving this business I can tell you that I personally know people that have been helped by Ryan and are very happy with the results. Your question of should you remove your links that you have built I would say most likely answer is going to be yes but I do not know how you built them if you did something against googles terms of service absolutely you should remove them ASAP. I hope this is been of help, Thomas

Why you say panoramic, do you mean side scrolling? If so, you should be in the clear, Google is ok with that. People for years have used negative positioning with sliders and the content associated with them and it gets indexed just fine. The if the site is utilizing parallax side scrolling and is pretty much a single page site I think you will have the issues more closely related to getting a single page site to rank.