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  • Honestly speaking this happens a lot as this is one of the cheapest way to get your website ready! -          Email them and ask them to at least remove your GA code from the headers so that you can stay in peace. Most of the times, people give a damn so give it a try and see what happens. -          DMCA takedown notice to their host server! This should be the right way but not sure how much time will it take. -          Get the New GA code and move on! Quick and easy way out. Hope this helps!

    Web Design | | MoosaHemani
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  • I've read about this but haven't seen it happen with my own profile yet. Do you know what's contributing?  I'd love mine to show up but can't get it working yet.

    Social Media | | MattAntonino
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  • I actually got rid of The articles.asp links because they were not descriptive in the urls.  I chose to create pages as opposed to these article snap-ins.  They are still in my article menu i suppose, but there should be no links or menus items pointing directly to the article.asp(s).  did you see that there were? Yes i will have duplicate content.  My blog www.bestbybrazil.com similar name without "fit" is set to auto post to several sites at once. If my website www.bestfitbybrazil.com is showing some of the same content, then again this must be pulling from the pages that were set up before.  I think Volusion will still show stuff that you have in the background even if you dont have it on your website.  So i will try deleting them i guess.  kind of a pack rat with data.  Always think i might be able to use it again. by the way it looks like MOZ is only showing one other fix for me "Overly Dynamic Url" http://www.bestfitbybrazil.com/NEW-ARRIVALS-s/1931.htm?searching=Y&sort=4&cat=1931&show=300&page=1 How do i get rid of this?  Its not even a page.  its a search.  the page is as follows http://www.bestfitbybrazil.com/NEW-ARRIVALS-s/1931.htm.  Everything after is some kind of query.  Do I need to enter the entire link as a dissallow in robot text or contact volusion.  Not sure how much help they would be since MOZ is showing this. Seems to work when i added the disallow in robot.text

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DrMcCoy
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  • Hi Imran, Instead of adding to this thread, I think it would be better to start a new question about how to check a site regarding duplicate content. Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MeganSingley
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  • Thanks Sam and Matt, Great responses and I'll now get going on disavowing the project I'm working on. Much appreciated.

    Link Building | | Gavo
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  • Thank Jane.  I think i'm understanding this better now.  I need to create more relevant content for the keywords with F grades on homepage and make sure i link back to optimized pages from homepage.  Great.  That shouldnt be to hard a task. by the way.  I think I duped this question.  Look at this question How to optimize home page for several keywords Not sure if I could have just sent you a link lol Didn't want to log off for that sorry.  But there was alot of input here for me and I also sent alot of info regarding my site  thx. again. thx again

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DrMcCoy
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  • You can use Copyscape. You can also take a small piece of the copy and wrap in quotes and enter it into Google search. I would do the latter, before the former. Copyscape costs $.05 per page.

    Moz Tools | | Travis_Bailey
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  • Thank you Samuel, thats what I am afraid of from the beginning. The quality of the HTML Page need to be increased. My initial question should be mentione as a second "not so nice way" Increasing the page quality to run out the PDFs is one of the top things on relaunching the site. Thanks again Seb.

    Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | TheHecksler
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  • Hi Siggi, There are certainly a lot of instances of "agent" being used on the page which you may be best to cut down on, e.g. using the product name in the roll-over - there are 345 instances of "agent" on that page alone. Don't worry about the Moz grader tool and the apostrophe - Google can understand this, even if Moz has trouble with it. So for example, on the text over the image for the "Vyztužený saénový korzet Penelope", perhaps use that text only, rather than including "L'Agent by Agent Provocateur" as well, etc.

    Moz Pro | | JaneCopland
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  • I presume that you are talking about a page that is a category page that lists multiple products? The general rule is that any page will tend to rank more highly when it has quality links pointing towards it. So, the same is true for a product category page. However, I would add the following caveats on the types of links for which you should aim: The links should be good ones and not from junk directories, article sites, and so on Don't use exact-match anchor text Are the websites quality and relevant -- one way to determine this is to ask if you would want a link from a site for the referral traffic even if Google did not exist. Is the page and website talking specifically about that type of product? Is it a website that your potential customers use and is relevant to the industry? Look at Domain Authority and Page Authority Will the link appear natural or as though you "built" it Will the link be an editorial one (placed in the main text of a page) and not in other places that are targeted by spammers (header, footer, sidebar lists, etc.) My personal rule is to try to earn links through natural PR and marketing (that's a Moz post I wrote on the topic) rather than to "build" them artificially Don't get too many artificial links pointing towards the category page -- it will look like an unnatural link profile. Most natural links will always likely point towards the home page or to pieces of content (like blog posts) that have added to the site. I hope this helps! For links, quality matters more than quantity. Good luck!

    Moz Tools | | SamuelScott
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  • Hi Dana, First, thank you for your response!  I will change my image tags and add the canonical tag.  I seem to be getting 40 to 50 of these 404's a day and my traffic and rankings have fallen dramatically.   Scary stuff. Kind regards, Greg

    Technical SEO Issues | | Banknotes
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  • Thomas, You've shown great enthusiasm in this reply. If you could keep to answering the actual question, however, it would really help keep the answer on topic for the original poster. Thanks!

    Educational Resources | | KeriMorgret
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  • Hey Ira, Thanks for the question. Unfortunately we're unable to say which services utilize an API. In general you can expect them all to update over 1-4 weeks. For a bonus link, here's the Q&A we've got setup exclusively for local SEO: http://moz.com/community/q/local-strategy Thanks! Joel.

    Other Research Tools | | JoelDay
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  • Hi, I'm Maura Hubbell. I'm a software engineer and today I'm part of the Mozzer Alliance, helping out the Help Team. I've just clicked "Filter" on the "Just Discovered" tab, and I got several links back. It looks as if the deployment that Keri mentioned fixed this. Thanks for reaching out! Maura Hubbell

    Link Explorer | | Moz.HelpTeam
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  • I'm that guy, at least I am today. Never link simply for the 'SEO Juice'. If you follow that strategy, you will get your client/yourself in trouble in short order. Is this link legit? Will it drive traffic to the target site? Is it even remotely related? All of the numbers can be easily gamed. If you handle the situation intelligently, you'll have a happy client - without worry of penalties.

    Technical SEO Issues | | Travis_Bailey
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