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One way in GA is to go to Acquisition, then click on facebook.com and you'll see the list of referring URLs. Most of the visits will probably come from / (the homepage), but there should hopefully be some that have a URL of a group or Facebook page. You might get a clue from some of the places that have linked to your post today too: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/just-discovered?site=www.uwishunu.com%2F2013%2F11%2Froundup-top-places-to-view-holiday-lights-in-and-around-philadelphia-this-season%2F - if they have a high DA there's a good chance they'll have a popular Facebook page. Edit - you can also search Facebook's public posts to see some of the links to you: https://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?init=quick&q=www.uwishunu.com&tas=0.3013083119876683&type=eposts (you need to be logged into Facebook to see that link) Well done!

Hi, There is an explanation of the metrics in the Open Site Explorer here: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer The "number of domains linking to domain" is the total number of other domains that have at least one link to the site. You said, " I'm analyzing our competitors link profile and noticed some numbers as high as 2369232? Yes, 2,369,232 is a high number, but is that number linking domains or some other metric like linking pages? If it is linking domains then you could only expect those sort of numbers for a very large and significant site. If it isn't a site like that then that number must be an error in the report. Peter

Hello no6thgear, Generally speaking, product detail pages have a much more difficult time ranking for anything other than the specific product name/model. Even then, eCommerce sites are often going up against juggernauts like Amazon, Target, Walmart, eBay, or whoever the leaders are in your niche. If you're using any manufacturer/distributor product descriptions that are shared on other websites, or have a lot of products with "thin" content it will make ranking these pages much more difficult, if not nearly impossible. That said, it IS best practice to link directly to the page instead of relying on rel canonical tags or 301 redirects, which treat them symptom and not the cause. If you can find a way to do this in Shopify I recommend it, though I'm not sure if it would be worth changing eCommerce platforms for if there are no other strong issues supporting the change.

Michael - I don't see any major SEO issues with forcing an SSL session, other than: SSL is usually a bit slower, due to the encryption overhead.  You might want to benchmark this to make sure it's not affecting your site load speed times.  If things are slow, more hardware and caching might help. Make sure that all of your content is being served from secure links.  For example, if you are displaying a graphic on the home page of the site, use relative paths (../images/super-impressive-graphic.png).  If you have content that uses absolute links, such as: (img src="http://www.1099pro.com/images/super-impressive-graphic.png), this will throw an SSL warning and tell users that the site is not secure.  This is important with CSS, as well as Facebook, Twitter and other plugins. Looking at the site, it looks like your Google and LiveZilla tracking codes are set properly to auto-switch to https, but I'd try to test this. Also, if you're changing the URLs, you'll want to make sure that older pages with the non-www are 301 redirected to the secure pages properly, too. Hope this helps! Thanks, Jeff

Hey Stephanie, I'm not sure since the system has changed. I haven't had a look at it yet. You might be able to call Google or get them on Chat and have them walk you through the process.

Hi Guys, Thanks for your help. I decided that updating the robot text would be the best option. Ben

Hi Randy, I wouldn't say that the crawl reports are a waste of time, but you probably don't need to be going over them in detail each time unless you've made major changes to the site. I think crawl reports go out once a week by default although you can turn this off by going to Campaign Settings > Email Notifications. Personally, I turn off notifications for crawl reports and just glance through it on Moz Analytics whenever I feel it's necessary - typically once a month just to make sure everything is looking good. The crawl report can be really helpful when you first sign up with Moz or build a new site. It will point out a lot of errors that you might have missed. Once you have those errors under control, you can just use it occasionally to make sure things haven't gotten messy again. Hope this helps! Tim

Michael I don't think you will get anymore benefit from a 301 than you're getting from the cross-domain rel canonical tags that are already in place. However, I think the fact that you already have these cross-domain rel canonical tags i place, and that the content is identical, will make it much less likely that 301 redirecting those domains would be seen as any type of spam. If it were me, just so all of my users were on the same domain - and to keep the problem from getting worse over time - I would go ahead and 301 redirect the other domains, but on a page-to-page basis. In other words, each page would link directly to the page it is currently referencing as the rel canonical. This would be much better than redirecting them all to a single landing page, and would send signal that is consistent with the current one you are sending via the cross domain rel canonical. You might try this one domain at a time. Let the dust settle on that domain and, if all goes well, move on to the next. It may take a year to complete the project, but it might be the safest way to go. Alternatively, you could just continue to leave the other sites up with the cross domain rel canonical tag - but the problem is likely to just worsen over time as more people link to the other domains, and they develop their own sources of traffic via direct links, social, bookmarks, etc... outside of the SERPs.

Thanks to everyone for the info. The main url they use is: http://tinyurl.com/l5sl4to however this is just an iframe to the .biz url. Neither url has many links, which all look fine. I'm thinking it could be for the frame?

Hi there! Thank you so much for reaching out! This is a known issue our engineers are working to resolve. I'll let them know that your campaign has been affected as well. We'll get back to you as soon has we have more information! Thank you so much for your patience! Best, Erin

Assuming the parent company site has children site - link to the new parent site from all of your child sites. Issue press releases: PRFire.co.uk PRLog.org Free-Press-Releases.com 1888PressRelease.com 24-7PressReleases.com PressBox.co.uk The list of free PR sites goes on. There are also a lot of high page rank sites, like PRWeb and eConsultancy.

LOL.. its funny you feel this way because i thought i was the only one... I'm new to seo and then i was put on here and i need a direction to go but im soo confused. Everyone keeps telling me to watch these videos and i am, understanding more and mmore off the tools but is there somewhere I'm supposed to start in the process and end?

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Google tends to downplay the existence of negative SEO, because: (1) frankly, it makes them look bad, and (2) people tend to over-estimate how common it is (we all like to blame the competition). In most cases, if Google thinks a link is malicious and being created by a third-party to harm you, they'll just devalue it. The problem is that Google is far from perfect at detecting who created a link. If they had that down, they'd be a lot better at dealing with spam. So, I wouldn't trust them to simply figure it out. If a link or linking domain is clearly bad, and especially if you've suffered a penalty, be proactive. The very fact that Google is warning you in Webmaster Tools suggests that they haven't simply devalued these links. They think that the links are suspect.