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  • Hi Akram, In your case, you can still optimise other pizza+bag keywords on other pages. For instance, just say you wanted to optimise a keyword like "pizza bag new york", you could target this then on another page. Though you should make sure that the words "pizza", "bag" and "new york" on in the title and H1 tags of that webpage and on no other pages. Content on that page should also include those words. The overlapping keyword though is obviously "pizza bags", a word that would then be shared on multiple pages. There are two things to say about this... firstly, this is one of many reasons why generic keywords are never a great idea to target, secondly, to signal to google that the page you have designated for "pizza bags" is really to be targeted, you should then have a good onsite linking/offsite optimisation strategy... this would involve using "pizza bags" in the anchor text of links where fitting and relevant to do so. For links to the pizza bags new york page, you would use the anchor text "pizza bags new york" in moderation and where fitting and relevant to do so. This will signal to google which page is the best page to rank. All the best!

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | Gavo
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  • Thanks for commenting Jen, The seller is the manufacturer so yes. Strange one since they (manufacturers site) should and probably will rank higher since the established brand and descriptions been live for a lot longer than on Amzn, but Amazon likely to rank well too due to authority and with time as you mention extra content via reviews etc etc Hence presume fine to simply copy and paste description from manufacturers website into manufacturers amazon descriptions.  Since site should rank better and Amazon will differentiate over time with reviews etc ? cheers dan

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | Dan-Lawrence
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  • If directories are all you can think of, this list should get your head buzzing with new ideas: http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

    Link Building | | TakeshiYoung
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  • Hi Federico, Thanks a lot for your response. Much appriciated. I will start implementing this and see what happens. Regards.

    Technical SEO Issues | | B.Great
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  • According to Moz my anchor text for 'balloon' is from 3 root domains and 4 links containing anchor text?

    Search Engine Trends | | balloon.co.uk
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  • If it makes you feel any better, this is the solution about once a month in Q&A. You're not the first, and you certainly won't be the last!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | KeriMorgret
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  • I know it's a little late, but my site has the same problem, and it's annoying to see. I know next time google crawl my site, I will have a better ranking, but its been over a month now. So if anybody has a solution to my problem I would be happy Regards Nicklas

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nicklas6300
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  • I would recommend that you place everything in at once and get all your pages indexed as soon as you can. However, you continually look to update and make changes to the content of those pages. This will help to signal to google that you website content is being updated and is staying fresh and relevant. A blog would be a great idea for you and is an effective device for SEO. Installing a blog and adding posts will further help to 1) provide useful content to your users 2) keep your site fresh and updated 3) generate links if you have exceptional and promote your blog well. These aspects if done well, and provided your site is properly onsite optimised, will help your rankings improve. All the best!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Gavo
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  • Thanks Gianluca Fiorelli, for your thorough answer, We will consider ending each Meta Title with "- Vakantiehuizen-Italie.nl". We will probably first test some individual pages. I asked the question concerning the C Block links because we are interlinking between our different EMD's. Which could look suspicious.. Moreover, sometimes I encounter websites where I can submit all three EMD's in once. Which results in a (many) links to the three EMD's from the same C-Block. I am still not sure if I should worry though...

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | TT_Vakantiehuizen
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  • Oleg is correct, you need a 301 to solve this ASAP. However, this method only works for Apache servers. You need to determine what type of server the domain in question is being hosted on. It will either be a Linux based Apache server or a Windows IIS environment. If it is the latter your method of redirecting will be entirely difficult. Google "how to 301 in IIS" for instructions, but really your hosting provider should be able to do this for you.

    Technical SEO Issues | | jesse-landry
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  • I don't have a ready answer for that. If you could email us at help@moz.com and let us know what browser you're using, and any type of pattern of being logged out, that would be really helpful. Thanks!

    Technical Support | | KeriMorgret
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  • I have done that for a blog with Dynamic content before. You could just add a block of text in the widget area titled "About Us".

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ToddFosterSEO
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  • Yesterday another crawl failed. Moz's Help team told me on the 15th of November: 'Our engineers are looking at this now and I should have news for you today. Sorry for the delay, I'm sure we can figure this one out.' Since that day I haven't received one message from the Help team, very disappointing. I'm missing the data of one month now and this is not acceptable. Marcel

    Moz Tools | | MarcelMoz
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  • Hi Jen We are in the fortunate/crazy situation where we have a custom CMS so the actual redirects are not really a problem from a technical standpoint, it is just wondering if we should The main site - the biggest and busiest - has a discussion board and a shop, and a blog which the others don't so the articles are about 10% of the indexed content, and about 11% are unique.. the other 2 sites, one has 0.003% unique articles and the other 1.829% ... sounds pretty bad when I put it like that! We haven't seen a noticeable dip, just general disappointing performance, I think I will try and rope someone into doing a full CSI on the data Have you seen anywhere that has recovered from a comparable situation? The pondering at this end was that the damage was already done, and that was that. thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Fammy
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  • Hi! If you both could submit a ticket to help@moz.com than we can take a look at your accounts and see what is going on. It's hard to say for certain what is causing the issue without us taking a look at your campaigns. I look forward to hearing for you! Cheers, Steffany

    Other Questions | | StefPachall
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  • Looks fine to me. Ran it through several xml sitemap validators and they all came back as valid. Only change that would make sense to make it to update the urlset line to: <urlset xmlns:xsi="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</a>" xmlns:image="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1</a>" xsi:schemaLocation="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd</a>" xmlns="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9</a>"> (Taken from Yoast)

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | OlegKorneitchouk
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