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Hi Brian, Welcome! To change your competitors in your campaigns please go to the campaign settings (top right) then you can edit your "Competitor Sites" (the pen icon). I hope this helps.

Hey Ryan, it will be the same URL but we won't display the complicated JS (which the bot unfortunately can't interpret) to the googlebot, just the same structure. Thanks for your help, I'm afraid despite your best efforts, I'm still not sure what the best practice is here... Anyone? Thanks, Frank

Great inputs Gavo, Thx a ton!

Oh yes absolutely I hadn't caught that. That will certainly help you rank better but you should be sure that this is the branding you want. Branding may be the single most important aspect of your company, so lock it down and roll with it. Good luck!

Correct to assume but incorrect to think that's enough to get ranked. "Link juice" decays rather rapidly as it spreads out across your site. So yes, your rankings will fall. What you need to do is get a marketing campaign going. Build content, gain organic links, and continue to grow engagement. You've got the technical aspect sorted (it seems) so now it's time to get people coming to your site. Social/blog/etc to build your community. Good luck!

I don't control the original site, it's a SEO directory. There are links from it to a page on my site that I want to remove, so I figure I'll 404 the page on my site and re-direct the url back to the directory site. It is rhetorical given that you've already confirmed that it's enough to 404 the page.

Hi Nicholas, Option 2 is better because the hyphens actually separate words, and so robots (like Googlebot) read them as individual words rather than alloneword. Matt Cutts video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcSFsQyct8 on underscores vs. hyphens (not quite your question, but it appears that underscores are 'read' by Google in the same way as your first example. All the best, Amelia

Hi Kurt, I agree, just wanted to get some feedback before i proposed it to the development team. Always good to go in that room with some back-up knowledge. Thanks, Ryan

Great, Now all is okay Thanks so much for replies @Jesse @Chris Best, Teginder

OK, I understand now. Looking at the source code I think it is making it hard for a crawler (Moz or Google) to make sense of it. Combine that with the AJAX running as it is I think it is not straightforward for a person to navigate either - just saying it how it is for me as a visitor to the site With regard to Google, I think this is further compounded for them to relate what they can crawl to pages it will serve as relevant results for a search. On the AJAX stuff this blog post by Matthew Edgar on Moz may help: Can Google Really Access Content in JavaScript? Really? Particularly striking for me is what Matthew says at the end: Yes, Google can execute some JavaScript to find content but Google has limitations on what it can do, and what it can understand. The best practice remains the same: put the content you want Google to crawl and index in basic HTML. For example, use jQuery tabs to put the content on one file instead of AJAX tabs that spreads out the content across several files. In short, make it easy for Google to access your content. Sorry, I don't mean for my thoughts to be seen as negative, but I hope the info helps you in some way. Peter

You are very welcome, Catherine.

Sorry you didn't get a response to this Matt. I'm closing it down since it was so long ago. Craig

Anthony, If those pages are important pages or you can say, do you have targeted main keywords on this page? then it will affect. If they are just contact-us form pages or similar like that, then it won't affect. Google can understand these kind of pages very well. So don't worry. It will not affect but also it will not give you any benefits too. So it would be great if you can add some unique content on those pages. some how It will help you.

Hello and thank you for reaching out to us! This is Abe from the Moz Help Team. We recently experienced a delay in receiving this information from Bing and are working on a fix right now. Sorry for this delay, we expect the data to be correct by this weekend.

Monkey wrenches always welcome! Thanks! I'll look further...