Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Awesome!  Thank you so much for the advice Ryan!

Mercreece SEOMoz do a weekly introduction webinar. It's every Friday and you'll get shown around the tools and be able to ask questions relating to it. Check here and you can reserve your spot http://www.seomoz.org/webinars

Thanks Shelly. My bad...2 different questions in the same question :} My current CMS where steripen.com is, doesn't provide me ability  to integrate wordpress or any other blog tools. It's a standalone 3rd party cms platform. Unfortunately the blogging tools are antiquated so short-term I am forced with subdomain. I decided to look at it that "I can provide my users with the best presentation and utility of info about SteriPEN by using the subdomain (and WordPress)." I'll have to live with the seo consequences for now until we overhaul steripen.com soon. In terms of posting to the microblogs, this to me is like whoring content. Unless I can build the blogs in such a way that they are non-SteriPEN branded niche blogs focused on a topic, I just don't see it. And I don't have the time/money to invest in that right now. Tim

You can use the 'top pages' tab on OSE to see the shares of all the top pages on a particular site. You could then download this data to csv and sort by the shares column to rank it by the most shares. EDIT - Scratch that, just looked it only gives you the top 25 pages with shares Come on SEOMoz! We want all pages included.

Thanks for the responses. I tend to agree, but my concern is the "permanent" nature of a 301. I assume they will re-crawl the old URLs and replace the previous redirects with the new ones eventually.

It looks like you did a big mess in your blog, SeoMOZ says "Using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which URL should be seen as canonical." and nothing more. How to use - description is in On-Page Report Card in Critical Factors section. "ExplanationIf the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL." Take Care, M.

Tried to set up my campaign to look at the root domain, but it said that my website is set up as a subdomain automatically converted this step of the process to "subdomain". I believe this would be due to either the root domain being redirected to the subdomain, or there not being any content on the root domain address. If another mozzer does not offer a definitive answer, try contacting the SEOmoz help desk for more information. When you say "choose" one version of my site, do you mean as far as what SEOMoz crawls? Or are you suggesting I make a change to the site itself? The site itself. You have one website and it's content should only be available via 1 address. Think of it this way. You can create a website at the address "mysite.com". Next, you create another site at the URL "www.mysite.com" which is an exact duplicate of the "mysite.com" site. This is exactly what you have done. You can even repeat the process further and create subdomains such as "www1.mysite.com". Each subdomain is a duplicate of the main domain and causes confusion for users and search engines alike. Resolve this confusion. Choose ONE way to present your site and remain consistent. The blog is, I believe, set up as a subdomain (with www.blogs.aerohive.com) and it is hosted by a third-party. The URL "blogs.aerohive.com" is indeed hosted elsewhere, but the URL "www.blogs.aerohive.com" is hosted at the same location as your main site. It is a mirror of your main site. Remove this subdomain. I am trying to understand what was set up correctly or incorrectly within SEOMoz and what can fix and what I can fix with my website Presently there are two major issues which need to be resolved. Both issues are with your website itself, not the SEOmoz tools. If you have managed hosting, the easiest step is to call or open a ticket with your hosting provider and make two requests: 1. Add a 301 to redirect all non-www traffic to it's www equivalent 2. Delete the www.blogs.aerohive.com subdomain You should be able to copy and paste the above two requests and paste it into a ticket. Your hosting provider should completely understand what actions are necessary.

agreed, that would make the issue a lot easier.  the problem is that the page above the product page needs to show all colors.  i don't think swatches are an option.

I have read articles where people were using blackhat seo tactics through javascript thinking that google does not analyze it and were caught. Apparently they do analyze javascript. This analysis is actually not difficult to achieve. All you need is a javascript interpreter, like spider monkey. Im sure google can write something themselves without even using a third party product. This is computatively intensive however. So google might spider the page and then run an analysis several weeks later off the live internet with one of their background computers. So whatever is in javascript may not be picked immediately but will probably be picked eventually.

There are a few possible issues at play. The first thing you might do is look at your URL structure as you are navigating through your categories, products/SKUs. 1. If you are filtering and sorting without the URL structure changing, getting properly indexed will be your challenge.  Noindex vs.canonical is moot in this case. 2. If you are are filtering and sorting and the URL is changing with every parameter change, then you have to worry about duplicate content.  Robots.txt vs. canonical steps into the game and here's an example that I fell illustrates it best.  As you'll see, there are more ways than one and it will come down to which one is most easily done for your specific site while achieving the link structure that you desire. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical If you are using AJAX, a good xml sitemap is your lifeblood. Good luck!

haha. I was originally told by a representative that they would spend at least 5 to 7 hours a week on our SEO with a dedicated account manager and that they had 8 people in house to do links, copywriting etc. Then I called the owner of the company. He said "oh no, that isn't right, it is more like 10 hours per month." He wasn't sure why the site packages listed it incorrectly. Then he mentioned that they have a "network" of support - so basically no one in house. He also said " yeah man" a lot. I don't know which is more difficult...doing SEO on my own...or finding a reputable SEO company. Needless to say I am not going with the SEO Godfather.

SEO for large websites is different than SEO for small or mid-sized websites. Zappos.com has over 6 million pages indexed by Google. Having 200 footer links is very helpful for the search engines in this situation. Go back to the days of, "every page in 3 clicks". It's still a sound policy as it makes it easier for the search engines to not only find pages, but the pages can still have enough Page Rank to be viable and not supplemental. I picked several unusual shoes (well, at least unusual to me). For each shoe I was able to get to it's specific product page in 3 or 4 clicks. Even though some shoe brands or styles have paginated listings going 30+ deep - Zappos.com has found a way to provide a much quicker path to the product pages. Rottentomatoes.com also has a slick footer navigation that gets to any movie within 3 clicks.

We have the same issue-- our customers are located around the country and when we had AdWords campaigns we targeted certain cites, but always coast-to-coast. Our solution has been to attack certain cities with special pages, so we can try to rank for "keyword seattle" and "keyword miami" This is sort of working, so far. I know that isn't possible for every business, just wanted to share that you're not alone.

Thanks to all for the great feedback. I only wish I had read this last week. Unfortunately I created a subdomain. Unfortunately our primary domain is fairly antiquated and not conducive to blogging/social sharing, etc. (legacy to my arrival) so I guess in the  short/intermediate term I had no choice until we overhaul the website next year.