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Deacyde, Your response about the user was good. You spend days and days researching keywords and sometimes you get lost in the weeds and forget what the whole thing is all about.

Using the Moz bar I know that I am doing those technical SEO pieces much better than they are. All of the reasonable explanations seem to go in my favor. Just still confused.

Hi, I would track both. Post-Hummingbird, Google has gotten much better at understanding synonymity - if you choose to optimize for one consistently, Google is going to understand your pages are still relevant for related queries, even when you may not have specifically optimized for them. This is why a lot of people are noticing that Google is modifying their how their Title Tags display in the SERPs - they're tailoring them to the queries for improved CTR but they can do that only because they know the modifications are still highly relevant to the listed page. Hope this helps. Thanks

Thank you Paul. Lessons learned: Do track both www and non-www sites separately as you suggested. I noticed on the Google Webmaster Tool, it even recommends tracking https if the site moves to the secure environment from http. I do see the results being slightly different, but not a lot. The big difference in the results I noted earlier (site crawl issues) was because the scanning was still in progress. After a couple of days, the numbers got much closer together.

So I would recommend you mod_rewrite to a SEO friendly search page for your docs results. e.g. newsites.com/resources/search/technical-documents/ and redirect to that If not possible, I would still simply redirect to the search results page. Users want to see those docs so redirecting them anywhere else will just cause them to bounce.

We all agree that you should get rid of those 302's . Then, Im kind of getting the idea... So, you're saying the possible solution: Turn the category pages into landing pages. It's logical to me too. Of course making that move, will need well organization and a bit of preparation, so as nothing gets lost.

No problem, glad to help!

Thank you very much for this answer!

That's partially a question of how soon the linking pages get indexed/recrawled, but in general it's very fast. On our last project where we had an issue like this it only took ~4 days before our pages were showing up correctly in the search results. We were targeting two pages specifically, and built around 8 links per page. Keep in mind though that the homepage is almost certainly going to be stronger than any of your other pages, so rankings might slip a bit at first when the engines start to attribute the pages correctly.

Hi Paul, When looking to see if a redirect is the right thing to do, I  would do a little more digging into the old domain first. Check to make sure there there was no penalty or bad links. Did you purchase this with a view to trying to use the old URL to boost your French Polishing page, or were you going to create a new site? I wouldn't be rushing to redirect this without knowing a lot more about the history first of all, otherwise you might be causing yourself problems. -Andy

If you are using niche specific directories I think they will be fine. The directories you need to stay away from are sites like freeSEOdirectory.info Do your research and see if the site is active, if they have quality content, if they have an approval process on new business owners been added.

Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. I think I can help explain what's going on here. Open Site Explorer is powered by our Mozscape Index, which updates roughly every 4 weeks. Our most recent update was June 22nd, and the next one is scheduled for July 26th. (You can check on the next scheduled update any time from this page.) That means that the most recent data we have for your Page Social Metrics is from the 22nd of last month. If you've been doing lots of sharing and posting more recently than that, Open Site Explorer won't reflect those numbers yet. I would expect to see your Page Social Metrics increase with the next index update. I hope this helps! If you have more questions, feel free to write in to help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort you out!

I would do some keyword research and get into some content marketing. Moz's beginner's guide to SEO has plenty of resources to help get you started.

Hi Cornelius, It really depends on how big your blog/site/whatever is and how many views it's attracting. Usually a good ad serving network to start with is Google Adsense. If you really work with a million plus ad impressions on a monthly basis I would really start considering going for an adserver like OpenX or Google DFP SMB. Then you can serve whatever ads you'd like to. Martijn.

I'd be interested in this feature too....like the ability to download your entire list in excel, change/update the labels and then re-upload it. Moz please consider developing it.

Hi there. Well, there are several things you can do to avoid cannibalization: When creating pages for individual webinars - do not post/duplicate content from product pages, just write a description what webinar is about + typical info about webinar - times, speaker info etc. If you do post duplicate content from product pages - use either meta robots or robots.txt to prevent indexing those pages. Add canonical links from these webinar pages to product pages to "redirect" all the juice and rankings. I think these are the ways to do it, #1 is the way I'd approach it. Hope this helps.

Hi Jonathon, Below is what I have in my htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]