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804 error preventing website being crawled
I'm afraid that's the case if you're using Cloudfront Our system really ought to be able to handle that type of configuration, but it's proving to be quite an undertaking to make those changes from an engineering perspective. So, I'm not really able to say when we'll be able to accommodate SNI with our crawler. Sorry for the trouble!
Link Explorer | | JordanRailsback0 -
Subpages and Title tags
This is great advice. And don't forget in Search Console (Webmaster Tools) under Crawl in the sidebar you can use the URL Parameters tool to tell Google which parameters are used to paginate. You're directly telling Google then that that's how you would like those pages to be seen. In addition to using rel="prev"/"next".
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Ria_0 -
Excellent performance in BING, terrible performance in GOOGLE
Dirk, We make use of the official Taobao API. Just as the other hunderds of 'taobao agents'. Sander
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | benhond0 -
Would it be a valid "link building' strategy to pay youtube video owners, to link to our company website in the decription of a certain video. ( For popular video's that are relevant )
Unnatural linking -- including paying for links -- is against Google's guidelines and can get you penalized. Additionally, the vast majority of YouTube traffic never leaves YouTube. YouTube is a great channel for branding, but not a great channel for getting people back to your website.
Link Building | | EricaMcGillivray0 -
App Indexing
Thanks Josh It would be great if you can share the screenshot of the same Is there any method of checking whether app is indexed or not?
Technical SEO Issues | | Obbserv0 -
Could I optimize my homepage anymore ?
Tons of great answers in here! I also recommend checking out Rand's latest blog post, which addresses this questions of "so my site's optimized, what do I do now?"
Technical SEO Issues | | EricaMcGillivray0 -
Pyramid link structure - how to noindex, nofollow
Hi there, I see what you're trying to do, and I think I understand it. You're attempting to conserve your link equity and flow it only to the most important pages, or what we use to call "pagerank sculpting." The good news is you don't really need to worry about it. These days, adding nofollow to your links doesn't really increase the equity flowing through the followed links. And in fact, you could be shooting yourself in the proverbial foot by denying equity passing links to your lower product pages. Best time to use nofollow for internal pages is typically to increase crawling efficiency, or to prevent bots from visiting pages you don't want indexed anyway. Attempting to scuplt link equity in this way could cause lots of unintended negative consequences and my advice would be in most cases to let your link equity flow freely throughout your site in a way that was natural to both humans and bots alike. Best of luck!
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Cyrus-Shepard0 -
Difference between anchor text pointing to an article in our section pages and the title of our article
Hi Panagiotis Triantopoulos, There isn't any hard and fast rule for it. So, go ahead with a different anchor text without a doubt. As far as it's making sense w.r.t the linked article (descriptive enough to talk about the article theme), its good to go. Hope that answers!
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | _nitman0 -
Studies showing that social sharing does/doesn't affect rankings?
I hear you loud and clear re. studying different query spaces. Do we know that in those query spaces where social shares correlate it is not actually down to links i.e can we remove the influence of links from the studies?
Search Engine Trends | | QubaSEO0 -
Best Sitemap Generator XML
Hi, I'm working on a website with more than 10 million URLs and hence, couldn't rely on these tools for this. Wrote a script to generate the XML sitemap, it takes a text file with all the URLs and generates the required XML sitemap considering 50,000 URLs per sitemap limit etc. things. Let me know if you have list of URLs with you and interested in generating it at your own (you can ask your development team to integrate this script for auto-generation etc. as well), I'll share the script with you. Cheers!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | _nitman0 -
Keyword Difficulty Search Results: Can't tell which search engine
Yes I understand that but German language engine can still have English results so that does not help. I hope MOZ team fixes this issue. Thank you!
Other Research Tools | | WagMoreBarkLess0 -
In 2015, How Important is having a Local IP address (rather than a cheaper hosting overseas)?
Hi Brian,oo problem, happy it helped! Of course- it's always better to confirm with someone else when there's a lot at stake!
Local Listings | | ZoeRigley1 -
Looking into content
Hi Veebs, The original page referenced is 404 (gone). I scanned 250 of your pages using Siteliner.com and Screaming Frog. I didn't see any more /self/self/self type links. Do you have another page that is showing the same issue? Thanks, Don
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | donford0