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Are you sure that the plugin is indexing Pages as well v.s. Posts?

Many thanks , I didn't think it looked like something google would approve of. Will stay clear of that idea then. thanks Pete

Open Site Explorer only updates once a month or so. You have to figure some delay in it. The last update currently was June 9th, the next is on July 21st. You also have to figure that between updates it is compiling data the whole time as well. So if you have a link that was removed July 1st, it could still show in the next update if Rogerbot crawled the link before July 1st.

First of all, let me see if I understood well the situation... You are going to have to websites: .co.uk targeting Great Britain .com targeting USA and CA And then you want to use IP detection for redirecting users to the "correct" website depending on their location... Honestly, I don't like this tecnique... in the 90% of the cases googlebot comes from an USA IP... if you redirect via IP detection you are always redirecting googlebot to the USA/CA website, substantially not letting it to enter and crawl the UK one. as a user who travels a lot, I hate when a website always redirects me to the version it consider I am interested about just because of the IP address. For instance, if I am in Great Britain for travel and I want to visit the USA version of your site because I most interested in it (eg: because of currencies, or because my account is for the USA site), I would rant like a troll if you were obliging me to use the GB version. I always consider that the best option is offering the users (and the bots) to visit the website version they want  but using this "tactic": if you detect (from IP or Browser agent) that somehow located in the USA/CA entered in the UK site, you can present an alert saying >>> "We saw you're visiting us from the USA/CA. Maybe you are more interested in visiting our USA website [link to your .com version]" This is what Amazon does. As an alternative, use redirection based on user browser detection and not IP. That is safer in regards to googlebot. Said that, the redirection should be automatic just the first time someone enters in your site, and not always present. With this I mean that if someone from USA enters in your .co.uk site, he will be redirected to the .com, but once landed in the .com site, he will be eventually able to click on the link pointing to the .co.uk  and not being redirected again the to american version.

That may be the case - the reports should all be sent from noreply@moz.com but they should be coming through now.

If you go the "quality content" route and can only produce a small number of new articles per month, the best thing to do is to produce only "evergreen" content that can be recycled out to the front page.  That will give the appearance of activity and diversity - at least to visitors with a good memory who have not been visiting your site for a long time. Also, if you have a page of "news" where you link to articles on other websites about industry trends or interesting topics.  That can develop a following of thousands of people who visit your site frequently just to check that page - or subscribe to your feed.

There can be no benefit to doing this Jawahar. Set up some tracking of phrases and then tell everyone to stop checking all the time. If Google sees a lot of the same searches and clicks coming from the same IP, it might look unnatural to them. -Andy

Hi Darren, That should fix all of your issues, but if you want a hand to confirm this when done, drop me a message here or PM me and I will be happy to take a look for you. You could also have a look here for more information if you wish? -Andy

**Everett Sizemore - Director, R&D and Special Projects at Inflow:  **Use the Google Scraper Report form. Thanks.  I didn't know about this. If that doesn't work, submit a DMCA complaint to Google. This does work.  We submit dozens of DMCAs to Google every month.  We also send notices to sites who have used our content but might know understand copyright infringement. Everett Sizemore - Director, R&D and Special Projects at Inflow Endorsed 2 minutes ago Until Manoj gives us the URLs so we can look into it ourselves, I'd have to say this is the best answer: Google sucks sometimes. Use the Google Scraper Report form. If that doesn't work, submit a DMCA complaint to Google.

Hello Li Chu, Did the display on the page change? For example, are people now seeing the product name in a different place / font? It's really difficult to predict what can happen to conversions when major changes are made across an entire site. It could be a conversion rate optimization issue if your traffic has stayed about the same but sales / conversions have dropped. If traffic dropped it could be something entirely different, as discussed by others. Generally speaking, yes the H1 on product pages should be the product name. The H1 on category pages should be the category name - those both of these can be optimized.

Hello John, I wouldn't assume that modernizr actually created a page. More likely, the relative path to the minified javascript file was found by Google in your source code, and Google tried to access it. Perhaps the path was wrong (e.g. /js/ exists off the root, not within that "/accidents..." folder) so when Google tried to access that resource it could not be found. I would leave it as-is if the URL produces a 404 status code. However, I would also find the code on that page and see whether it uses the correct path or not. You don't want to block those files, but you don't want Google wasting crawl budget on pages that don't exist either. If you can't figure out what's causing it I would contact the folks at modernizr. You can see their Twitter profiles at the bottom of this page: http://modernizr.com/ .

We both posted at the same time.  We both recommended Rand's post and I like how you say that sometimes the site or the niche might not require sending out the entire United States Navy.

Gianluca. that is excellent news. Just curious since this is quite an important issue for us. Do you speak from own experience with a similar case? I did not find anywhere other references that contextual links should be fine. Do you remember anybody who wrote about it in the past? Just noticed that tripadvisor actually removed now all their contextual links to alternative language versions that they used to have in their footer. Instead they now implemented a flag drodpown where contextual links are not showing up anymore in the sourcecode.

thanks everybody. excellent advice. I will just limit to make some tests of  products for now to see how it will affect ranking.

Hey Carla, I'm not entirely sure what you're saying with: "one of the crawl reports is showing tons of 404's for the "smartphone" bot and with very recent crawl dates. If our website is responsive, and we do not have a mobile version of the website I do not understand why the desktop report version has tons of 404's and yet the smartphone does not. I think I am not understanding something conceptually." You say that the smartphone bot is seeing tons of 404s and the desktop report is showing tons of 404s, but the smartphone does not. If you can clarify that, I can probably better answer your question. However, the answer is likely that Google may decide not to crawl URLs that it has already identified as 404s in one context. That is to say if they identify URLs on the mobile device as 404s they will know not to crawl them if they encounter them on desktop and vice versa. -Mike

Thanks, the reason I ask is we're updating an SEO audit snapshot tool we have and we want to use the minimum amount of data points to get a score. I was hoping that DA could be used to represent link/social signals as a whole. Since scoring social is a bit tricky. We want to get away from trying to score everything. Since the more things you try to score the more room for error their really is. This would serve as a snapshot of SEO performance and not an in-depth analysis. We broke our snapshot analysis into 4 parts: Website Influence - How influential does a website appear (links, social etc -This is where DA comes in) Satisfaction Rate - Do visitors appear to be satisfied with the website (Reverse of bounce rate) Brand Recognition - Is there a search demand for the brand. Search Visibility - Is Google rewarding the website with search visibility? We felt if we could score these three things it'd give us a snapshot of how a website could be doing. A deeper analysis would be required to get a more accurate picture.

I did get that email this morning but my issue is that those issues are really showing up in my GWT (see attached picture to my initial post).