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  • Hi Ravi When you select "Text-only version", it's showing you the way that Googlebot, or potentially other robots and crawlers, see your website. This is an important tool because it can tell you if Google is picking up content on your site. If you see nothing, then Google can't see your content, and you need to change this. Luckily for you, Google is seeing content. However, it looks like you may be missing some basic SEO opportunities on this page - take a look at On-Page Factors. Here's a good post from Boostability Blog and SEO Theory with some good information on Google's cache. Hope this all helps! Good luck!

    Technical SEO Issues | | PatrickDelehanty
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  • It's indeed a paid option. I think it’s the most important that the server is responding correctly at the moment and you find out what caused the errors. If you check any pages with a 503 status manually, do they respond? A other option is to check the server logs if you can find out anything there or call your hosting provider and ask them why the server is giving 503 errors. If you didn’t cause the problems it’s important to know what did since they may come back and cause your website to stop working correctly again. Webmaster tools will only give you an overview of what Google finds at the moment they visit your website. So it might not give you the most accurate answer to what caused the problem.

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | Bob_van_Biezen
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  • Hey Shalin, Assuming you have a large number of comments to deal with on those pages, the best option would probably be to delete those manual posts, then import the full 2000 posts using Wordpress's native import/export funtions, and then delete the posts you don't want. This process should only take 1-3 hours and is easier than your other options below. It's possible to get into SQL and export just the comments table, but because you've manually created those new posts, you would have to manually rewrite all of the post ids that the comments are tied to, and delete all of the irrelevant comments after that.. Plus, the possibility of a small typo messing up the import is high.

    Web Design | | KaneJamison
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  • Hi Jason With the great information above from Matt and Alick, I suggest you take a look at a similar question and answer from earlier in the forum. I discuss some tips and resources that could help get you started on seeing some headway with your PA and DA. Read that here. Let me know if you need anymore help! Good luck, sir!

    Link Explorer | | PatrickDelehanty
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  • Howdy! Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble! Unfortunately, we're not partnered with Hotfrog, so we aren't able to force them to share this information with us. We've checked Hotfrog's API, but if they're not showing that listing information to us, then there's no way for us to display the information within your Moz Local listing. So, the best thing I could recommend would be to contact Hotfrog directly, and ask them to make sure that the listing is fully visible to Moz

    Moz Local | | JordanRailsback
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  • Dirk - thanks for posting the link to the personalization software and SEO question - I was trying to find that to give you credit - great information!

    International Issues | | PatrickDelehanty
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  • Yes, that is what is happening. Google will often use the title that is on the page, but it does not always do that. It will use a different title if it thinks a different title is more relevant to the searcher's intent. This is especially true if the content on the page does not match the title. (For example, on the Elexio page, the words "Church Management Software" are not even present on the page, other than the title, description, and schema.)

    Branding / Brand Awareness | | Linda-Vassily
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  • But it's the date that makes them different! As in if I was specifically looking for info on 2013 I wouldn't WANT the 2014 page to be served and vice versa. I would leave them both indexed - assuming the data is entirely different in each.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | CommT
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  • Hi there Remove the canonical - consider having both pages ranking a good thing. I don't know why you would canonicalize your homepage to an internal page, don't do that! Let your homepage be brandname.com and keep your internal page the brandname.com/cotton-tees - that's just a best practice and logical. Your homepage should NOT be an internal page - it should be the face of your web presence and a way to showcase all of the great internal content on the website. I would also look into opportunities to link to that internal page off the homepage. Hope this helps - good luck!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | PatrickDelehanty
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  • Hi There This seems like a way to do custom 301 redirects - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24795465/use-301-redirect-in-google-blogger-blogspot - is that method possible for you?

    Technical SEO Issues | | evolvingSEO
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  • Patrick, Thank you very much for all the pointers. This is an exhaustive list. We will take a deeper look at your response and get our hands on this this month. We did some of the things you mentioned already but we will try one by one again and share which worked and not worked. Thank you

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | joony
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  • Apologies not just fortnightly , you can set the frequency of backup yourself.... that just what i have set in the past James

    Content & Blogging | | Antony_Towle
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  • The answers above remain valid - check this video of Matt Cutts: http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-one-page-two-links-page-counted-first-link-192718 - interesting part is at 0:15 - summarising - having multiple links to the same page should be the least of your worries - probably you have more important SEO issues to tackle. rgds, Dirk

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | DirkC
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  • Hi there I would consider this duplicate content. What I would do is take the content on the page and make it unique to the location you're trying to service. Every location and user from that location is unique. How can you benefit these users? Why are your offers better? There are a lot of opportunities to create unique content here, I suggest you start! Hope this helps! Good luck!

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | PatrickDelehanty
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  • Hi Dirk, Sorry i only just picked up your message! Thanks again for your response! I will try adding what you have suggested, when you /folder_to_be_removed/ - can you explain what that means?

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | edward-may
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  • Hi Craig, In general - the structure looks ok - just wondering how you going to manage to keep 1mio products a reasonable number of clicks from the homepage. rgds Dirk

    Technical SEO Issues | | DirkC
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  • Hi Alan First - don't noindex pages to increase your authority numbers. That's not going to help. Especially if those pages do hold value. You need to give your site an honest and unbiased assessment. I would take a look at the following: Domain Authority Page Authority I would read the following to see if your content can be cleaned up or enhanced: How To Do a Content Audit - Step-by-Step I would read this to get a good competitive analysis going: The Illustrated SEO Competitive Analysis Workflow I would read the following to see if you can clean up any backlink related issues: Link Audit Guide for Effective Link Removals & Risk Mitigation The reason being - these authority numbers are pretty holistic and not just content related. You have to look at multiple facets to increase these numbers - it takes a lot of honest research and critiques of your site to make sure these numbers increase. They aren't related to one specific aspect of your site. I would also take a look at the on-site SEO factors to make sure you have all the foundational aspects taken care of. Here's a great technical checklist as well. Hope these all help! There's a lot of angles to look at - good luck!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | PatrickDelehanty
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