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This is a really interesting question. I'd never really thought about it.

Perhaps it's just Google being spiteful as it's people use it more than G+ (Not really what I think but I don't understand why.

Maybe Google throttle back PR increases for new sites. I suppose as Pinterest is relatively new, although it has many good quality links, Google may not let achieve a greater PR than 6 for the first couple of years!? This is just wild speculation by the way.

Have you checked whether you keyword is one that is searched often? It may be that the particular keyword you have seen a jump in rankings for is not very popular.

It looks fine to me. You will need to do the same on all of your pages.

If you've just added the code you will need to wait up to a week for SEOmoz to re-crawl your website depending on when you're site crawl is scheduled.

Let me know how you get on.

Elias

Hello,

I'm not sure whether you will rank better in SERPs for including product reviews on your pages but I am sure that if you tag the reviews with properly using microformats and get rich snippets to appear for your pages in SERPs, you are certain to increase click through from SERPs.

This post explains my point in more detail http://www.seomoz.org/blog/schema-examples

Logically though, I'd expect that the reviews would keep your page fresh and add to the relevant content on that page, which should increase rankings in turn.

I hope this helps.

Elias

Hi Marco, as Marissa says - by putting the canonical tag on one page you are putting it on all of them as they are in fact the same page - they are just reached by different URLs.

Hi Marco,

It seems to me like you need to implement the canonical tag.

Site crawlers/bots will consider the following pages as different pages because of their URL and thus tell indicate to them that the content is duplicated on each page...

www.site.com/

www.site.com/index.html

By implementing the following tag on each of your sites pages (changing the URL for each page) you will tell the crawler which page they should be indexing and to ignore the other.

Here's an example of a canonical tag (to be placed within the head tag of the page)

I think this will sort out your duplication issues.

You can find more information about canonical URLs here http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

I hope this helps!

Elias

Hi Ken,

That really depends on the website and how often it is updated. If it is a site that is updated often, Google increases that rate at which it crawls your website.

The easiest thing to do, presuming you have a webmaster tools account set up for the website, is to submit the site to Google's index.

To do this, go to webmaster tools:

1. In the left hand menu select 'Diagnostics'
2. Then click on 'fetch as googlebot'
3. Click 'Fetch' toward the top of the screen (This will fetch your homepage)
4. After a few seconds the fetch status column will change to 'Success'
5. Next to this column you will have the option to 'Submit to index'
6. You will then have the choice of either submitting this URL or this URL and all linked pages
7. Select the latter and click submit

This should speed up your indexing!

Hope this helps.

Elias

Hi Steve,

I haven't seen anything that dramatic in our GA accounts.

Sounds like your just doing well!

This is probably unrelated but we did notice a higher level of direct traffic than expected at the beginning of the year for many of our accounts.

Hi Jen,

You could try increasing the amount of unique content on each page so that the stuff that is similar becomes diluted by the unique content.

School boy error! We've found the problem...

Turns out there was a div tag that had not been closed which didn't agree with Google's webcache!!

Note to anyone that has the same problem - validate your HTML!

Hi Harald,

We don't use any frames on the site so I'm not sure that this is the cause.

Although, it has opened up a new path to explore regarding the problem I'm facing.

Thanks!

Hi Marcus,

Interesting...

Thanks for the offer but it's a little bit sensitive else I'd love to take you up on it.

I'll have to do some more digging!

It's not effected rankings or instant preview - just seems a bit odd!

Hello,

Perhaps try and create a brief resource list of easy ways that they can make their websites better then send an email with a link to this resource. This maybe as a PDF download or a webpage.

Give them good tips on adding good content to their websites etc. This will make their sites better and increase the value of their links to you in turn. They'll probably also be grateful for the free advice/tips!

I'm sure it wouldn't take more than a couple of hours to put a list of resources together and email it out to all the websites.

Hope this helps!

Elias

Hello all,

Is anybody experiencing blanck page's in Google's 'Cached' view?

I'm seeing just the page background and none of the content for a couple of my pages but when I click 'View Text Only' all of teh content is there.

Strange!

I'd love to hear if anyone else is experiencing the same.

Perhaps this is something to do with the roll out of Google's updates last week?!

Thanks,
Elias

The robots.txt file does not guarantee that your pages will not show up in search results! Your best bet after password protection is adding a NoIndex meta tag to you page headers.

Google have openly said that they obey this tag (Matt Cutts).

You could create a nice badge for each retail website "Certified retailer of [...]".

The idea of having a page on your website with multiple types of badges would also be good, as the sites will be different so may need a different size/orientation of badge.By providing the code you also control the link text and the link destination to some extent.

The decision of whether to choose letter/email will really depend on the industry. I'd guess that if you're targeting the tech industry, they'd prefer an email...

I'm working on something similar at the moment - it's tricky! Good luck.

Hi Ron,

Just to reiterate Keith's response... The NoFollow links won't harm nor help your rankings! But like keith said it is important to have a diverse and natural link portfolio both in terms of follow/nofollow and anchor text.

Had your advertising campaign used followed, links you may have had a problem as Google could view these as paid links.

Are the "curse" words necessary for your website? Although the site may pass through Google's safe search - it could still offend some visitors.

Obviously, if it is integral to your site then fine but I would steer away from using any foul language on a user rather than Google bot level. You wouldn't walk into a shop and tolerate the attendant to use abusive language whether it is targeted at you or not.

Hope this helps!

Thanks Joanna,

I think I'll request a few Demos to see how they defer!

Would love to see your post about this!

Hi Pedro,

Yes, I've used Google AdWords before but I'm looking for something a bit more like kenshoo or searchforce.

Just looking for some advice from people who've used these kind of tools in the past.