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Of course I should also add, if you really want G Site Crawler, you could run a virtual windows on your Mac and carry on using it that way. I run windows on my mac using VMware Fusion:

VMware Fusion

One of my favourites is an online generator called sitemapdoc:

Sitemapdoc.com

I believe it has all the features you are looking for.

Adam.

You absolutely should not make the links nofollow. Google does not mention making the links no follow and as far as I know, I don't think the guys at SEOmoz would recommend you to make the links nofollow. This is because you would miss out on link juice to these inner pages by making the links nofollow.

Here is a link which will provide you more information about using rel="next" rel="prev"

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

Hope this helps,

Adam.

It would appear that you are creating duplicates of your articles/posts which is why Google is indexing the two urls. Your question should therefore by how are you creating duplicates of your articles/posts?

I suspect the problem lies with your CMS. Either a setting somewhere or a conflicting plugin could be the cause but without knowing what CMS you are using I can only speculate.

As I said below, you do not need unique titles for these pages. When using pagination on a blog i.e. blog?page=4 and blog?page=5 you cannot avoid having the same page titles. Yes you should have unique page titles wherever possible but this is a case where it is not.

Again, you should make sure to use rel="next" and rel="prev" which you can find out more information about in the link I provided.

I'm not sure what problem you're having exactly as Excel is usually compatible with CSV files and I've had no problem with downloaded reports from SEOmoz.

It sounds like you may be having an issue with the delimiter but I can't say for sure without seeing exactly what you're talking about. You can find a guide about how to import a delimited file in Excel here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4449036_import-delimited-file-excel.html 

Hope that helps.

First I have to ask what you mean by "incorrect" url? Do you mean the url has been spelt incorrectly? Or do you mean that the url does not have the correct keyword included? Or.... etc.

Without understanding what you mean by "incorrect" url I can only advise based on what you've said. If you have multiple urls with the same content and you would like to keep one then I would suggest you keep the page with the most value. In this case it is obviously the page with FB likes and higher Google ranking.

This is not a major issue as long as you include the rel="next" and rel="prev" for the paginated content.

You can read more about this at Google here:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

Adam.

There are certainly quite a few issues with the SEO of your site and many areas where you could look to improve.

Firstly, you mention that your site has been penalized. Why do you think your site has been penalized? I am not suggesting that your site has or has not been penalized but many people's first reaction is that their site has been penalized when in fact they have just suffered a drop in rankings. Having looked at your site, there are some issues that might have caused a penalty but I couldn't say for sure without more info.

So, have you been tracking your rankings within the PRO Dashboard? Have you noticed considerable drops in rankings for your main keywords? If so then this could indicate a penalty.

Have you setup Google Webmaster Tools? If so then have you received any messages from Google regarding a penalty or other issues? This will give you a clearer picture as to whether you have been penalized and why.

Having looked at your backlink profile, I can see several issues that could potentially have caused some problems. Firstly, your anchors have been massively over optimized with commercial terms. This was a massive factor in the recent Penguin update which Ryan has kindly given you a link to. You also seem to have a lot of spammy links from fairly obvious link farms which could also be causing you problems.

Finally, your on-page optimization could be significantly improved, I won't list all the issues here.

Anyway, I hope that's given you a few ideas to get started on.

Adam.

Hi Pete,

Personally, I always try to encourage site owners to incorporate their blogs on their domains rather than create a new domain. This way your blog will benefit from the domain authority of your existing site and your existing site will benefit from the (hopefully) fresh, updated content of your blog.

Hope this helps.

Adam.

Hi Cesar,

There is no need to be so worried. You certainly haven't shot yourself in the foot here.

I don't think you quite understand what the 'Content Keywords' section of GWT actually means. It is not a reflection of your rankings for each of these keywords. It is a representation of the most common keywords found across your pages that the Google crawler has found. The significance ranking is just an indication of how often the Google crawler has found each keyword. If your content changes over time then of course the list will also reflect this as the crawler visits your pages.

If you feel there are keywords missing then this could be because Google could not crawl all of your pages and therefore you should check the crawl errors section of your GWT. IT could also be because Google has excluded words that it determines to be boilerplate text or common words.

You can find out more information in the Webmaster Tools help center:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35255

Hope this helps,

Adam.

Jamie is right. You will experience much larger competition in google.com than google.com.au based on the market size alone. Couple this with the fact that your particular industry is also very competitive.

Yes, it will probably help to have the .com when trying to rank in google.com but as Jamie rightly states, there are other elements of your SEO strategy that need attention first.

As well as your on-page issues, having had a quick look at your backlink profile, I would suggest that you do not have anywhere near enough links to compete with the major players in your market such as cashbackforex.com

Adam.

I completely agree with Ben.

You can find a lot of useful info on the Warrior forums and there are some really good SEO's on there but you often have to wade through a lot of misleading information to get to the real pearls of wisdom. I probably wouldn't pay for acces to it either.

To be fair, your programmer probably doesn't have a huge understanding about SEO and has probably just misunderstood something he has read somewhere.

Yes h1 tags can be over optimized and can have an effect but the simple answer is, don't over optimize the h1 tags. Just because some people abuse them isn't a good reason to exclude them. In fact, I would actively encourage you not to exclude them as they are an important part of your on-page SEO strategy.

I would say this depends on a few factors really.

1. How big/well known is the client? If they are relatively well known or a big player in the market then I would be less inclined to start again with a new domain. Especially if they have built up a brand that is recognizable, you would lose that value by switching domains.

2. How old is the current domain and how much authority does it have? Again, I would be less inclined to switch if they have a well aged domain with authority.

If there is value in keeping the existing domain then I would focus on cleaning up their backlink profile. It may take a bit of time and persistence on your part but the rewards will be worth it.

What you are likely experiencing is the effects of personalized search results. That is, results when you are signed into Google (hence the differing results on different computers).

First you need to check that you have correctly implemented the authorship markup here:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Remember, there is no guarantee that a rich snippet will be shown in search results. If you need help implementing the markup then there are several guides you can find through Google.

Hope this helps,

Adam.

You can implement a meta refresh as follows:

This will delay the redirect to domainB.com by 10 seconds. It will pass some link juice but not much. It is not best practice to do this because, as you rightly state, Google does not like this type of redirect (due to spam abuse) and the loss of link juice.

I would suggest you just 301 redirect to new site and run a 'welcome to our new site' page on the new domain for the first few weeks while people adjust. You'd be surprised how quickly people adjust to new sites.

Adam.

Hi Shawn,

1. Yes it is good practice to list all urls.

2. As long as these urls are linked to internally then they will be indexed.

3. You only need to submit the index file not every individual sitemap. It doesn't matter which order the individual sitemaps are listed.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=71453&from=35655&rd=1

Hope this helps.

I find this to be a good starting point with Bing:

http://www.bingforbusiness.com/

Also make sure to sign up for a webmaster account with Bing:

http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster

If you're based in the US then this is also a good place to check out:

http://www.bing.com/businessportal

As for Yahoo, it is basically the same as Bing so what you do for Bing will be reflected in Yahoo. Hope this helps!

Just as a side,

have you considered purchasing either andrewsolomon.com or andysolomon.com?

Depending on how valuable the domain is to you it might be worth contacting the owners of the domains to see if they might want to sell. More often than not, people are interested in selling their domain and you may be able to get them for a bargain. A simple check on whois will give you the contact details or if they have a site you may be able to find contact details on there.

If you don't ask, you don't get.