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IF you click on the "fiter" button on the "just discovered" tab in OSE, page returns message "no links found."

This is weird because that message displays even when you didn't actually filter for anything, but just clicked on the button.

Hi David,

I think that wildcard is correct, because we want to disallow all pdf files.

This is the same robots file as our other domain, avantcredit.com, and I was able to set up that campaign successfully on Moz.

Is there anything else that could be causing the issue?

Hi David,

I am receiving a 200 response. URL is springcoin.com

Thanks in advance!

I have a new url, and I'm trying to create a new campaign for it.

But in first step when i enter the domain, an error message pops up saying the url is invalid. could you help?

Thanks everyone!

My site is very new (~1 years old), but due to good PR we have gotten some decent links and are already ranking for a key term.

This may be why someone decided to start a negative SEO attack on us.

We've had less than 200 linking domains up until 2 weeks ago, but since then we have been getting 100+ new domains /day with anchor texts that are either targeted to that key term or are from porn websites.

I've gone through the links to get ready and submit a disavow... but should I do it?

My rankings/site traffic has not been affected yet.

Reasons for my hesitations:

1. Google always warns against using the disavow, and says "you shouldn't have to use it if you are a normal website." (sensing 'guilty-until-proven')

2. Some say Google is only trying to get the data to see if there are any patterns within the linking sites. I don't want the site owners to get hurt, since the villain is someone else using xrumer to put spammy comments on their site.

What would you do?

Thanks Kate! This is really helpful. I guess we will go with no hreflang tag, and just .com  and .co.uk sites

yea i don't see why it would be a bad thing.

Hi there,

Moz is just notifying you of the implications of this tag, so there is nothing to worry about if you intended for the canonical tag to be there.

But may I ask why you have the tag on every page of the website? that seems a bit odd to me...

hmmm not sure what's going on, so would help to get more granular details.

I would suggest downloading the latest links from GWT, and actually looking at the urls that is linking to you.

The "Just Discovered Links" tab on OSE is really good too. I'm using my ahrefs tool less and less.

I would run this every week, since this tab only goes so far back.

With the SEO community focusing a lot on "online PR" now, I was wondering if there were great sites around PR like MOZ or SearchEngine Land.

Does anyone know any?

Didn't know about that last tag!

haha you and Lesley are giving me 2 different answers, so I'm even more confused!

Hopefully more people can chip in their comments?

Yea we are currently working on producing different content, including complete separate content + converting US to UK english, but there are some pages where duplicates are unavoidable.

I also thought this tag was not to handle duplicate content at all, but when you think about it more that is essentially what it is doing - it exists for websites that have the exact same content in 2 separate languages. It's just a bit confusing when  you have US and UK, since the language is the same, but there are still separate hreflag tags for them...

The title says it all - if i have duplicate content on my US and UK website, will adding the hreflang tag help google figure out that they are duplicate for a reason and avoid any penalties?

I've had some success with Pinterest - even more cost-effective than FB.

there are also some big affiliate niche sites where you can advertise on with large banners + posts - this drives a lot of traffic but also costs a lot. I would agree with Lesley above to use $500 for promotion, or even more.

It's an interesting idea. I think i'm going to side with having multiple pages.

1. As long as your site architecture is done right, even a new page should be supported with good authority from the domain

2. The old post can still have good content on it and receive long-tail visits that the new page will not receive

3. Wouldn't the user experience be much better for a site that you can move around in, not a 30,000 word page? Your bounce rate might seem abnormally high too, which will affect rankings.

agree with Dan. If it's not any of the above and you are sure none of the other links are spam, you might not have been hit with penguin 2.0, but some other penalty.

I would check with other tools as well. Use as many tools you have at your disposal and create a comprehensive list of backlinks.

Hi,

I wouldn't block these pages from being crawled by search engines. Category pages are great for making sure more link juice flows to your deeper blog pages and making sure they get indexed. I believe author links give authorrank to the corresponding blog post too. I'm not sure about what you mean by 'read more' links. May I ask why you are concerned that these pages hurt SEO?

Thanks. The pdf is a good idea. But wouldn't you have to ask these blog owners to put a canonical on THEIR page pointing to mine?