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You only need to create 1 campaign for the website.

Roger bot will crawl all your product pages and report on any technical issues you have with the pages.

When checking for ranks, SEOMOZ checks the pages that are ranking as well as your domain so you dont have to assign different keywords for different pages in your campaign settings.

Dont worry about creating multiple campaigns, just load your website URL, insert the keywords for all your product pages, and wait for a report at the end of the week.

Greg

There's nothing wrong with Legitimately linking to relevant websites (yours or not)

SEOMOZ for example.. They link to all of their properties from here...

The only thing to look out for is site-wide links, or more links then what would be regarded as "natural"

Also, make sure your websites are all on unique C-class IP's or Google wont value the links from your other sites as much as it would if they were on unique C-class IP's.

If 10 sites have the same C class IP, they are most likely owned by the same person, therefor Google places less value on them

Greg

EGOL, just to clarify...

With Lazy Loading and displaying only 20 comments, more comments get displayed when you scroll down, rather than having the page load all 3000 comments at once.

In other words, the comments wont be hidden, just tucked away and loaded as needed, when scrolling down the page.

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/lazy-loading-dynamic-function-loading

Greg

I would go with your first point.

The more content on the page the better. Even better is user generated content!

Perhaps for user experience, display only 20 comments and wrap the wrest under "lazy loading" (suggestion from developer sitting next to me)

In other words, let the bots see all 3000 comments on the same page, but for user experience so the page doesn't take days to load, incorporate the "lazy loading" feature....

GREG

Creating links on different websites is the key... Submitting multiple articles to the same websites/Directories wont have as much of an effect as if you submitted to other websites.

I have also heard that links in article directories and web 2.0 sites are devalued by Google as they are easily "created" and not "Earned"

If i was you, I would search Google for websites looking for guest authors and submit your article to those websites.

Search this in Google and you should get a few websites to submit your articles too.

"keyword"+“Guest bloggers wanted” OR “guest blogger wanted”

Greg

Open the links up and have a look at the page.

Is it relevant to your website?

Do the other links on the page point to unrelated websites?

Install the Mozbar on your browser and have a look at the Domain / Page Authority with the number of links pointing to the website.

I wouldn't worry about it if they appeared naturally. A link is a link. Although it may not be as valuable as a link from an authoritative website, its still a link you never had before.

I would only worry about removing them if the website is clearly a "spam" website, otherwise dont stress and keep getting links on relevant websites.

Greg

Yip, thats what i thought.. .Thanks David..

I don't feel confident about doing this, so will try convince the the powers that be to agree.

The advice to do this was given by a reputable SEO, so if convincing the PTB that its not such a great idea doesn't work, we'll just test this process with a few pages of less importance and see what happens.

Thanks again..

Greg

We are currently in the process of creating new pages for keywords very similar to our main landing pages.

Example:

Page 1.) "Family Holiday in {Location}"

Page 2.)  "Family Vacation in {Location}"

Page 3.) "Family get-away in {location}"

All 3 keywords are currently optimised for the 1st page "Family Holidays in {Location}" but was wondering if there is any benefit or if its worth creating sub pages for these alternative keywords.

I personally don't think we should do this as Google will know to rank our main page for secondary/synonym keywords via on page seo and links with anchor text, but can you foresee any negative aspects if we went ahead and created these children pages being linked to from the top level keyword's page?

Or do we continue optimising our main landing page for related/synonym keywords?

Thanks in Advance

GREG

The more linking Root Domains you have, the higher the authority grows.

Obtaining 100 links from the same websites is no were near as valuable as 100 links from 100 different websites. This will improve your Domain Authority.

Greg

I suggest you state your case in a Google Reconsideration request.

Submit all the URL's you removed and detail all the steps you took to fix up the link profile and on page errors.

Once you've done that, don't spend you time worrying. Start outreaching and get some authoritative links back to your website with your brand name. Just keep at it until you start recovering.

Good luck!

We had this problem and it was a nightmare.

As Kelly mentioned, links without the http:// are assumed to be internal links, so your CMS creates a new page and the loop continues....

Go to the parent were the original link is and fix it. The rest you can ignore and mark as fixed in G-WMT.

Greg

Its pretty big

Over 1000 Pages in the index, and many more internal URLs to crawl that have a no-index tag. (booking forms etc)

Ill see if we can archive our other campaigns and let roger crawl our main site properly.

If your going to 301 the URLs, be sure to 404 them first otherwise you wont be able to send a removal request in G-WMT

To remove a page or image, you must do one of the following:

• Make sure the content is no longer live on the web. Requests for the page must return an HTTP 404 (not found) or 410 status code.
• Block the content using a robots.txt file.
• Block the content using a meta noindex tag.

GREG

Hi,

Whats Paywall?

If its a do-follow link, and the page is indexed by Google (not hidden from Google), then it will pass value.

GREG

Hi,

These pages exist and are exact duplicates according to Google. You said you stopped generating these URL's over year ago?

Why not just 404 all children URL's?

Once done, you can either request them to be removed from the index, wait for them to disappear or you could 301 them if the children URL's are still getting traffic.

Just make sure that you have no links internally pointing to any of the children URLs and Google should forget about them,

Once your done with all the above, you can mark the errors as fixed, and Google should stop reporting them,

GREG

The plugin Just makes filling out the Meta titles and descriptions easier and provides more technical SEO options for your pages/posts.

With regards to your archive pages, It wont change any Meta or URL info on existing posts, It will just point the Meta and Title etc when you edit the page.

I use Yoast on our WP sites, it makes editing pages for SEO benefits easy.

GREG

Thanks Nakul,

I do a weekly scan with Xenu which doesn't have a URL limit like SF.

I was under the impression a full scan of the site was done each week, but as you say, its being scanned in chunks, divided across our 3 other websites.

If this is the case, it would be great to let Mozbot know were to crawl to avoid unnecessary resources being used up when it could be scanning our most important pages.

Greg

Hi All,

Rogerbot has been reporting errors on our website's for over a year now, and we correct the issues as soon as they are reported.

However I have 2 questions regarding the recent crawl report we got on the 8th.

1.) Pages with a "no-index" tag are being crawled by roger and are being reported as duplicate page content errors. I can ignore these as google doesnt see these pages, but surely roger should ignore pages with "no-index" instructions as well? Also, these errors wont go away in our campaign until Roger ignores the URL's.

2.) What bugs me most is that resource pages that have been around for about 6 months have only just been reported as being duplicate content. Our weekly crawls have never picked up these resources pages as being a problem, why now all of a sudden? (Makes me wonder how extensive each crawl is?)

Anyone else had a similar problem?

Regards

GREG

I know Matt Cutts suggestions we allow bots to crawl css and javascript folders (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEipHjsEPU)

But what if you have lots and lots of JS and you dont want to waste precious crawl resources?

Also, as we update and improve the javascript on our site, we iterate the version number ?v=1.1... 1.2... 1.3... etc.

And the legacy versions show up in Google Webmaster Tools as 404s. For example:

http://www.discoverafrica.com/js/global_functions.js?v=1.1
http://www.discoverafrica.com/js/jquery.cookie.js?v=1.1
http://www.discoverafrica.com/js/global.js?v=1.2
http://www.discoverafrica.com/js/jquery.validate.min.js?v=1.1
http://www.discoverafrica.com/js/json2.js?v=1.1

Wouldn't it just be easier to prevent Googlebot from crawling the js folder altogether?

Isn't that what robots.txt was made for?

Just to be clear - we are NOT doing any sneaky redirects or other dodgy javascript hacks.

We're just trying to power our content and UX elegantly with javascript.

What do you guys say:

Obey Matt? Or run the javascript gauntlet?

Thank you Tommy,

I will keep at it until it changes.

Thanks for the advice.

Regards

Greg