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I am coming to Mozcon again (yay), but want to get a organised run in.

The one I have found that seems ok is: http://www.skagitflatsmarathon.com/ not sure whether to do full or half. A full marathon day before conference might be a risk.

What I am more interested in is whether the course if flat / hilly. Decent views, good support etc

I would probably have to travel the night before and find a cheap hotel, but that doesn't bother me - but I don't wanna spend the next 20 weeks training for a poor race.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

Ireland a bit tricky in registering a country domain - you have to prove you have a business in the country, even in the UK it can be difficult to get a domain.

Having different sites means doubling, tripping your SEO efforts, whereas if you have the one site you can use the existing links to boost your initial ranking in a country.

There a pro and cons for either method, but I always prefer 1 domain, then your content strategy is for one site so a blog post can be useful to multiple countries and you don't need to re-write the content.

It would affect all your mobile / tablet rankings and wouldn't affect your desktop rankings as much.

Like I said it could be your competitors have improved theirs, rather than yours getting worse, if you can work out when roughly the decline started to happen - ask your devs what they rolled.

You don't need to do another crawl - go into WMT and go to Robots.txt tester.

Get the live robots file (if it doesn't pull it in, copy and paste it).

Find a URL you wanted blocking and see if Google crawls it and you should get a warning message

Assuming your mobile is mobile friendly, have you added anything to the site recently to affect page load speed.

Page load is a much bigger ranking factor compared to desktop traffic.

Or it could be your competitors have improved their page load speed or improve their content. Ask yourself honestly - does your content deserve to rank number 1. If the answer is no - then start producing 10x content and the rankings will follow.

First place to check is the page load speed in WMT.

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Andy

Nope you need to add the wildcard onto the end of the product line so it looks like this

User-agent: *

Disallow: /index.php?route=checkout/cart
Disallow: /index.php?route=account/return/insert
Disallow: /index.php?route=product/*

Otherwise it will just exclude that specific url.

Let me know if this works.

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Andy

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Yes its worth fixing.

Could you not add Disallow: ?route=product/* to your robots file?

Can you edit the robots file.

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Andy

Edit your existing ones change to:

Redirect 301 /article1.htm http://mysite.net/article1/
Redirect 301 /article2.htm http://mysite.net/article2/
Redirect 301 /article3.htm http://mysite.net/article3/

but also add in:

Redirect 301 /wordpress/article1/ http://mysite.net/article1/
Redirect 301 /wordpress/article2/ http://mysite.net/article2/
Redirect 301 /wordpress/article3/ http://mysite.net/article3/

There is a plugin in wordpress for 301 redirects and it tells you how many times the urls have been hit, if say after 6 months nothing has hit the old urls and there are no links pointing to them, feel free to delete.

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Andy

Google pagerank is probably still a ranking factor (not as important as it once was) however the public version of Page Rank, what you and me sees will never be updated again, last update if memory serves me well Dec 2013, but they will still be updating their version of pagerank - but as AI becomes more and more intelligent, traditional signals will disappear.

Moz DA and PA would be a better metric to use these days as thats still updated (monthly) and you can see whats impacting the score.

Yeah I can happily recommend Kerboo (formally Linkrisk) - great set of guys who run it and also a great software set.

They have a huge database of bad / toxic links which they check against when doing analysis.

You can even pay them to do your initial audit as well if you havent got the time - very reasonable price as well.

Hi

I figured it out, its in demographics - will try out later and see what difference in results I get.

Image below, but basically click on Demographics before you post

But you do need a certain number of Facebook likes it does seem as some of the smaller pages I manage I get do this.

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Yeah agree with Chris the first option is the best way to go and the way we went after loads of research.

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Andy

Hi

I am fully aware of how to do facebook paid advertising but I follow a page called:

https://www.facebook.com/GiveMeSport/

They know that I am a Liverpool fan (might a filled out a survey once or some other way, but they know I support the greatest football team on the planet) however they only ever show me Liverpool articles in my feed and they are organic. They post a lot more but i never see any of it.

Does anyone know how they are able to do this as I would love to segment people on my site and target them accordingly.

Thanks in Advance

Andy

Hi

I still only have version 8 so I can't test it, but my GA is showing data for version 9 with sales.

I have also checked that these aren't Paypal orders.

Once I get version 9 I will test, but our visitors are currently able to checkout.

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Andy

Hi

When did the link go live, it could be just that Moz hasn't crawled the page with your link on yet.

Moz crawlers are great but they have their limits and can't crawl every page on the web every day. Don't worry once Rogerbot crawls the page it will appear in the moz report.

Its just a timing issue - I would be checking Search Console to see if Google has found it, this is more important. Also I would check to see does it appear in Ahrefs or Majestic. Majestic usually finds links quicker and go deeper into the web than Moz crawlers. But realistically it should just be Google that you care has found the link.

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Andy

Hi

Sorry can you explain a bit more, I from a UK based ecommerce site, and I am still seeing data in GA from Safari for yesterday and previous days.

Customers are able to checkout as well.

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Andy

Hi

It looks like you have done everything correct, but you might have to wait for the next big Panda update before you start seeing any movements.

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Andy

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I have got to agree with Tim - get rid of them if you believe they are doing harm to your site.

I would try and make contact with the site owners but at the same time upload your disavow file and get this sorted.

Not sure how familiar you are with disavow files, but make sure you update your most recent file and upload and don't just upload a list of the new urls.

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Andy

Loved the conference, by far the best conference I have attended, looking forward to 2016 all ready

Thanks for both your answers. i actually didnt spot it in the category text which is what got me digging deeper.

Again thanks

Andy