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Has anyone heard or used Spider Linker? In a nutshell, they use their AI to generate content for long term keywords and drive traffic, but this could mean they are building 1000s of pages.
http://www.youramigo.com/what-we-do/spider-linker-technology.html
If content is thin, then it would fail, but if they generate unique, rich content and 1000s of pages for long tail, it could work.
Thoughts?
Thanks for the response Jesse.
Our site is an ecommerce one, and every product page is supported with a pdf. This is expected from our customers and it basically is the product page in a PDF format with tweaks. We have 10,000s of these and for speed, we store files such as pdfs and images locally in a subdomain.
For content delivery network purposes, I heard it was better to keep pdfs, images separate as well? We haven't got a CDN but it's something we will look into next year.
Do you recommend scrapping the subdomain in such an instance and hosting them all in the main domain in a folder? Would that impact on page load and speed?
Also is it possible to redirect individual subdomain URLs to a main domain one?
ello!
We host our PDFs, Images, CSS all in a sub domain. For the question, let's call this sub.cyto.com. I've noticed a particular PDF doing really well, infact it has gathered valuable external links from high authoritative sites. To top it off, it gets good visits.
I've been going back and forth with our developers to move this PDF to a subfolder structure.
For example: www.cyto.com/document/xxxx.pdf
In my perspective, if I move this and set up a permanent redirect, then all the external links the PDF gathered, link juice and future visits will be attributed to the main website. Since the PDF is existing in the subdomain, I can't even track direct visits nor get the link juice. It appears in top position of Google as well.
My developer says it is better to keep images, pdf, css in the subdomain. I see his point and an idea I have is to:
This should give me the existing rank juice. However, my question is whether you can set up a 301 redirect for just a single subdomain URL to a folder structure URL?
eLLo!
Has anyone used Data Highlighter? I've had colleagues mentioning a jump in CTR after using the data highlighter on pages.
Thought I'll do the same and went into my webmaster tools but I've hit a brick wall. Whenever I highlight a product page, my country selector pops up and I'm unable to highlight a product page.
A colleague of mine mentioned to bypass google by basing it on user agent, this will allow you to avoid the country selector. But if I bypass Google, wouldn't it affect Google Analytics, Indexing etc?
The Thank you page is indeed the same. It's a URL with a dynamic bit at the end. Hmm, I'll look at whether we can create two different thank you page.
Great tip on the 'reverse goal path
Thanks
ello!
I don't know if anyone else has come across this problem, but our ecommerce site offers two payment methods during checkout. I've set up goals and they successfully record the total number of transactions.
Our site offers two payment methods (credit card and purchase order) and once you hit the 'select your payment' page, you're directed to different pages to make payment and end up on the thank you page.
I created two goals, a credit card one that has "funnel" turned on and lists every page a 'credit card' customer would undertake, and a 'purchase order' goal listing all the pages a customer who undertake when making a "purchase order" payment.
Google is however recording figures for both. Say I had 10 credit card orders and 5 purchase order, my Goals report 15 for both.
Anyone come across this?
I'm actually looking into creating a dynamic block on a static 404 page. The block would feed in products/data based on the URL string, so it recognizes the URL and displays relevant content.
The thing with the chinese urls is that, they introduced a unique character to the URL and that's why I don't get a 404 page but a 'bad request' page. Servers don't recognize the unique character. In talks with the developer to see if we can do something to direct them to a 404.
Thanks
Here's something I wanted to do. Use Google Hangouts for a webinar.
No only is it free, but it can boost your Google+ presence and brand awareness.
My fellow Mozzers,
I have been reviewing our Google Webmaster error reports and noticed high url errors. These URLs are generated from international sites, mainly China. Upon further inspection, these look to be links to dynamic URLs that are no longer active on our site. (search pages)
China is linking to old URLs that simply spew out a 'Bad Request' pages now. Problems I face is that:
Have you tackled anything like this before? Thoughts are welcome
Thanks
The thing is, you can do what Moosa suggested and compare your traffic with Moz’s Google Algorithm history document and see if there is a connection between your traffic drop and algorithm release.
To answer your question if this is a bad or good tool? I think it comes down to whether you want to share your Google Analytics account with Fruition. You have to give them access and abide by their terms and conditions. Are you okay with that?
We've enabled event tracking to monitor clicks to pdfs on our website. All of these pdfs are hosted in a subdomain.
The thing is, we offer some valuable pdfs that get a lot of traffic from search engines but I can't track them on Google Analytics. Do you track such pdfs?
I can't place tracking code as they are pdfs on a subdomain.
Thoughts?
It's the wordtracker chrome add-on called scout. I was using it to find high performing keywords and decided to run it on my own site.That's when I noticed no meta description being highlighted. There are no settings in the add-on though 
I did some more reading and w3.org states it is good practise to use lower case for all HTML elements and attribute names, so I'm going to change it. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.2
Better to follow good practice than bad.
I just ran the wordtracker tool and noticed something interesting. The tool didn't pick up our meta description.
It's strange as our meta descriptions appear in organic search results and Moz never reported missing meta descriptions.After reviewing other pages, I noticed our meta description tag is written as the following:
name="Description" content="
I never thought about this, but are meta tags case sensitive? Should it be written as:
name="description" content="
Thoughts?
I'm using the following meta tag
I'll add follow, better safe than sorry!
We have a high no index count due to search pages set as no index, would you recommend these search pages be no index, follow rather than just 'no index'?
I thought leaving 'no index' is enough as search engines would default to 'no index, follow'?
Hey, I had the same question and got some good answers, check out my post
Yup and you can set up up to three search engines.
Thanks Adam,
It seems the general idea is to not see it as a priority but it's an unknown territory. No one is a 100% sure.
I'm going to leave it out for now, there could be webmasters stuffing titles with keywords thinking it has a benefit and that might be an area Google will come down on with an update.
You're right, I do feel the link titles are more of a hidden element that isn't necessary. If the copy is linking to another page, naturally the text should flow into it and the anchor text should do its job of informing the user about the page.
I did think having it might backfire and SEs would start thinking i'm keyword stuffing.
Didn't think about touch screen devices, great point.