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My understanding is that Disqus uses iframes for their comments, so they won't be crawled and indexed by Google. This may have changed since I last checked, but I'm fairly certain it's still true.
I believe Disqus gives you the option to store your comments locally, check this out: http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/472125-data-synchronization
If the structure is identical (I'm not clear on that from your post) then why not do a global redirect from the old content to the new content
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !newdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
This should redirect old pages to the same structure on the new domain, including images.
I'm a fan of using this CSS for responsive images:
image {
max-width: 100%;
}
I personally wouldn't be a fan of running a check on the user-agent and serving up an optimized image because you would probably negate some of your load time optimization from shrinking down the image by running unnecessary server processing.
Also - by optimizing an image for mobile, you should actually be increasing the DPI because of higher resolution screens (Retina). Shrunken down images might look awful on iPhones.
Just my .02
I understand what you are referring to about having to hide certain elements on smaller screens. Sometimes not everything fits or flows correctly.
When this happens, however, I try to hide design elements as opposed to text or links. I'm also OK with hiding images. If a block of text or a link seems out of place or doesn't flow properly, I will build a dropdown for it. I'm sure you've seen mobile sites with dropdown navigation menus.
I wouldn't leave it to up to Google to interpret what you are doing. Don't hide any links.
I would be careful not to post duplicate content on your sites. It's very obvious that the two sites are associated with one another, and it wouldn't be difficult for Google to figure it out.
Honestly, if it were up to me, I would consolidate all my efforts to the second domain - because the first domain is an EMD (exact match domain). Avoid any potential problems in the future if Google attacks EMDs harder by using your branded domain. Actually - I just ran a search for "military loans" and your branded domain shows up higher anyways (despite a lower DA and PA).
If you do decide to consolidate your efforts on one domain, make sure you 301 redirect the other domain and pages to their new homes.
You'll need to create a custom Menu by going to Appearance -> Menus. Name the menu, add the appropriate pages, and choose the theme location.
If you don't do this, by default WordPress creates a menu using all "Pages" and there is no way around it.
The "Home" page doesn't need to be named home. Check in Settings > Reading to see if you already have one set. f you don't, your theme files will dictate what is generated for your home page.
As Jon stated above, create a new Page (perhaps call it Home to avoid confusion). Add your content there, and/or set your template file. Then go into Settings > Reading, check "A static page" and select Home from the Front page dropdown.
I think you'll probably just need to wait for the next Mozscape index (or the one after that) - depending on how recently you put the 301 in place. The current index likely doesn't have enough information to properly tell you the current PA of your new pages.
How is your traffic to the pages? Are you seeing a significant drop in organic search traffic? If everything seems to be normal, but the only thing your concerned with is the Moz Page Authority - I wouldn't worry about it too much.
The thing is though - these methods will not increase your rankings. Google has pretty much devalued any links that we have some form of control over (directories, forums, blog comments, social bookmarking sites - even guest posting).
If the Structured Data Tool shows that your pages are set up properly, I wouldn't worry about it. Google plays around with their algorithm and I've seen authorship images show up next to my SERP listings on and off. I attribute this to Google tinkering, and possibly my personalized search having something to do with it.
I've ran searches for my own content while logged into my Google profile and gotten different authorship results than when running a de-personalized search.
If all you plan to do is drop your links in social bookmarking sites, you're probably just wasting your time. It's not likely that these links will be worth anything to search engines - even if they are followed links. The time you spend building these links could be spend developing great content, or working on other link-building opportunities that would be more worthwhile.
As far as blog comments go - if your goal is to get backlinks, it's not a good idea. These links are nofollowed and too many of them will look spammy to search engines. If you are commenting to engage with the content author, that's a different story. I often comment on other sites to engage with the content author and start a conversation. I sometimes choose to include my website as a reference, but I often choose to leave it out.
The login button does not show when you are currently logged in (which you are). You see the button to your Moz Analytics campaigns.
If you hover over the silhouette figure you get options to view your profile page, settings, logout, and more.
It's probably something that the Moz dev team can look into. I know that GWMT keeps track of when they first crawled a new link to your site, and you get get it by exporting your list of links.
My understanding is that the Mozscape index is unique every time it's generated. Each time a new index comes out, it is a new craw of your inbound links, and the old index is trashed. At MozCon, it was alluded to that the development team was looking into ways of determining which pages are updated less frequently, and re-crawling those pages less often - allowing the Mozscape index to complete faster and use less resources.
In short - everything you see in OSE was crawled recently (in the 30 days leading up to the last index update).
Facebook Page Likes are not the same as the Facebook Like number that OSE shows. The Facebook Like number that OSE shows is for "Likes" for that specific URL.
For example, if you put a Facebook Like button on your site - it would increment the number of likes for that URL, not the number of likes for your Facebook Page.
If your Facebook Page is set up with the correct URL, search engines will associate the two with one another.
The sitemap for your site doesn't reflect your latest post. The WordPress plugin you use to generate the sitemap can be manually rebuilt so you don't have to wait for it to do it automatically. Now that I'm looking at it - it doesn't appear to have been updated in quite some time...
Go into Settings > XML-Sitemap then click "rebuild the sitemap" in the middle of the first section. Check your sitemap again to make sure that it's been updated.
I ask myself the same questions, why would anyone invest in such a marketing campaign? It seems to me that it would be a huge waste of time.
But, to quote one of my favorite sayings, "If you throw enough shit against a wall, some of it has gotta stick." The people that send out these email are probably not concerned with quality or conversion rates.
On a side note, you could remove your email address from your profile, but Moz does a great job of masking it already. If you don't have Javascript on (a lot of bots, scrapers and crawlers don't), then the email address won't be displayed. Also - do a quick Google search for your email address - I found it on several other sites.
It's not Penguin. As Jesse stated, the link profile doesn't really set the site up for success. I count 8 unique linking root domains.
1 of the links is on a "links" page.
3+ of the links are some form of a on a directory page.
Another is on a members profile page.
Another is on a Free Advertising forum.
The Flash on the home page probably isn't helping either.
The site needs content (like Jesse said), and content that others in that niche would be genuinely interested in.
Think of some creative marketing campaigns you could do with "concrete repair." Maybe run a video series on the dangers of degrading concrete, create an infographic on the degrading process that concrete goes through, write a post about how to keep moisture out of concrete (or other general concrete maintenance), etc., etc.
Also - if the company would consider it, I would suggest they do a site-wide redesign. It looks like it's been a few years.
It seemed to have fixed the problem for me as well, but I believe you get a warning that doing so will cause you to lose historical data. If that matters to you, perhaps the OP should contact Moz for help.
I encountered this problem today with a brand new campaign I created yesterday. I double checked the settings page but there was no where to connect or reconnect the connection - so since the campaign was new I just removed the connection and reconnected it - this probably isn't a good option for you however.
I initially thought that it had something to do with me going between Moz Analytics and back and forth to the old Moz Campaign Manager. Perhaps someone from the team can comment?
