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If the reviewer leaves a comment about the review, you can see it in the reviews section of their facebook page. I have attached a sample from our facebook page to give you to see.

Ken

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Hi,

We just went through a similar platform change and found that for the most part  the 301s did the heavy lifting. We are still finding pages that we missed, but we got a large majority and I'm happy to say that our traffic/rankings are doing well (getting better everyday).

We did't re-verify we just left the verification code on the site and Google seemed to catch on.

Good luck on the move!

Ken

Hi-

I can tell you from personal experience that Karl is giving you  good advice.We had a manual penalty imposed on us a little over a year ago and I found the best way to get rid if the links causing it was by contacting the site owners and asking. After repeated attempts, the ones that just would not disapper, i disavowed and in the end got rid of the manual penalty.

Good luck and happy (link) hunting!

Ken

I had heard this recently as well and saw the post you reference. Not sure if it was there when you saw the post, but there is a comment from someone who claims to have spoken with a Google rep and confirmed that is is only in Australie for now.

Ken

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NI too can only comment on Wordstream.We used the software for quite some time  and got good results. Now we use their managed services. For us, the amount of time we save and increased ROI are well worth it (both software and managed)

Ken

Thanks for posting that. I was having the same problem but just kept jumping onto Firefox.

Thanks Phil,

That's kind of what I was thinking.
Ken

Thanks for the info. I checked with my ISP and it turns out that they automatically blocked Rogerbot because of excessive requests  (this happened Jan 15). Is there a way to crawl dely between requests longer or was that maybe a one time fluke?

Thanks

Ken

HI-

I am trying to grade some specific pages for keywords with the on page grader but it keeps telling me "Sorry, but that URL is inaccessible. "

I can reach them via the browser and they are not https. Any thoughts?

Here is a sample:

www.bulkcandystore.com/kosher-candy

Any help is appreciated.

Ken

Hi all-

i have a video that talks about a particular type of product and have it set up on every page in that category. I am in the process of updating our video sitemap and want to know if I should list all the occurrences in the sitemap or just one? I had asked a similar question earlier about placement, but here I am specifically interested in the sitemap.

Thanks!

Ken

I agree with the other responses.

If it makes you feel any better, think of all the victims of Penguin and Panda. On top for a while, then "blamo" out of site. When Google catches up, out they go but if you keep doing the right things, in you stay.

HI all-

I recently finished our first product video, about a candy called Sixlets. It's meant to be an educational video (as compared to linkbait) but of course I would love to get to seo benefit out of it. I am planning on putting the video on the individual product pages for each color sixlet to make sure people get the information they need. I am also planning on putting it on a page I will create that will house all of our videos.

When I put together the video sitemap (via Wistia), I was really thinking of only including the video page, not the product pages, as as not to appear to be spammy. Does this make sense or am I going about this all wrong. Just want to make sure, as I am new to video.

Thanks,

Ken

My experience is similar to Dennis described, it may take another request.

When I got the letter, I went and contacted some of the hosts that had the unnatural links to our site and got some taken off. I sent in my reconsideration request and was denied as you were.

I got a few more removed and tried again, this time very explicitly telling Google that I had tried to get the remaining ones removed (with examples) but they were beyond my control and that I had disavowed them That time it worked and the manual penalty was removed.

Hope this helps.

Ken

I agree that your second option is probably best from a layout point of view. As for the URLs, you can always change them by changing the permalinks for each city page individually or by setting a general permalink structure without the category (i.e. services) if you want.

Hope this helps.

Ken

Never mind-

It looks like Google was basing it on just 2 days, which turned out to be Easter and I guess people already had their Easter candy!

Hi all-

I'm a bit confused and hope someone may have an idea. In the last few days, traffic to our site has taken a big hit, so much so that I even got an email from webmaster tools that the home page was receiving significantly less traffic. I can't find anything particular that we changed that should have this much of an effect, but then again, I have been shortsighted in the past 

The site is bulkcandystore.com and if anyone has any thoughts, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Ken

Thanks for the quick response.

You basically validated what I was thinking. Oddly enough, Wistia was exactly where we were looking to go, and I didn't even know about the discount.

Thanks!

Ken

Hi all-

I am currently making videos to put on our site about some of our products. The same video will appear on a few different product pages as they will be about the category of products (i.e. how many gumballs fit in a few different size jars).

My questions are:

Should I worry about duplicate content issues if the rest of the page is unique?

and for hosting the videos/SEO:

Should I put the videos on youtube or use another hosting service. I don't think any of these are going to go viral, it's mostly about more content on the page to increase conversions.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

Thanks

Ken.

It turns out they are notices, not warnings. I didn't really see the difference until you pointed it out.

Thanks for the info!

Ken

Hi all.

I think I'm a bit confused. When I check my crawl diagnostics its listing lots of warnings under the heading rel-canonical. I am not sure why, since virtually all my pages have the  link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>"  tag. I use it because there are a lot of possible extensions that can appear on the pages as it is an eCommerce site.

Why would seomoz list this as a warning?

Thanks

Ken