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Hi Christy,

Thanks for the follow up.  The login became too tedious for me and I cancelled my subscription to MOZ.

Best,
Christopher

Unless they have fixed it in recent months, xml-sitemaps does not generate correct video sitemaps.

I posted the response above around 10 am.  So now I'm back at around 2 pm and I'm logged out.  Why?  Why the rush to kick me off this site?

I know it's not an intentional error and I'm sure the Moz team are working hard to fix this.

The cookie error is not intentional but the timeout is intentional.  Why not increase the timeout period or remove the timeout until the cookie defect is isolated and fixed?

Chris is correct, if you log out and then log back in, that should fix the problem for that session.  That said, why does the system need to log us out so quickly?  Why can't we stay logged in for a full day?  Or better yet, why can't we stay logged in until we log out?

Best,
Christopher

Hi Christy,

Thanks for checking.  Sorry to report it's still broken.  This morning I deleted the history and cache and logged in and everything was fine.  Then later in the day I returned to the site and some pages think I need to login and other pages think I am logged in.  I have to find a page that thinks I'm logged in, log off, and then log in again.

Quick question: Is it the intention of the system to automatically log members off after a certain amount of time?  If so, what is the time period to log someone off?

Best,
Christopher

Yep, I agree with belt and suspenders.

I like this site, I really do, which is why I visit multiple times a day.  But I grow weary of these premium sites that require me to log in multiple times a day.  This morning I was simultaneously working at ordercup.com, strengthcoach.com, and moz.com, and all three log me out at every turn.  Argh!!!  What's worse is that some MOZ pages think I'm logged in and others don't.  I don't fully understand the logic behind the curtain, so I wander from page to page trying to get the login in sync.  Why can't these sites work like lynda.com where I can stay logged in for days and weeks?  To top it off, LastPass rolled out a new release that broke auto-login.  All this logging in is getting in the way of me getting anything done.

You should be able to resolve this with robots.txt and .htaccess files, but one more thing I've learned to do is to use a domain name for the primary domain that I do not plan to submit to Google for indexing.  For example, I'll use arbitrary color names like silverblue.net as the primary domain and then the domains I intend to index will be virtual domains.  This isn't really necessary but it helps me keep all my domain names straight in my head and avoid the issue you described above.

Best,
Christopher

**I want to ... promote websites ... with very poor ... content. **

Google devotes considerable resources to make sure these efforts fail.

The other domains are ours, yes.

Oh, that's a horse of a different color.  If you have multiple domains on one account, one domain will be the primary domain and the other domains will be virtual domains.  If you look at the file structure on your server, all the virtual domains will be sub-folders under the primary domain.  You need to create a robots.txt file in the primary domain that blocks the spiders from discovering the other domains through the sub-directory structure.  Otherwise, all the virtual domains will be duplicated, once via the primary domain and again via the virtual domain.

Best,
Christopher

Is it possible to share a post from someone's personal FB wall to a company fan page if they have the permissions set to allow this?  I often get a message that a share was denied and I'm not sure if shares from personal to business fan pages are always denied or if this is controlled by the person's privacy settings.

As myself and the other top 3 sell quality big name brands (big in the UK horse world anyway) we can't really do the SALE SALE SALE selling style ...

Why can't your supplier provide an MSRP and MAP structure that allows for sale prices?

The use of nofollow does not retain link juice (Google made this change years ago).  Each link uses link juice; a follow link passes link juice to the other page and nofollow throws the link juice away.  You should use nofollow for paid links and if you can not vouch for the other page (e.g. spam links in a blog comment).  If you link to a quality site that is not a paid link, then follow is fine.

Best,
Christopher

Keep in mind that one ranking factor is freshness.  It's not uncommon to rank well when first published and then to slide downward.  If you are ranking due to freshness, it's important to continue to write new and compelling content.

I look at DA when I'm browsing the web to give me a very quick indicator, but I don't give it too much attention when comparing my site to competitors.  The DA has remained constant for one of my sites for the past year but the traffic has steadily increased by a factor of ten.  Your observations are consistent with mine; DA does not necessarily correlate with rank.

Best,
Christopher

I selected the plugin called Redirection mostly because it has been downloaded 1.4M times.  My thinking is that popular plugins tend to get more testing and tend to be more compatible with other themes and plugins.  It works fine for me.

Best,
Christopher

They really aren't providing any traffic and the content is poor, and not written by me.

I generally answer these questions by thinking about the user experience.  I would delete anything from the site that does not provide a good user experience.  Google devotes considerable resources to determine which sites provide a good user experience and we can assume they will continue to get better at this in the future.

Best,
Christopher

OK, found it three seconds after posting the questions.  Duh.

Is there a way to add annotations to the GA visitors graph?  There is a YouTube tutorial on how to do this but the comments suggest is has not be rolled out yet in the US and I can't get it to work.

Best,
Christopher