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Hi Galen,

Thanks for your response. That worked perfectly!

Brendan.

I'm seeing something similar. I link my SEOmoz account but when I sign in with Twitter, my SEOmoz account becomes unlinked.

Hi Simon,

You're best bet would be to email the SEOmoz help team at help@seomoz.org. The usually reply pretty quickly and will you sorted much faster than posting here.

Cheers,

Actually, it seems it is possible. There's a great thread on the topic on Webmaster World but essentially the code required is below. I added this to the .htaccess file of 123.com which did the trick! Now all traffic from abc.com redirects to 123.com except traffic from this one referring site which goes to the third party site.

RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+.)refering-site.comRewriteRule (.) http://www.third-party-site.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Hi, Thanks for your answer. Your example of the scenario is exactly correct. The issue is content based rather than speed. I'm trying to redirect the visitor to a third party site which gives them exactly what they're looking for. This article was the only one on the old site which had any value so it's not worth restoring. Do you know how I can redirect visitors from this link only to the third party site? Thanks again, Brendan.

Hi guys/gals,

I have a few domains and blogs which I use really for a bit of fun and experimenting. One of the domains (abc.com) wasn't doing much but has a few decent links built to it. I redirected this domain to an active blog (123.com).

Here's the problem: There's a particular external link to the homepage of abc.com which drives a lot of traffic but isn't relevant to the content of 123.com which it redirects to, causing a huge bounce rate from this link.

Is there a way (maybe using using htaccess) that I can redirect traffic from this one link to another domain completely?

I've contacted the owner of the external site but they are unable (or unwilling) to change the link.

I hope I haven't lost you all but shout if you need any clarification.

Thanks in advance!

In your SEOmoz report you are able to download all errors as a CSV file. The final column of this file will tell you the referring page of your 404. That should allow you to identify the culprit!

Me too. As with Jason, my site is brand new. I'd be interested in the answer.

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Hi,

Try installing Yoast's SEO WordPress plugin. Read the documentation and set everything up and it'll sort these problems and more.

With regard to your 404 problem, download the csv file and look for the referrer column. This will show you where the link to the 404 page comes from.

Cheers,

Hi Rob,

I wouldn't waste your time trying to clean up your backlink profile. It's more than likely that Google will simply ignore these links anyway. You're much better spending time creating some great content that will help to make the web a better place and attract good, natural links which Google will count.

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

Hi,

I think the best one around is Excellent Analytics. It's a free plugin for Excel, has decent(ish) 'how to' guides on their site and is recommended by Google so should do everything you're looking for.

Hope that helps.

Same story here I'm afraid. I'm a HUGE SEOmoz advocate but things seem to have gone slightly haywire with the latest OSE update. Our site has lost almost 200,000 links! Yikes! I'm not a massive 'link counter' and tend to focus on quality rather than content but we have active links from great resources such as the BBC and the Guardian newspaper which are no longer showing in our OSE report. I presume this is the reason our domain authority has dropped from 64 to 58.

I'll tweet Rand and SEOmoz and point them in the direction of this thread as there seem to be a few disgruntled customers here.

Hi Robert,

Unfortunately I'm not part of the SEOmoz team but there's an update due tomorrow. You can check the Linkscape Schedule here.

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

I'm seeing something similar. I link my SEOmoz account but when I sign in with Twitter, my SEOmoz account becomes unlinked.

hi Philipp,

We did something very similar recently. Our rankings had dropped significantly for a particular keyword. We added 2-3 paragraphs of well optimised text to the page (amongst other changes) and our ranking recovered within a couple of days and is now back on page 1.

I'd absolutely add some text to the page you shared but it seems to have other problems too - 298 links on the page for example. I'd look to cut those down too.

Hi there,

Yes - you should definitely worry about them. Get them fixed or add a 301 redirect to a relevant page.

In my experience, lots of 404's often stem from a small number of places such so it shouldn't be a case of having to manually fix every single link. If you fix the link in one place, you'll probably fix it in hundreds of others. Download a CSV of your broken links from Open Site Explorer. You'll easily be able to see the referring page and fix the links.

Hope that helps.

Hi Mike,

I had a similar issue this week. I emailed help@seomoz.org explaining the problem and they got the problem sorted pretty quickly.

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

Hi,

I had a similar problem where our homepage was out ranking the target page. It was down to a number of things but mainly the fact that a lot of links using the keyword anchor text were pointed at the homepage. I would be surprised if your new page replaces the homepage in the SERPs soon after launching it. You'll need to do a few things first.

• Either build new links or get the existing links repointed to your new landing page
• Make sure your on-page SEO is spot on
• Use your internal links effectively to point to your new page using the targeted keyword

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

Hi,

Try installing Yoast's SEO WordPress plugin. Read the documentation and set everything up and it'll sort these problems and more.

With regard to your 404 problem, download the csv file and look for the referrer column. This will show you where the link to the 404 page comes from.

Cheers,