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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,

Take a look at your inbound links on OSE. Take a look with your Google hat on. Do they look natural? Are they links form websites relevant to nurses? I would say no to both of these questions so I'm guessing that's why you've taken a whack.

Thanks for the replies guys. Unless I'm going crazy here, the H1 tag is for wedding favours and not wedding flowers.

I take your point about the canonical link. Unfortunately this is an issue with our CMS which I'm looking to resolve shortly. Do you think that could be one reason for the ranking?

I also completely agree with you on the sub domain issue. It's something I want to resolve in the long term but in the short term, it's not really an option I'm afraid.

Thanks again guys.

Morning all, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a quick look at this page and see if I'm missing something here.

The targeted keyword (wedding favours) is pretty competitive and the rank had been slowly improving until recently and we've now slipped to 25th on Google UK. I've added a "Pay with a tweet" button for our eBook which has been pretty well received (around 100 downloads) so far so the social side is better than our competition.

I've also written a few guest blogs with links back to the page from a variety of sources.

Here is the page analysis on OSE.

If you could take a quick look and let me know if I'm missing anything here, it would be most appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Hi Shajan,

I've only taken a quick look at your homepage but it looks as though you might well be over optimising. The phrase "virtual assistant appears" 38 times on the page which is too much considering the amount of text on the page. It doesn't read very naturally. There was a great post on SEOmoz a couple of weeks back which you might want to take a look at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/lessons-learned-by-an-over-optimizer-14730

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

Hi Muhammad,

This is in response to your second question. I would start by using a tool such as Xenu's Link Sleuth and run a report on your site. This will give you a report of how 'deep' pages are within your site ie. how far they are from your homepage.

As you might know, the general rule for most sites is to have all pages within 3 clicks of the homepage so this is a good way to judge the effectiveness of the site architecture.

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

Thanks Naghirniac,

Since I posted this I've looked further in to the CMS update and found that each and every page on our site (around 8,000) has a relative canonical link on it which points to itself. They also cannot be edited thus making them completely useless! Gotta love these CMS developers! URRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

Thanks anyway,

Brendan.

Hi guys and gals,

Our CMS has just been updated to its latest version which finally adds support for rel=canonical. HUZZAH!!! However, it doesn't add the absolute URL of the page. There is a base ref tag which looks like <base <="" span="">href="http://shop.confetti.co.uk/" />

On a page such as http://shop.confetti.co.uk/branch/wedding-favours the canonical tag looks like rel="canonical" href="/branch/wedding-favours" />

Does Google recognise this as a legitimate canonical tag? The SEOmoz On-Page Report Card doesn't recognise it as such.

Any help would be great,

Thanks in advance,

Brendan.

Hi,

If you output the report in CSV format you will see one of the columns is titled "referrer". This shows the source of the link and should enable you to fix it.

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

Hi Omri,

Probably not the answer you're looking for but drop the SEOmoz help team an email at help@seomoz.org and I'm sure they'll help you out. They usually respond pretty quickly.

Hope that helps,

Brendan.

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.