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Hi, I don't think there is any reason not to and gives further opportunity to 'like you'

Peter

Hi Nathan

No, that is not correct. Only 301 redirects will pass value and they don't guarantee to pass all of the value. As 302 redirects nothing is passed.

There is information here on redirects: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

I hope that helps,
Peter

Hi Rob

To be honest I don't know how long it will be before it has an impact. I would have thought less than 4 weeks thugh so it could impact your domain and page authority negatively. In addition of course if visitors click on links in SERPs meantime they will get 404s which won't help.

Is there not a way you can keep the second set of pages live during this transition? Or better still, not launch the site at all until you have have all pages ready and have remapped everything?

Peter

Hi Iris

Is it in the anchor text column that you can see the web address of your site?

If so, that is normal if the anchor text of the link and the URL link are the same. So on the list of inbound links it is not your site linking to your site, but the site in the column to the left that is linking to your site.

I have just had a look at your site in Moz's Open Site Explorer and I see the same. I have attached a screenshot so you can see.

The first column shows an inbound link from: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-is-blurring-images

The second column shows that the anchor text of the inbound link is: http://villasdiani.com which just so happens to link to http://villasdiani.com

A screenshot of the site the inbound link is coming from is also attached. It is cropped to show the blog post that contains the inbound link to your site and you can see that the anchor text is the same as your website address.

Does that make sense?

Peter

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Hi Dan

I have seen a suggestion before that you can use Google Takeout to transfer content from one Google account to another, but I have never done that, so it may be worth investigating (cautiously) the options with that.

Peter

Hi Sylvain

OK, if it is a 302 then no authority will be passed. A 302 redirect is an indicator that the redirection is temporary and therefore will change. Until the redirection is changed to a 301 (permanent) then no authority will be passed over from the backlink.

There is more info on redirection here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

Do you have access to the abonnes.hospimedia.fr sub-domain so you can update the redirection to be a 301?

Peter

Hi Iris

OK, please would you be able to add a screenshot of your Moz results so I can see what it is showing.

Peter

That's a really good comprehensive answer Miriam - for everyone! Thank you.

Peter

Hi, from experience it can take Google quite a time to index images on a site and if this is the first time you have submitted a sitemap that is probably going to be a factor as well.

Just one thing though with the images on your site. The ecommerce CMS system you are using is not helping interest by search engines in the images because the images don't have a descriptive title. This is one I found on the home page: http://pics.thesalebox.com/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/175x175/f33bcb0b82304f8755dbcdf9b59ce0e0/1/0/100706555.jpg - the image is named: 100706555.jpg which although you have used alt tags on your images the non-descriptive image name doesn't help. Neither does the depth of your URLs - the image is located 10 folders down.

I hope that helps,
Peter

Hi, doing rank checks helps you to check the progress of your SEO efforts and also those of your main competitors. The Moz rank tracker doesn't just show you this week's rank but over time it records the changes in the ranking of your pages. There's more info on Moz's tool here: http://moz.com/help/pro/rank-tracker

The majority of people searching will not search past the first page of search results, so if you can get page 1 listings for the keywords you are optimising your pages for then ultimately you will get more clicks through to your site.

Having said that, what appears in the search results is changing a lot and Google's latest Hummingbird update will affect that more. So, rank checking is not the only thing you should focus upon. There are lots of things you need to check and give attention to. Rank checking is just one metric in the toolbox.

I hope that helps,
Peter

I don't think the Hummingbird update was specifically targeted at to improving Google Instant, but I guess it is likely that will receive an improvement because of Hummingbird. It's not something I have noticed to be honest, but it makes sense that it would.

Peter

Hello Robert and welcome to the forum

The recent Hummingbird update has no doubt shifted the SEO horizon, but that is true for all of us, Within that, I guess there will inevitably some re-tuning of the Moz tools and their analysis of data, but that is also true of other tools.

Fundamentally, Hummingbird is about Google increasing their focus on ranking information based on a more intelligent understanding of search requests. But Google has been heading that way for some time so there's not been anything totally revolutionary about the Hummingbird update. It's more evolutionary.

Just as there may need to be tweaks to competitor analysis for keywords, there will likely be tweaks to the way on-page optimisation is graded, but to reiterate, this will be true across the whole breadth of tools available on the Internet.

From my perspective, I respect Moz's position and the expertise and comprehensive analysis which both their tools and their team provide.

I hope that helps,
Peter

Hello Iris

Thanks for the extra info. I understand now.

The report you refer to is in Moz Analytics. "The Top External Inbound Links from Current Index" report shows backlinks to your site sorted in page authority order. Page Authority is a Moz calculated authority metric that scores the web page as to how likely it is to rank in Google's search results. Its calculation is based on lots of varied data.

In the case of the backlink you have had from dianibeach.com, Moz has assessed that of all the backlinks pointing to your site it has the second highest page authority. If its authority score is 27 that is fairly low, but it must mean that the authority of

To answer your concerns from your earlier post:

My worry is why it is reported as second top page?? Can that be?? Moz has assessed that of all the backlinks pointing to your site it has the second highest page authority. If its authority score is 27 that is fairly low, so that suggests that the authority of other pages back linking to your site must also be fairly low.

How this can harm my site? Don't worry, It isn't going to harm your site

Can it outrank my site or whatever? The page authority is not really a mark of page ranking, just of a score of its authority to rank. If the keywords your site rank for are the same or similar to the other site, then yes it could outrank you in a specific search, but that is not what this is about. In fact, if the page is linking back to your site, then it is likely passing some of its authority back to your site.

How is it even possible that it is found in indexed search? If there is a link on another site pointing to your site then that is how it has been found by the Moz crawler.

Is there something I should be concern about? No, don't be concerned. Focus on the searches you are optimising your site and pages for and do not worry about this one site. You have a good looking site that is easy to navigate and it seems to have lots of good information and images in what looks like a beautiful part of the world. Be encouraged.

I hope that helps,
Peter

Hi Cyto

I have never heard of them, but sounds too good to be true IMHO.

There is no question over the importance of unique, rich content, but I have serious doubts that a piece of software can generate 1000s of pages of unique, coherent and relevant content.

I don't think there are many if any shortcuts to writing great content.

Sorry for being doubtful, but I hope that helps.

Peter

Hi Bernard

Are you able to provide a link to the web form containing the submit button?

Peter

Hi Iris

When you say "it is reported as second top page"  as a "moz crawl error" (from your original post above), I am not sure what you mean. On what Moz report is this showing and if this is a ranking report for what search term is it ranking for? What error is being shown for this?

Please explain some more.

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Greg

If these links have been arriving at your site and producing 404s then they must have a legitimate format so you should be able to redirect them. BUt it may be a limitation of your cPanel redirect form that is rejecting the links you are entering.

In your form, essentially you should need to select the domain you are creating a redirection for (.e.g. bestdryingrack.com and then copy the text after the domainname/ (i.e. after the forward slash) into the textbox alongside. In the redirects to box below enter the full URL including http:// for the page you want the link redirected to.

If you are on a Linux server then your cPanel will be adding the redirections it creates into a file called .htaccess in the root of your web server. If the form doesn't work, then it may be worth trying to add the redirections manually to the .htaccess file.

There is a site here which will help you create the 301 redirects and may not be as fussy as your cPanel form is.

I hope that helps,

Peter

Hi, it's an option to scrap and start again although bear in mind that the current domain is four years old and a new domain will lose that and any authority it has accrued.

That said, maybe the real issue is that your page has suffered in terms of its ranking because of Google's own shake up to the pages it ranks for "Anglian Windows" and "Anglian Windows reviews" and its objective to provide pages that offer relevant and unique content in its search results.

Looking at the page with an embedded YouTube video and lots of content scraped from other sites, does that genuinely fit the intent of someone searching for reviews about Anglian Windows. IMHO I am not sure it does and with the recent Hummingbird update to Google's algorithm, providing unique relevant content is even more important.

I hope that helps,

Peter

Hi Sylvain

Yes, it will, but you may lose some of the authority passed in the process.

See the answer by Matt Cutts to a similar question about this: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/03/google-confirms-301-redirects-result-in-pagerank-loss.html

I hope that helps,

Peter

Hi Gregory

To answer your question re the two links you have shown as examples...

http://mysite.com/http://mysite.com/randomword

Yes, this is essentially two links as follows: http://mysite.com/ and http://mysite.com/randomword so you need to split these.

http://mysite.com/">najboljih  and this

http://mysite.com/…word/new-word.html

The first one is not a valid link - this decodes to http://mysite.com/">najboljih

The second one has tried to encode non-standard characters so it is represented as two digit Hexadecimal codes - this decodes to http://mysite.com/ÔǪword/new-word.html which with the %xx codes could decode to a genuine URL but it looks suspect.

Are these links from another site?

Peter