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Hi, absolutely yes, you should go with /wordpress-live-chat as the URL clearly conveys the purpose of the page to both the search engines as well as the users.

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Devanur Rafi

Hi, the 404 errors are pretty bad and en user experience standpoint and so Google does not like them. During domain migrations, the most important aspect is to control the number of 404 errors to the possible extent if not possible to make them zero.

When pages are moved, you should go in for a one-to-one or page-to-page server-side, 301 permanent redirection from the old pages to the corresponding new locations so that the old pages do not end-up in 404 errors and with 301 in place, Google will know that the old pages are no more in force and that they have been replaced by the new corresponding destinations. This will also make the old ones replaced by the new ones in search engine indices.

So to conclude, 404 errors are bad from both, the users and the search engines.

Hope it helps my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, can you please explain the question a bit more clearly? However, let me try to address it:

To view the search volumes for keywords/phrases in Google from so and so geo location, you can use Google Keyword Planner, here:

https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner

You need to login to your Google account to be able to use the keyword planner.

Once you have your master list of keywords/phrases based on relevance and search volume, you then need to think about keyword mapping which is a process that involves, coming up with keyword/phrase specific pages to be added to your website targeting each one of these keywords/phrases. So you will be mapping these keywords/phrases to your URLs (pages). Here is an example:

Suppose your list of keywords has a key phrase, "mutual funds". You can map it to a page URL like:

yourdomain.com/mutual-funds.html

Likewise, you beef up the size of your website with pages targeting keywords that resulted from your keyword research and analysis using tools like Google Keyword Planner etc.

Once you are done with keyword mapping process, you get down to write the content for each of these pages. You also need to optimize the on-page SEO elements on these pages like, the page Title, Description, H1 tag, content itself, contextual linking (internally to other pages) from within the content etc.

Please feel free to elaborate your query so that we can address it more accurately.

By the way, SERPs means, search engine results pages, the ones that Google or any other search engines give us when we search.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, only one version, either the non-www or www should throw an HTTP header status 200. Suppose you prefer the www version then you should ideally have the non-www version redirected to the www version via a server-side 301, permanent redirection. You can also set the preferred domain setting to the www version in Google webmaster tools account. With 301 in place, you should see things falling on the right track. Care should be taken that only the preferred version URLs are used for any and all of your campaigns as well as link building or link earning purposes.

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Devanur Rafi

Hi Fred,

Please wait for at least 2 weeks for the change to reflect in Google. This happens and depends on how popular your site is in terms of link profile, DA, PA  etc..I still see "http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no" (without trailing slash) in Google's index. Let us wait for sometime. Nothing to worry about it.

Hi, you should initiate an action against them but before doing that, have a word with them and ask them to take it down. They are trying to hijack your prospect visitors by showing your content in an iframe of their website. This is a known dirty trick. By the way, when I clicked the click you mentioned, it took me to a download and probably an adaware of malware.

Please do not keep quite and act now to have that malicious site to stop showing your content. Also, they are eating up your server's bandwidth. You can even complain this to the other website's hosting provider.

Good Luck my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi Fred, now its perfect. It should soon reflect in Google and you will be able to see it in site: search. Good Luck my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Moz does not provide backlink indexing service.

Hi Surabhi,

If you are serious about getting your backlinks indexed fast and for sure, you need to make use of paid services like:

1. http://linklicious.co/

2. http://www.lindexed.com/

3. http://backlinksindexer.com/

4. http://www.instantlinkindexer.com/

5. http://www.indexification.com/

Free pinging tools are not so efficient compared to the above.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

Hope these will explain about DA and PA along with the factors that influence them:

http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

http://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Dear Fred,

Here is your redirection setup:

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/      being redirected via 301 to

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no    being redirected via 301 to

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

So, I would suggest you to remove the interim URL without the trailing slash after 'no'. Let the original homepage, http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ also be redirected to http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ (the one with trailing slash) via 301.

So your redirection setup should be as follows:

http://weekend.visitsweden.com/  - via 301 to - http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

This should fix the issue. Essentially, we are eliminating the redirection loop here.

By the way, both the URLs, with and without trailing slash appear in Google when searched with the following queries:

weekend.visitsweden.com/no

weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi, by no means it worth $0.5 a word. That content was re-written from the articles shown here:

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=Is+Divya+Ashwagandha+Churna+Safe%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-beta&channel=sb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=9cDQU5f7NKHM8gfkjICABA#channel=sb&q=%22Divya+Ashwagandha+Churna%22&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

You can try iwriter.com and choose the premium writers. The quality is top-notch and far, far economical than what you mentioned above. You can tell me what is the niche that you are trying to get the content written for so that I can suggest you better.

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Devanur Rafi

Oh, ok. If that's the case, pls don't worry about those in the index. You can get them removed using remove URL feature in webmaster tools account.

Hi,

You should not nofollow links to your social profiles. Your social profiles can benefit from your links.

This has been answered here on Moz:

http://moz.com/community/q/is-it-better-nofollow-or-follow-links-to-external-social-pages

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

I 100% agree with FedeEinhorn.

roofrackworld.com.au seems penalized somewhere around November 2013 to December 2013.

Go here: http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/

Give an offline access to the tool for your Google Analytics account. Select the date range from September 2013 till date. Look for any Google update related penalty.

Please post your observations here so that we can take it from there.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

There can be many on-page issues but here you go for few of those..

1. Content of at least around 500 words per page, the more the better. Care should be taken its unique, highly relevant, up-to-date, useful to your visitors. If substantially similar or identical content has to go in two pages with different URLs, considering going for rel=canonical implementation to avoid duplicate content issue. See to its the keyword density (though there are no thumbrules) is around 1% in the article body. This is apart from other indexable content on the page like, page title, description tag, image alt text, image titles etc.

2. Page Title - the essence should be captures in the first 55 characters including spaces with your target term for the page towards the beginning

3. Description meta tag - should be around 150 characters including spaces. Description tag, though its not one of the parameters for ranking, it can have dramatic impact on your CTR from the SERPs.

4. The H1 tag - Only one H1 tag should be there per page with the target term in it

5. Links from within the content pointing to other internal pages with relevant anchor text.

6. Make sure your servers are fast enough with no down times to the possible extent. As you know page loading time is an official ranking factor.

7. Make sure to keep your URLs short to around 75 characters. Shorter, crisp, URLs that convey clear hierarchy to both the search engines and users tend to out-rank lengthy ones. URLs should include your keywords/phrases and hyphens to be used as word separators.

8. Easy and clear website navigation - care should be taken that no graphics or images are used for internal navigation, especially in the top navigation menu. The internal navigation should be only through text and JavaScript based navigation should be avoided by all possible means. With Flash and JavaScript off, users should be able to navigate through the website without any issues. To the possible extent, all the pages should be reachable within 2 to 3 clicks from the root folder. If this is not possible, add the deep nested pages to the Sitemap.xml file so that they can be found by the search engines without any effort.

9. Frames and Tables - avoid the usage of Frames and tables. Div tags can be used instead of tables as Divs result in faster rendering and provide better mobile experience also.

10. Cleaner code - the code on the website should be free of errors to the possible extent. A website with clean code will have an edge over others with coding errors. bbc.co.uk can be your benchmark in this regard. You can use http://validator.w3.org for the purpose.

11. Consistent and optimal performance on all device platforms -  care should be taken so that the pages load and render well on all platforms like, Desktop, Smartphones and Tablets. You can consider responsive web design here.

12. Social media sharing - all the important pages on the website should have socialsharing buttons for the users to be able to share the pages on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus etc.,

13. 404 error-handling mechanism - for all the non-existing or unavailable resources in the website, a proper custom error document should be in place that enables the visitor to further navigate through the website. All 404 errors should throw a HTTP header status message 404 and not any other header status message.

14. Make sure that your website does not have any orphan pages. Every page on the website should be reachable by at least one text link.

Also, please make it a routine to perform keyword research & analysis at regular intervals to come up with a list of new or trending keywords/phrases in your niche so as to add corresponding new pages to your website.

Please keep a watchful eye on the Webmaster tools account for any error like 404, 500 series, manual actions etc.

So those were few items that you can look in to for making your website perform better in the search engines.

Hope it helps my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

Please try this and let us know the results:

Suppose this is one of the pages in discussion:

http://www.yourdomain.com/blocked-page.html

Go to Google, type the following along with double quotes. Replace with the actual page:

"yourdomain.com/blocked-page.html" -site:yourdomain.com

Anderss has pointed out to the right article. With robots.txt blocking, Google bot will not do the crawl (link discovery) from within the website but what if references to these blocked pages are found else where on third-party websites? This is the case you have been into. So to fully block Google from doing the link discovery and indexing these blocked pages, you should go in for the page-level meta robots tag to block these pages. Once this is in place, this issue will fade away.

This issue has been addressed many times here on Moz.

Coming to your concern about the crawl budget. There is nothing to worry about this as Google will not crawl those blocked pages while its on your website as these are already been blocked using robots.txt file.

Hope it helps my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

Hi,

I would look at this from two perspectives.

1. These thins pages could have been beefed-up with some unique content or at least the content could have been re-written to make them unique. Personally, I prefer to make the duplicate pages unique instead of deleting them.This of course depends on the number of pages and the level of duplication.

2. Now that these pages have been removed from the website, you should be erasing all the links to these from within the website from all the places like, sitemaps and internal linking so that the search engines do not find a link pointing to them that might end-up in a 404 error. You should also consider if there have been any references left to these pages from third-party web properties.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi