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Wow Good info Dr. Pete!

I'm a little surprised Google didn't give more a lead time warning, but we have known for awhile something like this was coming.

Great info,

Don

Recommended, I wouldn't put it that way. Another way to look at is will it hurt my page (could it be considered spamming)? The answer to that is no, it won't hurt. Many CMS systems will use a page title as the H1 tag simply because it is likely the most relevant data that is already required to create the amount of dynamic pages they do.

If you can however, you may find that you will get more keyword traffic by switching up the title and H1 text a little. In all likely hood the Title and H1 maybe very similar (except for in some HTML 5 pages where there can be multiple H1 tags). This being the case you can use the same main keywords but expand on them in the H1 tag since it is not truncated or limited to a certain amount of characters. Making the H1 tag sound more natural and likely creating longer tailed keywords users may search for.

Hope this helps,

Don

Try

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^5.10.105.45/~isea/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.NewDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Or

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} /~isea/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.NewDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

** (edit) Make sure your sever has Mod Rewrite Enabled*

Yes if it is a follow link. The anchor text helps the search engine understand what the page they are linking to is, but the link itself will pass link juice. Therefore your page authority and domain authority will increase which are known factors in SERPs.

Hope that helps,

Don

You can define what sites results are returned. Which is why I said I would be great for domains with sub-domains. Its been awhile but I think you have to upgrade to paid to turn off Google ads from showing up. There was some reason besides the "Custom Look" which moved us to paying for it.

It is super easy to install, you can make a blank page on your site and use the free version and see how you like it. We did this before going to paid.

Hope that helps Monica,

Don

Yep, we use it on our manufacturing site. (ref link).

In our case we opted for the paid version for customization. It actually doesn't get used as much as I would have hoped but does provide some insight as to what people are looking for via the Google analytic tie-in.

I kind of feel like Google is sooooo good at returning results that most people would rather just go back to Google and re-search than spend time browsing on particular site for X info or items.

For a small site such as the one listed above it is more of an additional tool than an actual data collection source. I could see it being VERY useful if you have a network of sites or multiple sub-domains for like colleges or governments.

Hi Nick,

To expand on what Ryan has stated. Google does use IP addresses to serve results. If somebody in Chelsea types in "Plumber" Google will decide what it thinks the person is looking for. If in case it is happens to be a local plumber than in all likely-hood, a site ranking for Chelsea plumber would be a top result. To specifically answer the question we would have to know what Google thinks a person means when they just type the broad keyword "plumber" and the answer may actually differ from region to region.

Hope this helps,

Don

Moz "used" to provide this service but has since switched gears. There are many of the Moz staff who have worked with other companies so much so they actually recommend them. See this page...

My advice ask a lot of question. You want somebody who has worked in your industry before and anybody who promises the moon is full of poo.

Hope it helps you and others,

Don

You may want to rely on more then just one site's DA metric to make your actual assessment. Moz's number while helpful is just a very educated guess; which can not take into account all the factors. What is most important is conversion rates, sales, or keyword rankings depending on what your goal is.

It is not uncommon for our DA to go up or down a few points month to month. This usually has a correlation to how many linking domains and the like the crawl comes back with. Not ever site will get scanned every crawl, so this number doesn't play a huge role in how successful I view my efforts.

Hope that helps,

Don

It is very unlikely that you would receive any penalties for having 404 errors in such a short time frame. It is common for 404 errors to happen, from others linking to pages on your site that don't exist or removed content. Search engines typically just ignore the pages and move on.

It would only be problematic if your site continually creates new 404 errors. This would show a pattern of bad site design and may hurt you.

Hope this helps,

Don

Yep! Winners will be announced June 15th 3 days before my birthday, ticket to Moz Con would be a nice gift!

Hi Steve,

It is pretty well known duplicate content is not a "good thing" but it doesn't mean it will hurt you directly. Google rarely will penalize a site for duplicate content REF: Matt Cutts

It does however make ranking a specific page harder when you're competing with yourself. Most SEO tools will warn you about each case of duplicate content it finds which can also be annoying.

In the best case scenario you may rank multiple pages for longer tailed keywords for example.. something like

Main Keyword: Gourmet Shopping
Tails: Dayton Ohio, Tampa Florida, Los Angles California, Topeka Kansas

In such case you may would rank 1 of those pages over the other for Gourmet Shopping however if there was enough specific location specific content you may find other pages ranking well in those city state type searches.

Hope that makes sense,

Don

Are more outlets (filters) coming?

Yahoo News / NPR / CNN / etc......

Hello Goran,

Have you checked if your site maybe be using duplicate content? I searched Google.ba and noticed you do come up but your page and layout is very similar if not exactly the same as the #1 search result.

• REF: http://www.telekoplus.com/mobilni-telefoni/htc/desire-620-dual-sim-cena/
• VS: http://www.mobilnishop.com/mobilni-telefoni/htc/Desire-620-Dual-SIM-3730/

If you copy another sites content Google will use the site that first appeared or the one they feel is the original author. Content is very important, but it MUST be unique content!

Hope this helps,

Don

Hello,

There is this post here on Moz which has some great guidance. But to adequately answer your question I wonder if you're using a CMS? If so there maybe a few nice add-ons / modules  to help with this task.

My basic advice would be to:

• Identify the pages top keyword and use it in the url.
• Short URLS are better
• Limit parameters
• Try not to go more than 2 folders deep (ie /computers/accessories/)
• Use Hyphens instead of Underscores
• Avoid Stop Words

I hope this helps,

Don

Hi Angelos,

Sounds like you have a couple things going on here.

First lets look at this statement.

After looking into my website I see that a lot of links in my content and menu have as a link the http url

In this case you need to fix anything that references an http URL. HTTP and HTTPS are for all intents and purposes two different domains, it is like you own amazon.com and you are linking to ebay.com then ebay having redirects back to amazon.com. Need to fix this.

Second a 503 error indicates a page is unavailable. This could be a number of things, improper redirects from the http to https, the server having issues, or dns having issues. If we are talking about the domain in your profile I was unable to reach it at all. For a better look at this issue let us know what domain we can look at.

Hope to help,

Don

Hello Aashath,

If you recently switched hosting providers then you would have been assigned a new DNS (Domain Name Server). This tells the internet where you site is actually located. When you change your DNS it takes time before the changes are propagated through the internet. Google could being trying to resolve your old IP address, when it finds nothing there it can't return results. Usually this only takes a couple days to propagate.

You can read more about changing DNS on Matt Cutts blog here.

Some things you can do to help Google,

• Submit a new sitemap with last update time
• Make sure your Google Analytics account is still active and update code if needed
• Give it some time

Hope this helps,

Don

HI Alberto,

Keep in mind I have not seen your page. I am talking in general specifics. The over all point is if you have a link to another site which is there for reference the user there is no reason to not make it an actual link. Any reason you can think of not to make it a link would also be a reason to remove it.

If you feel you have too many links on a specific page then you probably do! Pick the most pertinent ones and axe the others.

There are ways to maximize link juice and page authority by using some more advanced SEO tactics, See Rand's post about link sculpting. I will say this is some advanced level planing and not something you would just single out one page to do.

Remember SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. White hat SEO deals with how you can best present your page to search engines with out frustrating your users. When you purposely make a change that negatively effects your users and possibly tricks search engines to rank you better you have crossed into grey or black hat SEO. Something that will eventually bit you in the ass.

The choice is of course yours, and if you would like me to look at the page in question you can PM me a link I will be happy to do so. I do stand by everything I said in all my replies while speaking in general terms.

Don

Actually no I wouldn't recommend that.

The reason is if the link is helpful it should be a link right? From a users point of view do you not find it frustrating to see a link that is not a link?

My suggestion is to evaluate each site you're linking to, if they deserve the link leave it in. Otherwise simply remove the link.

The reason behind my suggestion is the way the internet and page rank / authority is supposed to work. When a web master find a link to a site that is beneficial to their sites users, then they link to them. This generates page authority to the linked site but also helps the web master serve their users. In turn it also associates the web masters site with the linked site.

The web has taken many twist and turns since the original method of passing link juice was developed. Tools such as robots.txt, nofollow noindex, and disavow have been added to deal with the changing environment. But, the core of the system still remains.

Hope this make sense,

Don

If you mean a link like:

www.google.com

VS

www.google.com

Then yes, because the first one is not technically a link.