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Wow, thanks guys! This is indeed an enterprise level site, so especially thanks to CleverPhD for the breakdown on trailing slash v. no trailing slash. Redirecting as we speak.

Hi All,

A recent Moz scan has turned up quite a few duplicate content notifications, all of which have the same issue. For instance: domain.com/page and domain.com/page/ are listed as duplicates, but I was under the impression that these pages would, in fact, be the same page.

Is this even something to bother fixing or a fluke scan? If I should fix it does anyone know of an .htaccess modification that might be used?

Thanks!

Hey Dan,

I had kind of assumed that it might be a false alarm from the Moz scan. I typically use Xenu to check for broken links periodically and it hasn't shown any.

Thanks for the tip!

Could you detail this process a bit more?

Sometimes it appears that Moz picks up on-site search queries as individual pages. That may be the case, and it would explain why new duplicate content flags keep popping up after the initial scan.

The canonical plugin I mentioned may take care of the issue if that's what it is.

http://yoast.com/tools/magento/canonical/

Worked for me, anyway.

Can you post a sample url that was flagged as a duplicate?

Hi All,

I have a client with a sizeable international manufacturing operation who we've managed to get up to a DA of 40 over time. However, things seem to have levelled out, and I'm not sure how to mix it up to get the numbers back on the rise.

We create regular blog and social content, run press releases bi-weekly, optimize on-page content and stay on top of all technical issues. What else can we do??

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, Thanks.

What cms or e-commerce platform are you using (I assume it's not a static site by the fact that you have over 10,000 pages)? You may want to look into some sort of canonical plugin; I've had a similar problem with Magento and after we installed the plugin duplicate content in the issues report took a drastic plunge.

Hi All,

I have noticed that Open Site Explorer does not appear to be totally accurate in the linking root domains it shows for a given site.

For instance, I have a site that I know for a fact is listed on dmoz (and has been for far longer than last Mozscape update), which should show up near the top of the stack. What gives? Do you think that this is also affecting my projected DA, PA, etc?

Thoughts and theories welcome.

I'm using Interspire's shopping cart system with a few modifications. There's absolutely no official support for it at this point, so I appreciate your help.

The cart is a standalone php page, so I think that just blocking that off should be sufficient.

Thanks!

Thanks, Lesley. I've just added the cart page to the disallow list.

Hi All,

I'm having an ecommerce cart issue. Basically, each time a purchase is made, the cart pops up with a unique id (eg www.mysite.com/cart.php?action=add&product_id=3728), This is being caught by MOZ scans as an individual page in some instances.

Could I simply add Disallow: /cart.php to my robots.txt to nix this issue? In theory it should keep all subsequent query strings from being indexed, right?

Thanks!

Hi All,

Does anyone know of optimization best practices for the now largely defunct Interspire Web Publisher?

Specifically, I'm looking for a canonical plugin or workaround to try and get rid of a few duplicate content issues (most importantly root vs. index.php).

I'd like to just redo the site with a cms that has better support...unfortunately client budget constraints are a little tight at the moment.

Thanks!

Hey Christy,

Nope, Never did figure out an answer!

I took a break for a while but now I'm back trying to divine a solution.

Re: Dana's suggestion, I did make sure that our canonical plugin was using absolute urls, but it looks as though that did not solve the issue.

Not sure how to locate a potential PHP glitch that might be causing this... any pointers?

Like a charm, Mark. Thanks!

Haha, I actually just realized that I will only have to punch the formula in on a row by row basis once; after that I can simply arrange the table columns in the same way and copy the KEI column with the formulas into the new doc.

Might be a little time consuming the first time, and you probably wouldn't want to do it for a spreadsheet containing more than a couple hundred keywords, but not bad overall.

I did find something that seems to work pretty well. the formula is _=(B2^2)/C2 _where column one is keyword, column two is local monthly searches, and column three is competition. The KEI formula goes in column four.

This is all well and good, but it takes quite a bit of time to adjust this formula row by row; any ideas on how to simply apply this to the entire table?

I suppose another way to phrase this is that I am looking for an Excel formula to help me determine KEI, or Keyword Effectiveness Index, with greater accuracy.

Thanks, Thomas. I'll check it out.

"So do you think there is a relationship between search volume and competition/value of a keyword?"

Well, yeah. Specifically, what I'm looking for is a formula that will organize my export results with simultaneous lowest possible competition score per highest possible local monthly search. I want to find the happy medium between the two to assign some sort of cumulative score, and then arrange according to that.

It probably sounds like I'm looking for a silver bullet...I just have a lot of data to sift through.

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone had an excel formula that they use to manage large amounts of data in spreadsheet exports from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool?

Specifically, I am interested in something that establishes a solid corollary between a given keywords competition score and the amount of local/global monthly searches.

Any suggested ideas or methods are very welcome. Thanks!