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Thank you guys! This was just what I needed.

Extra thumbs up for your article Amelia!

A client of our have not been able to rank very well the last few years. They are a big brand in our country, have more than 100+ offline stores and have plenty of inbound links.

Our main issue has been that they have to many indexed pages. Before we started we they had around 750.000 pages in the Google index. After a bit of work we got it down to 400-450.000. During our latest push we used the robots meta tag with "noindex, nofollow" on all pages we wanted to get out of the index, along with canonical to correct URL - nothing was done to robots.txt to block the crawlers from entering the pages we wanted out.

Our aim is to get it down to roughly 5000+ pages. They just passed 5000 products + 100 categories.

I added this about 10 days ago, but nothing has happened yet. Is there anything I can to do speed up the process of getting all the pages out of index?

The page is vita.no if you want to have a look!

Hi,

We've just increased a lot of branded PPC clicks for one of our clients. I've worked out that roughly 5000 clicks per month has been moved from organic search to PPC (all brand related search queries).

These clicks are very cheap, but the client has expressed worries about what these clicks could do to our organic rankings.

Lots of brand search in organic results proves to Google that this is a strong brand, right? So what happens when all the searches are still there, but the organic listings stop getting the clicks? Could this have a ring effect on other non-brand rankings?

Hi,

If an ecommerce site has different prices for the different regions within the same country (based on IP location), will this impact Google somehow?

Case: Furniture website in Norway. Shipping is expensive when you ship a sofa, so prices will differ depending on where in Norway you're located. Switching location is easy, but the default price you see will be based on your IP location.

Seomoz is currently reporting 404-errors, without saying where these errors are found.

What good is this report when it does'nt say a word about where I can find the page linking to the 404?

Screen: http://filer.crenia.no/NJPZ

I really think it's time for Seomoz to prioritize upgrading the pro tools. Feels like they haven't been updated in ages..

Hi,

Until now I've adviced a lot of web shops to avoid having long URL structures for their categories and products (aka. remove the useless slugs).

Recently I discovered that Google started rolling out more and more results that looks like these screenshots:

http://filer.crenia.no/McDn & http://filer.crenia.no/McYO (look at the URL in the SERP)

I'm assuming the slugs are a vital part of creating these SERP results. Personally, I also think they look better and favor them compared to the old SERPs.

Does anyone have any experience with these, what impact they have or any reason not to add slugs to URLs again?

I wish Seomoz would focus more on improving the current tools, rather than add new ones. It's been a while since any value was added to the campaign manager set.

I know that, but what about the distribution of "link juice"?

I'm working on a few clients who are starting to get big header menus. Their site now easily exceeds the 100 links per page recommendation.

Normally I would recommend them to cut down on the links, bit in this case these sites have menus that makes navigation easier. I honestly think these menus adds value for the users.

The dilemma is that I think the menus provide value from an UX standpoint, but I'm not sure from the SEO standpoint.

Any recommendations to this dilemma?

Some examples:

http://moodsofnorway.com/no/

http://www.gmax.no/

http://www.flust.no/

I got this one yesterday as well. All of the sudden I saw 200-300 visitors in the live screen (live view Google analytics). When checking more in-depth all these 1e100.net records were tracked as different keywords (about 30+ different keywords) from organic search.

I see the explanation from Google, but I don't understand why they do this (is it just normal crawlers) and why they don't filter it out of Analytics?

That what I was afraid of - that both the table information and sitelinks were autogenerated from Google without any support from the website owner.

I'm still really curious on how Google got to the sitelinks. Any suggestions?

When searching for "kredittkort" on Norwegian Google I get a search results that looks like this. I want to replicate this, but I'm not sure what information they've provided and how they've done it.

It's seems like their both listing products AND have sitelinks connected to a subsite. How is this possible? The sitelinks aren't even subpages of the ranked site. How have they managed this?

Also, is the product previews they have?