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If you want to block the /mobile folder from being crawled you would need to set up a robots.txt file and input this text:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /mobile
Personally, I would use the rel=canonical tag and tell search engines that the preferred version of the page would be the non-mobile version. You can learn more about rel=canonical here...
They provide a calendar here - https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule - The last update was earlier this month - 6th July
The aim is to update it every 4 weeks but this cannot be guaranteed. The next update is due on 3rd August 2012.
I always try to use the rel=canonical tag wherever possible - however, it is only a suggestion to the search engines. They can decide not to use your suggestion.
301 redirects should really only be used when the page has permanently moved or dramatically changed (by this I mean the layout, design etc.) - domainA.com/content to domainB.org/content. By using a 301 redirect you will lose 5 to 10% of link juice and you will also lose any social shares received.
I remember a member of the SEOmoz team explaining that it was an issue with their system and both Great Britain and United Kingdom yield identical results. It is just two names for one Google.
I think they are looking into this further.
That's correct - having both www.site.com and just site.com causes duplication issues.
You do not need to have redirects in place to solve this though - you can use a rel=canonical tag in order to specify which 'version' you wish search engines to use.
Here are a few posts that should help you:
Google's Explanation -
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
SEOmoz Best Practices -
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization
John Doherty's blog post - "Should I use a Rel=Canonical or 301 Redirect?" -
You will be losing around 5-10% of your link juice by using 301 redirects. 301 redirects really should be used for when content has been moved and not for aesthetically enhancing your URLs. You need to think whether of not it is worth losing up to 10% of link juice to just remove capital letters - is there not another solution?
Hope this helps!
If it is your own original content and more 'valuable' to the end user than the article content then I would put it above the fold.
If it is not then I would keep it below the fold.
This is really useful! Thanks for share.
OSE is not working for me but I suggest searching using ambienmed.com (without the www.) as on Google they rank with ambienmed.com
This is a different subdomain and would be the reason there are no links to www.ambienmed.com
As well as that they are also in a fortunate position of having the keyword ambien in their domain name.
Bit.ly uses 301 redirects which will pass 90-95% of the link juice to your URL (almost the same as a direct link). If a URL shortener uses 302 redirects then they will not pass any link juice.
If there are no links to a page then it is very unlikely it will be crawled. As there is only one link to your page then again it is unlikely to be crawled and thus indexed.
I would recommend creating more internal links as a starter and then if that does not work then begin external link building.
Question 2 - that is the quickest way.
This is the latest results that I can think of - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-tale-of-two-studies-google-vs-bing-clickthrough-rate
If you search "click through rates for organic search" then there may be more up to date figures. I have attached the table that gives the examples you are looking for.
It is not necessary for you to add your URL to these sites unless you have ZERO links - even then it isn't a guarantee. If you have even just a few inbound links then the search engine bots will crawl and index your site.
In regards to how long that will take - it depends on the inbound links. If they are from large sites that get updated regularly then chances are the bots will crawl your site relatively quickly.
Hope this helps!
The size does not necessarily matter from an SEO point of view. If the H2 is being used when an H1 tag would be needed (i.e. the headline) then there will be issues but it does not seem the case in this scenario.
You shouldn't have a problem.
I'm almost certain that authorship only works for personal accounts. If it is available for businesses then I would still recommend using a personal account.
You should link internally as .com and not /index.html.
For example:
**["Anchor Text](index.html)**
Should be:
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**[Anchor Text](http://www.example.com)**
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If for some reason you cannot edit any internal links then 301 redirects will work.
Hope this helps!I have always implemented authorship the Google way and it has worked everytime.
You're right, it is surprisingly simple!
I use the SEOmoz crawler - http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test - there is a free option that crawls 250 pages.
I have also heard good things about - http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ - although I have never used it.
If those pages are now defunct then they will disappear from the results in due course. You may also add a robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling those pages. A best practice guide can be found here - http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt