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Hi there,
are you logged in to google when you search?
What keyword are you looking for? i could check here where you rank and it might give me a better idea (i need to know the website then).
There is no direct correlation between the two to my knowledge.
Hope to hear from you.
kind regards
Jarno
Carolina,
that sounds like a normal way to go, yes. If you used www.domain.com before i would definitely use it again. No only is it known by people perhaps but also for all the link juice (links pointing to your website) that were build to www.domain.com instead of domain.com. And i would urge them to install analytics on it as soon as possible.
Since it is new design site (no new content?) and the site has been redirected to another subdomain (www. is also a subdomain..) Google could possibly see this as a new website which in turn could mean that it could rank more difficult over time. This is not per se the case but it could happen.
I would urge the developer to undo the redirect immediately, and let him install analytics.If you do this you should be in the right direction again.
kind regards
Jarno
Dana,
the buildup of your sitemap.xml is very strange to me. I use an external program to build my sitemap.xml for me entire website.
You now have a link in your robots.txt file pointing to a sitemap which contains 2 files (both .xml) with een map of the site?
Why not use a program (free or paid like Microsys A1 (the one I use)) to build 1 sitemap.xml en point to this file from your robots.txt?
hope this helps
if you do have any questions, please let me know.
kind regards
Jarno
Brian,
can't you disable the function archive? Then you just have the message/content in your category and no longer in any archive.
Maybe this is what you are looking for:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-how-to-disable-or-remove
good luck
kind regards
Jarno
The domain you entered is not a link in the description. Perhaps you entered it wrong, or something went wrong but i believe that this is your biggest problem. Other issues why it is not recognised as a linking root domain i can't find looking at the video.
kind regards
Jarno
Jungles,
I don't have any info about experiments on that but I do have something else. A client of mine updates their own pages using Adobe Contribute. I told him not to repeat the keyword he wanted to rank for to many times due to a penalty by Google that could occur. He didn't listen and added 5 sequences of the keywords (keyword contains 4 words). This brought the percentile of the keyword on that page above 15%. Since then.. he ranks number one for that specific keyword and no penalty what so ever.
So just assuming that a 10% density wouldn't work for generic keywords is not helpful nor is it true but personally i would no go that far. When using brand names it is a bit different. It makes it more natural sometimes. Using a brand name in each sentence for one could be considered very natural while other people might think it's spamming behavior.
I feel like it's more a flip of an coin and I wouldn't take the change. It would focus on other aspects to rank for the keyword then density.
Hope my advice might help you along a bit
kind regards
Jarno
Totally agree with Casey. Otherwise everyone that offers something for free would be penalized and we have an empty Internet. Imagine searching for a free e-book on SEO and Google says: "Sorry, but free is a spammy word so I won't show you any results.". That would be hilarious wouldn't it?
Do what Casey mentioned and you should be fine.
Some free advice..
kind regards
Jarno
Hi Ketan,
first let's see if this is correct:
The name of the company consists of 2 separate words combines to one word? Okay. Let's go from there. The problem is that ranking for the 2 words separate from each other has an hole other meaning then when they are combined. Vacuumcleaner is a machine that uses a vacuum to clean but when you search for vacuum cleaner that does not have to mean that you meant a vacuumcleaner. You are searching for something that cleans using a vacuum. (really hopes this makes sense 
)
You should definitely use the name of the company (combined) since that is the name of the company. You could employ a couple of the words seperatly but I would focus mainly on the combined version. You are trying to brand them right? So it is important that people begin to know the company by it's right name.
Personally I would use that seperate version of the words maybe 3/4 times depending on the page length but focus mainly on the words together. Hopes this helps you a bit.
kind regards
Jarno
Brocberry,
have you thought about rel=canonical and specify the blog as original? Or have you thought about it and considered it not to be an option?
This could solve your entire problem and the content is not considered to be duplicate in any case.
kind regards
Jarno
you are right. misinterpreted the explanation. Apologies
George,
i've build websites in 3 different languages and without any of the discribed errors. Each language gets its own title, own description and own content. Did you handcode everything of did you use a CMS to build the site?
Since every language has its own folder I can imagine that every language has its own file to. If that is not the case then i would suggest looking into CMS systems that enable this way of building up websites.
hope this helps some.
kind regards
Jarno
Henrik,
i think you should be looking into something like this:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*view=send_friend$
hope this helps
Kind regards
Jarno
Wired,
One of my own websites lists camping sites in the netherlands. In return for a free page we ask them the enlist our website on theirs. From our guestpage we make for them we'll link to their website. Never before has this harmed our website but rather is has improved our site.
Not only do you need to think about search engines but more about users that come across a website. Is this resource usefull for the visitor of that site? Yes? Then you should link back to them. Is it truly an Honour to be in their top 100 sites? Yes, then you should embed something something like a badge or something on your site linking to the top 100 to prove that you are true.
So question 1: Is it common courtesy to reciprocate with a link back if someone has linked to your site? ONLY if you think it will help your visitor or if you need to prove something (for instance that you are telling the truth or something)
Question 2: Does linking back affect seo rankings at all? Yes, it does. A link on a page pointing to another website is a vote for that website. Should you always insert a link back for Seo purposes only? No way..
Remember that Google is trying to index websites more and more humane as they probably can. Does a link to a site that is already pointing to your website harmful? Not per definition. Is it useful? Not per definition. It all depends and your visitor. Start out by imagining that you are a blank visitor on your site and try to find out if a reciprocal link is useful or not. If so, you should embed it in your site.
If you have any questions please ask.
Hope this helps
Kind regards
Jarno
Zora,
I would also go ahead and ask the webmasters from the websites that are linking to your old domain to change the link to the new domain. Since this can take up several months with google to be noticed you could already do that. In combination with the 301 redirect you could do just fine.
kind regards
Jarno
The way Eliathah is suggesting is correct if you are looking at external links from your site.
If you are look at links to other pages on your website ("lot of pages on my site") then i would never nofollow them unless they really are only the increase the number of pages on your site and don't contain any real usefull info. Then again, why would you make a page without any usefull info right?
Hope this helps
Kind Regards
Jarno
Nathan,
15 repeats is a bit excessive but then again your question about why Google in ranking the terms differently is one I asked myself a couple of times now. I use singular and plural version of a word for one of my websites. The search volume for both is not the same. The plural version is a bit lower then the singular one.
Still if you optimize your page for the plural version the singular one should be taken into consideration because in my case the singular version of the word is part of the plural (minicamping and minicampings). The problem is in the fact that these words match for the biggest part.
I would suggest reducing the number of times the word(s) is/are repeated by at least 5 no matter how big the content is, unless it is completely natural off course. That all depends on the words you are using I guess.
Hope this helps
kind regards
Jarno
Carlos,
the 2 options are indeed correct. But you can disavow spam.site.com (www.site.com is also a subdomain in fact).
I would like to suggest the same thing Google is suggesting: Do not just use the disavow tool but contact the website with the links pointing to your website you don't want and start by kindly asking them to remove the links.
Try to solve it by getting the spammy links down in stead off overloading google with requests about the links.
hope this helps
Kind Regards
Jarno
I personally lean more towards the reaction of EGOL. If you put enough effort in it, keep it straight white hat and do all the steps suggested in the SEOblog section (like link earning in stead of link building) then over time you can outrank that site for sure. But keep working on it. Be social.. share everything you can on facebook, twitter and off course the BIG G+.
Tricks can help you in the short run but hurt you in the long run so i wouldn't go for that straight away.
You could also try registering the other domain you mentioned, put up some content and everything and build it next to your existing website (without copying text etc.). You could do this as a supporting role for your primary website if you wish. But i would focus on my primary website first and improving that one.
regards
Jarno
Andrew,
If I understand you correctly it's about the on-page factors of your SEOMoz campaign?
I think they just check what page is indexed for that keyword by Google. Adjusting the page manually in the system is a temporary solution. After that they again go for the indexed page. Maybe it would be wiser to adjust your pages for the keywords in stead of altering the URL.
The page that ranks best for your keyword might just be the most logical page for that keyword. So in stead of adjusting URL's you might want to rethink that strategy and adjust the page.
Hope my insight may help you
regards
Jarno