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thanks, but the 'scrape similar' extension in chrome doesn't seem to behave in the same way as importxml on google docs or xpathonurl in niels bosma's seotools for excel

Anyone managed to scrape the date from a google serp? I can get title, link etc. but the date just eludes me...please help! Here's an example of the kind of code google is returning:

• Latest UK News Headlines - Mirror.co.uk

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      13 Jan 2011 – Get the latest News and Headlines from the Daily Mirror newspaper. Read breaking bulletins, front page reports, daily articles and celebrity ...

ALM gives you a 30 day free trial - you might need to download their AWR product which includes ALM.  It's here http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/download.html

BTW, I'm linking AWR, not so sure about ALM

Agree with Rasmus pm the whole.

I'd still go with the updated subfolder version even if google has crawled the pages...these things take a while to settle down.

If there are lots of pages, check out the tool Russ Jones shared for using Levenshtein distance to automate creating redirects http://www.seomoz.org/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-seo-chasing-the-elusive-passive-seo-dream

There's another great post for larger sites that could help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/scripting-seo-5-pandafighting-tricks-for-large-sites-14455

And here's another version that creates the htaccess redirects for you (though I've not tried it so don't know how well it works) http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2010/10/levinshtein_link_fixer_aka_the.htm

I had this problem over the weekend - was fixed on Monday, but seems to be broken again for me now too.

See  http://www.seomoz.org/q/anyone-seeing-ose-csv-exports-hanging suggest you email help@seomoz.org

All working now, thanks!

have logged on zendesk. thanks keri.

None of my reports are completing - even if left to run overnight - anyone else seeing this?

There was mention of this in http://www.seomoz.org/q/problems-with-ose-downloads but I get the sense from that thread that the problem was solved back in August.

Agree with Scott. Almost every forum I've seen that allows followed external links gets spammed so you'll need a strategy to combat that. If the links provide value I'm not sure if following/no-following will make much difference to community behaviour, but they might encourage the more seo-savvy users to post links (and of course, attract the spammers).

At the simplest level you could try requiring javascript from posters, but I suspect you'll need something a bit more sophisticated. There are forum posting and blog commenting tools that try and solve captchas so ultimately, i suspect there will be little alternative but to manually moderate the forum.

I've used geoedge - their proxy is free for search results (works with firefox).

You may also find this resource useful for Yandex info and this kw volume tool from Yandex

If you find any other interesting sites/info, please post here!

Daily tracking...perhaps for some industries, fortunately not so important for the ones I'm involved in

To be honest, I regularly see big discrepancies between the ranking reports and real results (using google/bing uk). I'd be happy if the results were more consistent first then more frequent could come afterwards.

Yep. Remember to do the same in Bing's webmaster app too.

Canonical will work yes, but I think it will be quicker and easier to change handling of the query parameter in gwt and bwc. If you use other query parameters canonical might be best.

Google and bing probably are ignoring them (you can check how they're being handled if you look in GWT or BWC at how parameters are being handled). To be 100% sure, tell bing and google to ignore the ref parameter.

I'm assuming you only really care about bing and google.

Hi Tim, if you haven't already, check out http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection which gives you some basics and then there are some good links in the answers to this question http://www.seomoz.org/q/htaccess-issue which explain how to get redirects working.

The other thing to consider is: were any of the old pages actually getting traffic? If not, it may not be worth your while to redirect them.

If you've only got three pages, just use something like:

redirect 301 /blah.htm http://www.newdomain/newblah.php

and so on.

Seems to me you might be spending some time doing this:

I think what you want to do is:

1. Discover all the old urls that were bringing traffic
2. 301 redirect them to the relevant new urls on the updated site using htaccess (assuming you're on apache)
3. [optional: submit a sitemap to google with the old urls to encourage the crawler to see that they're now redirected]
4. [if not doing step 3, might be worth doing this as the first step] create a sitemap for the new site (I have trouble with xmap so I don't use it, would love to though since it automates things - I know many people like it) try manually creating one with say xenu or integrity
5. submit the new sitemap to bing and google
6. sit back fingers crossed
7. keep tracking 404 errors in gwt to identify urls you've missed that can be added to the 301 list

there are posts on seomoz and elsewhere that cover how to do 301 redirects in htaccess, how to use xenu etc.

good luck!

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EDIT: One other thing to remember, (particularly if you've suffered data loss in the past) is backup - search for akeeba backup for joomla, it's free and works brilliantly.

Yep, 5k more - if it is important to you to be sure, you could run some ads and look at the number of impressions.

The adwords tool lets you see global and local searches for the territories you specify - does that answer your question?

About ranking on .com vs .no ....well, there's a bunch of things to consider there. A basic step is geotargeting - check out http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-webmaster-tools-international-seo-geo-targeting-site-with-worldwide-rankings you can set in GWT which countries your site is aimed at.

For a more comprehensive discussion look at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

Odd that some would work and others not.

The  /spanish/entertainment/ is definitely a 301 to /es/servicios.html but I can see /es/galeria/piscinas.html is a meta refresh to the /es/index.html page.

I don't think it helps that you seem to have at least one duplicated rule for the same url (search for spanish/services in your htaccess)

The rule you've got looks okay from what I can see of it. If you do figure it out, please post the solution.

I'd clear all the redirects and build them one at a time to see what's causing this - also perhaps use RedirectMatch or RewriteRule with some regex to make things a bit tidier.

Rankings to fluctuate from time to time, but I see your site ranking 9 for trendy golf clothes and 7 for funky golf.

It is probably entirely unrelated, but another user posted today about seeing his site fall off the serps for his phrases, but both I and another user saw his site on page 1 for his terms (that was google.com US though).