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Country Code Top Level Domains & Duplicate Content
Jay, This is pretty common, and as long as you follow international SEO best-practices, you'll be alright. Here's a couple resources that include everything you'll need to do this properly: Moz's Guide to International SEO Hreflang Tag Guide The hreflang tag is basically a canonical tag that lets search engines know you have other versions of this content out there meant for different countries and/or languages.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | LoganRay0 -
Automatically check if URL has been optimised?
You could try http://mysiteauditor.com/ I've used them quite a bit. Also maybe try SEMrush.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SeoSheikh0 -
Internal link from blog content to commercial pages risks?
If the blog is on your domain and has good, genuine content, and the commercial pages are on that same domain, then I don't see any problem or risk in doing it occasionally if the topics of the category pages are naturally referenced in blog article content. Now, if you start stacking and stuffing and going wild with tons of links or links on low quality pages, then it could become a genuine problem.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | EGOL0 -
Homepage Deindexed?
A google search for info:yourURL shows you're indexed and https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LjWmVIf5O_gJ:https://www.mycustomcar.com.au/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au shows the site was cached a few hours ago. All appears well.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Hurf0 -
Alternatives to Bright Edge and other tools which can do this?
Hi Jay, I was going to direct you to the SEOChat forum but I think you may have posted there very recently. There is a sticky post on there regarding SEO tools that will have some good suggestions for you. Sadly, that post wasn't sticky enough that I could locate it just now. I think it was somewhere within this section: http://forums.seochat.com/guide-90/ I saw this answer in response to a similar question on SEO Chat and I've got to say, it's rather amusing: "The SEO software that is worth using is the one between your ears .... and yes that works with all browsers." Good luck in your quest!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Hurf0 -
Identifying Duplicate Content
I'm going to recommend Screaming Frog here. Run a scan of your site and then filter it by duplicate title tags, duplicate meta descriptions, and (my favorite) word count. Usually I don't need to go any further than duplicate title tags. There's also www.siteliner.com. I've used that regularly and it has been tremendously helpful for pages that have duplicate content in the body but not in the META. Finally, Google Search Console. Go to Search Appearance and click on HTML Improvements. You can also find all your duplicate title tags there, which should help you identify duplicate content easily.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | brettmandoes0 -
Duplicate content across different domains
Given this situation, that's exactly what I'd be doing. John's advice does appear to be true; you won't be penalised for duplicate content but your rankings won't be great either. Theoretically, Google should have no issue determining the fact that site A was the original source of that content and so it should suffer no ranking change at all. Canonicalisation is the path I'd be taking to hedge bets there and mitigate risk as much as possible. It's still not guaranteed to be safe (Google may choose to ignore canonicalisation) but it's about as close as you're going to get. Hopefully the client doesn't drag their feet and take 2 years to get that content production started
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ChrisAshton0 -
302 redirected URLs - login, account pages
Hi Jay, Set login/account pages to not be indexed. Both way are equaly, it depends on how easy is for you any or other way. Personally I prefer robots.txt, just one archive and not messing with page code. Best luck. GR.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | GastonRiera0 -
Pagination do you still need unique titles?
Hi Jay, I agree that probably it won't really matter if you have implemented the rel next/prev tags. But still I would always make sure that the pages will just have the actual page number added to it so they will be unique. In most cases this is a very easy fix for developers or in some CMS' you can do it yourself. That's why I wouldn't take the risk and make them unique. Martijn.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
Identifying new topics/sub-segments?
You've got most of the main tools covered but you could try ubersuggest, the new Moz keyword tool or semrush too. Semrush is particularly great for competitive research - filter for a landing page and see what keywords it ranks for. You could also filter for keywords that include "model" if you're interested in only those. Hope this helps!
Keyword Research | | Daniel_Marks0 -
Open Graph/Twitter Cards
Yes, Because you then get to control what content summary, image and even headline or keyword is used, not to mention you can customize them based on the url. This is helpful in general as it makes your brand more consistent throughout social media, consistency = trust.
Social Media | | Deacyde0 -
Site's pages has GA codes based on Tag Manager but in Screaming Frog, it is not recognized
Hi, What ScreamingFrog is looking for is the actual UA-code on the site itself so in the code. But Google Tag Manager won't show this and will load GA itself via JavaScript which doesn't make it available for ScreamingFrog. That's why it won't show up for you. What you could do is set-up a custom filter in ScreamingFrog to check for the GTM code snippet so you can find out if you miss GTM somewhere on the site.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
Tools/Software that can crawl all image URLs in a site
Oh I see, I think I looked on the wrong section, I was checking on the Images section instead of External. Thanks for your help!
Technical SEO Issues | | jayoliverwright0 -
Pull multiple link data for multiple pages at once?
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but we typically recommend downloading all of the links from OSE, Majestic, ahrefs, and Google Search Console--and then putting them all into your own spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. If you're wanting to look at anchor text data, you can combine that all into one spreadsheet (except for the GSC link data). You might also try combining all that link data into Link Research Tools' link detox tool to review the links. That way you can include all of the Google Search Console link data.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | GlobeRunner0 -
Link Type Distribution - Any Good Studies?
Here is one I wrote a long time ago on the Moz blog, looking at different relationships between Wikipedia's link profile and other sites.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | rjonesx. 00 -
Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev”
Personally I'd use Screaming Frog for this. The URLs for prev/next elements can be found in the "Directives" tab and can be exported to excel for easy comparison. Regards, Nico ... ah, too slow and essentially same answer
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | netzkern_AG0 -
Recovering old disallow file?
Have you performed any more disavow processes since? If you have not, simply login to your Search Console and head to the disavow section. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links If you have not added any more, simply click the profile you are working with, and it should open up a box with a link to your most recent added file. See my linked image which shows the pop up. You can then download the text file that you/they added. Hope that helps. If it is an older file, I would suggest talking to google about seeing previous versions of the txt file, that is if they hold onto them. X8nsy5k
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | TimHolmes0 -
Tools to visually analyse link profiles?
Hi Jay, have you looked into Kerbo? I used to use it back when it was called Linkrisk. I remember it being a very simple and intuitive tool that was good at visualizing your link profile. Now when they are part of Kerbo they do a lot more than just link analysis but hopefully it could be of interest to you. Cheers, Anders
Link Building | | Anders_Alknes0 -
Tools which automatically check anchor text
Hello, I'll tell you two come to my head. Right here in moz in Open Site Explorer can anchor text analysis. Another tool to use and is doing quite well Majestic Seo. You get valuable information: anchor text of all links and the number of links each.
Link Building | | elsenorglobo0