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Posts made by jesse-landry
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RE: Are there tutorials to best learn how to use my Moz campaign?
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RE: Site not coming up even when I search with the .com
good catch on the body tag. not sure that would cause google to ignore all else but i'd be curious to know this..
As for the lack of redirects, I didn't mean to imply that this would be causing the site to not be indexed. I meant that as a separate issue I noticed when briefly researching the site.
Just wanted to clear that up. Nonetheless, it should be dealt with. While Google can differentiate which site to index, it most definitely splits up your link juice and causes diminished PR/DA.
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RE: Site not coming up even when I search with the .com
One last thing.. Consider this for your search query's URL: http://www.google.com/search?&q=camilojosevergara.com&pws=0
The &pws=0 at the end is very important for any SEO who wants to see real SERPs
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RE: Site not coming up even when I search with the .com
Okay couple things here:
1.) This site does not have any redirects in place. There are essentially duplicates of ever page existing for the www and non-www versions respectively. This is a problem that should be addressed immediately.
2.) What are the target keywords? Because looking at the shady back-link profile it would seem that this is a site that sells Propranolol without a prescription. There are TONS of backlinks coming into this site with that in the anchor text. Did your client ever use this domain for something else or buy it from someone else?
3.) Check Google's Webmaster Tools. I'm willing to bet that there is a unnatural link penalty notice sitting in there. Penguin will hit a site like this, but usually won't remove it entirely. This site looks like it has a manually imposed penalty looming. It's a bit of a disaster and if it were my site and I were the photographer I'd consider finding a new domain name and starting over.
4.) Out of curiosity, when you say "we have a customer.." what exactly do you mean and what kind of business do you work for? What is your specialty? That I'm just wondering to satisfy my own curiosity and you're welcome to disregard this question.
Hope this helps.
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RE: Robots.txt
Yeah that's definitely a duplicate content issue you're facing.
However, did you know that each of your pages have this little tag right at the top of them? name="robots" content="noindex" />
...Seems like it's already done.
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RE: Robots.txt
Well now I'm confused on the problem.. If the issue is duplicate content then the answer is definitely to block them with robots and/or use a rel=canonical tag on each.
However, the Google notice you are referencing has nothing to do with duplicate content notices to my knowledge.
There is always a way to improve your content. Filling out a form auto-generates a page, per my understanding. Great. Have it auto-generate a better looking page!
-my 2 cents. hope it's helpful.
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RE: When to post blogs?
I personally prefer spacing them out in somewhat of a recognizable pattern in an effort to develop readership.
Whatever you do though, don't just pump out a new article because you have only done one so far this month and you think you need two. Make sure the quality of the content is top-notch first and foremost. Think to yourself, "if I were my target reader/viewer, would I find this interesting? Would I want to share it with my friends?" If the answer is ever no then trash it and move on!
Hope this helps..
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RE: Is bad English detected by Google
What Google definitely does recognize is the exact services you are considering. Google's webspam team developed Penguin specifically to target sites that have subbed out SEO to blackhat organizations. What you are describing is exactly what they are targeting.
Don't do it! You WILL be sorry.
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RE: Robots.txt
Why not improve the pages, instead?
If Google says they are low quality, what makes you think any viewer will stick around? Bet the bounce rate is exceptionally high on those pages, maybe even site-wide.
Always remember to design pages for readers and not Google. If Google tells you your pages suck, they are probably just trying to help you and give you a hint that it's time to improve your site.
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RE: Why we had lost the keyword ranking after Google updates?
In addition to the anchor text problem stated already, you have clearly been building links in a black-hat manner. Basically, a back link profile like yours is exactly what the Google Web Spam Team is going after. Need an example? Okay.
http://henryjenkins.org/2009/08/district_9.html
This webpage houses a review of the hit movie District 9 by Neil Blomkamp. The director is irrelevant except for the fact that I enjoyed his work and am looking forward to his next movie. That previous sentence would have been relevant to the review and worth posting in the comments section. Your site, however, has posted a link about genitalia. This is black hat SEO at it's finest and what you will need to do is track down each and every one of these links and attempt to get them removed.
It will be no easy feat. There are tons of articles on this community documenting other folks' efforts to rid themselves of such penalties. Here's the basics:
1.) Identify poison links and organize all domains via spreadsheets
2.) Contact Webmasters and attempt to remove. BE POLITE and make it seem like you are helping them out as well.
3.) Document Step 2 - Take Screenshots and Notes.
4.) Consider using Disavow ONLY AFTER you've tried multiple times to remove certain links.
5.) Submit a reconsideration request ONLY IF you've received a manual penalty. Otherwise just wait.Good luck!
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RE: Site explorer Issue
OSE does a good job but is not complete.
Consider mixing it with ahrefs.com or Majestic.. always GWT but that won't work for competitors backlinks.
(although honestly I'd worry less about what directories you're linked from and where your competitors backlinks are coming from and more about what kind of engaging content you are able to pump out)
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RE: Traffic Data Report Error: Anyone else?
The other option is just hop on your GA and compare data manually. The Moz tools are pulling this data from there anyway.
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RE: Traffic Data Report Error: Anyone else?
I haven't had my data refreshed yet since 5/26 so I couldn't answer this but I would contact support.
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RE: Wordpress Domain Options
Regardless of whether you choose blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog you should definitely keep your blog on your personal domain. This is where you will have the best opportunity to create new and engaging content on a regular basis.
Ideally, your blog content will be popular on occasion and other people in similar industries will tweet and/or share your link in one way or another. This will gain you backlinks and bring traffic to your domain. Better they point to and land on your domain than wordpress.com.
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RE: Links exchange - Penguin update potential ??
Tom nailed it.
You won't be Penguined by this practice necessarily.
Maybe if you went out and got a whole bunch at once from low authority sites with the same exact match anchor text... Then maybe. But chances are if you're doing this it is not relevant or beneficial for the potential reader.
When in doubt always ask yourself, "will the reader ever need this?"
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RE: Is it or not normal
Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to assume your existing content was weak. What I meant to say was now it is time to build MORE content and get links. Create things that people will want to share with eachother and that will gain you links in a natural fashion.
This, in a nutshell, is what I mean by "time to market!"
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RE: Rel=canonical an iframed version of the same website?
This is weird. Why would you want an iFramed version of a website..? Also, what difference does it make where the employees email addresses reside? They could be at dogsled.com for all anybody cares!
I agree with Chris yet again. 301 that bad boy and be done with it. REL=CANONICAL does NOT pass link juice. So definitely don't use that as a fix. It would help with the duplicate content issue and prevent any Panda penalties, but a 301 would do that while passing link juice...
Maybe you could elaborate on why a 301 is out of the question?
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RE: Is it or not normal
I agree 100% with Chris here. I've seen this happen myself.
As for what you should do - Build content and seek links! That's the answer here, for sure. You need better content and real relevant non-spammy links going to your site. Time to market!
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RE: Why are these two URLs showing in Moz as duplicate content?
Couple things here I think might help -
First off, holy cow the methodist flag page had an entire narrative for a meta description. This is not causing your problem but you should definitely fix it. It's like... way too long. Shorten that up.
Second, what's up with all the javascript embedded internally in each page? Assuming by glancing at it the scripts are all the same, why not just make a js file and drop it on the directory and link to that with a script src tag in the header? Seeing as how Google does parse through this JS more and more, this could be affecting your crawls but also it's just dirty and a bit of a mess. Surely it will clean your server up this way and make things a bit more efficient and manageable. It might even help with duplication issues.
As for why it's recognized as a duplicate... The majority of the content is a duplicate for sure. The small amount of body that changes is not enough to keep Roger from thinking it's a duplicate. I think Roger is a bit touchier than Google's bots but it's still probably a good idea to think about how you can add content to make each page a bit more different. Even if you can change img alts or something that is repeated across each page to something specific.. this will help your onsite optimization at the same time by balancing out your keyword density.
That's a place to start. The src files of your html is miles long. I'd start there.
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RE: Site rankings down
I'm still thinking about this.. I'd continue building links myself and see what happens.
The one thing I definitely wouldn't do is start disavowing. Make an attempt to remove the links yourself by contacting webmasters before doing this. And then still be sure you actually have been penalized before using the disavow tool. That thing makes me nervous...