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when i type in my site's non-www form it automatically redirects it to www. there is no possible way for me to grab link info in non-www format.

think about it.. if they were separate you'd have to run two reports constantly.. that would be ridiculous. not only that, i've run this for sites that redirect the other way around as well. type in the www and it spits you to the non-www.

I've ALSO done this for clients that aren't redirecting either way and it warns you that the data will be split and you should consider a redirect.

TRY THIS RIGHT NOW: Go to OSE and type in google.com (NO WWW) What you will see is it automatically redirects you to the WWW information and then gives you this message, which I just copied and pasted direct from OSE:

The URL you've entered redirects to another URL. We're showing results for www.google.com/ since it is likely to have more accurate link metrics. See data for google.com instead?

In other words, I don't know what you're talking about but the www redirection is most certainly true and it's easy to determine the validity of my statement. takes about 4 seconds...

don't forget image alt and title tags, that might boost your keyword optimization.

The Just Discovered feature on OSE is pretty useful just as the fresh index in Majestic's alternative. And also, entering the www shouldn't make a difference as OSE will follow redirects (assuming your site redirects non-www to www that is. if it doesn't you have a whole other problem.)

If Open Site Explorer says there are  no inbound links pointed at your domain then there are only a few possibilities:

1.) Your robots is blocking. (doesn't sound like this is the case.)

2.) You have no inbound links. (also doesn't sound like it)

3.) Something happened and you should try again.

I guess what I'm saying is go plug your domain into OSE and try again. If you have inbound links, it will find them.

If OSE continues saying there are no inbound links... well... huh.

If your site has been penalized, haven't you already lost rankings and traffic?

I'm assuming they're asking you not to build links to ensure they don't remove links you are adding... bah. I don't know why you outsourced this I would just do it myself. All they are doing is contacting webmasters and then disavowing. Hell they might even just be disavowing for all I know... They don't have magic tools to remove links with.

I'd fire them, attempt to remove, document, spreadsheets, screenshots of emails and requests, lists, etc and then disavow, resubmit all the while building new organic and relevant links. That's my thoughts. Sorry... I know this is tough. I have experience with this problem as well. It stinks.

G'luck

Not for link building, only if you think readers of the blogs might find your site relevant and click said link. In this case it would definitely be worth your time as you are getting true traffic to your site from people interested, which after all is the ultimate goal. But from an SEO standpoint, it will do nothing to increase your keyword ranking in search engines.

In other words, yes and no.

Yes, Google crawls PDFs but I don't think they crawl them "instead" of html. If anything, perhaps your PDFs are better optimized for the popular keywords than the pages..?

As for your question, no I have not noticed any changes in the way Google crawls PDFs. I personally made the decision a few months ago to no-crawl our PDF folder to avoid them being indexed as I saw no reason for it.

I friggin hate PDFs and if it wasn't for certain members of certain departments of a certain company using certain browsers like a certain Internet Explorer 7 and demanding certain PDFs to send to certain clients I certainly would never use them.

Whew.

Okay. But that doesn't mean it isn't being indexed. Here's a fun test: Go to any page on your website and select a string of two or three sentences. Google it. Does the page come up in the SERPs?

(I did this to 3 pages on your site and it worked for all of them. Therefore, your site is being indexed.) Why do you need to Fetch?

you're in a good spot! I find myself in a similar position. Our competitors to this day participate in a ton of black hat seo tactics. For whatever stupid reason, Penguin hasn't hit them. YET. I believe with all of my heart that they will be affected in the near future, possibly the next big update, and all of my efforts will be rewarded.

I think you are in the same boat. Continue your proper SEO tactics, building content, social media, guest blogging on relevant sites, etc and I would be willing to bet you will be rewarded in the long run. The tricky thing about this industry is not gaining instant gratification in a world like the internet where instant gratification is the norm.

So good luck balancing that and I'm rootin' for ya!

well your site is definitely being indexed by google... without doing a full seo profile on your site regarding competitors, keywords, competition in keywords, etc I couldn't really tell you the scope of the endeavor you are undertaking.

All I can say is continue your link building efforts and popularize that site. Your rankings are not being slowed or delayed by Google, only by other sites beating you out. So keep working at it!

Unfortunately, there simply isn't any amount of time that will guarantee page 1 results. It's all up to you and your SEO tactics and will definitely take some time to accomplish.

Good luck!

That site is also being indexed. Again I ask, what makes you think it is not being indexed? (cause it is)

these keywords might be more competitive than you realize. what's the site, what are the keywords, what seo tactics have you implemented, etc..

Honestly it sounds like you just need to keep on optimizing and building organic links with great content to me.

Are you sure your site isn't being indexed?

Cause I went to your profile and if http://www.mtasolicitors.com/ is your site, then it is definitely being indexed.. What makes you think it isn't?

Oh no it wasn't a judgement on you just odd that the question is so common currently. As if something happened where confusion was created on a mass scale. Anyway, no apology necessary it's a fair question.

I see. Well noindex nofollow tags do nothing but prevent said pages or directories from being indexed in SERPs. So no, it will not affect your GA tracking... i.e. a search query will be registered whether the page it's searched from is indexable or not.. it is essentially a separate function entirely within Google's framework.

As long as you think it doesn't look "spammy," I think you should do it. User experience should be the first factor you consider in these decisions.

I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but I am currently working on two different sites targeting essentially the same market. They both get darn near the same google placement for target keywords. One of them I was allowed to redesign from the ground up, the other one I was not. The new site is generating 65% more leads with pretty much the exact same amount of traffic as the archaic, hard-to-navigate site.

I.E. you can get all the traffic in the world, but if people can't quickly find what they are looking for easily, your bounce rate will skyrocket and your business will not generate any capital via your website.

That's my two cents.

How do you mean? Blocking particular pages from being indexed or crawled will keep them from ranking in Google which will limit traffic. GA will still report traffic to those pages from external sources, however. Was that what you were asking?

Oof, maybe I shouldn't post here so early in the morning I have trouble with my reading comprehension first-thing in the AM.

yeah i've noticed this too. strange i wonder why that is/

it's something to do with their Squared technology data extraction algorithms.. not exactly sure how or why but it only applies to broad matches.

Not sure it matters much as there aren't any links to the source sites and the links listed in references only go to google searches for those keywords.

I know this doesn't answer your question, but searching for information on "Google Squared" might get you closer.

Good or bad, this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.

I don't know, but I don't anticipate it. (even though I expect/hope for improvement and assume my competitors will be punished for their black hat seo work they continue to this day)