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Have you found many willing to use a cross domain canonical tag?

For a quick follow -up. After several meetings, I have been able to explain my efforts and how it will  move their project forward. We seem to have built a new level of trust and the admin access has been granted. Lots of extra hours to get here, though. Thanks for all of your great advice.

Thanks! All your thoughts prepared me for a meeting with the business owner today and the head of IT.  They have determined to set up a Dev site and give me access to it. Then they will move updates to the live site. Has anyone worked this way? Tips on how to best manage it?

Love the new design of moz.com!  And the mentions tool is terrific.  However, I use the Crawl test a ton and cannot find where to access it now.

Yes, I believe I have experienced the opposite. I use PRWeb  a lot. The link value I find is not necessarily in the press release itself; it is in the many industry specific pickups that choose to re-post a well-written article. Today, most of my press release add considerable value to my clients because they are often picked-up in full with all links kept in tact. This means my article is carried by reader choice to my niche, giving the validation that search engines are seeking.

Another key positive factor of a news worthy press release is that Google seems to understand  "duplicate content" in another light. When it is considered "news" search engines anticipate the content  being copied and shared.

Hope that helps.

It may depend on how the host of the draft version has it set up.

For example, Adobe Business Catalyst settings automatically block all test sites from being crawled by search engines.

Can you inquire if the search engines are allowed to crawl their archived or draft site? I have also been amazed at how many times someone puts a "back up" copy somewhere else on line.  Opening up the discussion may save you duplicate content troubles ahead.

It is good to learn that some of you work in this manners as my experience has been largely with having full admin access.  Tim, what "are some limitations" you have found this way?

I have offered to train those with access by walking them through what they need to do verbally, including meeting with them initially in person as needed to ensure they understand how to complete the steps successfully. However, as I understand it after this new three-way company split, all the higher level and "cutting edge" IT are gone. The remaining staff is working hard to learn those positions and has no or little bandwidth for such training.

They use one path for all internal and external help who blog, add photos, redesign pages or any form of updates: all are done on a test site till approved by the IT staff, then placed on a CD, driven or mailed  to their physical address, and IT uploads the new content into a "rolled back" version of Joomla (Joomla-253-released.html).

Therefore, unfortunately, I will be unable to use schema metadata, just one downside.

They seem unsure of time or budget for follow-up communication or documentation from IT. As I understand this is where the "installing software to give me read only access" is meant to give "output". I can audit already through many SEOmoz and other tools. Is there such a software? Would it work as a communicative documentation of completed tasks?

I agree with your "just work through it" and "no point in doing all the work". My concern is the project manager/my contact's take that IT in this case is like an "unnecessary barricade" and is asking me to proceed by way of "software solution discussions". They seem to be seeing SEO  conclusively as something similar to a WordPress Yoast install for an old Joomla platform.

How do you suggest building trust with a "barricaded team"? They seem worn and now face competing with their former peers/lead staff who are all well ahead according to Site Explorer's comparison tools.

Hi ,

I am on a new project for a great prospective client. After a company split the IT dept says, "Our IT Infrastructure team doesn’t provide admin access to anyone (internal or external) to any of our servers/sites for security, maintainability, and quality reasons.   We would be more than happy to install and configure any software you would like and provide you read access to any output you might need."

I am not aware of any such software. Or what help "read only access" is to getting tasks accomplished. Tomorrow am I meet with four others on the project that I am to assign SEO tasks to. Everyone wonders how to accomplish marketing tasks, web redesign and SEO tasks efficiently? They are told to drop by new content on a backupn CD.

My contact has asked that I am permitted access... what can one do when IT says "no?"

Does anyone else have experience with the current update Adobe Business Catalyst has announced for their blog features?

Florin at BC offered the code below:

http://www.graeagle.com/images/fb_blog_og_img.jpg" />

However nether myself nor another commentator can figure out how to make it work:

I added the meta data to my template but it seems the tags are not correct. For example, the tag  {tag_blogpostmetatitle} does not automatically include the SEO title that I've called out in my individual blog post. So, it appears the browser is ignoring the tag and just including it as is. When I view the source for my live blog article, this is what I get for the lines that I've added the code in the tag:

Also, I cannot get schema metadata to work on the BC blog. For example, I have used it on this page: http://www.homedestination.com/_blog/Real_Estate_Blog/post/things_to_know_before_building_a_new_home/; which yields the following in Google's Rich Snippet Tool:

Extracted structured data rdfa-node property:  title: {tag_blogpostmetatitle} description:__{tag_blogpostmetadescription}

Dan,

Thanks for the helpful answer.

Sorting through that  many pages looking for a stray "/" will take time.  Any shortcut ways to find it?  I do not get the error in Google crawl checks; I do find it in my deeper seomoz advanced cvs files.  Need I try fix it then?

You are right about the canonical tag.  For whatever reason I get an error in seomoz that says:

Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

Moderate fix

<dl>

<dt>Canonical URL</dt>

<dd>"http://www.homedestinantion.com/calculator-mortgage-resources.html"</dd>

<dt>Explanation</dt>

<dd>If the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL.</dd>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>We check to make sure that IF you use canonical URL tags, it points to the right page. If the canonical tag points to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. If you've not made this page the rel=canonical target, change the reference to this URL. NOTE: For pages not employing canonical URL tags, this factor does not apply.</dd>

</dl>

Jordan,

Thanks for your response.

Yes.  I have done that some months back.  My problem is with url redirects that have the "/" on the end. AND all my aspx files - Adobe Business Catalyst does not allow me to use a 301 redirect on them.  All that in another subject.

As none of my pages ends in a slash, I don't know where this came from and what to do since the traditional 301 url redirect fails.

I have four 404 url redirect errors that I cannot sort out.

It tells me the referring url:

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www.homedestination.com/calculator-mortgage-resources.html has a "/" on the end.

cannot find:

| www.homedestination.com/calculator-mortgage-resources.html |

I cannot figure out where this referring url is; as it is in the root file without a "/" on the end.  Could it be on a page somewhere?  All my Dreamweaver page link tests come back ok.

I must be missing something simple and would value help for others who may spot it?

Thanks!

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