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Thanks for the quick reply Martijn,

I will 301 these back to the homepage. Just strange that Google is reporting these when they do not exist anywhere on the site.

We have recently launched a new responsive website for a client and have noticed 2 "Not Found" errors within Google Search Console for /mobile and /m

Both these URLs are not linked from anywhere within the site. However Google is reporting them as being linked from the homepage.

This is not the first site we have seen in which Google has reported this error, however the other site was not a mobile friendly site.

My thoughts are to 301 them back to the Homepage. Anybody else have any thoughts on this? or have recently received the same errors?

To clarify

Its very difficult to obtain good links these days, generally they come as the result of creating good content, being a good brand and through a lot of hard work.

My suggestion would be to evaluate the sites you are dealing with, see what they are doing of interest to people, what they are doing which is different and try and exploit those areas. Promote that content through social channels, e-shots, good old fashioned word of mouth etc

Hopefully if the content is something that people find interesting, they will link to it, retweet and share it.

Admittedly, this is a simplistic overview but its the basis of what you should be doing.

If you are looking for further info, there is a ton of resource of Moz and other sites regarding content marketing, promoting content etc,

Hope that helps and good luck

Justin

If i hear the words Fiverr mentioned in a conversation regarding SEO, I run.

Don't do it....

Hi

It depends on your preferred domain going forward, in truth 25 linking route domains isn't enough to be concerned about (unless they are from very high authority sites), so I would chose the variant which works best for you and 301 to that version.

Going forward you should build new links which point the chosen variant (www or non-www).

Justin

The key thing here is whether the space is shown in the search results.

I think its unlikely that it would cause any SEO issues, if however the space shows in Google results there is a high chance it would affect your click thrus as extra spaces, weird characters etc in page titles tend to suggest that the site is less trustworthy (in my opinion).

So if space is visible in your page title and/or search results, get it sorted. If it is just tabs and line returns in the source code you don't need to worry about it too much.

Hope that helps.

I don't think the backlink profile to that page looks particularly natural and i think thats where your problem lies

OSE shows 19 backlines ahrefs shows 30, but looking through them, you have two infographitcs (with no social shares) a couple of links from .ac.uk (which are good links), directories and a number of very questionable looking links such as www.librerio.com/search/jobs/40

You also have some exact match anchor text

All of the above suggests to me that you have been hit by Panda/Penguin and the loss of links mentioned previously most likely suggests that you had questionable links that have been removed or the sites they were coming from have been shutdown (again a good indicator of poor backlinks)

To me, it looks like you are going to have to do some work on building some good links and adding a bit of content to your site to get your rankings back

Also you are on an exact match domain "graduate-jobs.com" which may be contributing

I'm sure its not what you want to hear, but I think thats where the problem most likely lies.

I hope that helps

Hi John

It appears to me that you are seeing in open site explorer "1 - 80 inbound links from XXX domains" is that correct?

If this is the case you may need to change the filter in the 3rd Dropdown from "this page" to "pages on this subdomain". Then click filter.

Now when you look at the links it should say "1-50 of #### external links" and should roughly tie up with the competitive domain analysis links.

Let me know if you get a problem.

Justin

What you are looking to do is reasonably common place.

Websites that contain a blogs, download sections etc are often hosted on separate webservers (and IP's), so what you are looking at doing should be fine.

You seem to have the major SEO consideration covered and that is to use subdirectories from the existing domain (www.oldsiteexample.com/marketing) that way your new part of the site will benefit from the authority/rank etc of the old site, also any authority generated by the new part of the site will be passed on in part to www.oldsiteexample.com further boosting its auth.

If however you use subdomains (marketing.oldsiteexample.com) you would pretty much be starting your seo efforts for this part of the site from scratch, furthermore very little (if any) authority generated by this part of the site would be passed back to www.oldsiteexample.com

I hope that helps

You could probably do something manually on this, although I have never tried it to be honest.

I tend to use the SEOMoz reports as they are easy, insightful and well formatted.

I would think the best way to achieve what you are after is to export the site rankings to csv and use Excel, set up conditional formatting to highlight a row where label is equal to "top keywords" or whatever label you use.

If you get any problems let me know and I will send you a quick example in Excel, the only downside of this is that you will have to run this report manually as there is no way of automating this info as far as i know.

I would suggest placing the link on this page http://www.avadtechnologies.com as the site redirects to http://www.avadtechnologies.com/ .
Also recommended in this article "it is better to internally link to the version with the backslash."
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization
Hope this helps

To clarify

Its very difficult to obtain good links these days, generally they come as the result of creating good content, being a good brand and through a lot of hard work.

My suggestion would be to evaluate the sites you are dealing with, see what they are doing of interest to people, what they are doing which is different and try and exploit those areas. Promote that content through social channels, e-shots, good old fashioned word of mouth etc

Hopefully if the content is something that people find interesting, they will link to it, retweet and share it.

Admittedly, this is a simplistic overview but its the basis of what you should be doing.

If you are looking for further info, there is a ton of resource of Moz and other sites regarding content marketing, promoting content etc,

Hope that helps and good luck

Justin

I don't think the backlink profile to that page looks particularly natural and i think thats where your problem lies

OSE shows 19 backlines ahrefs shows 30, but looking through them, you have two infographitcs (with no social shares) a couple of links from .ac.uk (which are good links), directories and a number of very questionable looking links such as www.librerio.com/search/jobs/40

You also have some exact match anchor text

All of the above suggests to me that you have been hit by Panda/Penguin and the loss of links mentioned previously most likely suggests that you had questionable links that have been removed or the sites they were coming from have been shutdown (again a good indicator of poor backlinks)

To me, it looks like you are going to have to do some work on building some good links and adding a bit of content to your site to get your rankings back

Also you are on an exact match domain "graduate-jobs.com" which may be contributing

I'm sure its not what you want to hear, but I think thats where the problem most likely lies.

I hope that helps

have you tried the on page report card?

Assuming you have a campaign set up in the SeoMOZ web app, load up your keywords then go to

Campaign -> On-page -> report card

select the keyword and enter the url and your will get the page graded

As part of the report it shows ranking factors such as broad keyword usage, appropriate keyword usage, plus a whole host of other ranking factors.

It is best to use the domain.com/blog as the link juice and authority picked up by your blog will be passed in part to the root domain, therefore increasing you domain authority etc

If you take the subdomain route the link juice and authority doesn't get passed and the blog is treated as an independent sites in Google.

Therefore i'd go domain.com/blog every day of the week

Yes I use it quite a lot, its a fantastic tool.

There are many ways you can use it to grow followers, but a couple of the more straightforward ones are

Analyse your followers against your competitors, you can see which followers you have in common and more importantly people who follow them and not you

You can search users bios based on interests, so for example if you were a clothes retailer you could search for location & fashion to find potential local followers

There is a whole host of other features that allow you to find how influential your followers are, how many followers they have etc.

So all round its a real useful tool and it is extremely powerful

Rand does dig a big deeper into the features in his acquisition announcement, so that is worth a read if you haven't done so already
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seomoz-pro-member-you-now-get-followerwonk-free

Its not really bad, but there is every chance it will affect your rankings as google will not know which page is dominant and in turn will not know which version it should show to searchers

the best method of resolving the issue is to use the rel=canonical tag as this allows you to tell google which page is the dominant version

see article here for more details:

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

I've been having similar problems, although not just with the Moz toolbar, but with the whole site.

I emailed support and they are doing some changes with cookies, see below. Also the info about Firefox could be relevant, but i haven't tried as yet.

Hey Justin,

We have updated the way we handle cookies and currently if you visit the Q&A forum it will reset the remember me option. This is because Q&A is a separate application and the updated hasn't rolled out to it yet.

Another thing you will want to check those is your cookie settings. When upgrading Firefox it will reset your cookie settings to clearing them when the browser closes. Regardless, what browser you are using it is good to go check out those settings.

We will have the Q&A issue fixed soon though!

Kenny

Hope this helps

Using a cross domain rel canonical should fix any issues with this and mean that you as the original author get the link juice.

Rand explains the usage of cross domain canonical links in the following whiteboard friday:-

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

hope this helps

Personally I would go for option 3, creating a /directory for the Canadian site, as the search weighting your root domain has will in part get passed onto the /directory as it is seen as another page on your root domain.

By going for a root domain or even a sub-domain you will effectively be starting your SEO efforts from scratch.

That said, there is some argument that a local domain would potentially rank better on local searches, however if you set up the directory route correctly by ensuring you have the localised address and phone number on the landing page, get inbound links to point to this page, social mentions etc that should to large degree counter that argument.

One other thing to consider is that all your SEO efforts on the /directory will help your domain authority and search weighting for the parent domain.

Rand did an great whiteboard friday a while back which explains the pro's and con's of the above options, so I would definitely check that out for a more in-depth explanation
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

Hope that helps