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I use the Moz web app on my iPhone and iPad thru Safari and it works pretty flawlessly. A few minor issues, such as when posting on q&a it doesn't put in paragraph returns, but apart from that the web app itself works just fine.

You do indeed have 2 rel=canonical links on that page.

It looks as though Platinum SEO plug in is adding one in (its situated withing the

I think your suspicion about the validity of this link answers your question.

Unless there is a good reason to keep the comment/link, i would delete it as it all sounds suspicious from what you have described.

Subdomains generally don't pass any authority, link juice etc to the TLD, Rand did a Whiteboard Friday that briefly covered this a while ago (see http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday)

I am curious, if you didn't want user created sites to be associated with your TLD why didn't you set up a different domain for user created sites?

I personally think it is morally wrong to try and stop Google indexing them. So, if you don't want these associated with you or your TLD I would set up a new domain eg yourbreezi.com and 301 any sites that have been set up to the new domain and make sure that any new user sites are set up under the new domain.

In truth I'm not sure it is too much to worry about, after all Wordpress.org uses subdomains for most of its hosted blogs and it doesn't seem to have done them too much harm!!

Hope that helps

From my understanding of what you are saying this is neither a problem with your homepage or opensiteexplorer.

Opensiteexplorer (OSE) is reporting the links that it finds to your domain/subdomain, therefore if an external site has used the href of http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php that is what OSE will report, as it will also report any other variations yourdomain.com yourdomain.com/ etc

OSE is purely showing you the links and hrefs that are pointing to your domain, therefore if you have a 301 or rel=canonical on your homepage you are dealing with this correctly.

So in summary, OSE is reporting the different hrefs people are using to link to your site and your homepage is redirecting any incorrect links to the correct place, so all is ok.

Hope that helps

It may be worth sharing the web address in question and the type of errors SEOMoz is finding.

The Moz community is a thriving place of SEO experts who are very willing to offer advice to help fix your problems, it might be worth a shot as it could save you some dollar and also expand your own knowledge

If you decide to go this way, it would be better to use subfolders instead of subdomains, as subdomains don't pass on link juice to their parent domain, where as sub folders do

so redirect to:
http://www.miamicabinets.org

to

http://www.lilyanncabinets.com/miamicabinets

That does put a different slant on things...

2000 visits per day is a lot and i would be wary of doing anything that would effect this.

Your best and safest route forward may be to change Lily Ann Cabinets so that the text etc is unique and different to the other sites, that way you can still maintain the traffic from other domains, but at the same time you can look to optimise Lily Ann Cabinets and get it performing well in SERPs without it being dragged down by duplicate content.

Justin

Yes duplicate content will almost definitely be affecting your rankings and the links above seem to have identical contnet

If you are focusing on Lily Ann Cabinets why not either 301 or better still rel=canonical from the other domains to Lily Ann Cabinets

That would solve the issue with minimal work.

See article below for info on redirects
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Or this one for info on rel=canonical http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

As a side note, regionalised domain names offer little if anything from an SEO perspective and in this case they are most likely harming your SEO because of the duplicate content.

In that case i would rel=canonical to one version of the product, preferably the most popular size.

I'm not sure about the system you have used to create the site, but you could potentially have single page with a drop down allow users to select the sizes/flavours etc which updates the price on the fly.

Google has rolled out a couple of Panda updates over the last month or so, supposedly only affecting around 1% of queries.

We have recently taken on a website that had been badly hit by Penguin and noticed that received a small decrease on traffic (around 5-10%) after the Panda 3.7 update on June 8th.

If the traffic decreases are on 8th or possibly 25th June then it is likely its the result of the update.

Google Algorithm Change history
http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change

Hope that helps

The easiest solution when the products are the same but different sizes is to rel=canonical to one of the sizes from the duplicate pages of differing size options.

The best solution however is to create one page with all sizes on the page, this is a bit more difficult to do as requires some programming, design etc. but it is worth the effort from both an SEO and UX perspective

check out the folloowing article for info on rel=canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope that helps

All you need to do is View a Campaign, then select Campaign Settings, at the bottom of the page you will see PDF Report Branding, add you logo under there.

You will need to do this for each campaign.

Hope that helps

Totally agree with Ryan, you should redirect https to http

Trivial maybe, but can see no reason not to do it as it takes no effort and makes your site even more accessible to users who mis-type, key your address directly into the url bar while on a https site etc

*This was in response to Ryans post which started "Perhaps i am being too picky..." I accidentally clicked the wrong reply button!!

Heart Internet are decent, they offer shared or dedicated, reseller accounts etc.

http://www.heartinternet.co.uk

Global Gold are also very good, but expensive

Hi Darren

The reason for this is most likely that you have internal links within your site pointing to these pages.

Most likely within the web app you have set up www.exampledomain.com as the campaign address, within the site you have a link to the homepage using and another using /index.html

[If easily done I would change your internal links all to point to the same place from a housekeeping point of view.

However, I would you should either 301 or rel=canonical the homepage to point to http://www.exampledomain.com/ making sure you add the trailing slash to the domain as this gets added anyway.

This will stop the page reporting as duplicates, also Google will only see one version of your pages so it definitely won't jeopardise SERPS, in fact it should pack some rankings bonus' for you.](/)

The following article covers the rel=canonical solution http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/c...

This one covers 301s
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-re...

Hope that helps

Justin

We have recently taken over the SEO for a site which had a pretty poor back link profile, lots of comment links, directories etc.

Although the quality of the link was very questionable, the previous SEO were maintaining a decent link velocity. Obviously I have no intention of carrying on with spammy crap links, and am looking to build some good fresh content.

This will obviously slow down the link velocity quite considerably, is that in itself likely to hurt SERPs?

Thanks in advance

Have you tried open site explorer?

Although the results aren't directly from Google it's domain rank and page rank give an extremely good indications.

Also maybe worth considering the MozBar as this gives you these stats as you are browsing.

Open Site Explorer
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

MozBar
http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar 

Hope that helps

My suggestion would be to set up the canonical link on the index page and link it to http://www.davidclick.com/ with the forward slash at the end as when you click through it adds it anyway.

This should sort out the rest of the pages and pass the link juice to that one page.

more info here http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope this helps

Other sites will be able to link to the 301'd domains and this link juice (at least the majority of it) will be passed onto the dominant domain, so i wouldn't sweat it too much,as this won't harm your SERPs (assuming the links are good).

Its just a whole load easier if you are link building that you use one domain as it keeps things a whole lot simpler!