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Recently i have found that the data in the trifecta report is becoming less complete. For the last few sites i found that the report returned about half of the metrics it was looking for.

For instance, it mentioned that one of the domains did not have a dmoz or wikipedia link/page even though they had both? Also, it rarely returns the Yahoo Site Explorer metrics even though when clicking to see the source the data is there?

Are you guys planning on phasing out this tool, if not it seems like some work needs to be done on cleaning it up.

Thanks!

From my understanding it will only positively effect the site if there is a 301 redirect or conical link back to the original corporate site domain. A simple domain alias will risk the possibility of duplicate content in search engines.

Thanks for the quick response, Steve.

I have a client that picked up a bunch of keyword rich domain names and he wants to point them to his current corporate site as domain aliases.

Could this in anyway negatively or positively effect his SEO? or ranking?

Thanks  - Kyle Chandler

I see, i wonder what those metrics are. I have seen some pages with a page authority of 50 with only 3 backlinks. So I'm sure their is a correlation with quality of backlinks along with the amount.

I'm hoping this is a quick and simple question. Sometimes when using the open site explorer or the keyword difficulty tool i find that some pages have a higher "page authority" than the "domain authority."

That seemed odd to me, is there a correlation between the two? You would think by default as you grow your page authority the domain authority increases as well?

So i guess my question would be, what happens on a page to give it a higher page authority than domain authority?

@Mike Scanlin

Are search engines like Google currently using LSI? I tried doing some research on the topic but had trouble finding anything actually published by Google (except in their patent section). Either way, very interesting topic!

By using the canonical link will it begin to pull the tracking queries out of the ranking or at least discredit them?

A client of ours uses some unique keyword tracking for their landing pages where they append certain metrics in a query string, and pulls that information out dynamically to learn more about their traffic (kind of like Google's UTM tracking). Non-the-less these query strings are now being indexed as separate pages in Google and Yahoo and are being flagged as duplicate content/title tags by the SEOmoz tools. For example:

Base Page: www.domain.com/page.html
Tracking: www.domain.com/page.html?keyword=keyword#source=source

Now both of these are being indexed even though it is only one page. So i suggested placing an canonical link tag in the header point back to the base page to start discrediting the tracking URLs:

But this means that the base pages will be pointing to themselves as well, would that be an issue? Is their a better way to solve this issue without removing the query tracking all togther?

Thanks - Kyle Chandler

For this case specifically it was two different sign ups: One for an in home consultation, and the other to download product information. The first one asked for a lot more personal information while the second one only asked for name/email.

I had a client claiming his industry (replacement home windows) conversion rate was around 15% based on his research. In my research i could find nothing of the sort, and really couldn't find a single place that provided this type of information. Anyone out there have some advice on where to research industry conversion rates (averages) or tools/thought processes to explore?

Thanks!

(these stats would primarily be used for goal setting and competitive analysis)

In my opinion, yes. This way you are achieving two goals.

1. Passing the domain strength of the niche sites to a related page

2. Ensuring a smooth end user experience

Making the assumption that shutting down both websites are in the best interest of your company. I would 301 redirecting the niche eCommerce sites back to your main corporate site. In terms of how to redirect them, are there any pages on your main site that are directly related to your other sites? If so i would redirect them there.

Or perhaps create an page on your main site briefly explaining the reason those sites no longer exist and redirect to that. This way you can pass the domain strength as well as ensuring a good experience for the end user.

Thanks for the input! I haven't had a chance to view their .htaccess file. I am still in the early stages of reviewing their site. I just wasn't sure if their would be a technical reason for them to do this or if it just happened by accident. It sounds like adding a basic robots.txt file would be the appropriate solution.

I've been doing some site analysis for a new SEO client and it has been brought to my attention that their robots.txt file redirects to their homepage. I was wondering:

Is there a benfit to setup your robots.txt file to do this?

Will this effect how their site will get indexed?

Thanks for your response!

• Kyle

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