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Hi Matt,

There is a very good blog entry on seoMoz which gives answer:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

I hope that helps, if not just reply and we'll try to give a shorter answer

Istvan

Hi Jacob,

I would go for a canonical in the index page. This should remove the .com version from index and tell search engines which is the "main" language.

I hope that solves this issue.

Greetings,

Istvan

I do believe seoMoz engineers are working hard to achieve this. You can check what updates are done on seoMoz on the change-log page.

It will offer you a better picture of what they work on and also you can suggest this info or other great ideas of what the tool could contain to our most loved Roger.

Gr.,

Istvan

P.S. Don't spam Roger please

Hi Luanne,

Do you mean Opensiteexplorer.org?

Gr.,

Istvan

Well 10 more minutes, then I am off from the office (and available on seoMoz in like 2 hours, again :-D)

Well, all I can do is hope. This is why we invest a lot of energy in online marketing and not in cheating with black hats

I saw a lot of SEO agencies go up with clients on the wrong way, then after few months falling back. Then we speak of a loss-loss situation:

1. the agency lost the client, because of their negative strategy
2. the client lost energy and money

I am always trying to practice what I preach, and try to deliver the clients goals in front of me. Unfortunately we are all not the same.

There are unfortunately link builders who would be very good (and it would be good to invest in them) BUT they gain contracts where some agency outsources in them with contracts like $2/100 links. I don't wonder they spam us all. And don't even blame them (because all they do is work how they were learned too). I blame those agencies, project managers who apply these standards for their freelancers.

Istvan

I am with EGOL, unfortunately there are a lot of comment spammers, and what you can do, is just to simple delete all the time the spam comments, or don't allow any comments.

Regarding competing with these guys, I would say, that until you play fair one day it will pay out. Google, Bing and other search engines too are working hard on competing with spam and "delivering best results". Until you, I or anyone else really focuses this, I wouldn't be much worried regarding these low quality companies. There will be always some who think they can earn fast money, without putting anything on the table. But these guys will raise and fall... again-again-and-again, but those who "play fair" will remain up constantly.

These are my thoughts, I know it is kind of idealistic....

Istvan

Thank you Alan

Hi Adrian,

We had a similar problem not as long ago (changing the website extension from .html to .aspx). What we have experienced is, that the website traffic and rankings went down for aprox. 1-2 week, then it came back up without any problem.

I would suggest to go for all change at one time instead of going with partial rewrite, then again some partial rewrite. (Before you put it alive, test all your links! check for broken links and make sure the redirects are right)

After the website deploy you should resubmit a new sitemap in GWT.

The 301 should be done, so after resubmitting your sitemap in GWT you will not face any duplicate content issue.

The negative part: you will lose some of the link juice thanks to the 301. If you have the possibility contact the webmasters who are already linking to your website and ask them kindly to resolve the URL issue (at least for the highest authority links you have gained in time).

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Hi Steve,

I personally would go for 301 from the old URL to the new, shortened one. Shorter URLs are more likely to be linked in natural linking. You will loose some link juice by the redirect, but you will gain more if we check the "timeline".

I hope that helped,

Istvan

The code goes into the link which points to the download page (just as you have thought )

And the /salesForms/orderForm1 was a copy-paste from the article I have linked

Gr.,

Istvan

your code should look like something:

 [onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'PDF', '/salesForms/orderForm1.pdf']);">Download PDF](<span>http://www.example.com/files/map.pdf)

The "MyMap" you see in the code above is a Label.
You can read further on: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html#Labels

From the article which is linked above:

Setting Up Event Tracking

Before you can view event tracking results in your reports, you must set it up on your site following these steps.

1. Set up tracking on your site. Make sure you have set up tracking for your website. For information on setting this up, see Tracking Sites.

2. Call the _trackEvent() method in the source code of a page object, widget, or video.

   The specification for the _trackEvent() method is:

   _trackEvent(category, action, opt_label, opt_value, opt_noninteraction)
   

   • category (required)

     The name you supply for the group of objects you want to track.

   • action (required)

     A string that is uniquely paired with each category, and commonly used to define the type of user interaction for the web object.

   • label (optional)

     An optional string to provide additional dimensions to the event data.

   • value (optional)

     An integer that you can use to provide numerical data about the user event.

   • non-interaction (optional)

     A boolean that when set to true, indicates that the event hit will not be used in bounce-rate calculation.

3. View the reports. Once event tracking has been set up and working on your site for a day, go to the Content section of the reports and view Event Tracking.

onClick="

Hi Ari,

I believe setting up host only matters now for "site speed", but that factor can be important, if we look at user experience.

In rest, as in term of SEO, I believe that less important now.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Hi Atul,

Do you have a thank you page after subscribing? if so, then you can track it with google analytics.

Set up a goal in GA: Decide one of the three types of goals you want. This can be URL Destination, Time on Site, or Pages/Visit. You will need the URL destination. just enter the Thank You page's URL and it is set up.

That should be the scenario.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

useful video step-by-step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9LuXnmLao

Hi Gareth,

There is a very good article about this @Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105

You can check that.

I hope it will help,

Istvan

Ah, sorry. Miss-understood the question then.

Hi Rene,

The first impression after reading your question is that I meat the same situation as on faceted navigation.

Still this is something different. My advice would be to put the rel=canonical on and get rid of duplicate content. This way you will have one default image, then the visitor can choose what they need (and you just reload the image).

Writing all the hundreds of thousands of unique texts wouldn't be the solution I believe. Still you can use some parameters in the "facets" such as a #color so if people would like to share this content with their friends they can distribute a visitor friendly URL. That would be my choice.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Hi Jaz,

Although it is not a cheap service, but it is one of the best analytics for videos: http://wistia.com/

you can check how it works on: http://wistia.com/product/tracking

Wistia is used by seoMoz also.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

This person contacted me too. Poor spammer

Hi Dave,

I can't give you a top 10 list, since there are a lot of factors that are very important.

But you can check for a very good list here: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

I hope that will help,

Istvan