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Hey, the guys over at Distilled have some great posts on first touch tracking, give this one a go, it should get you going in the right direction: http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/first-touch-tracking-in-google-analytics/

Cheers!
Marcus

The easiest way to do this is to upload your video to a hosted service like youtube.com or vimeo.

**Externally Hosted Video **

1. Upload video to Youtube.com  or preferred video hosting site

2. Log into your dash board

3. Use the quickpress feature on your dash

• enter a title
• paste the video URL into the content box
• couple of tags for good measure

4.  Then, check your post on the front end and WP has done all the grunt work, added the embed code and essentially created a video post (damn, I love wordpress).

Adding a Hosted Video

I am pretty sure you need a plugin for this and the two ones I see mentioned a lot in wordpress circles are FlowPlayer and JW Player both of which have a free version.

I always tend to use the hosted method above but there is a tutorial on how to use these plugins here: 
http://www.byobwebsite.com/answers/how-to-add-self-hosted-videos-to-your-site/

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Hope it helps!
Marcus

Hey Frank

No date as far as I know but the rollout post on the Google Webmaster blog states that it will be coming at some point soon:

"We will continue testing and refining the change before expanding to additional languages, and we’ll be sure to post an update when we have more to share."

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/high-quality-sites-algorithm-goes.html

I have seen crawls take a while for larger sites, but never that long for a smaller site. I am sure it's nothing to worry about so maybe give it another day or so and then if still no good then maybe email help@seomoz.org if you have had no support on here.

To be honest, the people on here are pretty cool so I would be surprised if someone has not helped you out in the next couple of hours.

I believe they are basically ways of automating link exchange between sites and a network of partners who are willing to exchange. There  is a review here: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/review-linksmanager-links-exchange-toolbar/5440/

It may have grown since that review, and it may have a little, tiny, bit of merit, but I would not make it a large part of your strategy in any way, shape or form.

The good links are always the ones that are hard to get.

Still laughing about the frames. Man, I am old, so frames were part of the web back in the day, whoever these people are that are doing this work, they need to put their slippers and reading glasses on and sit down in front of the fire with a glass of warm milk.

Frames, made my day I tells ya!

Hey, I can't see this approach working for long, it's exactly the kind of thing they are trying to cut down on. Like you say, it should not hurt the main page but it would be interesting to see if the mini sites have taken a hit as they are essentially low quality, cookie cutter garbage created just for the search engines.

I am unsure how google handles frames as it is not technically duplicate content, it is just a window to the main site itself but it is kind of manipulative to present one sites content in another one, especially when that other one is a page designed purely for search engine traffic and with identical content (bar the location keyword) to a bunch of others.

This whole approach is flawed.

It's hard to say without seeing the mini sites and just how mini they are but they could be classed as doorway pages if they have little or no original content and are just designed to feed traffic to the main site.

If they are useful little sites then linking back to the main site may help that site rank better but it's still not a whiter than white approach but again, real tough to comment in detail without seeing the sites in question.

On a personal snobbery level, Frames? Are they for real?

Hey

Duplicate content is duplicate content whether that is pages on the same site, different sites, different IP's, different C blocks etc.

As long as these 'snippets' are not the main page content then having a duplicate bit of text between the blog and the product page should not be a major issue.

Point to take away here is that lots of sites use duplicate product descriptions etc, it is better if they are unique, but it will not generate a penalty if it is not the main page content.

Go unique if you can but ultimately do what is best for your users.

Hope that helps.
Marcus

Hey Dr. Pete, Joshua

I was just coming here to say that I had read the Dr. Pete post and this may do the job. It's a paid bit of a software but I will be picking it up later. I have my guys knocking up a canonical checker that will be free for all but that may take a day or so to get perfect.

Let me know if you have a play with Screaming Frog!

Marcus

Hmmm, interesting, ill have a play. Cheers Lewis.

Hey, can you post the phrase and the page you want to rank? Happy to take a look and kick in some feedback.

Hey Franck

I am completely lost when it comes to facebook. Twitter I can understand, it's all public (or most of it, unless you opt out) but facebook activity is mostly private. I am guessing that this mainly relates to public facebook pages and the like but I still don't understand how facebook shares impact SEO and had been meaning to post that very question.

Anyone got the 5 minute skinny on this?

Marcus

Hey Josh,

Right, cool. I have got a few jobs to sort out but I am going to have a bash at knocking this up this afternoon. Should be easy enough (he said, damning himself to hours of problems).

Leave it with me for 24 hours.

Marcus

Hey, I am not aware of any such tool, but it should not be too hard to put one together, maybe a useful little tool as well.

If you have all of your pages in spreadsheet or database, it should be  easy enough to write a little script that cycles through them.

Start Loop

• request page

• parse code to get canonical URL

• compare page to canonical

• output problem URLs

End Loop

Slightly over simplified and requires a list of all your URLs but would be willing to help put something like this together, could be useful for all of us, especially for those (like me) that work with a lot of CMS sites.

Cheers

Marcus

Hey

I am not really a windows guy but I am sure you can do this in .Net so it can be done at the application level. Also, I am sure you can do this in IIS but you maybe have less flexibility.

What are you trying to achieve?

Hey Mike

I have a site, it lost about 80% of traffic on the 7th of February. I have seen that there was some talk of results changing in the UK on the 7th but this one site has been hammered.

It's annoying really as the major competitor is almost a perfect case for how to cheat. The business provides several services all from one site as does the one I manage. But, they also have the URLs for each of these services  and use them as single pages designed to throw the user to the main site (duh - doorway pages) but... the thing is, it works for them, has worked for years and years and on this last update, it seems to be getting better.

Really annoying and likewise, I have not had any good feedback as to what the problem may be from other SEO folks I know.

So, good folks of SEOMoz - any ideas on this one? It may help me figure out what has gone wrong with my fathers site as well which is http://www.vinyltodigital.co.uk

Marcus

Pleasure.

You do get small variations in how the server wants the htaccess but give it a go and see if it works.

If you are happy it is working in the browser then there is a free bit of software called webbug that will let you see the HTTP headers to ensure you are getting the 301 permanent redirect returned.

Hope it helps.

Add a canonical URL of www.mysite.com to the homepage (/ & /index.php) & 301 redirect www.mysite.com/index.php to www.mysite.com

That covers both bases and will see the content indexed on the correct page before too long.

Cheers
Marcus