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Hi,

What you might want to do to get rid of this issues within SEOMoz is add the parameters to your robots.txt file and specifically target the user agent of SEOMoz: Rogerbot. This way SEOMoz won't crawl the links with this parameter and by doing that also won't warn you about these duplicate titles.

Hope this helps!

Btw. As James already mentioned I would also recommend to configure these parameters within Google Webmaster Tools.

Hi Chris,

It really depends on the authority of your Web site, but usually a couple of days will cut it. Although it could be that these pages still won't be indexed at that point when Google finds the quality of these pages too low.

What Jeroen said, it could sometimes take weeks before Google will find your links on the web. Especially when the links you've received are not from high authority sites or pages that are often crawled by them. In the end, Google can come by multiple times a day on your pages but as long as they don't crawl the pages your links are on they basically don't 'count'.

Yes, but I would take it easy and go relatively slowly on this over the next few weeks:

1. Start by excluding the pages from search engines by adding them to your robots.txt.
2. Wait until this is picked up by search engines and you slowly start to see the pages disappear from their index.
3. Remove them in batches from your site (you can do them all at a time, but not sure what your risk is here in terms of overall traffic).

Hi,

This might be a shameless plug but earlier today John Doherty actually launched a whole guide on how to do SEO for SaaS businesses. You can find it here: https://www.getcredo.com/saas-seo-guide/

Martijn.

Hi Alex,

This seems to work flawless, probably Moz can't recognize or hasn't crawled the page since you've added this. As far as I can see in the Structured Data Testing Tool the data is correct and your Schema.org is valid.

Martijn.

Hi Liamis,

All the tags look good except the fact that:   ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X', 'abc.com', {'allowLinker': true}); should be without abc.com so:   ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X', {'allowLinker': true});. I can't find anything in the documentation as well which tells that you should include the domain name there again.

Hi Beth,

Did you check all the URLs that might be relative as well? It feels like one of your outgoing links might be missing the http:// part which makes crawlers think that the URL is relative.

Martijn.

"This would make it more complex for the average person to rely on DA and TF etc.." - I disagree with this, PageRank was never a valid metric anyway for the last 5 years at least as it was usually only updated once or twice a year. In addition to that the PageRank models were already duplicated in basis by DA or TF as well.

These metrics can't 'replace' PageRank but with what you want to do with the data you probably can still use it very easy.

Just keep it, the costs (probably a few dollars yearly) should outweigh any potential downsides of giving up the domain and potentially losing the value. If you really are encouraged to get rid of the domains look into how many incoming links those redirecting domains have. If they're all absolutely dead you might as well get rid of them, but in most cases, I would always recommend keeping them until eternity.

Hi,

They all have their own metrics/ calculations on how they see the authority of a root domain or certain page. Besides that they all have different sizes of indexes. So depending on what kind of data you would need you could chose the right data source for your purpose. Probably best would be to combine the data from multiple sources to get the best answers.

... Yes, would be my best answer. Right now I can't think of a scenario where having an orphaned landing page is a good idea in any case. In most cases, you always want to have a page that is useful for everybody and that can be easily found by a search engine as well. So the worst thing to do, to ensure that the page isn't orphaned would be to create an XML sitemap to still help a search engine to find the actual page.

If you know what is happening to pages with this session_id I would always add/ change the purpose of the URL parameter in Google Webmaster Tools. I would never let Googlebot decide what to do with the URL parameters as I never will know how they exactly interpreted the data.

That's the problem with using event tracking for your goals setup. You're not able to set up the funnels with that. What you could do is trigger a virtual pageview when somebody successfully fills in a form.

Hi Justin,

Sure, what I would do is create 3 different properties for all sites to make sure you can all track them separately. That is the easiest option to measure all sites.

Hi,

Could you share a screenshot on how you set up the goals at this moment? This would give us some insights to see where the problem could be. I've got a feeling but it makes no sense to sent you in the woods looking for something if it could be not there. So a screenshot of your goal setup/ funnel would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi Rasmus,

This is probably caused by the recent update of the Linkscape data yesterday which provides you with the Domain Authority(DA) and Page Authority (PA). Rand published a blogpost yesterday giving some details about the newest update here.

Rand also mentioned that this index is much smaller than the last couple of indexes. Thats probably also why your DA decreased a bit. They found less sites linking to you which could decrease the DA/ PA.

I wouldn't worry to much for now and keep optimizing your site like you did. A quote from Rand: "Our tentative plan is to have that index launched in the next 2 weeks". Which hopefully will provide you with some new data.

Hope this helps!

Hi,

See for example this case, I searched for "Stanford university" within Google UK and also got this when returning from their Wikipedia page when clicking back to Google: https://skitch.com/beerds/gnx8e/stanford-university-google-search

This is one of many examples where high quality pages/ sites also got this when returning to the search results.More information about this could be found within this blogpost on Googles blog.
So it looks like all Web sites for now will get these extra link to hide them from the  search results for a particular user.

It looks like to me the criteria are that you need to be a big brand to get your own search box within the search results. It could be that these sites are hand picked. Search Engine Land covered this topic a couple of years ago. Read the article here.