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I block wp-admin and wp-includes just because they don't need to be indexed.

As far as tags, you can easily no-follow all of those with any half decent Wordpress SEO plugin like Yoast or All in One SEO.  I would definitely noindex them.

No worries, happy to help.

EMD affects low quality sites. Don't be afraid of exact match domains if you are going to put up a good, worthwhile site with real content.

Ex:

www.melbournephotography.com.au is on page 1 for Melbourne photography

www.hotels.com is #1 for hotels

www.creditcards.com is #1 for credit cards

I wouldn't worry about it for a real site.

And Moz has a whole post on it here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-exact-match-domain-playbook-a-guide-and-best-practices-for-emds including:

Matt Cutts has made this comment in the past (about 2 years ago):

"We have looked at the rankings and weights that we give to keyword domains and some people have complained that we’re giving a little too much weight for keywords in domains. And so we have been thinking about adjusting that mix a little bit and sort of turning the knob down within the algorithm so that given two different domains, it wouldn't necessarily help you as much to have a domain with a bunch of keywords in it."

Have you looked into Buffer?  There is a photo of the multi-user end here:

http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/08/02/review-buffer-app/

I haven't looked too far into it because I am happy with Hootsuite but I've thought about it for another account and it looks really great for what I need.  Hope it helps!

I would say it is an issue.

A Wordpress site should have an SEO plugin to solve issues like this. Whether you prefer All In One SEO or Wordpress SEO by Yoast, either gives you canonical links and the ability to noindex and block certain things.

With Yoast Wordpress SEO I have my tag pages set to: noindex, follow

It seems to work well. My tags are not indexed.  You definitely want to noindex those. They could do it individually but that's the reason plugins like this exist - so you can easily control your duplicate content.

One example that may be relevant is the franchise owners who asked a question last week.

What if you are in London competing with:

London.somefranchise.com

We know (strongly believe) that Google treats subdomains as a separate site and subfolders as the same domain.  London.somefranchise.com may have a "real" DA of 14 and you use that info the way you use any DA info. That's not the site you want to partner with if someotherlondonfranchise.com has a DA 40.

Meanwhile, the main somefranchise.com may have a DA 89 so you pursue a relationship with London.somefranchise.com because their DA is 89...but it's not.  Having the subdomain's actual DA would help.

I have spoken with database-expert SEO guys who swear by:

domain/year/month/post-name

They say for some reason referencing the year first reduces the workload of the database, making your site faster, which we know is good.

On the other hand, I've always been partial to

domain/post-name because it makes each blog post url short, easy to remember if done well, and relevant to your business.  I have found that having /category/ does nothing for SEO.  I used to do this on a wedding photography blog and had domain/wedding-photography/post-name.  When I changed to domain/post-name my SEO results shot up across the board.  So I'm sure /category/ hurt more than helped.

I currently use domain/year/month/post-name but will be changing to domain/post-name for the future on all sites, I think.

You're looking for http://www.twentyfeet.com

(They) track the most relevant Metrics for your Facebook Fanpages:

• number of fans
• number of statuses - That includes the post you did yourself as a user or a page.
• number of stream posts - That includes all posts both from yourself and from other users.
• number of comments
• number of "likes"
• active users
• page views

https://wiki.twentyfeet.com/display/TF/Facebook+Metrics

Rand said on the latest update that

"This index is about 9 billion URLs smaller than our prior September index:  http://www.seomoz.org/blog/september-mozscape-update-is-live, so on average, seeing raw link counts drop ~8.5% wouldn't be surprising."

He also said they would like to get to 150B urls but may get down into the 40B range until some issues are sorted.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/octobers-mozscape-update

I would say that's the difference you're seeing.

CRO is by far the most important part of the job when you get to do it (and not the web designer.)  I would rather bring someone 100 visitors, 50 of whom bought my company's product than send them 1000, 25 of whom bought the product.  Companies exist to make money and sell things (and sometimes help people out.)  If we're contributing to the bottom line dollar, we'll have much longer careers.

Your site has canonical links setup and it looks fine to me on first look.  I don't think it's a problem - you want this.

Yoast Wordpress SEO is a great plugin - it should be setup right.  I have setup instructions on my blog if you need.

Hey Erik!

Basically the way the page is created causes major issues.

On http://www.stevenholmesstudio.com - you have the About (and other) page texts.  "Steven Holmes is a commercial photographer, videographer and musician, specializing in studio and environmental portraiture, short-form documentary video and music for picture."

The "About page" has the exact same text.  The site is very limited on text but it's all repeated on the individual pages.

I agree with George about the .js file as well.

~MattA

Google won't see them as dupe content.  You already have a canonical link in your header.

rel="canonical" href="http://www.autoinsurancefremontca.com/" />

If you wanted to, you could change that to

rel="canonical" href="http://www.autoinsurancefremontca.com/index.html" />

That would make everyone redirect to the html page itself.  I don't think it's a big deal.  I'm glad the above helped.

I noticed Wiki is a 3 and CNN is an 11, too.  I'm not sure if something is broken but we know those aren't correct.  Strangely, Google is a 93 so it's not ALL big sites.

http://autoinsurancefremontca.com/

http://www.autoinsurancefremontca.com/

http://www.autoinsurancefremontca.com/links.html

I'm guessing it's a canonical issue on the domain & www-domain?

To see what pages SEOmoz is crawling:

1. Go to http://pro.seomoz.org/campaigns
2. Click View This Campaign for your site
3. Click Crawl Diagnostics
4. At the top right, Export as CSV
5. You'll get a spreadsheet listing all the URLs that SEOmoz crawled

Local SEO is all about citations and matching info.

Make sure the address on your contact page matches your Google+ page and your Bing Local page.  If you have other "local" listings - Yelp, etc, match those exactly, too.  Phone numbers, contact email addresses, physical addresses.

Then you should work on citations.

https://www.whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder/

Read Rand's thoughts here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/one-dead-simple-tactic-for-better-rankings-in-google-local

And check out this list of local citation sources:

http://www.poweredbysearch.com/local-seo-citation-sources-us/

That should help local search and if you do it correctly, you'll find yourself in the 7-pack, 4-pack and whatever-pack Local displays on your related searches.

I found a couple of SEO & digital marketing lists and followed people I was interested in.  Now I use Twitter as an information source so I follow a lot more.  Some follow back.  Others follow from your site, your social media profiles, sites like XeeMe and wherever you're linked.

Create content, the rest follows.  Same as everywhere.

The entire content of the link:

http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://www.woolworthsmoney.com.au/wowm/wps/wcm/connect/wowmoney/wowmoney/home/home/" />

It makes a bit more sense when you realize they're using it to give the full value of Woolworth's site to the link.  I understand 100% why it's highly ranked now.  I sent you a LinkedIn connect request to email you about it further.  In case you (or someone else needing help) checks this post:

Try the URL:

http://www.woolworths.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/website/woolworths/everyday+services/insurance/credit+cards

Let me break it down

http://www.woolworths.com.au/  Their main, highly ranked site.

wps/wcm/connect/website/woolworths/  This part of the domain somehow connects them back to woolworth's entire site.

everyday+services/insurance/credit+cards  This sends you to another page entirely.  Somewhere in their database, this link = woolworthsmoney.com.au

They are using the FULL power of their domain to create an internal redirect.  That's why you can't find it on their site.

site:woolworths.com.au woolworthsmoney.com.au turns up virtually nothing.

If you go here, however: http://www.woolworths.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/Website/Woolworths/Everyday+Services/Insurance/

You find "Credit Cards"  and the entire HTML including H3 on Woolworths.com.au:

[/wps/wcm/connect/website/woolworths/everyday+services/insurance/credit+cards](<a class=)">Credit Cards