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Hi Robert,

I actually replied to your original comment (immediately after posting my first comment) saying that I have used the trial of SEMRush and had no luck, mainly because it returned only branded terms for my sites and my competitors. In fact, I actually just counted and the 10 results that appear in the SEMRush report are actually on the first page of the Search Queries report in Google's Webmaster Tools.

I have not, nor did I claim to use the full version of SEMRush, that's why you will notice I stated in my original comment to you, "I am eager to hear from someone that has the paid version. Any insight would be great!"

And of the other programs I have tried, they typically would show generic keywords or phrase, which for my site match anchor text and/or keyword density. For instance, one of the keywords we rank well for is bill of materials. We do not target this keyword on our site; however, we have many backlinks pointing to a pdf about bills of material.

And regarding me slandering SEMRush, I am sorry you feel that I did. I thought I made myself clear in my comment by saying, "...I don't think it does that good of a job." - inferring that personally I do not care for it.

Again, I am sorry you feel I was attacking SEMRush, that was not at all my intent. I will make sure to be more specific the next time I reference a product in this way.

Mike

Had this happen to me a bit ago.

In Firefox, click Help, select Restart with Add-ons Disabled..., then restart Firefox.

When you open it again it asks if you want to start in Safemode or Reset things. I chose Safemode. Then I closed Firefox.

Re-opened it and was able to sign in.

Hope this helps.

Mike

It appears correctly on the browser tab and the source code looks accurate.

Please note, the title tag text is also under the "author" tag... which doesn't make sense.

Also, Google is displaying your contact as "Contact - 65 Broadway Dental" instead of the title you have in source.

If you haven't changed the title tag in the past week, I would think it should appear in your SEOMoz report. If you didn't make any changes, you could contact help@seomoz.org to have them look into the issue further for you, because that seems a little odd.

Mike

Robert,

Do you find SEMRush to be accurate?

I guess I have only used the trial and was not impressed with the data that was returned - it was mainly branded terminology, which of course would be ranking well (or at least should be ranking well).

I am eager to hear from someone that has the paid version. Any insight would be great!

Thanks,

Mike

Not that I am aware of.

But you can get some information from

Google Analytics to see the organic keywords people are using to get to your site.

Google Webmaster Tools to see search queries, impressions, and CTR for different keywords.

Google Adwords can show you suggested keywords based on your website.

SEMRush claims to be able to do what you are asking; however, I don't think it does that good of a job.

Typically programs that claim to do such a thing just look at your backlinks for anchor text, keyword density, or the keyword meta tag if you still use it - so you really are only getting hypothetical answers.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Just a heads-up: 6 Things To Think About Before Disavowing Links from Search Engine Land.

It states a few interesting thing:

"Matt Cutts warned about using the disavow links tool with caution, and if it were me, I take any warning from him to the heart."

AND

"If you haven’t actually been penalized and you start disavowing your links, you’re essentially outing yourself to Google that you manipulated the system. Make sure that you equivocally know you were penalized and it’s not just some random fluctuation in rankings, a sitemap or indexing problem, or an accidentally no-indexed page."

Just saying... be careful.

Mike

Rock and roll. Thanks for the explanation.

In terms of SEO, links from completely external sources (domain1.com linking to domain2.com) are better than subdomains linking back to the root (sub.domain1.com to domain1.com).

The reason for this, is that it is assumed you can easily manipulate linking to your root from a subdomain.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi David,

Are you filtering things under the Advanced Reports tab using Open Site Explorer? If you are, you should be able to get up to 100,000 links.

I have sometimes encountered your issue when I try to export a CSV using one of the other tabs; however, when I use the Advanced Reports tab you can get a lot more data.

If you continue to have issues, I would contact the SEOMoz Help team.

Hope this helps.

Mike

That does seem like a lot of links; however, if it is linking to relevant content and is doing so with using unique and applicable anchor text, I would think you should be fine.

If it is always linking to your root domain with the same anchor text every time, that may raise a red flag.

Long story short - if it looks natural and makes sense, you "should" be fine.

Hope this helps.

Mike

I would probably do 301 redirects instead of linking.

The reason behind my thought is that if one of your competitor's visitors were to visit your newly purchased site, why would they click on a link to your website? Wouldn't you rather that they be redirected to your website to the applicable page?

But if you are just trying to up your DA by link building, I suppose you could link from the purchased domain to the new.

Putting the website as a subdomain of your own would make sense if the purchased site has good content that pertains to you; however, if you are not going to update the content or change it to be more focused to your business, I don't know how much sense that makes to users.

The bottom line should be what is going to provide the best visitor experience.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Yes. If you do not want the archived pages to be indexed you can use the noindex directive.

This will alert Google to not index those pages and also tell the SEOMoz crawler to not report errors or warnings on those pages.

Mike

Correct. When you setup to campaign a subfolder, you will only get crawl diagnostics and reports for that particular subfolder.

SEOMoz Help states, "The PRO Web App crawls, grades and checks rankings only for pages found on that domain or subfolder. When tracking a subfolder, we will only crawl pages that exist in that specific folder. We will not crawl links that go to other folders."

If you were to create 2 campaigns:

subdomain.example.com/USA

subdomain.example.com/Canada

And both pages are in English, you will get different crawl diagnostics and other metrics for these campaigns.

Does that make sense?

Mike

Check out the SEOMoz Help section:

"Duplicate Page Content

Duplicate Content means there are pages that are identical (or nearly identical) to content on other pages of your site, which can force your pages to unnecessarily compete with each other for rankings.

Here are some things you can do about duplicate pages:

Delete content that is similar on each page.

Add some new and unique content to each page that is on the report. This can be done by adding more information, ideas, product descriptions, or anything that can make it differ from other pages on the domain.

You can also add a rel=canonical to one of the duplicate pages. Here are a few ways to do this:

Add a rel="canonical" link in between the  and elements. This should be done on the version of the page you want to be ranking or that non-canonical version of the two (or multiple) pages.

To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.seomoz.org/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool, create a  element that looks like this: <link rel="canonical"href="<a href="http://www.seomoz.com/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool">http://www.seomoz.com/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool"/></link rel="canonical"href="<a>

Copy this link into the  section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.seomoz.com/blog.php?item=seomoz-iscool&sort=fun.

Keep in mind that that canonicals will stop the pages from ranking against each other, but they will still show up as duplicate content from a UI perspective, so we will still count them as duplicate."

Let me know if this answers your questions.

Mike

When you create a new campaign, choose:

"Subfolder

Track a specific subfolder.  Note that the subfolder path must resolve or we will not be able to crawl the content of that folder.

Examples: www.seomoz.org/tools, guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization"

From your example and the second example in the quote above, you should be able to do the subdomain.example.com/subfolder structure.

Hope this helps.

Mike

I guess I would have to know the URL you are referencing to actually verify what exactly you are talking about.

But here is an example of links for a single page on my site:

I have 24 linking root domains with a total of 722 total links to ABCpage on my site.

One of those linking root domains is my domain. I have 331 internal links pointing to ABCpage.

So that leaves almost 400 links left spread across 23 other domains. MANY of these domains have 5+ pages on their websites linking to ABCpage. Other domains of the 23 have a single page linking to ABCpage; however, they may have 3+ links to ABCpage.

You can see links can add up very quickly.

I don't know if this helps or not, but if you are willing to share your website's URL, that would let me or others analyze it if you have any concerns.

Mike

That really comes down to personal preference.

I personally like company names in the title, as it helps establish branding and provides some authority. For instance, if you changed your 3rd title to remove your company name, "M.U.L.E. Reviews" doesn't tell me a whole lot. I understand it is reviews for something called "M.U.L.E." but I have no idea who is reviewing it or really what a "M.U.L.E." is. If you changed it to something like, "M.U.L.E. Hydration Pack Reviews | Outdoor Gearhead" I would know that "M.U.L.E." must be some kind of hydration pack, that the page is reviewing this type of pack, that the M.U.L.E. hydration pack must have something to do with being outdoors (because of your company name), and that Outdoor Gearhead is the company reviewing this product.

I would recommend removing ".com" from your titles, unless that is part of your company name.

The way I like to think of titles when I create them is that visitors should be able to understand what a page is about without even going there, by looking at the title tag.

Does that make sense?

Mike

Hi David,

If you do not have the time to resubmit, you do not need to right away; however, if you continue to remove pages from your site, you should update your sitemap to reflect your site's actual structure.

If you leave it there, you are telling Google, "Hey, I got this page about XYZ. You should crawl it." And if you remove that page, you aren't providing Google with accurate information. You will probably receive a message about it in WMT saying that your sitemap was not fully indexed.

You shouldn't be concerned about causing delay in Google recrawling your site and you should not expect any decrease in rankings. Just because you submit an updated sitemap, doesn't mean Google is going to drop everything to recrawl your site. It may take a week for Google to get around to reindexing everything. And as long as the content and URL structure on the rest of your pages hasn't changed, you can expect your ranking to me more or less the same.

Hope this helps.

Mike

SEOMoz defines that metric on OpenSiteExplorer.org as, "All links to this page including internal, external, followed, and nofollowed."

So more or less, total links means all possible links.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Yes.

You should/could use the canonical tag to specify your preferred version of pages with identical content. This can be the homepage or any other pages within your site.

Mike

Hi Stan,

I think the reason the first one was rewritten might have been because your actual title is too long. Google limits titles in the SERPs by pixel width, no character count. If you were to change it to this you would be within the character count:

Katadyn Pocket Water Microfilter Review (Video) | Outdoor Gearhead

Same thing with the second page... too long.

And your third page actually appears correctly when you search your entire site with site:outdoorgearhead.com in Google. So I am guessing it is getting rewritten because people probably don't type in, "M.U.L.E hydration pack", they probably use "mule hydration pack"... so I am assuming Google is just trying to appeal to the masses. You could try making this one more descriptive to see if the "." would stick: M.U.L.E. Hydration Pack Reviews | Outdoor Gearhead

Hope this helps.

Mike