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What tool are you using to get your backlink profile?

Can you provide your domain?

Mike

It does not matter from an SEO standpoint whether you link to https or http from your homepage to a secondary page.

What does matter is that you only have one version. You do not want to have http://domain.com/second-page and https://domain.com/second-page on your website.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Mark,

It can sometimes take a while for those cached pages to disappear.

You can either:

• Wait for them to be removed naturally.
• You can request Google remove them from their index.

As long as it isn't a huge deal if the public can see those pages, I would let the process happen naturally. If the public can see privileged information, I would go with the removal request.

Hope this helps.

Mike

I would suggest contacting the customers as a common curtsey. We do customer quotes, but we pull them from success stories, which the customer knows we will be publishing already. While the customer did send you an email with a review or quote, they probably didn't know you would be making their comment public.

I personally would feel better asking the customer, even if you don't plan on using their name or initials, it would still be good. Also, I think if when you contact them you ask if you can use their name, that would be good. I think seeing a name associated with a quote gives it a little more oomph and shows that you aren't just make up quotes.

Just my thoughts.

Mike

1. If you currently have a 302 in place directing http to https, you are only utilizing the backlinks of the https version. Once you implement a 301 from http to https, you will be gaining the backlinks that the http version has pointing at it and directing them to the https version.

2. No. If you need to use https, you need to use it. It is not looked down upon or more difficult to rank for or any of that... merely personal preference or need based.

Does that answer your question?

Mike

I personally do not think that they are good for SEO; however, they potentially can be good for PR and getting your company name out there.

The backlinks you gain from PR directories are usually pretty low quality and not counted for much.

Maybe create a PR section on your website, then use social media to give teasers about it, linking back to your PR section... that would potentially drive traffic to your site and get people to follow you to hear about PR news.

Hope this helps.

Mike

If I were you, I would change the 302 redirect to a 301.

A 302 redirect tells search engines that it is a temporary redirect and to not pass any link juice, because it is a temporary redirect and will be changing.

A 301 redirect tells search engines that it is a permanent redirect and to go ahead and allow link juice to flow from one page to another, because it is a permanent redirect and will not be changing.

Make sense?

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Ed,

First - cool websites! Visually they look really nice.

According to Matt Cutts, Google does not consider bounce rate as a ranking factor. Think of it this way, if you Google weather in Minneapolis then click on the weather.com page, and see the high today is 36 degrees <sigh>then leave the page, you are bouncing. BUT, does that mean that weather.com didn't answer your question and should be ranking lower because of a higher bounce rate? That is why Google claims they do not consider bounce rate a ranking factor, because users could easily find the answer to their question and leave a site within seconds.</sigh>

That said, if you look at OpenSiteExplorer.org you will see that your SparrowMakeup.com.au site has very high authority, while your Make-up-Artists.com.au does not.

If I were you, I would incorporate the cool functionality of your portfolio into your main SparrowMakeup.com.au site. I understand your reasoning for having two separate sites, because of the different look/theme; however, I think when people are looking at a portfolio, they expect to see something more artsy and different looking. I think you could definitely get away with incorporating the same functionality from your portfolio site onto your main site.

Since it appear that you don't have any text on the portfolio page, it isn't super likely that you'd rank for that page, but directing someone to an "external" website might be confusing, since the portfolio is essentially an extension of the main site. If you want to continue to have it be a separate site, that is fine; however, I would recommend that you open your portfolio page in a new window... that way, once/if they close your portfolio window, they are brought back to your main website.

Does that all make sense?

Hope this helps.

Mike

The full subdomain of your website in this case would be www.mysite.com. The www is considered a subdomain.

I just responded to your other question and was guessing that you had a campaign setup for your non-www version and that is why you are getting the 301 redirect notice.

As Joram suggests, you can remove the non-www version from your campaigns.

Mike

Crawl Notices are merely a "heads-up" notice. You having a 301 redirect from http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com is perfectly normal and correct if that is the very you want displayed to users.

One thing to note, you may be getting this message if:

• You have a link in your website that points to the non-www version of your homepage vs the www version.
• You have your Campaign setup to use the non-www version of your site.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Not knowing the product kind of makes it difficult to go on that; however, some of these ideas may work.

I would create a landing page for the physical product, then additional pages optimized around the product launch:

• [product name] Release Date
• [product name] Specifications or Specs
• [product name] News
• [product name] Price
• [product name] Pre-order
• [product name] Price
• [product name] Sneak Peek
• etc.

Create a landing page that is specific to any question that a visitor would/could have about the product.

Does that help/give you some ideas?

Mike

Screaming Frog - I usually wait for SEOmoz or Webmaster Tools to identify issues, then use Screaming Frog to verify that I have fixed them. It is a great tool and FREE if your site is under 500 pages.

Here are the SEOmoz definitions of the other warnings you are talking about:

"Meta Robots Nofollow - When the meta robots tag for a page includes 'nofollow', no link juice is passed on through the links on that page.

Blocked by Meta Robots - This page is being kept out of the search engine indexes by meta-robots."

I am guessing someone put the following in the head of those blog posts:

It is just telling Google to not index the page and to not pass page rank or anchor text for any links on that page.

Typically the "nofollow" is used in blog comments, so commenters cannot provide links back to their personal websites.

"noindex" shouldn't have any affect on rankings. It is just telling Google that certain pages are not worth putting in their index (copyright, terms of use, etc.).

"nofollow" links if not implemented correctly can look kind of spammy to Google, but in most cases you should be fine.

Does that help?

Mike

I think part of it has to do with the link in your articles section, heading in the article, url, and title tag all matching or being REALLY close.

For instance, if I Google Dynamic Spin Release, I see your website's article; however, if I Google Dynamic Spin Release and the Energy of Your Mind, I do not.

I am guess that is because your title tag and url pull more weight than your listing and heading:

listing: Dynamic Spin Release and the Energy of Your Mind

heading: Article on Dynamic Spin Release and The Energy of Your Mind

title: Dynamic Spin Release

url: Dynamic Spin Release

When you are writing or posting these articles, I would try and match the listing, heading, title, and url to almost match each other if those are the types of queries you are hoping get typed into Google.

I hope this helps.

Mike

If you scan with Screaming Frog, you can easily find missing meta tags, titles, broken links and more.

It is what we used prior to going live with our website and it was a life/time saver!

And here is a guide done by SEER Interactive that illustrates all of the different things you can accomplish with this tool.

Mike

Hi Bob,

I looked at the top 7 articles on your articles page.

Here is what I found by Googling the titles or headings of these articles:

1. appears
2. duplicate content
3. appears
4. duplicate content
5. appears
6. appears
7. appears

Is there an article in particular that you are not finding via Googling the title/heading?

Mike

Duplicate content?

Dynamic Spin Release and the Energy of Your Mind

http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/Dynamic_Spin_Release.html

http://www.nlpiash.org/Articles/RecentArticles/tabid/250/EntryID/12/Default.aspx

Choice Building: Changing Synesthesias Through Choice Building

http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/synesthesia

http://www.nlpco.com/library/therapy/choice-building/#axzz2Qk3i4Sh6

Are these articles supposed to be on multiple sites?

Mike

It sounds like you are maybe trying to target multiple keywords on a single page?

This can be extremely difficult as the purpose of the page is not clearly defined.

As Jesse suggests, create a new page and follow the guidelines here for creating a perfectly optimized page.

Hope this helps.

Mike

After diving deeper, it looks like it is a matter of breadcrumbs and other types of navigation.

Here is an example of how different pages are linking to /Mens_Bags-600/:

/Electric_Goggles_and_Electric_Sunglasses~65

• links once via the top navigation

/Surfdome_Mens_Bags-600/132

• links twice via the top navigation and the breadcrumb

/Bags-372/

• links three times via the top navigation, left navigation, and in as in-line text as MENS BAGS>

As you can see, depending on the page, the linking structure can vary greatly on your site. I didn't dive extremely deep into your site, so there definitely could be other instances of other types of linking structures on different page layouts. This would definitely explain why some of your pages have MANY in links, while others don't.

I hope this helps; otherwise, like I said, Screaming Frog can pinpoint exactly where your in links are coming from, which can help you figure out the entire linking structure of your site.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Gina,

You should try to fix any errors. Errors can impact your users' experience, as well as interfere with web crawlers and even impact your rankings.

404 errors:

• /balancing-seo-with-your-website-design/ links to /on-target-web-design-santa-barbara/ using anchor text "It is best to get a custom design
• /5-steps-to-increase-traffic-to-your-website/ links to /we-create-websites-that-bring-you-more-business/ using anchor text "increasing traffic to your website,"

Warnings are more or less a "if you have time and can, you could fix these". They really do not impact your rankings, but if you are trying to be perfect, you could fix them.

Notices are just a "heads-up". They do not impact rankings, UNLESS you are blocking robots ; )

Long story short, fix Errors, work on Warnings when you have time, verify you already knew about the Notices.

Hope this helps.

Mike