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According to Google -

"We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them."

Hope this helps.

Mike

According to Google -

"How often does Google crawl the web?

Google's spiders regularly crawl the web to rebuild our index. Crawls are based on many factors such as PageRank, links to a page, and crawling constraints such as the number of parameters in a URL. Any number of factors can affect the crawl frequency of individual sites.

Our crawl process is algorithmic; computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages to fetch from each site. We don't accept payment to crawl a site more frequently. For tips on maintaining a crawler-friendly website, please visit our Webmaster Guidelines."

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Carla,

Read this article on WordPress security goes into detail on, "... some common forms of vulnerabilities, and the things you can do to help keep your WordPress installation secure."

From my understanding, the gist of it is:

• Keep your installations up-to-date.
• Keep strong passwords and change them regularly.
• Remove unwanted plugins.
• Assign permissions to folders and files.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Dana,

I don't work for SEOmoz (although I wish I did!).

I know SEOmoz uses Wistia for hosting, but it looks like they do their transcriptions through SpeechPad. I am guessing the reasoning behind it is money - Wistia costs $5 per minute to be returned within 24 hours and SpeechPad is only $2.50 per minute with a 24 hour turn-time.

And depending on when Rand and company film, they could potentially get the cost down to $1 per minute with a one week turn-time.

Only speculation on my part

Mike

Hi Rachel,

Personally, if this is an SEOmoz or other software error, I would disregard it. The reason I would disregard it is your titles and content are different... even if it is just by 1 character. This approach does make sense for your niche.

Now, IF you were having problems getting both of these pages indexed or if Google sends you a duplicate content message, that would be cause for some concern.

I just Googled clear contractor bags 42 gallon and I see both your 4mil and 3mil thicknesses listed in positions #7 and #8 respectively, as well as #1 and #2 under the Google Shopping area.

If I were you, I would not worry about it.

Mike

Hmmm...

I have never hear of a 429 error. And that error isn't listed by Google Webmaster Tools or W3.org either.

If you mean a 409 error, that means Conflict, "The server encountered a conflict fulfilling the request. The server must include information about the conflict in the response. The server might return this code in response to a PUT request that conflicts with an earlier request, along with a list of differences between the requests."

If you do mean 429, can you provide a screenshot of it?

Thanks,

Mike

According to SEOmoz Help:

"So, in sum, the On-Page Tool only automatically runs reports on pages that are already ranking in the top 50 for one or more of your keywords. Thus, your On-Page Rankings Reports update after your rankings update each week. If you have no pages ranking in the top 50, then you'll have no automatically generated On-Page Reports. If you have 30 pages ranking in the top fifty, then you should have 30 On-Page reports."

So, only 5 of your pages are ranking in the top 50 for your selected keywords.

Hope this helps.

Mike

If you don't see them in OpenSiteExplorer, you could maybe try MagesticSEO to see if you can see them there.

If you don't see them in Magestic, you could actually visit the directory to see if your site is listed.

Also, Google Webmaster Tools does list links to your site under Traffic > Links to Your Site.

Hope this helps.

Mike

SEOmoz uses https://www.speechpad.com/ for Whiteboard Friday transcription.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the transcription text you will see the SpeechPad URL, as well as http://blog.speechpad.com/video-transcription/ for the actual service.

Mike

On the Linking Domains tab, there is a Show domains with links to filter, select pages on this subdomain, then click Filter to see your results.

I think that is what you are asking how to do; otherwise, select pages on this root domain to view ALL the subdomain associated with your root domain.

Hope this helps.

Mike

MatchAll means that all of the conditions must be met for the rule to process. It has nothing to do with case sensitivity.

Give this a whirl (I added your example of including a purchase folder in the rule):

<system.webserver><rewrite><rewritemaps><rewritemap name="Redirect"><add key="/index.asp" value="/"></add></rewritemap></rewritemaps>
        <rules><rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule" enabled="true"><match url="(.)"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll" trackallcaptures="false"><add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^ON$"> 
                    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.lucid8.com$" negate="true"></add></add></conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" www.lucid8.com="" {r:1"="">http://www.lucid8.com/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent"  />
           </action></match></rule>
            <rule name="AllHTTPexceptSIGNIN" stopprocessing="true"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="<a href=" http:="" (www.)(.)$"="">http://(www.)(.*)$" negate="true" />
                    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on"><add input="{URL}" pattern="download" negate="true"><add input="{URL}" pattern="purchase" negate="true"></add></add></add></add></conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" {http_host}="" {r:0"="">http://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}" redirectType="Permanent"/>
           </action></rule></rules></rewrite></system.webserver>

If you use Google Chrome, you can go into the Settings > Show advanced settings > Language and input settings and select a primary language using the Add button. Once you add your preferred language, click the Display Google Chrome in this language button. Restart Chrome.

Once you restart and visit SEOmoz.org, it will automatically translate all of the pages to whatever language you specify.

Hope this helps.

Mike

If you go to your campaign overview page, you will see a little box below the mini overviews that will say something like, "Last Crawl Completed: Apr. 3rd, 2013 Next Crawl Starts: Apr. 10th, 2013"

I personally use SEOmoz PRO tools in combination with Screaming Frog. I verify many of the problems using Screaming Frog, then fix them, then rescan (which is instant), then wait for my SEOmoz PRO tools to reflect my changes. SEOmoz does a great job of warning you and keeping you in the know... where Screaming Frog gives you a lot of information, but you really have to know what you are looking for and would have to keep on top of it... SEOmoz is more automated... if that makes sense.

Mike

The only thing that can happen is if Google indexes an http and https version of the same page. It isn't a HUGE deal... just depends on how obsessed you are about the site structure.

You could potentially have visitors start linking to the https version vs the http version, in which case that would be a problem.

Depending on the complexity of your site and code, this rule may be able to help you... where it says, pattern="download" that means that if someone visits the downloads section of your website, it will allow for https.  You can continue to add additional folders by just repeating that code and replacing "download" with whatever the folder names are that you want to allow to use HTTPS. I did a Google search of site:lucid8.com inurl:https and noticed that your download section was indexed as using HTTPS, that is why I used it in this example.

If you are just using simple folder structures, this rule is not too bad to implement. I previously just implemented it with pattern matching and that was not fun.

Any way, if it helps great, if not, just try to keep your internal linking as consistent as possible. Sometimes the best way to do this is use absolute paths vs relative.

Mike

<rule name="AllHTTPexceptSIGNIN" stopprocessing="true"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="<a href=" http:="" (www.)(.)$"="">http://(www.)(.)$" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on"><add input="{URL}" pattern="download" negate="true"></add></add></add></conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" {http_host}="" {r:0"="">http://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}" redirectType="Permanent"/>
               </action></rule>

Hi TJ,

I have actually made the switch to friendly URLs in DNN, so I know your pain.

Best practice is to make the 301 redirect in one jump. So instead of going from oldsite > dnn > dnn-friendly, you should set up your redirects to perform oldsite > dnn-friendly and dnn > dnn-friendly.

Redirecting with a chain A > B > C can slow your site down for users, as well as slow down the crawlers, which is bad.

Does that answer your question?

Mike

On the left-hand side of Adwords, there is a drop-down that says Match Types with Broad [Exact] and "Phrase".

Broad is selected by default.

Adwords defines these 3 match types as:

"Broad: The sum of the search volumes for the keyword, related grammatical forms, synonyms, and related words"

"Exact: The search volume for that specific keyword and close variants"

"Phrase: The sum of search volumes that include the whole phrase or near variants of the whole phrase"

When you are thinking about traffic from these types of keywords, it is best to use the exact match type. For example, you are typing in an exact match, "how to tube" and ranking #1. If you change your search to "how to tube surf", you are no longer #1. Do you see the difference?

If this is an internal link on your website, you would want to change the actual path to point to the newer secure-document-storage page.

If this is an external link from another website, you'd create a redirect that will take the incoming request for the old document-security page and push the visitor to the new secure-document-storage page.

Make sense?

Mike

That is the keyword at its "broadest term".

The exact match of your keyword only has 91 global monthly searches according to Google Adwords.

Mike

Here is an example that may help:

You have the following pages on your site - /product1.html, /product2.html, and /product3.html.

An external site (externalsite.com) links to the product 2 page on your site (yoursite.com/product2.html).

You decide to no longer sell product 2, so your remove /product2.html from your website; however, externalsite.com is still linking to yoursite.com/product2.html. You see a 404 warning in Google Webmaster Tools referencing this error.

You then have two options:

1. You recently started selling product 4, which is not the same product, but still offers the same solution to a potential customer. You create a /product4.html page and set up a 301 redirect from externalsite.com to yoursite.com/product4.html.

2. You no longer sell this product or solutions like it, because it was not needed by visitors. There is a link from externalsite.com is no longer applicable to your site; therefore, you disregard the warning in Google Webmaster Tools and the link will eventually not be followed by Google.

Now, if the /product2.html page was still accessible online, but you no longer linked to it via yoursite.com, that is kind of a problem, because if externalsite.com is still linking there, visitors could stumble upon your old/outdated/not-used page. You do not need to actively worry about removing the link, but you should work on removing the page if it is no longer used.

Does that help and did I understand your question correctly?

Mike

Cool. Glad to help.

Taking care of https is another rule that you would need to implement. This can be a bit more tricky if your site uses https for other purposes (such as signing in or a checkout process, etc.)

If you do not use https anywhere on your site, I can probably come up with some code that would work for you.

The SEOmoz scan is done on a weekly basis, so there isn't much you can do there. And as for other tools to do these scans, you really cannot get the level of detail in a user-friendly manner that SEOmoz provides - in my opinion.

Mike