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Moz Point Swag
Hi Mike! Our Community Manager goes through and manually reviews mozPoints about once a month, but the process timeline is not set in stone and it's all dependent on that manual review. As the mozPoints page mentions, these points are accrued for being a great Moz community member! It's fun, it builds a sense of community, and it encourages participation. It also helps those of us who author content for the blog to know whether our posts are valuable and/or interesting to our readers. You can read more about mozPoints here in case you haven't read this before: https://moz.com/community/mozpoints Someday we'll automate this process but until then, just keep an eye out and we'll get you that access as soon as we can. See you around the community and have a great day! Thank you, Kevin Help Team
Technical Support | | kevin.loesken2 -
XCart Directory 301s Not Working
Their coder will be taking a look at it when he's freed up the time to see if there's a way to do that. Hopefully its something easy like that and doesn't require numerous workarounds to get going.
Technical SEO Issues | | MikeRoberts0 -
404 from a 404 that 301s
Let me know if it works Mike. There is actually a third possibility which is; Some page(s) might generate a dynamic URL only upon being visited by a browser/search agent. If that's the case, then you can set up an event tracking through your website in conjuction with Google Analytics and track teh refferer; _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Error', '404', 'page: ' + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + ' ref: ' + document.referrer ]); After you collect some data (Submit your website to Google WMT or wait for next MOZ visit) you can export and run your filter. The alternative to this method could be one of the 2 following; enabling extreme debug/log mode on your programming platform and collect logs for further processing. You can run a small Python script to find the RegEx pattern. I advise to setup a demo copycat of your website on a subdomain and then run this experiment. You can then submit the demo sub domain to Google Webmaster tools and wait for the crawlers. Reconfigure your webserver logging (httpd.conf if using Apache) to log more details. Make sure you turn back into to the normal data collecting configuration to avoid storage consumption. Good luck, Ali
Technical SEO Issues | | Ali_Sadr0 -
Meta Tags for Images in Multiple Galleries
If you can keep it under 15 words, i'd stick with 1 alt text for all instances - throwback MC video. So in your case, "Old Navy commercial display, faux white brick panel accent wall" would be acceptable. I think it would strengthen the keyword relevancy for the image rather than using different alt text on different pages. This gives me an idea for a test though... time to throw up a web page
Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | OlegKorneitchouk0 -
You People are Awesome
Its the little touches like that which help make this place feel more like a community rather than just another website.
Moz News | | MikeRoberts5 -
Schema - Has it worked for you?
I have over 60 pages on my site identified by Google in GWT as having structured data with 4 types listed but overall since employing this to the site I've not seen anything that I can with confidence say that by employing schema it has benefited or hindered the site. Hoping to reap what I've sown in due course. Actually can I add though that on the pages where I've been adding adding schema I have noticed that in the SERPs these pages do not serve the information listed in the itemprop e.g. description but it is serving the information listed in the first H1 tag of each page. So at the moment I've been making sure the text makes relative sense and is optimised for specific search terms. I was not expecting to see this but for others it might be worth looking at your pages in GWT where you have started to use schema, view what Google has on them and export them and review. Would love to hear from others on this as well.
Web Design | | David-E-Carey0 -
HTML Encoding Error
Could be, I suppose. But it's been happening on and off for months now. I just mostly stop caring after a bit, clear out the errors and get annoyed when I see it pop up again. Its one of those things that doesn't actually cause a problem but I can't help feeling irked by its existence. All in all, I'm perfectly fine with the solution being "Google is wrong, leave it alone"... that's basically what I've been doing anyway.
Technical SEO Issues | | MikeRoberts0 -
Pin It Button, Too Many Links, & a Javascript question...
This test showed a little light on what is indexed typically: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/can-google-really-access-content-in-javascript-really
Web Design | | sprynewmedia0 -
Heavy Internal Linking Help
Good to hear you are already working on the search bar. Expandable categories on the samples page could be a very good alternative as well. Just test a few different options to find the best solution!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Solvari0