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Hey all,

I want to be able to see if my website was penalized from the most recent penguin update because we have several hundred websites built and at the bottom of each on it says something along the lines Website by, Web Design by, Hosting by and links back to our homepage.

Could this possibly be penalizing us since these links have similar anchor text and on sites that have nothing to do with our services?

Thanks,

Ryan

Hey Dana,

Thanks for the response.  So basically what saying is that if it isn't in the immediate authored content area (such as href="https://plus.google.com/104609087715575652977" rel="publisher"/> in the section) then it should be rel=publisher.  However, rel=author should be on authored content like the blogs and articles and press releases. This would be shown as "Authored by [Individual Name]" linking the name to the personal Google+ profile, Right?

Also, in doing rel=author /rel=publisher,  only "rel=author" translates into the Google+ head shot profile picture in search results, but rel="publisher" will list the company Google+ profile information?

Thanks again for all the responses!

Hey all,

I've noticed a lot of companies will implement Google Authorship on all pages of their website, ie landing pages, home pages, sub pages.  I'm wondering if this will be penalized as it isn't a typical authored piece of content, like blogs, articles, press releases etc.

I'm curious as I'm going to setup Google Authorship and I don't want it to be setup incorrectly for the future.  Is it okay to tie each page (home page, sub pages) and not just actual authored content (blogs, articles, press releases) or will it get penalized if that occurs?

Thanks and much appreciated!

I have added the appropriate lines to the robot.txt file.  If there is anything else I should be aware of regarding disallowing directories via robot.txt please let me know!

Thanks guys!

Great, thanks for the response.

That makes sense.  I appreciate the response and direction.

So I've been told that search engines these days are "smart enough" to realize that the URL reading "..../catalogsearch/result/?q=whatever" isn't the "main" page of the content on it and wanted to get a better understanding of this.

Looking at my SEOmoz Campaigns I can see errors with duplicate content and page titles and the culprits are these search result pages.  With people sharing with me that it's okay because the search engines realize its a search result and it won't effect the website optimization, and SEOmoz telling me i have errors based on it makes me wonder what is right.

If someone could shed a little light on duplicate content created by a website's search results, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

I've run in to the same issue with a few of our clients as well, I don't really think it's anything wrong with OSE but moreso an indication that your competition has a history of acquiring bad links. For example, one of our clients' competitors has over 500 links from foreign language websites and they are a local furniture store in Texas. I've begun to use OSE as more of a profile builder for link building as well as a research tool for my competitor's anchor text.

When you go to the places listing, does it still say "Business Owner -?" ? If so, you should be able to put into your places account. I'll be looking into this very soon as I would like to consolidate some places accounts that we have.

Hey Ryan,

Thanks again for your help. This appears to be a WP Plugin called "AddtoAny" which is a Social Sharing Plugin with links to all the networks for sharing. I have never really liked this plugin so I'm disabling it and going to set up the newest tweet like and +1 buttons.

Again,

Thanks.

The iframe in question would be the Facebook Like Box. The the links are to the peoples profiles it seems. I believe this to be pretty harmless.

Thanks for the information about the 302's and wordpress.

http://cadenlane.com/blog/2010/03/16/caden-lane-big-kid-rooms/trackback/ redirects to http://cadenlane.com/blog/2010/03/16/caden-lane-big-kid-rooms/

It seems that the WP Blog is automatically creating these 302's as I haven't configured this.

In seomoz pro campaign it is coming up with an error saying that all my trackbacks on my clients blog are 302 and badish. Should I disable trackbacks and pingbacks to avoid this warning or will it hurt my seo?

Hello Kevin,

I would suggest that you Change the old Listing to the new name then add in the tracking number to the "other numbers" category of the listing. Then suspend the new listing.

Google Boost may assist, however Google Tags have helped me in the past with promoting a video about my client.

Hey Niall,

I'm going through the same issue at the moment. You are currently receiving the 302 warning because Rogerbot does not read secure pages. I am working with the understanding that the moz team is adding this ability to Rogerbot in the near future and SEOmoz will be able to track secure pages. Using https throughout all pages does add load time (not considerably) and we do know that any addition to load time can have an effect on your SEO ranking. I would encourage limiting the amount of secure pages as much as possible and prominently placing your SSL badge within the sidebar of your site in order to inform users that you do have a solid SSL.

I've recently added a campaign within the SEOmoz interface and received an alarming number of errors ~9,000 on our eCommerce website. This site was built in Magento, and we are using search friendly url's however most of our errors were duplicate content / titles due to url's like: domainname/shop/leather-chairs.html?brand=244&cat=16&dir=asc&order=price&price=1 and domainname/shop/leather-chairs.html?brand=244&cat=16&dir=asc&order=price&price=4.

Is this hurting us in the search engines? Is rogerbot too good?

What can we do to cut off bots after the ".html?" ? Any help would be much appreciated