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Hey Dan,

That's cool, have you got a link to a decent article on the knowledge graph?

How hard is getting on the knowledge graph?

Adam

If you run Firebug on it they call it the appbar in the class. I googled AppBar and didnt get any results about it. I wonder if it's carried over from Google+?

I ran the same thing in the uk and it comes up for "london universities" as well as colleges but neither allows schools.

I was trying to think of another group of entities similar in nature like government departments etc.. but had no joy. not seen anything like that before. I wonder if you can replicate it for other entities..?

If you click on each of the colleges it brings up the search results for their name and because they are recognised its brings up their profile on the right hand side with their wikipedia page showing and some address details that it pulls form eleswhere. I'd guess if you could get one of those you would get on the appbar (or whatever its called) too..

But that's all guess work.. maybe someone else has a proper idea!

Adam

Thomas,

I appreciate your time in writing that answer but I don't really want to be paying people instead of learning myself, that's the reason I'm here!

I have had a drop in rankings from Panda, and as a precaution I thought I would check to see if I'd been hit by any Penguin algorithm changes. Not enough to warrant an unnatural links penalty but just doing some housekeeping that would improve my overall status.

My question was, is it worth taking link research tools data on its own merits or should I take it with a pinch of salt.

Also running 78 links through the Google Disavow Site is no hard ship

Adam

What do you think of the service though would you trust it's results?

Adam

Are those 5 pages extra content, that do not appear on the desktop site? If so rel canonnical is used to advise of duplicate content and how it should be treated. If they aren't duplicate you dont need to use rel..

Adam

Hi,

I was doing a little research on my link profile and came across a tool called "LinkRessearchTools.com". I bought a subscription and tried them out.

Doing the report they advised a low risk but identified 78 Very High Risk to Deadly (are they venomous?) links, around 5% of total and advised removing them. They also advised of many suspicious and low risk links but these seem to be because they have no knowledge of them so default to a negative it seems.

So before I do anything rash and start removing my Deadly links, I was wondering if anyone had a). used them and recommend them b). recommend detoxing removing the deadly links c). would there be any cases in which so called Deadly links being removed cause more problems than solve. Such as maintaining a normal looking profile as everyone would be likely to have bad links etc... (although my thinking may be out on that one...).

What do you think?

Adam

Ahh I am slow. I understand now. What you are proposing sounds perfect. No down sides.

Hey Mark,

If I understand you, you are just swapping images out and rotating them through?

If so that sounds like you are on the right track. If you use SEOMOZ's on page analysis tool for keywords you can see the alt tags coming up if you are using them to target keywords plus if you are adding captions to the text, you've now got added content.

Images can be a great way to get added traffic coming to your site too. When you are naming your images make sure you use hyphens to separate words. word-word-word.jpg etc..

Adam

Hey Adam,

This doc is a little old but still useful. You need two docs. Your link profile from OSE and this doc http://seogadget.com/categorising-your-links/ (download excel at the bottom).

The way they show to copy data from OSE to SEGadget has changed, so see comments at the bottom or leave a message here if you get stuck.

Once you have the data you can see a big list of panda losers/winners etc.. good chance those spammy links are in the panda losers section...

Also are you getting any messages in webmaster tools?

Adam

Not sure if it will help, I'd debate whether I would use it really, but you could use the CloudFlare apps. Never done it myself though...

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/you-can-run-google-analytics-on-a-wordpresscom-blog-heres-how

Ha I guess so

I'm new to SEO so my tech side comes out... Why do it simply when you can over complicate it!

I'm not sure on these things but if it's a parameter issue i.e. the url only being different after the ?, could a quick solution be to use htaccess and take the tab parameter and insert it into the url? Not sure how scale-able that would be though...

Ah that's ok  I'm newbie myself..

When you go to a webpage the website returns a code to let the browser or Google, or who ever is browsing what the current status of the webpage is. Normally you go to a webpage and you are returned a 200, meaning everything is ok, but you dont need to know it all the time so the browser hides it.

If you try and find a page that is not there the server returns a 404 code, often people designing websites try and redirect you to a customised 404 code/error page, so that they can try and retain you, but in the background the server is returning a 404 code to tell the browser it couldn't find the page it wanted.

With a 301 redirect, what we do is force who ever is trying to access that page to go to another page and tell them that its permanent by telling the server to issue a 301 code.

This tells Google that the page is moved to a new location and should be considered the same page for future purposes. Its kinda like going to the post office to tell them you have moved address and to forward all your mail on.

Now you normally do a 301 redirect using a .htaccess file, but that's a whole other can of worms

Although saying all that I'd assumed it was a 301 but I wanted to give you a tool to check them out yourself and tested it. The website is showing a 302 code which is a temporary redirect. Very bad... but then you new you that

Use this http://web-sniffer.net/ and look mid way down under the yellow bar..

Adam

Agreed very bad, looks really odd too.

What if you don't have an inquiry but to gain an overall impression of the site?

You could do the same thing with a jquery overlay or just a box for inquiries, but I always think the home page should encapsulate the business in an instant then give you direction for more resources. Why not have a prominent link to the inquiry, or generate lead pages on some of you keywords etc....

Adam

p.s. also all your links to the home page are going to leak link juice with the 301 in place.

Have you tried turning the drop down off and running a test to see how your goals compare? Or even if just the pages / visit etc.. drop.

Ooops, I'd done this on my own site.

We had a menu linking to all pages on every page. I tried limiting this but the design of the site put some limitations on me, so I implemented rel=nofollow on some internal pages....

I think now I'll go remove them.....

I just randomly opened a few of your images and got a 404 error.If you are submitting that XML to google, I don't think Google can find any images...

I'm not sure whether its a negative or not but I tried to get a little creative with the location.

Depending on where you go for the serps you get different places giving different rich snippets. For me on Firefox in the Bahamas I get different results to AOL.

I think you'll get the same serps on AOL as I do (I've included images for what I get). You can see that I tried to add "on the most relaxing resort in the Bahamas".

Not sure if its hurting my serps or not in fact before the March Panda update I was climbing in ranks, although what you can attribute that too I don't know, but we were getting 7.8 for "Bahamas All Inclusive" in the States. We're 16 for the moment

Anyway someone with more authority can tell whether it hurts or not, but for me it was working very well...

Adam

google-serp-rich-data.jpg aol-serp-rich-data.jpg

It depends on why someone is trying to access the page. Is the 403 actually breaking some functionality or is it a crucial part of the way the site works?

If you need it there as you need to tell people that they are accessing resources they shouldn't you could try this in your .htaccess file

ErrorDocument 403 /dir/file.html

Using that you can give them a custom error message and get them to engage more with the site, maybe throw in a little humour like Roger does...

Adam

What about adding a rel canonical tag and going from wordpress to the main domain?

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

The wordpress blog though is getting its own links that page has another domain linking to it.

Couldn't you just delete it though and redirect traffic? Not sure if you could do a 301 or not..

Adam