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Working on a site, and noticed their canonical tags follow the structure:
They cited their reason for this as http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt. Does anyone know if Google will recognize this as a valid canonical? Are there any issues with using this as a the canonical?
Hi Marcus,
Yes, so, basically, it is 1 million links to one URL, and other URLs have 10,000+ links. This happened because they use our content, and we canonicalized all of their content to us.
In most cases, the anchor text is the same throughout.
It is a reputable domain that is linking to us.
Should we no-follow these links? It would be quite difficult to remove them all-together.
We manage content for a partner site, and since much of their content is similar to ours, we canonicalized their content to ours.
As a result, some URLs have anything from 1,000,000 inbound links / URL to 10,000+ links / URL --all from the same domain.
We've noticed a 10% decline in traffic since this showed up in our webmasters account & were wondering if we should nofollow these links?
Thanks Russ, It is set up wtih #, so users can easily link to & navigate to a specific page.
It is quite a undertaking to transition, so we are primarily looking for business reasons for why it may help us.
We currently have all content on one URL and use # and Javascript refresh to paginate pages, and we are wondering if we transition to the Google's recommended pagination if we will see an improvement in traffic.
Has anyone gone though a similar transition? What was the result? Did you see an improvement in traffic?
Everyone knows headlines are important, but data speaks louder than opinion.
Does anyone know of some studies about engagement metrics & headlines?
Our blog started to user tags & I know this is bad for Panda, but our product team wants use them for user experience.
Should we canonizalize these tags to the original blog URL or noindex them?
We have a partnership with another site that we write content for and 50% of our inbound links are from them. Could this hurt us in any way?
Our webmaster report is showing thousands of 'not found' errors for links that show up in javascript code.
Is this something we should be concerned about? Especially since there are so many?
Which of these services is the best? Does anyone have experience with all three?
Cyrus Shepard wrote a great post about Google News here http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-seomoz-gained-1000s-of-visits-from-google-news.
In the article, he cites an example of a post that was included in Google News (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/white-hat-seo-it-fing-works-12421) and mentions the importance of including numbers in the URL. But, if you check in the most recent SEOmoz blog posts, the numbers aren't there.
Why did SEOmoz remove these numbers?
I know many SEO's prefer a stylesheet and single URL, but if you use m.domain.com, do you canonicalize to your desktop URLS?
What is the best research tool for finding search data specifically for Google Image search?