Hi,

We've done a quick comparison on some of the main programs for this sort of automation, which you can read here:

https://www.one2create.co.uk/blog/social-report-vs-sprout-vs-hootsuite-comparison/

All three of them can integrate with LinkedIn to help you schedule and manage posts etc.

Hopefully, it will give you a bit of a clearer idea of some of the benefits between the different programs

Cheers

I can't see that being an issue, not one that would affect it that badly any way.

Have you checked that Google is crawling the site correctly? Site set up in Google Webmaster Tools with no error messages?

Double checking that all pages can be indexed and aren't being blocked in the robots.txt file is the best place to start.

How new is the site?

Thanks Gaston,

The site doesn't have any different languages on it, just English.

When using the Google.ie search engine literally every time I search for a term related to our clients it comes back with a list of .ie domains in the results. Every so often there is a few ie.domainname.com results as well though.

We will be creating landing pages on the site to target Irish specific audiences are there any Href tags that we would use to tell Google that these are for an Irish market etc.?

Thanks for the help

Hi,

One of our clients currently owns a .com domain and they are interested in marketing into the Irish market.

They have asked us if they should buy a .IE domain name and then forward it onto their .com one.

I know that Google has been clamping down on people who use the 'Backdoor' method of buying 100's of keyword rich domains and forwarding them onto their website but would it really make a difference if they just bought one .IE domain?

Keen to know if anyone has done this sort of thing before and their experience.

Thanks

Great, will take a look. Maybe run a trial to see if it does exactly what I need

Thanks for the info!

Good idea!

Although some of our clients that we do SEO for aren't hosting their websites on our server and we don't have access to their server logs etc.

Was hoping for an automated dashboard like MOZ/Screaming Frog/ or A hrefs as mentioned above. Due to the amount of clients we have, opening up and running through all there Log files could be time consuming.

Cheers for the info though, may come in use in the future, or to someone else reading this

Hi All,

We have recently discovered a site was linking to our site but it was linking to an incorrect url, resulting in a 404 error. We had only found this by pure chance and wondered if there was a tool out there that will tell us when a site is linking to an incorrect url on our site?

Thanks

MOZ crawler is telling me we have loads of duplicate content issues. We use a Job Board plugin on our Wordpress site and we have allot of duplicate or very similar jobs (usually just a different location), but the plugin doesn't allow us to add any rel canonical tags to the individual jobs.

Should I disallow the /jobs/ url in the robots.txt file? This will solve the duplicate content issue but then Google wont be able to crawl any of the individual job listings

Has anyone had any experience working with a job board plugin on Wordpress and had a similar issue, or can advise on how best to solve our duplicate content??

Thanks

XML sitemaps are for the benefit of Google or other search engine crawlers. It makes it easier for them to index all your pages so you might see that if you dont use an XML sitemap that Google wont find all of your pages or index them within the search engine.

I don't see why you wouldn't want to use an XML sitemap. They are not hard to create and for the effort they take are very beneficial for your SEO.

I would suggest using both but if you were going to use one over the other I would suggest XML.

Hi All,

I have the following code in one of our Htaccess files and I'm not entirely sure what its doing. Could anyone shed some light and maybe explain the process its going through? I know its something to do with redirecting the urls dependant on the browser language.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(En|Es)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(En|Es)/(.*)$ $2?lang=$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L,R=301]

Thanks

It's best practice to only have one home page variation. Google won't be able to tell which is your main page and you will also get duplicate content issues etc. If you haven't already I would redirect the /default.asp pages to the root domain.

As for your original question it does seem a bit odd that they are different scores but I would imagine it's because your main root domain would have more backlinks to it compared to your /default.asp pages.

If the website you are linking to is relevant to the content and of good quality then it can't do your website any harm.

I would review the sites you are linking to and make sure they follow the best practices of quality, maybe do a quick Open Site Explorer review to make sure they don't have a high Spam score.

It could even give you a good SEO benefit you if you remove the no-follow tag on some of them.

I've never read or heard of there being any hard evidence that it wouldn't affect your social signal. It should have the same effect as it would come through on your Analytics as a Social visit. Almost everyone uses link shortener services now so I would be very surprised if it had a negative effect.

As for the description its good practice to get into the habit of writing new fresh descriptions and content for your posts, this will encourage more engagement with the post. Especially if you re-post the topic a couple of times, people will get bored if you just copy and paste the same text each time.

A very basic robots.txt file would look something like the below

User-agent: *
Sitemap: http://www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml
Disallow: http://www.yourwebsite.com/url-you-dont-want-indexed
Disallow: http://www.yourwebsite.com/another-url-you-dont-want-indexed

Hope that helps

You could always redirect the whole sub-directory of the community pages to what ever page you want using 301's. So after you've deleted the community section and someone were to go to any page with /community/ in it would redirect to your home page or any other page you wish. Means you wont get any 404 errors.

Example if you wanted to redirect the /community/ pages to the root you would use the following code in your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^community/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Your'll need access to your .htaccess file and more instructions on how to do the 301's are here - http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/

A Spam Score of 1 is nothing to worry about.

I think a general rule of thumb is to remove any with a score above 4/5 (may be wrong but I think I read it on MOZ somewhere).

Any link that is that easy to obtain is always going to come across slightly spammy. I wouldn't have thought the link will benefit your site hugely given the type of link it is (a comment on a blog/forum) and I wouldn't suggest that as a technique if you're trying to increase your link profile :).

But at the same time it doesn't sound like it's going to do you any harm, especially if its just the one.

If you set up the ad in Google Adwords you can just change it in the settings of the ad.

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2404246?hl=en-GB

Otherwise if you don't have access to change the ad url or you are using a different way to advertise, the best way I can think to do this would be a 301 redirect.

If you have access to the .htaccess file in the root domain its a fairly simple process to do but be careful when you edit the .htaccess file as you can very easily stop your site from working with some incorrect code.

You would do it by adding the below bit of code to your .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 /oldpagename /newpagename

You can read more here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/frequently-asked-question/how-can-i-do-a-301-redirect

I would guess its related to your issue "www and the non-www versions of their websites are both in play" meaning that MOZ is crawling them both as separate sites and you will have different links going to the www version than you will the non-www version, which will give you different spam scores.

It would be good to compare the link data that MOZ gives you between the two URLS, downloading the CSV of both and having them side by side in one spreadsheet might be easier, this should give you an indication of what links are causing the spam score to be higher.

I would also suggest loading both www and non-www versions of your website into Google webmaster tools if you haven't done so already.

Use MOZ Content of course!

It is not recommended to have more than 1

tag on a page so using

tags as your article titles might cause an SEO issue when they display on your home page.

Depends on how the site is coded to work but I would say its safer to have the titles as

tags if you are displaying them all on one page and then when the user clicks through to the article it should have a

tag.