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Screaming Frog is the best crawler out there imo. Have you talked to your hosting provider? They may be refusing the connection on their end.

There are not any very effective free solutions that I'm aware of, and hopefully someone can add one here so I do become aware.

However, if you're interested in controlling your affiliate program, than Hasoffers is a great product with a low entry cost. You can also look into the popular affiliate networks, such as Neverblue advertising and Commission Junction.

Also, look at your competitors affiliate programs and see what they are using.

You're correct, make sure your Google Analytics and Adwords accounts are connected properly. Then you'll be able to dissect the analytics by Ad content, keywords, campaigns, ad groups, landing pages, ect.

Make sure your tracking code and conversion pixel are all setup properly.

Google Help: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722021?hl=en

Hi SEO.CIC

Yes, you'll need to 301 all the pages from the subdomain to the new page, in order to keep the authority from the old pages.

That's really the short answer to the question. Now, it is about finding out how to 301 all the pages easily and that depends on your environment's server setup / CMS.

As long as you have a consistent schema in place, setting up the 301 from sub domains to sub folders shouldn't be terribly difficult or time consuming.

Hi HireSpace,

a) The negative impact depends on:

• Is there traffic landing on this page from any outside channel (organic, referral, paid marketing)

If so, then yes it is probably hurting your site. If a visitor sees a 403 page a common response is to go directly back to the referring page, i.e. they leave your site.

• Did the 403'd page have external links pointing to the page?

If yes, then a 403 error would cause the link authority to drop, since you do not redirect that page to another page on your site.

• As far as SEO is concerned, no this isn't negatively impacting your site.

When Google sees a 403 error they pretty much handle it like any other 400 error. They wont penalize you, however, having a lot of 400 errors could be an indication of poor usability and we know how Google loves to introduce new ranking factors for the SERPs.

b) Can I fix it?

Yes, I suggest, for any page removed from your site, that you 301 the page to its closest related page. This tells G that the page is permanently moved to a new page, pass any authority to that page, and anyone landing on the old page is automatically redirected to the new page. You'll see the 403 errors decrease as G crawls your site and recognizes the 301 redirect.

Yes, Google recommends to leave the meta-descriptions empty rather than have non-unique meta-descriptions.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-meta-descriptions-17695.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2308339/Matt-Cutts-Create-Unique-Meta-Descriptions-for-Your-Most-Important-Pages

If you're a Moz Pro customer, you can get 3 months free of Crazyegg - That service will help you understand what may be causing the bounce from the checkout funnel process and you can optimize it as needed.

Make sure you have your goals setup in Google Analytics and try to find the reason why people are navigating away when you want them to convert. If the conversion funnel is optimized, then maybe you can consider onboarding customers without a credit card, giving them a piece of your service (get their feet wet), and when the real value proposition kicks in ask them for their credit card info to continue.

that would depend on your 3rd party agreement and the CMS being used. If it's a CMS like WordPress, then it could be as simple as an export and import from one WordPress installation to the other.

Most hosting companies will help their customers migrate their sites from one place to another, or charge a small fee for the process.

Why not just implement a 301 redirect to tell Google that the page has been permanently moved to the new URL (the one with activities)? Then the page will auto redirect the user and Google will recognize the correct page as needed.

Design for what is important to your company, first. Are you getting a large portion of traffic through a new device? That may warrant putting resources into the design for that specific device.

If not, then do not worry about it so much. Monitor the performance and traffic from those devices and adjust as necessary.

If you want to position yourself as proactive, rather than reactive, then begin to consider a truly responsive design (fluid). This way your working towards a site that looks good at all device dimensions. Even still, when a specific device takes priority (largest portion of traffic), there should be resources put into the UI/UX for that specific device.

No problem, glad I could help!

There are a few ways to view that info in GA, here is one method:

Go to your Acquisition > Campaigns > All Campaigns report

Then, make sure the correct 'conversions' goal is selected (should be a dropdown in the Conversions section)

Now, input the campaign name you created for the tracking URL into the filter input field. That field is right above the Conversions section of the report and has a small magnifying glass next to the input field (to the left of the 'advanced' link). That will allow you to only view the traffic coming from that campaign and its metrics.

You can also simply click the campaign name if you see it among the list of campaigns.

Hi Hatfish,

If both categories are relevant and deserve their own areas, then put the products in both the hierarchies. Then, decide which heirarchy is the most important (from a SERPs perspective) and Canonical the product URL to a single URL.

Using your example:

The sports car category would be my main category. When you navigate to the Convertibles category you would be able to find that sports car. However, when visiting the product the URL would resolve to a single URL. So, if I was in the convertible category it would send me to the Sports Car hierarchy page (through a 301 redirect).

Make sure to identify 1 URL for canonical purposes

Make sure to 301 the subordinate URL to the main URL

This way the user can use both areas to navigate through your site and find the product they are looking for. But, as far as SEO is concerned there is only 1 main URL for each product.

True, the pages can be reached directly when you add the https://www to the URL.

However,

• http://domain.com
• http://www.domain.com
• domain.com

The above should all be redirecting to the https://www version of the page. Because the above are redirecting back to your home page, that could be the issue causing the deindexing of the page. If you're not seeing anything in your Google Webmaster Tools account, then I would start with this issue.

Here is a good resource on http to https and preserving rankings - http://moz.com/blog/seo-tips-https-ssl

Hi Alec,

Generally speaking, yes, if you add quality content to your website it will achieve better rankings. However, there is a multitude of factors that go into search engine rankings. Whoever advised you to add more relevant content to your website is steering you in the right direction.

If you list your website, the community may give you some tips on improving the content quality.

https://moz.com/subscriptions/cancel

or Click the account button (near the Moz Pro at the top right)

Billing & Subscription

Then click the 'Cancel' link on that page.

What environment is the site built in? Normally, you build the microdata markup into the site template, this way no hard-coding of individual microdata is needed.

If you're on WordPress, there are plugins for that.

There's quite a bit going on here

'av' could stand for a lot of things, such as anti-virus. Most people know the acronym, but having the url as /av doesn't help you in terms of SEO - use friendly URLs that identify a specific topic, such as you've suggested with /video-conference

For each specialty/service, create a unique page and add content that demonstrates your value proposition to the reader.

Make sure each of these pages has the proper information hierarchy applied - H1, H2, H3, and the rest as necessary. Your <title>and <h1> tags should be human readable and highly targeted to the topics you want to rank for.</p> <p>Any content that is hidden behind tabs (i.e. you click a link and new text appears) is now known to be discounted for rankings. I highly suggest that you put all highly relevant content that you want to help you rank in front of the user without them needing to interact with your application.</p> <p>I hope this helps you get started creating those new pages!</p></title>

There is a very straight forward answer - make it HTML.

An image will give you an SEO disadvantage

An image is not user friendly (accessibility)

You want the info in the image crawled and indexed

An image bloats your page load size

Unfortunately, Moz has not announced International Local capabilities as of yet. They responded back in March about how it is not in their roadmap, but hope to add it in. It does not seem to be a priority yet.

http://moz.com/community/q/moz-local-in-the-uk-and-the-rest-of-the-world

Hi 94501,

Example #1 above is the one true page for search and the one that all the canonicals reference.

If the pages are properly canonicalized then Example #1 will receive nearly all of the authority stemming from pages with this URL as the canonical tag.

I.e. Example #2 and #3 will pass authority to Example #1

Examples #2 and #3 shouldn't be in the index because the canonical points to url #1.

Setting a canonical tag doesn't guarantee that a page will not be indexed. To do that, you'd need to add a 'noindex' tag to the page.

Google chooses whether or not to index these pages and in many situations you want them indexed. For example: User searches for 'product X' and product x resides on the 3rd page of your category. Since Google has this page indexed (although the canonical points to the main page) it makes sense to show the page that contains the product the user was searching for.

Example #4 shouldn't be in the index, because it's just a source code that, again doesn't change the page and the canonical points to #1.

To make sure it is not indexed, you would need to add a 'noidex' tag and/or make sure the parameters are set in GWMT to ignore these pages.

But again, if the canonical is set properly then the authority passes to the main page and having this page indexed may not have negative impact.

Example #5 shouldn't be in the index because it's excluded in parameters as not affecting page content and the canonical is in place.

How long ago was the parameter setting applied in GWMT? Sometimes it takes a couple weeks to deindex pages that were already indexed by Google.