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I just have checked on some of the keyword I am ranking for and found in the serp that next to the post I have also the site name. But I thought that I have remove it.

Does somebody know how to remove it? perhaps I did not do it correctly. I am also using yoast seo plugin but I do not have it set there to show the site name after posts name.

Can somebody help me to fix this please?

I have also attached an image from the serp where is behind the post title also Villas Diani-the site name

Thank you very much!

Iris

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I am using yoast seo plugin for wordpress. I have done several link changes and placed approximately 80-100 301 redirect into .htaccsses file.

Is this good practice? Do they have to be there forever? Is it not slowing down site? Or should this be done in different way?

Thank you very much

Iris

Hi Martijn,

Thank you very much for your reply.

It is realy weird:-( I guess I attract this kind of weird staff

perhaps somebody can still advice?

I would like to rank for Diani beach, unfortunately very unsuccessful over one year:-(. I have on the main menu Diani beach page. Most of my articles is consisting the keyword, would it be smart to link from all that articles to that Diani beach page?

Any advice on this would be realy great.

Hallo Cyrus,

Thank you very much for your reply. I m not sure if I am realy getting this. I simply do not understand how can http://villasdiani.com/ link to http://villasdini.com/ with anchor text Kenya News.

The way I understand it, it is http://villasdiani.com/ linking to http://villasdiani.com/kenya-news/ with anchor text Kenya News

If it would be that way as you have explained there woudl have to be much more such links.

I also do not have there any link with anchor text Galu beach or Mombasa as stated there.

I am not very good in this, but Sorry,  I do not think you are correct

Thank you so much Peter for helping me to sort out this. You can't imagine how much I appreciate your time and all you have done for me. I am so absolutely frustrated.

You wrote:  I think (and perhaps someone from Moz will confirm this) that because you have been receiving links to your site to villasdiani.com/?db

I was not creating links to this page, only that guy who made the link probably placed all that links to it, like the ones you have displayed.

http://dianibeach.com/airservices/index.html
http://dianibeach.com/apartments/index.htm
http://dianibeach.com/bedbreakfast/index.htm
http://dianibeach.com/books
http://dianibeach.com/carhire
http://dianibeach.com/golf

the guy who did the link for us is actually somebody I know, but he is also my competition and frankly speaking, it is realy very easy to fool me, as I am beginner so I was always worry if this way can't harm me.

The anchor text Raul was because that was the name of the guy who was that time doing our site.

When I realized that instead of one proper link to our site(that was what I asked for) he instead created these weird links from each of his footer, with anchor text Raul I requested him to remove it and he did it right in front of me. But it was already a while ago. It was on the beginning of September.

It is realy frustrating:-(

Thank you very much Peter, you are really great helping me with this.

Unfortunately it is not the anchor text I mean:-(  I have attached the screen shot.

Thank you very much

Iris

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Hallo Peter,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Here is the image.

Thank you very much for looking into this.

Iris

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Good afternoon, I relay hope someone can help me out with this report

In link analysis I have viewed inbound links where I see many links linking to our site but among them I see also many times our site listed with various anchor text. How is this possible. Our site is linking to our site or what? It realy does not make sense to me. Can somebody explain me this please?

Thank you very much Peter for all the information!

But it is not reported as a backlink to my site. It is reported as one of the top pages on my site.

There is a tab "Top External Inbound Links" there are I can see links pointing to our site. There I would expect that weird link, but it is not here.

Next to it is second tab " To Pages by authority" there I can see my home page, and other pages from my site, divided by authority, but the second is that weird link.So it is clearly stated by moz craw as the second top page on my site and not as backlink. As matter of fact, it also shows that the weird link has 163 backlinks pointing to it!

That is what does not let me sleep over 3 days:-(

Best wishes

Iris

Thank you so much Takeshi and Mike!

I will place the badge into sidebar rather.

What do you mean Mike by "have no redirection and allow sharing, liking, and tweeting directly from the page without taking you off the page" How can influence this, I though the badge is badge. Does it have some special settings fro this? Can you please advice me how can I make sure I follow ll these rules please?

Thank you very much and and have nice evening,

Best wishes

Iris

I would like to place google plus bade on our site into footer(if that is good practice to place into a footer) but even the smallest size is way to long, even when I disable the cover photo.

How could I do this the best way please?

Thank you very much

Iris

In crawl report from moz I have noticed in link analysis report that one of the links has http status 1. There are also links which has 9 and there is also a link which has no number but --

Can somebody please enplane what it stand for?

Thank you very much

Iris

Hallo Peter,

Thank you so much for your time and looking into this!

I got an email on Sunday from moz,- New crawl was completed for your site.....  It says in right corner "campaign settings" . When I click on links overview  There is on the bottom of the page,  "top external inbound links" and then next to it are "top pages by authority" (from current index) and here is the weird link stated by moz crawl

I do not thing it is bout ranking for some keyword, according to the moz crawl tool that weird link has page authority 27 . I can't technically imagine how this link can be considered as second most authoritative page.

Thank you very much,

Have a nice evening Peter and thank you very much for your time.

Iris

Thank you very much Peter for the explanation. I appreciate your time.

I am just not realy getting it probably:-( Actually the person who made is link is somebody I know personally and that time he said it is for that so he can track how many people click on it or something like that...

My worry is why it is reported as second top page?? Can that be?? How this can harm my site? can it outrank my site or whatever? How is it even possible that it is found in indexed search? Is there something I should be concern about?

Please tell me more about this because I am like on needles:-( the moz crawl first freaked me out with report I have no canonical and now this...I have spent already 4 days by figuring out this:-(

Thank you very much for any clarification.

ll the best

Iris Braun

Some time ago somebody from this site: http://dianibeach.com created a weird link to our site which had on the end db. Later we have realized that the link was coming from every footer on each page. I believe that the back links from footer does not have realy value and even the more of them the less value. We have asked the guy to remove that links as I thought it might harm our site more then help.

Now I I was very surprised to find this link in moz crawl error as second top page on our site in current index??? Can somebody explain how is this possible?? The most ridiculous thing is that when I click on that link it realy opens our site! How is that possible, what is it? This is the link:

http://villasdiani.com/?db

Thank you very much for any help with this

Thank you very much to all! So I guess the canonical is sorted out. I have also deleted the site from above as I really do not want it in the search, might be the only thing unfortunately.

Thank you very much,

All the best

Iris

Thank you very much for all the help.

In report it is clearly stated as one of the 8 issues and in suggestion it says about rel-canonical, so if we have it sorted out I really do not understand why the tool would be pointing out to it.

If it is really like Claudio and Martjin said that it is a NOTICE then it is realy confusing because it did not NOTICE a image there also or widget nd etc...It could have notice another thousands of things...

Thank you very much for looking into this, being beginner I am full of stupid questions:-(

You are really amazing Lewis! I understand what you mean with no indexing the pages 2, 3 etc..Yoast has there such option that I can mark it and it will not be indexing them.

Thank you so much for the tool you gave me to visit yoast site!!! It worked! Now I can learn more about it and figure out what is the best. This is clear that they have blocked ips from Kenya, although they have claimed they do not do that, and we paid almost 100usd for the plugin

Thank you very much Lewis!

Moz crawl reported in issues:

Rel Canonical:

using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which url should be seen as canonical.

But we have sorted out this a long time ago. Is there a way where can I verify if the moz crawl is wrong or if we really do not specify the canonical?