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Does Moz consider this (crippling restriction) a good thing?  Are they working on a fix?

Ran the fetch and render and came up with two "issues".  My specific question is how likely would a link to quantcast (which blocks acces via roberts.txt) really hurt us if fetch and render shows it preventing rendering - which it is not.

Thoughts and comments are much appreciated.

The best test case for the value of WordPress is to switch an existing site to WP from HTML as see the results.  I have been impressed.  I only use SEO optimized theme framework like headwaythemes.com genesis or thesis.

I find Yoast SEO buggy and redundant if you use a strong framework.

Colin, you are definitely right about WordPress and SEO.  The link you provided was also quite helpful - thanks for the reminder.

Thanks for taking the time to review this.

So for our example, lets use the following SEO friendly link:

http://hiu.calibermediagroup.com/undergraduate-on-campus/academics/colleges/pacific-christian-college-of-ministry-and-biblical-studies/BA-biblical-studies

We'll call this link the SEO VERSION

The title of the college is" Pacific Christian College of Minstry and Biblical Studies"

The title of the program is "BA Biblical Studies"

The QUERY version of the link to this page would be something like:

http://hiu.calibermediagroup.com/undergraduate-on-campus/academics/colleges/index.php?collegeid=22&programid=34

Keep in mind that the meta title, description, and keyword tags for the page are all administerable

The SEO VERSION is automatically created from the title of the college, and the title of the program. Each one of these titles can be overidden with a URL slug individually. For instance, the admin could make the link:

http://hiu.calibermediagroup.com/undergraduate-on-campus/academics/colleges/pacific-christian-college-of-ministry/biblical-studies

by changing the slug for the college to "pacific-christian-college-of-ministry" and the slug for the program to "biblical-studies". Let's call this version the SLUG VERSION

So now we have multiple ways to get to the same content. The question on the table is what is best practice for the rel="canonical" link to keep from getting dinged for duplicate content.

Let's say that our SEO VERSION is the canonical link for 1 year.  Then the choice was made to optimize the links thru the slugs creating the SLUG VERSION.  My assumption is that we would keep the SEO VERSION as the canonical link.

But then let's say 6 months later that the title of the program is changed in the admin.  Now the SEO VERSION has changed and so has the canonical link.  Do we lose the link juice garnered over the last 18 months?

It would seem to me, that if we use the QUERY version as the canonical link, then any optimizations or changes affect everything except the canonical link, thus keeping the previous link juice earned.  But is having an ugly URL as  the canonical link detrimental to SEO?

Please advise.

i love the idea of the api - but need a tool to access it.

having seen the seogadget excel addin, but unable to use it with my MAC.

Do you have a recommendation for using api without writing my own code?

Thanks, in advance!

I recently took on the task of performing SEO on a several hunded page Joomla site.  It is truly a nightmare to work on compared to WordPress.

Joomla may have come a long way - but it has miles to go.  I recommend against this platform for anyone who cares about SEO.

I have used Wordpress / Thesis and agree with its being a great platform for SEO.  In fact, I have taken purchased HTML themes and converted them to Thesis only to see the PR grow quickly.

Recently, I have been using Genesis from STudioPress (as I like their themes as a starting point).

Seeing similar SEO results - any observations?

OK that helps.  Will download a csv of all links...  thanks!

I have a competitor in a campaign - the campaign report shows 181 linked domains

BUT - the site explorer report shows only 15 linked domains.

Which is correct?  And if the site explorer is correct - how do we fix the campaign report?

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Does Moz consider this (crippling restriction) a good thing?  Are they working on a fix?