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Moz Analytics has been presenting problems with the GA account connection (just to link the account and the campaign).

GA connection is working fine in PRO, this problem is only affecting the new version.

I deal with campaigns and different GA accounts for each one and, in Moz Analytics, when trying to link a GA profile to a campaign, it is loading all the previous profiles of the GA accounts I've ever linked to in previous campaings (even non-existing ones) and it isn't adding the new ones (not even when it comes to linking a brand new GA account).

I am not quite sure if this is the right place for this, but I couldn't find a support ticket link.

It would not be a problem because I use Wordpress

This is exactly my fear, be regarded as SPAM.

Hello guys

1 - I have a question about the best structure for URLs from the point of view of SEO:

Is it OK to use the URL as

mywebsite.com.br/long-tail-article

Or is better this

mywebsite.com.br/category/long-tail-article

2 - When part of my keyword is already in my "category", for example:

mywebsite.com.br/digital-marketing/digital-marketing-is-good

I leave it as it is, or in the following way:

mywebsite.com.br/digital-marketing-is-good

NOTE: Do not take into account that this URL would be different from other URLs in this category

Hello everyone,

To input the Schema.org in a blog, could I input "shema.org/Blog" in the , once that i just have glob content, that will repeat for every page, and just need that schema?

Thanks

For e-commerce I think is very important, even more for the big ones, that have a lot of filters of princing or color that are in fact other URLs. There we need to input a canonical.

But for landing pages, N1 deep, that seems like a hotsite, when the company just sells one online service, I can't imagine what kind of benefits using "self canonical" in a page like this.

Sorry for making this longer, I should've chosen Discussion up there!
Answer when you can! =]

Thanks for the attention Peter.

I understand your point about the Homepage.

But what about other pages? Landing pages with canonical to it self?

It seems to me meaningless, or worse, lowering trust, like Bing seems to do, in the link Alan wrote above.

Thanks Alan,

So, what seems is that "self page canonical" has no clear or even any good points for taking the risk of doing it?

I'm more concerned about Google, once I'm from Brazil, and Google rules 98% of searches...

Thanks Stephen!

Can your talk more about the scrape? It was not too clear for me.

Sorry =]

Hello,

I'd like to know what happens when you use canonical to the same page itself, like:

Page "example.com"

rel canonical="example.com"

Does that impact in something? Bad or good?

See ya!

Hello!

Search Engines don't care about Meta Descriptions! It's NOT a Ranking factor.

Although, it's very important because is that text that that appears below the TItle and the URL in the results.

But, 170 characters are the maximum that is showed there. So, this is the recommended maximum number, as you can predict what your potencial customers are going to see.

And it's another chance to write something catchy and get their attention!

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Hope it helps!

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Hello Eddie,

I would recommend these things:

1. Check the HTML structure: if <title>are corresponding to what the specific page is about, and if contain keywords; if has just one <h1> per page, and talking about the subject of the page. You could use some <h2> or even <h3>'s if the pages needs so.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">2) Input a good descriptive text at the Homepage about the business with some keywords in it. You can use two, three or even four repetitions of each one, if the text is big, but use the good sense. You don't want to look like stuffing.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">3) Check if the site has a sitemap.xml. If not, create one for free here: <a href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/">http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/</a></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">4) Create a SEO friendly URL, like:  http://www.yoursite.com/category/sub-category</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">5) Use some rel="nofollow" on those links that are not strictly necessary for your business.  </span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">6) Input some descriptive text in <p>, and this one is for every page or product. You must judge where you need them. Maybe one per category, or per product.</span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">7) Now going to Linkbuilding: Use the marvelous SEOMoz Open Site Explorer, and check where your competitors have the more important links, and try to get some of them. It's an easy and fast way to have some potential links.</span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">So, some structural changes, and run for some competitors links (they always have something to teach you!).</span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">Just making these basic SEO technics can help a lot your clients. At least they can see a lot of job being done, and sometimes this is necessary for them to check that they are not paying for nothing.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">Hope it helps!  =]</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </p></title>

Hello Mihaly!

Talking about more operating stuff, I think you should study:

1. Faceted Navigation - considering almost e-commerce uses this

2)Canonical - to show to the Search Engine where is the most important products

3)Meta Robots - to avoid Content and Title Duplication.

With that in mind, you can think better how you are going to optimize your site.

I think that this three topics is a good start for e-commerce

Hope it helps! =]

Hello!

I'm from Brazil and also thought about that, so let's see:

If I search about café or cafe (it means coffee in portuguese), the Google Adwords broad match doesn't care much, it gets them as the same, with Local Search Volume of 3,500,000 for both.

But in the Google Adwords Exact Match, it goes different:

Local Search          Global Search

café                   27,100                     60,500

cafe                   18,100                   246,000

So, it seem that you can use in theory both keyword for Broadsearch, but you are going to lose some when it goes Exact.

So you have to see which one is the best one for you, that brings more traffic and at the same time a good conversion.

1)You're going to have a keyword ranking for each of the words.

2)I don't recommend you to hide a "no accent keyword" because Google can see it as a Black Hat and punish you.

3)And if some of the words don't make sense without the accent, you should use them with it, because you can't forget your users, because won't make sense to them either. Therefore, it's going to have a big bounce rate.

Hope it helps! =]

Hello!

1. The best URL would it be if you just put the door-handles straight from the home, less deeper. Like this:

http://doorhandle.ie/door-handles
http://doorhandle.ie/door-hinges
http://doorhandle.ie/door-locks
....

2. To optimize your Home, you have to put the minimum links you can. Put just one link for DOOR HANDLES, or for DOOR LOCKS. But you choose where to put, at the left column or the top bar. Now you have to think about your users.

When you create a www, you have to use one as the main one. So redirect this actual one to the www version using 301 redirecting.

I would recommend you also put some keywords in H1 (just one tag of these in each page), about what the page is.

And use some rel=nofollow on the links that is not strictly of your business, like support, privacy policy or about us.

Hope it helps! =]

Hello Michael,

Once I watched Rand talking about this, that maybe spam is not the worst thing that happens.

People sending bad links to you doesn't get your site in bad sheets!

Why? Because Google threats them giving a low value, like a nofollow link.

Exactly for this kind of anti-ethical things.

In fact, the competitor could be making for you a low value link building!

So you should concern about building good links, to make it right.

Check this really good Whiteboard Friday!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/im-being-outranked-by-a-spammer-whiteboard-friday

Hope it helped!

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Hello Jake!

In your title is good that you use the keyword the same form that people search in the SE's.

So, you should use <title></em>Dog Leashes .... <em></title> , and as you may know, the more to the left is better.

Otherwise, in your URL, it's recommended that, if a keyword has two separated words, you use "-".

Ex: www.site.com/dog-leashes

Hope it helps!

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You're welcome!

I understand your problem, and the canonical cannot solve it. It only works for internal duplicate content.

I saw something about a external canonical, but it looks like you're going to pass your relevance to another site, and you don't want that!  ; )

Do you and your competitors have too many duplicated content?

I would suggest you to write your own content in the cases of external duplicate content, and this way go ahead of your competitors!

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Hello Alan!

DON'T use the 301 redirect in this case, because you will certainly create a loop, and then nobody will access the filtered page.

I am optimizing a e-commerce site, that has some duplicated content too.

We are trying just now to use some canonical, and it looks it's going well.

I think that this time your client should pay for, it will surely worth it.

You could also use some meta robots in this case. It can be complementary just with the canonicals. 

Here is a good and quick explanation: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html 

Hope it helps!

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I think that you should not take this as true.

It's weird because there are zillions of pages with relevant content that have less than 200 words, mainly news sites.

I'm used to write blog articles around 400 words, that is the standard size for a article.

But, you could ask the writer where did she get that info.

That's why you should put a link to the page where you picked informations.

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