I'd suggest doing a 301 redirect rather than simply deleting the pages. The 301 redirect will tell Google to stop indexing the old version and index the new version instead.

Yup, that's exactly what I do for my Twitter account that automatically posts questions from the Moz Q&A (https://twitter.com/seoqa).  I have to use a third party tool to create an RSS feed since Moz doesn't have one (that I'm aware of) and the tool's free plan can only post every few hours which can get pretty annoying when it blasts 8 tweets in a row... but if you already have an RSS feed, you can use IFTTT to check your feed for new items more frequently and post to Twitter immediately.

Edit - just realized my Twitter account stopped tweeting out Moz questions on April 27th, likely as a result of Moz changing the structure of their Q&A posts and/or something broke with my RSS tool but nothing should be wrong with IFTTT and/or auto-posting to Twitter...investigating now!

Yup, IFTTT is the way to go. I use it for several Twitter accounts.

(Also, I had written a more detailed reply but I got an error message from "incapsula" and then I lost my response, ugh. So maybe Moz should look into this...)

moz.com -

Access Denied

Error code 15

This request was blocked by the security rules

I think there's a problem with the Redirect and RewriteRule functions clashing. Try changing your redirects to RewriteRule. Let me know if this works.

RewriteRule ^armaflex.html$ http://www.just-insulation.com/002-brands/armaflex.html [R=301,NC]

I would just use a sitemap.xml file instead for Google, Bing and Yahoo. Then you can submit the sitemap.xml file within the Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools (includes Yahoo). You can easily create an XML sitemap at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Great call on both the canonical tags and breaking out of the frame. I imagine the site will be indexed properly within a week using these tactics.

Interesting, I am now seeing what you are talking about...

Can you share your URL so we can take a look? Feel free to PM me if you want to keep it private.

Hi there,

We had a client with the same issue. They could use Google Analytics to track which traffic sources generated leads, but there was no way to track which lead came from which traffic source.

So we created a tool called Convertable (http://convertable.com) that does just this. It emails you the lead information with full analytics data attached to it. Then you can update the status of the lead in the online dashboard so you can enter in how much revenue, how many shirts, etc. were generated by each individual lead. This will enable you to tie the amount of revenue generated back to the original traffic source in order to determine the true ROI of online marketing campaigns. Convertable is still in free beta mode but we will soon be launching premium plans with more features. Feel free to check it out and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for how to improve it!

• Patrick (co-founder of Convertable)

Can you share the URLs here? Or feel free to PM me the URLs and I can take a look.

Hmm, I am seeing your original page rank #7 for "iphone 5s abonnement" here in the US on Google.com and then #3 when I try searching on Google.nl... are you still seeing them at #33?

And, do the include pages have any original content or are they exact duplicates? Rather than redirecting them, I might suggest putting original content on them in order to rank for each individual product.

It's hard to say without seeing your site and seeing how the virtual includes are set up, but if you are still having issues ranking with only the pages that use the virtual includes, then it might be a good idea to set them up as 301 redirects. But again, I can't say for sure unless I saw the site, can you share it here?

Are you still having issues with this? The .htaccess file is quite powerful and can easily bring down a site with even the smallest mistake. Let me know if you are still having problems and I will try my best to help you out today.

Hi there!

I just searched Google for site:http://traditional-cleaning.co.uk and I see 26 pages indexed, so it is good news that your site is being indexed! Google considers the www version and the non-www version of the URLs to be different sites, so it's best to pick one and stick with it. You can do this by 301 redirecting all of your URLs that start with "www" to the root. I usually recommend using an .htaccess file for this as long as your server is compatible. Here is some more information - http://301redirects.net/non-www-to-www-301-redirect-urls.php

You will also want to redirect the index.htm file to the root URL. Here is how you can do this (with .htaccess) -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

redirect html pages to the root domain

RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [NC,R,L]

These two steps should resolve your issues with both Google and Moz. I also highly recommend using Google Webmaster Tools and designating your preferred URL just to be safe. Let me know if you need any other help!

Hi there,

I am doing a crawl on the site listed in your profile (www.abdserotec.com) using Screaming Frog SEO Spider using Googlebot as the User Agent, and I am seeing many more URLs than the 14,000 pages you have. The bulk majority of these excess pages are the Search Results pages (such as http://www.abdserotec.com/search.html?searchType=BASIC&searchTerm=STEM CELL FACTOR&cat=&Filter2Name=GO&Filter2Value=germ-cell development&filterCount=2&type=&filter1name=Spec&filter1value=STEM CELL FACTOR). While these URLs are not showing up in the Google Index when you try searching your site with the site: command, Google is still definitely accessing them and crawling them. As Tuzzell just suggested, I also highly recommend configuring the parameters within GWT.

I've been having the same issues and it's getting to be pretty frustrating!

I'm a bit confused. Didn't blocking the test subdomain with the robots.txt already accomplish what you are trying to do? Or are the test pages still somehow indexed? Or is your main site affected by the robots.txt? Anyway, I would suggest using the .htaccess file to block search engines from accessing the subdomain rather than a firewall - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6738896/excluding-testing-subdomain-from-being-crawled-by-search-engines-w-svn-reposit

When you used the old GAKT, did you specify Exact Match? If not, then that's what's happening here. The Keyword Planner only displays Exact Match by default, so the numbers are going to be much, much lower than Broad Match using the old GAKT.

As long as you have the canonical tags set up correctly, then you don't need to do anything else with the URLs that have parameters in them. Google will eventually start dropping those URLs from their index.

The rel="canonical" tag needs to have the URL that you wish to be the primary designated URL. This tells the search engines only to index this version of the URL and no other versions, and it also tells the search engines that links to other versions of the URL need to be counted as pointing to the canonical version.

So if your page is www.mysite.com/boats.php and you use www.mysite.com/boats.php?utm_medium=adwords, etc. then the canonical tag should be set to www.mysite.com/boats.php so the search engines don't bother messing with the URLs with the parameters in them.