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The structure is:

www.mysite.com - want to see everything at this level and below it

www.mysite.com/Blog - want to BLOCK everything at this level

www.mysite.com/Blog/posts - want to see everything at this level and below it

"We're getting closer David, but after reading the question again I think we both miss an essential point ;-)"  What was the essential point you missed.  sorry I don't understand.  I don;t want to make a mistake in my Robot.txt so would like to be 100% sure on what you are saying

Thanks guys so I have

User-agent: *
Disallow: /Blog/
Allow: /Blog/post
Allow: /Blog/Post

that works.  My Home page also works.  I there anything wrong with including both uppercase "Post" and lowercase "post".  It is lowercase on the site but want uppercase "P" just incase.  Is there a way to make the entry non case sensitive?

Thanks

Hi,

We have a blog that is killing our SEO.

We need to

Disallow

Disallow: /Blog/?tag*
Disallow: /Blog/?page*
Disallow: /Blog/category/*
Disallow: /Blog/author/*
Disallow: /Blog/archive/*
Disallow: /Blog/Account/.
Disallow: /Blog/search*
Disallow: /Blog/search.aspx
Disallow: /Blog/error404.aspx
Disallow: /Blog/archive*
Disallow: /Blog/archive.aspx
Disallow: /Blog/sitemap.axd
Disallow: /Blog/post.aspx

But Allow everything below /Blog/Post

The disallow list seems to keep growing as we find issues. So rather than adding in to our Robot.txt all the areas to disallow.  Is there a way to easily just say Allow /Blog/Post and ignore the rest.  How do we do that in Robot.txt

Thanks

Hi,

What is the best way to get a "good quality" link to my blog posts?

Thanks

I realize it is bad to pay for a link but is it bad to pay for a link on a page that ranks you 1 to 10 againist your competitor, shows a screen shot of your and lists Pros and Cons of your site?  Is this sort of paid link different somehow?

Hi,

Thanks for the responses.  i want to add the blog to my site to get the SEO value from it.  I do not want it hosted at Wordpress.  I'm confused how it would work in SEO terms.  How do I get the SEO value out of wordpress.

So to answer your question its: "or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?"

Is Wordpress good for SEO?  If so, any tips?  Do I need to set up as a subdomain so www.blog.mysite.com?

Thanks

I would be link building for SEO purposes so I would not want the links to be nofollow.  From what you are saying, and if it actually becomes reality that google hits guest posts then I as our site has zero guest posts at present I am better off not doing anything and waiting for the google update, the sites above me will fall and I will rise surely

Thanks so if I don't guest blog what other ways are there to get links?

Is guest posting to get links a good idea?

I have the blogs to post but do not have the time to find, approach and build a relationship with bloggers to get the guest posts.  Are guest posting services a good idea and if so can anyone recommend one?

Thanks

Hi,

Our site has a blog.  We had "Categories" and "Tags" in our blog.  This caused SEO chaos with Duplicate content and 404 Errors.

We removed all the Categories and Tags about a month ago.

Why would these issues still be showing up on Moz as errors on our Crawl Diagnostics page?  Do we need to do some thing else other than just remove them from our blog.

Thanks

Thanks for your response but I cannot find either of the functionality you mention in your response.  Could you please describe in more detail.  Also we removed the tags 10 days ago and the last run was 5 days ago so the tags should not be in the report in the first place this is our main issue.

Hi,

My on page crawl analysis is showing that I have 38 duplicate content issues.  These issues are because we had used tags in our blog.  We remove all the tags 10+ day ago but the crawl that was done 5 days ago is still showing the tags as causing a duplicate content issue.  Why would this be?  We cannot correct is as it is already corrected.  How do we get moz to crawl the correctly?

Thanks

Andrew

I have just noticed one instance where Adwords clicks are higher..thus breaking the theory

Hi

Yes they are linked.  I think I may have just solved it.  In Google under Traffic Sources the "google / cpc" is always a bit higher than the clicks in Adwords for a given period.  On looking into the data more I can see that they are reporting the same keywords but on some of the keywords GA is reporting a few more clicks.  I am guessing this is due to people revisiting.  Is it that GA records the second visit again but adwords only records the original click?

Does this theory sound right?  It the only thing I can think of.  I suppose another way to ask the same question is "Does GA record revisits but adwords doesn't?"

Thanks

Sorry I should have made it clearer.  By CPC I mean the traffic source. Paid clicks as opposed to Organic clicks

I would expect that the CPC source in GA to match the PPC clicks in Adwords but they don't

Hi

Why do our CPC in Google Analytic not match our PPC in Adword, surely they should be identical?  We have Auto-tagging switched on and data in our history is wrong so it is not a timing issue.

Thanks

Thanks Both

Hi,

Should all the page titles of our blogs include a Keyword(s) and\or our website name?