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I have a site in Bing Webmaster Tools that I no longer work on.  I can't seem to find where to delete this website from my webmaster tools account.  Anyone know how (there doesn't seem to be anything obvious under Bing Help or on a Google Search).

I think it's pretty clear Google is more interested in doing whatever they can do convince marketers that PPC should be the most important tool in your digital arsenal.

Hopefully, bing will overtake Google in the next five years.

Bing Webmaster Tools offers a similar tool.  While it isn't as good as Google's previous keyword tool because there aren't as many people searching on Bing; it works very much like the old Google Keyword Tool.  The chief differences IMO are that you can't easily select certain keywords to download (however, you can download quickly), and Bing Uses "Strict" search rather than Exact/Broad/Phrase match.

I think Duane Forrester and the people at Bing appreciate what SEO'ers do and want to help them create a better search environment.

While I haven't used the new tool much, what I have used has shown me that it won't be very effective for down-and-dirty type searches. (i.e., quickly doing keyword research for a specific page).  This is because you no longer have the ability to click a checkbox and download options.

I believe that the best options will be to use the Keyword Planner when doing comprehensive research.  For those who can afford it, using a paid service may be a good option.

I think that this is more proof that Google wants to steer more people towards paid advertising.  And while they won't admit it, Google doesn't see the value of offering a free tool that is focused on improving organic rankings.

this is cool.  I like it better than ChartIntelligence.  It provide more data.

thanks!

Thank you Michael.  I skimmed that post when it came out, but need to look it over more thoroughly.

Eric

I have a client who's Google Organic visits dropped significantly on June 26th.  I used a chart overlay called ChartIntelligence.  It says that there was an SEOF update on 6/26/2013.  Does anyone know what this update (or any other updates) would be?  Also, where might I find additional info on this update.

I did notice that Moz's algo change tracker listed a multi-week update on June 27, but I'm not sure where to find info on what types of things were impacted by this update.  Any info would be helpful.

Thanks Martijn

Hello,

Within the Moz report from the crawl of my site, it shows that I had 89 Rel Canonical notices. I noticed that all the pages on my site have a rel canonical tag back to the same page the tag is on. Specific example from my site is as follows: http://www.automation-intl.com/resistance-welding-equipment has a Rel Canonical tag  <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://www.automation-intl.com/resistance-welding-equipment" />. Is this self reference harmless and if so why does it create a notice in the crawl?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings Patricia,

I've also seen this trend.  Many of the sites that I and my team members work on have experienced upticks on direct traffic while organic traffic has dropped. This has been unfortunate, but it hasn't been a significant amount,  perhaps 1%.  I did some research this week on several clients (and removed any info about the clients); I'd be happy to share it with you.  Feel free to reach out directly to me evallee@topfloortech.com.

Eric

Thanks Andie,

I am a pro member, but the keyword difficulty tool has two drawbacks; you can only do 5 keywords at a time; two it doesn't provide recommendations.

Eric

I was reading this article http://adwords.blogspot.de/2013/05/introducing-keyword-planner-combining.html that says that Google is going to be sunsetting it's popular keyword tool.  As an SEO specialist, I use this tool daily, so I'm concerned about it's impact on my keyword research efforts.

I reviewed the keyword planner (albeit quite quickly) and it doesn't seem to work as efficiently for SEO keyword research.  I'm curious to get others thoughts on the following:

• The new keyword planner tool
• Will the new keyword planner tool be effective for SEO keyword research
• Are there other tools that you've used that have provided good keyword research data (and are they free or paid)

I think the best course of action depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you are trying to avoid search engines from indexing the paginated pages (since they do not contain the unique content) then a rel canonical should do the trick. If you are trying to associate all the content that is provided on all pages as one, like in your example of the 3 part article, then the rel next/prev is your best bet.

Does your site have a "view all" option?

I went to Google Webmaster Tools this morning and found that one of my clients had 11 crawl errors.  However, Webmaster Tools is not showing which URLs are having experiencing the errors, which it used to do.  (I checked several other clients that I manage and they list crawl errors without showing the specific URLs.

Does anyone know how I can find out which URLs are experiencing problems?  (I checked with Bing Webmaster Tools and the number of errors are different).

That makes sense!  Thanks for the clarification!

Alan,

Thanks for the information.  When you say "create your 301s," do you mean to do it in the htaccess file (our client is on an apache server).  If so, wouldn’t the hosting need to be kept live for the 301s to work via the htaccess file?

We are wondering the best way to redirect the traffic from a site that will no longer exist.

The Scenario:
Our client wants to discontinue this website http://www.animalcarepackaging.com/.  We’d like to redirect the traffic from this site to an internal page on our client's other website: http://www.glenroy.com/packaging/.  This internal page is the most appropriate to the content that appears on animalcarepackaging.com (as opposed to just the entire site glenroy.com).

Possible Options We Are Considering:
Option 1: Keep hosting animalcarepackaging.com and add a 301 redirect for all pages to glenroy.com/packaging/.     Our concern with this option is that Google/Bing will see animalcarepackaging.com as a gateway, which could hurt glenroy.com.

Option 2: Keep hosting animalcarepackaging.com and add a 301 redirect so all pages are sent to glenroy.com/packaging/; AND file a change of address with Google and Bing.  We believe this will allow people who have bookmarked animalcarepackaging.com to go to glenroy.com/packaging/; while people searching for animalcarepackaging.com will go to glenroy.com's home page.  We would augment this by posting a message on the homepage of animalcarepackaging.com notifiying users that the site will be discontinued and info will be found at glenroy.com/packaging.

Option 3: Do a change of address with Google/Bing and send all traffic to glenroy.com (rather than an internal page).  Post information on the homepage of animalcarepackaging.com that the site will be discontinued on X-date, and info about animalcarepackaging.com will be able to be found at glenroy.com/packaging.

Looking for feedback on our options and suggestions on how this can be handled.

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your response.  I'm glad you like the look; I agree it can be a cool addition.

However, I was surprised that you stated the sites don't add much code.  If you take a closer look at the code of any of the interior pages of Unique Pad Printing, for example, you will see that the navigation takes up over 200 lines of code.  Original content doesn't appear until you get to line 411 of the code.

Compare this to another site, such as http://www.industrialvacuum.com.  The navigation only takes 30 lines of code, and original content appears in line 124.

Our company has been creating websites where the navigation is developed in such a way as to allow the visitor to get a preview of the image and/or content on that is on the page.   Here are two websites that use this technology:
http://www.uniquepadprinting.com/
http://www.empathia.com/ (On this site, the previews are only available if you click on "Whole", "Productive" or "Safe" at the top of the page.

I'm looking for feedback such as:

• What do you call this type of navigation (We call it look-ahead, but I can't find much info that term on the web)
• Have you experienced any issues with this type of navigation?
• Do you have any recommendations on it?

Some of the things we've seen are:

• It adds the same content to every page of the website
• It creates a lot of internal links
• It can create a lot of code on pages
• It can slow page-load times