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Hi CleverPhd and Dmitri,

You are both right, not only Facebook but all other servers are configured to ignore the extra slashes in the URL. This can be a problem for sure for crawlers, as they would treat each URL as different (if asked to index). Moreover, there are infinite number of URL you can produce with this example.

As per URI (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) standard, each slash has a significance. If you test the same phenomenon with Ealier browsers of IE, you will realise that they don't reproduce the same effect, the pages would be missing elements are they fail to find the location of the resources required for the page.

The problem is with the how our servers are configured these days to ignore the extra slash and produce the same page as a result.

There a quick fix on Apache with mod_rewrite code (you can add more lines to cover 3 or more slashes) which would produce 301 redirect to the right page

<code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//(.*)$ 
RewriteRule . %1/%2 [R=301,L]</code> 

I hope this helps,

Regards,

Vijay

CleverPhd,

Really since to see a detailed yet to the point answer.

Thanks for contributing, and being in the Moz community.

Regards,

Vijay

As mentioned by Logan,noindex meta tag

is the most effective way to remove indexed pages. It sometimes takes time, you have to submit the right sitemap.xml which cover the pages/post you wish to get removed from google index.

Hi Michael,

We have faced similar issues, the main reason in our case was dynamic content being generated by Jquery, Ajax etc.  You will need a good developer to help you through if this is the case.

Also, we consider Google render and fetch as best reference to how google bot will see us.

I hope this helps

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Rachael,

I couldn't help jumping in, can you check my responses on this question and see if they are of any help.

https://moz.com/community/q/why-might-my-websites-crawl-rate-explode-2

Feel free to respond and ask questions further.

Regards,

Vijay

Moz is pretty fair dealing with such issues, I believe even if the payment is made, they would be able to refund after you have written an email to them.

Don't worry, You will be hearing from them soon.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Sam,

We are one of the few companies which are working on AMP (accelerated mobile pages) , we have an early mover advantage with us.

I am not here to advertise us, but tell you and others about the challenges being faced with AMP

• AMP is still in starting development stages and there is not support available for any trouble you face (community or product support is almost negligent).
• The plugins for Yoast are less than efficient to resolve any issues you face.

As for your question about meta description in AMP, there is some good help available on this link https://www.ampproject.org/docs/guides/responsive/style_pages.html

Disclosure : We implemented AMP for our site, faced some technical SEO issues and stopped using it, we will  prefer to see actual impact on SEO on other websites and then get back into business again.

I sincerely hope this helps you and others who are trying their hand with AMP.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Joseph,

https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-0/

Google Knowledge Graph

Google recently introduced new features for their knowledge graph, allowing you to highlight yourself in the search results as either a company or a person. This includes you or your company’s name, if your site is for a company, the logo

The idea of the company name being used n the title is to make the best use of "Branded Keywords"   on the site and being recognized by google as an authority of Branded keywords.

Which means that you have greater chances of getting ranked on your company name related keywords, however since your company name is long, you can customize the title tag in the yoast and use it at end of page title.

"company name -  title"  ....to be replaced with  "title - company name"

I hope it helps, please feel free to respond and ask further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Google Knowledge Graph

Google recently introduced new features for their knowledge graph, allowing you to highlight yourself in the search results as either a company or a person. This includes you or your company’s name, if your site is for a company, the logo

Hi Karan,

I completely understand your situation and it can be difficult at times to compete for "Branded Keywords" . You will have to learn to defeat your competition on your Branded keywords, and outrank them on those.

You can take reference from following posts, these would really helo you out of the situation

https://moz.com/blog/optimize-competitors-branded-keywords
https://moz.com/blog/getting-branded-searches-right-whiteboard-friday
https://moz.com/ugc/stop-bidding-on-these-brand-keywords-in-ppc
https://moz.com/blog/introducing-branded-keyword-rules-and-metrics
https://moz.com/blog/big-brand-seo-campaigns-integration-and-extended-brand-keywords

I hope this helps, if you still have questions, please feel free to respond.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

I can understand, such situation can be confusing at times.

You can understand all the details about 301 redirects on this post and further comments in the discussion. https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo

Please feel free to respond if you still have questions about the same.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Rel=canonical tags tell robots, which page is actually to index out of many.

For SEOs, canonicalization refers to individual web pages that can be loaded from multiple URLs. This is a problem because when multiple pages have the same content but different URLs, links that are intended to go to the same page get split up among multiple URLs. This means that the popularity of the pages gets split up. Unfortunately for web developers, this happens far too often because the default settings for web servers create this problem.

_https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization_

I feel you have not used it correctly, check the above article and see if it helps.

Thanks,

Vijay

All major search engines, including Moz's crawler Rogerbot and Internet Archives, respect Robots.txt as a standard “robots exclusion protocol” to communicate with web crawlers and web robots.

In  case you wish to exclude some specific information from all Search Engines, you can use the following sample code as reference to block specific directories.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /junk/

However, if you want to specifically block Mz's Rogerbot from crawling specific sections of your website. You may take the following reference code to block specific areas / directories in your website from rogerbot:

User-agent: Rogerbot
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /junk/

I hope this helps, If you have specific questions, please feel free to respond, I will be happy to answer them.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Kay,

**og:description : **This meta data descriptor is very similar to the meta description tag in HTML. This is where you describe your content, but instead of it showing on a search engine results page, it shows below the link title on Facebook.

Unlike a regular meta description tag, it won’t affect your SEO. (So, don’t spend too much time figuring out how to sneak in keywords.) However, it’s a good idea to make it compelling because you want people to click on it.

You are not limited to a character count, but it’s best to use around 200 letters. In some cases, depending on a link/title/domain, Facebook can display up to 300 characters, but I suggest treating anything above 200 as something extra.

Example:

_**Source : https://blog.kissmetrics.com/open-graph-meta-tags/**_

I hope this helps, if you have further questions, please feel free to respond.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Praveen,

Additional to this, my this answer to a similar question might help you define the quality of the links.

https://moz.com/community/q/how-do-you-handle-a-site-with-inherited-negative-links-but-no-penalty#reply_350787

Do check spam links manually, sometimes tools can generate false spam report based on their own metrics and you might lose a valuable link which might be bringing real target traffic to your website.

Feel free to respond and ask any questions further.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Reyzer,

Though in theory, Gaston Riera's response is correct that you really can't determine the number of keywords on your page, it's up to Google / search engines to decide what keywords they find your page useful to rank.

The main criteria for the keywords that would actually remain the same overall, so you need to be careful about optimizing the page for too many keywords.

You can read about the best on-page SEO factors that determine the possible rankings for keywords on this link : https://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors

I hope this helps, feel free to respond if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

First of all have you reviewed all the links on link Quality metrics and analyzed it well?

Use this URL to measure the RIGHT link quality first:
https://moz.com/blog/7-link-seo

Once you are convinced these are not so high-quality links which don't provide you right traffic and audience, then you should not take it lightly. If your website is not impacted till now, it doesn't mean that it won't be impacted in future, google and other search engines are getting smarter by the day and don't ever be complacent or over-smart with search engines.

Disavow low-quality links and move on to build a higher quality link profile.

I hope this helps, feel free to respond and ask further questions.

Best Regards,

Vijay

Hi Mark,

It seems MOZ tools don't support ono-latin characters, you would face same problem with most of the SEO Tools.

As for whether URL structure is right (with non-latin words), you should read on following links

https://moz.com/community/q/non-latin-keywords-urls
https://www.fusionbox.com/blog/detail/are-foreign-language-characters-in-urls-bad-for-seo/536/
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/seos-and-non-latin-urls/
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/92163/seo-impact-of-using-non-latin-characters-in-url
http://searchengineland.com/should-you-transliterate-your-brand-for-international-seo-130966

Please have a look at the following link to guide you through the process of multi-lingual website SEO as well

http://searchengineland.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-multilingual-and-multiregional-seo-157838

I hope this helps, please respond if you have further questions, I will be happy to answer.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi,

I found the exact problem you are facing with a solution on this link

http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/17553/magento-core-url-rewrite-table-excessively-large

There are patch codes available on this link, however do read this reply on this page

Bugs in earlier (and possibly current) versions of Magento is one. Another is there's logic in this table that tries to track changes to the URL key value so that 301/302 rewrites are setup for old products. Because of this, and complicating things, truncating the table and regenerating may make existing URL rewrites go away, and this will have an unknown effect on your search engine listing (not necessity bad, just hard to predict).

My general advice to clients who ask is

1. Leave the giant growing table as is if you don't have a good handle on your URL/SEO situation

2. Until the table size starts being a problem (generating site maps, for example). When that happens, get a handle on your URL/SEO situation.

3. Once you have a handle on your URL/SEO situation, backup the table, then truncate the table and regenerate. Address any URL/SEO problems caused by the truncating.

4. Automate step 3

Trying to fix this on the Magento code level is admirable, but you'll be swimming upstream. Sometimes it's better to accept that "That's just Magento being Magento", and to solve the problem with and external process.

I hope this helps, if you have further questions, then post a response, I will be happy to answer.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi,

Although I agree with Andy Drinkwater, yet I would still go ahead and disavow these links in time. It's the right thing to do, you never know if the next Google update starts looking at these spammy links as well.

Always do the right thing first, don't wait for to react to the situation when it arrives.

I hope this helps, feel free to respond if you have further questions.

Best Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

I believe Moz's support team is quite responsive, they have answered your question already.

I agree with Blue corona, this should question should not have posted here unless they were not responding to your plea on email/support chat.

We would be interested to know why you cancelled the subscription , as I personally find Moz has added lot of value to our SEO and Digital marketing services.

Regards,

Vijay