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Hey,

I have a campaign, where in the past week all the traffic has dropped from the moz report (it registered 3 organic and 61 referral visits and nothing else)

All other data remains. I checked google analytics and it's the same - traffic has suddenly dropped from 300 per day to 10 per day. It happened on April 1st (April fools?).

I thought it could be a www. or non www issue, but this shouldn't affect analytics data should it as you only have on property there?

Site is still receiving usual amount of traffic as I can check with Jetpack (it's a wordpress site)

Any suggestions really appreciated.

Cheers

Hey Mozzers

Just want to make sure I have this right - If a website offers a service, say "digital marketing" - and has this link in a dropdown menu in the header, would this make any link in the body of a page (using different anchor text) pointless in SEO terms?.. e.g. a link with "online marketing" or "digital strategy"

Cheers!

Hey Mozzers

If I'm updating old content on a site (for example adding some copy and adding some new links in the page) - Is it important to get Google to recrawl with the feature in webmaster tools? If you didn't do this, could you be waiting a long time for google to recrawl the URL?

Cheers!

Could using canonical links help in this situation? I guess if I have no external links to the category pages then canonical links wouldn't be appropriate here?

Hey Mozzers!

Trying this one again as my timing was probably pretty bad with Easter.

Working with a company who has about 20K followers on Facebook and about 500 backlinks to their current facebook page. They want to change the name of the page to better reflect the business. I need to advise on this but I'm not sure of and how it will effect them.

Any one had any experience in this area?

To be clear that's a URL change not just the name.

Hey Moz!

Working with a company who has about 20K followers on Facebook and about 500 backlinks to their current facebook page. They want to change the name of the page to better reflect the business. I need to advise on this but I'm not sure of and how it will effect them.

Any one had any experience in this area?

Hello

A few times I have come across tags and categories ranking for some relevant search terms.

This seems strange as all category and tag pages would have 0 external links back to them - whereas pretty much every other page on the site would have external links.

In most cases thy seem to rank along with the page, for example: for the search term "voiceover recording xxxxx"  The voice over recording page will rank, followed by a similar tag page...

If I make the tag links 'nofollow' would that help stop this?

Cheers

I'll send across - do I need to put something specific in the subject?

That's really helpful Paddy - Thanks!

Hey,

I'm using OSE to determine top pages for some domains.

This works great for some sites, but I'm finding with a few sites only the home page comes up in the 'top pages' list - is this because the home page is the only one with a PA above one?

Cheers

Hey,

Based on the most up to date thinking - what's the best way to approach a link spring clean?

We've got a site with a large amount of links (a few of which look a bit spammy - SEO directories etc)

Also, the brand changed it's name and URL a while back so there are directory/web citations using the old URL and sometimes the old name. The old URL is 301'd but I'm thinking (especially in terms of local SEO) these citations with differnt business names/numbers/web addresses could be particularly harmful?

Cheers!

Hey,

Wasn't sure where to contact you about this, but thought I would let you know about a site issue when navigating through pages. Using latest firefox on mac. Does this for a few seconds when switching between pages on the Q&A Forum pages. See screenshot:

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Our host has just offered this response which does not get me any closer:

Hi Radi,

It looks like your site has its own robots.txt file, which is not blocking any user agents. The only thing it's doing is blocking bots from indexing your admin area:

<code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/</code> 

This is a standard robots.txt file, and you shouldn't be having any issues with Google indexing your site from a hosting standpoint. To test this, I curled the site as Googlebot and received a 200OK response:

<code>curl -A "Googlebot/2.1" -IL [hhhhappy.com](http://hhhhappy.com)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:17:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d3177a1baa04623fb2573870f1d4b4bac1457216246; expires=Sun, 05-Mar-17 22:17:26 GMT; path=/; domain=.[hhhhappy.com](http://hhhhappy.com); HttpOnly
X-Cacheable: bot
Cache-Control: max-age=10800, must-revalidate
X-Cache: HIT: 17
X-Cache-Group: bot
X-Pingback: [http://hhhhappy.com/xmlrpc.php](http://hhhhappy.com/xmlrpc.php)
Link: <[http://hhhhappy.com/](http://hhhhappy.com/)>; rel=shortlink
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
X-Type: default
X-Pass-Why:
Set-Cookie: X-Mapping-fjhppofk=2C42B261F74DA203D392B5EC5BF07833; path=/
Server: cloudflare-nginx
CF-RAY: 27f0f02445920f09-IAD</code> 

I didn't see any plugins on your site that looked like they would overwrite robots.txt, but I urge you to take another look at them, and then dive into your site's settings for the meta value that Googlebot would pick up. Everything on our end seems to be giving the green light.

Please let us know if you have any other questions or issues in the meantime.

Cheers,

Hi guys, a site we manage, http://hhhhappy.com received an alert through web master tools yesterday that it can't be crawled. No changes were made to the site.

Don't know a huge amount about the robots.txt configuration expect that using Yoast by default it sets it not to crawl wp admin folder and nothing else. I checked this against all other sites and the settings are the same. And yet 12 hours later after the issue Happy is still not being crawled and meta data is not showing in search results. Any ideas what may have triggered this?

Hey Moz

Does anchor text with punctuation effect anything, does google even read it?

I know matching exact anchor text to high volume keywords doesn't matter as much any more - but it still definitely makes a different as our reports show.

Thanks

Hi Ryan,

Hope you are well. Thanks for your swift response to this question last month. I have checked the things you mentioned and thought maybe time will help, however a month and a half later, I still have the same issue. Could I msg you the details?

Thanks!

Howdy Moz!

So our agency has been around for long enough to have a few sites we've built that have our credit in their footer resulting in a site wide link. Mostly just our name. We've heard that Google does not particularly like site wide links, should we go through and remove some of these old links?

Thanks for pointing that out Matt will do.

Okay thanks Alan we'll dig a little deeper.