Hi Kevin,

I think this sounds like a good idea and you should present these items in a special category exactly promoting it with "we go hunting for it for you and find it ... if not fount here...". I think many people are looking for rare replacement parts and even could contribute finding one if someone is looking for it. This will be good for the User Experience and engage users to have a look more often on the page.

May be post a link of your site what it looks like right now and people may even suggest here how to include these specialities ... so you can test the UX right here

O.K. finally I can answer this question myself:

I installed lately a True Type Font: ufonts.com_helvetica_neue_ultralight.ttf
which affected many browser fonts that I hardly could not use moz anymore. So problem is solved.

Never install the font mentioned above !

Hi,

thank you, I wrote the problem is on all browsers similar. I attached another screenshot showing Chrome, Safari, FF and IE. And not all Webfonts are problematic as the type "Moz Q&A Forum" is well..

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Actually I have problems with the rendering of webfonts on all browsers. As moz uses 100% Webfonts I hardly can read text.

Anybody had this problem before?

please help!

THX

attached a screen to see what it looks like...

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Hi Christiy,

I realized that I have actually a problem with webfonts on my computer in general. I make no idea what could have caused this.... so the moz site look great.

Maybe anybody knows what could be wrong... I'm using windows7 and on all browsers Webfonts look terrible.

I attached a screenshot....

Thanks for any help : )

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Seems moz is testing webfonts? On Chrome its hard to read not to say horrible. On FF its a little better.Or is this just on my computer?

sorry but this is not very tricky and won't help at all

I'm curious if the new moz analytics will have the feature (filter) to exclude known errors from the crwal diagnostics. For example, the attached screenshot shows the URL as 404 Error, but it works fine: http://en.steag.com.br/references/owners-engineering-services-gas-treatment-ogx.php

To maintain a better overview which errors can't be solved (so I just would like to mark them as "don't take this URL into account...") I will not try to fix them again next time.

On the other hand I have hundreds of errors generated by forums or by the cms that I can not resolve on my own. Also these kind of crawl errors I would like to filter away and categorize like "errors to see later with a specialist".

Will this come with the new moz analytics? Anyway is there a list that shows which new features will still be implemented?

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Hi Everett,

thanks a lot you your input!

Holger

Hi Everett,
yes you are right, the URLs have their own self-referencing rel canonical.
The URLs are:

Rio Negro Expedition

Overview-Page:
http://www.amazonasabenteuer.de/amazonas-expeditionen/rio-negro-amazonas-regenwald-expedition-uebersicht.php

Itinerary-Page:
http://www.amazonasabenteuer.de/amazonas-expeditionen/rio-negro-amazonas-regenwald-expedition-reiseablauf.php

Dates & Prices Page:
http://www.amazonasabenteuer.de/amazonas-expeditionen/rio-negro-amazonas-regenwald-expedition-reisedaten-preise.php

Hi Everett,

thanks for answering. I also thought just using one page but each subject gets pretty long so using pagination with rel=next / prev as I also want to "indicate the relationship between component URLs" seems to be the best practice in this case.

I'm also using the canonical tag... so the otherway round, what could be a negative effect in my case? I put now one tour online and I can't see any negative effect. The pages have been indexed and google shows them up for my keywords.

I was hoping that somebody has done experiences and can talk about. At this moment I have no negative effects about this practice and a would recommend it.

Recently a guy asked at GoogleWebmasterHelp: Should I be worried if a couple of sites that I don't want to be associated with are linking to me?

In this case there have been 2 porn sites linking to his site... that clear.
But my question is if for example sites like e.g. : http://www.linguee.de

Linguee is one of the best dictionary sites where you can search for phrases and receive common translation examples which are very helpful. Liguee set some links to my site because they take texts usually from multilingual sites to gather examples.
A dictionary site does not have nothing to do with my business but also I don't consider that this might my harm my site?

What do you think?

Thank you all

Karl, yes thats right. I just picked these 2 pages and submitted them "fetch as google" and both pages have been indexed shortly after.

Holger

Dear Community,

on 27th of July I relaunched my own website and submitted the sitemap as well I send the index-page to crawl it including all linked pages. Already the next day the new pages have been indexed. Today I checked them manually if they have been indexed.

The result is that 2 of 13 pages have not been indexed, here marked in bold:

http://inlinear.com/
http://inlinear.com/suchmaschinenoptimierung-online-marketing.php
http://inlinear.com/design/
http://inlinear.com/design/printmedien-gestaltung.php
http://inlinear.com/design/corporate-design-und-corporate-identity.php
http://inlinear.com/design/corporate-raum-design.php
http://inlinear.com/webentwicklung/
http://inlinear.com/virtueller-rundgang-360grad-fotografie.php
http://inlinear.com/business-atlas-online-verzeichnis.php
http://inlinear.com/baudokumentation-bauueberwachung.php
http://inlinear.com/ueber-uns.php
http://inlinear.com/blog/
http://inlinear.com/kontakt/

1. The page "/design/" (which is the index.php of this folder should be the main-page because its about WEB DESIGN.
   Should I create a copy and call it /design/web-design.php? May be Google prefers a meaningful URL than the index.php? So I put then a rel=canonical to web-design.php in my index.php?

2. design/corporate-design-und-corporate-identity.php
   The URL is a little long, but this should not be the reason? Or might be a reason that another page which is still in the index, but not online anymore (even redirecting to /design/) is still more dominant? Strange.... orshould I simply wait a little or try submitting these to sites manually to google?

3. When checking Google Webmasters Tools Google tells me that just 3 pages have been indexed.
   When I was checking which page is indexed or not I checked each URL with the site-search option:
   site:inlinear.com/pageX.php ... when Google shows this page, it was a sign that it was indexed but why webmasters tools show up only 3 pages? (see screenshot)

Do you have any ideas?
Thank You

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Ryan,

in my advanced report I receive these links: please see screenshot below & report here

And please help me with these issues too:

1. In the Column "Page Authority" there is sometimes is no value and in my case "Expeditions"... (may be this is an error because I must replace always " ,  " with " ** ;  **" because I have a german Excel version and changing it via the system option does not work. So may be that here occur these errors.)

2. the column "Origin" sometimes give me the values like: 193,57,36 or 30 and at the Target URL "External" instead of the URL.

3. also the column "Link Equity" contains sometimes an URL and "301" = Yes

is this all caused by Excel? If yes, is there an alternative software that reads csv-files correctly?

Thank you!!
Holger

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I was checking external links to a site:  scte-brasilien.de/  and was wondering why there are so many links pointing from another domain (reisen-nach-brasilien.com/) although it redirects to scte-brasilien.de/?

So when checking the redirecting domain OSE knows its redirecting...

The URL you've entered redirects to another URL. We're showing results for scte-brasilien.de/ since it is likely to have more accurate link metrics. See data forreisen-nach-brasilien.com/ instead?

How is this possible?

best regards
Holger

Many people say PR does not matter, but for me its an indicator that links from a domain with higher PR may rank better.

My client has a about 4 different travel-sites of very different kinds of travelling. His sites are not ranking bad but all sites have just a PR 0-2 although the content is unique. I made the experience that even sites with few content will have at least a PR of 3 after some years with no SEO effort.

One reason is may some part of duplicate content (4 Tours begin in Manaus, so the description for Manaus is on all the 4 Tour pages the same) but another is that the pages have few external links but many of other sites he is owning... like: also check out this -> link to another own site.

Question: If I take all these links away (they even don't cause many referrals at all)  - will this have a positive effect on rankings? Means trying to have always more external links from not self owned sites is a good start?

Thanks for sharing your experiences

Holger

... of course it wasn't too difficult to solve this problem. In Foundation I could assign the right classes... so there is no need to work with visibility classes in this case.. and produce dublicated div's.

Thank you, but in practice how does it work without file-extension?

As I understood its fine if I put the following link to link on my homepage-index:

http://inlinear.com/     <--- without anything...

As well when I link to the products page:

http://inlinear.com/products/ <--- again without anything (index.php)

But in case of a specific page for example in the products-folder:

http://inlinear.com/products/my-product-1.php     <--- how can I live without extension?

I googled and found this .htaccess code. Seems it takes away .php and ads a "/"... is this the best practice?:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

Turn mod_rewrite on

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Adding a trailing slash

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ /$1.php [L]

Is this what you mean?

Hi Thomas,

301 Redirects Do Not Pass Full PageRank & Link Value. Thats what I know. Also http://seomoz.org/ was redirected to http://moz.com and just has a PR of 2.

Please see this Interview with Matt Cutts about this question: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021832.html Also see this Matt Cutts Video from february this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Filv4pP-1nw&feature=player_embedded#at=21

hope this helps,
best regards,
Holger

Dear all,

starting with my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.inlinear.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://inlinear.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html 
RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://inlinear.com/ [R=301,L]

1. I redirect all URL-requests with www. to the non www-version...
2. all requests with "index.html" will be redirected to "domain.com/"

My questions are:

A) When linking from a page to my frontpage (home) the best practice is?: "http://domain.com/" the best and NOT: "http://domain.com/index.php"

B) When linking to the index of a subfolder "http://domain.com/products/index.php" I should link also to: "http://domain.com/products/" and not put also the index.php..., right?

C) When I define the canonical ULR, should I also define it just: "http://domain.com/products/" or in this case I should link to the definite file: "http://domain.com/products**/index.php**"

Is A) B) the best practice? and C) ?

Thanks for all replies!
Holger

Checking Keyword-density is just to primitive... what is your recommendation for the subject WDFPIDF?
The SEO-Tool onpage.org (german) offers an interesting tool to analyse your text. But there are differences between languages and factors like proximities, synonyms etc. What are your experiences?

• tools?
• does mOz develop a tool for this? This would be a nice Feature for the On-Page Grader!

best regards,
Holger

Thanks, thats what I was thinking, too and the link you gave me was the best I found before on this subject as well ;).
Right now I'm experimenting with the foundation framework where the visibility class solved my problem quickly but from a SEO-point of view I got a new problem. So I must study more on this...

THX

I have text in the right column of my responsive layout which will show up below the the principal content on small devices.

To do this I use visibility classes for DIVs. So I have a DIV with with a unique style text that is visible only on large screen sizes. I copied the same text into another div which shows only up only on small devices while the other div will be hidden in this moment. Technically I have the same text twice on my page. So this might be duplicate content detected as SPAM?

I'm concerned because hidden text on page via expand-collapsable textblocks will be read by bots and in my case they will detect it twice?Does anybody have experiences on this issue?bestHolger

Hi David,

thanks for your help, but unfortunately I can't influence this setup with a separate domain. So I will put my feature request.

Thank you
Holger

I want to track a "rootdomain" that has two languages on it, the english version is in a subfolder /en/

1. http://website.de
2. http://website.de/en/

I want to manage and track each language-version isolated. So I will setup:
1. http://website.de as campaign DE - german
= as Root Domain
But as there are links to the /en/ Subfolder these data will also be included in all reports. And there is still no option in SEOmoz PRO to exclude folders or even urls.?! This will be bad when wanting a clear report of just one Language Version.

2. http://website.de/en as campaing EN - english
To track as "Subfolder" will not work beacause this option will only consider exactly this subfolder...

So is there a way to see data just only for one language Version?

I think you can test this issue best with a "Text-Only-Browser" to see how search engines see your page.

Here are some links:
If your page is already indexed with Google, put in the following URL:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:example.com
Google will show in the grey cache-info box a link "text-only-version"

The Safari-Browser shows a "reader Icon" if there is a lot of text on a page...
Or you may check this link for more Text-Browsers: http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/seo-tools/5-text-only-browsers/

Hope this helps!

Hi Takeshi,

now I realized that my client is offering 4 tours in the amazon. He is just mixing the attractions and length of the items to create different tours. So there is a lot of duplicate content which may result in his bad pagerank (although his pages are ranking). On the one hand its good to see different combinations of itineraries but I think the concept of such a site should be different.

Each attraction with unique content should have its own page to be able to focus on different keywords. Then he should propose possible combinations of these attractions without repeating always the same content.

This will be the only way to make the site better... right?

I found this article useful: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-in-2013-7-surprisingly-simple-factors-that-will-take-the-lead/57092/

Hope it helps,

Best regards,

Holger

Sorry when I can't contribute with a list but is linkbuilding via directories "still" worth the effort after Matt Cutts gave recenlty the advise:

(3) Don’t think about link building, think about compelling content and marketing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421aTJI2Nxc&sns=emI would also like to know if you make positive experiences with links from directories? Do they drive relevant traffic to your site or is link juice the more important factor?Best regards,Holger

The text is about 150 words. Basically I am curious if a small exerpt repeating on varios pages with different and unique content can have a bad influence on these pages?

Thanks for your help.

Hi Takeshi,

my client has a travel website where he is offering 4 different tours in the amazon. The itinerary is basically different for each tour. BUT all the tours start in Manaus, so there are 20-30 lines of text talking about Manaus and what they will visit there...

Its just a small part of the pages with the same content about Manaus... so  a redirect does not work as well as a canonical tag does not work here.

Dear Community,

the google AdWords Keyword Tool shows e.g.:

monthly global search for: "Satéré-Mawê Tribe" = 0
but for "Satere-Mawe Tribe" = 320 (at least)

But doing a search with or without using special characters,seems not to make a difference? as Google shows "the right" results even when people are making mistakes in spelling.

On an english website I wantto use in the Title "Hunting, fishing and living with the Satéré-Mawê Tribe" using the correct Portuguese spelling.

As Google Keyword tool tells me english speaking persons don't like using special characters... should I also leave them out in general or just don't mind?

Thanks for any response
Holger

I have read about people saying that using the rel next and prev tags did not take any positive effect on their sites...

In my case I do not have a typical pagination 1,2,3 but a site about tours in the amazon where each tour-description is divided into a page with

1. an overview,
2. itinerary,
3. Dates & Prices

so instead of Site 1,2,3 Buttons I have the Btns: Tour Overview, Itinerary, Prices

So as all the of pages belong together I thought the rel=next & prev tags will be useful.
Also I want to avoid duplicate content when the page title of the three is pretty similar. Right now the Title is like this:
Amazon Tour XXX YYYY
Amazon Tour XXX - itinerary
Amazon Tour XXX - prices

The description text is more different...

Is this the best practice in my case?

Thanks for all your opinions!

best regards,
Holger

Hi Everybody,

I am working on travel-pages and there are 4 tours that all start their itinerary in "Manaus", so I have 4 pages containing all a passage of the same text about Manaus.

How will Google interpret this? Just pick one of the four pages in relation to Manaus Keywords and index, or index none of them?

What should I do, because there is no canonical tag for parts of pages?

I'm curious about what you think

Best regards,
Holger

Hi Tyler,

yes I ended up with the simple checking of the "noindex,follow" option for Tag within the YOAST Plugin (Taxonomies-Tab).

Now all the duplicate Content Issues are gone... so why is this option not set per default? hmmm

Thanks
Holger

Bug? or just because the change happened beyound the Top 50 within Bing & Yahoo SERPs?

The Keyword Ranking for in the example "dry desulfurization" shows a change of >40 up, but the history (Google) does not show these changes.

May be, it is that the change was within Yahoo and Bing Rankings, and because the keyword is not showing up within the Top 50, I just can't see? ... but Rogerbot is considering.

Thanks for any response

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Yes, thanks,

I'm curious ... and hope it works. and yes it looks fine...

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Hi Branagan,

yes I can set noindex, follow in the yoast plugin, but this seems that google does not obey this metatag? See the comment of a User from a blog:

Peter Hinson October 25, 2012 at 7:22 am

Hi, I’ve been using the Yoasts SEO for years now, but unfortunately it does not prevent Google from indexing pagination all the time.

Matt Cutts. the Google technical expert and representative says in his video that the ‘noindex’ meta tag is a weak method in trying to prevent Google from indexing a page, since Googlebot will not always obey this tag.

Asking people, they say tags are bad and spamy and as I can see they generate all my duplicate page content issues.

So the big question is, why Google very often prefers to show in SERPS these Tag-URLS... so it can't be too bad! :)))?

Then after some research I found the "Term Optimizer" on Yoast.com ... that should help exactly with this problem but it seems not to be available anymore?

So may be there another plugin that can help... or just delete all tags from my blog? and install permanent redirects?
Is this the solution?

I understand,

I am not using a CMS and the site is not very big, so I wondered why Roberbot did not find all the 404 Error at the first time, because they have been there for many months.

Holger

Hi I experienced that Rogerbot after a new Crawl presents me new 4XX Errors, so why doesn't he tell me all at once?

I have a small static site and had 9 crawls ago 10 4XX Errors, so I tried to fix them all.
The next crawl Rogerbot fount still 5 Errors so I thought that I did not fix them all... but this happened now many times so that I checked before the latest crawl if I really fixed all the errors 101%.

Today, although I really corrected 5 Errors, Rogerbot digs out  2 "new" Errors. So does Rogerbot not catch all the errors that have been on my site many weeks before?

Pls see the screenshot how I was chasing the errors

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Hi Brett & Takeshi,

please post if your foto will show up after putting it in a better quality, because I don't believe it might be an issue of the number of followers or content you post on g+ , because I am a good example because having just a few followers and also nearly no post at all... But its working for me. Also my name does not appear on some pages where I put the rel author. So I think there are other reasons.

Best regards,

Holger

Thanks Keri,

But its not about these common problems, because Rogerbot crawled the properly before. May be a ticked will help to find the cause.

Holger

When I saw the new crawl for my site I wondered why there are no errors, no warning and 0 notices anymore.

Then I saw that only 1 page was crawled. There are no Error Messages or webmasters Tools also did not report anything about crawling problems.

What might be the problem?

thanks for any tips!
Holger

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Thank you Jo,

I have installed BWT some months ago and receive every day an eMail with "1" Problem with Webmasters Tools... So I will check this

best,
Holger

Yes! thank you Peter for your tip,

I will do this also...

thanks,
Holger

Hello Robert,

thank you. I will have a look at the Bing Business Listing as soon as finding time :)) May be I should also please bing to do all fine with their webmaster tools...

best
Holger

I have sometimes pages ranking very well on Google but in comparison with Bing and Yahoo they are not listed within the Top50 SERP's

What are the ranking factors for Bing and Yahoo? Although Bing and Yahoo play a minor role it would be fine also to rank well with these engines.

Thanks for any tips!