Internal Link Title and Anchor Text Question
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So, I am kind of a newbie with all of this stuff, so please bear with me!
If you have a chance to look into the domain it's www.noip.com
I have checked the internal followed and 301 links. It seems like it is pulling in all of our navigation a funky way. all of those link have no data for the title and the anchor text is Home, Contact Us, Forgot Password?, ETC. Is this correct? I have tried to look into the way other websites are doing it and it seems wrong. I tried to talk to my developer, but he is not so sure.
Do we simply need to make more copy on our site that has internal links within the copy with anchor text that is for keywords that I would like to be ranking for? Like Managed DNS? and then that page goes to the managed DNS page? Or what?
Sorry if i am not being totally clear. Any help and advice is 110% welcomed!!!
Natalie
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That OSE crawl could just be a fluke. Perhaps retry the crawl next month.
Regarding the 'parameters' in webmaster tools, did you tell Google to decide or did you choose ' Let Googlebot decide or did you choose "No: does not affect page content" option?
Are there links to these search query pages from other websites? If not, then you might just need to give it time to realize that you set your parameters to ignore those URL variables.
Another solution might be to add a noindex/nofollow to your search results page template.
Scott O.
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attached is a screenshot. are those supposed to have title tags on the left?
also, on a totally different topic, we have an issue with a domain search box on our website. We have tried to exclude the parameters in webmaster tools, but the google bot still seems to be crawling the search domain box with 1000s of domains each crawl, eating up our crawl and leading to lots of weird stuff being indexed in google. Are we being spammed by a competitor? Is there a better way to eliminiate and stop this?
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open site explorer report
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Are you talking about an www.opensiteexplorer.org report? Or a Google "site:" search?
My guess is that you'd need more exact-match anchor text from both external AND internal links.
Scott O.
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You need to create URL's for each service you offer and then link to those services in the navigation using the keyword you want the page to rank for. You need to use discretion here so as not to over optimize but your example above "Manage DNS" as part of the navigation linking to a /managed-dns page would be perfect.
Hope this helps,
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