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  • petrakraft
    petrakraft last edited by Feb 16, 2011, 7:59 AM

    Don't take that question too serious but all answers are welcome 😉

    Answer to all:
    "Gentlemen, I see you did you best - at least I hope so! But after all I suppose I am stuck here to go on reading the SEOmoz blog if I can't sqeeze more secrets from you!

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    • ReSEOlve
      ReSEOlve last edited by Jan 16, 2014, 8:23 PM Jan 16, 2014, 8:23 PM

      My Secret is this.... Stand up and be noticed be kind be wise and be engaging and be the best you can be in your niche create something that makes people listen and look and feel and react...and share and love and want to know this person..

      if you was searching on line to buy something or a service what would make you purchase or inquire from that site?

      what has made you read more or buy in the past? and replicate that !! and have fun!!!

      what makes you different from the rest out there its your uniqueness your personality let it shine through online

      be a leader and build a community and be helpful and give give give and you will  receive..

      Reseolve.com

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      • topic:timeago_earlier,3 months
      • GarGar
        GarGar @Dan-Petrovic last edited by Oct 31, 2013, 8:17 PM Oct 31, 2013, 8:17 PM

        And here I thought I was alone in this pattern of behavior! lol... Good to see that my "in the zone" hour is nothing to worry about.

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        • topic:timeago_earlier,11 months
        • acca
          acca @Dan-Petrovic last edited by Dec 20, 2012, 10:39 AM Dec 20, 2012, 10:39 AM

          I see there are lots of us here having that situation. Now I feel less alone, Dejane 🙂

          Btw, for me, sometimes it's 4 hours in one day, sometimes 1 hour in 2 days. And as Glenn wrote, hard to explain to someone I can give 50 hours worth work in just 1 hour sometimes. And 49 hours working can be wasted if it's not moment and mood 🙂

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          • topic:timeago_earlier,29 days
          • malecce
            malecce last edited by Nov 21, 2012, 4:17 AM Nov 21, 2012, 4:17 AM

            For me the best Seo strategy is to copy from others who learn more!

            Just kidding ... but not too much

            Maurizio

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            • topic:timeago_earlier,about a month
            • Budskab
              Budskab @kaashifk last edited by Oct 16, 2012, 7:11 PM Oct 16, 2012, 7:11 PM

              Yearh... I guess a lot of people run Info the information overload instead of just taking action - I know I do 😉

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              • Budskab
                Budskab @dennis.globalsign last edited by Oct 16, 2012, 7:08 PM Oct 16, 2012, 7:08 PM

                Read an artikel about "flow" a fem months back - Kinda stating the same as you. Try and match your ongoing tasks so that you are both challenged and succeeding at the same time... This Will help build up that great momentum

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                • Budskab
                  Budskab @ThomasHgenhaven last edited by Oct 16, 2012, 7:03 PM Oct 16, 2012, 7:03 PM

                  I usually go about that Working on projects a little each Day. And then build up days like that.. Like one hour building links, one hour writing contenter and then one hour coding - or something like that 🙂

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                  • topic:timeago_earlier,21 days
                  • ThinkBDW
                    ThinkBDW last edited by Sep 25, 2012, 2:44 PM Sep 25, 2012, 2:44 PM

                    My friend's mobile number,  who works at Google in algo scientist team .

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                    • simonberenyi
                      simonberenyi @nimbledigit last edited by Sep 24, 2012, 9:18 AM Sep 24, 2012, 9:18 AM

                      So true. This Onion article does indeed make you wonder about what you stop and listen to.

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                      • simonberenyi
                        simonberenyi @Dan-Petrovic last edited by Sep 23, 2012, 4:17 PM Sep 23, 2012, 4:17 PM

                        What you experienced is called "FLOW". Check out a book called "Good Business" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. When you achieve flow, your productivity soars.

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                        • topic:timeago_earlier,2 months
                        • webalive
                          webalive @MarkHodson last edited by Jul 13, 2012, 6:57 AM Jul 13, 2012, 6:57 AM

                          Really Helpful Suggestions, heads up

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                          • topic:timeago_earlier,14 days
                          • cbielich
                            cbielich @HiveDigitalInc last edited by Jun 29, 2012, 4:37 AM Jun 29, 2012, 4:37 AM

                            Ok that idea is awesome!

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                            • topic:timeago_earlier,about a month
                            • DBoozer
                              DBoozer last edited by May 22, 2012, 6:05 PM May 22, 2012, 6:05 PM

                              Video. Adding video to each of my posts seems to build my brand and help out with things like "time on site". Posting the video to at least two or three platforms, but using the Youtube video on site sharing the same title as the post as well. Most of my videos and posts are on first page...so I think that works, but don't quote me...LOL.

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                              • topic:timeago_earlier,19 days
                              • softclick
                                softclick last edited by May 3, 2012, 8:31 PM May 3, 2012, 8:31 PM

                                Don't care for your competition. Don't care for the new fancy SEO stuff. Don't care for tricks or the "easy way".

                                Just do your homework. (site architecture, crawlability, quality links & content)

                                Here at SEOmoz that means:

                                1. Kill all the errors in "Crawl Diagnostics"

                                2. Bring all your keywords to an "Grade A" in On-page

                                3. Be the peer group leader in "Link Analysis"

                                Three simple steps ... easy as 1..2..3. Not really 😉

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                                • topic:timeago_earlier,22 days
                                • jjgonza
                                  jjgonza last edited by Apr 11, 2012, 11:57 PM Apr 11, 2012, 11:57 PM

                                  Honestly it's seomoz.

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                                  • topic:timeago_earlier,14 days
                                  • FergusonSEO
                                    FergusonSEO @kaashifk last edited by Mar 28, 2012, 12:58 PM Mar 28, 2012, 12:58 PM

                                    Excellent reply, exactly what I was looking for. A breakdown of your day was very helpful.

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                                    • topic:timeago_earlier,15 days
                                    • TheGrid
                                      TheGrid @HiveDigitalInc last edited by Mar 13, 2012, 12:24 PM Mar 13, 2012, 12:24 PM

                                      Brilliant.

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                                      • TheGrid
                                        TheGrid last edited by Mar 13, 2012, 12:23 PM Mar 13, 2012, 12:23 PM

                                        My biggest "Secret" is i prize solid keyword research above all else. All of your efforts are worthless without it.

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                                        • seoMonk8
                                          seoMonk8 @Dan-Petrovic last edited by Mar 8, 2012, 8:51 AM Mar 8, 2012, 8:51 AM

                                          Try procastinating 🙂

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                                          • chronicle
                                            chronicle last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 12:26 AM Mar 3, 2012, 12:26 AM

                                            My secret is to work at night and get into my zone.  Really the trick for me is to turn my A.D.D. into a strength and jump from item to item to item.  It is hard to relate to unless you have A.D.D. too.  You are able to hyper-focus into a wide ranged tunnel vision.  By the time I come out of it I have definitely made a mark on the web!

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                                            • topic:timeago_earlier,3 months
                                            • samr217
                                              samr217 last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 12:44 AM Dec 6, 2011, 7:58 AM

                                              I have found that just good social marketing has help a solar panels website in south Yorkshire, solar panels south yorkshire. What does everyone think to the google panda update?

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                                              • topic:timeago_earlier,14 days
                                              • EVac
                                                EVac last edited by Nov 22, 2011, 5:44 PM Nov 22, 2011, 5:44 PM

                                                Constantly search for new ways to build links! Think outside the box.

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                                                • duncan274
                                                  duncan274 @Shareef-Defrawi last edited by Nov 19, 2011, 1:54 AM Nov 19, 2011, 1:54 AM

                                                  please elaborate how will this help do you mean they will link back isnt that link value then lessened for boath?

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                                                  • duncan274
                                                    duncan274 @ThomasHgenhaven last edited by Jan 9, 2012, 8:42 PM Nov 19, 2011, 1:45 AM

                                                    http://www.opencalais.com/   very interesting stuff to do with optimizing community contributions

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                                                    • topic:timeago_earlier,5 months
                                                    • raxhuq
                                                      raxhuq @AlanMosley last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 12:25 PM Jun 13, 2011, 12:25 PM

                                                      Don't all nets have wholes mate?

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                                                      • topic:timeago_earlier,12 days
                                                      • nimbledigit
                                                        nimbledigit @DanDeceuster last edited by Jun 1, 2011, 6:25 PM Jun 1, 2011, 6:25 PM

                                                        Just finished with a sales guy this morning that totally fit the onion piece. Funniest thing I've read in a loong time. Thanks.

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                                                        • DonnieCooper
                                                          DonnieCooper @JohnFCarroll last edited by May 31, 2011, 3:09 PM May 31, 2011, 3:09 PM

                                                          Hey John, you're right... an extra $30 does help. We usually add an Adwords budget into our proposals, so that  we can use more than just the $75. We do this because we feel like the best keyword research is pay per click advertising.

                                                          Google Engage is great, have you signed up for the Professionals Program?

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                                                          • DonnieCooper
                                                            DonnieCooper @NickPateman81 last edited by May 31, 2011, 3:05 PM May 31, 2011, 3:05 PM

                                                            Hey Nick, I didn't notice this until just now- sorry about that. 
                                                            Do you mean the testing process for keyword research in Adwords?
                                                            We'll research the most probable keywords for qualified visitors, and then either:
                                                            #1. test tons of exact match keywords to see real-world worth of each, or
                                                            #2. put a few very short broad keywords in, and then use the tool "see all search terms' once the campaign is over to see what the marketplace is actually searching for

                                                            Then of course, we optimize the site and create a link building plan for those phrases.

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                                                            • kaizendc
                                                              kaizendc @Dan-Petrovic last edited by May 24, 2011, 6:31 PM May 24, 2011, 6:31 PM

                                                              Flow 🙂

                                                              Read this book and it may help you on your quest....

                                                              http://www.amazon.ca/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0061339202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306272675&sr=8-1

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                                                              • topic:timeago_earlier,11 days
                                                              • portalseo
                                                                portalseo last edited by May 13, 2011, 11:55 AM May 13, 2011, 11:55 AM

                                                                My best hidden SEO secret would be adding the websites phone number into the meta keywords for the homepage only. If you have a missed call from someone, most people just Google the number however if you have the number in your meta description/keywords it will display your homepage as opposed to your contact page. Once they are on the homepage they will more than likely check the contact us page then hopefully browse the website. I sometimes use an image for the contact number on the contact us page so it isnt picked up by the crawler. Its a pretty small secret but its one of mine 😉

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                                                                • JohnFCarroll
                                                                  JohnFCarroll @DonnieCooper last edited by May 11, 2011, 12:54 PM May 11, 2011, 12:54 PM

                                                                  Hi Donnie,

                                                                  I agree about this idea being a great one.  I just signed up for something called "Google Engage" (it's part of google), where you take a few online classes and they give you 20 $105 Adwords vouchers for clients.  I imagine if you use the 20 and bring new customers they'll probably keep the vouchers coming.

                                                                  I'm new to it so I can't say too much, but the extra $30 might get you the stats you need to convince a client.

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                                                                  • IPIM
                                                                    IPIM @kaashifk last edited by May 7, 2011, 7:43 PM May 7, 2011, 7:43 PM

                                                                    HI kaashif, what are your directory sites of choice, do you have a list that fits all such as dmoz types, then a list that fits a few and a list of niche or do you just formulate a new list for each project from scratch.

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                                                                    • topic:timeago_earlier,12 days
                                                                    • PabloGV
                                                                      PabloGV @HiveDigitalInc last edited by Apr 26, 2011, 4:50 AM Apr 26, 2011, 4:50 AM

                                                                      now that's being creative imho, thank you for sharing mate - sometimes I end up in the paranoia tunnel avoiding some obvious solutions - 🙂

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                                                                      • seanmccauley
                                                                        seanmccauley @MarkHodson last edited by Apr 23, 2011, 8:04 AM Apr 23, 2011, 8:04 AM

                                                                        That really is good advice. We do something similar with fortnightly meetings between customer advisors, web developers and SEO. Quite often CAs will have great ideas from the sharp end. www.pretavoir.co.uk

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                                                                        • topic:timeago_earlier,11 days
                                                                        • glennfriesen
                                                                          glennfriesen @RedScooter last edited by Apr 12, 2011, 3:45 PM Apr 12, 2011, 3:45 PM

                                                                          I really like your list. Patience, consistency, and continual learning is the truly the core "skill set". 😄

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                                                                          • glennfriesen
                                                                            glennfriesen @KrisRoadruck last edited by Apr 12, 2011, 3:41 PM Apr 12, 2011, 3:41 PM

                                                                            Indeed. I tried to explain this truth to my employer once. He didn't get it. Now he's not my employer, and their site's traffic plummeted to 30% of what it was when I "spent half my day farting around".

                                                                            Farting around isn't. It's accessing inspiration. It's competitive research. It's market research. It's natural link-building. It's accessing actionable information. It's expanding your mind to think outside the box of your perceptions. It's relationship-building. It's really important, even though it's difficult to forecast the ROI of such "R&D"

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                                                                            • topic:timeago_earlier,11 days
                                                                            • SEO-Doctor
                                                                              SEO-Doctor last edited by Apr 1, 2011, 8:59 PM Apr 1, 2011, 8:59 PM

                                                                              Social is..... (go test)

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                                                                              • topic:timeago_earlier,9 days
                                                                              • WME
                                                                                WME Subscriber last edited by Mar 24, 2011, 4:31 AM Mar 24, 2011, 4:31 AM

                                                                                Meet with your Client's face to face.

                                                                                Once they can see how confident and passionate you are about SEO and their success, they will trust you further and be quicker to take on your ideas and recommendations.

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                                                                                • IPINGlobal54
                                                                                  IPINGlobal54 last edited by Mar 23, 2011, 2:08 PM Mar 23, 2011, 2:08 PM

                                                                                  Remembering to keep an open mind to new ideas and concepts, testing them, and ensuring that I keep a mental note of both "do more of that" when they work and "not even if hell freezes over" when they don't (except when google changes something).

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                                                                                  • IslandLogic70
                                                                                    IslandLogic70 last edited by Mar 22, 2011, 9:33 AM Mar 22, 2011, 9:33 AM

                                                                                    A website called SEOmoz.org. Shh.

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                                                                                    • Shareef-Defrawi
                                                                                      Shareef-Defrawi last edited by Mar 22, 2011, 2:03 AM Mar 22, 2011, 2:03 AM

                                                                                      Stop hoarding the link juice and link out to related sites! Not so much a secret but something that is too often overlooked.

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                                                                                      • jdeb
                                                                                        jdeb @KrisRoadruck last edited by Mar 19, 2011, 10:08 PM Mar 19, 2011, 10:08 PM

                                                                                        I've long held a business idea based on just this issue: hiring out henchmen who are paid to beat you up if you don't meet your deadlines. I'm sure a "gun to your head" option, charged hourly, could be arranged to suit your particular requirements.

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                                                                                        • AaronSchinke
                                                                                          AaronSchinke @Dan-Petrovic last edited by Mar 17, 2011, 5:54 PM Mar 17, 2011, 5:54 PM

                                                                                          So true. I still think we are secretly being productive in the down town. SEO is much more creative than people give it credit for. A little bit of everything involved!

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                                                                                          • Tradingpost
                                                                                            Tradingpost last edited by Mar 16, 2011, 9:50 PM Mar 16, 2011, 9:50 PM

                                                                                            RSS TO TWITTER!

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                                                                                            • MontanaFlynn83
                                                                                              MontanaFlynn83 @MarkHodson last edited by Mar 14, 2011, 11:14 PM Mar 14, 2011, 11:14 PM

                                                                                              Very nice feedback, thanks for this.

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                                                                                              • NickPateman81
                                                                                                NickPateman81 @DonnieCooper last edited by Mar 14, 2011, 7:29 PM Mar 14, 2011, 7:29 PM

                                                                                                Great idea Donnie. This comment may well have changed our initial SEO strategy. I'm guessing you've got experience in this area - can I be nosey and ask what your testing process is?

                                                                                                Many thanks!

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                                                                                                • petrakraft
                                                                                                  petrakraft @dlrPaul last edited by Mar 12, 2011, 9:49 AM Mar 12, 2011, 9:41 AM

                                                                                                  Off topic - this doesn't apply 🙂

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                                                                                                  • dlrPaul
                                                                                                    dlrPaul last edited by Mar 11, 2011, 8:00 PM Mar 11, 2011, 8:00 PM

                                                                                                    Red Bull - "It gives you wings!

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                                                                                                    • tomcraig86
                                                                                                      tomcraig86 last edited by Mar 11, 2011, 7:43 PM Mar 11, 2011, 7:43 PM

                                                                                                      Our site is customer facing, and we need to keep the content low in some cases, so we use different JQuery plugins to 'hide' some content from the viewers.... but not search engines 😉

                                                                                                      I wouldn't say it's black hat as the content is 100% original and very authoratitive (optimised oviously), it's just a way of getting your content on the page without having the old CSS margin: -10000000000000px trick I bet you all know!!

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                                                                                                        Is there a way to do a mass "Fetch as googlebot" to reindex these if I do say 50 a day? I only see the ability to do 1 URL at a time in the webmaster backend. 
                                                                                                        Is there anything else I am missing? I believe this change would overall be good in the long run but do not want to take a huge hit initially by doing something incorrectly. This would be done on 5- to a couple hundred links across various sites I manage. Thanks in advance,
                                                                                                        Chris Gorski

                                                                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Feb 14, 2018, 1:55 PM | kirin44355
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                                                                                                      • Brett-S

                                                                                                        Ranking 1st for a keyword - but when 's' is added to the end we are ranking on the second page

                                                                                                        Hi everyone - hope you are well. I can't get my head around why we are ranking 1st for a specific keyword, but then when 's' is added to the end of the keyword - we are ranking on the second page. What could be the cause of this? I thought that Google would class both of the keywords the same, in this case, let's say the keyword was 'button'. We would be ranking 1st for 'button', but 'buttons' we are ranking on the second page. Any ideas? - I appreciate every comment.

                                                                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Jul 26, 2016, 1:31 PM | Brett-S
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                                                                                                      • RosemaryB

                                                                                                        Need a layman's definition/analogy of the difference between schema and structured data

                                                                                                        I'm currently writing a blog post about schema.  However I want to set the record straight that schema is not exactly the same as structured data, although both are often used interchangeably.  I understand this schema.org is a vocabulary of global identifiers for properties and things.   Structured data is what Google officially stated as "a standard way to annotate your content so machines can understand it..." Does anybody know of a good analogy to compare the two? Thanks!

                                                                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Apr 29, 2016, 4:03 PM | RosemaryB
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                                                                                                      • peteboyd

                                                                                                        URL Injection Hack - What to do with spammy URLs that keep appearing in Google's index?

                                                                                                        A website was hacked (URL injection) but the malicious code has been cleaned up and removed from all pages. However, whenever we run a site:domain.com in Google, we keep finding more spammy URLs from the hack. They all lead to a 404 error page since the hack was cleaned up in the code. We have been using the Google WMT Remove URLs tool to have these spammy URLs removed from Google's index but new URLs keep appearing every day. We looked at the cache dates on these URLs and they are vary in dates but none are recent and most are from a month ago when the initial hack occurred. My question is...should we continue to check the index every day and keep submitting these URLs to be removed manually? Or since they all lead to a 404 page will Google eventually remove these spammy URLs from the index automatically? Thanks in advance Moz community for your feedback.

                                                                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Jun 28, 2015, 1:03 AM | peteboyd
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                                                                                                      • ydesjardins200

                                                                                                        Help FORUM ( User generated content ) SEO best practices

                                                                                                        Hello Moz folks ! For the very first time im dealing with a massive community who rely on UGC ( user generated content ). Their forum is finding a great deal of duplicate content/broken link/ duplicate title and on-site issue. I have Advance SEO knowledge related to ecommerce or blogging but new to forum and UGC. I would really love to learn or get ressources links that would allow me to see/understand the best practices in term of SEO. Any help is greatly appreciated. Best, Yan

                                                                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Jan 19, 2015, 7:52 PM | ydesjardins200
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                                                                                                      • digisavvy

                                                                                                        There's a website I'm working with that has a .php extension. All the pages do. What's the best practice to remove the .php extension across all pages?

                                                                                                        Client wishes to drop the .php extension on all their pages (they've got around 2k pages). I assured them that wasn't necessary. However, in the event that I do end up doing this what's the best practices way (and easiest way) to do this? This is also a WordPress site. Thanks.

                                                                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Oct 27, 2011, 4:44 PM | digisavvy
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                                                                                                      • nicole.healthline

                                                                                                        Tool to calculate the number of pages in Google's index?

                                                                                                        When working with a very large site, are there any tools that will help you calculate the number of links in the Google index? I know you can use site:www.domain.com to see all the links indexed for a particular url. But what if you want to see the number of pages indexed for 100 different subdirectories (i.e. www.domain.com/a, www.domain.com/b)? is there a tool to help automate the process of finding the number of pages from each subdirectory in Google's index?

                                                                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Jun 26, 2011, 6:32 PM | nicole.healthline
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