No .co will not help you rank in the state of CO

its Columba but was made to work for everyone.

Hope  that helps,

tom

Read this as well

http://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/blog/next-domain-gold-rush

The TLD you use can be worth money as far as SEO I would take .com homebuilder.com over a homebuilder.construction every day.

the power to point a .com .net .org at the country of your choice is a big SEO plus

if you can get the .com it is still #1 in the US at least.

Tom

I agree 100% with Erica

that's what I was trying to explain to my 1st post. That is going to have to come up with a different domain regardless of whether or not you shorten it or simply choose a different TLD

it should be noted though that only bit.ly enterprise & AWE.SM are capable of allowing a person to create a unique short domain and creating a name after the/of your choice there may be another tool out there that can do it however to the best of my knowledge.

Bit.ly's Personal Edition will allow you To create a unique extension only if  no one else on all of bit.ly has chosen that ending. Chances are they have though, and it's wise to go with tool that will create a short domain that is capable of making your brand look good.

the 1st answer does still answer your question. It's what I would do and what I have done that's why referenced the bseo.co link because I can to exactly what Erica stated  save space on social networks and create my own short domain that redirects to my homepage if it does not have a unique URL it needs to 301 redirect

I hope this clears everything up.

Thomas

You can do that using http://totally.awe.sm/ , bit.ly pro or Bilty free if you don't mind not having control of what appears after the /  you will need different TLD and the same name for your domain. if example.com is your brand domain then example.co is your shared domain.

I would recommend against using your websites domain name to create a lot of shared links that will not be part of your website. Even if they will look like example.com/fbshare or example.com/679a43054

You will need a new domain of your choice of course.

Sorry if I was not as clear in the beginning.

I misread your question.

Sincerely,

Thomas

Mike

try this as well.

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/linkcount/

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/

read this

http://www.zemanta.com/blog/technical-seo-audit-for-publishers/

All the best,

Thomas

Hi Mike,

if the source code still shows no follow & no index then unfortunately Google bot will not change that.

the easiest way to tell is to use the Moz bar if you use Google Chrome or Firefox you can download it for free here

http://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/tools/seo-toolbar

whenever you're on the page you think is blocked simply click the tool and it will tell you.

However if you have the no follow and no index removed then you have to wait for Google bot to index your site prior to any changes in Google.

Try running your site through one of the 3 tools here.

The Moz crawl test is pretty awesome it sometimes can take a while for the results come in. If your site is very large I would use it because the other free tools below will not go over a set amount of pages for instance Internet marketing ninjas 1000 pages is the max in the case of screaming frog 500 pages is the max.

https://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/researchtools/crawl-test

One thing I would do is download this tool it is free to crawl your site up to 500 pages and works on Mac, PC and Linux

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

It will show you very clearly if you have any pages that are no follow , no index

if you run that tool then export all the no follow no index pages or export the crawl report I can use the Pro version and I will change your tags to no longer say no follow no index

I'd also be interested in seeing what your robots.txt file says by putting a URL of mine into this tool below I was able to get this information

http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Sitemap: http://app.wistia.com/sitemaps/23283.xml

I can now see that as long as anything that says Disallow with the / is going to be blocked

its a very simple way to check for things that could be causing problems that would replicate identical symptoms.

The same company that makes that robots.txt tool makes another tool that could help you quite a bit. Similar to screaming frog however this one will crawl your site up to 1000 pages at no cost.

http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/

I know it says site map generator however in addition to doing that it will show you every single blocked page and for what reason it's blocked. In addition you don't have to download software it's right on the web. After which it will e-mail you the results or you can watch them come in.

Here's some more information that might be of help to you

Kristina Kledzik works for distilled however she wrote this great quick audit guide right here.

http://www.zemanta.com/blog/technical-seo-audit-for-publishers/

https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/7-technical-seo-wins-for-web-developers/

If you don't feel comfortable sharing your URL for more than welcome to private message me here.

Sincerely,

Thomas

Hi Joni,

What Vadim has said is true. You can use it for either platform really any platform that shortens links.

Use this tool to build the URL I am a huge fan of Kiss Metrics however that does not mean that you have to use them in order to find this article useful.

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-to-use-utm-parameters/

&

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v2/campaigns#google-play-url-builder

Then run whatever you build through the http://totally.awe.sm/ shortener or URL shortener of your choice.

Sincerely,

Thomas

in order to see what I was referencing before you can simply no index no follow from this part of the admin panel as well

https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-1-2/

I think your problem is going to be in here

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have you reversed everything that you've done inside the Yoast plug-in?

You say that you keep creating new blog posts, and they are all no follow, no index. is this correct?

have you looked at the main rules in

Robots Meta configuration

https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

you could also have no index selected for categories, tags, etc. whatever you could've easily just click the button, and no indexed your entire blog if it is a category.

How familiar are you with this plug-in?

I should Have started with this 1st however have you pulled your robots.txt file?

in this tool it will tell you to put  "Existing robots.txt URL (optional)" _______________________

put your URL in their and then hit upload it will show you everything in your robots.txt file rather you have one or 4. It's possible because of plug-ins I'm not saying that's the issue but check it.

http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/

If you need more help with it sending your URL I will figured out.

Sincerely,

Thomas

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Yes use http://totally.awe.sm/

They are by far the best in my opinion. Bitly Does offer a enterprise version that I believe starts at $900 a month

http://blog.awe.sm/2013/07/16/now-everyone-can-be-awe-sm

http://totally.awe.sm/platform/

you're looking to shorten a URL so it represents your brand and allow for you to control what comes after the / along with having a generally good looking URL.?

Check out this custom short URL of mine running on AWE.SM I created it so it should bring you right back to this page

http://bseo.co/f09

so you are aware you can create a custom short domain for free using Bitly however your ability to track along with your ability to create a URL with less than 7 characters after the / or a custom name after the / would be taken away completely.

If I can make a recommendation as to how to find the perfect short URL check out https://domai.nr/

also remember certain registrars are not going to allow you to use certain TLD's for instance Italy has .it

they do not allow anyone that is not a citizen of the EU to registrar that domain. So my strongest recommendation is to use a .co if available obviously you may find something that works perfectly for you. However check out the TLD as some are under different regulations that will make your stomach turn.

I purchased a 3 letter domain that ended in.TK unaware that .TK is a TLD that is given away for free in certain circumstances, but only for a certain amount of clicks. So you can either purchase it for an extremely high amount or you can build your links be ruined.

name.com It is a good choice so is http://www.enom.com/

Namecheap.com is excellent as well and you can get a very good discount using Moz.com/perks

I hope this is been of help,

Thomas

You must wait for Google Bot

you can ask Google to crawl it.

Useing

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1352276?hl=en