Everything he said...
Patrick was way more articulate!
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Everything he said...
Patrick was way more articulate!
One of the major value adds with Wistia is the analytics and customization. I think they look really nice and you have a lot more control over the details.
Youtube, is obviously about the reach, simple sharing, etc.
It makes a difference what the goal of the video is.
And depending on that, I am not necessarily sure I would worry about the snippit showing up. Google has seemed more biased towards that lately.
I don't think you "need" to add anything there. There are no hard and fast rules. But having some sort of navigation there is a good idea.
Think about adding:
Home, About, Company info, contact, etc... those are the basics.
Also, if you want, consider adding in the main top level categories that are important. I think Zappos does a good job of this.
We had an interesting situation here at the office where a client had a legitimate page on the site mysteriously vanish. Still investigating.
The knowledge graph pulls from a bunch of different areas. google+ can help for sure. But try looking into other things like Wikipedia. It's hard to get an entry there if you don't "deserve it" but its possible. And it can help. Also look into entering your freebase entry. That can help a lot too.
If I can help, let me know.
It really depends what kind of site you are running. If you want them to take an action on the page you are linking to, then perhaps not. If you are a service provider and want them to communicate with you, then yes.
It also depends how active you are on the networks. I agree the goal is to send people to your site, but depending on what your site is/does, you might want to keep them as a long term customer who keeps coming back. Social media can help accomplish that.
Basically you are saying a page is canonicaling to a page that is being redirected...
As far as the search engine is concerned, in this specific scenario, the canonical tag is probably not needed.
(if you want to private message me a link I can double check to make sure I am not crazy... but its for a client, so I understand if you don't want to :)).
It is possible you used a plugin. I checked the structure data markup tool and it looks like its working. http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kempruge.com%2Fa-floridians-guide-to-a-car-accident-in-pennsylvania%2F
One thing I noticed is that in the Google+ profile you did not add there that you are a contributor to the blog. You might want to add that in.
Other than that, it is entirely possible that your profile has been one of the authorship's removed.
Again, my bigger concern is how thin the comparison page is.
This really has nothing to do with how similar the URLs are, although it might confuse users a bit. Its the lack of actionable and usable content on the comparison page that I think will make a difference here.
If you were really adamant about keeping the two pages intact and NOT merging them, which could be ok as well, then I would consider building up the comparison page so it was a bit richer in content, and provided some useful comparisons on the page rather than forcing the users to go somewhere else. Currently, there is just one big image in the center with a few lines above it.
Adding in a bit more content / context behind those comparisons could make all the difference.
I totally agree with Federico about creating great content. That would be exactly what I would have suggested as well.
There is the possibility that something got messed up on the back end too if you believe you are already making great content. Are you positive that the markup is still on the site?
I totally agree with Federico about creating great content. That would be exactly what I would have suggested as well.
There is the possibility that something got messed up on the back end too if you believe you are already making great content. Are you positive that the markup is still on the site?
I think I understood what you were asking and I thought you could extract some information from that video.
Let me try to clarify though.
Normally, site wide links are bad, even if its only one site to another and not the other way around. You could argue that they add value, which is why I linked to the above video, since it seems like that is a hard case to make (I don't know the site, I am just assuming).
So, this is really a bigger issue of value add. If it does add value, you could make a case that they should still be there.
That said, even in that situation where it does add value, the link should still probably be a no-follow since Google will likely interpret this as a spam signal or just simply trying to "beat" them at their game.
We had an interesting situation here at the office where a client had a legitimate page on the site mysteriously vanish. Still investigating.
I am guessing its just a glitch. If it still hasn't resolved itself, contact the moz team (http://moz.com/help/contact) they are super responsive and helpful when you need something.
I just checked it myself, and It is in fact showing up for me...
So if you are concerned that the homepage isn't indexed, it is.
I don't think you "need" to add anything there. There are no hard and fast rules. But having some sort of navigation there is a good idea.
Think about adding:
Home, About, Company info, contact, etc... those are the basics.
Also, if you want, consider adding in the main top level categories that are important. I think Zappos does a good job of this.
It really depends on what your strategy is here, but I would strongly look into revamping the kind of content that you are publishing and focus on something that your audience is really looking for.
While the social shares are nice, the links are important. And I am not saying there is no value in the social shares, but with those kind of numbers, I think there is more you can do to possibly improve on the content, and make it slighly more targeted to what people are looking for.
I would even go as far as to say, that the links are not the only reason you should be writing. It should be more around thought leadership, attracting a bigger more committed and passionate audience.
Content for the sake of content is not a good practice. It makes it thin, and then you have bigger problems
One of the major value adds with Wistia is the analytics and customization. I think they look really nice and you have a lot more control over the details.
Youtube, is obviously about the reach, simple sharing, etc.
It makes a difference what the goal of the video is.
And depending on that, I am not necessarily sure I would worry about the snippit showing up. Google has seemed more biased towards that lately.
1/21/2016 Is there another factor at work affecting your rankings? In this post, Aaron Friedman presents the idea that Google may be segmenting search results by industry and type of content, and offers up the results from three case studies and provides advice for how to work within the confines of a template you don't fully control.
5/20/2015 Has Google crossed the line from playing favorites to being downright deceitful? The way the search giant is handling some images in the Knowledge Graph certainly makes it a fair question.
1/8/2014 No matter what business you are in, it's a pretty sure thing that someone is going to want to monitor how efficiently and productively you are working. Being able to show these results over time is crucial to maintaining the health of the long term relationship.
Aaron is the Director of Innovation at Five Blocks, a brand and reputation marketing agency, where his role is to develop new processes driven by research and technology in order to improve the company’s services and offerings. He oversees and is responsible for the proprietary reputation monitoring dashboard, which is currently in development. Additionally. he plays a major role in business development and company branding by contributing thought leadership. His experience spans from global agencies to small startups.
Find Friedman writing about digital marketing and the relationship between search & social here and on Search Engine Land in his monthly search and social column. You can also find Aaron speaking at SMX, PubCon and other conferences around the country. Follow his adventures on Twitter @AaronFriedman
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