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Makes sense, I absolutely don't want to chance with the menu and have it mistaken for cloaking. We will now look at other solutions for a more traditional menu with better internal linking and less links.

Thank you for your input!

It is visible in Google.SE

site:beyondthedeal.com

Hello,

I just like to ask for best practice when it comes to reduce number of internal links on a site with a mega menu.

Since the mega menu lists all categories and all their subcategories it creates a problem when all categories are linking to all categories directly..

Would the method below reduce the number of links and preventing the link juice flowing directly from category to category?

[(link built with JavaScript and the html5 "data-" attribute)

Thinking of using these links to categories in the menu not directly below the parent category.](#)

Hello,

I don't understand why you redirected your index page to the "about us" page, Don't you want your home page to start at www.towerhousetraining.co.uk? Like having a short intro there and where people can read more by then clicking "about us".

Canonical urls are used on pages with very similar content. You basically tell the search engines what page you wishes to rank (of the similar ones).

Hello,

No I don't think the "image block" is why you don't get much search traffic (unless you used to get a lot of traffic from image search).

Have a look at Google Analytics and see when your site started dropping in traffic. Compare your stats with google panda and penguin updates and see if you can find any relation between any update and the drop.

This plugin for Chrome can help you overlay Google's updates on your analytics charts:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chartelligence/njhdcfdiifemfnfddhfjmfbkajajceag

Hello,

Do you get traffic from more than one country? If so, are you checking your rankings in each Google? Are you searching depersonalized?

The last thing, the number of searches does vary, it could just be that there are less searches for your keywords at the moment. Check with google trends.

We had similar issues with too many indexed pages (about 100,000 pages) for a site with about 3500 pages.

By setting a canonical url on each page and also preventing google from indexing and crawling some of the urls (robots.txt and meta noindex) we are now down to 3500 urls, The benefit is (besides less duplicate content), much faster indexing of new pages.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Hello!

I would just check in Google what pages Google has indexed. Then do redirects from those urls to the new ones. Also check what urls other sites link to and make sure those are redirected to their new urls.

For your overview pages I would redirect the empty page and and the overview page. Just in case you get traffic on both.

Non important pages (like your thank you page) I wouldn't redirect.

This is not an issue, it is quite common today with responsive designs. If hiding elements is not for tricking the crawlers then you should be safe.

My guess is a couple of sentences (especially if it's the title or meta description).

Since it is so easy to find "borrowed" content, I would assume Google knows if the content is unique. Not having unique content is a common seo-mistake in ecommerce where many just reuse suppliers information.

It wouldn't help you to create a new short url unless you redirect the old url to the new. Depending on the competition you can still rank good with a url that doesn't contain the keyword/phrase.

From a user experience it's of course much better with the keyword/phrase in the url. People see what your page is about just by studying the url.

Hello!

It can take a couple of weeks (if if you have a large site) and no you don't need to change anything else for google to pick up the new title.

A tip can be to use google webmaster tools

Health -> Fetch As Google

Then submit the urls to google and "submit to index"

You can manually submit up 500 urls to be indexed and they are usually added to index within 24 hrs.

This is not an issue, it is quite common today with responsive designs. If hiding elements is not for tricking the crawlers then you should be safe.

If your changes do affect the urls then make sure you have working 301 redirects ready so the old urls still work.

Hello,

The robots directive will only prevent google from crawling the pages. In order t remove the pages from index you need to add "meta noindex" to the pages you want to have removed.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710

Google blog search perhaps?

http://www.google.com/blogsearch

I googled and I found this:

"If you don’t pass the exam, you can retake it after 14 days, but you must pay another $50 each time you do."

http://www.forthea.com/blog/2012/01/11/passing-the-google-analytics-iq-test-you-can-do-it/

Yes, it looks like they got their canonicals all wrong...

I think google will ignore the canonical tag in this situation. I remember Matt Cutts talking about if you got the canonicals all wrong Google would still index your site.

"What sunk the pirate ship? Canonical issues!"

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Hello Gary,

You can use the

hreflang="'en-IE" href="www.your-ie.site"> element

For more information see: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

You can also in Google webmaster tools set the country a specific domain is targeting.