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Same for me, plus the mozbar is also faulty and is trying to load 'facebook plugin' data instead of the page I am currently viewing.

I'm seeking some social media plugin advice, in relation to SEO. This may not be possible to answer yet, or ever? But it could be worth a discussion.

As far as i can see, there are two main forms of plugins (taking facebook as an example):

• 1 that directly connects a user to your brand page on said platform (eg like us on facebook)
• 1 that allows a user to 'like', 'share', 'recommend' the page that you are on as a sign of respect and/or sharing content

For a home page, I am confused as to which one to use, without filling out the whole page with plugins.

One objective is to increase fan numbers, the other is to increase content sharing, and possibly SEO? I've noticed that Google has been returning some personalised results based on mine, or my google+ connections +1's.

So to the question...

Do you think having more fans on the new Google Pages for business accounts will improve SEO to the same, if not higher weighting than a +1 does? and therefore is it more important to get more brand page followers, or +1's of the homepage?

Thank you James and Alan, for the quick response.

As it says on the tin;

Is there such thing as a good text/code ratio? And can it effect SERPs?

I'm currently looking at a 20% ratio whereas some competitors are closer to 40%+.

Best regards,
Sam.

I don't believe that would work as the results pages display different content.

I think I've got my head round this and its quite simple really, mainly an error on my judgement.

We've chosen to no index the dynamically created pages, but leave the follow on so that the actual jobs still get some juice and display in Googles index. I made the mistake of assuming that by no indexing the search results this would also block the googlebot from finding the actual individual job pages.

Hi all,

I'm quite new to the SEO space so I apologise if all the information below isn't technically perfect.

I ran the SEOmoz pro tool for the first time a month ago (fantastic tool). It picked up a wealth of errors on our site that we are now working on.

the problem: we use dynamic pages to display job listings pulled from our database that have picked up many duplicate page titles and content.

For example:

_Landing page: _http://www.arm.co.uk/jobs/it-contract-jobs/sec=itcontractjobs

_Page 2: _http://www.arm.co.uk/jobs/1/-/-/2/itcontractjobs-/9999/2

_Page 3: _http://www.arm.co.uk/jobs/1/-/-/2/itcontractjobs-/9999/3

Following the results of the Moz tool we have now 'no indexed' and 'no followed' the dynamic pages and the errors have dramatically dropped, great!

However, on reflection we generate quite a lot of traffic to individual job's listed on our website. By no following the pages we have restricted passing on any 'juice' to these pages, and by no indexing we may be taking them out of Googles index completely. These dynamic pages and individual job listings do generate a lot of traffic to our website via organic search.

We do submit the site index to Google that should index the individual jobs that way.

So, the question is (I hope this is making sense), are the gains of reducing errors picked up in the moz tool (to improve the overall site performance) likely to outweigh the traffic generated on these dynamically generated pages by being indexed and followed by Google.

Ultimately we would like the static landing pages to retain a stronger page rank.

Any guidance is very much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Sam.

Perfect. thanks Dan!

I know that I asked quite an open question that is likely a frustrating one to experienced SEO professional. But that kind of structure in your response really helps me to organise what in my head is a chaotic task :).

Hello!

I'm an Online Marketeer who's taking on some SEO responsibility internally (after months of researching - information overload) and will be working with an external agency.

I'll get to the point here. The difficulty I have is in getting my head around approaching our SEO strategy.

I have what I would class as a beginner-intermediate understand of SEO and the tools and techniques available for assistance (many great articles available on this forum and others). I feel that there are some real opportunities for our company that has already placed investment into SEO previously. The difficulty I have is working out how to approach the whole campaign.

We are a recruitment consultancy with many many vertical markets, the sheer amount of keywords could be staggering. For some short insights we have a homepage PR 4, Alexa 338,361, PA 56, moz Rank 4.61.

I've started by using the SEOmoz pro tool to identify problems with our sites optimisation and improve them. On reflection our site is doing OK, but we really need to show some significant results in search rankings, increases in traffic, and ultimately conversions.

I'm a keen user of G-analytics and love the SEOmoz tool (a selection of the tools I will use to measure results).

Are there any basic frameworks to devising a strategy that could help point me in the right direction?

E.g.

Keyword Research
Identify Keywords
Optimise Site for keywords
Setup campaign to measure keywords SERP's
Perform internal & external SEO techniques
Wait and see what happens and continuously improve

I appreciate there could be no simple answer to this project. If you would like any more information about who we are please let me know by comment.

Best Regards,
Sam.