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Hi,

On my E-commerce site I use optimized Url's (product names) with my native language (Hebrew)

I am going to translate some of the product pages to English with differnat descriptions, correct layout, etc...

But I was wandering about the product Url's.

1. Should I stay with the original product URL and add a language parameter to the url?

2. Should I add a completely new URL using the English product name?

Of course what I'm worrying the most of is duplicate content.

Thanks,

Asaf

Currently for every page I automatically add my brand name

Ie: poduct xxx - brand name

product yyy - brand name.

is this considered good or bad practice?

Hi,

A long time ago I've added schema.org product syntax to my product detail pages.

until today there is no evidence for any rich snippet on my serps.

needless to say that testing tool is working ok with reviews ratings prices etc...

Will adding rich snippet syntax to category pages(product lists) be any better?

Thanks,

Asaf

for the last couple of weeks the SEOMOZ crawls my homepage only and gets 4xx error for most of the URL's.

the crawler have no issues with English url's only with the unicode(Hebrew) ones.

this is what is see in the csv export for the crawl (one sample) :

http://www.funstuff.co.il/׳ž׳¡׳׳‘׳×-׳¨׳•׳•׳§׳•׳× 404 text/html; charset=utf-8

you can see that the URL is Gibberish

please help.

Google has done some chnages to the organic search results in analytics:

http://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-update-to-organic-reports-111029

The results from conduit were always there but not classified as organic

Thanks for the answer,

I'm using .net so I'll change the redirect to Server.Transfer, I think it looks better.

Do you think there is any difference from SEO perspective between the two methods ?

Hi,

Currently when a page is not found I make a 301 redirect to a 404 page

should I really do a redirect or maybe a rewrite of the 404 page without redirection?

Thanks,

Asaf

AFAIK Wix is SEO friedly,

I don't have any first hand experience with it but I think they have an HTML Filter to help with SEO

"Wix sites are built using Flash. Although search engine robots cannot index Flash content, Wix developed a solution. As a user builds his or her Wix site, xml files are generated translate the site’s text and content into pure HTML"

look at the following thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6e1a376d2d64f5c3&hl=en

Asaf.

Hi,

My product categories have 2-3 pages each.

I have paging implemented with rel=next and rel=prev.

from some reason Google GWT now reports the pages as having duplicate titles and description.

Should I be worried?

Should I set a different title like "blue category - page x" ?

Thanx,

Asaf

I've been using GoGrid for 2 years and very happy with the reliability and service. In my opinion they are chipper then Amazon when talking about the full bundle(Load balancers, CDN etc..).  They usually have a 100$ free trial so you can try them for a full month

I've made this change in September, and from the users point of view the experience is much better, I read some time ago that Google takes into account different sorting of categories,

Even when you add new products to a category, some of the others get pushed back, So I hope Google does know how to handle it.

I haven't tried to hide 'out of stock' products but I'm always careful with hiding stuff on the client side since this can be interpreted the wrong way by Google.

I think that doing it server side is better but It's the same like sorting.

The only reason to show an 'out of stock' product on top is if It's really popular and if you either know when It's coming back to stock or let the user subscribe to a 'back in stock' email.

Hops this helps

I had the same problem,

What I finally did is to sort the products and always placing the temp out of stock products at the end of the list / or on the last page.

When a product is discontinued I remove it and 301 redirect to a similar product.

Asaf

I've seen that too.

one of my competitors has a link from data.london.gov.uk

which looks like a strange file download

First I thought it was some sort of a bug,

but he has a couple of those.

Asaf

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Hi,

Some time ago I have implemented schema.org product schema on all of my product pages.

The rich snippet tool provided by Google shows that the relevant info is extracted (they say that preview is not supported so no preview there)

My issue is that I can't see any rich snippet displayed for any on my searches, which leads me to think that there is something wrong with my implementation.

sample page: www.funstuff.co.il/tabid/62/ProdID/933/products.aspx [editor's note: adult oriented content, NSFW]

Any one has an Idea?

Thanks,

Asaf

I think they have a huge issue with sessions now.

based on people's comments, the change seems to be rather big and renders the results almost useless. I guess if It's going to stay that way I should learn how to read the new results.

well it is a change: http://analytics.blogspot.com/

apparently on 11/8 Google has changed they way they close sessions.

and I'm way out of they're 1% change - "this change may slightly increase the number of visits"

they could have sent a simple mail.........

Usually I don't have a lot of traffic

Organic search was

a couple of days ago(very much average)

39 visits - 76.92% new visits - 20.51% bounce rate

today (till now):

72 visits - 50.00% new visits - 62.50% bounce rate

It's an adult novelty store,

and there is currently a valentines day like event here but the keywords that bring in the traffic are also not directly related to this event and the fact that the bounce rate has increased on these terms alerted me.

but maybe I should wait a couple of days and see

Hi,

in the last couple of days I've seen the following changes in my analytics:

1. about 35% increase in overall traffic(both organic and ppc)

2. new visitors dropped about 20%(both organic and ppc)

3. bounce rate increased in about 10%(both organic and ppc)

I haven't done any changes to the analytics code nor any other big change to the website.

I'm obviously pleased with the increase in traffic but worried about the fact that it is mostly from returning visitors.

I just want to make sure that nothing went bad so I can catch this on time, any advice on what to look for would be great.Thanks,

Asaf

Currently No,

Since new products I get need to be manually linked to existing products (over 500)

But I plan to do it automatically over time based on other viewed items in the same category by the same user.

Personally I 301 the page to a new/similar product page. in my case every product has a related products list, and when a product is removed/archived i redirect to the first related item in the list.

I think this is best since any links out there will be redirected to the new product.

Thanks,

That was it.

any idea why Google identifies my site as adult, and not any other sites in my category?

maybe image names or such?

Why are my search results missing  the google preview magnifying glass icon next to them?

My site is an adult toys e-commerce/portfolio site. but doesn't have any sexual explicit content

especially on the homepage.

I used to have Goole preview working  a few month ago but have changed the skin a couple of month ago and Preview is not avalable for my site since then.

Google's preview testing tool shows a perfect image for my site.

url: http://www.funstuff.co.il

Thanks,

Asaf