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Can having multiple H1 tags on a webpage be detrimental to its rankings?

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I am completely perplexed here guys.  I have accomplished all of the the things that the On- Page Analysis tool says that we need to perform as far as( Keyword laden page titles and webpages) yet the report comes back and gives the webpage a C and says that we still need to correct these issues. Can anyone explain this?

The keywords are: " real estate augusta ga" " property management augusta ga"

the address is: www.aubenrealty.com

Thanks in advance,

C

If you are leaving comments on these blogs with your web address, I would think that the answer would be " Possible but not in the way that you think"

Most bloggers have code in their html that tell the Google spiders to " not follow"  the links in their comments section. They do this in a attempt to keep spammers from stuffing their comment section with links when they are not actually bringing value to the discussion. So, you will not get boost in the SERPs due to link juice.

But do not lose hope. If you are an active part in the blogging community and you give good advice and bring relevant comments. People will in inadvertently check you out and your website. Sometimes they will even approach you to solve a solution. I was told some good advice here one time " Never join an online community for the link juice. Join it because you enjoy it and you want to be apart of the community."

If you are guest blogging, this may be a different case...

Hope this was helpful,

C

Thanks, Paul

You are correct. Since making this post I was able to speak to our developer and she said that we are not using a popular CMS. It's just something simple that she custom built for us as an attempt to cut down cost for us. The website was built before my time at this company and the original thought was that the website and content would not grow to the point of us needing a CMS because CMS can be expensive. This may not be the case going forward. Our developer said that she will build us a database and figure out a way to give us access to this database so that we will have the ability to tinker with page titles. We feel that this is the best solution.

Here is an email that she sent us:

_....The problem with that is what I explained earlier, your site uses the same header and footer for every page. That's why the title appears on every page the same way._Basically think of it like this....

we have a header and footer, each as one file. So the home page would look like this...

header

homepage content

footer

We do this, so if you make a change to the header or footer, it affects every single page without actually having to update 20 different pages...... So all of your meta tags including the title tag are all located in the header file.

Having said that, to change those out on a page by page basis, it can be done absolutely, but to keep using the header and footer files, it will need to be database driven and changed out based on what page is displaying. I would need to give you guys a place to be able to go in and edit the title tag on each individual page. So it can be done, but as you can see it isn't as easy as just changing some text, some things would need to be programmed to make it happen.....

Please weigh in on this guys. The last thing that I want is for this developer to pull the wool over our eyes.

No, it's worth a lot Paul.

Thank you for clearing that point up for me!!!

Ahhh,

So this might be kind of a dumb question but does the page that your link shows up on affect the strength of the Referral. For example ( We just got a "do follow" link on a National Association website with major link juice. Our link is not on the homepage but it is on a sub-domain. If it were on the homepage would it have made a bigger affect ?)

Hey, Guys

How long does it take for Google to recognize your link-building efforts with authority websites and affect the SERPS?

Yes, it definitely will cause problems because I just got the same problem resolved. My companies website had the same dilemma. One UA # did not have any analytic and one did. Our Google Analytics were not showing up. The SEOmoz team was able to get me straight.

Just email SEOmoz in the help hub: http://www.seomoz.org/help

and one of their peeps will get you straight. Try setting up your account first though.

Have you tried getting some of SEO applications that WordPress offers? They have free packages that allow you to enter meta data such as the title tag to your webpage. What kind of website do you have? I work in real estate and I found out that some of our duplicate content came from our web developer not optimizing the web submission pages for visitors interested in properties.

Categories help your posts get found  within a website while the tags help your post get found on the search engines. My assumption is that you are using WordPress. ( For example: I run a blog on real estate investing. There are several categories to choose from inside of the WordPress website.I want people who are highly interested in reading about the niche subject of real estate investing to read my post so, I type in the categories, " investing" " real estate." This helps the visitors who are apart of the WordPress community and are interested in real estate investing find my blog. What the tags do is help people who go to Google and type in " real estate investing blogs" find my blog.  This is the difference as I understand it.  The good thing is that you will only have to type your tags once. Once they are in the system, it just a matter typing a few letters before it pops up.

No, the descriptive tags helped my blog posts get noticed and it better optimized my post for the search engines. I know that it is a pain starting out but I can say that I could tell a difference in the posts that had tags and the posts that did not.

Yea,

Thanks Paul. This is exactly what I thought . I just needed someone in my Amen corner

Hey, Mozzers

I have a question about optimizing a web-page. I was just having a conversation with our web developer about optimizing our website and which changes would make the most difference in affecting the SERPs as far as on-page optimization goes.

I was explaining to her we wanted to optimize our pages in the following levels (ranked most important to least important):

1. <title>: key word laden </p> <p>2)  <H1> : key word in <strong>bold</strong></p> <p>3) page content: keyword laden as well</p> <p>The idea was to have three or four layers of keywords on the page. I work for a real estate brokerage and the context was the actual page of the property listing. So in this case, the keywords would be the address of the property. She explained to me that the the H1 tag is more important than the title tag.</p> <p>Does this ring true with you guys?</p></title>

Hmmm, interesting.

Well they do have Snellville GA and fence company a ton in bold in the page content.  This is an anomaly to me. My first thought was that this keyword must not be very competitive but once I pulled keyword analysis, this was not the case. Is it possibly that they ran a successful adwords campaign in the past and this catapulted them into a high  SERP ranking and now they are just riding the waves of past successes. My explanations are completely exhausted.

I am curious about what someone more knowledge than myself has to say about it.

One suggestion that I would make is to make your keywords more localized ( i.e. long-tailed keyword) because I am sure that the broad keyword in the title tag is going to have you competing with the big dogs ( nike, adidias, etc.) on the web. It's like marketing 101, find your niche market and run with it.  Also, you just missed a big opportunity with the Masters tournament going on in Augusta. I would have thrown some Master's content on my website leading up to the Masters, especially since you have the Rory connection going on. I would have maybe had a Master's special or a blog post about Masters participants who were born near your home base. You can also do a link analysis of your competitors and try to repeat what they have done.

Yea, have you tried using OSE? This shows you the links to your competitors website: the exact page and the domain.

When was the last moz report pulled?  Was there any changes made to the website ? I am assuming that you pulled a crawl on the website, right? Seems a little confusing

Why can't you just have a link to a artist bio page.

For example:

Click to read: John Doe's  bio 

This seems to solve the issue of usability as well as the issue with duplicate content. Just a suggestions. Learning more myself.

Oooh, yes

This is a good question. I am having the exact same issue with my website. In OSE it only shows that we have like 3 linking root domains but we have more under followed back links.

I Just found this out in OSE

"Although we do not currently display a count of total links for this filter set, you can still view all the links by paginating or downloading a CSV (up to 25 links per domain)."

I am curious about what someone more knowledge than myself has to say.  What is GWMT & what are your issues with OSE. It takes a little time to get use to but I understand it pretty well.

Yea, Sean

I agree that you should move it under the main website. I am not an expert at this but I can definitely see how it can potentially dilute your juice from the main website. It almost seems like it should be on the resources page. I see how you guys have " Showcase| Case Studies| Hosting| ..." I would stick it between " Case Studies" and " Hosting."

What was the rationale behind putting it on a different domain?

Thank, Francisco

I am new to this and I am trying to learn as much as I can.

Thanks, Guys

Yes, I know. We have to make a lot of changes to make and I am the first person to really take up the SEO baton with this company. I have a lot of work ahead of me as you can tell. The good thing is that these are not hard fixes and I am not in a really competitive market. A lot of the people in this real estate market don't know or care to know anything about SEO. Apparently, the person who set up our website did not know a lot about SEO and stuffed the meta data. I also have the issue of not having access to making these changes. The only person has access to this is our web developer and she does not respond in a speedy fashion. I will ask about which platform we are on. I am pretty sure that we are not on Wordpress.  I am very familiar with Wordpress. I have used Drupul before too. This CMS is very simple and basic. I will find out and hopefully you guys will be able to help me with my dilemma then.

Thanks,

Hey, Guys

I have a dilemma that I cannot figure out how to solve. One thing that I have learned is that the meta tag is probably one of the most important factors of SEO. I work in the industry of real estate and we are located in a mid-sized market, Augusta, GA, which does not have  a hugely competitive  digital marketplace. So, I have told my web developer the changes that I want her to make to our major sub-domain pages on our website. I am anticipating that once she makes these changes which will allow me to make the necessary SEO changes to website, that we will see some good results. I have one dilemma that I can't figure out how to solve with the meta title tag.

Check out our rental section: http://aubenrealty.com/rentals.cfm

Now, click on any rental property and it will take you to that rental's page. Notice the page title " Auben Realty- real estate....." This is identical for every active and non-active property on our website. Every time we create a new property, this is what it spits out. Now, take it a step further and click on " Contact me about this property," and you will see the same page title.

My dilemma is, " How do we fix this?"

My assumption is that the best page title would be the address for each property( ex, 1322 Laurel Street, Augusta Ga 30904), right ?

Is this some kind of simple coding adjustment?

For it to be that dramatic, it has to be a Google update in my opinion. Have you tried looking up the changes that Google has made and seeing if you have failed victim to the changes?

Hello. All

I have a question in regards to online communities. Is joining an online community( i.e. Industry related forums, commenting on industry related news sites, responding to blog post) a good way to do link building?  I don't mean in the sense of spamming but actually being an active part of a online community and adding valuable to the conversation. I have tried posting blog post on a industry related online community: biggerpockets.com  but this site does not show up as a link when I pull an open site explorer for my website.

Any suggestions ?

How long does it take for Google to recognize SEO changes that I have made to my website?

Yes, Mike

You hit hammer right on the nail. This is what I was asking.

http://aubenrealty.com/

Here it is the code:

<title>Auben Realty - real estate brokerage specializing in property management and sales throughout the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA).</title>

This code is identical for every page of our website. I know the title and description should be unique to the content on the webpage. My question is about the keyword tag. Should I fret over this. My web developer said that because of the way that our website was originally set-up, we can't make the keywords unique to each page. They all have to be identical.

I am currently trying to optimize my companies website and I noticed that meta content is exactly the same for all of the pages on our website. Isn't this problematic? The actual content on the webpage is not the same and a lot of the pages don't have these keywords in the content.