I'm keen to know, too. Thanks.

Thank you - so am I right in saying the quote above says it doesn't matter whether the site is .ie or .com - it will not be detrimental to its ability to be shown in any version of Google search?

Hi all, I am working on a .ie website and I was under the understanding that if you have a regional domain, like .ie you will limited to being shown in a search engine like google.ie

When I go to International Targeting in Google SEarch Console it says the site is associated with: Ireland

Am I limiting my ability to rank well in worldwide Google searches with this domain and if so, how can I counter this?

Many thanks.

Hi there, what are your thoughts on word count for a content site vs. an ecommerce site.

A lot of content sites have no problem pushing out 500+ words per page, which for me is a decent amount to help you get traction. However on ecommerce sites, a lot of the time the product description only needs to be sub-100 words and the total word count on the page comes in at under 300 words, a lot of that could be considered duplicate.

So what are your views? Do ecommerce sites still need to have a high word count on the product description page to rank better?

Thanks for all the responses everyone and thanks Jewel for taking time to lay out that taxonomy.

So what you're saying is, it's better to have one page /whitening with all the different services in full, than to have:

/whitening/ - hub page H2s for each service and a paragraph on each with a link to more i.e.

Home Whitening Kit

with a link to:

/whitening/home-whitening-kit/ - full page with lots of in depth info, linking back to main hub page for other whitening services.

Thank you.

Hi all,

I'm working on a dentist's website and want some advice on the best way to lay out the navigation. I would like to know which structure will help the site work naturally. I feel the second example would be better as it would focus the 'power' around the type of treatment and get that to rank better.

.com/assessment/whitening
.com/assessment/straightening
.com/treatment/whitening
.com/treatment/straightening

or

.com/whitening/assessment
.com/straightening/assessment
.com/whitening/treatment
.com/straightening/treatment

Please advise, thanks.

Hi all,

Let's say I have two websites: www.mywebsite.com and www.mywebsite.de - they share a lot of content but the main categories and URLs are almost always different.

Am I right in saying I can't just set the hreflang tag on every page of www.mywebsite.com to read:

rel='alternate' hreflang='de' href='http://mywebsite.de' />

That just won't do anything, right?

Am I also right in saying that the only way to use hreflang properly across two domains is to have a customer hreflang tag on every page that has identical content translated into German?

So for this page: www.mywebsite.com/page.html my hreflang tag for the german users would be:

<link < span="">rel='alternate' hreflang='de' href='http://mywebsite.de/page.html' /></link <>

Thanks for your time.

Hi all, I work for a retailer and I've crawled our website with RankTracker for optimization suggestions.

The main suggestion is "Pages with excessive number of links: 4178"

The page with the largest amount of links has 634 links (627 internal, 7 external), the lowest 382 links (375 internal, 7 external).

However, when I view the source on any one of the example pages, it becomes obvious that the site's main navigation header contains 358 links, so every new page starts with 358 links before any content.

Our rivals and much larger sites like argos.co.uk appear to have just as many links in their main navigation menu.

So my questions are:

1. Will these excessive links really be causing us a problem or is it just 'good practice' to have fewer links
2. Can I use 'no follow' to stop Google etc from counting the 358 main navigation links
3. Is have 4000+ pages of your website all dumbly pointing to other pages a help or hindrance?
4. Can we 'minify' this code so it's cached on first load and therefore loads faster?

Thank you.