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Hi,

I'm showing my videos using jquery lightbox etc.

This means that I do not have the normal YouTube "embedding" code onpage.

Does anyone know if Google will somehow index my videos?

Any solutions / ideas?

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Hi,

Do you recommend removing Meta Keywords or is there "nothing to lose" with having them?

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Hi,

Do you think that texts that are written inside the file's source code get more attention / more credit from Google than texts that are brought from the DB?

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The question is what is better SEO wise.
For example, Am I loosing link juice when I use pdf's?

Am I weakening my product pages somehow because people are leaving them when they want to see the guide? (I use target = "_blank" but still...)

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Hi,

On each product page in my e-commerce site, I have a link to show a certificate of authenticity for the product. (similar to any guide in an e-commerce site).

I also have the details as plain text on the page, but this is required.

What is the correct way to show it, using PDF or JPG?

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Dear Everett,

Can you supply the link to the article?

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Hi All,

As far as I know, Google also gives "importance" ranking to pages based on the number of clicks from the homepage that it takes to reach them.

The question I have is How Google treats menu items that are revealed only with hovering / click?

Menu Items such as the SEOMoz Blog that can be reached when hovering "Community" here in the top menu. Is it an equivalent to the Q&A Forum? Would it be the same if the menu would have opened with a click instead of hovering?

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What I currently have is like your second suggestion, main page with many articles sections. However I have too many articles on it.

Besides, I believe that the guides section will be very good and is worth standing on its own.

The reason I'm not changing the structure of the existing articles is simply because the articles there already have many social signals (likes etc.) which I don't want to lose when I change the URL.

Hi,

I have an e-commerce website that has an articles section:

There is an articles.aspx file that can be reached from the top menu and it holds links to all of the articles as follows:

xxx.com/articles/article1.aspx
xxx.com/articles/article2.aspx

I want to add several new articles under a new sections, for example a complete set of articles under the title of "buying guide" and the question is what would be the best way?

I was thinking of adding a "computers-buying-guides.aspx" accessible from the top menu / footer and from it linking to:

xxx.com/computer-buying-ghudes/what-to-check-prior-to-buying-a-laptop.aspx
xxx.com/computer-buying-ghudes/weight-vs-performance.aspx 
etc.

Any thoughts / recommendations?

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I think you are correct.

Here are the AddThis buttons script samples (no href):

<a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>                                   
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>                                   
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a>                                   
<a class="addthis_button_compact"></a>                                   
<a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a>

Here are the ShareThis buttons which are used by SEOMoz on blog posts (without <a>):</a>

<a>Just in case, I think I will go with ShareThis from now on...

Still looking for more ideas if anyone has...</a>

Hi,

I'm using AddThis sharing on my site.

The implementation is by embedding a href's all over the site.

Do these buttons take my LinkJuice?

Thanks

Works amazing!!!!!

Thanks a lot for all of your help.

THANKS!!! I've been working on it since your first reply

Last question (I'm a bit rude now) -

I also have price beneath "The New Ipad" anchor. Currently it is not in the href and I'm thinking of keeping it this way (which would mean it will be in the H3 but not in the href).

Also, the href's are simple href's not surrounded by h3's, What do you think? Changing them? (keeping the price outside the href but inside the H3)

It seems correct but changing would mean of a lot of anchors will be changed on the entire website... scarry

Is there a way to do so and having the link appearing beneath the image?

I don't want to change the design

Dear Alan,

If Google will see it as two pages I'm guessing I will need to add a canonical to the # version. Is that the case?

What about having the image with a javascript link? (location.href) or is that suspicious?

Thank you for the answer.

I'm not too strong with css besides for the basics,

what you mean is that the anchor will be displayed beneath the image for the user even though the code is placed before the image and also that clicking on the image will actually be like clicking on the anchor since its size includes the image???

Brilliant, it will also give more "engagement credit" to the anchor instead of splitting it (actually ppl usually clicking on the image).

By the way, do you put all of your products on the page as H3?

Thanks

Hi All,

We have an e-commerce website and the category pages are built so that there is a product image and below it there is the title. Both the image and the title are in a href (each on its own).

I encountered the following unfinished discussion here at MOZ:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-to-optimize-achor-text-links-on-ecommerce-category-page#post-93758

The discussion states that its improper.

The question is - if it is wrong then why? (maybe because Google will give its weight to the image anchor instead of the text anchor since it is higher in the page).

The other question is how to resolve the matter?
Should I add nofollow to the image href?

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Firstly, I wondered if there are any news about this discussion...

Secondly, I wondered why it matters.
Is it because Google will consider only the first link from page A to B?
If that is the case (assuming you can't change the look and feel of the site) won't adding nofollow to the image link will solve the problem?

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Bob, your question is irrelevan "How do you get enough links without including some directories" because today it's ALL about quality and not quantity.

Now on a different note based on my experience. We did lots of directories way back and many of them show in the WMT as if they are pointing hundreds of links to my site. These sites are very simple and made to the point of links, they don't use rels properly (next, prev, canonical etc.) so Google thinks I have cross sites links from them - I only want to remove these links these days... Only use directories that you think are serious.

To be honest, I don't get why to do that.

I'd get the best article on my site, rewrite it (not spinning) and publish the simpler rewritten version.

I believe that also the rewritten version shouldn't be used more than a couple of times. I think that the best practice would be to have the distributed articles point out to your on site article as the source of information but don't do too many of these.

Coppied content of any type today is not healthy.

Hi All,

In my e-commerce site in each product page I have the breadcrumbs on top which show the root categories  that lead to this product.

However, I saw once that Google even if you use several anchors from page A to page B Google treats only/mainly the first anchor.

This means that inserting contextual links on the product text, the product description, that leads to the category page (which is an important landing page) is irrelevant/ambiguous since the link is already in the breadcrumb on top.

What do you think?

Should I insert contextual links on the item description or is it worthless?

Thanks

Hello,

I'm considering strategic change in my site's formation.
301 redirecting some of the pages is not a problem but the question remains - what will happen with all of my social signals?

These pages have Likes, plus ones, and tweets.

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Hello All,

I once read that htm files are considered stronger (SEO wise) than aspx files and I wondered if that is correct.

Obviously, I mean the static part of aspx files for example making my about us page in htm and not aspx. Among the advantages of aspx is the usage of a master page (a template) for the design etc.

Any thoughts?

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Hi,

I have images that match several different keywords and I wondered if I can give them different alts based on the page that they are displayed or will Google be angry with me?

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Hi All,

I know that social bookmarks are considered to be a good thing when pointing to a specific page. Is that the same to simple facebook "Likes" and tweets?

By Likes I mean on page and not on Facebook fan page.

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Hi All,

Up till now I've been registered only to Google WMT.

Do you recommend using at the same time Bing's WMT?

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Dear Stephanie,

What I recently decided to do (and I wonder what you think of it), is putting "similar available products" on the non existing product with links to the other products.

However, consider the fact that the non existing product is actually non reachable (since it is not available the product category pages don't point to it) so eventually it will be de-indexed.

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Thank you both for the answers.
In my case the site is more like Egol's first example.

I will then add two related questions -

1. Should such related articles that I will use mostly for branding, likes and basically authority be posted in my Blog or Article section?

2. Egol - Don't you feel that putting ads in such article "hurts" your brand?
(making it appear to be smaller - you won't see ads on GAP etc.)

Thanks again

Hi All,

I'm maintaining an e-commerce website and I've encountered some related keywords that I know will not convert to sales but are related to the subject and might help becoming an "authority".

I'll give an example...

If a car dealership wrote an amazing article about cleaning a car.
Obviously it is related but the chances of someone looking to clean his car will go ahead and buy one now are quite low. Also, he will probably bounce out of this page after reading the piece.

To conclude, Would such an article do GOOD (helping to become an authority and having more visitors) or BAD (low conversion rate and high bounce rate)?

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Hi All,

Lately you see more and more JQuery slides in pages.
These banner slides can obviously contain html texts & links as well as photos.

Does Google notice all of the texts in all of the slides of a page or does it notice only the first slide or alternatively somehow splits the weight it gives to the texts among the various slides.

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In the following video with Cutts:

http://youtu.be/r1lVPrYoBkA

he explains a bit more about 301 redirects but he only talks about cross sites.

What about redirecting internally from a non-existing product in a store to a new similar existing product?

The thing is that we didn't hire "professionals" until we were very highly ranked and were "busy" of work and had to outsource it. We tried several companies and freelancers and within a couple of months stayed only with the best one but it seems that the damage was done.

I always thought that what they did can't hurt me but rather won't do any good.

Otherwise, what prevents me from hire these guys to "promote" my competitors?
Who knows, maybe someone did it to me?

Do you know what is the proper way to ask for reconsideration?

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Hi All,

While trying to grow we used several freelancers and small companies for guest blogging, article submissions etc.

We lost about 90% of traffic from our peek at December.

We don't know if it is related but we got the following message last week:
"Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links to www.domain.com"

Is it related (getting this message after two months of losing traffic)?

What to do????

(P.S
We fired most of the companies we used months ago since we noticed they used bad methods. We didn't believe it can hurt us - just thought it would be useless...)

Please Help...

Dear Cyrus,

I completely agree that there is no good and added value with the stock id and measurements for Google but I felt like I had no choice.

I didn't want to start putting canonical between the pages because every other day an item is sold and then I would need to change the canonical to a similar existing item.

Are you saying that when a page makes a canonical to himself Google does not index it? Or treats it as a non original page (a copied page) even if I don't specify from where it is copied?

Please see the following question I asked that is about this matter and got a different response:  http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-there-a-reason-to-put-a-canonical-to-yourself-interesting-case

Thanks

The articles are for additional relevant texts to the website allowing me to catch more keywords and add relevant texts and pages to my site...

Hi All,

I was wondering when I should write something as a post in my blog and when I should simply add an article in my articles section?

What are the advantages of each way?

Thanks

Thanks all, it makes lots of sense but it brings me to ask another question...

What do I put in the Blog and what do I put as an article in my articles section?

Dear Alan,

I thought that 404 means a missing page.

However, the pages are there simply no-one pointing to them (because the item is out of stock). This is why I thought to 301 them to a similar existing item or to the category page.

Also, it happens to me a lot since I am selling unique pieces (like art pieces) so each time a product is sold the page becomes irrelevant and it may happen even to 100 pages per week. What do you recommend?

Thanks

Hi,

I was wondering what is the best way to run a blog?

The options I thought of are:

1. Completely separate domain with many links to my main site.
2. blog.domain.com
3. www.domain.com/blog

Thanks

Dear Egol,

Whats the point in investing in the sold items gallery if you still redirect the pages - no one (not human nor Google) will be able to enter the pages...

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Hi,

I was looking at BlueNile (biggest diamonds online dealer in the world) since I was wondering how they dealt with similar products and with sold products.

Each diamond that is sold is unique. Once it is sold it is unavailable for sale.

Also, all diamonds are VERY similar so they should also find a way to handle duplication in content.

Look at the following 2 pages:

http://www.bluenile.com/round-diamond-1-carat-or-less-ideal-cut-g-color-vs1-clarity_LD02360835

http://www.bluenile.com/round-diamond-1-carat-or-less-ideal-cut-g-color-vs1-clarity_LD02366155

The pages are practically identical and in the "view source" I noticed that they add a canonical tag to themselves...

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks

Hi All,

What happens with an indexed page that I 301 redirect?
Is it removed from the Google index after a while?

Thanks

Hi,

I have an e-commerce website that sells unique items (one of a kind).

We have hundreds of items and the items are rapidly sold.

Up till now I kept the sold items under our "sold items" section but it started to get back at me as we have more "sold" than non sold and we are having duplication problems (the items are quite similar besides to sizes etc.).

What should we do? Should we redirect 100 pages each week? Will Google be upset with that? (for driving it crazy)

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Hi Mat,

I encountered myself the same issue and wondered what you thought...

I run an e-commerce website. There was a point where I saw a keyword that is somehow related to my site but I knew that it would have low percentage to convert.

I decided to try and added an article about it. It got me on first page for two keywords (positions 3 and 7) that are exact searched about 420,000 times (which is much more than all of my main subjects together...).

The article is very good and informative - I have 80% bounce and average time on page of over 2 minutes. Meaning people are coming, reading and then most of them are leaving. By the way, I have an outgoing link there to a more related site assuming that I rather have them going out through me than back to Google.

Is that a good thing or I should stay away from these type of articles?

Thanks. The site I was asking about  is written in aspx so there is no htaccess file.
Also I was asking specifically on the home page as it seems that the SEOMoz crawler states as if I have duplicate content on my homepage - because of the slash...
I knew to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com but didn't give any consideration to the "/".

Regardless (on the same matter), I have another site which is a wordpress site and now you got me wondering - where to should I link to in my articles:

www.example.com/content

www.example.com/content/

Because both would get the same page...

Highland,

This is what open site explorer shows.

It states that I have 2,005 external links to www.domain.com

and it shows that I have 7,164 total external links to www.domain.com/

It also refers to the second as a subdomain.

Hi,

I only now found out that www.domain.com and www.domain.com/ are different.

Most of my external links are directed to  www.domain.com/ 
Which I understand is considered the subdomain and not the domain.

Should I redirect? (and if so how?)
Should I post new links only to my domain?

Creating 301 to non-existing products is easy (technically speaking) - are you sure that it not considered a bad thing by Google? (pages keep being removed).

Thanks again

Dear Chas,

You are actually correct - Google often sends people to the sold items pages and while I assumed that they will look for a similar product - they actually bounce!  This is why I thought that if I will add a one way link from a sold Item to an available item Google will direct them to the available item.

About redirection - I can do that but it will be lots of redirections - products are rapidly changing.

Maybe I really should simply remove a product completely when it is sold (make it unreachable from the website - no links to it at all) and have a 301 on it and call it a day... What do you think?

see update on top. Thanks