If you opt to go with links, setting rel="nofollow" won't hurt a bit... no need for google to be checking out the registration form page
Posts made by blu42media
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RE: What type of link should I usef or view cart, login and register
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RE: Should I Have No Index, No Follow On Blog Category & Tag Pages?
There are a couple of different approaches to take. My personal fave is the "noindex,follow" on tag & category pages. Having said that, I've heard of some people who have great category rankings. That may depend on just how much duplication you have going on between the category/summary page and the actual blog post pages.
The Yoast SEO and All in One SEO plugs are great for WP by the way.
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RE: Too many on page links for WP blog page
No, there are indeed over 100 <a>tags on the page. I guess I wasn't very clear... sorry for the confusion.</a>
<a>You have 10 blog post summaries listed on the page. Each post summary has a few links plus there are many other nav links on the page, bringing you up over the 100 mark. If you keep adding posts that count should stay roughly the same....when you add more posts the older ones are automatically pushed through to Older Posts, keeping the 10 latest summaries on that page.</a>
<a>As I mentioned earlier, one method to reduce the</a> <a>tag count on the page would be to remove the category links. They don't seem necessary since you are only using the one blog category.</a>
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RE: Too many on page links for WP blog page
How many posts do you want to have on a page? If your count is around 10 you should be in good shape.... and you can control how many of these posts appear on your first (summary) page. It looks like you're at 10 now; any additional posts are viewed through your "view older posts" at the bottom.
Agreed though, if you're showing 15+ post starts on your list then you'll certainly be over in link count.
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RE: Too many on page links for WP blog page
You have 10 stubs on the page ... that's a decent number and will keep your page's link count reasonable.
What about the idea of removing the "Filed under BLOG" links? If you're just running the single blog category, you wouldn't really need the links. That will save you 10 links right off the bat that can be reserved for links in the short descriptions.
The 100 link limit is a good rule of thumb, but you shouldn't be penalized if you're going a little over.
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RE: Too many on page links for WP blog page
Do you have a link to check out?
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RE: Tweet or ReTweet?
Hey Brent-
Have you seen these posts? Pretty cool stuff!
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/exactly-how-powerful-are-tweets-retweets
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tweets-effect-rankings-unexpected-case-study
Tweets are unique, so that would certainly help your unique link count... though with lots of people retweeting the same link I'm sure there's some power behind that as well.
Perhaps a test should be conducted??
@jennita - any feedback on your previous test?
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RE: Removing secure subdomain from google index
URL Removal would not be a good action in this case. According to Google, when they remove the https version, they will also remove the http version along with it.
How long ago did you implement the robots.txt exclusion for the https pages? It will take Google some time to pull this from their index. To help you can add the following on your https pages which will keep the pages from continuing to be cached:
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RE: How to seo : two domain having exactly the same content
Perhaps the question you should be asking is "what is the best way to host my site?". Perhaps you should look at cloud hosting via Rackspace or look at Media Temple for decent hosting options.
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RE: For SERPS which is better www or non www
Hi Andrew-
We were just discussion this earlier today... hope this thread helps you out!
http://www.seomoz.org/q/should-i-use-www-or-not-in-my-main-url
The general consensus is that google doesn't care either way. It boils down to either aesthetics, personal preference, or in the case of an existing domain whether one of the root links has already developed better rankings.
-John
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RE: Should I use www. or not in my main URL?
Theo's on the money here... it makes no difference to the engines.
If you need help deciding, check out which homepage (with or without www) has the higher rank and roll with that one!
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RE: Why does our page show a description in english in google spain?
You are correct, those sites do show but only when you are searching for those domains. I'm not seeing a sitemap.xml file, but that would be strongly recommended. Google does support sitemap indexes, which would be perfect for you in this situation! You'll need to submit a separate sitemap for each language, and there you can identify the root/home page for each one.
http://www.threebit.com/blog/seo/sitemaps-and-multilingual-websites.html
You need to communicate to Google where your /es and /de are residing. Having sitemaps in place for each of those roots would be best. Further, if you are defaulting to English, you should probably have your root domain point to the English site (/en) since the root and the /en are essentially the same page.
And yes, the root domain does have a language code in the head.
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RE: Why does our page show a description in english in google spain?
Are you sure about Google Germany? I just grabbed this screenshot.
Your root domain is showing on the listings for Germany and Spain yet you have this tag in the head:
| http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"/> |
You will need to get your /es and /de root pages listed on those engines for the language descriptions you are expecting.
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RE: Should I use a Page Name variable after the ? for a dynamic web page
Big Bazza is spot on here...
What system are you using? We might be able to point out a plug to get those friendly URLs that you're looking for
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RE: Meta Description In Blog Feed
The tag pages will only add duplicate content for you. It would be a good idea to add a meta tag for robots with the value "noindex,follow". This will keep the pages out of the index, yet still let the links be followed. There are plugins available for this sort of thing, Yoast has a good one; I believe All In One SEO is also pretty good too.
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RE: Why are apostrophes and other characters still showing as code in my titles?
Gabriel-
It's no problem for these codes to appear in other sections of the page. There are many character sets out there, and what may appear great to you (without codes) looks like gibberish to someone else. The codes help make for a uniform experience for everyone. For instance, there are no "smart quote" keys on your keyboard, yet some programs (like Word) will automatically insert these for you. To have these on a web page most systems will convert these to codes for you. The ampersand, however, falls into this category since it's often an escape character for other characters.
So, the place we're still really most concerned about is the meta title. I'm not sure why the mb_convert_encoding() function didn't work for you?
If you'd like me to take a closer look feel free to message me. This is solvable - I've done it before on WP sites.
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RE: Why are apostrophes and other characters still showing as code in my titles?
Gabriel-
Do you have some sort of site caching turned on?
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RE: SEO for E-Commerce
Thanks David... great points about the product descriptions. You do have to get creative to stand out!
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RE: SEO for E-Commerce
You're in the right place for SEO help... most folks in here really want to be here, so no worries about ego bashing.
What are you planning on using for a platform to develop the site?
Tricky areas to watch out for on e-commerce sites include handling of duplicate content on category (list) type pages vs. actual product pages, particularly if they are nested and search result pages. You will definitely want to use your rel="canonical" tags.
As for the domain name, it's certainly helpful to include keywords, but it's not the end of the world if you don't. You're really developing a brand. Think of ebay or twitter even. Clearly, no keywords to be found.
If you're talking about the rest of the URL, then yes, make sure you work with a platform that has good SEO support: search-engine friendly URLs, meta title & meta description support, and a place to enter descriptions for your images at the very least.
That's a start... certainly ask if you have other questions!
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RE: Why are apostrophes and other characters still showing as code in my titles?
Gabriel, I think we're close here... give this a try:
<title></p> <p><?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?></p> <p><?php echo mb_convert_encoding(get_bloginfo('name', 'display'), 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'); ?></p> <p></title>
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RE: Why are apostrophes and other characters still showing as code in my titles?
Look in your header.php file. Here's what the <title>tag code might look like. Again, you may need to wrap the mb function around more than one piece. This should get you started.</p> <blockquote style="color: #5e5e5e; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f7f7f7; padding-top: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 2px; padding-bottom: 5px; white-space: nowrap; overflow-y: auto; font-family: monospace; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><title><?php</span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">/*</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span>Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span> */</span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">global $page, $paged;</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><br /></span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><br /></span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">// Add the blog name.</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span>bloginfo( 'name' );</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><br /></span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">// Add the blog description for the home/front page.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">$site_description = mb_convert_encoding(get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' ), 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES');</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><br /></span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )</span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>echo " | $site_description";</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><br /></span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">// Add a page number if necessary:</span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )</span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'oldheidelbergdeli' ), max( $paged, $page ) );</span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><br /></span><span style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">?></title>
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RE: Why are apostrophes and other characters still showing as code in my titles?
This worked for me....
$site_description = mb_convert_encoding(get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' ), 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES');
The text is getting encoding in the second half of your meta tag, so if you convert the encoding you should be able to get around this. You may need to apply this to several sections of that depending on what's going on... check the tag out on several pages.
Let me know how it works out.
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RE: Why are apostrophes and other characters still showing as code in my titles?
Ahh, you are right about the first ampersand. You should probably take a look at the wp_title() function and see if it's doing any html_special_chars filtering. Again, if nothing else seems to work, you could change up the "and" remove the possessive on Vancouver.
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RE: Why are apostrophes and other characters still showing as code in my titles?
Hey Gabriel-
Quick and dirty... you could change the meta title to Function 5 - Metro Vancouver IT and Web Experts.
Have you tried putting the full & in the meta title? There might be a double-conversion issue going on there.
-John
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RE: The course of action to move my macro site to some mini sites- justin if you can help
I agree with EGOL on this one... keep it all under one roof. If you're looking for SEO value on the mini sites, why not turn them into landers that point back to your main site instead of the other way around?
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RE: Looking Up C-Block Links
I believe that's just part of the campaigns. This data can be pulled with the SEOmoz API (the paid version).
http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/13991149/SEOmoz-Site-Intelligence-APIs
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RE: Website design for non-coders
Hi Peter-
I'm assuming you're question is in regards to SEO support. If not, this might not be the best place to ask if it's just usability as a Wordpress theme.
You say you're a non-coder. Do you have design skills? Certainly, you would still need to have a good eye for aesthetics & layout.
As for the SEO support in these themes, I know many SEO-type plugs are getting better and better all the time. Having said that, even if you're going the DIY route, I'd still encourage you to have someone take a look at the code at some point in the process so you get the value out of the site that you're looking for!
-John
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RE: Google Plus 1 Button
I agree with adding it as well - anywhere there is potential for creating social awareness/buzz about the topic at hand. As for usage, it's like anything else... We're all tuned into Google on day 1 releasing this as a new feature; it will take a bit for regular users to get into using it and the impact it will have on their time spent on the web.
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RE: Word Press site traffic plumit
Are you currently running a campaign to see how your rankings are positioned? Have you had any site troubles, down-time, etc?
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RE: Help with SEO
Do you have a site link we could take a look at... and as EGOL mentioned, any specific questions?
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RE: MozCon Seattle 2011
The lineup looks awesome - I'm ready for some SEO immersion!
Be sure to say hello!
-John
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RE: Ranking #1 for Local, Not for National
What terms are you trying to rank for nationally? Unless the terms are particularly unique, it will be more competitive for sure!
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MozCon Seattle 2011
Hey everyone... just seeing who's going to MozCon next month? It would be nice to connect some usernames and faces when I get there!
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RE: Anyone having problems with the SEOmoz KWD Tool??
I ran some tests last night... looks like it's back up!
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RE: Where to Put Content For Product Pages - How To Structure Website?
You are right about the ecommerce layouts... typically product organization is by category then you can click in deeper for the product detail. Categories are commonly nested as well... like your Shoes category branching to dress, casual, and athletic.
Most decent ecommerce platforms will allow a full description on the product detail page and a short description for display on the category page. Furthermore, category pages themselves will often have a description/content field of some sort. Obviously, you want to avoid duplicate content issues, but you can use the combination of the category descriptions and product short descriptions on your list pages for ranking on the category. Then, you can use your product pages to rank as well. Again, you can keep the content different between the short and long product descriptions.
I've seen sites handle the category pages without much content; however I don't think you can go wrong with the additionally ranked pages if you set them up correctly.
Also, check to see if you can get an ecommerce template that supports related products - this will help with your internal linking. You can also check out up-sell/cross-sell areas of the product page as well.
Do you have a link we could check out for content suggestions? That may give a better idea of why the product pages aren't ranking well for you.
John
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RE: Site not showing data in Open Site Explorer
How long ago were the sites put online? Check out this thread to see if this might apply to your situation:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/unable-to-use-open-site-explorer
-John
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RE: Anyone having problems with the SEOmoz KWD Tool??
+1 ... I'm seeing the error too. Hopefully it will be fixed soon!