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Thanks Chris!

Hi,

How do you determine whether trailing slashes are creating duplicate pages? Search Console is showing both /about and about/ for example but how do I know whether this is a problem?

Thanks

James

Sounds like a good idea. I'm just trying to provide basic data on a potential clients' site - traffic, rankings, main errors and things that are working for them. Some tools actually do a pretty good job of this, but only seem to do this for the homepage, rather than the entire site. I guess I'll have to use multiple tools and hope the effort is worth it as it's a free service.

Do you use SEO profiler?

Hi John,

Do you use SEMRush? I've been thinking of signing up. Can you run unlimited reports do you know? Screaming Frog is great and is what I'll use for thorough Audits but I'm just trying to generate lead generation/potential new client reports.

thanks

Good point.

Really it's best to use S. Frog then and to extract that info for a website review instead of trying to find software that gives the overall 'health' of a site and produces a report?

thanks for your answer by the way!

Hi,
I'd like to offer free website health checks (basic audits) and am wondering what tools other people use for this? It would be good to use something that presents the data well.

Moz is great but it gets expensive if I want to offer these to many businesses in the hope of taking on just a few as clients and doing a full manual audit for them.

So far I've tried seositecheckup.com (just checks a single page though), metaforensics.io and mysiteauditor.

Thanks!

Thanks John - really helpful!

Hi

Thanks for this! So you'd say the exact match in the title but not in the H1 as well? How often would you use it in the body?

Best, James

Hi,

I read that you should give up on using exact keywords on a page if it means that the written content flows better. I just want your thoughts on this please because I don't want to miss opportunities.

The keywords used are an example: SEO LONDON is the high vol./popular keyword that I want a page to rank for. Would I use that as the main keyword throughout the page, even though it doesn't really make sense (by this I mean you'd never really use this term other than typing it into google)? Or should I use something that makes more sense such as, 'SEO IN LONDON' or LONDON SEO?

Would Google overlook the 'IN' in 'seo in london' so it's seen as 'SEO London'? (Same sort of question for LONDON SEO).

If this is the case then why does google still show 1000 hits for SEO LONDON and just 100 for SEO IN LONDON? This makes me think that I should just target the exact keyword that people are typing even if it doesn't look natural.

Best, James

Thanks again for answering. One version does seem to have better links. Perhaps Moz will eventually see them as the same domain as the redirect has only been in place for about 1 month.

I may ask the developers to verify and set the preferred domain also.

Thank you!

Thanks for your answers!  the developers confirmed that the non www is being redirected to the www.

Any ideas why MOZ shows a different PA for the 2 pages? Thanks

Hi Mozzers,

I have a newish website and have been monitoring the DA and PA.

http://www.domain.com has a PA of just 21

http://domain.com has a PA of 32.

Both have completely different backlinks showing up. Id really like the PA of 31 as the h.page isn't ranking at all yet.

ANy advice on this would be great thank you. And sorry if it's really basic stuff for many of you!

Best, James

Sorry -basic stuff I know. I can research it to save you any hassle. Cheers.

Hi

Thanks so much for this Patrick.

I'm new to SEO but I understand some of what you've gone through. With G Analytics do I have to set things up again or can I change the domain? I guess its the same quesiton for Webmaster tools.

I thought the designer had set everything up but obviously he just added 301s.

Thanks,

James

Hi Trevor,

Thanks for info and replying so soon!!

Hi,

We have redirected a small WP website to a new site and domain and it has lost all DA and PA. Does anyone know if there's a fix for this? Would reverting back to the old domain help?

We redirect www.northcornwallgardens.co.uk to cornishlawns.co.uk

Thank you

James

No point having it on here if it doesn't get answered.

Thanks

Thanks, this makes sense!

Hi,

i do see what you mean and i think I can see the sense in what Yoast are saying. if I were typing a general term like 'Campervan hire' into search though, I'd not be looking for an informational page on this but to actually rent a camper. Coming across a homepage for rentals nationwide would seem a 'useful' result. My worry is that I'll miss an opportunity to rank well for a competitive keyword With my view.

Our high content/text pages are in the form of Campervan travel guides and so focus on visitors rather than engines. A page on Campervan hire for the sake of it may be a bit spammy.

Thanks again- James

Hi, thanks for this. I agree with you based on what I've read elsewhere. I have shared the link a few times but I guess it's not showing up.

Here it is again: https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/

if you google Yoast . Com / homepage - seo

thanks

Hi Don

thanks for replying. Article: https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/

lm thinking it's wrong too. We rank #1 for a local camper rental website- the homepage optimized for the core/head keywords and it's always the page at the top.

James

hi

Just read a Yoast article explaining that the homepage should never be optimized for a specific keyword and should only be optimized for its business or brand name.

i have a large site that I'd like to rank (or increase traffic for as I know people get irritated with that term now) for 'Campervan hire'. It has plenty of sub pages going after 'Campervan hire 'location'' for example.

it makes sense to me for the homepage keyword - my core keyword - to be 'Campervan hire' and for the homepage to be optimised for this. However, the article I've just read (https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/) suggests a separate page for this keyword.

What are your thoughts pls??

thanks

Great- thank you, I'm sure it was Joe Pulizzi's book 'Content Inc' that was leading me down the wrong path. It also states that you can use duplicate content (scraped from other sites) and I'm not sure that's right either.

Ok thank you - I get in now

Hi

I thought that if I wanted to rank a local site for the core Keyword, 'Landscaping Location' that variations of this keyword should be used on the same page. But I recently read that if I wanted to rank for:

Landscaping Location
Landscaping in Location
Landscaping Services in Location

that I should use separate page for each term. Is this correct? A small local website will probably only have a few pages and so making up pages solely to go after Keywords can't be right. But then would opportunities be missed?

Thanks for your help with this!!

Hi, This is an example but if I enter 'architect

This is an example but the same thing happens with most keywords - if I enter 'architect cornwall' into Google Planner it tells me there's 90 searches per month. If I enter this into SEMRUSH it tells me there's 320 searches per month.

Can anyone explain the difference here - and is one more accurate than the other? Better still is there tool that's more accurate than either of these?

I'm completely new to this by the way and the answer is probably obvious.

Thanks!