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I'm not sure if they are actually having a negative effect if they no longer exist. However, to be sure you can log into your Google Search Console an use the disavow links tool. Marie offers a good overview of the tool, with some great cautionary remarks on this post https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool

Good luck

Ken

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That's a pretty general question and the answer is certainly more complicated than a yes or no. Here are some things to consider.

You need to look at why  you aren't you ranking for those keywords? Have the pages been indexed and are they showing up in the serps at all? If not, that's possibly a different problem. If they are showing up and they are competitive keywords it may be that you need to do more work to rank them higher.

As for changing keywords, that may be of little help depending on the answers to the first part. Certainly there are keywords that are easier to rank for, but only if you're doing the right things to get them ranked. The Keyword Explorer tool at Moz (https://moz.com/explorer) is a great place to start if you want to assess different keywords.

Good Luck

Ken

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I wouldn't being to guess the % needed, but I can tell you one way that we try to get around the issue with similar products. We added a "short description" section with bullet points to highlight all the questions people might ask about the product and in there we are very specific about color, shape, flavor etc. When we have similar products (say different flavored gummi bears) we list both basic facts about the product that are all the same (i.e. size, how many per bag) as well as listing the other attributes that are unique to that product (i.e. banana flavored, yellow colored) and that seems to be enough to keep us from a duplicate content penalty. It's also nice because it cuts down customer questions.

Just a thought

Ken

And I thought it was just me! Well at least I feel a bit better now! Ken

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I am thinking that maybe it's the list that appears on  your dashboard when you click search then scroll down a bit and there you will find "keyword opportunities"

Ken

It may not be an issue, but be sure to keep checking Webmaster tools and if needed you might have to disavow those links.

Good Luck

Thanks for the tips. I have reported the images and we will see what happens!

Ken

Hi all-

We recently had some pictures show up on our local profile that are not our store. When you click on them they have links to someone's blog as well. Can someone tell me how these got here and more importantly how to get rid of them. We've looked everywhere but can't find them to get rid of.

Thanks for any help!

Ken

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Have there been any updates to this? We have been using  cloudlfare for probably a year and all of a sudden I am getting the 804 errors on our SSL.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ken

Hi

If you have an alert set up for your site and Google is sending you messages about your ndw product it simply means that Google  has found the page, which is a good thing. What is your concern?

Ken

Hi

If you have an alert set up for your site and Google is sending you messages about your ndw product it simply means that Google  has found the page, which is a good thing. What is your concern?

Ken

Hi-

I'm not sure if they are actually having a negative effect if they no longer exist. However, to be sure you can log into your Google Search Console an use the disavow links tool. Marie offers a good overview of the tool, with some great cautionary remarks on this post https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-googles-disavow-tool

Good luck

Ken

HI-

I think you are correct in that you need to do a 301 redirect from the old site to the new one. If the pages are the same between the two domains I believe something like the following in your htaccess would work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I am not an htaccess expert, so try before you buy!Good luckKen

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I'm not sure how much meta-descriptions really matter for duplicate content purposes, I believe they are mostly used for  display in the SERPS. Either way, sounds like they will be somewhat unique and if the page content is unique I don't think you would have an issue.

Good Luck

Ken

EGOL has some great title suggestions.

I would add authorship and rich snippets as well. We have seen increased CTR with those. The rich snippets have been really good because they show the product ratings from our reviews.That really makes the listing stand out in the results.

Ken

Hi-

As a small business owner and the in house SEO guy, I wrestle with the same question all the time. My best advice would be do the things that will get the biggest bang quickly first. For example, work on your page titles. they are an easy fix that can have big effects. I would also look at the structure of your pages, for example are you using H1 tags for your product names on the product pages and are all your images tagged.

Once you've done the "easy stuff" I would just start tackling some of the other items you mentioned one at a time. Page speed is probably a good one to go after, if your site really needs it. That has obvious benefits in terms of visitors. Content such as product descriptions are a slow battle. Things like that require time to make the changes so what I do is allocate some time each day to making them. I track my changes in a spreadsheet and check my rankings here at Moz on a regular basis to see what is/isn't working. A good suggestion might be to look for someone who can write well (an intern) and have them help you with that part.

Even though it's really important, I would wait until you finished some of the other things before starting a link building campaign. You want to make sure you are "link worthy". When you think you are ready, I would create some interesting underwear content and see what that turns up.

Hope this helped!

Ken

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Not sure how much content vs ecommerce you have on your Wordpress site but my 2 suggestions would be as follows:

1. For your Wordpress content get yourself the Fishpig wordpress-magento integration plugin. This will allow you to put your blog inside your Magento store and still have the old layout for content.

2. For redirecting the products you might look at Magentos built in redirect options. You can find it under Catalog --> URL Rewrite Management.  I believe I have even seen an extension that will let you mass upload those, but not sure about that.

Good Luck

Ken

Hi-

That's a pretty general question and the answer is certainly more complicated than a yes or no. Here are some things to consider.

You need to look at why  you aren't you ranking for those keywords? Have the pages been indexed and are they showing up in the serps at all? If not, that's possibly a different problem. If they are showing up and they are competitive keywords it may be that you need to do more work to rank them higher.

As for changing keywords, that may be of little help depending on the answers to the first part. Certainly there are keywords that are easier to rank for, but only if you're doing the right things to get them ranked. The Keyword Explorer tool at Moz (https://moz.com/explorer) is a great place to start if you want to assess different keywords.

Good Luck

Ken

I agree that your second option is probably best from a layout point of view. As for the URLs, you can always change them by changing the permalinks for each city page individually or by setting a general permalink structure without the category (i.e. services) if you want.

Hope this helps.

Ken

Hi,

We just went through a similar platform change and found that for the most part  the 301s did the heavy lifting. We are still finding pages that we missed, but we got a large majority and I'm happy to say that our traffic/rankings are doing well (getting better everyday).

We did't re-verify we just left the verification code on the site and Google seemed to catch on.

Good luck on the move!

Ken