thanks very much Keri
Posts made by casper434
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PA and DA
Over the past couple of monthly updates I have notice both coming down a bit even though nothing has changed that should affect them. Anyone else notice this? Perhaps it is attributable to better metrics?
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RE: Who can advise in real-time delay until rich text snippets first appear?
At the start of the year they appeared within 24 hours. Now some do not appear at all such as those associated with ratings.
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Social Media and SEO
What is best? Increasing DA and PA on a specific social media profile such as twitter or spreading out the DA and PA on a variety of different profiles?
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RE: Blog Commenting - Useful?
My experience to date is that it is provided the topics are relevant.
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Website Speed
What are the top 10 ways to reduce page loading times and speed up a website?
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RE: CDN services
thanks Kevin. Some interesting data although a bit limited. Hopefully more people will take on this issue and be able to provide unbiased data to temper marketing info on these systems
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RE: Place pages
thanks Mark - good info. The announced changes are likely why the response has been the way it is.
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RE: Local SEO
thanks Marie. An interesting forum and lots of changes at the local search level
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RE: Local SEO
thanks Roberto. A great resource and it also answered an unrelated question on google place pages
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Local SEO
Would like to read articles on local SEO that have been recently published in the past few months. Has anyone come across good articles on this topic?
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Place pages
Anyone else having problems with google place pages? Create a page and then have it become merged with someone else's place page. Try to correct it to no avail? Try to delete it only to find that it still shows up?
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Abvoe the Fold
Quality above the fold is often mentioned for SEO. Is there a good definition of what is above the fold?
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Hfeed and hentry
Having just converted my website from static html to wordpress I now find that I am getting hfeed and hentry warnings from the google rich snippet testing tool. They appear as
hfeed
hentry
Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.
Warning: Missing required field "entry-title".
Warning: Missing required field "updated".
Warning: Missing required hCard "author".I assume that they are related to the blog post excerpts that appear on my homepage but not sure nor have I found a way to deal with the warnings.
Advice on this issue needed
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Rich Snippets stopped showing up in SERPS
Up until a few weeks ago my testimonial review ratings (5 star rating system) were showing up in search results but they no longer do. Went to the google rich snippet testing tool and they still do there just not on the real search results. Any thoughts on why? Perhaps an algorithm change?
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RE: Canonical URLs and SEO
They do not have the slash but the Yoast SEO package has it in the automatic rel=canonical which I cannot find to change
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RE: Canonical URLs and SEO
all done through the widgets per attached example
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RE: Canonical URLs and SEO
i created the home page through the appearance/widgets menu using an agentpress theme built on the genesis framework. there is no "home page" appearing as either a page or post in these menus (unless I am missing something)
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RE: Canonical URLs and SEO
Hi Martin, I must be looking in the wrong place. When I open up Yoast SEO I can find menus for dashboard, titles&meta, social, sitemaps, permalinks, internal links, rss, import&export and edit files (which gives me acess to htaccess). I can find the advanced tab for all pages but the home page. Where do I find it? thanks
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RE: Canonical URLs and SEO
Using the SEOmoz on page analysis tool. The source code shows rel canonical for www.homepage.ca/ yet my site url is www.homepage.ca with all redirects there
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Canonical URLs and SEO
After publishing my new wordpress website my on page analysis shows two canonical urls on my homepage. In checking the source code the Yoast SEO plugin states my canoncial url is www.homepage.ca/ This is the only one showing. Having said this I do not add the trailing slash to anything on my url structure. Could this be why the on page analysis tool says there are 2? If so is there any way to resolve this?
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RE: Transfer of website to maintain SEO
thanks Cyrus. I want to keep the current domain and move it from the old host to the new host. Old site stays with the old host - they own it. New site is already with the new host and nearly done residing on a test url that I need to change to the existing domain
Brett
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RE: Do follow or no follow on wordpress site?
great thanks. this was my sense and as it is on my old site but given the significant change it is always worth having additional insight and experience
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RE: Transfer of website to maintain SEO
Great article and I have done much of this already. The part that I am missing is the technical steps from my old site to new using the same domain name. Since I have the new site on a test url I will need to get it on the domain that I have my old site on. Just not sure of all of the steps and in what order.
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RE: Do follow or no follow on wordpress site?
The blog is self hosted. On my old site I left the links as do follow but when linking to sites such as facebook etc is there any value in leaving them as do follow?
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RE: No follow and do follow on wordpress
H Robb that is the plugin I am working with and while I see the general settings I cannot seem to find a way to differentiate between links on the same page. Perhaps I am missing something?
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Transfer of website to maintain SEO
I am nearly finished building a new wordpress website to replace the old static HTML site which is currently doing very well in SERPs. My old site is currently hosted by a company who owns the site, my domain is registered with a different company and I have the nameservers pointed at Cloudflare. I have built my new site and have it hosted with a different company and I wish to keep the domain name registered with the company it is currently with.Is there an order that I should follow to move from the old site to the new site using my current domain name so that I minimize any impact on SEO. I built the new site with the same URL structure to maintain linking benefit. thanks
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Do follow or no follow on wordpress site?
I have read many different opinions on what links to make do follow on a wordpress website versus which ones to leave as no follow. (internal and external) There does not seem to be any consensus among the inputs to date. Any perspectives on this would be appreciated. thanks
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No follow and do follow on wordpress
I am in the process of building a new wordpress site to replace my old static HTML site and I am now doing SEO on it. With my old site the default was do follow and I could easily change the HTML to no follow but on my wordpress site the default is no follow and I cannot seem to find a way to change parts to do follow. Tried a plugin but it does not deal with the home page at all and when I select do follow my SEO tools still highlight the links as no follow. A bit stumped on this one. Anyone have any experience with this? thanks
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Meta name and other data on home page
I am in the process of building a new website with wordpress to replace my static HTML site but cannot find out where to place my meta data such as meta name (google verification etc) on the home page. Using Yoast SEO plugin and all I can find is place for title and meta description. Anyone have any experience with this SEO problem? thanks
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Canadian Webhosts
Over the years I have head things like where a web host is located can affect local SERP and things like site load times can also have an impact. Looking for a new webhost company in Canada has been a frustrating experience. Far too much marketing and not enough objective assessment. Does anyone know where such objective advice can be found on the net? thanks
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HTML entities and SEO
I recently came across an article on HTML entities that discussed how their appear in search results. The same article also mentioned that their use might be considered spam. Since I know nothing of them (other than what I read in the one article) are they a good or bad idea to make meta descriptions stand out from the crowd?
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RE: Premium Real Estate Wordpress Templates and SEO
much appreciated Zach. thank you
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RE: Premium Real Estate Wordpress Templates and SEO
In addition to studiopress themes any experience with Open House Premium by Buchmann Design?
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Premium Real Estate Wordpress Templates and SEO
Has anyone had any experience with premium real estate templates and SEO? Are their reviews in this regard? How does one get past the marketing and find out if they are SEO friendly?
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RE: Changing website providers
thanks Marie. my site is ranking in the top 3 for most keywords. Where did you go to create your own wordpress site (bluehost?). Also, how does one deal with the integrated IDX issue for a real estate site from an SEO perspective? thanks
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RE: Changing website providers
thanks I suspected that this might be the case. The only other major consideration is whether or not to create a site with which I do not have to rely on a hosted site-builder but not sure what my options may be in this regard.
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RE: Changing website providers
I should have been more specific. My website is provided by a company in Canada and the host server is located in the US. If I move to a different company I will essentially have to build a new site with the same (as much as possible) content as I now have. The new company is located in Canada and the server is in Canada. Not sure if this will make a difference?
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Changing website providers
After increasing suffering down time from my current website provider, I am seriously considering finding a new one. My only concern is the effect on SERP. Does anyone have any experience with this and what to do and avoid?