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i am looking to improve the load speed on my site (it's very poor at the moment) but I am trying to figure out how much I should compress the images on my page by. Is there a sweet spot between making the images as small as possible without losing image quality. I know that this might differ depending on a number of factors by any advice would be very helpful. Thanks

Yep I think between the two I should be in a really good place. Thanks

Nope I think I may be asking for something that is impossible to product. I think what I am trying to get to is a hybrid between the 8 steps from above and then a checklist for content creation that can be shared with anyone producing content. I want a document that lays out a general strategic approach to SEO as well as having the basic hygiene factor best practices included. Is there a template for anything like that?

Thanks yes I had come across this and it is very helpful. My question was more to do with a structure for presenting an SEO strategy to clients/internal stakeholders. So how do you structure a document that outlines the SEO process. What needs to be included and what can you leave out?

I am looking to get a structure for an SEO strategy document. While I understand that the specific tactics that you will used will vary significantly from project to project I would love to get my hands on a document that has heading that should be covered off in an SEO strategy report. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks

A number of steps in my purchase funnel are competing against each other in the SERP. So wwww.exmaple.com/step1 and wwww.exmaple.com/step2 are both appearing on the SERP. What is the best course of action to stop this. Other than implementing robots.txt on wwww.exmaple.com/step2 is there anything else that I should be doing?

Hi thanks for the reply.

How could us have a situation in Google Analytics where the unique users for given page is higher than the number of sessions?

Thanks a million for the help guys.

Sorry yes I got a bit confused there. It is moved permanently so it should be a 301 rather than 302. But what is difference between the direct link and the 301. Is it just a case that the 301 can be more difficult to implement? I will not actually be implementing the redirect myself. This will be done by a 3rd party webdesign agency. I suppose I am keen to keep as much of the authority as possible from the old domain. Thanks

So we have recently relaunched a site that we manage. As part of this we have changed the domain. The webdesign agency that built the new site have implemented a direct link from the old domain to the new domain. What is best practice a direct link or a 302 redirect? Thanks

Thanks that's good to know!

Thanks that's good to know.

Thanks for the answers guys... Can I ask in the event that the Robots.txt file is implemented at the domain level but the mark up on the page is <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> which one take wins?

What is the best way to stop a page being indexed? Is it to implement robots.txt at a site level with a Robots.txt file in the main directory or at a page level with the    tag?

Thanks for getting back to me. It appears to be sorted now.

I keep getting the following message on a number of my campaigns.

Our connection to your Google Analytics account was lost. Don't worry, you won't lose any data. Please reauthorize now.

Is anyone else having the same problem? I have tried reauthorizing it but I keeps happening. Has anyone got any advice?

Thanks for this Keri.

Two steps in the same funnel are both ranking and competing with each other on the SERP. So www.example.com/step1 and www.example.com/step2 are both ranking. What is the best way to deal with this?

Thanks

Hi Mike

Thanks for getting back to me on this. I think that I have sorted it out. It may have been caused by a mistake when implementing the code.

Thanks

Conor

I have two pages that have essentially the same content, same page title etc. however one is the mobile version of the other. Is it appropriate to use the rel canonical tag with these two pages?

So the pages are:

www.example.com/product

www.example.com/mobile/product

If  rel canonical is not appropriate what, if anything should I do?

I would agree focus on one twitter account. The only reason you might want a second twitter account is from something like customer service. However very often you will find that this just leads to confusion and customers will mention your marketing twitter account rather than your customer service twitter account. As for the tone of the account that is something that you have to work out on your own. You tone on twitter should reflect your brand. But remember it is a social medium and so generally the tone is more conversational. Hope that this helps.

Thanks

Hi Chad

Thanks for the info. I should have been more specific with my example. The parameter that we use is something along the lines of www.example.com/product/?banner=1 so if I have picked up what you have said correctly I should be able to flag "banner" through webmaster tools and the search engines will ignore the value. Is that correct?

Thanks very much Jean-Francois

I have to say that I found the online resources that Google has made available very useful in terms of starting off. I see that they also have a number of certified partners. I am sure that one of these partners could provide you with training. You can find them here http://www.google.ie/tagmanager/partners.html This webinar is also worth a watch http://youtu.be/3HnSmz2ENn8 Hope this helps.

We us a number of different parameters in a number of our URLs to track how the user has navigated to the page. So for example we will have a page www.example.com/product/?banner to show that the user has navigated to the page from the banner as opposed to www.example.com/product/?footer to show that the user has navigated to the page from the footer. Do search engines treat these pages as the same page or different pages? Thanks

Hi I am in the process of implementing Tag Manager across one of the sites that I manage. But it is a very large site so we have taken the decision to implement it on a number of important pages first and then update the rest of the site incrementally. The pages that we have chosen to implement GTM on are confirmation pages as we use double click floodlight tags to track a lot of our conversions. However when I go into debug mode on tag manager I can not seem to get the screen that lets you know if the tag is firing or not. Has anyone else had this problem? Could this be because I don't have GTM code on the homepage of the site? When I implemented Tag manager on other sites that I managed I had no such problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

No worries. Glad to help.

Thanks Martijn. The more I look at it the more I think that it not a good fit in this situation.

Hi guys as far as I know the complaint form is the one that you use even if there isn't anyone using your trademark at the moment. It was the form that we used when registering our trademark.

Thanks

Thanks Travis. I'll be sure to review the SEO manually as well.

Thanks Patrick that's really helpful. I'll be sure to check it out.

I manage a Wordpress site and I am interested to get the community's views on the best SEO plug-ins around? We are looking at using Yoast. Should I be looking at anything else?

One of my pages is a help and questions page about completing a conversions and the other is the actual campaign landing page. They are both ranking for the same term. While the subject of both pages is similar the content is not. Is the rel canonical tag appropriate here?

Super thanks for the heads up. I will start an new topic.

I have a similar question. One of my pages is a help and questions page about completing a conversions and the other is the actual campaign landing page. While the subject of both pages is similar the content is not. Is the rel canonical tag appropriate here? I