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Thanks Veronica,

Im trying to give you a good answer but am getting a 500 server error from moz.com

Hi All,

Our hosting provider have their IP address range in Melbourne but offers servers in Sydney or Melbourne..  If we were to take a server in Sydney and an IP address from their Melbourne range (only IP range offered) will the new localisation updates to the Penguin/Possum Algorithms serve less up to our clients in Sydney thinking we are located in Melbourne?

Sorry if im confusing.. I know I am

Hi Cindy,

Great Question - I'm not sure what to suggest - probably suggest opening up a new question just to be sure you get eyes on it!

Good Luck!

Thanks B,

I'll suggest this as an option - the reason not to do rel can's is because we want to index organically on Google for both brands..

Cheers

D!

Thanks Patrick - it all helps heaps!!!

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your awesome reply,   We have 2 brands that we have to run (coming from executive team - merger agreement). I'll maybe go back about unique content.

Cheers

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reply.  We have 2 brands that we have to run (coming from executive team - merger agreementt). Unfortunately both brands have been aligned to have exactly the same products.  There are 2 niches (ie personas) but the products are exactly the same, with the  same Product descriptions and same terms and conditions, rates and imagery.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi All,

I would love if someone could help and provide some insights on this.  We're a financial institution and have a set of products that we offer.

We have recently joined with another brand and will now be offering all our products to their customers.

What we are looking to do is have 1 site that masks the content for both sites so it appears as there are 2 seperate brands with different content - in fact we have a main site and then a sister brand that offers the same products.

Is there anyway to do this so when someone searches for Credit Card from Brand A it is indexed under Brand A and same when someone searched for Credit Card from Brand B it is indexed under Brand B.

The one thing is we would not want to rel:can the pages nor be penalised by googles latest PR algorithm.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks

Dave

Thanks Gents,

Great answers - much appreciated

Hi All,

I hope someone can assist, We have 2 brands that sell the exact same products.  We have a main and an off brand. We just redeveloped the main brands site and now have to do the off brand (was owned by another company and we acquired them, we then changed their products to match ours).

Am I able to pretty much clone the site and just change the branding and rel canonical each page to its original on the main brand?  Granted I will lose rankings but will it be something that will affect anything else?

I want to do this so it saves us time in updating products on both sites (and avoids errors in incorrect pricing).

Would appreciate some guidance with this one

Cheers

Dave

Hi All,

We have 2 brands (1 main 1 product as a satellite domain) that we're merging into our main brand.  When doing a 301 redirect - should we redirect everypage of the product satellite to the new site or is 1 main redirect fine?

I'm Confusing ....yep.

Ill do an E.G

www.nike.com & www.air-jordan.com

we are now shutting down www.airjordan.com and will be migrating all the content to www.nike.com/air-jordan

Just of course there will be other pages like air-jordan.com/order-now .  Should i do a rel can from air-jordan.com/order-now to www.nike.com/air-jordan/order-now ?

Or is simply a 301 from www.airjordan.com to www.nike.com/air-jordan sufficient?

Cheers!

Mate , absolutely appreciated - if anyone on Moz can do the same would be amazing.

Cheers

Hi CleverPHD,

Thanks for your response - I have already reported the feedback as you suggested above.  I'm obviously just concerned as it could potentially be causing a level of confusion for our customers.

What sort of turn around could you expect off hand?

Cheers

Dave

Hi All,

Google has picked up a competitors logo from overseas (same name) and input it with the wikipedia excerpt on the right hand side of search.

What the heck can I do to get this removed as its a serious legal/brand issue.  See URL - http://www.google.com.au/webhp?nord=1&gws_rd=cr&ei=GcMeVuS0CMq-0gSR7Lm4BA#nord=1&q=cfcu

Hope someone can help !!

Cheers

Dave

http://www.google.com.au/webhp?nord=1&gws_rd=cr&ei=GcMeVuS0CMq-0gSR7Lm4BA#nord=1&q=cfcu

Hi Lauren,

Have you still got a link to your google+ profile in the header of your site? e.g (href="https://plus.google.com/106215912994175247015" rel="publisher" />)

Cheers

Dave

My thoughts exactly - as long as they haven't found out something new about the meta , its all good.

It just seems silly for them to all of a sudden define them .

Cheers mate

Who has zero fear? the bank? Google?

Hi All,

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.  I just stumbled upon one of our competitors who for some reason is all of a sudden defining meta keywords for their product pages.

I find this extremely strange since its a definite no-no to define these?

They are one of the largest (Chase, Barclays equivalent) in Australia with a large digital team.  Do they know something we don't?

Hope someone can help.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi Andy,

Would you structure the page titles like:

New Car Loan | Brand Name

or

New Car Loan - Brand Name

Personally I like the first , but just want to make sure there's no disadvantage from an SEO perspective.

Cheers Mate

Thanks for the feedback gents.. appreciated

Hi All,

I run a small bank's website and we're currently in the process of organising a site rebuild.  Whilst this will be extensive and have many SEO factors to tick off, my concern now is to get a "realistic" number of keywords each of my pages should be targeting.

For instance for my car loan page i've done a review on moz's keyword tool and have picked 3 or 4 good keywords - but the problem is there are realistically 7-8 that would suit. Also this is based on Bing's info only.

Can anybody point me in the right direction (or have some google confirmed resource they can quote me)

Cheers as always

Dave

Hi all!

Thanks for both of your answers..You've got to love SEO -  Two excellent suggestions with different answers.

So would option 1 score an A with moz for the keyword "corporate credit cards" ?

Hi All,

Hope everyone is well.  I have a hypothetical and would love some experts advice.

For a product like a corporate credit card what's the best URL structure to get the most out of SEO. Assuming the Page Title is Corporate Credit Card (unless this isnt the best idea? However the product is called the "corporate credit card" ).  The reason this is trickier than I thought is because they say the rule of thumb is to use the plural of everything for best SEO.  However I have pluralized the sub page "credit cards".

1. www.website.com.au/products/credit-cards/corporate

2) www.website.com.au/products/credit-cards/corporate-credit-card

3) www.website.com.au/products/credit-cards/corporate-credit-cards

If someone were to search for corporate credit cards would option 1&2 show up correctly? Would moz rank this as an "F" ?

Thanks everyone!

Dave

Thanks Bob!

Thats perfect Ill investigate whats going on further

Hi All,

Hope you can help.

For some reason Moz is pulling up different versions of the same URL as confilicting / duplicate page content.  Whats the best way to rectify this or is it something that I should just ignore.

/NSW-locations , /NSW-Locations, Nsw-locations

Very weird but they are the same page ?!?

Cheers

Dave

Hi Rand,

Appreciate the update.  Are we probably seeing another delay this round? Ive usually had my crawl updates by now.

Cheers for the good service all round.

Hi I've got the same problem.

Theres got to be an easier way to do this? Our subdomain is a banking product which doesnt allow for external access (for some silly reason).

Any assistance or advice would be fantastic as a long term strategy would probably annoy a few customers.

Cheers

Hi Derek,

In the research I have done having a do follow link to a site that does the same to you could be conceived by google as a bit of link farming.  If its valid content / reason to do so then great and everything in moderation will get you by.

I'd be cautious about doing it more than just a few times in you LBS.  Admit I'm no expert though.

Cheers

Bowey

Hi Andy,

Im using the keyword rankings tool in Moz.  I first saw the drop today after the crawl compared to last week. I have made a change yesterday as the Page title wasnt correct (it was some random content) and the meta descirption was the same content as the page title - neither which included the keyword that im targeting.

Hope this is the right direction ?

Cheers

Great - Thanks as always mate

Hi All,

Hope I could get some help. Moz has just finished crawling 1 of our 4 business sites and one of our keywords has dropped 24 places (21st to 45th).

Is this the new algorithm at play? (our site is responsive)

Cheers

Hi All,

Im sure this has been answered somewhere but I couldn't find it.  SEOQuake etc suggest you should define meta keywords.  However I was under the impression that this was not best practice

Can anyone confirm what I should do/ is best practice?

Cheers

Bowey

Thanks Patrick - helps alot

Hi,

As you know the new algorithm is due today, can anybody confirm why my site wouldn't appear to be affected as yet?

Cheers