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Like ImWaqas said, canonical tags should be put in, all pointing to the default or most popular color. As for the URLs, I would avoid keyword stuffing the url with synonyms, try something like this:
http://www.mokee.eu/cheap-baby-crib-scandinavian-minimalist.html
However, you should do some keyword research on your target market to determine which terms are popular for your target audience like baby vs. infant, crib vs. cot, cheap vs. low cost, etc.
Hope this helps,
Chris
I would think that is mainly from users sharing the competitor's site on Facebook. The company would not need a presence on Facebook for users to simply paste a link to a piece of their content into a status update or post. If you provided their domain it would be possible for us to look a bit further into this.
Hope this helps,
Chris Wilson
I wouldn't worry about the Mozscape index not showing your changes. I put up a client site on the 8th and, despite thousands of visitors and some very strong backlinks, there is no data for it on the OSE. Like I said, try Majestic, their tool does show this recent client site and the link data is accurate, so it may display more accurate citation and trust flow (Majestic authority metrics) for your site after the redirect than OSE.
Question 1: If Google has correctly updated the index, I would imagine that it has redirected the link profile as well.
Question 2:
"Just-Discovered Links index updated continuously. Last Mozscape index update: October 18, 2013. Next Mozscape index update: November 15, 2013" From OSE.
If you're looking for results on a more recent site, try Majestic's Site Explorer. It is in my experience more accurate with newer sites and fresh redirects.
Hope this helps.
Chris
Hi Alex,
Very cool idea behind the site by the way. In my opinion, you are doing well if you are currently 11th, (I found you in 6th place for a clean google.co.uk search, but I'm in the U.S.) and you should definitely keep building up the authority and credibility of your home page. If you're already at A-grade on-page optimization, it might be time to start looking for good strategic partnerships for some high quality links or looking at some site speed improvements.
Here's what Google had for page speed suggestions:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=tastebuds.fm
Hope this helps,
Chris Wilson
Hi KempRugeLawGroup,
If the two pages are exactly identical, you may want to 301 redirect page B to page A to consolidate the link juice flowing to both pages A and B from external sources. If you could provide us with some more context as to why you are pursuing a rel=canonical instead of a redirect, we may be able to provide more specific advice.
And to your latest post, if a site were to copy your post and change only a few words, the site would be penalized for duplicate content (unless the copy were significantly changed).
Regards,
Chris
To clarify, my comment was not a suggestion, just a description of what is technically possible given Peter's original post. Hence my warning about using nofollow extensively for internal links.
Regards,
Chris
Hi Peter,
Like Gregory said, this is a fairly standard arrangement for large ecommerce sites. Regarding the passing of link juice, you can use NoFollow links to cut off the flow of link juice and concentrate the flow towards a few pages that you want to rank. However, be careful about using too much NoFollow linking internally because you want to make sure your site gets crawled properly.
Hope this helps,
Chris
The links from YouTube are all nofollowed, make sure you are including nofollow links when examining your backlink profile.
Hope this helps,
Chris Wilson
Oh, for your destination, if your profile is using relative URLs (/thankyou.html) you don't need to include the http://sub.example.com in your match, and if you did this may have been why it was not reporting data.
Having the redirects in place should not harm you in any way unless you are chaining them, just watch this Matt Cutts video about the limits on redirects.
Regards,
Chris Wilson
Like ImWaqas said, canonical tags should be put in, all pointing to the default or most popular color. As for the URLs, I would avoid keyword stuffing the url with synonyms, try something like this:
http://www.mokee.eu/cheap-baby-crib-scandinavian-minimalist.html
However, you should do some keyword research on your target market to determine which terms are popular for your target audience like baby vs. infant, crib vs. cot, cheap vs. low cost, etc.
Hope this helps,
Chris
Ok, well in that case you don't want event tracking, you can just set visits to that page as a goal and get some even better reports.
Go to admin -> goals (right column) -> create goal -> type: destination
For goal details, just set the destination as regular expression match with this in the field:
/thank-you.php
This regex will match the destination page whether or not it is on a subdomain. You can also assign a value (usually the average conversion amount from transactions leading to that page) or throw in funnel steps if you'd like.
Hope this helps,
Chris Wilson
You will still be able to get search query information through Google Webmaster Tools, and you can link that to both Google Analytics and AdWords to see reports for organic query matches in either of those platforms. I have found the Webmaster Tools query reports to be less accurate than the Google Analytics search term report, but if the Analytics report is only going to display "not provided", the Webmaster Tools query report is a working, albeit slightly inferior, alternative.
Hi Alex,
Very cool idea behind the site by the way. In my opinion, you are doing well if you are currently 11th, (I found you in 6th place for a clean google.co.uk search, but I'm in the U.S.) and you should definitely keep building up the authority and credibility of your home page. If you're already at A-grade on-page optimization, it might be time to start looking for good strategic partnerships for some high quality links or looking at some site speed improvements.
Here's what Google had for page speed suggestions:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=tastebuds.fm
Hope this helps,
Chris Wilson
Hi Danny,
Depending on the budget for branded campaigns, we utilize a mix of broad modifier (ex. +example +brand) and phrase match (ex. "example brand"). Generic broad match can cause you to pay for queries that may not be as well targeted as you expect. For example, a former client had a broad match for Delaware Secretary of State and ended up paying to appear for the query Delaware State Fair, which wasn't ideal in the financial services business.
I would recommend looking at your specific terms that you're paying a lot for keeping in mind your organic results. If you are trying to cut costs without seriously hindering your exposure, I would recommend determining which search queries you are paying for AND organically showing up above the fold and possible cutting spending on those specific keywords.
This will allow you to cut down on the number of branded keywords that you need to pay for, and you will still have a result in view for those queries.
Hope that helps!
Chris Wilson
Hmm, are both domains roughly the same age and authority? Also, there might be a collection of additional page or domain factors that your competitor is excelling at but don't appear on most SEO analysis tools. To try to identify some potential ways the competitor site might be gaining an advantage, try checking this infographic for some less often looked at ranking factors.
Regards,
Chris Wilson
I would think that is mainly from users sharing the competitor's site on Facebook. The company would not need a presence on Facebook for users to simply paste a link to a piece of their content into a status update or post. If you provided their domain it would be possible for us to look a bit further into this.
Hope this helps,
Chris Wilson
Hi KempRugeLawGroup,
If the two pages are exactly identical, you may want to 301 redirect page B to page A to consolidate the link juice flowing to both pages A and B from external sources. If you could provide us with some more context as to why you are pursuing a rel=canonical instead of a redirect, we may be able to provide more specific advice.
And to your latest post, if a site were to copy your post and change only a few words, the site would be penalized for duplicate content (unless the copy were significantly changed).
Regards,
Chris
Alan's approach is what we use as well for non-purchase related goals. We set an event in the function that verifies a form submission (linked to the submit, or in your case maybe purchase, button) so the event is fired when the form is submitted successfully. Then you can set the goal as that event being triggered, and you're good to go.
Hope that helps,
Chris Wilson
