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thank you, will have a read now

thanks for that

hi, i am trying to get my head around the rich snippets for review products and services. I already use it for articles but it seems you have to do it different when it comes to review products.

i have been reading this page https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146645

but i cannot understand it.

i am trying to use the following page from my site as a test but i am totally confused

http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm-hotel-reviews/presidente-hotel-review-in-benidorm

if anyone has used this or knows how to do it then i would really appreciate some advice

just got a quote and the company said that they would charge for backing up the site, now i have put the details below but not sure how much i would be charged per month. the site would be www.in2town.co.uk and another 20 sites would go onto the dedicated server. can anyone tell me on average what i maybe charged before i agree to this deal

In regards to backup - without knowing how much data needs to be backed up an easy starting point is look at a per GB of backup model and this will be charged at: £0.50 per GB of data backup per month. This is run on a 7 day cycle (including full system state and daily incrementals) and UKFast will take care of the restoration for you.

great cheers, will contact them now

cheers oleg. will check these out. spoke to uk fast and waiting for a quote now, did say an hour but still waiting.

Hi, i am after finding a list of uk hosting companies that can offer dedicated hosting. I have been looking for months now for a UK hosting company.

I need the following or something similar

Intel Xeon E3-1220 4x3.1GHz TB 8MB Cache

500GBStorage8GBRAM10TBBandwidthif anyone can help with this then that would be great.

thank you everyone for your help, this explains it a lot better, thanks for this.

Hi, i have been researching this since yesterday and have looked at this subject many times before but still cannot get my head around it.

i done a report on my site which was very useful, i used http://www.juxseo.com for my site www.in2town.co.uk  

and it brought me some useful information but part of that info was it was telling me that i should have on my home page a canonical tag which would improve my seo.

Now i am using sh404sef for my friendly urls and i am using joomla 3.0 and when i approached the makers of the sh404sef to ask about the tag they said i would need to be careful of using it as it could damage my site and my rankings.

i have read lots of information but still do not have a clear understanding behind it.

can anyone please explain the best way to use this and should i be using where i may have some sort of duplicate page, any help to understand this would be great.

thanks for this, i have put it under the menu but not sure if it looks silly or not. have replaced the intro which was in the middle of the column with the story of the day which i will change around four times a day.

if i change this story four times a day instead of once a day would it help with google crawling my site more often. for some reason it is only according to cache visiting my site around every four days.

i use to find that if we published an article it would be in google within 24 hours or less, a lot of the times less but now it is taking around four days since we done the upgrade

thank you for this. i will have a read of your link now. can you let me know where you would recommend to put an intro paragraph. do you feel i should move the below from where they are now and try and put them under my menu

Welcome to In2town Lifestyle Magazine

Our Lifestyle Magazine is a fresh, innovative and vibrant online magazine offering you the best in health,fitness and life & style features, as well as modern lifestyle, beauty, fashion, personal finance and entertainment. Over the years In2town Lifestyle Magazine has established a reputation for quality articles and informed lifestyle and health features thanks to our experienced team of editorial professionals.

By reading our online Lifestyle Magazine, you will be able to enjoy the interesting mix of entertainment features, health and lifestyle news as well as finding out what is happening in the celebrity world.

We are always happy to hear from our readers, if you have lifestyle news or a story that you feel our readers would be interested in then please do contact us.

xxxxxxx

i was taught to get the intro to the site near to the top as possible so google sees it within the first 200 words, not sure if this is still the case or not and if so then if i put the intro on the footer would this be bad for seo or do you feel it would be great here as i would have more room.

also what words do you think i should put in the titlemany thanks for this

Hi, i am having major problems in optimizing this page as it is a magazine site. On normal sites i have no problem in optimizing the page to get the correct keywords to come up in the search engines but since the upgrade and also because it is a magazine site, i am having problems on how i should do this.

my site is www.in2town.co.uk and i am trying to optimize the page for the following keywords

lifestyle magazine

online magazine

lifestyle news

Life and Style articles

healthy lifestyle

i am trying to make sure that google knows what the magazine is about, as i know have dropped down the rankings since the upgrade and for lifestyle magazine we were number one in google for such a long time but now we are on page 9 and this is our home page. we are seeing sites that have hardly any content ranking above us for this keyword

i have a small intro which i have just put in the past few days at the top and we have a welcome in the middle which is here.

Welcome to In2town Lifestyle Magazine

Our Lifestyle Magazine is a fresh, innovative and vibrant online magazine offering you the best in health,fitness and life & style features, as well as modern lifestyle, beauty, fashion, personal finance and entertainment. Over the years In2town Lifestyle Magazine has established a reputation for quality articles and informed lifestyle and health features thanks to our experienced team of editorial professionals.

By reading our online Lifestyle Magazine, you will be able to enjoy the interesting mix of entertainment features, health and lifestyle news as well as finding out what is happening in the celebrity world.

We are always happy to hear from our readers, if you have lifestyle news or a story that you feel our readers would be interested in then please do contact us.

xxxxxxxx

but i would like to get rid of that section as i am going to put the latest articles there. any advice on how to sort this mess out would be great

hi, i have just got a reply from my hosting company

To use the If-Modified-Since HTTP header, you need to have both mod_expires and mod_headers enabled as Apache modules on your server. I have just checked that for you and I can confirm that both of the modules are enabled and you will be able to use If-Modified-Since HTTP headers.

Gyi, how would i know use these if the hosting company does offer the service

our home was number one in google for a long time and then dropped to around number four, since the upgrade we are on page nine, same as the term gastric band hypnotherapy, showbiz gossip and so on.

not sure if we should be doing more to optimize the main pages so google understand what the pages are about.

i do know our traffic has dropped by 70% since the upgrade and we need the get the traffic back. the site was updated around two months ago.

before the update, if we had a story on our site which we had just put on then within hours it would be in google but now it is taking days to show up which is causing us problems

thank for this.

I have a site map in my webmaster tools and i update my content each day, we add lots of content but concerned that the home page only has links and a small intro and wondering if i should show the first two paragraphs of a new story on the home page to get google to crawl the home page more often.

i am working on the site speed at the moment, not sure if you think about our site speed at present. before we had the site updated we finally got it to load in about 1,1 sec and under but not managed that at the moment.

can you explain what this means please as i have never come across it

Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header.

you said about making sure all pages are reachable from a link, we have around two thousand pages so not sure this is possible

many thanks for the great help.

so does that mean that all i have to do is to add an author name and do nothing else for it to work. do you also know how long it takes for a picture to appear in the search engines as i have not seen anything as yet

Hi, i am having serious problems since i upgraded my website from joomla 1.5 to 3.0

We have dropped down the rankings from page one for the word lifestyle magazine, and we have dropped down in rankings for other very important words including gastric band hypnotherapy and i am starting to regret having the site upgraded.

i am finding the google is taking its time visiting my site, i know this for two reasons, one i have checked the cache and it is showing the 2nd july and i have checked articles that we have written and they are still not showing.

example if i put this article name in word for word it does not come up,

Carnival Divert Ships In The Caribbean Due To bad Weather

this was an article that was done yesterday. in the old days before the upgrade that would have been in google now.

these problems are costing us the loss of a great deal of traffic, we are losing around 70% of our traffic since the upgrade and would be grateful if people could give me advice on how to turn things around.

we add articles all the time. each day we add a number of articles, i was considering changing the front page in the middle and having a few paragraphs of the latest story to get google to visit more often. i know this would look messy but i am running out of ideas.

any help would be great

cheers chris, i will focus on that.

That was a very interesting article, i am just checking to make sure that my links are natural.

we get people linking to our sites because they like an article or the site but we have read about bad links which is used by people who want to drop your site rankings, i am not sure how to find these though.

What would be the best way to get google to visit your site more. would i be wasting my time by having an article on my home page which would change all the time to show fresh content on my home page, or is it enough that i am always adding new content to the site.

Hi thanks for this. I have contacted google to find out if we have been penalized and they said no but i will read the info, many thanks

Hi, our site is www.in2town.co.uk and i am thinking of putting an article on my home page in the middle under where it says lifestyle news, and getting rid of the middle column and instead have the latest news there to try and get google to visit more.

I would like to know if you think this would look messy and not user friendly and if you think if i did do it would it get google to visit the site more often.

all day we are always adding articles but on the home page it only shows a few lines of the article so i am concerned that these few lines are not getting google interested in visiting our site more often.

we were on page one with our site but now since the upgrade we are on page eight so we are trying to combat this

The article would change each time we put a new article on the site. so the article could be on there for ten mins before a new one is there

any thoughts on this would be great

we have done well in both but recently after we had our site updated to a new site, we have done much better in Bing than in google as well as yahoo.

thanks for that

Hi. Before we had our site www.in2town.co.uk upgraded, we had this section on the first page of google and even though it does not badly with other search engines, with google we are not in the top fifty.

the page is http://www.in2town.co.uk/gastric-band-hypnotherapy

i would be so grateful for advice on how to get this section back into google

i am also concerned that i have a category called gastric band hypnotherapy, what i mean is,

http://www.in2town.co.uk/gastric-band-hypnotherapy/crash-diets-can-damage-your-health-says-gastric-band-hypnosis-expert

as you can see from above, we have the category name which is gastric band hypnotherapy and then the article name, just wondering if this is damaging us.

any help to sort our ranking issue our would be amazing

Hi, i am using google authorship on my site but when i use the testing tool it is not working.

before the upgrade we had it working fine but now it does not seem to work.

we have our google plus account pointing to the site and the writer we are trying to add is not coming up on the tool

here is the code we are putting on the page

Google+

and the page in question is here http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-laurel-is-determined-to-take-action

when i check the tool i get the following

Authorship Testing ResultAuthorship is not working for this webpage.andAuthorship rel=author MarkupCannot verify that rel=author markup has established authorship for this webpage.the tool i am using to check is http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippetsany help to solve this problem would be great. i am using joomla

thank you for this, i will try this now, what a great idea.

hi sri, what is the reason why you think i should use text only ads

i would love to learn how to do all that and i have been thinking about going on courses but for the time being i am stuck with joomla

i have counted 104 links not including the moving screen, but the tool i have used says there is still 155 links, so i am missing somewhere 51 links

I am based in the UK and i am always being told to use a UK hosting company as it will be better for the site, seo and speed, but the problem i have is finding a good company in the UK that can do everything that a company in the USA are doing.

If you can find a good hosting company near to your home then i would go for it.

Hi, i would like to know if this is normal as i have never come across it before. i have just checked my speed which needs a lot of improving. I use joomla 3.0 and recently had a developer upgrade it from 1.5, but now i am seeing under the speed test my website showing twice which looks like it is causing a time delay.

the tool is

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dTjwDM/www.in2town.co.uk

can someone please look and let me know if this is normal.

my site www.in2town.co.uk is coming up twice which seems to be slowing the site down and i have checked this tool with other sites and they are fine

many thanks

hi, i found the problem. i am using a news content module to display my news and for some reason they have stupid settings on it that brings in more links. the tool for joomla is called module news show pro gk4.

With this module you have to go through each one and make sure that you are not asking it to display links to other pages.

now i have reduced my links to 174, i know have to decide, do i reduce my links more by removing content to try and get under the 100 link rule or do i listen to the new article that is stating that the 100 link rule does not really matter now. However, as has been mentioned on here, if i have over 100 links then google is not going to crawl them and cause me seo damage, on the other hand, thinking about the user experience, the page would look silly if i removed a large number of them.

thanks for this, we have tried re-writing the articles but we would be spending our life time doing this. every week we are spending hours contacting people over copyright theft. it is getting beyond a joke.

i use that to help check for content theft

Hi, getting really fed up now. we have for years had nothing but trouble with people stealing our content. I have checked this morning and have spent the last three hours contacting sites of the theft of our content. This is now happening on a weekly basis where i am spending hours contacting website owners.

can anyone please let me know how i complain to google and how can i stop this theft from happening

thank you for this. I have just looked at my source code and i am very puzzled. I have been trying to understand why tools are showing that i have links on my home page that are not there, and i have done what you have done and counted the links in the source code and there are more links there than on the home page, so i do not how this is happening.

example

Tuesday 2 July. ANDY’S FEELING THE HEAT. As Andy worries about the prospect of losing his house, amidst all the problems he...p><p class="<a class="attribute-value">nspInfo  nspInfo2 tleft fleft</a>">p>div><div class="<a class="attribute-value">nspArt nspCol3</a>" style="<a class="attribute-value">padding:0 20px 20px 0;clear:both;</a>"><h4 class="<a class="attribute-value">nspHeader tleft fleft</a>"><a href="[/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust](view-source:http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust)" title="<a class="attribute-value">Emmerdale Debbie Does Not Know Who To Trust</a>">Emmerdale Debbie Does Not Know Who To Trusta>h4><a href="[/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust](view-source:http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-does-not-know-who-to-trust)" class="<a class="attribute-value">nspImageWrapper tleft fleft</a>" style="<a class="attribute-value">margin:6px 6px 9px 0;</a>"><img class="<a class="attribute-value">nspImage tleft fleft</a>" src="[/images/soap/emmerdalrobbie4.jpg](view-source:http://www.in2town.co.uk/images/soap/emmerdalrobbie4.jpg)" alt="<a class="attribute-value">Emmerdale Debbie Does Not Know Who To Trust</a>"  style="<a class="attribute-value">width:140px;height:82px;</a>"  />a><p class="<a class="attribute-value">nspText tleft fleft</a>"> the above is part of the source code, so i do not understand why these links are showing as on my home page when they are not on my home page, this brings me to the question, the tools i have used to find out how many links are on my home page are showing more than are actually on the home page so i need to get this sorted 

thank you for the advice

cheers for that. it is strange that i am looking for links on the home page which there are around 140 or so and then google is pulling links from the different sections and showing them on the home page.

will see if i can find the solution to try and reduce the link

many thanks for all your help

hi mike, i have just looked at the image and found it, many thanks for this, spent hours sorting this out.

just came across another one, which i do not understand why i have a bad link like this, so will find this now.

http://www.in2town.co.uk/Health Magazine

if i can work out why i have so many links on the home page, where i am being told there are 262 when really there are only around 140.

it seems for some reason links are showing on the home page from other pages.

many thanks for all your help, should have come on here earlier and asked, would have saved myself five hours looking for the problem

would it be a good idea to do a no follow link on the website as then this would be seen as not exchanging links

hi, i have used screaming frog seo and it has brought up a link to another site we run but this is a strange link

the link is

http://www.in2town.co.uk/www.clairehegarty.co.uk/virtual-gastric-band-with-hypnotherapy

i have gone through the site on the home page as this is where it is and i cannot find, so i was just wondering if there was a tool that i can use to pin point where it is.

any help would be great

just wanted to give you some information here. i have used the screaming frog tool and it is showing links from other pages rather than just my main page, which looks like this is the reason why the other tool is showing over 240 links

do you know the reason for this, or is this a case that google will be following all the links on my site from the home page and counting them all as links.

there is no way i can get under 100 if google is counting all the links on my site

thank you for this. i have turned it off and will speak to sh404sef to find out what they can do about it, as i am worried about having the security feature, but as you said that was the problem and now the site is showing fine, there are no errors showing.

many thanks for this. I hope other people who are having this problem get to read this post as they must be going through what i am going through. many thanks for all your help and the solution

hi, i have been using a great tool today called screaming frog which was shown to me by Thomas Zickell

when i used the tool i found some worrying things for my site www.in2town.co.uk. what i have found is, i have a large number of 403 forbidden status on my home page and i do not know why

here is an example

http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-debbie-hits-rock-bottom

it loads fine but on the tool it shows it as an error and shows it as having no meta tags or anything but there is meta tags in there

can anyone please let me know how to solve this and why it has happened

many thanks

counted on my page now i have stopped the images being linked as 148 but the tool is showing me 234 so i need to find out where these extra links are coming from

thank you for the great advice, i am going to get started on this straight away and please do pm me over the trusted names as i really want to get this right. we had the site re-developed and put on the new joomla 3.0 and since we had it updated, we have lost rankings.

for example, we were on page one for lifestyle magazine, we are now on page 8,  we were on page one for gastric band hypnotherapy, we are now out of the top 50, we were on page one for showbiz gossip, we are again out of the top 50, so i do not know what the developer has done or the reason behind this but i need to find out.

many thanks for all the great advice

thank you for this, i will keep an eye on which links are not being pressed as much and remove them

how do you mean i am hurting my rank. i will look and see if there any links that i can remove, do you feel i should not have any links on the image, so instead of people being able to click the image to go to the article, do you think it should just be the title they should click on

yes it is www.in2town.co.uk

I have just done the report for my site http://www.in2town.co.uk and it says i have 246 on page links but i am not sure how come i have got that many. I know i have a large number of links and in the old days it says that you should keep the links under 100 but now with website speed and the net, people are saying this is no longer listened to. A report i read said that the links should not confuse the reader or put them off, so i am just wondering what your thoughts are on a site with over a 100 links on the home page and also if my site does have to many links what should i do about it.

I cannot understand why it is showing 246 when i do not see that many on the page, any advice would be great