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Hey all,

I plan on making some awesome short, informational (and not overtly promotional) videos for my business.

The basic idea is an expert talking and demonstrating how to perform different topics with tools and equipment (related to solar energy).

We have a quality film crew and a really knowledgeable and engaging presenter, but does anybody have any awesome examples of this type of video (in any industry).

Just trying to get a sense of how I want it to look and feel for maximum engagement.

Thanks!

We have changed our site architecture pretty significantly and now have many fewer pages (albeit with more robust content and focused linking).

My question is, what should I do about all the 404 errors (keep in mind, I am only finding these in Bing Webmaster tools, not Moz or GWT)?

Is it worse to have all those 404 errors (hundreds), or to have a massive htaccess file for pages that are only getting hits by the Bing crawlbot.

Any insight would be great.

Thanks

I'm wanting to build a in-depth profile for my company's typical site visitor and I was wondering if there is anyway to view other websites that visitors are searching for online to get an idea of their hobbies/interests and how they spend their free time. I'm not sure if I'm asking the right questions in Google because the results are very broad and are more about reading analytics for your own company. Can anyone point me to a website or software that allows for this sort of thing?

Hey guys,

Thanks for the input. I thought the problem might actually be tied to multiple locations having multiple events, so I made it multiple locations each with one date:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleanedison.com%2Fcourses%2Fentry-level-solar-energy-training%2F

But no dice. We used to generate preview pages for each date and location for each product, but it generated tons of almost identical content. Do you have any examples of website that have done this successfully?

Anyone have advice on how to get dates and locations to show up in the SERPs?

Thanks

Hello Everyone,

I had previously added Structured Data for reviews for my product pages, which worked, and has slightly bumped up CTRs.

Now, I am trying to get dates and locations to show up in the SERPs (Products are classes). Google's Structured Data Testing Tool shows that the data is being read without any errors, but I cannot seem to get them to show up in the preview (or actual SERPs).

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleanedison.com%2Fcourses%2Fentry-level-solar-energy-training%2F

If anyone could take a look and let me know if there is anything obvious I missed, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

I recently noticed a jump in my Crawl Errors in Google Webmaster Tools.

Upon further investigation I found hundreds of the most spammy web pages I've ever seen pointing to my domain (although all going to 404 errors):

http://blurchelsanog1980.blog.com/

http://lenitsky.wordpress.com/

These are all created within the last week.

A. What the hell is going on?

B. Should I be very concerned? (because they are 404 errors)

C. What should my next steps be?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello All,

So about 2 months ago, there was a massive spike in the number of crawl errors on my site according to Google Webmaster tools.

I handled this by sending my webmaster a list of the broken pages with working pages that they should 301 redirect to.

Admittedly, when I looked back a couple weeks later, the number had gone down only slightly, so I sent another list to him (I didn't realize that you could 'Mark as fixed' in webmaster tools)

So when I sent him more, he 301 redirected them again (with many duplicates) as he was told without really digging any deeper.

Today, when I talked about more re-directs, he suggested that 404's do have a place, that if they are actually pages that don't exist anymore, then a ton of 301 re-directs may not be the answer.

So my two questions are:

1. Should I continue to relentlessly try to get rid of all 404's on my site, and if so, do I have to be careful not to be lazy and just send most of them to the homepage.

2. Are there any tools or really effective ways to remove duplicate 301 redirect records on my .htaccess (because the size of it at this point could very well be slowing down my site).

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Thanks for your response.

So in your opinion, am I going over the rule of thumb?

Should I just cut down the number of items?

Hello everyone,

I have a megamenu with 87 links in total. We offer a ton of products, so when we decided to have this developed, it seemed like a no-brainer because a straight drop-down menu was really hard to digest.

But I have been wondering if it is creating too many links on every single page and/or muddling the signals to the search engines.

If anyone could take a look and give me their insight, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

www.cleanedison.com

Hello everyone,

We run classes and we just released our 2014 schedule.

I am thinking of manually posting each class on the various event sites on the web (zvents, eventbrite, yelp, etc.)

Should I worry about any sort of penalty if the content of these events are exactly the same?

Also, some allow links within the description, my plan was to have 1-3 links going back to my product page with varying anchor text. Is there anything I should worry about with this plan?

Thanks in advance for any help

I get it, a truly authoritative source will not be able to control the exact anchor text that others link to it with. Google is trying to deliver the most authoritative source, so non-exact anchor text is more likely a good option for them.

This makes total sense and I have been varying the anchor text of my blog posts.

But this begs the question: How am I supposed to know I am increasing my rankings for the high volume key words in my industry, and not leaving it up to Google to decide which keywords are most important?

Hello everyone,

I got hit with an algorithm penalty and need to start removing old backlinks ASAP.

1. Does anyone have any good resources on how best to ask webmasters for removal?

2. Are there any other ways to remove bad back links besides the disavow tool? (An SEO consultant I talked to said that they had a proprietary software that can remove them - is that possible?)

Thanks all,