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Hi Robert,

Thanks so much for the thoughtful answer.  I can fix the problem with the title tags and the H1 tags.  Your insight into the meta description was helpful.  But how much variation does there need to be not to get dinged for duplicate content?

Unfortunately I cannot change the main structure of the site.  For better or worse I am stuck with it and will have to make it work as best as I can from the SEO standpoint.

Your help and insight is MUCH appreciated!

Shara

Still new to this SEO world, so please bear with me.  I have an eCommerce site so one of the issues is duplicate content and page titles.

So what I was thinking was this...for each product that I sell I have 4 or 5 keywords that I have targeted.  For example for personalized iPhone cases I have decided on:

iphone 4 case personalized, monogrammed iphone 4 case, personalized and monogrammed iphone case, preppy phone case, personalized iPhone case, monogrammed iPhone case

For each of my products I was going to a product description (ie: trendy color block diagonal stripes) and a targeted keyword.  But I was going to rotate the keywords through so as to try to avoid the duplicate page title issue.

Will that help?

Thanks much,

Shara

Thanks so much!

Very helpful! Appreciate your time and though!

Hi Again,

I was mulling over all that you suggested and I am curious about a few things...

1. so obviously I need to cull my keywords down...but how do you deal with all the iterations of keywords that someone might use to search for.  For example one of my main keywords is _monogrammed preppy gifts.  _So if I use that keyword and skip preppy monogrammed gifts then what about those who search preppy monogrammed gifts?  Does that question make sense?

2. I used Google AdWords to search and get variations of the keywords.  The decision was made to go for the lower competition words because I thought I would be more successful with that tactic.  So if I cull my keywords do I stay with the lower competition words which of course have less searches?

Thanks much!

Wow...I am in trouble!

Thank you, appreciate the guidance!

Yet another basic question....is it bad to try and optimize a page for numerous keywords that are all related?  My site is an eCommerce site.  So for and example: I am trying to optimize my homepage (www.shopconfections.com) for about 20 keywords that all directly describe my site.

On product pages I am optimizing for about 15 keywords that all directly relate to my product.

Many of my keywords are long tailed.  Can there be too many?  What are the consequences of that?

Thanks!
Shara

Thanks Vahe....dumb question I am sure, but what is the footer?

Still trying to get a handle on all this...a lot to figure out!  My site is Drupal and a few weeks ago I had my developer install an SEO Module so I could add a meta description and keywords for my pages.

I have done that for the majority of the landing pages and the product pages as well. Earlier I posted a question about the use of adding the meta description and keywords to each product.  The answers were mixed and pointed out the problem of the duplicate content which I am trying to figure out how to fix.

BUT...when I went through my On Page Analysis grading for my campaigns one of the reasons my grades were low were because of the use of meta keywords tag.  That the search engines ignore them and competitors can use them against you.

So now I am thoroughly confused.  I should optimize each product page with the meta description and keywords or i shouldn't?

Keywords should show up in the title tag and the content....anywhere else?

Help!

Thanks much,

Shara

Very good answers....thank you!  Will be skipping this idea.

Appreciate it,

Shara

Hello,

I have an ecommerce site that sells personalized gifts.  I am wondering about the value of purchasing domain names for specific products and have them point to a landing page.  For example: the domain name personalizediphonecases.com would point to my page of that product.  Is that a good idea?

Thank you!

Ok, that makes sense.  So that is why the A and the F...understood.  Thanks so much!

Thank you!

We have a whole host of keywords that we are targeting, but the main two are:

monogrammed dry erase board and personalized dry erase board.  But that brings me to another question. Are the on page reports done for all the keywords in the campaign or is each keyword have a grade?

Thanks!

I am embarrassed to admit I don't know what this means....

Certainly...and thank you for the response!

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monogrammed dry erase board

/category/personalized-gifts-product-types/personalized-magnetic-dry-erase-boards | F | | 12 | |
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personalized dry erase board

/category/personalized-gifts-product-types/personalized-magnetic-dry-erase-boards | A | | 36 | |

I received an email that my on page analysis for my campaigns were completed.  But when I click on the link there are no grades there.  What does that mean?

Another question on this topic....when your campaign is graded are pages graded on all the keywords in the campaign or is each keyword graded invidividually?

Thanks!

I am new here and happy to be!  My site is an ecommerce site with hundreds of products.  I  have set up campaigns to track specific products.  For the on page analysis where SEOMOZ gives you a grade I have 2 urls showing.  But 1 of the urls is getting an A, and 1 is getting a F.  But they are the same url and obviously go to the same page.  Any help would be appreciated!