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Our current mobile site does not show the banners we use on the desktop site. Can anyone tell us how we can change the mobile site to show these banners.

We currently use Bigcommerce, can anyone recommend a good platform for a bridal fashion store.

We use a lot of pictures and banners. Also looking for a platform that allows for good SEO

We are looking for an updated look particularly with a responsive format for mobile phones and ipads.

We are a bridal store and are able to use different information in the URL, Page title and item name.

In item name we give the product a name for us to identify ie. Alex Lace Dress in Black/Nude, Ivory/Nude, Red/Red

In Page Title we use the suppliers name and product code as well as the item name ie.  Jadore j8075 Alex Lace Dress Online Australia

URL  = alex-lace-dress/

Are we using the correct format ? What could we do to improve them?

We are working using Webmaster tools position, then pages. Looking at the average position to improve our page rankings.

A lot of our pages are already moving up quite well, so the average is not reflecting the current position

Is there a way we can see the current page rank rather that an average, with out having to click through each search, (position, then pages etc.) it is quite time consuming.

In our Google search analytic s graphs total clicks and impressions appear as a sold line on the graph(ie showing a result for each day)

Position only shows as an occasional dot or line - not a continuous result for each day) sometimes there are days with no result for position.

How do google get these results

Hi

Thanks for your answer.

The positions we are looking at are all showing in the graph for a particular product. Using the page position.

22/12 8.5

3/1 50

5/1 8

12/1 7

13/1 2

14/1 11

Can you or anyone explain why this rank varies so much day by day.

In my page title, I have my product name.  Is it beneficial to also include another keyword like: Buy wedding dress online Australia:  e..g. (page title) amelie wedding dress | buy wedding dress online Australia.  Or is it better just using: Amelie wedding dress

Does anyone know exactly how Google measures page position in Webmaster Tools?

For example: In Google Webmaster Tools, we had a product which on the 22/12/15 was at position 7, and then dropped to position 112 on the 30/12/15. It then rose back up to position 7 on the 6/01/16 and then down to position 25 on the 16/01/16.

What does this mean and why?

In Google Webmaster Tools, under Search Analytics, what is the difference between positions in queries and positions in pages?

What are Search Keywords, Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions? What exactly is the difference between them and which one is more important?

In regards to Webmaster Tools, if we delete a page or a product, it still shows up in Search Analytics. How can we update Webmaster Tools so as to keep it current with our website?

Lastly, again in regards to Webmaster Tools, in Search Analytics. At the moment we put relevant queries into the Meta Description of low ranking pages, in order to raise the position of the page. Is this the right way to handle queries? Should we be putting the queries into the Meta Description or the Meta Keywords?

Hi Erick,

Thank you so much for your help, that is very useful and it works! We also want to actually have the video or GIF as the product 'image' so that when products are viewed in their category, customers can view the different colours we have available. Do you know if there is a possibility of editing the HTML code so that all products can be displayed like this?

Thank you!

We run a fashion/bridal store, Fashionably Yours, and we currently use the BigCommerce e-commerce platform, however it does not allow us to implement specific features.

In particular, we would like to have GIFs in the product images to display various colours/styles, and to include videos of our products at the top of the product pages.

Could anyone advise of an alternative platform that would be ideal for a fashion/bridal store and that would allow us to implement these features?

Thank you.

Hi Kristen,

Thank you so much for your help. Our website is run on BigCommerce - do you have specific advice regarding this platform?

What program would allow an image transition effect where product images when viewed on our website change to alternative angles/shots of the same product when the cursor is on the image? This is a common transition effect of websites such as http://studiominc.com.au/collections/pyramids.

Please let us know if you have used programs like these and how to implement this into our website.

Thank you!

What is the recommended size for an image on our website? What is the largest image size we can use without being penalised by Google?

Thank you.

We want to work out if it is beneficial to use links pointing back to categories (higher up in the structure) on our website product pages.

For example, our Aria Dress by Jadore is found through the path: Home > Bridesmaid > Full Length Bridesmaids Dresses > Aria Dress

In the product description for the Aria Dress, is it beneficial to include internal links pointing back to higher branches in the website structure .e.g. the Full Length Bridesmaids Dresses category page, the Bridesmaid category page, as well as linking back to the 'Jadore' page? Will doing this for every dress (linking back to category page), improve the SEO of these category pages?

How many internal links is too many to include on any given product description?

Is it more important to ensure a direct link to every single webpage so that they can be reached by Google, or to include links in both directions .i.e. from Home > Product Category > Product, as well as from Product > Product Category?

Thank you.

We are a bridal store selling wedding dresses and bridesmaids dresses. We are wanting to know how much our URL and page title can differ, whilst still optimising SEO.

For example, for the category Wedding Dresses, the URL contains wedding dresses, so can we use " the best wedding dresses in Sydney" in the page title?

For the bridesmaid dresses (URL is /bridesmaiddresses/) can we use " buy best bridesmaid dresses online in Australia"?

Can we use terms such as "buy best black dress in sydney", "buy online in australia" or "shop online in sydney" in the alt-tag, additional from the page title .i.e. adding extra keywords in the alt-tag that do not appear in the title? Would this be classified as keyword stuffing?

In our main categories .e.g. Wedding Dresses, can we add "best wedding dress store", "buy wedding dresses from best wedding store in sydney" in the alt-tag?

Thank you.

Dear Dmitrii,

Thank you so much for your reply.  It is very helpful.

We are a bridal store selling wedding dresses and bridesmaids dresses. We are wanting to know how much our URL and page title can differ, whilst still optimising SEO.

For example, for the category Wedding Dresses, the url is wedding dresses, so can we use " the best wedding dresses in Sydney" in the page title?

For the bridesmaid dresses (URL is /bridesmaiddresses/) can we use " buy best bridesmaid dresses online in Australia"?

Can we use terms such as "buy best black dress in sydney", "buy online in australia" or "shop online in sydney" in the alt-tag, apart from the page title .i.e. adding extra keywords in the alt-tag that do not appear in the title? Would this be classified as keyword stuffing?

In our main categories .e.g. Wedding Dresses, can we add "best wedding dress store", "buy wedding dresses from best wedding store in sydney" in the alt-tag?

Thank you.

On our website, we have products that come in different colours, and we have created a different SKU for each one .e.g. our Acacia Evening Dress comes in 3 different colours (black, blue and red) - Acacia Evening Dress Black (J7048BLK), Acacia Evening Dress Blue (J7048RB), Acacia Evening Dress Red (J7048R).

Would it be beneficial for SEO if on the image Alt-tag we used the terms 'Jadore J7048 Red Acacia dress', 'Jadore J7048 Black Acacia dress' and 'Jadore J7048 Blue Acacia dress', because 'Acacia' is the internal name we have given to this dress, not the name provided by the label, Jadore, as more customers would search for terms such as 'black dress' or 'Jadore J7048'? Can we use the same terms in the Alt-tag on the image and the page title? How important is the Alt-tag in searching?

We updated some pages to try to improve our site.

We kept the same URLs and changed the page title and meta description to target specific key words.

Our page authority has dropped to 1.

This is one of the pages

http://www.fashionably-yours.com.au/wedding-dresses/

What have we done wrong?

We use Bigcommerce, at the moment we use wordpress for our blogs, bigcommerce has its own blog.

Is it better to use the Bigcommerce blog or Wordpress.

is it best to have in the H1 tag

1. just our website address

2. combination of website address followed by short keywords about our website

Hi

We use bigcommerce and want to add a video to each product . We want to add a video link in the corner of the product image and have the video play when this tab  is clicked.

Can anyone tell us how to do this

Regards

Hi

We use bigcommerce and want to chage the way we display multiple images for our products.

At the moment in bigcommerce you switch between images by clicking the next image, we want the images to change when we hover the curser over the image.

Does anyone know how to do this ?

Regards

Adrienne

Hi

We recently change the layout of our website to a responsive theme in the hope of improve our rankings. We are getting less more traffic but less conversions to sales.

Our Spam sore has these flagged No Contact Info - we have the phone number on top of every page and a contact us link at the bottom of every page  - Is there something we are missing ?

Low Number of Pages Found - we have over 3000 products each of which has a page, plus other info pages on our stite - Whay would this be flagged.RegardsAdrienne

where would we go identify the links that are bad

is there a way to get a list of each individual link not just the site and number from the site

we are trying to clean up our site and believe we have bad back links

can any one tell me how to work out which ones to disavow

Is there a way to disable the review feature on our Google+ page whilst still retaining the rest of the Google+ features?

Is Google Plus really very beneficial to a business, as our experience is that this is where difficult customers or even competitors can write bad reviews?

On our website we have some invisible/hidden categories on our site. Can anyone advise whether these are harmful in terms of SEO?

In our Costume Themes category on our website, http://www.costumedirect.com.au/themes/, the links direct to search pages with URLs containing the term '?search'. For example, the 'Edward Scissorhands' link directs to http://www.costumedirect.com.au/search.php?search_query=edward. Will the question mark and 'search' in our URL affect the page quality and rankings? Thank you.

Does anyone have any experience with the advantages of using a search product like SLI in comparison to the search available on Bigcommerce.

We currently use SLI for the searches on our site but think over the years we have been using SLI that the searches on Bigcommerce have improved and we are thinking of switching back to using the Bigcommerce search.

Regards

Adrienne

Hi Alan,

Once again thanks for the advise. It makes a lot of sense when I add it to the information I have worked out while trying to improve our site. Also a lot of these menus etc. were added about the time the rankings dropped.

Just a question. I have removed a lot of the unnessary links on the bottom of the pages.

The way our platform works, we have a home page - which I have removed the right side menus and left side.

On the product page we have removed the right side menus etc. also a lot of the left side - just leaving the wish list.

On the category page - we are wondering whether we should also remove the right side menus ?

Regards

Adrienne

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your advise.

I think most of the things you mentioned were set up by an expert we had working here and also are features of the platform we us.

I am working on removing the excess links at the bottom of the pages, and will work through your other sugestions.

They sound like they will help us.

Thanks

Hi

It dropped November 2013.

Regards

Hi Rebecca,

Our site dropped ranking November 2013.

Regards

Adrienne

Thanks,

I will try both of those.

Regards

Thanks

http://www.costumedirect.com.au/

Regards

Adrienne

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your response. As far as I know we have no warnings in webmaster tools. I am not sure how to tell which links are damaging. Some have been removed.

We lost about 50% of traffic organic traffic. Our site dropped from 1st page to 3-10 page.

Regards

Adrienne

A couple of years ago the ranking on our site dropped over night. I believe someone working here at the time purchased links about that time. We have been doing lots of work on the site since then to improve it. We can not get our rankings back up on google searches.

Can anyone give us some advise about what to do or where to go for some help that we can trust.

We noticed recently on our site - that our H1 tag was the Company Name - we changed this to be the product name - our products would be searched for by all or part of the description.

Our sales have dropped of the days since we changed it, could it be a result of this change ?

Is it best to have the H1 tag as the product name ?

We have 2 sites that have been set up slightly differently. On 1 site we have the Company name in the H1 and the product name in the page title and H2. On the other site we have the Product name in the H1 and no H2.

Does anyone have any advise about the best information to have in the H1 and H2

Does anyone know if we have to have a paid addwords campain for our products to appear in google shopping.

We have a feed set up for google shopping.

We have addwords campaigns running for google.

But our products do not seem to appear in google shopping.

Any advise on how to get them there?

Hi Matt,

The error is URL website not claimed. It was working perfectly for week. Then a couple of days after we got the lost claim to site message we also got the feed error.

What I can not work out is why we keep getting the URL website not claimed errors when we are not aware of changing anything.

Regards

Adrienne

Hi

Thanks for your help.

Twice first about 2 months ago and then last week, we started receiving messages that you have just lost your website URL claim in your Google Merchant Center account "

I have re verified each time by inserting the code on our site.

This week our goole feed also received "3,453 items processed
Shopping: 0 / 3,453"

I am not sure what is happening

Adrienne

Someone set up both our sites on the one webmaster tools account is this the best way to do it or should we have 2 different accounts. We are having problems with our site verification not working and our google shopping feeds not working could this be the cause.