You're welcome. Peter
Posts made by crackingmedia
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RE: Feedback & Advice on Blog Post
Hi, my thoughts on this page is that for me I don't read it as a blog post as it's promotional and not really informational.
You are right to look to write high quality, helpful and useful content. To do that you need to ask what questions would potential customers in your target market being asking.
You are right when you say in the page you linked to "Storage challenges are common to everyone from businesses to consumers.", so consider what hints and tips and good information can you give to help people with those storage challenges.
You cannot just say buy our storage bins, but you could post something like "101 Cool Ways to use a Dividable Grid Container" or maybe share helpful information on the best way to store important documents and the advantages of using a proper container than a cardboard box.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Contest Outreach Strategy
Hi Ivan
You say "what I have been doing up to now..." which suggests you have already been doing this. What success have you seen on bloggers being willing to tweet to their followers your offer? If you have already offered this to quite a few bloggers, then you should already have some indication on (a) the percentages of bloggers who are willing to tweet for you and (b) the take up rate from their tweets.
I would be interested to hear if it is proving successful for you.
My strategy if wanting to offer these free audits is to build a list of contacts myself through my own outreach in social media. It's not a quick strategy but something you need to build and grow over time. Go on to the social media channels and engage with people, listen and try to answer their questions, share with your own followers any good things they are sharing. Then, as people build up more trust and authority in the places you are engaging people will begin to respond to you more and be more willing to share the good things you put out.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Getting Redirect Loops in MOZ using Chrome
To be honest Michael I have just been using the method I described above to logout before logging back in again.
I remember reading another Q&A thread where it was reported and someone from Moz responded but maybe they are not aware it is still an issue for some users.
So to hopefully get this resolved I have just sent a support ticket to Moz. It feels like there is a session cookie being stored that isn't being cleared properly and that maybe why moz.com/logout works, but hopefully they will get on to it and get it sorted.
Meantime use the moz.com/logout cure as that always works for me.
I hope that helps, Peter
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RE: What is the recommended way to save Image Files in WP?
Hi, if by media files you mean audio media files then save them as mp3 format. Depending on what they are you can normally save speech at around 64kpbs whereas with music do for a minimum 128kbps.
Peter
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RE: Getting Redirect Loops in MOZ using Chrome
Hi Michael
What happens if you put moz.com/logout into your address bar (needs to be lowercase) and hit enter. Does that clear the issue?
This problem has been ongoing for a while but I find doing the above does reset and allows me to then login successfully.
Peter
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RE: Ongoing Duplicate
Hi Pete
I would think the web company would have corrected the problem by adding rel="canonical" code to point to the correct page where duplicates occurred. The only thing I can think of is maybe the code has accidentally been removed.
You really need to check the source code of some of the reported duplicates to check to see if the canonical code is there.
Peter
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RE: Is "http://whereisthefold.com/" a good tool?
Hi Ron
It looks OK. However, you might find http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ more useful though with details of how to use it here: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/static/about-browser-size.html
Google said it was going to be retired in June last year but it's still going, probably because people do find it useful.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Keyword research tools
Hi Sarah
I would always be concerned at hearing a company dissing another company in a public event. I have never used Wordtracker personally, but with a long track record as it has I wouldn't dismiss it. Also, in the latest search environment I think information giving you insight and context would probably be quite useful.
What examples did the company who hosted the event give that their tool was better?
The problem with any keyword research tool for search now, the data is not going to be as rich as it was. Also, with personalised search how do you measure what is 'normal'? Bing will give you search data yes, and most tools I think use that data. So if you keep in mind that the numbers are not the same as you will get with Google they will at least give you an idea of the higher volume keywords in proportion to those that are likely to be less. By using that data alongside other metrics and competitive analysis, you have a better chance than having none.
If there is a silver bullet tool out there I would be delighted to know about it.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Staging site - Treated as duplicate?
Yes, it would show up in your analytics as an active user but the fact that the query returns no results means it's not been indexed. All good.
Peter
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RE: Staging site - Treated as duplicate?
Hi Rajat,
No what I mean is put the following query into the search box
site:<yourdomainname>/<yourstagingfolder></yourstagingfolder></yourdomainname>
where yourdomainname is your domain name (e.g. mysite.com) and yourstagingfolder is your staging folder (e.g. staging), so ike this:
site:mysite.com/staging
Peter
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RE: Staging site - Treated as duplicate?
Hi Rajat
The analytics code may have given some signals to Google of pages to index but to test it the staging server's pages are in Google use site:mysite.com/staging (NB. no spaces between site and the domain name).
Peter
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RE: Staging site - Treated as duplicate?
Hi Rajat
I agree with Federico. Also, if there was no active link on mysite.com to mysite.com/staging then it's unlikely Google would have found it unless the staging site had been submitted to Google via a sitemap for indexing. You should be fine.
Peter
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RE: Correct URL Structure Question
Hi Rand
Many thanks for taking the time to check by on this one. I appreciate you giving your valuable input.
Peter
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RE: Why is my domain authority 1?
Hi Claudine
When you say that you have just changed your website for a new one, did you also change the domain name to a new one? If so, that is the likely cause as a new domain has no basis to have been awarded any authority.
Also, it is a new domain, what did you do with the old domain and the pages on the old site? Have they been 301 redirected to your new site and pages?
Peter
[Edit]: Just checking the domain you have listed in your profile: exomarketing.biz that shows as being around 4 years old and in Open Site Explorer it has a domain authority of 31 so I assume this is not the site you are referring to?
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RE: How much time does it take for the links to be forwarded to redirected link?
Hi, if your 301 redirects are tested as working then that is good so existing links in Google's index should at least be forwarding tor the correct pages.
Are you asking how much time you should wait for the links in Google's search results to show the new links? If so, it often depends on how active your site is with updates normally. The more frequent you update the site the more often Google will tend to check for changes. In general though, a few days is not unreasonable to wait, maybe a bit longer.
Have you checked your sitemap in Google's Webmaster Tools? Does it show that Google have processed it and indexed pages. There's no real need to re-send a sitemap if the original was correct, so if everything checks out OK then I would wait for a bit more.
I hope that helps,
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RE: I changed the {Site Name} of our domain by capitalizing a letter. 48 hours later our SEO rankings are bad. How long does it take to rebound our prior rankings. The {site name} was at the end of every page title.
Hi Linck
I think it is extremely unlikely that doing this would have killed your rankings in two days.
It's more likely a coincidence with something else that has happened. Think through anything you have done in the last 2-3 weeks that could have had an impact, check your Webmaster Tools Reports and make sure Google are not reporting any issues.
Peter
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RE: Detected a bad site linking to you? what to do?
That's really helpful. Thanks Jeff.
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RE: Detected a bad site linking to you? what to do?
I would ask the site owner to remove the photo and link. If that fails then if the page is not important to you then it will be simpler to remove it than wait for the disavow to take effect.
Peter
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RE: Mysterious Referral Link
Hi Reggie
It looks like that there might have been a page there at some point that was referring to your site but now that page has gone. You should see the link disappear from your crawl results at some point.
Peter
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RE: Detected a bad site linking to you? what to do?
Hi Dario
The first thing you should really do it contact the site who created the bad link and ask them to remove it and the photo if you are not happy about that also. If they are unresponsive then sending in a Disavow should really be done after speaking to the offending site's owner.
If though, as you say, the page is not important to you, then if the above doesn't work then yes, just remove the page.
Peter
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RE: Drop in traffic after redesign
Then I think you will see a recovery and possible improvement, but check through Paul's suggestions.
Peter
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RE: What do you think of this?
Hi Bryan
It's frustrating I appreciate and I agree the SEO is not good, but I would just stay out of it, I don't think it ever pays to take an approach like you are suggesting and you have to be careful what you say as you need to guard your own reputation and let the other company's reputation stand or fall by the results they produce - or don't as the case may be.
If I was asked my thoughts in private by the company receiving the service then I would give them but qualified as "in my professional opinion", but I would even then be careful about what I said.
If this other SEO company fail then at some point the company which recruited them will get rid of them and quite possibly come back to you.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Drop in traffic after redesign
That's a great detailed answer Paul!
Peter
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RE: Drop in traffic after redesign
Hi Gordian
I assume the traffic drops you are seeing are from organic search?
Often with a redesign there will be a change in the page URLs for the site. Did that happen with your site? If so, then you need to make sure that you set up redirection from the old URLs to your new URLs. This will be an important thing to address if this has been the case.
Other than that, there are sometimes bumps due to re-indexing of pages but if the content has remained unchanged then you shouldn't see much change and any change you do see should recover.
If the code is cleaner and the user experience better, then you should begin to see some improvements. The latter is that is likely to take longer because it will be based on things like reduced bounced rates feeding back to Google and thereby creating better results due to the perceived better user experience.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Does the inbound links report include links to all pages of the domain being researched?
Hi
In Open Site Explorer, there are various filters for the Inbound Links report.
By default it shows "all" links from "all" pages to "this page" (i.e. the page at the URL entered).
But you can change the filters to show links that are from "external" or "internal" pages to "pages on this sub-domain" (e.g. www.) or "pages on this root domain".
Yes, different tools will show different results especially for external inbound links due to the nature of how much of the web they crawl. In those cases, I would always look at the highest figure on the basis that the crawler that reported was able to crawl more pages and find more inbound links.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Is My Boilerplate Product Description Causing Duplicate Content Issues?
Hi Zachery
29 pages showing up in your Moz crawl report out of 16,400 indexed pages on your site is such a small percentage (0.18% to be accurate) it is not worth worrying about. Also, if GWT is not reporting any issues I think you should be fine.
Don't worry, be happy!
Peter
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RE: Blogger relationship - One Off VS periodic monthly blogging (which is best)
I'm don't think there would be zero risk, but the risk would certainly be minimised.
It's authenticity that really matters in all of this. If people are writing topically relevant blog articles that link to pages on the same subject and it's being done authentically, then you are working and operating the right side of the line.
Peter
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RE: Blogger relationship - One Off VS periodic monthly blogging (which is best)
Hi Carlos
I think it's fair to say that yes, there could be a negative SEO effect with a strategy of mass recurring blogging. The risk of that negative effect would I think increase the lower quality and authority the referring sites were.
Peter
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RE: Blogger relationship - One Off VS periodic monthly blogging (which is best)
Hi Carlos
I think it would be surprising to get 50 to 100 bloggers with high quality blogs all writing posts with links about/to the same site. I'm not saying it's not possible, but you would expect to see that sort of level every month where bloggers were raving and reviewing quality products from a well known brand.
If you haven't got such a brand then I think you would struggle to get that many bloggers willing to write about your site and maintain the quality of those articles/links.
Peter
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RE: Blogger relationship - One Off VS periodic monthly blogging (which is best)
Hi Carlos
I think it would depend on how many inbound links you were getting from the same group of bloggers and their sites, the authority and relevance of the things they normally blog about, plus what the proportion of what they were blogging about was directed to your site.
It's difficult to predict as there are so many factors. The important thing is if the relationships you are building with bloggers are genuine and the blog links are genuinely organic and not paid for, then it should be in your favour. If these links don't fit this criteria then yes, it could have a negative SEO effect.
I hope that helps,
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RE: SEO MOZ ERROR
Hi, sorry to see you have been having a problem.
I don't represent Moz directly, but the error page you have received was in response to something you entered. Are you able to say what it was you were entering (as this error page doesn't say what that was) so I can see if I can reproduce it and see what the problem could be?
Peter
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RE: 1 business targetting multiple local locations
Hi Tye
I think you are right, sites/pages like that shouldn't be doing so well, but there are still sites/pages out there that are going under the radar or trying to trick ranking well in SERPs.
I have seen that with a local business in my area too and for a while they were dominating every local search spreading over a 60+ mile radius. In recent months though I have seen their position eroded, maybe because Google got wise to what they were doing.
If you believe a site is spamming by mispractice, then you can file a report with Google to ask them to examine the site and what it is doing. See here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1
I hope that helps,
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RE: Title Tag Suggestion
Hi Prince
The local-based URL you have suggested is good, but the issue is not so much with the URL but how you can effectively target these searches without local offices - at least it would seem by the fact that you don't show any addresses of offices on your site that there are not any. Is that correct?
There is an excellent set of tips from Miriam Ellis on optimising for local searches on this post: https://moz.com/community/q/what-is-the-best-way-to-optimise-the-website-of-a-service-area-business-websites-for-local-search
The essential thing if you want to optimise for local searches is to show local citations of an office in that area. As Miriam says:
The most important thing for SABs (Service Area Businesses) to understand is that Google is heavily biased toward physical location. SABs must have at least one physical location in order to seek inclusion in Google's local index. This can be a home address - that's just fine! But it cannot be a virtual address, P.O. box, etc. And it should not be shared by any other business.
Is this site for a company who operate totally online or from just one phone number which could for anyone knows be offshore? If it is, you are not going to be successful with this strategy if you have no local offices that someone can walk into and buy the service. If it is an online only service being operated then your whole site should reflect that and you should market the site along those lines - with quality unique content being on the site answering the questions people may be searching for - based on the service you are offering.
The Title tag you suggest is OK for a home page yes although it's a little diluted and the "As low as 1%" would be of more value in the Description meta tag. No one will be searching for that key phrase. I don't think these days there is much difference with using pipe, hyphen or comma.
Sorry again to sound like I am being harsh on what you are trying to do. I think you are genuine guy trying to do their best, but with all the hard work you are putting in to this site you are better to direct it at making the site work well for you and your client.
Peter
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RE: Title Tag Suggestion
The issue Prince with adding nofollow tags to those links is that the search engines will then not follow them and if you have no other links to those pages then they will not be indexed.
Peter
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RE: Title Tag Suggestion
Hi Prince
My best advice for SEO is as I said before: focus on creating quality content about lawsuit loans grow your business and website by doing that and through social media.
SEO tricks and tactics won't help the site and will quite possibly hurt it. SEO today is not really about tactics but being strategic and is about having a high quality content strategy that engages with the information people are looking for and not gaming keywords.
The problem is with your pages in general. The inside pages of your site look like they contain a lot of duplicate content, e.g.
http://www.topnotchlawsuitloans.com/lawsuit-funding-lasvegas.html v http://www.topnotchlawsuitloans.com/lawsuit-funding-cleveland.html
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http://www.topnotchlawsuitloans.com/lawsuit-funding-cleveland.html v http://www.topnotchlawsuitloans.com/lawsuit-funding-columbus.html
You have sentences like: _In Cincinnati, the process of lawsuit is often very time consuming and long. _Is that really true and unique of Cincinatti? Surely that would be true of most places.
If I am honest it looks like you have used a content spinner to generate the content on the pages on each of the cities and states. For example on the Columbus page it says: If any plaintiff’s need money and cannot wait to get money from the lawsuit, Lawsuit Funding Cincinnati is here for help.
I'm not trying to give you a hard time Prince. I understand you want to do the best for your client and your client will require you do the best for them. That best is not using the tactics you are now because as I say, these tactics will not help your site to rank for local search in these cities - speak to Miriam Ellis on Moz as she is an expert on local SEO - and at worst you will get hit my warnings from Google.
Sorry, but I hope that helps.
Peter
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RE: Title Tag Suggestion
Hi, I am not sure what to suggest to you other than to be cautious with the way you are optimising your site.
You have posted a few questions on this forum and you are obviously trying hard to SEO you site, but you could run into difficulty and put in a lot of effort with little or no results.
I had a look at your site: topnotchlawsuitloans.com and the tactics you are using will not work. For example, creating custom pages for Lawsuit Loans <city name="">or <state name="">(see attached screenshot) without local offices in those cities and states will not work and is likely to be seen as very spammy by Google.</state></city>
My best advice is to focus on creating quality content about lawsuit loans grow your business and website by doing that and through social media.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Does anyone know of a recipe schema creator tool?
Hi Lisa
Are you using Wordpress as your CMS? There is one here for that: http://wordpress.org/plugins/ziplist-recipe-plugin/
There is also a standalone one here
http://www.microdatagenerator.com/recipe-schema/
which says under construction. I tried it and although I didn't check what it created in detail it looked OK so you could maybe use that and adapt it.
I hope they help,
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RE: Avoid Keyword Dilution
Hi, I am not sure I understand what you are asking.
Are you saying that you believe you should have individual pages for each of the three words: kiln, dried and logs?
If that is the case then no, you should optimise for those three words together as a phrase "kiln dried logs" as that is what you can expect people to search for, not those words individually.
Is that is what you are asking? If not, please post back with more information.
Peter
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RE: Doubts with URL's structure
Hi Ricardo
If you want to include district as well and district is part of the city which I think it is, then go for: www.domain.com/category-city-district
I'm sorry but I still do not understand the filters you are speaking about. Do they relate to the category?
Peter
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RE: Should I implement 301 Redirects vs 410 in Removing Product Pages?
Hi Lori
A 410 code it technically correct in the context you are using it, but for SEO purposes you are better to do something with links that are going to the pages you are currently returning 410 codes for.
If you have a page that relates in some way to the page you have removed, then create a 301 redirect and send the requests to the similar page.
If no similar page exists, you could just redirect to the home page. In some cases though in those circumstances it could be worthwhile sending the link to a custom 404 page similar to the one Moz use as you can see for my invalid page query: http://moz.com/404. Rather than use a 301 redirect in those circumstances, this type of response can be a good opportunity to engage with the visitor to try to guide them to the information they are looking for. The Moz 404 page is a good example of that.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Doubts with URL's structure
Hi Ricardo
It's best to minimise folder levels if you can so of those you have listed **www.domain.com/category-city **would be more favourable.
I'm not understanding the second part of your question with regard to filters. Do they relate to the category in the above URL structure? Please could you provide more information.
Peter
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RE: Should I Use An Animated Javascript Responsive Site
Hi Denis
Google is much smarter these days at dealing with JavaScript but that doesn't mean to say that excessive Javascript on a page would be OK too. Essentially, the more hoops a search engine has to jump through to find the content it is trying to index the harder it is and the less likely you will achieve the results you want to achieve.
The other aspect to consider of course is user experience which is a ranking factor in Google's algorithm. Sites with lots of bells and whistles can look amazing but sometimes they can be a hindrance to being able to access content too. It's one thing to wow the visitor, but it's another thing to engage with them and prompt them to pick up the phone to call you.
My business do a lot of video production and people often get excited about funky transitions, but in many cases they are just fluff. Most broadcast programmes on TV use just two transitions: straight cut and dissolve.
My point I think is the same as yours, effects can be great, but they need to be used sparingly. You can have the funkiest website but if its not found when someone searches then it's the funkiest website that no-one has ever seen.
Sorry, I have gone around the houses a little, but to answer in summary, yes Javascript heavy templates can be indexed, but maybe not as well as you would want them to be + of course the user experience issue of being able to access content simply to pick up the phone.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Seo Site Structure
Hi, if possible I would change the **product-320 **to something more human and search engine understandable.
I would suggest something like: www.example.com/casual-shoes/plimsolls where plimsolls is product-320.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Moz Report: Number of Domains linking to Domain
Hi,
There is an explanation of the metrics in the Open Site Explorer here: http://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer
The "number of domains linking to domain" is the total number of other domains that have at least one link to the site.
You said, " I'm analyzing our competitors link profile and noticed some numbers as high as 2369232? Yes, 2,369,232 is a high number, but is that number linking domains or some other metric like linking pages?
If it is linking domains then you could only expect those sort of numbers for a very large and significant site. If it isn't a site like that then that number must be an error in the report.
Peter
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RE: Effect of temporary subdomains on the root domain
Hi Daniela
That's almost correct. You need to do the wrap up in two stages really.
When the competition is over just have your "competition is finished" page active on your sub-domain say for a week with a link that people can use to go to your root domain home page.
But then, when you remove that page, because inbound links to your sub-domain would still be active in search engines and on Internet links, you still need to leave your sub-domain in place on your server for a time but with a 301 redirect active stored in the sub-domain folder. That would just need a single redirection in place that automates any visits to your sub-domain to your root domain home page.
After say a month or so, you will probably then be safe to remove the sub-domain.
I hope the above makes sense.
Peter
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RE: Giving a final nudge to lead the serps
Hi Guy
Whilst you have said you are using all new inbound marketing practices, it's a difficult question to answer with limited knowledge of the details of what you are doing for an eCommerce site you have not said what it sells. You may be doing some of the inbound things well but others not so well.
You've heard it before I am sure, but high quality unique content is very important - even for an eCommerce site, Does the site have a blog? Have you written articles about how to best use the products the site is selling, or how to look after them, or what people are saying about them, or the story behind how the products are created?
In terms of the sites ranking above yours, take a look at what they are doing, Can your site do it better than them?
And what about the site's brand identity? Are there ways you can grow the brand's fan base or a community of followers around the products you are selling.
Depending on the sector your site is supplying to, some or none of the above may apply, but primarily it is important to get inside the head of you customers, understand what questions are they may be asking and shape what you do on the site for them and not for the search engines.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Effect of temporary subdomains on the root domain
Hi Daniela
The only impact would be after a sub-domain is deleted. It may be better to leave the sub-domain active for a time afterwards so you can manage the knock on for pages that have been indexed on the sub-domain after the competition/promotion has finished. Also, any links that existed on the sub-domain to your root domain
If you left the sub-domain active you could then just have a single page on there to say something like "The competition has now finished" and directing a visitor who has linked there with a link on the page to the home page of the main domain.
All other links to the sub-domain pages and any resulting from it to the domain which are then redundant, could be managed through 301 redirects back to the main domain to the best landing pages for them.
I hope that helps,
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RE: What is the difference between the two rewrite rules in htaccess?
Yes, the result is identical.
Peter