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Thanks David but client and developer well integrated & established relationship and if site was supposed to be best practice & seo friendly then i would expect any crawl errors & warnings etc to be fixed for no charge.  Bit more tricky for new stuff like adding goals & ecom tracking

Hi Lynn

As i just replied above to TP , it is a custom/bespoke system and they are an established capital city firm.  The main site pages didnt come with meta descriptions, the site only had an html site map no xml one, all the main content pages had same title (hence dupe titles), no canonicalisation (so lots of dupe content).  And the main pages didn't have any copy (or space to add).

Client was told it was a best practice site and seo friendly, i take it from the above i can be confident telling the client its not & well within rights to request many of the things needing doing like fixing crawl errors & warnings etc should not be chargeable since needed to make best practice when it wasnt originally ?

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for confirming TP !

Yes its a bespoke custom system, only has cms for new content pages, all existing main site pages meta data etc needs to be hard coded, have asked for editable functionality for this so i can add/edit titles, decrip & body copy etc but they have quoted £1750 for just that request

The main site pages didnt come with meta descriptions, the site only had an html site map no xml one, all the main content pages had same title (hence dupe titles), no canonicalisation (so lots of dupe content).  And the main pages didn't have any copy (or space to add).

Client was told it was a best practice site and seo friendly, i take it from the above i can be confident telling the client its not & well within rights to request many of the things needing doing like fixing crawl errors & warnings etc should not be chargeable since needed to make best practice when it wasnt originally ?

Cheers

Dan

Hi

I've submitted some site change request to a clients dev team and they have got back with a rather large quote thats left me gobsmacked, so i want to run it by any of you to get your feedback ?

Creating/integrating a dynamic xml site map @ £3450

Fixing Crawl Errors & Warning reported by Moz report (i..e adding canonicalisation tag to each page to deal with dupe content and a few other small/misc items) @ £4850

Setting up/enabling ecom tracking in Analytics @ £910

Setting up 1 events based goal in analytics @ £490

Are these prices even plausible ?

Cheers

Dan

Many Thanks Alan

I have issued these instructions to dev team and they have quoted £490 for setting up this 1 goal and  £900+ for enabling and setting up e-commerce tracking which sounds extraordinary to me, Would appreciate your view, does this sound way of the mark to you ?

Normally developers i work with would implement these at less than half a days work

Cheers

Dan

Thats great thanks Phil !

I wasn't seeing that button but then i'm not the original channel creator just authorised (via G+)

I will tell original channel creator to do that

Many Thanks

Dan

Thats fantastic thank you Thompson Paul

Hi

I've just noticed a video uploaded to a clients youtube channel is misinterpreting a spoken word as a swear word, the F word :), will this have negative connotations ? could it result in video being considered 'adult content' ??

Any idea how to get this changed, should i report/flag it or will that likely make matters worse ? Or YT tech support email (chance would be a fine thing) ?

Also how do you set a video as the channel trailer ? (i cant find any option to do this)

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for commenting Mike

Definately intend to mix it up a bit but just wanted to check by how much/needed to avoid potential dupe issues. But yes will try and tailor it for G+ users so slightly different messaging and not a fax of the home page

cheers

dan

Is there a dupe content issue if your social media profiles and website have same content/copy ?

For example if you have written great copy for your website home page then literally copy & paste that into your G+ co page introduction (since sums everything up perfectly and don't want to change it) would that have a negative effect or be perfectly ok ?

cheers

dan

Hi

I'm working on a project/client and have asked them for the common url that shows whenever user finishes the purchase process so i cant set it up as a Goal in GA so we can track conversions etc

Since site is dynamically generated it does not have such a page.

Dev are suggesting setting up a new goal, generate a URL and script and they will append to a similar call.

Does this make sense/sound like it would work ? And is it quite easy to do that in Analytics ? Normally i just add a URL as a goal and jobs done, don't know about scripts etc !

Cheers

Dan

set up a new Goal and generate a URL and script and send that to us and we'll append this to a similar call we already did for this at your request originally

If you use plural versions too but in a sentence that makes sense are they considered keyword repeats (in title tag) ?

Hi

Google friendly fonts - are these in wide use now, do they work ? If you have image heavy site do they work just as well as using what we used to call 'seo text'.

I have heard that 'seo text' not really used anymore or at least rebranded to 'helpful, informative paragraph or two of body copy about the page with a couple of the pages target keywords in it'.

I take it if fonts in image not google friendly then should still ask dev for some space to fit in a para or two of some proper body copy, with couple of pages target kw in it ? Also looking like if i succeed in this request will be below the fold, how hard should i fight for it to be above the fold ?

cheers

dan

Thanks Schwaab !

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If kw research shows that singular version of a keyword has higher search volume than plural version should you still use plural version in main on-page areas to try and catch both instances or focus on the singular ?

cheers

dan

As far as im aware only Exact match now available

Thanks Guillermo

Sorry if this is obvious but im just checking:

In the search engine optimisation tab of google analytics i take it that the queries and other info are solely in regard to organic search ?  

Im sure thats so but just double checking ??

cheers

dan

Cheers Chaps !

absolutely agreed still better to have a link than not

doesnt matter which one you go for so long as you stick with it to be consistent

most people these days seem to be going for non www option

Thanks Oleg

But the co-citation/occurance will occur anyway wont they (if brand is mentioned on page) ?

But then i suppose the link just helps elminate any doubt in G mind as to the location of co-citated/occured brand, so better to have link if possible

I see that Wikipedia outbound links are all no-followed, is there any benefit (aside from the traffic) for having links here now ?

For example is their co-citation and co-occurance benefits.  I know there is without the links since from seeing previous Moz content about this saying Google getting good at connecting brand/s and topic mentions on a page (without any links) so appreciate Wikipedia is still good for that sort of thing. And a no-followed link is obviously good for the potential traffic.  But is there any additional SEO benefit to having a no followed link on a wikipedia entry/stub too ? (aside from its contribution to your no-followed links which in turn contribute to a natural looking link profile)

Cheers

Dan

Do you know if its possible to look at the instances of the click thrus in GA search engine optimisation tab ? for me it doesnt let me select the keyword to see a line graph of instances, if i could see it then i would be able to correlate the click thrus with the day of the one visit hopefully and hence conclude that the 5 clicks refer to the one visit.

Many Thanks Chiaryn

Yes i can see i can do that moving forward but i was here looking into finding a way to view the reports detail retrospectively

Thanks Anyway

All Best
Dan

Hi

First - is it possible for internal anchor text to be considered 'over optimised' in terms of diversity or does that just apply to external backlinks ?

For example If you have a main site section/page thats about a service you offer and you call the page this service and the URL this service and then link to it from many internal locations (but in a logical useful manner not just for the sake of it) using this service/keyword as the link anchor text i take it this WONT ever be considered over optimised anchor text since is completely in context, makes sense, is useful and after all is what the page/section is called (so would be strange to call it and link to it via any other term) ?

Second - I have a project who's backlink profile is nice and diverse and could by no means be considered over optimised on a domain level.  However looking at page level a main site section/page (as above) has only one back link with exact match anchor text from the BOTW directory, so in regard to that page keyword rich anchor text from this one backlink is at 100%.  However the anchor text is what the page/section is called (title and url).  I presume that this is also unlikely to be considered over optimised (since makes sense, is logical helpful and would be strange to name it anything else) or could it be considered over optimised ?

Thanks

Dan

Hi Guillermo

Thanks for your comments

So are you saying that 5 click thrus being reported by webmaster tools is most likely to be just the one visit ? since GA is showing only 1 visit

Cheers

Dan

Hi

Whilst i've set up reporting for on-page grader when it comes through on report it just shows any changes in grade and rank, what i also want to look at is changes in the detail/components of current report compared to previous reports, is this possible historically (over the previous reporting periods) ?

There doesn't seem to be any kind of archive that i can find to previously carried out on-page grade report ?

Cheers

Dan

Hi

Which is more accurate WT or GA data ?

Since GA reporting a KW (thats very recently fallen from page 1 to 3 hence looking into data to find the cause) in the Organic part of Search tab as having generated just 1 visitor over a month (hence presuming fall could be due to low visits from a page 1 result) whilst under Search Engine Optimisation tab (data sourced from WT i think) its reporting 5 click thrus from 150 impressions over same period resulting in a quite good 3.33% CTR (hence wouldn't expect to be the cause of a fall) and what i would have thought GA would report as 5 visits instead of the 1 they do report !?

The reason im looking for answer in the data is because no on-page has changed and still scoring a grade A and off page metrics have all improved across the board (apart from small drop in majseo's Trust Flow) such as increased links, RD, Citation Flow, Ref Subnets etc etc etc

Cheers

Dan

Ok thanks Joel i will do

I am surprised this isnt already a feature though since you must have many UK (and other country) customers requiring country specific date formats ?

Cheers

Dan

Great many thanks for the update Keri

Actually im still getting display probs in some campaign pages ???

ignore!! - all seems sorted now

Hi

As of today my overview pages are devoid of formatting and just text and basic display, anyone else getting this ?

Cheers

Dan

Hi Abe

So we cant currently set as default until we await an update ?

Yes pls submit as feature request if not already

many thanks

dan

Thanks Thomas

thanks for the link SEO5 Team

Cool thanks Clever PHD !

Thanks Sierra, i know i was just jesting re US format being incorrect

However it is important that i can supply reports to my UK clients in Uk date format, so are you saying this isn't currently possible and only thing i can do at the moment is submit a feature request ?

All Best

Dan

My reports dates are showing a very strange format (month/day/year) how do we fix to correct format (day/month/year) ?

cheers anyway

ps - i dont suppose you know off hand if you can set UK date format ?

Thanks Chris !

Cheers

Dan

Cool - Many thanks Kurt !

All Best

Dan

Thanks Chris !

Although that page says cant create those reports on the fly so presume means will have to go through process of generating entire report from scratch which for time reasons isnt an option

Cheers

Dan

ps - sorry forgot my temp: Shivering at 15 on the Isle Of Wight as a generally lovely summer comes to a depressing close

Hi

Ive just set up a monthly report for a client but is scheduled to arrive BY the day they need it which is a bit close hence ideally would like to bring it forward by a few days, is this possible ?

Cheers

Dan

The video is already produced hence didnt have the opportunity to define goals from outset.  Being the projects seo im looking to get rich snippets and conversions.  The videos are tv program editions.

Im asking for dedicated page per video with added media such as transcriptions (descriptions as a minimum).  However looking very unlikely will get dedicated page and only thumbnails directory hence trying to decide how aggressively to push for dedicated page or settle for YT as an alternative.

Im obviously also after links so doubt YT option worthwhile although thinking people may well search for programme archives on YT to watch old editions hence programmes should be uploaded there too for that reason (otherwise they will find other peoples uploads of lesser quality old editions and with no particular structure or content control such as descriptions).

Hence to maintain brand ownership of videos archive on YT im thinking of suggesting uploading to YouTube as well as trying to get the max out of self hosting on site for SEO (links, snippets & conversions too)

Great advice thanks Phil !!

So if on site video display options are pretty limited (i.e. not being able to provide dedicated pages per video only thumbnail type directories) then would you say its prob best to choose YouTube over website hosting ?

All Best

Dan

Thanks Kurt

and what about the parameter handling tool ? if canonical tag method you mention will deal with this then is there any need to do anything with parameter handling tool ?

cheers

dan