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Greetings,

I just discovered that some of our content was produced with
tags in the title tag.

Example: <title>Diabetes Symptoms <br> In Women Over 40</title>

My gut says this is bad for SEO, but I couldn't find a definitive answer on the web, so I thought I would ask the community of gurus here at Moz. Thanks in advance for any reply.

Kind regards,

Eric

Thanks Rob! I appreciate your feedback!

Thanks Rob,

I think the "content divide" is even more severe for us, since we don't have the patients vs providers issue. All content is consumer-facing.

We truly have two radically different buckets of content. For example, copd symptoms vs. how to get rid of ants, or living with atrial fibrillation vs. aries daily horoscope, or ways to lower your blood pressure vs. how to deal with a difficult coworker. These topics are incongrous to me, and I don't see a way to keep them on same domain. Feel free to disagree!

• Eric

Greetings, I have an interesting challenge for you. Well, I suppose "interesting" is an understatement, but here goes.

Our company is a women's health site. However, over the years our content mix has grown to nearly 50/50 between unique health / medical content and general lifestyle/DIY/well being content (non-health). Basically, there is a "great divide" between health and non-health content.

As you can imagine, this has put a serious damper on gaining ground with our medical / health organic traffic. It's my understanding that Google does not see us as an authority site with regard to medical / health content since we "have two faces" in the eyes of Google.

My recommendation is to create a new domain and separate the content entirely so that one domain is focused exclusively on health / medical while the other focuses on general lifestyle/DIY/well being. Because health / medical pages undergo an additional level of scrutiny per Google - YMYL pages - it seems to me the only way to make serious ground in this hyper-competitive vertical is to be laser targeted with our health/medical content. I see no other way.

Am I thinking clearly here, or have I totally gone insane? Thanks in advance for any reply.

Kind regards,

Eric

Apologies if this question has already been answered. I was unable to find it. For desktop organic rankings: Will Google take into consideration mobile-readiness as a ranking factor?

Thanks in advance for any reply,

Kind regards,
Eric Darby

Thanks Erica! This is just what I needed. This is a huge undertaking for us. I appreciate the granularity of your answer!

Kind regards,

Eric Darby

Thanks John! Great advice. I appreciate your reply!

Kind regards,

• Eric Darby

Greetings,

I've been tasked with investigating how to change our Facebook pagename and username. Problem is we have a huge number of followers - over 1,000,000.

From my research it appears you have to submit a change request to FB and hope they accept it as you can only make these changes once. In addition, the change appears to be more challenging if you have more than 200 likes. And there is no guarantee that FB will accommodate your change request. I have been unable to contact a human being at FB.

SEOMoz Staff   - May I ask how you effectively changed your page name and username? What was your process?

Kind regards,

Eric Darby

Our site has many different  health centers - many of which contain duplicate content since there is topic crossover between health centers. I am using rel canonical to deal with this.

My question is this: Is there a tipping point for duplicate content where Google might begin to penalize a site even if it has the rel canonical tags in place on cloned content?

As an extreme example, a site could have 10 pieces of original content, but could then clone and organize this content in 5 different directories across the site each with a new url. This would ultimately result in the site having more "cloned" content than original content. Is this at all problematic even if the rel canonical is in place on all cloned content?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Eric

Greetings,

Nearly 6 years ago, our company switched its entire business model from providing customized vitamins to a women's health publisher that offers medical advice, news and health tips.

We have actively developed a decent link profile for our new brand around women's health and specific health conditions. Nonetheless the old vitamin-related keyword profile is still very prevalent. We have many hundreds of links with old vitamin-related anchor text scattered across the web linking to our main site and to many vitamin mini-sites that we own.

What is the best way to rebrand ourselves and basically eliminate this old link profile? My first thought is to immediately park / take down all our vitamin-related domains, and eventually these links will no longer carry any weight in the eyes of Google. The other strategy is to attempt to contact all the sites with the old anchor text and ask them to take the links down. This is not an exciting option to me as I know that this is tedious and a slow process with many dead-ends.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Kind regards,

Eric Darby