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Hi Joshua,

I'm assuming that  you are not trying to optomise for terms such as "Sapele Countertops", if you are then obviosly you need content.

If not then there are ways of housing all of this content on one page using Jquery Sliders, the imagery/text would be hidden until a user interacts with the page.  This would be perfectly permissable from an SEO point of view and better for the end user.

Hope this helps.

Justin

In that case I wouldn't chnge them.

Justin

Thanks Guys

Other than making the content fantatsic...

I would advise guest posting on relevant third party blogs see http://myblogguest.com/

and http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012

Hiope this helps.

Justin

Hmmm I'm not sure I would submit to all of these http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Some of them are OK but you need to make up your own mind IMHO.

Justin

Not easy to answer without knowing:

• Are there inbound links to the pages in question?
• have the page been shared / liked etc.
• Do the existing pages appear to be indexed?
• Are you getting traffic from the existing pages?

301 redirect do not pass all link juice / umph through to the target page, so you may want to bear this in mind.

Hope this helps.

Justin

Hi All...

I know its important to get citations the same in terms of company name, address, phone number and URL but how dissimilar can they be before this causes problems with Google Places?

One of my clients has citations with very minor differences to the correct address i.e.:

2a such and such a road

when it should be:

2 such and such a road

I cannot see duplicate listing for the company.

Anyone got any ideas / experience of this?

I don't want to suggest changing them all if its not nessasary?

Cheers in advance.

Justin

You should probably read this: http://searchengineland.com/do-links-from-expired-domains-count-with-google-17811

I'm looking at implementing social sharing buttons throughout a site that I'm working on.

I've souced the icons from one of the well known providers however when I test the pages with Firebug I get this:

<colgroup><col width="303"> <col width="58"> <col width="86"></colgroup>
| Version | File Size | Transfer Size |
| | | |
| Home Page With Social Media Buttons | 1.02MB | 487.7kB |
| Home Page Without Social Media Buttons | 238.3kB | 218.8kB |

As you can see the buttons alone have a rather alarming impact on the file/transfer size.

I want to reduce the size, has anyone got any ideas/been here before?

Justin

Analysing the competition in Open Site Explorer, as you all know the results come back with the following detail:

Facebook Shares

Facebook Likes

Tweets

Google +1

There is no link through to the pages that have liked, followed or tweeted the URL.

I want to understand what the competition is doing in moire detail.

How are these numbers actually defined?

Is their any way (or whats the best way) to identify the individual pages that the numbers refer to?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

more like this:

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/giant-gummy-bear-on-a-stick.cfm

Anyone know of any software for this...

I need a simple way to create SEO friendly Image Swap Functionality on multiple product pages of a static site.

The idea is that customers can see different images within the product screen by clicking on thumbnails.  For SEO purposes it is essential that:

• The rollover does not create a new URL when the product images are cycled
• The image needs to have an alt attribute (a different attribute set by the client for each product)

As per: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tips-and-musthaves-for-your-ecommerce-platform

Thanks in advance.

Justin

In the process of redesigning a clients site.

The text and the design need to change to focus the site on conversions more than it is at present.

The client is not happy with the current host, they want to change, my feeling is to either change a while before the site redesign is launched or a while after.

Anyone got any opinions, experiences to share.

Justin

Have you checked Google Webmaster Tools, they now report penalisation I believe.

One of my clients sites has almost OK URL's, set up something like the following:

keyword2_keyword3_keyword1

Ideally the URL's would be more like this:

keyword1-keyword2-keyword3

My question is is there any point in changing them and 301 redirecting them over just to get the target keywords in a better order and change the _ to a - ?

Has anyone tried this and its worked or not worked, I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Justin

Thanks for taking the time to answer guys...

"take the time out to highlight the slightly different features of each product and put each of them on a different page."

I would if I could the differences are minor, sometimes only about the product size.

I am more concerned about user experience, adding them on different pages will overwhelm the site with very similar products.

Each page typically has 4 product variations I know its not ideal but is there any reason why I cannot pick one of the variations and leave the other 3 out?

My client has a site with products a lot of which are so similar in function that for usability reasons we have combined some products on the same pages.

We want to get into Google Shopping, but on the face of it the Google feed seems to want unique urls per product.

I guess we could have products on the same page then have single pages as well, though that could generate duplicate content.

We could also try pointing several products to 1 URL, does anyone know if this would work?

Or can anyone suggest any work arounds?

Justin

Thanks Ryan I will check it out...

How did you add it to addthis Ryan thru the developer account?

Aside from your blog would anyonme here think about adding the Google Plus 1 Button to their website?

No not going to do that don't worry.

Thanks Steve,

Thats an interesting link.

Unfortunately its too limited for my needs (in that you have to select from certain sites), am trying to query all of the SERPS and/or specific sites as defined by the user without annoying Google.

I don't want to scrape a ‘normal’ search and as far as I can see even if I get a normal search to open automatically in a browser this still seems to be against Google's T&C's.

Any ideas?

Justin

As you may know Google has API’s http://code.google.com/more/ I can see ones for Blogs, News etc. but not for general search am I being dense?

If someone can point me in the right direction that would be great.

Justin

First let me say I want to improve the text of the site I am working on focusing on the site visitor in the first instance.

I run the "On-Page Keyword Optimization"

The page fails on "Avoid Keyword Stuffing in Document... ...Occurrences of Keyword 48" well over the limit of 15.

The occurrence include those in the site navigation and strapline, but it was my understanding that Google was aware of nav areas/areas common to most other pages on the site and that keywords in these areas weren't viewed as being part of the page content.

The keyword is the main keyword for the company, and the page is the home page i.e. "acme widgets" the others are "acme widgets for the home"... well you get the idea:

The page breaks down as follows:

• 5 instances in primary nav
• 1 instance strapline
• 3 instances secondary nav
• Remainder in page body

I am told by the tool to reduce to 15 instances, so should I?

• Have 9 instances in the nav and other areas and 6 or so on the page
• Have 9 instances in the nav and other areas and 15 or so on the page

I want to check a specific word, Google translate doesn't seem to do much apart from guess no matter what you put in.

Anyone got any ideas?

I want to check which words Google is aware of, I remember Danny Dover talking about "SeoMoz.org" and theorising that Google couldn't understand that SEO was in the URL because it didn't understand that "Moz" was a word and therefore couldn't seperate the 2 words "SEO and "Moz" out.

Any ideas, I thought about using Google Instant but as it comes up with "seomoz" when i type in "seom" so am assuming that this detail is taken from a diffrent source.

Justin

In terms of MyBlogGuest I also know a lot of people who have had great success, but like all communities there maybe a few who abuse the system.

It depends on how great the articles are and the situation the company is in, in terms of exposure online.  Just because you add the articles to your site doesnt meant that you cannot extract ideas from the same, create brand new articles and guest blog.

Guest blogging is a great way to attract attention to your other content (especially if it is contained on a blog hosted from your site).

MyBlogGuest seems to be a good starting point to me, but if not try going stright for the high value blogs, make sure your blogs are of high value though, and that they suit the place where you are guest posting too..

Hi Jack,

I would go for Guest Blogging over article syindication sites take a look at http://myblogguest.com/.

Hope this helps.

Justin

HI Rand,

Thanks for answering.

I think that I will hit the top sites with manual submission and see how I go.

My assumtion was that the PAD file should stay the same, so automation was acceptable, not sure if this is actually true or not.  Would you advise varying the PAD file between submissions (I would always vary submission text and anchor links when submitting to directories)?

Justin

Try the following search in Google www [dot] CompetitorSite [dot] com "Article" OR "Author" -site:www [dot] CompetitorSite [dot] com this should show you what they are doing

(with the [dot] chnged to .)

This might help see the thinking on SEOmoz domain name http://www.seomoz.org/blog/answering-hard-seo-questions-whiteboard-friday