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Hi Peter,

I'm now answering my own emails!

I have located the page display options hidden in another module so now I just look a bit of an idiot.

Par for the course, really!

Cheers,

Iain

Hi Peter,

Many thanks for the speedy response.

My problem is that the site has installed the JCE editor which means all the original menus have been superceded. So, I don't have any page display options!

I've read a lot about getting SEO working for joomla but almost none of it applies to JCE - unless I'm missing something, which is more than possible.

I'm faced with an Article Manager module that allows for the entry of a 'Title' field that drives everything - I think - so the field has to be determined by the name of the navigation menu item.

I'm a little frustrated!

Cheers,

Iain

I'm working with a joomla/JCE website. At the moment, the 'title' field in articels controls the page title, menu item name and H1 tag. I've read that I can stop this happening so that I can name each separately and get my Page title tag back! Is anyone using joomla/JCE and can give any advice on how to do this?

Many thanks.

Iain

Hi Anders,

Thanks for that.

Iain

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your thorough and very useful answer.

I'm sorry I got a little confused with the Google Images part but essentially are you saying that I should try to place a 301 redirect on the page? It seems to be a very small error. Is there any real downside from me leaving as it is?

Thanks again (and sorry for the stupidity of the follow-up!)

Cheers

Iain

Hi there,

I have an error on one of my campaigns. It says that it gets a 404on this page:

http://www.datasat.com/tetra/white-paper.htmlWEhjdAfgkh

However, I cannot replicate the above URL as it doesn't exist on the site. The end of the URL has some spurious characters which I don't know how they got there.

Has anyone any ideas about what's happening and how I can sort it?

Many thanks

Thanks for the speedy response. I was hoping that was the answer. We have a VPS in the UK so I'll go for that.

But it does lead me to a follow on question. How do you account for regional variants in search results?

I understand that each variant of a search engine can use a slightly different algorithm and a local site is more likely to have local links but there does seem still to be a greater disparity of results than these things would suggest.

Many thanks,

Iain

We have a site that is currently hosted in the far east for the far eastern market.

We are having issues with the hosting co. so we are considering bringing the site back onto our servers in the UK. However, we don't obviously want to damage too much the bit of uplift we get from local hosting.

What is our best approach? Is it ok  just to have the site in the UK even though its aimed at the Far East? Or is the use of a proxy server good? Or should we look for other local hosts?

Any help very gratefully received.

Iain

Is there any way of achieving something similar with SEOmoz?

Could anyone give me a little advice about the best way to do keyword research in different languages? French and Spanish specifically (unsurprisingly).

Are there any tools or systems available that will give local language keyword variants on English keywords so that I can have a look at real world searches in local languages - rather than what I take to be the best translation (if that makes any sense).

Many thanks,

Iain

Hi Dorothea,

Sorry for the slow response and thanks for your reply. I still see country-specific sites performing well in their own home market. Is this more to do with where the host is located than the ccTLD?

Cheers,

Iain

My site uses the webEdition CMS that is split between templates and documents (pages). A template responsible for a number of documents. If I wish to use rich snippets, how and where can I add the microdata as I can't do it on a page per page basis?

My CMS documentation and its developer forum doesn't give any information on this but I'm hoping its a common problem for open source CMS's and there is an easy fix.

I live in hope!

Iain

I understand that the relative importance of domain extensions - .com is better than .biz, etc. - is a bit of a myth. I also believe that using a ccTLD is likely to affect rankings for that site outwith that country. But, is the opposite true?

Will giving a site a ccTLD help improve its SEO in that country? If you have a global organisation, is it better to establish a series of country specific sites - ccTLD - or to purchase the country specific domains and point them to the.com (if only to stop cyber-squatting)?

What if the company wanted to establish regional microsites that feature content about products only available within that region?

Many thanks,

Iain

Hi Martin,

Thanks or that.

The problem with the web is that we now all have the patience of a gnat. Backlinks it is.

Cheers,

Iain

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the reply.

The site has been live for a few weeks so I think its my stupidity. The URL is:

www.sicpa-security-solutions.asia

Although I think that the root for the site is actually with no www. I set up SEOmoz for the URL with the www (as a a subdomain, I think) so I'm wondering whether that's the issue and I need to set up another campaign with the actual root directory this time.

Yes, I really am that thick and not often let out unattended!

Iain

My SEOmoz analysis that my site contains neither external or internal lnks.

I have used other tools and they have all seen the internal and external links on the pages. There aren't many but they are there.

Why isn't SEOmoz seeing them?

Hi Sanket,

Many thanks for the reply. I have another question, sorry.

I was under the impression that 301 redirects weren't very good from an SEO point of view. Am I likely to be penalised for using this approach?

Thanks,

Iain

I'm kind of new at this.

My crawl anaylsis says that I have a problem with duplicate content. I set the site up so that web sections appear in a folder with an index page as a landing page for that section. The URL would look like:

www.myweb.com/section/index.php

The crawl analysis says that both that URL and its root:

www.myweb.com/section/

have been indexed. So I appear to have a situation where the page has been indexed twice and is a duplicate of itself.

What can I do to remedy this? And, what steps should i take to get the pages re-indexed so that this type of duplication is avoided?

I hope this makes sense! Any help gratefully received.

Iain