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So you would stick with responsive design and work on making the site load as fast as possible and getting highest possible score on google page speed?

So if we looking at optimisation then Google Pagespeed is the only point we should worry about?

You don't think there is any SEO benefit from having a w3c valid mobile site?

So mobile sites are all the rave, but how many are doing it correctly and with all the different options which is correct or the best?

For example I have a guy telling me that the mobile site must validate here http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ or here http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN

However I have run many so called mobile sites like nike (m.nike.com) and those built by dudamobiles and all dramatically fail the above tests!

Responsive is another key element of web design and the guys at twitter came up with bootstrap, so I ran these sites through the above validators and all have failed.

I take this site as an example from ilovebootstrap.com, please note this is not my site but was top of thelist on here.

Mobi Ready

2 / 5 - result poor mobile experience

Results from google pagespeed

Mobile 62 / 100

Desktop 83 / 100

So while it looks good on mobile devices it does not score well

If you look at the google site: http://www.howtogomo.com/en-gb/d/why-get-mo/

The case studies listed all fail the validation tests, so my question is is it worth getting our mobile sites validated and will this affect rankings?

I am struggling to grasp the new logic behind google, my understanding was that they wanted to return more related searches so that the search matched the results giving people exactly what they are looking for from trusted suppliers.

However I work in the vacation rental niche and I have found that the individual long tail searches have started to become less valuable as they are no longer giving the exact property.  Here is a screenshot of the top 10 results for the key phrase "10 bedroom villas in quinta do lago"

Position 1 & 2 are good results and would be expected however the next 7 positions are completely not related to the search, yes it is quinta do lago. But I am looking specifically for a 10 bedroom villa, none of these pages offer 10 bedroom villas.  I actually found my listing outside the top 20 and mine is a 10 bedroom villa in quinta do lago.

Does anyone have anything that can enlighten me on this?

Thanks

Andy

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Hi Billy

Thanks for your prompt reply, could you give me some insight into what you believe is over optimized on the page, there are a number of pages which seem to be being penalized including the homepage.

It is a new site so don't expect high rankings but in the top 50 i would at least thought have grasped by now!

Have not recieved any kind of message from Google and webmaster tools shows only expected errors ( few 404's etc).

Thanks

Hiya,

Looking for some advice, i have a page which the on page optimization tool shows as an A grade and Google has indexed it. I have checked vie site: however is not being found in search results even for an exact match on the page title which is very specific.

I believe the page may be being penlized for over optimisation? any advice would be great!

URL is www.tots-away.com/child-friendly-holidays-spain/

Thanks for all the feedback I think you are right, I think the best strategy is to write on sites which fit your requirements.  You are focusing on people rather than links then, this should increase click through and potentially improve your rankings.

Thanks for all the feedback I think you are right, I think the best strategy is to write on sites which fit your requirements.  You are focusing on people rather than links then, this should increase click through and potentially improve your rankings.

I have always used article submission sites such as ezine, article snatch etc...  I have always seen the big ones as a good way of getting relevant content out into the internet network with the bonus of building quality links back.

However I have now been reading a lot of conflicting information, since the latest update from Google that even an article being republished multiple times around the net will wipe out the positive impact of the article and bring no SEO benefit.

I wanted to get feedback from the SEOmoz community to see if you now feel this is a pointless exercise and we should now be even more careful as to where our content is published.

I didn't actually do the 301 re-directs which is why I am worried, this was done by the other company, is there a way of checking?

I just run the domain through site explorer and got the message:

Oh Hey! It looks like that URL redirects to www.choice-cottages.co.uk. Would you like to see data for <a class="clickable redirects">that URL instead</a>?

So I am guessing I am ok, but 4 weeks seems like a long time.

Thanks