lesser search engines still use it but it can hurt you in google if stuffed. throwing a couple keywords in there is no problem but don't waste time on it.
Posts made by irvingw
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RE: Is there any value to meta keywords?
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RE: .com & .ie website how to avoid duplicate blog content?
Have you tried to go into Google webmaster tools and geo target the .com for US traffic and geotarget the IE for Ireland?
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RE: SEO credit for subdomain blogs?
the subdomain is considered a new site. Their main site will only get SEO credit if the subdomain links (like somewhere like in the footer) to the main site
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RE: Title tags for deep pages
However, every title tag on the site needs to be unique, so the parent page would be
Cheshire Cheese | Brand name
and this page would be
Cheese's of the World | Brand name
Sometimes these is great benefit in mentioning the parent category it it contains a keyword from the subpage (like cheese) or it makes the description of the product easier to be understood in the serps. Every site needs to make it's best assessment.
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RE: Thin content and tabs on page
Yes - Google only wants to see natural links - alternatively, you can show all the links, just nofollow them
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RE: Title tags for deep pages
Since your primary keyword you are targeting on this page is Cheese's of the world, I would mention it first in the title tag. You should keep this tag under 70 characters, so if you find that many of your titles are longer, you should drop the top category from the title tag.
Cheese's of the world | Chesire Cheese | Brand Name
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RE: Thin content and tabs on page
As a precaution, I would drop all four external links from your footer. If you need to mention your other brands, link to your about us page and link to your external brands there.
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RE: Worth Splitting Up Main Site into Several Microsites?
Keep it all under one domain.
a) subdomains won't help you rank better
b) they will be considered as new sites
c) navigation and user experience is worse
d) harder to maintain separate sites
e) the bigger the one site the more powerful and you already have a lot of links
f) excessive interlinking can be an SEO issue
g) bounce rate will increase and time spent on site will decrease on the main site
there is no need to do it from an SEO perspective, what are your "business purposes" that make you feel that this would be more beneficial
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RE: Title Tag, Internal Categories, Long tail
You need to do keyword research for the long tail unless the product is obvious like
Adidas Crosstrainers Velcro in Blue Mens Sneaker
Adidas Crosstrainers Laces in Yellow Womens Sneaker
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RE: Delete or not delete...
Even if it's original content, filtering flimsy pages with little data for the user are what panda is all about. You can noidexed follow them and then gradually open them back up as you add additional content.
look at your pages report and see top traffic generating pages, those pages are getting traffic because Google likes them and is ranking them. You definitely don't want to block any pages that are getting ranked and bringing visitors.
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RE: Delete or not delete...
anything that is not original, noindex follow it.
check to see which pages are getting the most traffic and keep those or even add content to them.
noindex, follow pages that have less that 300 words or so to help combat panda
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RE: Thin content and tabs on page
This looks fine, not to flimsy. Tabs are all on the same URL so no problems there unless that content in the tab is repeated on hundreds of similar product pages. If the content is unique to each product then you're good. I see enough info on this page.
good looking site.
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RE: Should we use the rel-canonical tag?
I disagree
a) pdfs are both indexed AND read by crawlers.
b) even if you don't have navigation to the file sometimes Google can find it if it's in a folder that you are not blocking in robots.txt.
c) if someone links to it once on the web it's getting crawled and indexed.
If you have a https section that content should be behind a login and not accessible to the engines. Your problem sounds like your https pages have relative links on them and Google is crawling the https page and then following the relative links staying on https so you need to fix that and this will fix your site getting http pages indexed as dupe https.
Absolute http canonical tags will help but it not the solution. you need to fix the https leaking on your secure pages.
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RE: Should I 'nofollow' links between my own sites?
Nofollow all of the links between your sites and you can cross-promote all you want, safely. Link sitewide, in the footer wherever you like as long as they are nofollowed. .
If you are doing it for SEO though, I would probably not do that unless the sites are hosted in different places and ownership is not exposed. If they are completely separate you can one way link from the homepage (homepage only is best because it's always spidered and the homepage usually has the most PR) of the lesser sites to the main site.
It sounds to me though that this is for cross promotional and not for SEO so just nofollow them since that is completely safe. Just keep in mind that each place you nofollow a link to your other site you throw away a little bit of PR that would otherwise be passed to your internal pages.
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RE: Old links
yes, 404 means link is no longer counting and your work is done this is why people should never point links to their homepage, you can't 404 your homepage.
these directories allowed you to deep link to internal pages though? a lot of directories want your homepage link.
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RE: Software to monitor indexed pages
We have a large site too and we have different sitemap.xml files for different sections of the site and submitted in WMT where we can see which sections are having indexing issues under WMT > optimization > sitemaps
Maybe that is a good thing though, do you have 3.4 million legit pages or are dupes getting filtered out? Has anyone changed your parameter handling or coding on the site URLs, or robots.txt file or noindex meta tags?
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RE: The best way to do keyword research in different languages
Trellian global offers country specific keyword research information, but it's a paid service.
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RE: Multi regional + multi lingual URLs
Folders with language/regions are the better way to go, put it all under one .COM site, easier to maintain.
If you need both /be/fr/ and fr/fr/ sections on your site then i would advise you to rewrite the content in one of those sections to make it unique. Use country and language meta tags, include different addresses and other signals indicating region.
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RE: Domain name with a hyphen
It's totally not a problem for SEO.
Just weird from a user perspective when you tell people www.my "hyphen" site.com and type thru traffic.
I personally don't like hyphens for that reason, but i would rather a hyphen and having a much longer available domain name.
What are the two words, keywords or brand name?
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RE: "Bad" backlinks
here is a very handy tool.
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
it flags sites that are linked to on the site that is linking to you (you enter the URL of site that is linking to you)
you need to look through the links for false positives, because "essex" will trigger "sex" for instance.
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RE: Does Google have problem crawling ssl sites?
I would tell your webmaster to fix the site, and make only the pages needing to be secure https.
also:
Checked link: http://www.dogtagsinc.com
Type of redirect: 302 Found
Redirected to: https://www.dogtagsinc.com/
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RE: Should I use selected Keywords in Meta Title of non important pages
The more pages you have that mention your primary and secondary keywords the more important your site is for that term.
This is why you can't have a site about plumbing and then just create two medical landing pages on the plumbing site and expect to be seen as a content authority on cancer treatment.
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RE: Hiding Legitimate Content From Google Without Penalty?
you can hide the text in an iframe or something like that.
that is a long time to still be penalized, it could be keyword stuffing or some other unintentional technical issue. supply the URL if you want the site looked at
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RE: Removing links - Best practice
Definitely remove the sitewides as soon as possible. That footer designed by looks like a sponsored theme link to Google.
I would reach out to the directory sites via their contact form and ask them to remove your site, tell them you were penalized. I have found directory sites to not be too bad in terms of responsiveness.
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RE: Does Domain Mapping Leak Link Juice?
Are you sure your hosting plans doesn't cover more than one site? You can probably set up a new site right along site the existing one on the same server / hosting package. If not then you can easily upgrade your existing hosting contract.
If these sites are directly competing for the same keywords it probably makes sense to keep them separate and go with some other hosting company so that they are seen as being distinct.
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RE: Long tail traffic only to category, should we make the title keyword rich?
Without seeing the site i would say category pages optimized for long tail and main pages optimized for main keywords.
If the content is extremely thin, content is always a good idea but that is a question that depends on the amount and value of the traffic compared to the LOE it takes to write unique content for each page.
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RE: Drastic increase of indexed pages correlated to rankings loss?
Yes they are absolutely related. you want from 240k pages to 5,700,000 pages of empty or dupe content, so Google thinks you're spamming them.
a) are you sure you correctly blocked everything
b) have you added the session IDs to WMT in the parameter handling section?
c) are there any technical issues such as incorrect pagination of pages, or pages not 404'ing when they should?
Finally, Have you seen the pages indexed number begin to drop yet?
If we had the URL we could poke around a bit for you
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RE: Title Tags: Does having the singular and plural version of the keyword hurt the ranking?
Singular and plural search results vary and are still treated differently and if that's what you want to rank for (which was his question) i would recommend it in both the title tag and also include both singular and plural in the body content a couple times of course.
I definitely agree though it needs to be reader friendly from a marketing perspective, and also since title tag is limited space, doing keyword research might help you uncover a secondary keyword phrase that might be more valuable than including a plural or singular secondary keyword phrase.
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RE: Title Tags: Does having the singular and plural version of the keyword hurt the ranking?
Desk and Desks is good but wood twice is not find strongest primary and secondary matches
Assuming the plural is more valuable than the singular, and wood is more valuable than wooden
<title>Buy Wood Desks | Wooden Desk Sets | Bob's Discount Furniture</title>
Assuming the singular is more valuable, and wooden is more valuable than wood
<title>Buy Wooden Desk Sets | Wood Desks | Bobs Discount Furniture</title>
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RE: 301 redirect all 404 pages
"My main concern here is 301 redirecting mistyped/ incorrectly entered URL s to the “All categories” page rather than returning a custom 404 page. Will this be problematic for SEO???"
Yes that is bad for SEO do not do that - non existent pages need to 404 and not 301. Even some pages that used to exist might make sense to 404 if they have no links pointing to them and no relevant new category section to 301 them to.
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RE: Are paid links on your brand name considered bad by Google?
The difference is naturally occurring links from regular non paid diversified sites vs paid links from directory type sites that Google has already flagged as being bad neighborhoods used for SEO, and these sites are most likely linking to a lot of penalized sites as well which makes you guilty by association.
So it has more to do with the places you are linked on than it does overusing your brand name in the anchor text, plus naturally occurring links will have their own keyword mix and match diversity.
brandname
visit brandname
visit brandname.com
go to brandname
some will be do follow, some will be no follow, some might be image links
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RE: A few reciprocal links OK?
you're only passing PR back and forth and increasing the chance of getting flagged. I don't recommend it.
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RE: Bounce Rate a factor?
all good advice given above. Have external links like social media sites and external blog urls open in a new window instead of kicking the user off of your site.
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RE: Are paid links on your brand name considered bad by Google?
if your brand name is your domain name then you should already rank for that. don't build links while trying to recover from a penalty.
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RE: What's the best strategy for dealing with old ripoff reports that dominate your name rankings?
"Always respond (politely, professionally, and accurately) to complaints on ripoff/review sites that allow a response."
I respectively disagree. You'll wind up getting a response from the poster most likely and go back and forth with the person online instead of via email and creating more content on that page and Google will push that page higher in the results!Also, once higher more people see it and might chime in as well.
If you feel you must respond don't write it with any of your keywords or company name!
Try to get other content to push it down, ripoff report will never remove your page unless you sue.
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RE: Which Meta Tags would you recommend having on the pages?
language / location
canonical
description
robots
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RE: Penguin type over-optimisation now part of main algorithm?
I would imagine this would be the way of things, sites get dinged as they are discovered on the fly or put in a queue. I don't think it really matters if it's scheduled at intervals or on the fly, if something is wrong with your site it needs to be fixed regardless.
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RE: Press Releases - duplicate content
Here are two strategies for dealing with dupe content and press releases
a) write an article for your site about the news, and write a second article which is the same topic but different wording (not spinning) and use that article for submitting as the press releases, link in the release to your first press release article URL on your site
b) write a press release and post it on your site and get it indexed. use the same press release but not the entire press release - cut it a little short and include a "read more for the full story" link that links to the full press release content on your site
I prefer option a but it takes more time to write two articles, still i think the benefit is worth it.
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RE: Does posting a source to the original content avoid duplicate content risk?
I'm concerned about what's best for my site -and would therefore not post other peoples content - so i've never had to deal with this
I guess if I owned both sites i would prefer to cross canonical the duped pages to my other site If i didn't own the other site i would probably just opt to noindex follow that page i guess
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RE: Handling a Huge Amount of Crawl Errors
Usually an on page audit lists all of the problems and possible reasons why they are happening, not in depth info on how to fix all the issues. That is usually the next phase, "do you want me to work on the site or do you want your dev team to track down the cause of the issues and fix them"
It also depends what type of contract you have with him of course.
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RE: Does posting a source to the original content avoid duplicate content risk?
Hey Egol, What is the benefit of canonicalling to them over just meta noindex,following the page?
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RE: 3 (similar) keywords - 3 (similar) domains - best strategy?
Spinning the content is crap but writing unique content for each is ideal. If you can keep all three sites separate you can target and probably rank all three on the first page of google.ca for all three keywords since competition should be relatively low in ca.
Are you going to be selling advertising or products on these sites in the near future? Depending on how you monetize would determine what type of content works best for them. Need to define that first.
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RE: Why I am ranking for irrelevant keywords
you were penalized, so now your main pages don't rank for your main keywords, only your inner pages are ranking for keywords which aren't your main keywords. If you're penalized you won't rank for those anymore until you fix the issue so you're probably seeing the others you are ranking for surface.
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RE: Need help regarding On page issue for dating site?
show results randomly and increase the profiles per section.
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RE: Meta Tag Description Warning is wrong. Description is indexed and shows.
You can't check meta tag descriptions on Google. Google does not require these tags and will find other text on your page to display. You need to view the source code of the pages and check for the following tag name="description" content=".">
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RE: Is it worth switching from underscores to hyphens in the URL?
You said it used to be hyphens and then was changed to underscores. if this was done recently then change it back and don't bother 301'ing unless you got a decent amount of links in that time period. i am assuming you 301'd the hyphens to the underscores, if so you need to undo that was well.