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Hi, thanks for the answers so far...

Although i understand what you are saying - and why google would want to use the "did you mean" feature.

I disagree that, in this case,  its simply google tryin to help searchers - Why? if it was just because our domains are so close - litterally just 1 letter different, then in theory if i did the same search but for the other website - it would say "did you mean: my website"?

http://goo.gl/yphgxE but it doesnt...

This to me, means there is some kind of problem - devaluation of my website - so much so, google thinks if you search my domain name, you have searched it by mistake?

Can anyone shed some more light on this? any advice welcome

Hi all,

I just noticed something quite odd - if i do a search for my domain name (see: http://goo.gl/LBc1lz) google shows my domain as first result, but it also asks "did i mean" and names another website with very similar name.

the other site has far lower PA/DA according to Moz, any ideas why google is doing this? and more inportantly how i could stop it?

please advise

James

Thanks for the response Dirk,

Please understand i am not an "SEO" and do not currently employ an SEO, hence i asked the question - i kind of figured it was shady, but just needed some confirmation from SEO experts such as yourself.

Thanks for confirming.

hi Richard,

thank you for the reponse, what you explained is kind of what happened - initally after the 301 was started site B went up in rankings for a month or two... then it started to drop, the 301 redirect was removed - but site B still dropped and never recovered.

However you mention "i'd also advise you to disassociate the old site completely", do you mind me asking how?

I ask, because there is no redirect in place any more, has not been for a year or so, however if i look in the google webmaster tools "links to my site" of site B - it lists websites that link to site A... So it appears to me there is now some kind of association because of the previous 301 redirect - is it possible to clear this association, or ami stuck with it?

Hi All,

A couple of years ago my site got punished and i kind of figured out it was due to keyword anchor text backlinks.

I recently was considering getting a new SEO company and found one that promotes another company in my industry. However, when i look at the backlinks, of the website they do SEO for, via open site explorer - I noticed nearly all of the backlinks are keywords.

website in question is http://goo.gl/6nRzLi

And if you see the search results here: http://goo.gl/9bXoxY they are ranking on first page with very big brands - and have done for about a year - but nealy all of their backlinks are the keywords in this search...

I understood this is the kind of thing that killed my website 2 years ago - are these backlinks ok? should i still consider this SEO company to work on my site, i 100% do not want my site to be penalised again so any advice appreciated.

thanks

James

Hi All,

Is it OK to 301 redirect site A to site B?

Site A: http://goo.gl/P9Zp2y

Site B: http://goo.gl/ySDCzb

The story - in 2013 site a seemed to be penalised with some kind of anchor text algorithm penalty - SEO couldnt fix, so created site B and turned site A into a holding page with a no follow link to new site.

SEO company worked on disavow file etc, implemented in late 2013

301 redirect site A to B in late 2013 - SEO advised to stop 301 about 8 weeks later... This was my fault i didnt realise the implications of a redirect...

Stopped the redirect, but too late,  as site B dropped in rankings in early 2014 - new disavow files uploaded to both sites, but damage seems done now.

No longer have a SEO company, and i would ideally like to 301 redirect site A to B, as it looks messy having a holding page - but wanted to check if SEO would still strongly advise against that?

please advise

James

Hi all,

I run an ecommerce website, not a great ranked site, however i want to try and improve the product detail pages. To do this, i am first going to focus on 1 page (this one: http://goo.gl/eS62SU)

If i type the product code directly into google.co.uk search i am on the 8th page (see https://www.google.co.uk/#q=hac-hfw2220r-z&start=70) which is a bit poor to say the least.

I see this kind of thing for a lot of my products. Hence, i am going to see if over the next month or two i can get this one page moving up the rankings purely with on page optimisation.

I would like to ask a couple of things:

1. Is there anything that jumps out at you as to why that product detail page could NOT ever rank well, i.e some code / set up of page etc that prevents google ranking it

2. Any advice you could give that might improve that page in rankings for its product code.

FYI - I can not change the dynamic URL, I only have control over such things as product name / summary / features / spec etc

any advice welcome

following on from my question above...

If i have lots of filters to narrow down products - i can dynamically change lots of content on page with each filter, including things like the title tag etc...

I am curious, if i had dynamic title tags depending on what filter was chose - how would that effect the page from an SEO point of view.

Also, would google etc learn the different content for different filters? by that i mean it is a cctv system page, one of the filters would be for "IP CCTV systems", i could change the content for that filter so the title said "IP CCTV Systems..."

if i searched IP CCTV Systems in google  - would they show the "IP CCTV Systems" title with URL showing filter selection - or would they show the generic title with no filters selected?

Hi Monica,

I have a very high bounce rate - which would be great if changing the nav would improve this...

I dont have any A/B testing tools / experience, anything you would suggest?

regards

James

Hi all,

I run the site: http://goo.gl/YATL2i

I have had this category set up like this for a while now - but wonder if its confusing to google, and potentially my users...

let me start by saying my products are available in 3 formats (soon to be 4), so for example i have 3 pages for cctv systems:

Analogue / SD cctv systems: http://goo.gl/SPkdYW

hd sdi systems: http://goo.gl/uksRAD

ip systems: http://goo.gl/UMHBd0

each of the above sub categories then have a further sub category of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 or 16 camera kit page...

I am trying to figure out if it would be better to just have one "cctv systems" page, and use filters in the left menu so users can filter by format, number of cameras etc etc... but these filters would not navigate to other pages but simply limit the view on the one "cctv systems" page.

If you think 1 page with filters is best - can you then advise what should i do with all the sub category pages i no longer need? 301 rediret to the main cctv systems page?

Basically i currently have my site set up so cctv products are categorised by the format i,e SD, HD-SDI or IP... Which i thought was very important the user doesnt mix formats as it can not work - but am thinking maybe i should catorgorize by type i.e CCTV Camera, CCTV Recorders or CCTV Systems, and then use filters to drill further down in the categories.

Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.

thanks

Hi Alan,

i think i may have explained incorrectly - my search page does have the meta tag noindex,follow - it also has a canonical link back to the main search page (i.e search.html) so i do not think any of the search results will be indexed. So my concern is not duplicate content, this should not happen...

My concern is the fact i am using javascript to litterally divert customers from one page to another... its almost like the static pages are there only for the benefit of google... and thats concerning me...

Hi Marie,

Can i ask what you mean by "local listings"? Sorry, just no idea what you are reffering to, and if there is a chance it can be part of the cause, i really need to learn

thanks

Hi all,

I have an ecommerce website with approx 400 products, these are quite technical products and i use to have helpful information about the products on the product pages...

My SEO company told me to remove all this, as i had lots of duplicate content issues...

I have since had content writers re-write all product descriptions (about 250 words per product)... and now i am trying to figure out a way of getting the "helpful" information back on but in some kind of dynamic way...

There is basically about 5 or 6 blocks of information, that can be added to each product page, these overlap hundreds of products.

i was thinking of perhaps creating a separate static page for each block of useful information, and putting links on the product pages to this...

however, ideally i would prefer to not keep sending customers to other pages... so wanted to see if others had come across similar issues themselves and how they went about having this "content" available to the user but in such a way it was not duplicate content...

Please note using images would not be any good here, as the content varies in size but most of it is text based...

regards

James

OK, i have recently noticed google is adding a keyword to my titles... I have attached an image which shows the results from a google site:mywebsite search...

8 out of the 10 results on the screen shot clearly have the keyword ( - CCTV Cameras) added to the end of the title.

Now a lot of those pages are support pages i.e "Help & Support", "returns" etc etc.. nothing really to do with cctv cameras.

The only thing i can think of, is the most common anchor text used on backlinks to my website (according to siteexplorer) is the keyword cctv cameras... (i am currently working on removing a load of the backlinks to my site due to what i think is some kind of google penalty as the anchor text is all keywords etc...)

But it seems strange if google has started to discount these backlinks, that it then uses that keyword to add to my titles - unless of course, google thinks that it is my brand name...

Any body have any thoughts on this?

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for example - if i want to know who has ranked for the term "seo company" on google for the last 12 months (or there abouts), can it be done?

James