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Thanks gain Tom for all of your help. Greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much for your response Spencer

This is a follow up question derived from a previous question I posted - http://moz.com/community/q/does-title-tag-location-in-a-page-s-source-code-matter

There have been several reputable crawl tools used on our (including Moz) site that state we are missing title tags on may pages. One such page is http://www.paintball-online.com/Paintball-Guns-And-Markers-0Y.aspx

I can see the title tag on line 238 of the page source. I find it unlikely that there is an issue with the crawl tools.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Nick

Thomas,

I looked at the page source and found the the title tag; it sits at the very end of the head section; not sure if that makes a difference or not. Do you know if there are any instances where we can see the title tag in the page source but some how it is not seen by search engines?

Nick

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Beautiful Thomas! Thank you so much for taking the time to analyze the site. I may have to look into recommendation of authoritydev.com

Currently our meta description is on line 8 for our page - http://www.paintball-online.com/Paintball-Guns-And-Markers-0Y.aspx

The title tag, however sits below a bunch of code on line 237

Does the location of the title tag, meta tags, and any structured data have any influence with respect to SEO and search engines? Put another way, could we benefit from moving the title tag up to the top?

I "surfed 'n surfed" and could not find any articles about this.

I would really appreciate any help on this as our site got decimated organically last May and we are looking for any help with SEO.

NIck

Thanks for the response Federico.

Do you have any thoughts on maybe trying to salvage some of our lost SEO value by doing a URL rewrite?

Old Static: .../Empire-Paintball-Masks-0Y.aspx

Currently 301s to: .../Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles-0Y.aspx?Manufacturer=Empire

Have it rewrite back to: .../Empire-Paintball-Masks-0Y.aspx

Could this be a possible fix?

I'm looking for some guidance on an issue I believe we created for ourselves and if we undo what we did.

We recently added attributed search to our sites. This of course created a bunch of dynamically generated URLS. For various reasons, it was decided to take some of our existing static URLs and 301 redirect them to their dyanamic counterpart.

Ex .../Empire-Paintball-Masks-0Y.aspx now redirects to .../Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles-0Y.aspx?Manufacturer=Empire

Many of these stat URLS had top 3 rankings for their associated keywords. Now, we don't rank for anything. I realize that 301 redirecting is the way to go...if you NEED to. My guess is our drop in keyword ranking is directly tied to what we did.

I'm looking for an solid argument to be made to my boss as to why we should not have done this and that it, more than likely has resulted in dropped keyword rankings and organic traffic.

I welcome any input.

Also, if we decided to revert back (remove all 301 redirects and de-index all dynamic URLS), what is the likely hood we can recapture some of this lost organic traffic? Can I disallow indexing in a robot.txt file to remove, say anything with a '?' in the URL? Would the above URL example (which was ranking in the top 3 in SERPs), have a good chance of finding its way back?

thanks

We have several microsites (by microsite I mean sites that are basically top-level departments of our main ecommerce site.

We continue to run these, without much support, and they do generate a few sales but we simply don't have the resources to grow them or manage them effectively. We have "kicked around" the idea of 301 redirecting them to our main ecommerce site with the idea that any additional SEO value would be greater than the few sales they currently generate.

All products that are on our microsites can be found on our main ecommerce site, thus we can redirect products on our microsites to the exact product on our main site.

How would you treat these sites? Would you 301 redirect them? If so, how would you do it? What would be some considerations if we decide to 301 redirect?

Microsite example: http://www.drinkingstuff.com/

Main site: http://www.prankplace.com/

I would greatly appreciate any tidbits the community could provide us on this.

Thanks!

paintball-online.com

This is consistent on every page, despite these pages having text. I assume the SEOMoz tool is working just fine and we have a coding issue that may be hindering our SEO efforts. Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks

I'm looking for some guidance on an issue I believe we created for ourselves and if we undo what we did.

We recently added attributed search to our sites. This of course created a bunch of dynamically generated URLS. For various reasons, it was decided to take some of our existing static URLs and 301 redirect them to their dyanamic counterpart.

Ex .../Empire-Paintball-Masks-0Y.aspx now redirects to .../Paintball-Masks-And-Goggles-0Y.aspx?Manufacturer=Empire

Many of these stat URLS had top 3 rankings for their associated keywords. Now, we don't rank for anything. I realize that 301 redirecting is the way to go...if you NEED to. My guess is our drop in keyword ranking is directly tied to what we did.

I'm looking for an solid argument to be made to my boss as to why we should not have done this and that it, more than likely has resulted in dropped keyword rankings and organic traffic.

I welcome any input.

Also, if we decided to revert back (remove all 301 redirects and de-index all dynamic URLS), what is the likely hood we can recapture some of this lost organic traffic? Can I disallow indexing in a robot.txt file to remove, say anything with a '?' in the URL? Would the above URL example (which was ranking in the top 3 in SERPs), have a good chance of finding its way back?

thanks