Hello,

I have a question regarding the on page reports automatically generated by seomoz

When I look at my on page reports I notice that each keyword appears a number of times, each with a different url and then a grade for the on page report and sometimes a rank.

I'm not sure I understand this, firstly I thought the on page reports were only generated for keywords in the top 50, does that mean the global top 50, or my top 50?

Also why are they appearing for so many urls, I find this confusing and am not sure which pages to focus on improving, it's not always my intended pages that are ranking the best. I believe that I read somewhere that I can choose which pages to have the on page reports rank for, perhaps this is the solution?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Iain

Yep you're totally right - we didn't go with them but while considering their proposal got thinking about what they would do differently to what we are already doing. Maybe in the near future we will approach a seo company ourselves and pose the questions in this thread but for now we're still confused. Thanks for all the help thus far.

Thanks for the advice. But like I commented below we will still be a long way away from catching up with other companies in the sector. We are tempted at times to sign up to a SEO agency but find it hard to understand what they would do additional to the quality content work we spend time doing already.

P.s this question came about after a SEO company visited our offices looking to sign us up. We told the representative that using the (amazing!) help of seomoz tool we are sorting out onpage errors ourself and do regular content writing on blogs and regular differentiated posts on a range of social platforms. And the representative then offered to increase the ranking of one of our main keywords by us signing up to £XXX a month.

This is where we got confused- and maybe you guys can help us out (without giving away any industry secrets :p), we could not understand what the seo company would do different from what we were doing ourselves (and they wouldn't really go into detail either).

Thanks EGOL for the suggestions. Great points - this is exactly the sort of points we cover in our blogs.

The general frustration is that some websites in the industry have 5-10x more links than us (some even started business after us) and we are finding it hard to think of ways to increase our linkbuilding organically.

Thank you Pr0mosZ- we publish out all our fresh content to social media platforms and thanks for the article and the guest blog suggestion- I have looked into this before and was finding it hard to locate a good quality blog that allowed guest posting but will continue this search.

We are currently fixing crawl errors and other on page issues and have taken on board that 'content is king' and have invested a lot of time and resources into writing unique content on each of the several hundred pages on our ecommerce site (not just to avoid duplicate content but add researched content that will hopefully enhance the user experience and allow them to make the best choice of products) and earlier this year started blog writing regular content about updates, industry trends and current events e.g. Euro 2012 (all content relevant to our sector and/or products).

So we are actively working to improve our SEO (and also have regularly updated social media accounts with healthy number of followers) but the problem is link building as we work in a sector where the content isn't really all that exciting so getting link backs from sharing our written content is rare and also doing an infographic and/or guest blogs would not bring anything exciting.

So how do we go about building white hat links? The only thing I can see is maybe doing press release submissions but from research there is mixed feelings about this.

Any advice that could point us in the right direction would be appreciated.

Hey,

I see that all the blogposts that we have done to date (6) are being showing as having too many on page links in the seomoz crawl but I am quite confused about this as I cannot count more than 30 (including side bar, footer and header) per post.

Can anyone shed any light on why this may be occuring and/or how I can check which links are being picked up?

Secondly I have a number of temporary redirect warnings all related to the blog. The 'trackback' URL of each post to date has a 302 direct to it's respective blog post. What is the best solution here? Change to a 301 possibly?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

We implemented rel=canonical as we decided to paginate our pages. We then ran some testing and on the whole pagination did not work out so we removed all on-page pagination.

Now, internally when I click for example a link for Widgets I get the /widgets.php but searching through Google I get to /widgets.php?page=all . There are not redirects in place at the moment.

The '?page=all' page has been rated 'A' by the SEOmoz tool under On Page Optimization reports and performs much better than the exact same page without the '?page=all' (the score dips to a 'D' grade) so need to tread carefully so we don't lose the link value.

Can anyone advise us on the best way forward?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your prompt reply Everett.

Does the 3rd party publish the review on their site as well? Yes

If so, are they crawlable by search engines? Yes (they are cached in SERP so yes?)

Does the feed they give you link back to their site? No link back to their site only one/two logos.

So just to confirm XML or JSON feeds would be crawled and have SEO benefit but having the same content (reviews) on our site and the reviewers own site could cause duplicate content issue?

Thanks in advance. I look forward to your reply.

We are looking to use a 3rd party customer review provider and I have been told by their rep that it has a feature which allows us to display reviews placed with them about us on our website via JSON feed  or XML feed (I have limited technical knowledge so have no idea what this is but am hoping our developer does!)

I wanted to ask whether providing data in either format has any SEO benefits?

My initial thoughts to provide customer reviews was to be useful to the customer and be useful for search engines as it will be continually updating user generated content (?)

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

We are interested in showing customer reviews on our website (in UK for seo purposes- UGC) and are initially reluctant to use a 'What customer say' or Testimonial page as we think customers may think we have just made these reviews up?

I wanted to ask what methods you folks use to capture reviews?

If you use 3rd party providers do you have any recommendations? (I found this link but it seems a little outdated as it doesn't include for example eKomi:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-rank-well-in-google-products-search-a-big-list-of-places-to-get-reviews)

Thanks in advance.

1. The reviews are on 3rd party review websites e.g. widgetreview.com

2. We do have a lot of original content on each of the product pages. We were ideally looking to add value to customer experience as we have sorted the original content side already. Permission wise we thought as they are on a public forum we could extract them-but good point we will verify before proceeding.

Any other thoughts are much appreciated.

Thanks for the prompt response.

We are looking to invest in a review platform in the New Year but in the mean time wanted to utlilise some of the countless reviews found online. Any thoughts about whether copying them over would have any negative implications for us?

Apologies- I asked a similar question the other day but did not word it as clearly as possible.

We are looking at having a text box of 'What customers say' on our product pages using reviews written about us online (to remain factual) and wanted to know if this created any issues relating to search engines finding matching content on two separate websites? Will this have any SEO implications as effectively we are 'plagiarising' the content in the eyes of the bots even though it is just customer opinion of our own products right?

Thanks in advance.

Apologies I didn't explain myself very well. I meant issues relating to search engines finding matching content on two separate websites. Will this have any SEO implications as effectively we are 'plagiarising' the content in the eyes of the bots right even though it is just customer opinion of our own products?

Apologies I didn't explain myself very well. I meant issues relating to search engines finding matching content on two separate websites. Will this have any SEO implications as effectively we are 'plagiarising' the content in the eyes of the bots right even though it is just customer opinion of our own products?

We are looking at having a text box of 'What customers say' on our product pages using reviews written about us online to remain factual and wanted to know if this will create duplicate content issues?

Thanks in advance.

This question is regarding having a Google Places snippet consisting of your business location and opening hours appearing in Google SERP when the business name is searched for.

One of our competitors who has a location within their name e.g. 'Widgets of Oxford' have a Google Places snippet appear on the RHS of the search results (where Google Ads usually go) when searched for.

We are trying to replicate this for our business but cannot seem to find any information relating to doing this apart from that this only appears for them as they have a location in their name. This is because we see a similar snippet when we search for our business name in the format "OurBusinessName in OurLocation).

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Bump

Hello,

We have a problem that means we are unable to track our AdWords and organic work at all.

Looking at "/All Traffic Sources" and clicking on "Ecommerce Tab" in Analytics we can see that (made up ratio :)):
£2 is attributed to Google/ CPC
£1 is attributed to Google / Organic
But £100 to Payment Provider/ referral and also various referrals from banking transaction pages.

All of the revenue/conversions are being credited to the payment provider or the bank security checks the payment goes through.

After having done some research we have found that the problem may be that Google Analytics attributes the purchase to the most recent click (on the payment provider button) rather than the initial click on the cpc campaign/organic or direct etc. Some people have suggested using the "&utm_nooverride=1"  
tag which we wanted to run past you guys and confirm whether adding  
this tag to the payment provider 'buy now' button on our website will  
presumably fix this referral problem? Alternatively does the tag need  
to be entered into our CPC campaigns as well? Or can you please guide  
us in another way?

We have also heard that "cross-domain" tracking could be the solution. So we are really confused what to do and where hoping someone had maybe been through something similar and could advice before we fully launch into a solution.

In addition, it should be noted that our 'Goals Funnel Visualisation'  
of 'checkout' breaks up at the penultimate stage of the checkout. All  
customers exit through the /checkout_process (penultimate) but are recognised returning to the successful checkout page but there is a missing link in between these  
two stages as 0% pass through is shown even though they do return?

Thank you so much in advance for all your help.

Thank you Alan.

I shall go with your advice.

All the best.

Our website has 5 main categories displayed in tabs in the header.

The main landing page of each of the 5 categories is a paginated page (3pages- set up with canonical tags to avoid duplicate content) with a side bar which splits the main category into many subcategories.

Each of these subcategories essentially filter the main landing page into more defined categories customers find useful (price/colour) BUT once clicked enter into a separate landing page. We have worked hard to avoid any duplicate content issues between these sub-landing pages and the main landing page. This was done as we wanted each of the subpages to organically rank (thus we went with this method rather than filters).

Hope we didn't do the wrong thing there?

The question is should these sub-landing pages route straight from home to have the best chance to get individually ranked or routed through the main category bearing in mind we have 5 main categories each with many subcategories.

i.e.

domain.co.uk/subcategory  or

domain.co.uk/category/subcategory

Thanks in advance for any advice given.

Apologies if the following is a basic question but I am just starting out with SEO and I have seen this quite a lot recently on sites I have been on.

My question is if you have a self hosted blog e.g. blog.site.com or site.com/blog and you use keyword anchor text in your blog post does that bring SEO benefits in itself or does the blog post have to be shared/commented by readers to have an effect? I have seen/heard of many sites spending a lot of money getting copy done or spending their own time and resources starting a blog but the blogs remain unshared or comment-less.

I am starting my own blog to go with my social media and website so I wanted to establish the basics.

Thanks in advance guys.

Thank you for the help and advice- I really appreciate it. I still can't seem to decide the best course of action for the titles/headers.

A little background incase you can help/advise:

We sell 5 types of widgets. And each of these 5 headings have 50 or so products each. At the moment the title is Brand Name | Product name and the header is just Brand| Motto for all. The problem is making each of the 50 or so titles different as they all fit in one broad category and it is hard to define them further e.g. setting one widget as 'space saving widget' but the problem is about 10/50 products fit that description so I don't want customer thinking that particular one is the only space saving one we have (I hope you guys understand what I mean here)

In this scenario would it be advisable just to stick with product names?

Firstly I would like to comment on how helpful this site is. I haven't posted much before but have been reading tonnes of answers for many months now and have been finding it really useful.

I used the SEOmoz scanner and the main problem highlighted was duplicate content so I started to add 'customer product reviews' I had received and unique 'further information' to each page (hopefully this was the right thing to do to solve duplicate content! : ) )

Then I looked at heading and title tags. Currently I set title tags for each product page to be "Brand Name- Product Name" but after doing some research we are thinking of putting Keyword Description of Product | Product Name | Brand Name (around 60 characters long).

So is this the advised thing to do and create unique titles that are relevant to each specific product page for over 200 pages we have?

In addition, any advice on setting optimum

tags would be great. We keep reading varying tips online. I gather ideally h1 needs to be a shorter keyword rich version of the title tag?

Many Thanks

Hello,

I'm new to this resource and SEO. I have taken the time to read other posts but am not entirely sure about the best way to resolve the issues I am experiencing and so am hoping for a helpful hand.

My site diagnostics advise me that most of my errors relate to duplicate content and duplicate page titles. Most of these errors seem to relate to our ecommerce product pages.

A little about us first, we manufacture and retail over the internet our own line of unique products which can only be purchased through our website. So it’s not so important to make our product pages stand out from competitors. An example of one of our product pages can be found here: http://www.nabru.co.uk/product/Sui+2X2+Corner+Sofa

In terms of SEO we are focusing on improving the rankings of our category pages which compete much more with our competitors, but would also like our product pages to be found via a google search for those potential customers that are at the late stage of a buying cycle.

So my question:

Whilst it would be good to add more content to the product pages, user reviews, individual product descriptions etc (and have good intentions to do this over time, which unfortunately is limited) is there an easy way to fix the duplicate content issues, ensure our products can be found and ensure that the main focus is on our category pages?

Many thanks.