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Thanks Martijn - that seems to work just fine

Best - Julian

For the purposes of this question our ecommerce site url is www.ecommerce.com

Our TLD is ecommerce.com

We have, following advice from Yslow, Pagespeed and others, moved our static content to a subdomain - static.ecommerce.com

We have Google Analytics and Enhance Ecommerce installed, fired from GTM.

The cookieDomain setting in GTM is 'auto'

At present cookies are being attached to our static resources.

What changes do I need to make to to prevent this happening?

Many thanks

Julian

Thanks Josh,

In the main we rank very well for medium length & long tail searches about our plants, which made me confident about doing all this internal linking in the first place. It wasn't until the die was cast that I lost my nerve.

It's so hard to track rankings across so many products & keyphrase variations, especially when we add in the variables of ongoing link building & the fresh chunks of content that we added to almost all of the updated product pages when we put in these new internal links. We're tracking samples of the most valuable ones in SEOmoz campaigns and nothing dramatic has changed.

We have no accurate means of measuring whether or not these links have affected support calls & email traffic, which isn't much help! We knew this beforehand, but our reasoning was basically "how could it hurt?".

I suppose what I'm really asking for is an example of another site that has dealt with this particular issue, i.e. found a way to use (almost) site-wide links to necessary but commercially unimportant pages without draining the link juice of its important pages.

Hi,

We're doing a big content update on our product pages and I'm looking for some advice about our internal linking.

In a nutshell, the current design we're using links out from every product page (i.e. plants) to a set of accessory pages (i.e. things to help you plant the plants). The screenshot shows how this works.

The accessories we sell are a very small part of our business and don't attract significant or valuable search traffic. It's the plant pages that pull in the visits and make the money.
The reason for all these links to accessory pages is for usabilty & to reduce the volume of support calls about accessories (we get a lot of those).

So my concern is that by linking out to these relatively low value accessory pages from all of our plant product pages, we will be spilling link juice from all our important pages to a small set of unimportant ones.

Should I be concerned about this and if so, what should I do differently?

I have considered:

• Making an intermediary page, listing the relevant accessories, so  that each product page links to one intermediary page, which then links to all the accessories.
• Using nofollow on the accessory page links - there is so much info out there about this, much of it conflicting, that I just don't know if that's a good or bad idea.
• Using some kind of java-based pop-up box to list the accessory links that will hide the links from spiders.
• Linking back from the accessory pages to the relevant product sub-category pages to loop the flow of link juice.

All ideas welcome

zoBgC

But the 301 is still about a year old!

That's right: I updated the internal links a little over a month ago & the other stuff was during the last 3 weeks, with the last changes over a week ago now.

Howdy!

We're having the same issue with an important url. About a year ago, I slapped a 301 from

http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/Lavender

to

http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/Lavender-Plants

I've updated all the links on our site that pointed to the old URL and even managed to update some external backlinks. I've also built a new backlink from a respected, relevant site to the new URL, as well as tweeted & facebooked at it. Finally, I've updated our sitemap.

Despite all of this and the amount of time that's passed, the old url is still in the serps.  We have a good crawl rate and whenever we make a new page, even one that's quite deep in the site with no direct access from the main navigation, it's in the SERPs in less than a week.

Any ideas?

Our company is  Ashridge Trees

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lavender+plants&pws=0&hl=en&num=10

Thanks!

As you can see from the screenshots, 100% of the visitors in the checkout proceed from step 2 (Delivery Date Selected) to step 3 (Enter Delivery Details) - this sample is a month, but this applies going all the way back.

Can you tell me if some RegEx is missing from the goal set up?

Thanks

fEXtD

Thank you Eric,

Speed is also one of our priorities and I'd be delighted to have good reason to buy some more server vrooom.

The charge for a listing idea was just being thorough, I doubt we really will, after all, we want backlinks. Affiliate links are a better of raising some nice lunch money.

You're spot on about the niche relevancy & user experience - we hope the directory will be popular, judging by all the calls we get about related products that we don't sell!

Was your site selling any / many products? Was there some clever tracking going on around people who left the site through the directory?

J

I've long held a business idea based on just this issue: hiring out henchmen who are paid to beat you up if you don't meet your deadlines. I'm sure a "gun to your head" option, charged hourly, could be arranged to suit your particular requirements.

I've long held a business idea based on just this issue: hiring out henchmen who are paid to beat you up if you don't meet your deadlines. I'm sure a "gun to your head" option, charged hourly, could be arranged to suit your particular requirements.

As you can see from the screenshots, 100% of the visitors in the checkout proceed from step 2 (Delivery Date Selected) to step 3 (Enter Delivery Details) - this sample is a month, but this applies going all the way back.

Can you tell me if some RegEx is missing from the goal set up?

Thanks

fEXtD