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We are planning to relaunch our ecommerce site selling gifts on Magento EE . I want to know weather we should go for retina or not.

My only concern is page loading.

Any advise will be appreciated.

This really doesn't answer my question.

Hi there,

We are thinking to redevelope our ecommerce websites and thinking responsive design. Due to responsive design when the screen gets smaller to fit iphone and ipad we need to hide some content to make it more user friendly.

My question is, how Google will treat hiding content with the smaller screens?

Will this effect our rankings in a negative way?

We really don't want to get punished by Google 

Thank You

Quick question:

Is it ok to provide our product descriptions to affiliates?

Ho does this effect our SEO as far as duplicate content issue?

Best Regards

1. Actual rel="canonical" tags.

2. As soon as we relised everything was fixed. Canonical tag is showing urls without slash and also aplied to htaccess to redirect slash version to non slash version.

<cite>we're using www.shopify.com</cite>

Thanks a lot.

Now when i click the slash version of the indexed URL from google goes to nonslash version. So it seems we're safe now.

The other thing is when I submitted the sitemap.xml after launch it was without slash. Also all internal links are targeting nonslash URLs. I think google should understand that this is a technical issue and now it has been solved.

When should i remove that redirect?

I checked with this website: http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

It says:

http://www.mydomain.com/jason.html/

Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently

http://www.mydomain.com/jason.html

So looks as if it's done the job. Right?

RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)*([^/.]+).html/ http://www.mydomain.com/$2.html [R=301,L]

Looks like above did the trick

Please can you tell me how to redirect urls with slash to non slash urls using .htaccess.

Hi Guys,

We redesigned the website and somehow our canonical extension decided to add a trailing slash to all URLs. Previously our canonical URLs didn't have a trailing slash.

During the redesign we haven't changed the URLs. They remained same but we have now two versions indexed. One with trailing slash one without.

I've now fixed the issue and removed the the trailing slash from canonical URLs.

Is this the correct way of fixing it? Will our rankings be effected in a negative way?

Is there anything else I need to do.

The website went live last Tuesday.

Thanks

Hi There,

Is it ok to use ajax for product filters and pagination? In this case url doesn't change when you navigate to 2nd or 3rd page also when you filter by colours, etc.

If not what's your advise?

Thank you. I think it's best to apply  to a few categories and do a heat map analyses or something similar. But As long as it doesn't effect on page SEO, it might work very well. In my opinion

Any idea about user experience and conversions?

Hi There,

I would like to know what's the pros and cons of Infinite Page Scrolling for e-commerce Product Categories that have over 700 products. Sample here

Secondly how will this effect our on page SEO as far as google concerned?

Many Thanks

I was just wondering how we should deal with filters and pagination with our ecommerce website.

We can do nofollow or noindex, follow or canonical for both filters and pagination.

Which one we should choose and why?

By the way we are trying to create more sub categories to avoid too many pages but we have 1,000s products and we still end up with a quite high amount of pages.

I've read a few conflicting seomoz QA about this issue.

Many Thanks

We are thinking to redesign our ecommerce site and was wondering would we loose our google rankings in any way? That's something we don't want.

We want to achieve a better and cleaner looking website. It's a more like template redesign. But adding extra functionalities.

We will add upselling and crossselling features to product pages. Some products have reviews and some don't. If a product doesn't have a review random testimonials will replace the reviews.

We will redirect all urls's if category structure changes.

All content title, headings remain same.

Any suggestions are welcome

We are not trying to protect the design. We are trying to make the page more clear and trying to push the reviews to top. Basically trying to make it more informative and clear product page.

Other option is show the description on the first tab which will be open in default. If we do that reviews will be hidden under second tab. If we don't use tabs the page will be way too long.

I saw a a similar website doing this and theirs opens in a pop up. I don't want to do that and I would rather slide open.

Would this be advisable as far as google and on page SEO?

What will be the pros and cons?

Many thanks

Hi All,

We are redesiging our ecommerce site and product page is bothering us. We want to tidy up. We want to hide some of the description with jquery script.

Visitor will be able to view first 30 words and there will be a "read more" text link just after that content. If they want to read more (which we think most will do) they will have to click the text link and rest of the content will slide open in the same page.

The whole content is visible from source code.

Would this be ok as far as Google and SEO concerned?

I hope I explained it well

Hi there,

We are getting our website redesigned and would like to know whether to increase the links on our site wide navigation or not.

At the moment we have around 30 links from the navigation. We want to use exploding navigation menu and increase the links to our most important categories. Say if we increase to 60-70 would that be alright. (what will be the highest we can go for)

At the moment categories that get links from navigation are ranking pretty good. If we increase would we loose those rankings.

What will be the pros and cons of increasing navigation links?

Second question we are also adding fooer links to top 10 categories in the footer. Would this be ok as far as seo and google concerned.

Many Thanks

I would like to know whether it's ok to sell same products from 2-3 websites. Design and URL structure will be different but same e-commerce platform. Would google penalise or drop the rankings, etc.

How google deall with this sort of thing?

If problem arises how can we get around it?

Thanks

One of my friend attended seomoz conference in london yesterday and he swears there was a talk that google pushes down exact keyword match domains which build backlinks with domain name as anchor text.

What are the pros and cons having exact match domain and how can you create a brand name and build backlinks?

Say we have a domain personalizedbirthdaygifts.com

We are quite stuck with what anchor text we need to use and how do we vary it?

I've heard that we have to stay away from using commercial keywords as anchor text heavily. We have to also use our brand name. And here we get stuck as we don't have a brand name. In this case Our brand name should be personalized birthday gifts but this is also commercial keyword.

I have seen before similar websites droped from ranking because they have commercial keywords in their domain and most of their backlink anchor texts are commercial.

If I had a website called twentyfive.com selling birthday gifts it would be a lot easier. But when you have a website personalizedbirthdaygifts.com and trying to rank for personalized birthday gifts and birthday gifts it's tough. OR isn't it?

I hope I explained it well and didn't confuse anybody...

Thanks

Hi There,

Where would you install the blog?

mydomain.com/blog/

blog.mydomain.com

mydomainblog.com

regards

I checked a few compettitors and it seems like they are getting links form a blog netwrok. They are pretty good on serch results for competitive keywords as well. what would you say about that? It seems to me they are paid links.

What is the best procedure for link building? Does blogposts help?