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Hi Paul,

I would use it as "dry cleaners in Birmingham". It looks more natural for both visitor and search engine.

If you want to optimize it further for the "dry cleaners Birmingham", then just insert it as a hCard into footer of the site. It should do it's job.

Since you are a PRO member, you should check the latest webinar, there were some very good tips how to optimize locally.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Alec,

IMO a good link is one that not only provides "link juice", but can provide referral traffic as well. Therefore when someone asks me where to start with link building, then I always try to guide them towards the concept of:

• Who is you target audience?
• What do they read?
• Do you have the linkable assets on your website, where you can provide them with unique value?

These are the prerequisites of a link building process. Only after you have answered these (and mainly to yourself), you can start thinking of how to connect your target audience with your assets.

Do not forget, that quality always wins against quantity. Do not try to create many links, with low value.

Also before you start building links, read as much as possible about Google updates.

Gr., Keszi

Hi Rob,

I will check and get back to you in a few hours.

Hopefully we'll find something for you

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi,

In order to answer this Q. lets check the positive and negative spots of each.

1.) New page every year:

• (+) every year your readers get a clean statistic with the patrol prices
• (+) you have a "series" which then can be checked from year to year (just as SEOmoz had that SEO Industry Survey
• (-) it has less link juice flowing in (since each year you will have separate pages, separate links, etc)

2.) Update and existing page on yearly basis

• (+) you get more link juice flowing in (since the page each year, when statistics will be published will get some new and new links)
• (+) people get to "know" your URL (another SEOmoz example: www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change)
• (-) the statistics will be less clear (too much information on one page)

In each cases you will have to create a balance: how much can you invest in creating the "buzz" around your topic, how fast is it picked up by other parties, etc.

If it was me, I would go with the second option, creating one each year (and at the end of the article just point out the last years statistics, because some readers could be interested in comparing).

I know that there are a lot more differences between the two options, I just picked out a few. But I hope that already helped you.

Greetings,

Istvan

Hey,

I've seen nobody answered your question, so here it comes

What you see regarding canonicals are notifications(and not errors). There is not system which could tell if the canonical link is pointing to the right one or not(which url is the one that you chose to target), what it can do is to point it out to you. Then you can export the list of URLs and check if you have applied them good or not.

Unfortunately this means a lot of manual work, but it can help a lot.

Just think about the fact that you might Point a Canonical link from Page A -> Page A and from Page B-> Page B (because you have a script that will point a canonical to itself). Eventually these two pages are the same, it will be quite confusing to a search engine, right?

Or Page A -> Page B, Page B-> Page C and so on... that's also something that you would like to avoid.

Another case Page A -> Page B, Page B -> Page A.

With exporting the data that SEOmoz gives you and analyzing it in Excel (or a similar program), you will have the chance to avoid these problems.

I hope it helped and cleared the picture a little-bit

Istvan

Ok, next question will be

Did you submit a new sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools?

Hi GGplaylist,

I will link two quite good articles I have enjoyed reading and reminded me of the time when I was doing link building.

1. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-reach-bloggers-ninja-style
2. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/15-smart-ways-to-find-guest-posting-opportunities

Read them through and maybe you will find some good ideas how to reach your people.

Good luck,

Istvan

Hi Dev,

When it comes to checking links and anchor text usage, I usually prefer Majestic over Moz (do not get me wrong, Moz does a great work, but I am used to Majestic for these kind of tasks).

Keszi

@Nicolai: maybe this could be a solution: http://drupal.org/project/nodewords

@Rob: I am searching for a solution. Did you try contacting http://www.sanderson.com regarding this issue?

Hi,

There is a nice article from Danny Dover on Moz: http://moz.com/blog/a-step-by-step-15-minute-seo-audit-a-sample-from-seo-secrets which describes a really simple SEO audit in 15 minutes.

Oh and for the tools list I would suggest 2: Moz + Screaming frog

I hope it helps,

Istvan

Buna Ștefanița,

Might be that you have some problem with your link profile. Didn't have too much time to check, but I have seen similar situations when gaining a lot of international links instead of local listings.

I hope you will manage to solve this. (I will come back to the issue in the evening).

Gr.,

Istvan

Like I have mentioned it above, Majestic has it. You can compare the backlinks of two website/webpages.

But you can also download all the backlinks and with some excel work, you can compare the lists.

Szia András,

I would personally work with possibilities of not cloaking the website. What basically you do, if I understood well, is that you cloak your homepage (you show content based on cookie).

Now lets think as a search engine for a second... What would you do with these kind of websites?

If I would be a "search engine" I would be confused... Where should I rank the website?

Gr.,

István

Hi Dave,

Personally I would put a noindex, follow on all three of these pages.

The question to you would be the following: Do you think, that if someone would land on your website to one of these pages, would it deliver value for them?

The single item, that in my belief should be analyzed is the search pages. I'd check from Google Analytics if there is any organic traffic to these pages, compare it with the current pages that are on my site. And IF I find any new queries which I do not cover with my current pages/categories, I would create one for them.

I hope it helped. Gr., Keszi

Hey everyone,

Lately I have been digging into Rich snippets, checking all the possibilities they offer and still try to figure out some things.

Question #1: Do you experience difficulties with implementing Image into Product page? (Don't forget, we're talking about Rich snippets)

• I have done it "a la carte" just how Google pointed out, in the Rich Snippets testing tool I have seen that the image, still nowhere in the search engine ranking pages (and I have seen that more websites are fighting with the same issue)

Question #2: Is there a possible way to implement a Category rich snippet or is there a ProductGroup?

• One of the favorite demonstrations about Rich Snippets was a MusicGroup implementation. The example would be: http://www.myspace.com/kingsofleon

Is there a way to implement something similar? Like having "featured" product show up on category pages?

• we were thinking to implement an AggregateOffer then the offers. (Did anyone test it that way?)

I hope this question will answer not just my curiosity

Istvan

Hi Neil,

Google fights against paid links as much as they can. The thing is that big companies are working hard to "practice what they preach", but it takes a lot of time, energy and "brain power" to deliver that.

Obviously Google team is constantly working on this.

Gr.,

Istvan

It is considered white hat. But like i said, search engines will be confused.

If it was my decision, I would put a sign-in possibility with a Facebook account (this way you will get their current town and you know what to show them + demographics).

The main page then would have two possibilities:

1. Not signed in: the version that is constant
2. Signed in: the version that is personalized.

I hope this helps.

Gr.,

István

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test should solve the problem, if you dont want to have more then 3000 pages crawled.

I have used this tool a few times, it looks fine

Istvan

Hey Steve,

Yes there are possibilities for optimizing the dynamic pages, but I am on the same side with you, I would simply noindex the search result pages and focus my energy on other possibilities on the site.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Cameron,

When struggling over Twitter, +Google or any other social network, I would firstly ask my self if the content of the website is really engaging? Is it really worth sharing it?

If the answer is yes, you most then probably are missing the call to action over the website (just name it and your visitors will follow).

Point out if the article was useful share it with their friends, get something unique over the social networks, make worth it to follow you over there (they get the information faster, there is a community in the background, etc)

As for twiends.com, I've never used it, but it doesn't sound bad (if you list yourself in the right place), but don't forget to place quality before quantity.

I hope this helped gain another view of the problem (even If I couldn't directly help with Twiends.com).

Istvan

Hey.

Maybe it would be an idea to use Copyscape.com. They have the so called Copysentry.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi David,

There was a very good article about this topic back in 2014 (I know it sounds a little bit old, but still it is very descriptive): https://moz.com/blog/seo-guide-to-google-webmaster-recommendations-for-pagination

We also had a similar implementation, and I went with the Option 3B from the article pointed out above: **Option 3: Implement Pagination Relationships + noindex, follow directive after page 2. **

So you want to have only the first page indexed, then set the directive "robots" to "noindex, follow" after the first page. HINT If you use /page/ in your url structure (vs page query parameter), you can also use that to check if that page needs to be indexed or not, as it should only appear after page 2.

I hope it helps.

Hi Steve,

Sorry for responding so late.

So whenever we have a situation as having many dynamic pages optimized, I always get back to the idea of Faceted Navigation. This way you will give the Search Engines one path to crawl to each products (but be aware that you will need to invest time and energy to have a well planned, structured navigation path).

What's the positive behind Faceted navigation:

• it will resolve the duplicate page flag on your products (giving search engines only one good specified path to crawl)
• it will raise the user experience as the visitors will have the chance to easily get to the desired product fast

The negatives:

• Are there any? - Ok, seriously speaking, you will need to sit down and think a lot of which path you choose, how to resolve it to be efficient, the web dev team will work a few days/weeks (depending on their other tasks, importance of their tasks, etc.)

What it will bring to your site (relative to what you have now): currently you have noindex on the "category" (basically a search page with a filter on it, right?) page. With faceted navigation this current structure will be completed with an "tree" structure to your final products on the specified path (that you have chosen).

I hope this is clear and helped!

Gr.

Istvan

Hi Brad,

Overall domain authority give a very good perspective of what the domain could achieve. PA is less important (in my belief) because you can have a low PA (if the page was recently added, for ex. new content on the site) and still rank well and drive good traffic through that specific link.

Therefore I would go for having a look at DA after that PA.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Hi Dusty,

It would be better to set up 301 redirects, instead of 302.

Check the article of Dr. Pete here. It really describes the status codes.

I hope it helps,

Istvan

Glad I could help! Good luck!

Hi David,

I would avoid having more then 50 links on a page in total because of two factors:

1.) It confuses the the client (just think as you would walk in a park and you get to an intersection where you have 100 ways to go, which path would you choose?)

2.) if we look at the pagerank formula (as we know it since the beginnings) think about how much would you divide the "link juice" (ex. you have a chocolate and you want to split it to a lot of people).

I hope this helped you make a decision.

Gr.,

Istvan

Hi Jeff,

I have imagined your situation and reminded me of a past client of mine, who asked me to do the same. But I will tell you the same thing as I have told him back then: Why to focus doorway pages instead of good landing pages on your main domain?

Think about the main difference between Doorway pages and Landing pages as the following:

• Doorway pages are made for spamming the index of Search Engines, creating pages to rank for a specific keyword/keyword phrase but afterwards you are fooling the visitor, because they will need to go further in order to reach the goal of their visits. The doorway pages will have a negative User Experience!
• Landing pages are created in order to focus a product/service of yours and while the visitor enter the page, they will reach the goal of their visits. The landing pages will have a positive User Experience!

There are two very good articles related for this two expressions, maybe take a few minutes and read them through:

1. Landing Pages
2. Doorway Pages

Instead of the Doorway Pages (Domains) I would advice you to try focusing the main domain for quality landing pages with quality content.

I hope that helped,

Istvan

Hi Sebastian,

I personally prefer Yoast over Google XML sitemap plugin, because for me Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin does the job for both SEO and sitemap generation. I prefer to reduce the number of plugins I use on wordpress.

This is a personal choice, maybe you will hear other opinions also.

Cheers,

Istvan

Hi there,

The URL structure will remain the same? If so, in the .htaccess file of the subdomain, you should add the following after the RewriteEngine On:

RewriteEngineOn

RewriteCond%{HTTP_HOST}^shop.domain.co.uk$[NC]

RewriteRule(.*)https://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

this should do the trick to redirect https://shop.domain.co.uk/product-category/great-merchandise/?product_order=desc to https://www.domain.co.uk/product-category/great-merchandise/?product_order=desc

I hope this helped

Hi Niners52,

I personally do not know DakWak, so I went and checked it out. But first impression: Machine Translation is never good. "The quality of machine translation is around 60-70%" This is what they have said in their live chat.

I personally work for a company where we target 9 different languages, and I know how frustrating it can be, when you do not have the correct translation for a specific text. But I would strongly advise you NOT to use machine translation.

Somewhere in the past (2011-2012?) we have used some machine translation on a website and it was strongly hurting our user experience.

Since then even if it goes slower and the costs are higher, but we go for human translations.

I hope this was helpful.

Gr., Keszi

"Now I just have to figure out a way to tell my boss I told him so without actually using those words." I feel your pain!

Hi Kevin,

This is a question that I get all the time. In my opinion, having outbound links to non-competitive, but still related and authority websites is good.

For ex. if we are talking about a travel website, it does not harm to include a link towards the city destination's wiki page, or links towards museums or other "things to be seen" in the area.

Always, when you think of placing an outbound link on your website, I advice to think on the visitor's intent, and help them discover possibilities, which make your product even more interesting in their "eyes".

But once again, this is my personal opinion.

I hope it has helped. Gr., Keszi

Hey Turkey

Well I have just read a good case study, which amazed me: http://mattjanaway.co.uk/link-bait-mrcake-case-study/

I do not know about the exact number of links they have got, but the quality was really good:  The Guardian, Fox News, Huffington Post,Metro.

I hope you like it

Istvan

Hi Andy,

If it was me, I'd try to get rid of these links. They might have any metrics showing high DA, PA, CitationFlow, TrustFlow, or any other (depending on what tool that you use). Until they are in no way related to the target URL, they just raise the balance of spammy link in your link profile.

Let's go back and check why do we have a Penguin update at all?

If we go back in time, many link builders (not all of them), have been hunting for links, regardless the source relevancy&quality. Google had to take action and fight the web spam, that we have created (from one hand with link building).

This is my personal opinion, but I hope it does help you convince your "board" to think in quality vs quantity. Try to remind them, that just because a domain has high metrics, it is not a quality site.

I hope this was helpful, good luck!

Gr., Keszi

'Neatza Andrei,

First of all, try to monitor new backlinks for the website, where are they coming from, what type of links are coming in to your website. Are all of these links low quality?

I'd use Majestic for this problem (they identify new links way faster than Moz), so you can export raw data, analyize and create a disavow file for the low quality links.

Gr., Keszi

Google is known for the fact that likes to rewrite titles and meta descriptions, if they believe it fits more to the user.

There are a few articles which you could read:

• from Yoast: https://yoast.com/google-page-title/ <- he is writing about this issue itself
• from Moz: http://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag

I hope it will help.

Gr., Keszi

HI Jeffrey,

I am always generating the XML sitemap with : http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Also, you can see some sitemap generators on the following link: https://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators

I hope it helped,

Cheers!

Egol, you are right! Just love how you present your idea!

I was more into how to interpret the data from Moz (or any other tools in general).

I'd test it with one page, then fetch it from Google webmasters tools.

If the test works, then it could be applied to all of the problematic pages.

Hi Nolan,

This article might help you with choosing: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain

Personally I would go for northbrunswick-nj-laundromat.com. This would be my choice.

Hope it helped,

Istvan

Hi Jacob,

As I was reading through your question, the first thing that jumped in: HREFLANG markup.

Then I jumped over your URL and I see the following:

<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" href="http://www.flowtracksurf.be" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">nl-be</a>" /> (on Belgium version)

<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" href="http://www.flowtracksurf.nl" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">nl-nl</a>" /> (on Netherlands version)

You are not using cross annotation. That might cause an issue for you.

There is a nice article about Hreflang implementations from Dave Sottimano: http://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights

Read it trough, I think with correct implementation of Hreflang, you should be able to resolve this issue.

I hope it was helpful.
Gr., Keszi

Hi Atul Sharma,

In Chrome, make sure the bookmarks bar is shown. and then just drag the grey SEO button to the bookmarks bar.

Then it should work fine

Cheers!

I personally do not see anything wrong with the code.

Maybe you should try that test, change it drastically then go and fetch it from Google Webmasters Tools. Let's see what happens.

you just insert into each html file the canonical that points to www url. and it should work it out.

Hi Danne,

I remember reading a post about this from Barry Schwartz on seroundtable.com: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-ser-hurt-comments-19652.html

Read it through, it quite describes the effect of user generated content (specially comments).

This is one specific case, I am sure that it is not a general rule for this.

Gr., Keszi

You have the grey background SEO button on http://twkm.ca/seo-bookmarklet

Click and drag it to the bookmarks bar on your browser.

After you have it in your browser's bookmarks bar, you can use the tool on every page visited.

That's all

Not yet, but planning it for a future website. I found this after I have made some research reading that article on the Moz blog

It seems it had some effect on us.

Hi,

These duplicate URLs can be resolved two ways easily.

1. 301 from non www. to www. or vice versa

2. canonical to one of the links.

This way you will focus all the link juice on only one page. More power

I hope it helped,

Istvan