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thx, Sajeet. Can I use jpegmini on images already uploaded to my website? I have tried jpegmini on files before I upload to my website and it is a nice program. Image optimization: I am giving file name, using alt tag and in process of including brief description below each image in an HTML tag format. So optimization I think is covered. It is more about how I can compress these files further, AFTER they are uploaded to my website, or somehow may things run even after. Again, as mentioned in another comment, I am using CloudFlare.

thx, Dennis. I have my developers look in to suggestions from that Google page already. Part of suggestions is to improve images and that is why I wanted to hear how to deal with images. I am not very technologically very savvy and I thought maybe there were some software which would reduce picture file size after I have uploaded to my website…..

thx, Nishadha. I am using CloudFlare and it is hard to tell if there is any impact away from the US. In the US, I do not see any change in load time.

I am familiar with tools to reduce jpeg images file size etc before uploading to website. After jpeg images are uploaded to a website, what can be done to enhance load speed of these images? Any software to compress images on a website already?

I have many pages that will soon have a lot of statistical data (real estate related). Each page represents a neighborhood, and the stats will be unique for each neighborhood. However, the stats follow a pattern on all pages: Nr o Sales year-to-date, Median Sales Price etc etc. It is great value to users, but I wonder if such pattern of similar types of calculations (though unique results for each neighborhood) across many pages will potentially be seen as lacking uniqueness as it all pages follow a similar pattern and sentence structure (Nr of Sales year-to-date, Median Sales Price etc). Adding to this, these statistics will be the only stuff that is truly unique content on these pages.

last 1: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_figcaption.asp - would that be OK HTMP cap style to use?

OK. So whether I use wordpress or HTML style captions does not matter. My web developers had set up wordpress stye and I was advised HTML captions may be better. I will leave as is then. thx again. These have been very clear and quality answers

this is great answer and you back it up with experiences you have seen.

Question: should this be HTML captions or can it be written text in wordpress below image? What kind of text works best for SEO?

Example I have a page with a slideshow of 35 pictures. They are all unique pictures and relevant to the page, have unique alt text, though no captions or description surrounding the images. Page also has a lot of unique written content.

Question: is this large nr of pictures potentially overwhelming for search engines and they may think it is spammy and it would be a safer bet to only keep the top 10 pictures on such page?

I did review this great whiteboard Friday - http://moz.com/blog/image-seo-basics-whiteboard-friday - and I noticed this at very end: "The other part, and I see this happen a lot especially with bigger clients, is when you put lots and lots of images on one page, like an image gallery, those pages tend to be very hard to get indexed. The reason for that is there's not a lot unique textual content. A lot of times it's just overwhelming to users. It doesn't provide a lot of benefit in a search result."

My page has been indexed, but will ranking potentially be hurt and to play it safe I better reduce nr of pictures? I do understand the "do what is best for the user" scenario and that is what I am doing with a lot of amazing original pictures not found on any other website. However, with search engines we obviously have to consider how they operate as well.

Thank you

besides my comment below the other issue I am facing is that I have several neighborhoods I would like to rank for within a region. Does this mean best idea is to get rid of these neighborhood pages (via noindex or other solution) and just focus on the region, until I am able to add unique content to the neighborhood pages?

rel=canonical may be difficult because each page has several pages, like:
example.com/region-name, example.com/region-name-2, example.com/region-name-3 etc
example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name, example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name-2 etc

I do NOT have a "view all" page. Page 3 on the neighborhood page may include 30% of data found on page 3 of region page etc.

So what to be done?

I have a real estate site with MLS data (real estate listings shared across the Internet by Realtors, which means data exist across the Internet already). Important pages are the "MLS result pages" - the pages showing thumbnail pictures of all properties for sale in a given region or neighborhood. 1 MLS result page may be for a region and another for a neighborhood within the region:
example.com/region-name and example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name
So all data on the neighborhood page will be 100% data from the region URL.

Question: would it make sense to "NoIndex" such neighborhood page, since it would reduce nr of non-unique pages on my site and also reduce amount of data which could be seen as duplicate data? Will my region page have a good chance of ranking better if I "NoIndex" the neighborhood page? OR, is Google so advanced they know Realtors share MLS data and worst case simple give such pages very low value, but will NOT impact ranking of other pages on a website?

I am aware I can work on making these MLS result pages more unique etc, but that isn't what my above question is about. thank you.

interesting. thx Vadim. I will have my web developers take a look at that article

Wistia (video hosting) has an embed feature, which can be set up to include a backlink. In other words, a user could embed a video on their site, but would automatically create a back link to the original page where it is posted.

Is there a product to do similar with pictures, where I could give users options to easily take the pictures from my website, but it would include a back link to my site when they do use such picture?

thx, Wesley. I have "noindex" on and actually it was more like 3 weeks ago since it was changed. I will observe a couple of more weeks and observe.
Page 2 does not have more relevant content. So that one is a bit odd. Will observe as well

I have "no index, follow" on some pages, which I set 2 weeks ago. Today I see one of these pages showing in Google Search Results.

I am using rel=next prev on pages, yet Page 2 of a string of pages showed up in results before Page 1.

What could be the issue?

great video. Best part the mention about State Dept spending $600K+ and going no where with the 2M likes they accumulated…..

Maybe your competitor is using dynamic ad titles and not targeting your brand. Try entering "ABC plumbing" in Google and if title starts with "ABC plumbing" then you know they use dynamic ads.

Why dont you create ads for your brands and you will quickly be nr 1 on PPC section and also quickly see price drops and pay very little per click (at least most likely).

Let us assume they were targeting your brand: it is unlikely their conversion will be any good since users are looking for your brand.

I dont know about such tool, but let me say this:  I would not worry too much about purchased likes, as # of likes or followers aren't a piece of Google's algo in determining rank. Rather, I would do a very thorough job cleaning up crappy and unnatural links and those you cannot get rid of disavow and show the genuine efforts you have made in cleaning up the mess. This should position yourself well for a fresh start.

Gianluca,
Rand's whiteboard Friday a couple of weeks ago may help you: http://moz.com/blog/handling-duplicate-content-across-large-numbers-of-urls

Though the Whiteboard Friday is about duplicate content issues, 1 piece you can probably us from it is this: embed an iframe on page of the content to leave the content out of the index and the content will not be perceived to be part of the URL when using iframe. Add “noindex” in the HTML doc in the iframe to be 100% sure that search engines do not index it.

thanks a lot, Thomas. These are fantastic responses. Let me establish: I am not a web developer and I am not an SEO expert. I am the architect behind my site's layout and creative ideas of what should be on the site. I am slowly learning the SEO…..step by step, but the technical stuff is tough on me. Let me break down in simple terms what you have described in fantastic details:

1. I will keep growing FAQ in its current format. On my Blog I will make a Wistia video out of the FAQ and from the FAQ I will link to the Blog Video matching the FAQ.
2. "Speech Pad" is there a tool which automatically gives me the content spoken accurately or how does it work?
3. I will 301 redirect sub-domain current blog posts to new URL's in sub-folder.  
   4) http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/100-panda-recovery-what-we-learned-to-identify-issues-get-your-traffic-back - this was a GREAT read. Easy to understand and makes sense. I liked concept of linking to deep pages, as way to often we all focus on inter-linking to BIG keywords, which isn't always most natural way…..
4. I have a LOT of "read more" which expands when clicked on. It is best for user as you can see here: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/kahala-homes-real-estate/  - do you see that as a potential issue?

I will be studying more on those other links you sent. For now I need to get the blog right and make sure there are no other BIG issues. I don't think so, but…..

thx. Since all my FAQ are answering relevant real estate questions (and none of my FAQ answers general questions such as "I lost my password, what to do?") I feel they belong both in FAQ and on blog.

Let me clarify: what is issue in placing a "no index no follow" on the FAQ section and instead uploading 1 by 1 to the blog? I still don't see this? Each blog would include a video where I share answer to an FAQ and below video would be the written data which currently is on the FAQ section. Let us assume Google can look through by collapsable structure on FAQ section, which I am 99% sure they can (Google just hasn't indexed that page since I uploaded the data).

Hi Thomas, Just woke up here! Your insight has been terrific and I can tell you are spot on regarding these matters as I research. thx again. I wouldn't have notice moving the blog from sub-domain without your details

got you, Thomas. thx

thx. Content was uploaded Feb 2nd. I will observe. Probably next time indexing it will be included. the structure of FAQ is similar to some of Google's own pages and I am sure they can read the content…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk  - this video by Matt Cutts seems to indicate one can use sub-domain or sub-directory, either is fine. It comes back to my thinking Google is now so advanced they probably do not care whether a blog is on a sub-domain or sub-folder. That was more something of the past….I could be wrong, but his video indicates it does not matter...

thx. I think what I will do is keep growing the FAQ and then on the blog create short videos around the FAQ. This solves the issue and offers the insight from a different angle (video).

Interesting: I see Google has indexed my /faq page but when I take a piece from my FAQ like the below it does not show up. Does that mean the page is indexed, but the written content is not?

Example of content from FAQ NOT found when pasting in to Google:
"There is considerable risk not owning the land underneath: Leasehold owners pay a monthly lease rent to the land owner. Per the terms of the lease the lease rent could increase over time and is payable above and beyond the property taxes and any possible association dues or maintenance fees. Per the terms of the Lease there may be restrictions on property usage, alterations and maintenance."

oh, and back to confirm my initial question: after this blog "move" I can no "index no follow" the entire FAQ section and instead let each FAQ be indexed on my blog. Idea is to include a video with each FAQ and then a written version below (which is pretty much the an answer from the FAQ section).

thx, Thomas. Appreciated. After I have all posts uploaded to the new blog sub-folder and they are indeed indexed by Google, then I will delete the blog sub-domain. That is the order I had in mind. Hope that makes sense.

OK, all clear on Yoast. I will get it installed.

Great reponses. Wish I could give you extra thumbs up!

thx, Thomas. So what you are saying is: if I see the blog in its current format has NO back links (2 months old) I can quickly copy paste all the posts to the sub-folder and after 1 week when Google has indexed all those pages then delete the sub-domain and I avoid having to get my web guys to do 301 redirects. All I have to ask them to do is set up new custom URL's that are cleaner.

Please confirm I got your point correctly.

Thx: I heard of Yoast. Why do I really need that? I sometimes wonder how important those advanced tools are as Google seems to be getting better and better at identifying quality content…...

got you. So URL wise with my categories maybe something like
/blog/real-estate
/blog/non-real-estate

Cleaner and shorter.

As per my previous comment, delete Blog subdomain, re-upload all blog posts to sub-folder and make sure I have better structured URL as part of it. In this way I avoid 301 redirects to each blog posts. Would that make sense or how do you see it?

Site is 2months and 10 days old…..

thx, Thomas. Appreciate the insight. Let me ask: I should move the blog to /blog sub-folder. I should include a 301 redirect or, since the blog is very new and no links to any of the posts yet, how about I re-post each blog to the sub-folder and entirely delete the sub-domain?

If you have an H2 on your page, maybe try to include same or highly similar wording in your meta description and try to avoid any sentences where relevant words to that page (or synonyms of such words) are not found on your page. I have tried with my own site in past and it has worked. No statistical evidence beyond what worked for my own site, but consider giving it a shot.

thx, Thomas. I appreciate the details. I have a real estate website and the FAQ is mainly answering questions like "What is difference between fee simple and leashold", "What is a 1031 exchange etc". I can see some users on my blog interested in that and not necessarily looking at my FAQ for that. I plan to create a category on my blog "Learn Real Estate". I think it would make sense to "no index, no follow" the FAQ page and 1 by 1 copy paste the answers to individual blog posts. With the "no index no follow" on FAQ I am good to go, correct?

I would appreciate if you could let me know if I missed anything.

FYI, this is my FAQ: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/faq/ and this is my blog: http://blog.honoluluhi5.com

I feel the FAQ's each deserve a blog post in its own category as the FAQ will keep growing (just launched site 2 months ago).

thx

My website's FAQ section has a lot of detailed answers, of which I want to upload most on an individual basis to my blog. Example: I may have 30 FAQ and I want to upload 28 of these FAQ as individual blog posts, as it could be good additional search traffic.

Question: how do I deal with duplicate content issues? Do I Include canonical? The FAQ are all on the same URL - not separate URL's - which means each blog post would only represent a small % of the entire FAQ section, though each blog would be a 100% copy of an FAQ.

thank you. I was curious as to whether anyone had more concrete evidence on the matter.

My company is looking to hire an Intern and a university - ".edu" - has including the job description on a page with list of "Available Internship", which includes a list of 100 other companies looking for an Intern. Our profile includes a link to our homepage like all other listings.

Question: do we know search engines will give zero value to such link as they can tell it is an Internship posting page or is there a good chance it will actually be quite a valuable link?

thx, perfect

I read the article now. Apologies for me rushing to ask further. Good answer. That article covers it all well

thx, Travis. How do I tell my web developers what to do? Place this across every page on my English version: www.example/com/” />  - even though some pages may not be on my .jp site? I am not a programmer and not techy so if you can share how I present this to my web guys that would be appreciated.

I have 2 separate domains: .com & .jp 
I am having a professional translator translate the English written material from .com. However, the .jp will have same pictures and videos that I have on the .com which means alt tags are in English and video titles are in English. I have some dynamic pages where I use Google Translate and those pages I place as "no index follow" to avoid duplicate issues and they are not very important pages for me any way.

Question: since I am doing a proper translating - no machines involved - can I leave pages as is or should I include any format of these:

1. ISO language codes
   2) www.example/com/” />

Even though hand translated, the translation will probably be 85% similar to that if I used Google Translate. Will that potentially be seen as duplicate content or not at all since I have not used the Google Translate tool? I wonder from which angle Google analyses this.

Thank you,

Hi Gregory, 
A and B are quite different. B has a lot of written content, pictures and a few MLS thumbnails and a "see all condos for sale" type link leading to "A". 
A shows 10 thumbnails per page and has a large Google integrated map and an H1 and breadcrumbs. Basically, A offers exactly what users want: quick view of property details on a thumbnails and when scroll over they can see a map with location. If click a thumbnail they are taken to the specific property. Perfect for users.
B is OK too, but the written content is mostly behind a "Read more" so users have option to read, list some thumbnails (but not many, to keep page as original and unique as possible). that is the structure and I can see search engines prefer these pages with more written content. 
If I interlink to B I imagine I will more quickly rank well because search engines like the page to start with. So if I instead interlink to A I may risk creating a scenario where A and B are both doing OK, but none are great. That is a concern I have. I am basically looking for a solution where search engines can see that all the "greatness" of B should be transferred as power to A.

great, thx Keri. appreciated

This is real estate MLS listings related. I have a page "B" with lots of unique content (MLS thumbnails mixed with guide overview writing, pictures etc) which outranks "A" which is a page simply showing MLS thumbnails with map feature included. I am linking from "B" to "A" with anchor "KEYWORD for sale" to indicate to search engines that "A" is the page I want to rank, even though "B" has more unique content. It hasn't worked so far.
Questions:

1. Should I avoid linking from "B" to "A" as that could impact how well "B" ranks?
2. Should I leave this setup and over time hope search engines will give "A" a chance to rank?
3. Include some unique content on "A" mostly not viewable without clicking "Read more" link? I don't foresee many users will click "Read more" as they are really just looking for the properties for sale and do rarely care about written material when searching for "KEYWORD for sale".
4. Should I "no index, follow" A as there are limited to none unique content and this could enhance chance of ranking better for B?
5. When I write blog posts and it includes "KEYWORD for sale" should I link to "A" (best for users) or link to "B" since that page has more potential to rank really well and still is fairly good for users?

Ranking for "B" is not creating a large bounce rate, just that "A" is even better.

Thank you,
Kristian

I have a page "A" that I want to completely delete and move the written content from A" to page "B". Since I am deleting "A" (not keeping page) is it OK to upload the content from "A" to page "B" and search engines will give "B" credit for the unique content? Or, since the content has already once been indexed on "A", "B" may struggle to get full credit for this new unique content, even though page "A" is deleted?

thx, Ashley. I can certainly track mobile vs desktop in analytics. My question centers on whether there is some research out there on time users spends on mobile site vs PC and maybe such studies give examples on different industries. My site's users spend about 7-8min from PC and about 5-6min from mobile……looking for some data to get a sense if my mobile is doing well or could be better optimized…..

On a website with a well optimized website for smartphones, how long time should one expect the average user spends on the website - from their smartphone - as a % of the time users spends from a desktop. 
Example: if average user spends 10min on the site from a desktop, is 5min (50% of..) a decent number to expect? If anyone has any done any studies or have data on this, would be appreciated.

thank you

Hi Filip,

Check this article out - http://blog.kissmetrics.com/100-conversion-optimization-case-studies/ - 100 case studies broken down in simple format. By having 100 case studies one can really see there is no right / wrong and one approach for all websites, but at the same time some outstanding tips and observations. 1 thing I have learned: keep it simple, ideally focus on 1-2 main messages on your homepage, even though you burn to highlight 10 different things you feel is so great about your business.

I have a page (page 1) with a lot of unique content which may rank for "Example for sale". On this page I Interlink to a page (page 2) with very limited unique content, but a page I believe is better for the user with anchor "See all Example for sale". In other words, the 1st page is more like a guide with items for sale mixed, whereas the 2nd page is purely a "for sale" page with almost no unique content, but very engaging for users.

Questions:

1. Is it risky that I interlink with "Example for sale" to a page with limited unique content, as I risk not being able to rank for either of these 2 pages

2. Would it make sense to "no index, follow" page 2 as there is limited unique content, and is actually a page that exist across the web on other websites in different formats (it is real estate MLS listings), but I can still keep the "Example for sale" link leading to page 2 without risking losing ranking of page 1 for "Example for sale"keyword phrase

I am basically trying to work out best solution to rank for "Keyword for sale" and dilemma is page 2 is best for users, but is not a very unique page and page 2 is very unique and OK for users but mixed up writing, pictures and more with properties for sale.

thx, John. I appreciate this. I do not care for knowing Yahoo vs Bing CPC breakdown. However, right now I may in BingAds account see 100 clicks whereas Google analytics may show 70 clicks. So, 30 clicks get included in either Yahoo or Bing organic. I used the Google URL Campaign Builder and have those URL's as destination URL's in the BIng Ads.

I just went to Yahoo and clicked on 1 of my ads: the coded URL (I guess what is called "UTM parameters" based on what you say) is indeed the landing page.

I have called Bing: they say "we don't know about Google" and I have called Google and they say "We don't know about Bing"......