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Hi, if your whole website is for members and behind a login and password, Searchengines can't index the website and thus not visisble for others than your members.

if you want other people to  find your website, you'll need a public part, which you can optimize for your users and searchengines.

the question is: do you want other people than your members find the website, if yes, than you'll need content that searchengines can find. If the answer is no you can hide the whole website behind a login and password.

i manage a website which  a part of that is only for members. that part is not optimized and behind a login and password. The rest of the site is public and need to be found in the searchengines. This part is optimized for on - and off page seo.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, No it is n't as we may believe this old blog: check this link: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, here is some very good explenation about domain authority: http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
and page authority: http://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, you can select the timeframe on the right of the screen in WMT.

hope this is what you're looking for.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, start with implementing technical seo into the website and onpage optimization, than you start with off page strategy, like linkbuilding.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, Maybe it's because the page is new? I see the content is written today.
Edit your title tag, be unique
you're PA and DA are not that good as the pages that rank above you. Also your linkprofile is not that big. only 3 different rootdomain and using  the same anchortext over and over.

here's a link about on page optimization: http://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors maybe you 'll find some tips
And know that SEO takes time.Grtz, Leonie

Well i decided to give old product pages a 301 redirect, as long there is traffic on the url's, this wil be the best solution for this site. To leave the page up with a canonical, will create a messy site at the end. Thanx for all your replies!

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, unfortunately this is not possible yet in the new SDTT. I really hope Google will give us something to test these kind of strucuterd data , but for now you have to trust yourself.

if you do it like this way: http://www.vervesearch.com/blog/how-to-implement-the-relpublisher-google-authorship-mark-up/

you'll be fine!Grtz, Leonie

Hi, can you provide the plug-in name and the website that's involved? Maybe  i can help you further with that information.

Did you already checked the support page of the plug-in?

Grtz, leonie

Hi, try this in the of your page, and wait a while

https://plus.google.com/+Thezenagency rel="publisher" />

there used to be a rich snippettool to check if your rel="publisher" was configured correctly, but google disabled this last week and now we only have the developerstool: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/

grtz, Leonie

Hi Erica,

yes they have,  and they are shutting of those links, but still encounter 404's from the affiliate company. it's is progress

Thanks Donford, you really got a point to see it from a user perpective. and want to consider this also as an option and using the canonical of the parent.i'm talking about productpages that won't return anymore. For pages that will, we already cover like the way you described.

grtz, Leonie

Thanks Andy. i know affliate don't help SEO, but have 404 errors through the affiliate company, trying to solve it, but have to take care at this right now.about the time: difficult to say what's good,  will monitore it the next period. 6 months sounds reasonable, though that are lots of 301 's

Hi, what shall i do with the old / passed productpages? The situation right now is, that all product url's are being saved wich cost me a lot of duplicate content and lot's of url's being indexed and crawled and no use to the website at all.

As there are affiliate links to those passed url's i want to give them a 301 to the category page wicht fitst best for a time of period?

Do you think that's the best solution? And what time of period shall ik give those 301 redirects?

Thnx and grtz, Leonie

Hi, here is an article comparing Ahrefs vs OSE vs Majestics. All tools have differences. And for good linkbuilding i think you need more than just one tool. http://www.seobook.com/comparing-backlink-data-providers

When you're using the free version of Ahrefs, try the paid one, you'll get so much more info, it's realy worth to try. And i think (not sure) OSE is for free, you pay for MOZ Analytics. But non payers can use OSE, correct me if i'm wrong.

Grtz, Leonie

Ah thanks, it's an Azure platform, so no SFTP, SSH or .htaccess. but i'll give the stack link to the technical guys then they have to translate it to our environment  ( .net)

Hi ,

i got it working with a proper sitemap. Special thanks to Thomas for the great effort in his answers!

Hi Monica, i am also not happy with this situation, especialy it's gonna be difficult to reach my kpi's when SEA is performing on SEO's traffic, but i have to find a solution to reach my goals. the conversion rate has changed, 1% less.

what you say: "I cleansed the AdWords account of everything I wanted to rank for organically. As the CTR increased organically the AdWords spend decreased"

Is something i want to do, i told the SEA guy about his, but he said it has no use, but now you write te same i'm gonna do it. Thanks for that!

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, At this time i encounter the next problem as SEO at a retailer. They increased there SEA budget on branded and non branded keywords the generate more traffic on the Adwords campaign. But Now the SEO traffic is decreasing and the SEA traffic is getting bigger and bigger.

Especialy on mobile devices where you only see the adwords link and no organic link without scrolling.

It's also good for the conversion rate, so we have to do this. But i am curious how other SEO's deal with this thing. What will you  do to find new sources of organic traffic? Are you using more longtail keywords or low volume or other things. Like to hear from you.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi Amelia, you're right about that alt tags are for people who use screenreaders. Though search engines like google also use the alt tag  to recognize there is an image file.

The alt tag is an onpage factor that influence ranking  (http://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors)

Although the alt tag may looks like as not important, it's worth using it.

About the spammy thing, using a word twice on a page has nothing to do with keywordstuffing

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, Google can't read (yet) image filenames, that's why we use the alt tag, to tell google what's the image is about. So you can use the image file name as alt tag, no problem. If you use the word "lego" twice it's not keyword stuffing.

here's something to read about keyword stuffing: http://moz.com/community/q/what-constitutes-keyword-stuffing

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, I made a keyword research last month for a large retailer i took the following staps: First of all i made 3 keyword lists:
1. top 100 high volume (adwords keyplanner like Moosa said)
2. top 100 best ranking (MOZ and WMT)
3. top 100 last month used (Google analytics and WMT)

For the final keyword list i took the overlaps on the lists. and the keywords with brings traffic and revenue to the site. I have 60 keywords now  and optimizing the landingpages for it.

Grtz, Leonie.

Hi,  You can make  redirects (301) in your .htaccess file on the server like this:

Redirect 301 /oud/oud.html http://www.jouwsite.nl/nieuw.html

if you still have the old files on the server you can delete them.

i believe you have a magento website and speak dutch here is something how to redirect in magento in dutch

http://www.micheltel.nl/magento-webshop-redirects-instellen.

Grtz, Leonie

It works

i removed the parameter in WMT and today it works very happy with it

Hi, to be sure your dev site is not indexed put it behind a login / password. As google can't login to your site, google can't index it.

In WP you did the right thing, when you put your site live make sure you use a seo plugin (Yoast) and use canonical tag, to avoid duplicate content. https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

Hi, it looks like you have a Wordpress website and also the use of H1. For example on page: http://www.iamtheconnoisseur.com/casual-connoisseur-x-trickett-the-weir-collaboration-gift-set/ you have H1 at Casual Connoisseur x TRiCKETT ( you can see it in the source code).

Your site is using images you can use the "alt tag"  here's some info about it: https://econsultancy.com/blog/63845-the-basics-of-using-alt-text-for-seo/
Also start using the meta description in the head, it's not a big SEO thing but at least your snippets in Google will get it's info from it and good snippets are good for clicks.

Get backlinks to your site. Without backlinks no authority on your domain. in OSE i don't see any backlink, it's worth trying to get some..

Use Social Media to push your site.

Grtz, Leonie

Thanx Dennis and Miriam. I'll stick to the main account with the publisher tag

Grtz, Leonie

Hi Sam, What you can do is look for the keyword in Webmastertools click on it and you'lll get some information about data position in serps and ctr.

I have to say that data from Webmastertools is not the most reliable one, but it gives you an indication.

When you look for the keyword in Google Analytics, you can see the avarage position, clicks and performance. This gives you insight how well a keyword works on it's avarage position.

Than you can run a full serp report in MOZ, not sure this gives you the information you're looking for, but it's worth trying, and put next to the options i described.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, I'll choose the short url and put keywords in title, description and content. If possible choose only 1 subfolder.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi Lynn, i send you a private message wit h the domain name thanx!

Hi, yes i'm using a canonical with the trailing slash, so that shouldn't be the problem, though  maybe  my impatience is. I see other retailers in my niche have it already working

i have configured in webmastertools - parameters to disable the parameter: search? does that something to do with it you think?

Thanx for your thoughts!

Grtz, Leonie

Hi Lynnp,

Thanx for your reply, i added the code a couple of weeks ago, but don't see the result.  Just copied the code from the same site you mentioned and added our stuff in in it:

Hi, Dom, maybe you find something here: http://moz.com/community/q/does-anyone-know-of-any-tools-that-can-help-split-up-xml-sitemap-to-make-it-more-efficient-and-better-for-seo

Splitting a sitemap can be useful for you to keep sight over the indexed url's.  But it's quit normal to run a sitemap with 5000 url's. the maximum is 50.000 url's for 1 sitemap, so it's not necessary.

Grtz, Leonie

hi, i like this one: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Grtz,  Leonie

Hi, Are you using a CMS? It can be caused by that? It creates url's with spaces that's why they look so strange. Have you checked this with your webdeveloper?

Here some info about url encoding:

URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format. URL encoding replaces unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits. URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign or with %20.

Hi, Thanx for your reply, i'm not sure i understand you by "please note you are disallowing more than just media"

the thing with this is the xml file is an old file but somewhere in the google archive. i tried do remove it with the wmt, but returns. It's  not on the server anymore. the directory "media" doesn't exist anymore, also from an old website.

Because the file still returns in wmt i thought let's try it with the robots.txt

new robots.txt not tested waiting for deployment

Oh call me stupid, but how do i make a 410?

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, If you want to permanently delete a page and there is still ( a lot) traffic on . i'll think it's best to redirect the page to a relevant one. when there is no traffic  and no backlinks, delete it,  and delete the page with the url removal from Google webmastertools.

With temporary /on hold pages,  i used to give them a 302, but lately i started a test to see what's better. I keep the pages alive, with content and links to another page. I still have to find out what's best, ( just testing this for 1 month) but the bouncerate is low.  I want my clients to go to another section of the website, i explain this in the content with the right links.

Grtz, Leonie

Thanx for the url: it gives a warning on

Disallow: /product/
and
Disallow: /media/bcc.xml

i wonder why?

Hi, It looks like you have url's placed in your sitemap that have an HTTP status error. You can search for the urls and remove them from your sitemap or make sure they have the right status. Does it say which status error? And does it say which url's? Did you check those url's?When you use Screaming frog spider tool (free), you can search for status error's this is an easy way to find these url's.

Grtz, Leonie

if i test the blocked url's they are blocked so it looks like the file is doing what's supposed to do. but still is strange i got these errors.

@Dean Andrews, thanx i will test it without empty lines, though have to wait for another deployment

Okay i got these errors in webmaster tools, very strange it is

Hi, sorry forgot to mention that

syntax error @ User-agent: *

no user agent @ Disallow: /product/

no user agent @ Disallow: /media/name.xml

Thanx, Leonie

Hi, did you encountered problems with other tools, like Google Analytics and or Tagmanager, Comscore?

Thanx, Leonie

Hi. really struggling with the robots.txt file
this is it:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /product/

#old sitemap
Disallow: /media/name.xml

When testing in w3c.org everything looks good, testing is okay, but when uploading it to the server, Google webmaster tools gives 3 errors. Checked it with my collegue we both don't know what's wrong.

Can someone take a look at this and give me the solution.
Thanx in advance!

Leonie

We have expensive certificates now for the payed section, i think we'll use the same

i'll ask about the server support SNI, not sure about that, thanx

Hi, from a SEO perspective it doesn't matter you use .html or .php. But i'm suprised why you have to add  a page extension after installing A SEO plugin.  A SEF URL looks like : http://www.domainname.com/product-name/

I'm not sure it will harm your SEO when using .HTML or .PHP. but if all your other urls don't have it, the structure ( Which google likes so much) Is gone.

And something else. are you going te create duplicates? so will the url without .html / .php exists? That is something i advice you to check and if yes, use the canonical.

Grtz, Leonie