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Hi, I know this video / hangout about  there is a question about content after read more button / tab

The advice is, that if content is important don't put it behind tab / read more button. Google can see this content as hidden or less important, and will try to ignore it.

By using the word "try" you can ask yourself, is Google abled to ignore this content.. i don't know.

Anyway if you look at the importance of the content; i'll say always show important content to your clients, do not hide it behind tabs and or read more buttons.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/hangouts/onair/watch?hid=hoaevent/ch15fr8d098s55ha1p5i3i278vo&ytl=SueY_ea4D9k&wpsrc=yta

grtz, Leonie

Hi , a sitemap can contain 50.000 urls with a max. size  of 10 MB.

a sitemap generator + split tool:

http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/xml-sitemaps-page-limit/

info over sitemaps: http://www.sitemaps.org/

Grtz, Leonie

Hi Max, Thansk, and good to read that you didn't lost ranking. that's my concern and also the backlinking. although you should say with a redirect all the external links i can't control will redirect to https.

We have 2 different ssl certificates now, we are looking for what we need and if we have the right ones.

If i've finished the plan and list i'll think i'll publish it here

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, you can check your dns config here:

http://dnscheck.pingdom.com. If problems with resolving your domain. ask you  hostingprovider to set the dns right. otherwise you have to do it yourself in you hosting configuration tool like direct admin or plex.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi Pixelbypixel, thanx for your reply.

Right now i'm making a plan for the switch, i'm not in a rush, so i really want to make it all clear before we go, or maybe decide not to..

I don't think most of our clients know what's secure and what isn't.  But we want the opportunity to comunicate about this with our clients, something we don't have right now (only when the order something)

The ranking factor, what i read about it, is not a big thing at this moment, but indeed, in the future and can be a bigger one, so that's also a good reason to go.

Thanx for the linked articles!

Grtz, Leonie

Hi there,

We are planning to take the step and go from http to https. The main reason to do this, is to mean trustfull to our clients. And of course the rumours that it would be better  for ranking (in the future).

We have a large e-commerce site. A part of this site ia already HTTPS.

I've read a lot of info about pro's and contra's, also this MOZ article: http://moz.com/blog/seo-tips-https-ssl
But i want to know some experience from others who already done this. What did you encountered when changing to HTTPS, did you had ranking drops, or loss of links etc?

I want to make a list form pro's and contra's and things we have to do in advance.

Thanx, Leonie

Thanx Monica this will help a lot!

The ovelaps are going in and today w'ere looking at the high volume, low ranking keywords, and what's the best way to optimize the landingpages and get traffic!

Hi. I made 3 different keywordlists. based on the following rules:

list 1: top 50 of best ranking keywords of this campaign

list 2: Top 50 keywords with highest volume in adwords and related to the website

list 3: Top 50 last month used keywords by our clients from GWT

Now i want to make one top 50 list keywords i want to track and optimize the landingpages for it. What is the best way to choose from these three  lists. There are a lot of overlaps (especialy in list 1 and 3.)  so those keywords have preference. But how about keywords with high volume and high difficulty, related to the website, and low ranking?

i leave the conversion out of it for now, first goal is to get much traffic as possible.

Hi, I used to have the same on a project i managed. There where a lot of pages with keywordstuffing, with the same reason as your page. Selling a product with lot's of variations. I leaved it the way it was. Like you said althoug the keyword stuffing, pages had an A-grade an ranked very well in Google ( top 5) never had any problem with it.

I did ad a lot of other content to the page like:  text, images and later video's.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, you probably made a mistake in the .htaccess  this will trow a 500 server error.

did you made a backup of the .htaccess

otherwise remove the .htaccess an check if you still get a 500 error?

this is how you add a 301 redirect in .htaccess

Redirect 301 /old/file.html http://www.domainname.com/new.html

Hi Bradjn, With duplicate content i would go for the use of canonicals.  Give the original page and its duplicates the same cannonical url, so searchengines will know what's the original and (most of the time) won't see it as duplicate.

Here some more about  duplicate content and also canonicals: http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

I can't give you a good answer about using noindex or this wil be a positive change. Did you check in webmastertools about duplicates? or only MOZ?

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, If you click on the link: open site explorer and fill in an URL, there opens a navigation of Open site explorer on the left top there you can find the functionality.  Link metrics ( i guess that's what you mean by compare competitors) is shown there.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, still one more thing, because you sound loss, and that's not the meaning of this Q&A. Contact the forumservice and ask for the canonical, this is a very simple and common thing to do.

Seo stuff is'nt that difficult, though it can be comlicated

Anyway I wish you luck with the forum and hope you'll manage to get it the way you wanted.

Grtz, Leonie

Lol,  tha'ts also an option

under url's index, though they have to be removed first, otherwise google crawl them again. but there you can remove complete directories at once.

Ah okay, that will be difficult than.

Maybe you can ask them to implement the canonical url. It will be helpful  for you to avoid duplicates

Hi Lee,

What kind of CMS are you using?

In wmt under parameters you can configure parameters. If the ur's contain the same parameter it is a posibility.

Hi Lee,

I'm not very familiar with forums. but i think you can solve it by putting a canonical in the head.

If you have a main page, which is the post, put a canonical url in it:

the duplicate pages need to have the same canonical.

I hope this work for you.

Grtz, Leonie

yes then, what i wrote i my first message use a forwarding or redirect (what suits you best) will do the trick

i personaly would go for a forwarding in the nameserver at your hostingprovider. Very clean no need to setup a  .htacces. on the server of newdomain.

Goodluck!

Leonie

Hi, it's allowed to make redirects or domain forwarding. You can forward the new domain to a specific page of your old domain. You will not change the old url.

With redirecting or forwarding the new to the old, the old url will be visible.

do you also want google index your new domain?

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, You can forward your new domain to your old domain. This can be done at your webhost. Depending on your webhost you can do it yousrself or just ask them to do it.

When people surf to your www.newdomain.com they will go to www.olddomain.com.

Or you can use a 301 redirect if you like:

To use a 301 redirect put the following code in your .htacces on the server of the new domain:
Redirect 301 /http://www.olddomain.com

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, I'm dealing the same thing, and the truth, i just ignore this message. Like your page, i need the on page links, otherwise i can stop the business. Unfortunately you can not always satisfy the google requirements.

Well this is not a good advice, i realize that, but just something i recognize and how I act.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, This is a good one. The description showing in the serp's is depended on the keyword people are looking for, the metadescription and the content on the page.

Google decides what best fits to the keyword. If the metadescription fits in, Google will show that. if not, Google will search the content for that fits best at the keyword in the search.

In your screens you search for little wannahaves, but in your description there is no use of "little wannahaves"

so google is searching your content for a match with "little wannahaves"

put little wannahaves in your description. I also advice you to shorten your description tot 150 characters.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, Arthur
image-slider pro ( WP) you can add image alt & titles.

For Joomla modules i'm not sure, but you can go to; http://extensions.joomla.org/ and check the different slider modules and look if they have the possibility for image alt & title tags.

Goodluck!

Leonie

Hi Tjr, I'm also curious about that, but can't find anything, that  sitelinksearchbox improve the SEO ranking, by adding the searchbox. schema.org to your site.

I think it will increase you're ctr and by that you can  gain ranking, but the tool itselfs i doubt that.

The thing i  like about it, that you can send searches direct to your site, so you get rid of you'r competitors as soon people use your sitelink search.   on the other site, you can only see the searchbox by google-ing a brand name. so people already are interested in the brand

Hi, you don't need to upload the images again, you can add the alt tag, and if needed, other data to the code.

Grtz, Leonie

Hi, I agree with The Zen Agency and SEOwoody, responsive is the best way to go. Maybe it take some more time to set it all up, but the advantage you'll have when it's done and also, manage afterwards of one website is worth much more.

Goodluck! Leonie

Hi, Google has implemented the sitelinksearchbox. On one of my sites i have the results now when you search on brand name. Now i see at amazon.com if you use the searchlink box you directly go to the website of Amazon. I can't figure out how they did this. Can someone help me out?

Thanx, Leonie

Hi, i have a question about the use of rel=publisher tag on a large retail website with multiple local stores.

There is 1 e-commerce website where i want to put the rel publisher tag from the main Google + businesspage.

There are also 60 local google+businesspages, And on the main website every store has his own store-page. Is it good to put on all the 60 storepages their own rel=publishertag connected with the localbusinesspages on google? Or should i Stick at the main rel=publisher tag connected with the main google+page?

Thanx, Leonie

Hi Billy, it depends which page you want to rank well. If the page that ranks well in the search engine, than people can link to that page.  If you can have multiple backlinks, you can choose to get a link to different pages of your site with different anchortext.

If the backlinks come from different domains with high authority, it will be good for you whole domain.

Hi, Option 1

grtz, Leonie

Hi, if you click on the button " generate key in the follwing link you'll get it

https://moz.com/products/api/keys

grtz, Leonie

Hi, Yes! For example H1, should be placed on top of the page if possible, or at least as high as possible and only used once, gives the best value of the H1.

You can see H1 as a chapter of a book. You place a chapter on top and not at the end.

Hi, If you like, I can help you. Can You provide an url? Or contact me by clicking on my profile.

Regard, Leonie

Hi Loui,
Like Max says: " as long as you follow the google guidelines". I once set this up with trust pilot. We did n't had any problems with Google and snippets where shown in the serps.

Grtz, Leonie.

Hi, Google will add this feature the next couple of weeks: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2014/11/helping-users-find-mobile-friendly-pages.html

Hi, I'm also dealing with duplicate content and searching for a proper solution. have you tried to use a canonical url for this issue? If only the url is different /releases/ v.s. /releases/index a canonical can help. Put this in the head

here is more about duplicate content: http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

Hi, not sure i understand your question right, but could it be that it's scanning your subdomain www.flexo.co in MOZ and in the other your domain flexo.co? That can make a different in your backlink profile.

Hi, I think that Sreaming Frog will help you with that. It gives you all the information about, anchor txt, do follow etc.. on the target page.

hi, no sorry the url is written  as http://www.domainname.com/category/listing/product-name

it's possible WMT takes the duplicate pagetitles, i have to change that.

That's a good one. My first reaction is, give the links a no follow. With that the (brand) name is visible, but the link can not harm you by in case it's on low qualiy websites and or money making keywords.

Hi,

In Open site explorer you can check your backlink profile and lots more about linking.
https://moz.com/researchtools/ose

Hi, we  solved this issue by using the cannonical of the category pages, which works fine. We also have lot of filters, like price, brand, name, etc..  and don't have duplicates on the filters.

Hi,

2 weeks ago we've made big changes in title and meta descriptions. To solve the missing title and descriptions. Also set the right canonical. Now i see that in WMT despite the canonical it shows duplicates in meta descriptions and titles.

i've setup the canonical like this:
1. url: www.domainname.com/category/listing-family/productname
2. url: www.domainname.com/category/listing-family/productname-more-info

The canonical on both pages is like this:

I'm aware of creating duplicate titles and descriptions, caused by the cms we use and also caused by wrong structure of category/products (we'll solve that nest year) that's why i wanted the canonical, but now it's not going any better, did i do something wrong with the canonical?

Hi,

Ubersuggest is maybe something you can try. http://ubersuggest.org/
It's a bit limmited, but sometims still some good suggestions.

Hi,

it means you can run 5 campains in the plan you buy. A campain is the project or the website you're running in MOZ.  With 5 campains you can run 5 different projects or websites.

Yes i'll do that thanks

Hi Martijn,

Thanks for the info. Is it necessary to make a sitemap index page if i split it in 10 categories? like this; https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/75712?hl=en

Hi, I am setting up a new sitemap for our website. the website contains about 8000 - 10.000 pages. Of wich are 6000 productpages. I have 10 categories, about 80 sub-catagories and about 400 sub-sub categories ( these ar my most important landingpages)

At this moment our sitemap is only 1 MB. From that point of view 1 sitemap will be enough. But can i take SEO advantage by splitting this sitemap in 10 categories? Or are there other ways to set it up for a better SEO?

Thanks!