I am trying to focus on long tail keywords that are related to specific products, so instead of using hp printers or refurbished printers, I use:

hp 4250 refurbished printer

that one has a CTR of 4% and a conversion rate of 10%.

But I am paying 10  dollars for the highest bid, wih about 200 impressions per day only. But its very targeted traffic of people really looking to buy that specific printer.

I wonder how can I play with the bid until I find something that doesnt spend a lot, and it still has a good CTR and good conversion rate?

The reason I ask about the bid, is that in the bid simulator it says, the higher the bid the more impressions

In google adwords the highest bid apparently gets more impressions, but always more clicks?

I wonder if I can save money by not targeting the 1st position, but from example 3-6, the ad will still be visible once the search results come in.

how do you guys usually set the bid?

I am not an adwords expert but this is is the strategy I am following:

1. I create an adgroup for each set of keywords that will target the same ad.

2, I set the bid high to appear first.

3. After 3 to 5 days I remove the ones with low CTR over the impressions, anything below 1%.

For example: for this url:

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/hp-laser-4250-printer-q5400a-r

I created an AD, and initially I put 10 keywords,  after one week I had wasted a lot of money, after 4 days I deleted 7 keywords, and after 8 days, I left only one keyword with a very good CTR of almost 3% and conversion rate of 4%.

The question is: how much is  enough time to test and remove keywords? is one day of data good enough?  Should I make this test with the highest bid possible?

Should I keep the high bid forever??  11 dollars for one click seems pretty expensive for one printer of 200 dollars when converted.  Does position 1 guarantee more conversions?  Maybe as long as it appears on the first 5 or 6 then its enough so I can decrease bid?

anyone please?

In my website there are 3,300 products. www.theprinterdepo.com.

I have about 200 keywords on the seomoz account.

Every item has about 5 or more variations of keywords.

examples:

hp 1320

1320 printer

hp 1320 refurbished

1320 hp printer

hp laser 1320

and so on.

The question is:

Is there an easy way to add all the keywords related to my products and all its variations to the seomoz dashboard so I can more easily track them?  If not, what do you suggest me to do?

Can you please check here:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=cse&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theprinterdepo.com%2Fhp-color-laser-4700dn-printer-q7493a

I see some errors in the rating element, but I am not sure how bad they are and how to fix

more:pagemap:rating-errors
more:pagemap:rating-errors:and
more:pagemap:rating-errors:be
more:pagemap:rating-errors:best
more:pagemap:rating-errors:could
more:pagemap:rating-errors:normalized
more:pagemap:rating-errors:not
more:pagemap:rating-errors:please
more:pagemap:rating-errors:please_provide_best_and_worst.
more:pagemap:rating-errors:provide
more:pagemap:rating-errors:rating
more:pagemap:rating-errors:rating_could_not_be_normalized.
more:pagemap:rating-errors:worst

Since 5 days ago I changed my html template in my ecommerce to comply with schema.org for products.

How long does it take to be seen on google, our keyword 4700DN, its one that appears in the top 10 results, but it still doesnt show it with schema.org (price+starts+ratings)

What should I do?

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=cse&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theprinterdepo.com%2Fhp-color-laser-4700dn-printer-q7493a

I am not a seo expert but I dont agree at all.

2 years ago we had a seo company, our visits were 8K, and they increased to 25K in 4 months.  SO this is not highly unrealistic.

Their job also increased sales by more than 50%.  The only caveat it was very expensive.

Its probably better to have goals using different number? Like pagerank, mozrank and other numbers I can see ob seomoz pro account? Maybe its better a company who can do seo and conversion optimization at the same time? My pr is1. Increase it to 7 is it doable in 6 months? Or I shouldnt take this into account as a goal?

Why? They are too high? Not doable? What is doable for you?

Earlier  I asked this http://www.seomoz.org/q/seo-affordable-company

and 2 days later I was contacted by a person from a company called optimaltargeting

They are not in the seomoz recommended list of companies, but the ones in that list are more expensive.

I tried to do searches with their name and rip off or scam, and I couldnt find anything bad about them.

I talked with them over skype and they say they do white hat SEO, and linking is manually done.

They couldnt promise any results, NOR any estimate of new visits.  My visits are at 6k PER month, and I was thinking that a good seo company should be able to get to 25K in 3 months. 50K in 6 months 100K in 1 year. for my website (www.theprinterdepo.com)

Would you suggest me to go forward with this one?

Okay, lets say that I already fixed all my technical seo stuff. All my crawl errors and warnings are gone. Now I really want to start seo so I have a few questions.

1. I know I should work based on a page and not on a domain, so it means I should choose which keyword to optimize each page for? only one keyword per page? or it might be more?

2. Some keywords are very competitive for me, example for my site www.theprinterdepo.com, the best keyword to rank would be printers, but it would take years a beginner to do that, what should I do?

3.  If highly competitive keywords are not an option, which keywords shuold I use? the ones that have more global monthly searches?

Thanks

For some reason, my account says it only crawled 3 pages this week, where its usually about 3K.

This is my robots which shouldnt affect

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/robots.txt

and this is my site

http://www.theprinterdepo.com

any idea?

Thats a good point, I still need to increase visits anyway, and make those visits buy.

Can any one here, share a good review of http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/?

Hi, my website is www.theprinterdepo.com

We want to hire a seo company that does everything together and can help me to increase visitors.  I am a truly believer that SEO is the best way to improve sales, we did seo in the past but my boss only liked to do it for 6 months, so we went from 8,000 visits to 25,000 visits in 6 months, but after stopping the contract, visits went down again.

Sales also increased and decreased in the same way during that time.

I need a SEO Company which I can afford for a long term projec and that can help me beat my competitors in my niche. (printers, printer accesories, printer parts, printer toners, etc), 70% of our items are refurbished, but we also sell new ones pretty well.  So ranking for the keyword refurbished printers only is not enough.

We have about 12,000 visits per month and our goal is to go to 25,000 in 3 months, 50,000 in 6 months, and 100,000 in one year.  I think this is pretty doable, do you?

I wonder if someone in the forum can recommend me one good seo company that can give us a full integrated seo solution/quote, and that we can afford.

I would be welcome to hire maybe seos that are starting their own company if there is proven success or something, sometimes big company names charge a lot.

I have about 300 errors about duplication of content.

But I also have like 3000 warnings for:

2500, too many links on page

2000, meta title longer than 66 characters

200, too long url.

I have analyzed my competition, and 90% of them have also too many links on pages and long meta titles.

Are these 2 really factors to improve my google ranking?

My site is: theprinterdepo.com

and my main keywords are printers, refurbished printers, laser printers

ANY IDEA?

this is my robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: */product_compare/*
Disallow: *dir=*
Disallow: *order=*

Hi, my website is www.theprinterdepo.com and I have been in seomoz pro for 2 months.

When it started it crawled 10000 pages, then I modified robots.txt to disallow some specific parameters in the pages to be crawled.

We have about 3500 products, so thhe number of crawled pages should be close to that number

In the last crawl, it shows only 1700, What should I do?

We found this website

https://shareasale.com/learnmore.cfm

Actually is an affiliate site, where the users there would be in charge of driving traffic into our website, and then we pay them in some way, I just wanted to know if this can affect my seo efforts negativele?

THanks

short description and meta description should be the same?

I have tried that also, but they never do. Even if they are satisfied, its kind of complicated

I know what a 301 its, but I dont understand how you found that?

Just a little background information

we had a website called www.theprinterdepot.net and we wanted to move to .com

when we moved we put a 301 redirect in the www.theprinterdepot.net to the .com

I did that in the php.ini, its that the 301 you are talking about? should I remove it and replace the welcome page with a we have moved to or something?

I suppose less competitive keywords would be the product specific keywords

hp 1320 printer, or its variations.

Well, I am very beginner seo.

our website is www.theprinterdepo.com and our main keyword for the moment is refurbished printers, but there might be hundreds of more keywords.

I was analyzing the SERPs and found that for our keyword, the first 2 websites that come up have very different content

1.http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=PRN

They rank first, but I dont see a lot of text with the keyword in their text or links

2. http://www.valstarprinters.com/

They mention the keywords lots of times in the text, probably they are doing keyword stuffing?

So this makes me thing, how the 1st one ranked there? just by link builiding?

Well, I am very beginner seo.

our website is www.theprinterdepo.com and our main keyword for the moment is refurbished printers, but there might be hundreds of more keywords.

I was analyzing the SERPs and found that for our keyword, the first 2 websites that come up have very different content

1.http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=PRN

They rank first, but I dont see a lot of text with the keyword in their text or links

2. http://www.valstarprinters.com/

They mention the keywords lots of times in the text, probably they are doing keyword stuffing?

So this makes me thing, how the 1st one ranked there? just by link builiding?

Can someone explain me what is this? I just ran a keyword difficulty report for my keyword "refurbished printers", we are not in the top 10, and I see a table with 4 columns: page authority, Page Linking Root Domains, Domain Authority, Root Domain Linking Root Domains

I have many questions here:

1. The bigger the number the better?

2. The most green the better? What about the red in the last 2 columns?

3, How can I improve an specific page to rank there and improve these numbers?

4. What does it mean the green check next to some numbers?

Thanks

Can you please explain further, you meant to set the entire PRODUCT DESCRIPTION as an h2? or specific parts? keywords only?

I made a few changes in my site to show the products listing in List format instead of grid format, in format mode it was only showing the name, but in list mode it also shows a short description that I think should be benefical for SEO because it might require words related to the product itself.

The question is, how long is too much?

Please see example here

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/new-printers/l/brand-canon

so one thing I could do is to put the template backwards in the breadcrump

condition - name - model.

Then breadcrumb, h1 and meta title would be different

What I want is to avoid keyword canibalization for the term refurbished printers, which is in almost 500 printers we have, and that I just understood yesterday with your explanation.

Probably on google users will search in 3 different ways

hp cp2025n

cp2025n printer

hp cp20205n printer

or just cp2025n

I was thinking that maybe I should remove the word laserjet...,

I was thinking that probably I should use the same template in the category listing pages?

Could you please check this other question??

http://www.seomoz.org/q/keyword-canabalisation-and-my-solution

Hi.

According to one guy, in this thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/good-seo-titles, the Meta Title, H1 Tag Title on the product page, and the category listing pages should be different to avoid keyword canabilisation.

One problem I noticed in my website after reading about this topic, is that all my printers have the keyword sentence :"refurbished printer", yes 99% of the products are refurbished but in that way according to the answer in the above post I am competing against self, too many pages (1000) with the same keywords on it.

So I decided to make some changes and I I would like to know the opinion of the experts here, I did this only for one product, then I would of course need to this for lots of products.

1.  I created a different meta title. check here please

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/hp-color-laserjet-cp2025n-printer-new

2. In the product page itself, I removed the condition from the name of the product, instead I put the template, NAME - MODEL -CONDITION.

3. In the category listing page I havent made any change yet, it still shows the product name only

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/new-printers/color-laser-new-printers

Check 1st row, 4th column.

Is this a good approach?

Hi.

In the last few days I have studied a little bit about this, and I would like to know the opinion of experts.

My website www.theprinterdepo.com is a Magento site and I have the product review disabled by default because nobody makes reviews.

However I have seen that other vendors out there have big databases of reviews that can be plugged in into my website.

www.powerreviews.com for example

Will this really boost my site? seo talking?

If so, any other provider you can recommend me, www.powerreviews.com seems too expensive.

Update: I have a technical problem in the site. and I had to rever the changes. I will update you as soon as you can see this again.

I did some changes according to what I learnt in this thread.

Normally the condition is in the TITLE  itself so I will have to edit all products to remove it.

1.  http://www.theprinterdepo.com/hp-color-laserjet-cp2025n-printer-new

Check the meta title, I put your suggestion.

2. Check the H1, I removed the condition from the title, but I put it at the end.

3. It has the SKU below, maybe I should put into the h1 itself with the following template.

Title + Model + condition

4. The listings page(category, search results) will show like this:

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/new-printers/color-laser-new-printers

Check the four item on the right.

5. Please also see the breadcrumb.

Please let me know more suggestions so I can start editing all my products

So, Summarizing. This is what I learnt today. 1.  Product Title (will be seen on category listing pages, and also search results page)   -HP 1320 Printer - Refurbished - Q5928A.   IN our business the condition its very important because we might have the same printer in NEW, Refurbished, USED or Factory Recertified.   It would not look nice, to put in this field BUY... AT ..$ ... 2. H1. It will be the visible TITLE to the user on each page. (The GREEN ONE)   HP 1320 Printer - Refurbished - Q5928A 3. Meta Title, This one will be the one that google shows on the search results and should encourage an action.   Buy HP 1320 Printer - Refurbished - Q5928A - Free Shipping at $129.99 As I can see it, 1 and 2 will be the same, 3 is different and will encourage an action! BUY!

so in your opinion title, meta title, and h1 must be 3 different things?

The suggestion you gave above would be for H1, and meta title only.

For Title, its better to leave the short title without the BUY xxx at xxxx

I have a big question here:

Your suggestion is for the meta title only, right? not for the H1 Tag on each product page?

I ask this, because magento has 2 fields, Title and Meta Title. If I change it in the title, it will show that long title also in the category pages.

Image this page:

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/plotters-drawing

And then imagine all products will have this template.

Buy HP 750 Designjet Model XXXXX Refurbished at $1199.99, and then the price again below.

Thx

Hi. Mybsite is www.theprinterdepo.com

and I am trying to find a good template for my product/page titles.

Many users search our products by the product model:

something like Q2121X.

Some other users search by: hp 1320 printer

or just 1320 printer.

They will almost never search for hp 1320 new, or hp 1320 refurbished.

My website is developed in magento, and we have a SEO plugin in which I can put a template for the URL and also a template for the product title.

I was thinking for title and URL.

title + condition + productmodel

However many users search for: "refurbished printers"

and maybe its better that our products say something like this:

HP 1320 Refurbished Printer,

instead of:

HP 1320 Printer - Refurbished - Q2121X

Please let me know your suggestions.

I have about 400 errors about duplicate content on my seomoz dashboard. However I have no idea how to solve this, I have 2 main scenarios of duplication in my site:

Scenario 1:

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/catalogsearch/advanced/result/?name=64MB+SDRAM+DIMM+MEMORY+MODULE&sku=&price%5Bfrom%5D=&price%5Bto%5D=&category=

3 products with the same title, but different product models, as you can note is has the same price as well.

Some printers use a different memory product module. So I just cant delete 2 products.

Scenario 2: toners

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/brother-high-capacity-black-toner-cartridge-compatible-73

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/brother-high-capacity-black-toner-cartridge-compatible-75

In this scenario, products have a different title but the same price. Again, in this scenario the  2 products are different.

Thank you

Hello.

As I am a SEO Beginner I wonder if the elements of the page will make a better or worse ranking.

I ask this because my boss asked to change the order of the elements.

He wants to put first the section of Supplies and Accesories, and then additional information.

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/hp-9500mfp-refurbished-printer

Does it affect my seo for worse or for better?

Can you please explain more? I am seo beginner, so for now I am just correcting the things that seomoz pro tells me, errors and warnings. I have reduced errors to 0, and I am trying to reduce warnings also.

As far as I know to rank well H1 tag should be present in all pages and it should be one of the first things in the page, it also should include the keywords.

I was checking my site and magento generates the H1 with an image,

www.theprinterdepo.com

I dont know if this is wise?

class="logo">The Printer Depo<a <span="">href</a><a <span="">="</a>http://www.theprinterdepo.com/" title="The Printer Depo" class="logo">width="377px" src="https://www.theprinterdepo.com/skin/frontend/default/MAG060062/images/logo.gif" alt="The Printer Depo" />

anyone in here? what should I do to fix this?

No I havent tried but I will.

I use magento commerce which is a great ecommerce application

Hello

I have about 800 warnings with this.

Example of one url with this problem is:

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/clearance?dir=asc&order=price

I was checking and I think all links are important.  But I suppose that if I put a nofollow on the links on the left which are only for navigation purposes I can get rid of these warnings.

Any other idea?

Hello

This is my robots.txt file

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/Robots.txt

However I have 8000 warnings on my dashboard like this:4

What am I missing on the file¿

Crawl Diagnostics Report

On-Page Properties

<dl>

<dt>Title</dt>

<dd>Not present/empty</dd>

<dt>Meta Description</dt>

<dd>Not present/empty</dd>

<dt>Meta Robots</dt>

<dd>Not present/empty</dd>

<dt>Meta Refresh</dt>

<dd>Not present/empty</dd>

</dl>

URL: http://www.theprinterdepo.com/catalog/product_compare/add/product/100/uenc/aHR0cDovL3d3dy50aGVwcmludGVyZGVwby5jb20vaHAtbWFpbnRlbmFjZS1raXQtZm9yLTQtbGo0LWxqNS1mb3ItZXhjaGFuZ2UtcmVmdWJpc2hlZA,,/

0 Errors

• No errors found!

1 Warning

• 302 (Temporary Redirect)

  Found about 5 hours ago

  <a class="more">Read More</a>

but the location of the text does not matter? wheter if its in the top or in the bottom after the products?

Long time ago we hired a seo company to do seo in our website and one of the things they did is that they wrote long text on the category pages of our products.

Example here:

http://www.theprinterdepo.com/refurbished-printers/wide-format-laser-refurbished-printers

Now my marketing person is saying that if its possible to put the text below the items, technically I will find out how to do it, but from your seo experience, is it good or bad?

What about if we short those texts to one paragraph only?

Thanks

my website is www.theprinterdepo.com but now my boss says that it should change everyday, its en ecommerce site, that the products should change everyday, even some times more than day.

Is it good for seo? taking into account that google does not crawl all sites every day I suppose.