To be honest, I'm not familiar enough with WooCommerce to provide any good feedback regarding those URLs.
Posts made by LoganRay
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RE: Similar product descriptions but with different urls
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RE: Have You 301 Redirected Domain A to Domain B ?
I think you're absolutely right about link assets being the only value that would pass through. Essentially, everything else (content, on-page assets, etc.) is all gone, so it stands to reason that Domain B wouldn't get any value from those elements.
I should've mentioned that Domain B was previously not an active domain. It was purchased and then immediately replaced Domain A. So it's a slightly different situation than you asked about, but nonetheless, a situation that does happen and should be considered anytime domain migrations are on the table.
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RE: Have You 301 Redirected Domain A to Domain B ?
EGOL,
I was part of a domain migration like this about a year and a half ago. In this case, Domain A was very old, we're talkin late 90's, and Domain B was brand new. Needless to say, the results were not optimal.
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RE: Similar product descriptions but with different urls
Hi Jonas,
The plan you've laid out - to have product variants for widths - is exactly how you should be handling this situation.You're likely to see improvements from making this improvement. Since you're getting rid of some unnecessary dupes it helps your crawl efficiency and shows that you noticed the issue and handled it accordingly.
Also, be sure to update your XML sitemap and resubmit in Search Console to ensure Google notices your change ASAP.
Good luck!
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RE: Analytics reporting
Hi Melissa,
For your top pages, in Google Analytics go to: Behavior > Site Content > All Pages or Landing Pages
For your top organic search terms, you'll need to go to Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) - then go to Search Traffic > Search Analytics > and choose 'Queries'
You can still see some search terms in Google Analytics, but they technically took away that feature when they went to secure search about 3 years ago. But you're better off using Search Console to view this information.
Here's a few links that'll help you learn the ropes:
https://moz.com/blog/absolute-beginners-guide-to-google-analytics
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RE: Is it likely that google uses bookmarks(favorites) in chrome as a ranking signal?
Not at all. Bookmarks are no indication of the quality of the content or a website as a whole.
If there were any truth to this, it'd be ridiculously easy to game the system - think of a large company with thousands of computers in their offices, they could have their IT team pre-install Chrome with any number of bookmarked links they want - way too easy.
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RE: Linkjuice
Hi,
In a perfect world, yes, all your links would be pointing to the most accurate version of your URLs possible. But Google has also recently stated that they're indexing HTTPS by default whenever possible. If you've got some that would be easy to update, go for it, but I wouldn't sink too much time into it as I don't believe you'll see too much of an impact from doing so.
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RE: Client Being Outranked by Horrible Websites with No SEO--Help!
Hi,
There are dozens of things that could be causing this. So it's difficult to pin-point where exactly your problems lie. Here are a few low-hanging-fruit items:
- There's only 1 link pointing to your site according to OSE, and it's got a spam score of 5.
- Most of your title tags are quite long, and they seem a bit keyword-stuffy to me
- Your DA is only 13, it's very likely that all of your competitors have higher DA than that. Read here for more info on domain authority and how to influence it: https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
- Local services like this rely heavily on review sites for NAP info and reviews, which, according to the Search Quality Raters Guidelines, has a large impact on the overall quality of a website
I've dealt with many clients in this industry, and it's a beast. You need to make sure all your bases are covered in order to stay competitive.
Good luck!
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RE: Ecommerce catalog update: 301 redirects?
You should definitely not let those URLs die. Having a ton of 404 errors is a sure fire way to have Google demote your site for poor quality. I recommend selecting your top 100 or so products, based on Google Analytics traffic numbers and importance to your business, and apply one-to-one 301 redirects for those. The rest of the old products can be redirected to the homepage, or maybe the main store page.
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RE: Community Discussion - Do you think increasing word count helps content rank better?
I don't think there is a magic number at all when it comes to content length. Writing an extra 500 words just to fluff up an article or SEO page isn't going to help anything or anyone. The ultimate goal of search engines is to provide the best results for a query, therefore the ultimate goal of content writing should be to solve a problem, provide an answer, et al. If you can do that in 200 words, great, if your product/service is complex and requires much more education and it takes 2,000 words, great.
We should write with the user in mind, get into the mindset of someone searching for our offerings and think about what we'd want to read, no matter how long. I don't care how great the content is, if I'm searching for a new pair of running shoes, I'm not reading 1,125 words, and if that's all I see when I land there, I'm bouncing.
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RE: Pages for similar keywords?
Hi,
Those keywords are all essentially the same thing, maybe with the exception of 'catered' and 'luxury', but even then, you'd have a hard time writing unique enough content for those 2 variation sets. If you tried to write content for each of those keywords individually, you'd end up with almost identical content, worded slightly different. If the only thing this client does is ski chalets, you'd probably be better served to use the home page as your target URL for these terms.
As for additional content, I'd recommend a blog or FAQ section that provides additional information about the area, attractions, things to do, etc.
The domain name won't play a role in ranking, that's an old SEO tactic that Google squashed years ago. There are many other things that could be preventing your site from getting to the first page, like overall site quality, backlink profile, the list goes on and on....
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RE: Canonical Query
I believe you could be at risk of duplicate content issues. If it were my client, I'd definitely consider this a code-red issue and attack it from all possible angles.
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RE: Canonical Query
Hmm...only other thing I can think of is your that XML sitemap may contain these additional URL strings, but I assume you've already got clean URLs there.
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RE: Canonical Query
That's odd, I've never seen a case where Google ignored canonical tags. Since I don't have an example, I have to ask, are your canonical tags in the right place?
Another thing you might try, have you set up parameter handling in Search Console?
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RE: Question about "sneaky" vs. non-sneaky redirects?
Is this strictly online advertising you're talking about? If so, that's just weird, I can't imagine a scenario in which I'd want links passing through a redirect. I wouldn't considered this sneaky or deceitful, but on their part, it's unwise to not be linking straight to the resolving domain and you should jump for joy that your competitor's links aren't carrying as much weight as they should.
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RE: What do you do for U-NAP distribution for two business within the same building?
This is a common address format when multiple businesses are located in one building - think big office buildings, apartments, etc. It doesn't necessarily have to be in the 123-A/B format either, you could also do a Unit #. The point is to create something unique about each address so Google doesn't get confused when they find 2 businesses with the same address. I don't have a real-world example that I'm able to share - sorry!
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RE: What do you do for U-NAP distribution for two business within the same building?
Hi John,
For simplicity sake, I'll guide you over to a very similar conversation I had yesterday. https://moz.com/community/q/consistant-citations-for-local-seo
Hope that thread helps!
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RE: Two Robots.txt files
Hi Satla,
You're going to need to get rid of that 2nd version ASAP. The official standard for a robots.txt file is all lower case in the file name, so that's most likely what bots are seeing. But to err on the side of caution, I'd remove any possibilities of a "disallow: /" and remove that Robots.txt version.
Some servers are case sensitive, so you could run into issues here as well.
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RE: Multilingual SEO - site using Google translate within existing URL structure
Luke,
This technically wouldn't cause any ill-effects on you SEO efforts since your URLs aren't changing. However, according to our good friend, Mr. Cutts, auto translation via Google Translate isn't recommended and can be seen as spamming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UDg2AGRGjLQ
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RE: Consistant citations for Local SEO
No problem, sorry I couldn't offer something more conclusive! Maybe someone else from your side of the pond will chime in with a similar experience.
Good luck!
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RE: Consistant citations for Local SEO
Hmm...I didn't realize there weren't street numbers involved, that's usually my differentiator. Unfortunately, Google will see your proposed addresses as synonymous.
In a case of office buildings, where many different companies operate in one building, how would those addresses be formatted? (forgive my lack of knowledge on UK address formats)
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RE: Consistant citations for Local SEO
Hi Jon,
I've had a very similar situation before, where 2 businesses were operating under the same website, but located in 2 different places and under slightly different names. You can apply schema to multiple instances of NAP, but in your case, what you would need to do is create 2 different addresses.
For example, Business A would be located at 123-A Boulevard Street, and Business B would be located at 123-B Boulevard Street. That seems to be enough of a differentiation for Google being as office buildings commonly contain similar address formats. You're technically not changing anything from a geographical point of view, but this way you're able to provide Google with enough different information for them to identify. It will take some time to see the results, and you'll need to get as many good-quality citations for each company as possible.
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RE: Stripping Out Referral Spam
They've been a real pain for all of us over the years, and I don't think there is one best way to handle removal of their junk traffic. It'd be nice if GA would catch up and actually filter this out when you choose "Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders" in settings. Buuuut, in lieu of that, since Google hasn't caught on yet....
To keep it clean and easy for you to understand when you come back to it, I would do a regex that contains just the domain names of the culprits, pipe separated, like so: semalt|buttons-for-website|other-junk-sites
If Semalt is your biggest concern, you might want to give this a shot: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25477342/blocking-semalt-referrers-with-htaccess-rules
There's also information here on how to block them via IP: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72107/semalt-ignores-robots-txt-does-their-own-form-actually-do-what-they-promis
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RE: The Great Subdomain vs. Subfolder Debate, what is the best answer?
Hi,
I've not seen any comment from Googlers regarding this debate. I realize I'm keeping this in the Moz-sphere, which isn't quite what you're looking for, but this quote is from Moz's domain setup guide:
"Since search engines keep different metrics for domains than they do subdomains, it is recommended that webmasters place link-worthy content like blogs in subfolders rather than subdomains. (i.e. www.example.com/blog/ rather than blog.example.com) The notable exceptions to this are language-specific websites. (i.e., en.example.com for the English version of the website)."
I think that quote is pretty compelling towards the subdirectory side of this quandry. I also recommend checking out the comments on the Whiteboard Friday link you posted, there is plenty of evidence there as well.
Unfortunately, this debate will probably go on forever until we get definitive word from Google.
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RE: Stripping Out Referral Spam
Hi Christina,
You can filter out spam referrals the way you are doing, but you'll be adding tons of filters over time. The best way would be to utilize regex. There's a really good post of this over on the Moz Blog that covers the best method for filtering out this garbage: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter
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RE: Where is sitelinks getting its data from?
Hi,
These pages are essentially nothing but a quote request form, I'm wondering if they see that it's a form and therefore have flagged it as an important page to put in the six-pack. These TX and NY pages also appear to be almost exact duplicates of your Get A Free Quote page, if there's not a business case for having multiples of the same page, I'd say get rid them. Your best bet is to demote them in Search Console, maybe after demoting them a few times Google will get the point.
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RE: Duplicate products - is this fix acceptable?
Hi,
You are correct in your use of canonical tags in this situation. I've run into similar instances and there really aren't any other options.
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RE: Hiring A Linkbuilding Service
Hi,
Here are a few steps you should take to ensure you hire a legitimate, white-hat link building agency:
- Look for reviews, ratings, testimonials, and anything else you can find about the reputation of the company on 3rd party websites - check BBB, Yelp, Google Reviews, etc...
- Look at their backlink profile - if they're getting sketchy links for themselves, they're not doing anything better for their clients
- Ask them what methods they use for link building - a good agency will outline their methodology for you
- If they'll provide a list of current clients, you can check those backlink profiles
- If the service seems too cheap, run.
Good luck in your search!
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RE: Can multiple geotargeting hreflang tags be set in one URL? International SEO question
With your .co.nl TLD, it's unlikely that you'd get much (if any) visibility in U.S. Google.
You could also do the following:
- Specify your primary country in Search Console
- Use sitemaps to identify targeted countries: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en
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RE: Can multiple geotargeting hreflang tags be set in one URL? International SEO question
Hi,
In this instance, since you're targeting multiple countries but the same language, it's acceptable to only specify the language in the hreflang tag, and leave the country out. For example:
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RE: Homepage not ranking for branded searches after Google penalty removal
Hi Brendan,
Just as it can take a while to rank a brand new domain, it will take some time to recover from the penalty. The best thing you could be doing is working to get some good links pointing to the homepage to help outweigh those junk links.
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RE: Is there a way to tell which redirect - from another domain - is driving traffic to your website?
Doubtful - since you've had redirects in place for so long, Google most likely dropped the old domain(s) from the index long ago.
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RE: Is there a way to tell which redirect - from another domain - is driving traffic to your website?
That's correct. I started doing this as a way to determine which 301s can be removed over time, but I come across new uses for it all the time!
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RE: Is there is any benefit to linking to the Google page from RFQ contact page?
Not particularly, nobody really uses G+ anymore. Additionally, if you've gotten someone to your RFQ page, it's best to not distract them with outbound links.
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RE: Is there a way to tell which redirect - from another domain - is driving traffic to your website?
Hi,
You're probably seeing this as direct traffic in Google Analytics - which is totally useless. The only way around this is to append UTMs with source/medium information to the end of the resolving URL. For example:
theDomainYouBought.com >>> yourCurrentDomain.com/?utm_source=theDomainYouBought.com&utm_medium=301
You can replace '301' and the source info with whatever you want, but the more specific you are, the easier it will be to go back and look at the data months/years from now.
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RE: Sub-domain vs Root domain
Hi,
Moving website A to a sub-domain of website B is going to be counterproductive, in that search engines hold different metrics for sub-domains than they do for their bigger brother, the primary domain. It's near impossible to advise what to do without any knowledge of the client and their division. But strictly from an SEO perspective, you stand to gain more by relocating website A to website B, but as a sub-directory rather than sub-domain - so long as the migration follows best-practices for such a task.
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RE: Which is more valuable?
Hi Trevor,
Unfortunately, with link building, the math isn't that simple. The litmus test you should use is to ask yourself "Would another person find this link useful?". If the answer is yes, then the link will be beneficial. If the answer is no, it means the link isn't worth your time and would mislead or frustrate people.
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RE: Looking for feedback on Scrapebox
Hi,
No experience here with Scrapebox, but if your goal with this is link acquisition, don't. Any link that is acquired that easily is more likely to hurt your efforts than help. You really don't want to have to undo any of that work, and you certainly don't want to have to explain to your client that their site is suffering from automated blog comments.
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RE: A 302 Redirect Question | Events Page Updates
Will,
I'm not familiar with the CMS you're using, but to answer your question about rel=canonical, no, that is not an instance of when to use that tag. Canonical tags are used for times when duplicate content is unavoidable, such as sorting a product category page and having different URL parameters based on the sort type.
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RE: Email Campaign Tracking within Domain & Subdomains
Hi,
It seems to me like you need cross-domain tracking. In the sequence you describe, when someone hits the subdomain first before clicking to the main site, it's coming through as referral traffic - at which point you're losing the connection (you can still get this data, but in a much more convoluted way). You should also be able to tag multiple domains with your email tool, so either (sub)domain you link to would have the same parameters, and with cross-domain tracking enabled, you'll have session unification between the 2 domains.
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RE: Does homepage SEO exist at all?
Hi James,
As with most things in SEO, the answer is 'it depends'. If the only service you offer is 'campervan hire', I believe the homepage for that would work. Then, as you've already mentioned you do, have pages built out for more specifics terms like locations.
I think there are use-cases for using the homepage for some high-level, top of the funnel keywords that broadly describe a business. But for the most part, I do agree with the Yoast article, as it can be difficult to put content on the homepage of a site while maintaining the aesthetics of a homepage.
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RE: Is sitemap required on my robots.txt?
Hi Juan,
You should also know that you can have multiple sitemap directives on one robots file. This is common among international sites and large commerce sites.
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RE: Ecommerce question - overoptimisation
Hi,
It sounds like you might have some over-optimization going on. If this title tag formula "vintage insert designer skirt/dress/pants etc" means you're repeating the same tag on multiple products, you're triggering duplicate content red flags.
Keep in mind, there is a lot more to ranking with a website than just the title tags though. But since you're asking specifically about title tags, put Moz to good use and check your Site Crawl report to identify any duplicate issues you might be facing. I can see you've got some duplicate issues with pagination (i.e. http://irvrsbl.com/collections/outerwear?page=3), you'll need to fix that, along with any other duplicates due to multiple products fitting the same title tag formula you mentioned - your Site Crawl report will give you the full run-down.
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RE: Consolidating Multiple Domains into A Single Domain
Hi,
Since all of your sites share branding and the same template, and a good portion of your boiler plate pages even link back to Jacksonhole.net, I would definitely recommend rolling those up into one site. You've also got the navigation setup to point to the according sites, so your template wouldn't need too much updating in order to carry all the same content.
However, I'm going to recommend not using subdomains since search engines hold different metrics for them than they do domains (https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain) - which would not help you accomplish your goal.
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RE: 2 pages ranking for same keyword.. Need some advice on what to do.
Sorry for the confusion... I just meant that since that's your primary product, and at one point your only product, the page still has a strong focus on that topic. You need that baby headbands category page, and of course, you don't want to wipe all focus from your home page, so there's not a whole lot you can do here.
Some things you might try:
- update your home page meta data to focus on your brand and overall category (baby accessories maybe? sorry, not too familiar with your niche)
- move the content at the bottom of your category page above the fold
- in your home page paragraph, use 'baby headbands' as anchor text linking to the category page
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RE: 2 pages ranking for same keyword.. Need some advice on what to do.
Hey Tiffiny,
Typically your homepage is going to have much stronger PA than any other page, which means more pull on search engine algorithms. If your site started out selling baby headbands, chances are that was (and may still primarily be) the focus of content on your home page.Shifting algorithm focus to another page can be a lengthy and difficult process!
You've probably also got some links pointing to your home page with 'baby headband' anchor text - or variations on that - which is also contributing to your home page out-ranking your headband-specific page. As a whole, regardless of anchor text, you probably also have more links pointing to the home page.
I wouldn't worry too much about it though, if you've got 2 organic results for that keyword, you're even more likely to get the click!
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RE: Translated version of meta description showing in SERPs
Hi Jarred,
Issues like this are usually connected to hrefang tag. I noticed you've got those in place, but the country element is missing. Try updating your American (.com) and French (.fr) hreflang tags to the following:
The additional specificity might be what you need to override that mistake by Google and get your meta descriptions back to normal. Hopefully this works, as I didn't see anything else on either TLD that would cause this.
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RE: Domain Authority
That's definitely long enough for search engines (and Moz DA) to notice and react accordingly. Best of luck to you in your climb back up!