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Hello,

We have an encyclopedia type page on our e-commerce site. Basically, it's a page with a list of terms related to our niche, product definitions, slang terms, etc.

The terms on the encyclopedia page are each linked to their own page that contains the term and a very short definition (about 1-2 sentences).

The purpose of these is to link them on product pages if a product has a feature or function that may be new to our customers.

We have about 82 of these pages. Are these pages more likely to help us because they're providing information to visitors, or are they likely to hurt us because of the very small amount of content on each page?

Thanks for the help!

Paul,

Makes perfect sense. Thank you for the clear answer and explanation!

Hello!

When I check our website's critical crawler issues with Moz Site Crawler, I'm seeing over 1000 pages with a 4xx error.

All of the pages that are showing to have a 4xx error appear to be the brand and product pages we have on our website, but with /URL at the end of each permalink.

For example, we have a page on our site for a brand called Davinci. The URL is https://kannakart.com/davinci/. In the site crawler, I'm seeing the 4xx for this URL: https://kannakart.com/davinci/URL.

Could this be a plugin on our site that is generating these URLs? If they're going to be an issue, I'd like to remove them. However, I'm not sure exactly where to begin.

Thanks in advance for the help,

-Andrew

In addition to the other recommendations, I would advise you to have the business owner leave a response to the bad review.

1. It shows that the business is active.

2. If the customers that left the review happens to be real, it could potentially mend that relationship.

3. It could lessen the concerns of any potential customers who see the bad review and are put off by it.

-Andrew

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the clarification.

I've attached links to two images. I see the link listed as an unlinked message when I use Open Site Explorer. When I view the metrics in the campaign, it says there all mentions are linked.

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Hey all,

Recently got a PR piece published with a link back to our website. The link was not showing up in the Moz crawler, but I did find it under unlinked mentions.

When I checked the page with the link, I saw that it contained rel="noopener".

So a couple questions:

1. Is this similar to a nofollow link?

2. If the Moz Crawler is not registering it as a dofollow link, does that mean that Google will view it similarly?

Thanks!

Hey all,

Quick question about taxonomies and sitemap settings.

On our e-commerce site, we noindex product tags and post tags. Under the "Taxonomies" settings in Yoast I'm seeing taxonomies such as Product Color (pa_color).

Would it be wise to remove such taxonomies from our sitemap if we already include product colors, attributes, etc. in our page titles and product descriptions?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

This is an old question but I'll share my experiences.

I majored in marketing myself and landed in an SEO position right after graduation. I think the marketing background has improved my writing and sales tactics, and I've seen advertising/PR majors who get into SEO/PPC and are very successful.

I do wish I had some more experience with programming and coding when I started which is something I've had to teach myself on the fly. If you have a thorough understanding of HTML, CSS, PHP and are able to master the technical side of it then you're already a step ahead. It'll make your life so much easier, especially if you're dealing with a large ecommerce site that is going to need changes somewhat regularly. You'll be spending 15 minutes making a change instead of an hour and have more time for content and UX.

As you said, as long as you're adding value then there's no harm in seeking links. As always just make sure they're relevant to your space.

Link building is still a ranking factor so if you're getting a ranking increase on top of clicks and awareness why not actively seek links?

Thanks for the links Jason.

All good answers. Thank you Miriam. Definitely cleared things up a bit.

Hey all,

If a business operates in one city but works with associated organizations across multiple regions how would this impact a local SEO campaign?

For example, a transportation company is located in Texas but services the Northwest and New England by outsourcing to smaller transportation companies in each of those regions. Would it be wise to create pages for each region they service on their website and then break that down in further into specific cities?

Also, would it be worth targeting local search terms even though specific cities are serviced by the associated organizations and not the parent company itself?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

Do you have traffic data for any of these pages? If they're landing pages and garner clicks then obviously you'll want to keep them indexed.

The revenue you're receiving from these pages could be due to users navigating to them from brand pages, product categories, menus, or it could be cross-selling, etc.

I would say consolidate as many as you can for UX purposes so a customer doesn't have to click off of the page for another color or size.