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Ops, I made a mistake in the first link - here is is: www.krydsord.dk

Thanks - and good day!

Hi all,

It has been a while since I have been in this forum, but that's normally a great sign

Anyway these days I'm work on a "face-lift" on a couple of my sites (www.krydsord.dk, www.bingoforum.dk and www.alutagrender.dk), but also this face-lift should be more than just that. Hopefully it will help the usability to be better, and as a result of that - I hope it will make it easier for my visitors to easily find what they are looking for.

The question is: I would like to ad, say, 25 words of description (mouse-over) in my top menu buttons.

Why? Because, I believe that it's a possible problem that the menu just says "krydsord" (crosswords) in stead of a describing text saying something about "Push this button and you will see a complete list of all the cross words on Krydsord.dk). This way, I get the chance to add more text (for the Search Engines) and to guide my visitors in a way that I'm not capable of with the limitations my top menus give me as they are at this moment.

Naturally, my visitors should be able to easily decline this "extra information", once they have got it once.

Is this completely way off, or do you like the idea? More specifically: Will this be annoying for the visitors, will it have any positive effect on SEO matters?

Actually I got partly inspired during a SEOmoz webinar (http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/designing-for-seo), even though it's not exactly what they are talking about in thwe webinar. For anybody who are curious (or just need to kill some time), you can have a look from 19:00 and watch it for about two minutes.

Thanks a lot!

Nicolai

Hi Maximise,

Thanks a lot for your reply and help. I will get the links removed right away. I'm planing to ask our international partners only to link from the home page - do you think that will do the job (if the links from the flags are the reason for the penalty)?

Thanks a lot - your help is deeply appreciated

Nicolai

Hi Seomoz,

I have been strugling to get www.texaspoker.dk out of what seems to be a keyword specific penalty (we are on page 5 on "poker" and "online poker").

First I thought it was Penguin related, but I'm not so sure any longer. I have removed all the bad links to my site possible (it's not easy to get other people to remove links, I can tell you), and I have reported all the links that I would like google to "ignore" (reconsideration request) ... all in all I have requested for reconsideration 5 times, and - despite some small changes - I got the same answer every time.

We violate the quality guide lines and we should be looking for unnatural links pointing to our site.

If any one - by having a look at our site - have any idea what could be wrong, please don't hold back, we would love to hear your point of view.

Right now we are in the middle of making our partners take off their site wide links to us (the partners you'll find if you click the flags to the right in the top of the home page). On Texaspoker.dk we only link to the partners from the home page, but maybe we should consider to take of even these links? No one is really clicking on them anyway.

Another thing, which is only under consideration, is to ask our partners from Betxpert.com (with whom we have exchanged our news feed - you will find their feed if you schroll down the home page) to set the feed to "no follow" and do the same our selves. What do you think of this thought?

As far as I can see, there is nothing wrong with the on page optimization, but maybe some one can see what I don't see?

Again - what ever thoughts you guys may have - shoot ... i'm ready to take all bulets

Thanks in advance!

Nicolai, Texaspoker.dk

Hi there,

I have a strange problem concerning how the search results for my site appears in Google. The site is Texaspoker.dk and for some strange reason that name is appended at the end of the page title when I search for it in Google. The site name is not added to the page titles on the site.

If I search in Google.dk (the relevant search engine for the country I am targeting) for "Unibet Fast Poker" I get the following page title displayed in the search results: Unibet Fast Poker starter i dag - få €10 og prøv ... - Texaspoker.dk

If you visit the actual page you can see that there is no site name added to the page title: http://www.texaspoker.dk/unibet-fast-poker

It looks like it is only being appended to the pages that contains rich snippets markup and not he forum threads where the rich snippets for some reason doesn't work.

If I do a search for "Afstemning: Foretrukne TOPS Events" the title appears as it should without the site name being added: Afstemning: Foretrukne TOPS Events

Anybody have any experience regarding this or an idea to why this is happening?

Maybe the rich snippets are automatically pulling the publisher name from my Google+ account...

edited:

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with rich snippets, if I search for "Billeder og stuff v.2" the site name is also appended and if I search for "bedste poker bonus" the site name is not.

Hi there,

Does anyone have any experience with leverage browser caching on Nginx?

Every time I run the pagespeed test from Google my site comes up with this as a high priority issue that needs to be addressed.

I can see that it is mostly images that doesn't have an expiry date and tried putting the following into my conf file:

location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
expires max;
}

But this results in breaking my page off and all elements where out of place and missing images.

Also tried excluding css and js but hen all images where still missing.

My site is running on Drupal and I use APC for PHP to increase the load time on the site.

Hope somebody might be able to help me out.

From what I have read, I don't disagree. We have always (until very recently) been focusing solely on "honest" links (links that real people actually make on their site or in a forum), in comparison to "links that you build" / pay for / do something to get - that philosophy (or lack of philosophy, one might say) has changed, and slowly we are starting to get (build) better and more links.

To be honest, I'm not sure if your reply answered my question: Why has our competitor such a weak score on the "sub domain metric" and does this matter (at all)?

Or put in another way, the question simply is: does it make any sense to spend time on wondering about this?

Hi, and thanks for your answer - you are right about that, yes. When you look at the example shown in my initial post, what do you think about those two site-profiles. Does it tell whether one of the sites is in "good" or "bad" shape, does it really not say anything, etc.? Also: Is it important to beat your competitor on the "sub domain metrics", or does this question really not make much sense to ask?

Any one who has an opinion about this?

Hi again,

I managed to fix it for the frontpage using the folowing PHP code:

if(isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])){

$get_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if($get_uri!="/"){ $url = "/"; header('Location: ' . $url, true, 301);

}

}

?>

Hi @SEOConsult,

Will the .htaccess fix you mentioned affect other paginated pages on our site?

Hi Marcus,

Thank you very much for your thorough reply.

Here is an example I stumbled upon which use hidden div's: http://www.fork-cms.com/

I will look into hiding content for mobile devices using scripting but since you say that it wont harm my SEO I might just go with the easy solution and hide the div's in the css files.

Thanks again!

Hi all,

As I'm doing an analysis on our site and our main competitor (both sites are quite big, with active forums), who is much larger than we are, I have found out that :

1. Our site has the strongest domain authority: 34, competitor: 33.

2. Competitor beats us on 6 out of 8 areas in the sub categories for the "domain authority" category

3. We beat our competitor in 8 out of 8 sub categories for the category "sub domain metrics"

Now, as the title for this question suggests, I would like to hear what your thoughts is on this. Remember that our competitor is way bigger than us - how can they do so bad on the sub domain metrics, compared to us (and everybody else, I guess)?

What are your thoughts on this?

Please be aware that the domain shown to the left in the screen shot is our competitor.

Thanks a lot - all comments are very much appreciated!

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Hey Marcus

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.
Seems like there isn't any downside to use responsive webdesign.

However, I noticed a lot of responsive websites using hidden div's to hide certain parts of their websites in smaller resolutions.

From what I understand Google are not very happy about hidden div's, so I was wondering how it would react to a responsive website using hidden div's.

Would the page get crawled as it was original intended or will Google crawl the website using a lower resolution to simulate a mobile device?

Hope you, or anybody else for that matter, might have some input regarding this issue.

Hi guys,

Do any of you know about responsive web design? In short it's a method that ensures that your website adopts to the resolution on the users screen. The point is that you don't have to make a site for each format, it's all there in your overall design.

So, to the question: Does, to your knowledge, an integration of responsive web design harm your SEO?

I tried to search for "responsive we design + SEO" but I really didn't get any useful information.

Thanks a lot - all comments are very much appreciated.

Hi again,

Thanks a lot for your answer and the solution to fix the problem on the front page.

We use Nginx as web server software but we can setup the .htaccess stuff in the .conf file. However we have other paginated pages on our site. Will the above mentioned solution affect all paginated pages on our site?

Hi Istvan,

Thank you very much - take your time It's deeply appreciated.

Hi Rob / Istvan,

@ Rob, I hope you don't mind that I "steal" your thread, that's not my intention. I have what seems to be the exact same problem as you (as described in this threat), and I can't seem to find a solution for it.

@Istvan - my CMS is Drupal, and I guess I have the exact same problem as Rob(?).

Again guys: Apologies for staling this thread, I hope it's ok. I just saw it and was very happy to find not only the question written by Rob, but also someone who seems to have an idea of what to do about it.

Thanks in advance, and good day both of you.

Nicolai

Hi again,

Thanks for your advice - the thing is that this is what I have already tried. The problem here is that the site apparently allows one to write: http://www.texaspoker.dk/?page=3
http://www.texaspoker.dk/?page=4
etc.

Do you - or anybody else - have an idea how I can stop this?

Thanks a lot, your advice is very much appreciated.

Both of you: Thank you very much! I tagged this question as "good answer" as I believe I got my answer. What about you Pedro?

Great article by Dr. Pete, by the way - thanks for sharing!

Hi SEOConsult,

Thanks a lot for the answer. I will try to get some of the links removed, as they are not all "necessary."

This being said, I still believe that it's a problem for my site that there are access to two different homepages (?):

http://www.texaspoker.dk

and:

http://www.texaspoker.dk/?page=2

Thanks a lot, all suggestions are very much appreciated.

Hello all,

I have a problem related to "canonical issues" that I would like to get your view on:

The issue:

Our site: http://www.texaspoker.dk/ has a "canonical issue" with the home page.

We added a redirect to www.texaspoker.dk, but this hasn't solved our problem.

In the latest "too many on page links" analysis made with SEOmoz' exelent SEO tool, we get the following error:

http://www.texaspoker.dk(101 on page links)

http://www.texaspoker.dk/?page=2 (on page links)

So, made simple, the analysis tells us that both http://www.texaspoker.dk and http://www.texaspoker.dk/?page=2 has too many on page links. How do I eliminate / remove the unwanted http://www.texaspoker.dk/?page=2 and how did it, in the first place, get there?

Thanks a lot!

Hi Pedro,

Thank you very much for your answer. I have been thinking of the very same as you say: "Maybe it's not updated yet" - but I just think it's strange if the tool has a "memory", since the analysis is made from a complete new crawl ....

Hi Seomoz - first of all, thanks for the best SEO tools I have ever worked with (this is my first question in this forum, and also I just subscribed as a paying customer after the 30 days trial you guys offer).

My question:

After having worked for several weeks on getting the numbers of links in our forum on www.texaspoker.dk down, we are somewhat surprised to see that we didn't succeed in getting lower numbers.

For instance, this page: http://www.texaspoker.dk/forum/aktuelle-konkurrencer/coaching-projekt-bliver-du-den-udvalgte has (that's what Seomoz seo tool tells us): 239 on page links. Can this really be true? We can't find these links, and we actuually did a lot to lower the numbers of links, for instance the forum members picture was a link before, and also there was a "go to top" link in each post in the forum.

Thanks a lot.

You are not the only one - same here.