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Hi Andy,

When you click on the menu link it does indeed scroll down to that part of the website. However, when you scroll up the page onto a different section the URL stays the same. The title tags and meta descriptions are the same across the site no matter what page you are on.

Cheers

Hi Andy

Wouldn't this cause issues with duplicate content as you have got the same content on several URLs? So basically the URL for the homepage has all the content on it and then when you click on a link on the main nav it is the exact same content on a different URL?

Thanks

Hi,

Are there any implications of having a parallax website and the URL not changing as you scroll down the page? So basically the whole site is under the same URL? However, when you click on the menu the URL does change?

Cheers

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all doing well.

If a company owns several different websites that are supposed to be different brands but are part of the same niche/sector is it OK to link between them? Or would this be seen as violation?

Thanks

Hi,

I am concerned that our website's rankings are currently being affected by KW cannibalisation. We don't rank too badly for our target keywords but they could, of course, be better, especially as the niche is very competitive!

One thing that is bothering me is that our internal pages do not rank well for these KWs and instead it is the homepage appearing in the rankings. This is despite the fact that the internal pages are optimised for the different keywords. Basically the HP is also targeting these same keywords and I was wondering if this is affecting our rankings overall?

I am not keen to risk changing the homepage in case our rankings suffer massively and we drop out of Google completely. If anyone could offer some advice then that would be great.

Is it simply a case of trying to get external links pointing to these internal pages? Would internal linking to them prove effective as well?

Cheers

Tom

Cheers Patrick!

Hi,

Hope you are all well.

On our website we have a 'blog' and a 'news' section.

The blog is located on "/blog" - but when you click on a post the url structure changes to /name-of-article and the blog subdomain isn't included.

Would it be better to have "blog/name-of-article as this would then make the blog perform better in search results?

Also, if our news page is under /news - but when you click on an article it changes to /news-article/name-of-article

Wouldn't it be better to have /news/name-of-article

Thanks a lot!!

Thank you ever so much, you've all been really helpful. Thanks a lot!!

Hi,

I was wondering exactly when duplicate content is duplicate content? Is it always when it is word-for-word or if it is similar? For example, we currently have an information page and I would like to add a FAQ to the website. There is, however, a crossover with the content and some of it is repeated. However, it is not written word for word. Could you please advise me?

Thanks a lot

Tom

Hi Lewis,

That's is what I am thinking too. However, I am merely interested in this in terms of an effect on SEO.

Cheers

Hi guys,

Hope you are all doing well today.

I have a questions with regards to our blog URL structure.

The URL for the blog is /blog - however when you click on a blog post the "/blog" disappears completely and is replaced by the title of the post. So it is ".com/title-of-post" for example.

Would it be better to keep the blog subdomain in the URL so it is ".com/blog/title-of-article"

Any insight would be appreciated. My thoughts are that surely the second option above is ideal?

Thanks

Tom

I was wondering how important it was to remove/disavow:

1. NoFollow backlinks - many ("buy viagra" etc).
2. Directory backlinks - many questionable/generic directories.

Obviously the focus is the equity passing links but both of the above constitute a significant proportion of backlinks to the site - I've seen that "scrapers" are seen as natural and obviously NoFollow do not pass link juice - but does the sheer number have a bearing and therefore make them equally important to address?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Regards

Thanks MiriamEllis

Very helpful.

Bump

The content is unique although it does follow the same template of having information about the area and the local market - the phone number is not unique to the location however. The call-to-action paragraph is also roughly the same for each page as-well.

Cheers

Hi there,

I was wanting to know the value of local pages for a service company that operates nationally. They do not have a phone number or address, but they do maintain employees in each of the locations and are thus, keen to emphasize this fact with location pages. The location pages merely explain that they have staff in each of the locations and experience working there, alongside a variety of information that is relevant to the industry/market in that location.

None of the location pages are currently ranking well at all - in fact, all of the ones I've looked at so far have had a page authority of 1. Most of the major towns, cities and counties for the entire UK have been covered which means the location pages constitute a significant proportion of all of the pages for the entire site.

My questions are:

1. Is a national service company likely to benefit from having location pages?
2. And could it even be something they could be penalised for at some point down the line?

Thanks very much, in advance, for your time.

Kind Regards,

Tom