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Hi Ethan,

Thanks for that. That looks pretty comprehensive. Have you implemented the Yoast modules? Has it had any decent impact?

Cheers

Nic

Definitely not a good start.... 'Are You Want To Seo Ranking'

Thanks Marcus,

Have been on to the dev guys re: Rel canonical.. It looks like Magento does have a config setting fro that which they missed. They are adamant about the navigation issue though which is a real bummer....although i would agree that it sounds more like they don't know how to do it.

Cheers

Nic

Hi Marcus,

The duplicate URL's is certainly one area of concern...as you say there are multiple paths to get to the same page. I did read somewhere that Google can cope with this issue as it understands how Magento works. Is that right?

One thing that really does bug me is that we have to create additional pages for products so we can get them to show in the side nav bar. The developers had issues trying to get the product pages to link from the navigation so we end up with a product info page e.g. http://www.nationwidepharmacies.co.uk/online-doctor/erectile-dysfunction/erectile-dysfunction-treatments/viagra/viagra-tablets.html and an extra page linking from the side nav http://www.nationwidepharmacies.co.uk/online-doctor/erectile-dysfunction/erectile-dysfunction-treatments/viagra.html which seems a bit labour intensive.

Nic

Hi All,

We have had a new site delivered by our developers (hurrah...the old one was to terrible for words) but we seem to be having a lot of issues with the new Magento platform. What they have done is used the community version and tried to customize it.

I came on to this project about a month into the build and although Magento does seem to do a lot things well there do seem to be some problems. From an SEO prespective we have seen some increase on some search terms and a drop of in others. I would be interested in hearing from other Magento users about their experiences with this platform and any ideas on how to crank up the activity. Our site is at www.nationwidepharmacies.co.uk . There are few odd bits including the side navigation which seems to be very clunky and not overly customizable in this version. Any useful criticism would also be well received.

Look forward to hearing

Nic

Hi,

We recently launched a new version of our site on the Magento platform. I submitted a new sitemap and on the first crawl only 7 pages out of 132 were indexed...a few days later and we now have 107 indexed (phew). My question is this....how on earth do i find out which pages are indexed and more importantly not indexed? For all i know they might be really important ones so I need to be able to identify the missing pages so i can work on getting them indexed.

Nic

Doh....so obvious about the hosting slash domain item. Many thanks for your help guys.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the feedback guys there was some interesting pointers there. I am going to look at setting up a WP blog as www.ourwebsite.com/blog. One thing that did confuse me was that someone mentioned that it should not be hosted in the same place as the site. Is that correct?

Hi All,

I need some pointers on setting up a blog for our new e-commerce site. The new site uses magento and is going live in a month or so. This is a bit of a learning experience for me as I have never set a company blog up before I am not sure of the do's and dont's. Any ideas will be very appreciated.

Cheers

Nic

Hi all,

We are looking at using some syndicated video content on our main category pages. We are an pharmacy and offer prescription medicines (Yes we are NHS registered and no we don't sell generic products). I want to use the videos to increase the UX for the category pages and increase stickiness......however i am a little worried about how Google will see this.

We don't have the time or budget to create our own videos but the rest of the content around them is all ours. The videos are provided by the NHS so they are good quality content and should add value to the consumer.

Will big G stiff us for doing this?

Thanks for the insight guys. I think I am resigned to the fact that doing this white hat is going to be a bit of a slow burner. It will be an interesting one to see grow though as the site is more or less a blank canvass in terms of link profile. Trying to figure out a good strategy to beat the spam sites  (and occasional authentic site) will be a good challenge.

Just started working on a new pharma based client in the UK. I have been carrying out some link profiling on page one results for several key terms and have discovered that almost all of the sites ranking in top positions appear to have all kinds of rubbish links (links in irrelevant content / articles, links in forum signatures, single page blogs and sites that appear to have little association with their products). These links seem to be about the only links some of them have yet they rank top!

It seems a very difficult prospect to build a decent white hat link profile if everyone else is STILL capitalizing on the sort of rubbish links that Google is supposed to be getting tough on. Are online pharmacies the world that Google forgot or is this a really common issue?

Working fine for me....only showing my pages