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Paul78

Hi Ryan,

Regarding directories, this is an interesting one as you hear time and time again that directories are worthless, so I thought I would do an experiment some keywords.

The experiment was targeting directories in my niche with 5 keywords which were not very competitive, however still had exact monthly searches ranging from 1000 - 3500.

Over a 3 month period I saw SERPs increase for all keywords:

Keyword 1 - Went from position 18 to 3

Keyword 2 - Went from position 9 to 3

Keyword 3 - Went from position 4 to 2

Keyword 4 - Went from position 9 to 6

keyword 5 - Went from position 9 to 6

For me this shows that directories can still work for you.

Paul78

Hi Everyone,

Hope you can help me out.

We have customer reviews on our product pages and are also ranking highly for those keywords for those product pages.

To improve our CTR for those keywords I think to show those reviews with organic results using rich snippets would be a good way of improving CTR.

I have asked my programmer to integrate this, which he came back and said after the rich snippets have been integrated we then have to ask Google to integrate it in their search results, is this true?

I hope this makes sense.

Kind Regards

Paul78

Hi Ryan / Ramp,

Yes, I think so also, and watching that video from Matt Cutts confirmed that, it just makes sense plus it looks nice

So /conditions/allergies/food/ it is, now i can concentrate on producing great content.

Thanks again

Paul78

Hi there,

We have a .co.uk website which has been up and running for the past 5 years now and we have now decided because we have a big market in Ireland .ie we want to have a .ie website, the question is, is it ok just to replicate the .co.uk for the .ie website?

Are there duplication issues?

Kind Regards,

Paul78

Hi Everyone,

Hope you can help me out here.

I have .co.uk & .ie website with similar content. On a particular section of the .co.uk website it is updated daily (Q&As, Blog posts etc) .ie does have this section but to a lesser degree, no daily updates etc, I was wondering if we should simply do a 301 redirect when someone is on the .ie website to .co.uk, it means the user is getting a much better experience however not entirely the consequences from search engines on this?

Thanks

Paul78

I have just ran a report on SEOMOZ and it's came back saying I have over 1000 pages on my website with duplicate content, I thought wow that's not good, however when I looked at the report it was counting duplicate content because I have used more than one tag on a blog post, for example the blog post:

www.example.com/blog-post/

Has the tags

example 1

example 2

example 3

Meaning I have these URLs

www.example.com/blog/tag/example-1

www.example.com/blog/tag/example-2

www.example.com/blog/tag/example-3

All 3 URLs above have the same content as www.example.com/blog-post/ because of the tags, is this a problem?

Thanks