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Hello,

I use to move up my site structure with links in content. I have now installed breadcrumbs, is it is useful to still keep the links in content or isn't there a need to duplicate those links ? and are the breadcrumbs links enough.

Thank you,

Ok good to hear.

By the way between a menu anchor text and an anchor text in content further down the page both linking to the same page the which one is google going to use ?

I know it uses the 1 st one it see but is the menu not really "considered" by google...https://www.seroundtable.com/google-footer-sitewide-links-weight-21540.html  isn't it best to have one link in addition to the menu if the menu is not given much value...

Thank you for clearing everything out. I will give it a try.

So having both would be best ? wouldn't it ?

From what I understand if I only have in content links the search engine won't understand the structure of the the website or will it understand it ?

Hello,

I have a top menu coded this way with an (it is automatic with my wordpress template).

1. Can google read pass the juice and read the anchor text with this type of code or no ?

<nav id="top-menu-nav">

• myanchortext

</nav>

Hello,

On my website I have button coded this way (it is automatic in my wordpress template)

Can google pass PR and anchor text thru that or would a basic text link be better ?

Hi,

I remember reading that links within the text have more value than breadcrumbs links for example because in context links are surrounded by the right content (words) but google search engine optimisation starter guide says breadcrumbs are good, so which one is recommended ? Thank you,

Hello,

I just redid my website and suddenly saw a spike in the crawl rate for about 2 weeks and I am now back to where I was on average. Is it normal ? My guess it that this increase was due to the change in site and new links ? However,I just want to make sure it is normal that it is back to a "normal rate" now that it has discovered all the links.

Thank you,

Hi Nigel,

Thank you for your reply. So in other words, it is better to have a menu link and text link than just a menu link because apparently the architecture is understood better thru text than menu links correct ?

That is true Joe. I forgot about that. So it can have the most links and not carry any weight...

Hello,

I have my most important pages in my menu. Those pages are present on all my pages because they are on the menu. Are those pages considered to be linking between each other because they are in the menu or should I create links between those pages in my text if I want them to link with each other ?

I have also heard they aren't given much weight but when I go in my webmaster tools it says that it is the most linked page of my website so I really wonder how it can less weighted if google webmaster tools give such a strong signal to it ?

Hello,

I am wondering if having my privacy policy page at the bottom of my site (meaning being linked from every page on my site) can hurt me in terms of flow of juice ?

That answers my question. Thank you,

Hello,

I was trying the keyword explore and got some questions :

I first used it with all the search terms for the keyword "italy bike tours" and came across terms like this one

"tuscany bike tours florence italy"

1. Does it mean I have to include this exact expression in my content or do I just need to include somewhere in my content the words tuscany and florence ?

Then I did the same search but this time with closely related keywords and the keyword explorer give me the word

"pasticceria" or "tirrenia" are being closely related to the keyword italy bike ...

1. How does the keyword explorer find those words because I don't see how those can be related...

If someone could explain that would be awesome.

Thank you,

If I have a button on a page that you click to get to another page instead of text link, can google follow that ?

Hello,

Just wondering google follows on clicks links (links create in a nice button)  and anchor text.

Thank you,

Good to know, I will try all your suggestions. Thank you,

Thank you for the information, I will start working on that.

Thank you,

So not much than i can do other than getting links that my France page, I guess ... or ask the the links that go to my page with the anchor text bike tours in France or similar to go my France page, correct ?

Thank you for the suggestions. I have used related searches and the keyword planner my self and I have noticed it work but not for every keyword.

Usually what I do I remove all the expressions with my keyword in it and usually find other expression to include...

By the way when you give the examples of "burgundy by bike" or "bicycle touring in Burgundy".

Does the expression need to be the way you write it and can the words be separated through the text ?

Thank you

Hello,

I have an issue with one my pages. I have a page about "Bike tours in France+ exclusively that has been existing for almost 8 years. Since day 1 I changed the web address a few times but I have the necessary redirect (actually only 1).

I can't find this page  (pretty much since day 1) on the keyword "Bike tours France" and I am wondering why ?

However, I can find my homepage rank on "Bike tours France" even though it doesn't only talk about "Bike tours in France" instead of my page which is only about "Bike tours in France". I am wondering why only my homepage shows and not the other one. For information, I have about 30 % of my external links that say Bike tours France and that go to my homepage because when I started my website I was only doing "Bike tours in France"

Could google say we don't care about your page about "Bike tours in France" because you got so many links to your page with the keywords "Bike tours France" and could it be why I don't see it rank. However, it is index but doesn't show up in search results ?

Or could it be the fact that made many content changes over the years on this page and that google is saying I will rank you but it will take years because of so many changes.

What can I do to make my page about "Bike tours in France" appear in search results for the keyword "Bike tours in France".

Thank you,

Hello,

I checked moz content suggestions and for one of my keywords “Burgundy bike tours”. It gives me expressions such as “Burgundy France” and “Burgundy wine”.

My question is whether I should include the exact expression “Burgundy wine” in a sentence or if include burgundy somewhere in my text and wine somewhere else if it is fine ?

PS : What is the real difference between marketmuse and moz ? and why do they sometimes give different suggestions ?

Ok that is good to know, I will wait and see if this is what happens.

Thank you,

I am considering js it because I am afraid that PR leaks thru it ... should I be ?

Thank you for the information.

My homepage was at the same spot. So, should I expect an increase in ranking for my homepage and blog pages in the next few weeks ?

That appears on the top of my website ?

Hello,

I have noticed that if publishe a webpage that google has never seen it ranks right away and usually in a descend position to start with (not great but descend). Usually top 30 to 50 and then over the months it slowly climbs up the rankings.

However, if my page has been existing for let's say 3 years and I make changes to it, it takes much longer to climb up the rankings

Has someone noticed that too ? and why is that ?

Hello,

I have my homepage that has been existing for 10 years that is ranked in 18 th position on google for the keyword luxury bike tours. This homepage doesn't have any external link or internal links saying luxury bike tours and nowhere in the title or on the page do I have the word luxury. I only have the words bike and tours.

I created a blog page 24 hours ago that has the word luxury, bike and tours in the title and it is ranked in 19 th position just behind my homepage.

I am wondering how it can be there and my homepage just be one spot above with all the history and linking it has ?

Is it due to the fact that I have the word luxury in the title ? Is it just because my internal linking structure is correct and this blog page is brand new and will my homepage rank higher in the near future but see that I just redid the structure I need to wait a few months ?

Thank you for your quick and detailed reply. It confirms what I thought.

Thank you for you detailed reply. I agree with you but those are thing that you only do once you are ranked on the 1 st page and want to decrease your bounce rate and increase your user engagement on the page. I know I could do it right away but would rather wait to see where I rank 1 st.

Hello,

I was watching a whiteboard friday saying the more comprehensive your content is the better you will rank,.. but I don't entirely agree with that because to me it means that in order to beat your competitor you need to write more than they do (or answer questions that people are asking typing this query), that doesn't sound right, does it ?

For example it means that for a query like "Italy bike tours" if you have on your page just the name of the different destinations your offer and your competitor has more destinations + the price of the trip listed and the level or each trip, he will rank in front of you ? I have a major doubt on that but maybe I am wrong...

My guess is that in an imaginary world where your page has the the same exact PR as your competitor if you are more comprehensive you will rank higher but only is that case, isn't it ?

Thank you,

Hello,

I am in the travel industry and I am currently building the same website (different domain names), one for the US and one for the UK (same website design). They will both features the same content (itinerary, activities) on the page with 2 exception, the 1 st one is that I will use different hotels for my uk clientele and for my US clientele and on the UK page I will use the word "holiday" in the UK and the word "vacation" in the US.

Can the fact that I do the same "itineraries" and use the same text on 95 % of the page hurt my ranking in one country or another ?

Thank you,

Is it possible and recommended to host a website in Switzerland ending in.com to rank in the United States ?

Or is it better to host it in the country you are targeting ? I know in WMT you can choose the country you want to target but is it as efficient as hosting it on a server located in the country ?

Thanks,

Thank you for all your help, this answers my questions.

Thank you Chris for your detailed reply. This confirms what I thought.

I just have one more 2 more questions.

1. Concerning the delay, once my page is indexed and ranked is it the final ranking that I see right after the page was index  (not taking potential future links and social shares into account) or is there a 2 to 3 months delay and the rankings climb slowly overtime ?

2. In terms of images, can google detect if I use tock images or my own images ? Is one better than the other ?

Thank you,

Hi,

If I use a template that maybe 50 other websites use but customise it my way will I still rank or will it hurt my ranking because other websites have the same template (even though they are in a different industry).

Thanks,

Thank your your replies but isn't a exact match domain more powerful than a domain with links and history ?

Hello everyone,

I have between reading a lot, watching a lot of video from Rand also been trying many things in  terms of SEO over the last 10 years. I am starting to come to the conclusion that the number one solution to rank is to satisfy the user and give the user an amazing experience.But what does amazing user experience and unique value really mean ? I can’t seem to get a straight answer or example.

I am in the travel industry and I sell bicycle tours. I have tried to write amazing content but I guess I am like 99 % of us on the planet I don’t know how to write … It never changed my ranking whatever I wrote.

I tried to talk to the visitors like google mentioned and not about the features of my product, get a unique selling proposition etc… but so far nothing worked… ( I am currently doing one test and waiting to see if anything changes but so far the content has been indexed quickly with the webmaster tools and no changes after 2 weeks ? Is there a a longer delay once indexed, I don’t know maybe someone can shed some light on that ? I don’t believe so but maybe I am wrong.

Getting back to user experience. From what I understand it needs to answer the questions people have in a unique way. Let’s take the bicycle tours for example. I you type bike tours all my competitors already do what I want to do, which means they present either all their tours on the page or have you select a tour by level, by country, by region, by type, by price, by date etc…

How I can beat them and do better than them, that is what I don’t understand ? I feel like there only a limited number of ways to present a product ?

I conclusion, how can I bring more value to my user, if I have them search a bike tour by level or country, I have the same thing as my competitors  I don’t bring more value do I ? or does bringing value means designing it in a different way ?  If so unless you have a team of graphic designers how can you do that (is the color of a button, the shape of it, the images you have ,the size of your font going to make google tick ? or is it adding information ( to me this 2 nd option not a solution because that means to rank in the future you will need to add more info that your competitors ) ?

If anyone could give me some advice or examples on how they do it that would be great because as off today, the user experience thing and unique value is not clear.

Hello Everyone

I am not new to SEO but new to the forum  !

I am in the travel business selling high end bicycle trips to the US market. I am about to expand my business and sell cheaper bicycle trips to the European market.

1. My company has a got a name in the industry as well as some amazing reviews on google + and other forums. My 1 st question, would you use a totally different domain name see that is a different market and different prices or would you use the same domain name ? If you were to use the same domain would you do fr.mydomain.com or www.mydomain.com/fr.

2. In terms of web domain, is exact match domain still powerful ? My current domain name is not an exact match domain and surfing the web, I feel like it still gives you a major advantage in 2016 ?

3. If I choose an exact match domain, I noticed I can get  www.mydomain.travel or www.mydomain.bike or get a domain for the country I am targeting www.mydomain.co.uk. Do you have advice on which domain is easier to rank ? or doesn't it change anything ?

Is removing the / image /  better in terms of SEO bercause of the lat tags etc... or just people to find my website via the images ?

Hello,

I use joomla for my website and automatically all those files are blocked is that good or bad, so I remove anything and if so why ?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/

I also added to my robots.txt files my email address ( is that useful, I am afraid google passes PR to the email address  )
and a javascript: void (0) because I have tabs on my webpage  ( is that useful )
as well as a .pdf ( is it also useful )

any comments ? does anything need to be changed or is it ok ?

Thank you,

When I create internal links on my website should I use the keyword or at least a related keyword ( synonym ) every time...

I am asking because on my website it is hard to create links from one sub section to another subsection linking with a anchor text that relates to the other category.

For example in the travel industry it is hard to have a page that talks about Florida and on the page find a way to link the keywords, California , NY and Missouri ( other than listing those next to each other ... ) as they do not belong to my content about Florida but are all different states listed in my " states category "

If I link the words next to each other in the page Florida, such as "you should also check California, NY, Missouri etc... " does it carry any value doing that or does it need to be surrounded by text that is related  ?

Or is it better to list it in a menu on the right or left side on my page ? ( which one caries more value )

Or if I have the word beach in my Florida page and link it to California is it better even though the user doesn't know what he or she is going to find by clicking on beach ?

Thank you,

I have a newsletter module on my website on many of my website and was wondering if google boot see this module a a link or no ?

I noticed this module has its own website that google has when I do site : mywebsite.com

Thank you,

I just used the PR formula for google and noticed that I when I cross link between my categories which are on the same level the juice / PR  of my homepage diminishes...

Is there s way to boast the sub pages and the the homepage at the same time or has google put together some algorithm that does this that I do not know about ?

Hello, Just wondering how google treats the TOp and bottom menu that you see on each page of a website ?

Does it count it on all the pages in terms of link juice, or is it just there for user experience and only what it counts are the links in the content of a page or on the side ?

Thank you,

Davinina,

Thank you for your reply. One more thing, I am trying to understand what you mean when you say " have these links as part of the navigation, or a sub-navigation "  and " a navigation that includes all of the links "

I am not sure I understand the difference, could you give me an example because to me this is exactly the same...

Thank you,

On a website when I link across in the same category should all the categories all pear on each page.

Let's say I have 6 categories and 6 pages should I have the 6 links on all the pages ( such as A, B, C, D, E, on page 1 ( let's imagine this page is page F ), then on page A have link B, C D, E, F and so on for the 6 pages ( meaning all the links appear on all the pages across the category )

or should i just have let's say 3 links on page 1 ( link A, B, C ) , then link ( D, E, F ) on page 2, then A, E, F on page 3, link B, C F on page 4 and so on... ( which means that i vary the links that appear and that it is naturally ( at least I think ) going to boost the link that appears the most of the 6 pages ?

I hope this is not too confusing,

Thank you,