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Hello Chad,

Thanks for the detailed response. I really appreciate your point of view. At this point of time I am trying to take an offline medium of selling products and create the online store for it. The offline sales model is being converted to an online model and we would eventually only reply on the online sales model.

In india we set forth ahead with saas based hosting model - the problem is that I don't yet know what response is going to be like. We are going to be niche in our segment and not provide a host of goods to ur consumers unlike a regular e-commerce store.

The problems comes when I suddenly decide that since now am getting traction I would like to give a better overall experience to my users and then comes the bitter part of it.

So according to what you just suggested , I should then move ahead with one solution in mind and keep that constant throughout and rather make smaller changes there after.

Another issue is on the hosted environment I can never get back the design / codes etc only the data later on in csv values which is all the more useless.

That would be again a re-build of the entire store online if I decide to get my own open source system in place.

I would also like to ask whether an e-commernce store intended towards a niche segment should be based on some open source app like magento etc and go ahead since i dont have time , resource skills and financial help to build a custom one my self.?

At this point of time I certainly dont have the above hence the saas hosted model was the choice. Tomorrow I may have the revenue to offer a really expansive model and better experience to my end users what then?

This is really scary - can you suggest the best way out

Thanks

Aditya

Hello There,

I plan to launch my online store with products soon via one of the saas hosted based platforms like shopify &  bigcommerce.

The issue is am trying out to see how this works for us. But then simultaneously we would work towards seo efforts to bring in relevant traffic too.

Later once we grow and I decide to change the entire website based on custom design etc so that means again all the seo work has to be re-done?

How can I avoid this since I have already invested capital and time in building the current saas hosted website and its almost ready to roll out.

Can someone advice the best way forward and possibly a relevant solution

Thanks

Aditya

Hello All, Would like to understand the relation between selecting a domain name and the branding of ones organization.

Recently a friend came upto me and asked as to how he could select his domain name so that factors like seo visibility and uniqueness fall into place correctly. Is there some website which could permutate / combine few keywords and suggest domain names. Also help in deciding whether selecting that domain name would be advantegous over other or not.

Common names like cart , food, vacation etc if names formed keeping these in between as domain names could cause issues where in a lot of influential names could pop up on the searches and make your domain irrelavant.

Any ideas how to overcome this problem

Hello All,

I have seen few websites who have alternatively bought other domain names which relate to their industry or business and have redirected those names to their main domain name.

Is this practice good and legible? Does it hurt ones seo strategies or has anything to do with it?

Hello,

Is there a problem with seo bots etc to crawl and rank my wesbite well if the entire site is https enabled?

We have a sign in button which results on the next page being https along with the main homepage and all other pages are https enabled.

Any major setbacks to the seo strategies?

How do I overcome these issues?

Hello all,

My site www.practo.com has at least more than 500+ pages. Still seomoz says its only 23 crawled till date even after 8 -10 days of the trial period.

Now most of the pages on my site are in-site search pages. They appear when you search relevant terms with combinations etc.

Is that hindering the moz crawler to look for those pages?

Aditya

Hello all,

I would like to find better synonyms for my keywords, and dig deeper to bid / place strategy into place for them.

I am currently using the adwords too but it only gives me closely related keyword ideas.

Is there something "free" which can give me a better co-relation data to work with?

Thanks

Aditya

Thanks.

We would have specific urls for eg: www.practo.com/health/dental-clinic-jayangar

So Jayanagar becomes our Locality specific to Bangalore and then a Dental Clinic becomes a widely searched key term on the SERP.

You are also suggesting to base urls on local key terms searches? Say dental clinic koramangala has a good key term search result from the keyword tool - so here we could base our urls as /dental-clinic-koramangala?

Why not practo.com/health/dental/clinic/koramangala - is this an un-appropriate way of going about url structuring?

Hello,

We were rolling our fresh urls for our new service website.

Currently we have our structure as www.practo.com/health/dental/clinic/bangalore

We like to have it as www.practo.com/health/dental-clinic-bangalore

Can someone advice us better which one of the above structure would work out better and why?

Should this be a focus of attention while going ahead since this is like a search engine platform for patients looking out for actual doctors.

Thanks,

Aditya

Hi, We just build some of our new content pages on our website

1.https://www.practo.com/ray/dental-software

2.https://www.practo.com/ray/dermatology-software

3.https://www.practo.com/ray/homeopathy-software

Could someone explain how do I build around a good SEO strategy to compete with others for better positions on the SERP's. I have not done anything apart from fixing proper title tags , and meta descriptions etc and of course putting down relevant fresh content onto these pages.

These pages were published about 3 weeks ago - Only this url ranks on the 2nd page as of now for keywords like "dermatology software"

https://www.practo.com/ray/dermatology-software

The rest of the URL's do not rank anywhere till the 10th SERP too!

What could be wrong and where could I have the opportunity to boost the SEO tactics since all the pages which rank above it are just not providing the right kind of product as we are and still they take up the top positions and genuine users miss out on our domain.

Thanks . Looking forward to some awesome responses.

Sure so I did read that and somewhere microsites popped up - which left me wondering that for new product launch microsites are also good enough. So I wanted to clarify that .

On the other hand for all our open page content we are planning to use wordpress itself. - would this be the best way to go about it?

In my GA - I was very enthusiastic to know for a particular content landing page through what keywords did users land there? Is that possible if yes - then probably I don't know where to find it - I am looking under Content> Landing Pages

Thanks

Hi there.

I am worried a bit about static html pages or wordpress as an instance to write down open page content for our website.

We are a product based website - primarily Saas based product. But with time we have seen that if we write more content people will be able to find us better,.

Earlier our blog resided on blog.example.com now we are moving it to example.com/blog/

Issues - I really want to know that I need to generate lots of fresh content so I am using wordpress as the blog medium and content generation medium too. Basically the wordpress instance will be a content generated pages.

I can also have static html page based content but then our content writers will always have to take the help of develoeprs to publish it to our sites.

Whats the best way to go about this keeping SEO really crucial in mind?

Thanks for your time and help!

Hi Cyrus. Thanks for the revert. I would keep that in mind.

I am  going through a critical phase where maybe your understanding could help out.

Please see below -

We have our site www.practo.com (our 1st product site)

We have our blog as blog.practo.com

We plan to have our main site in a months time from now as www.ray.practo.com(this is a new product site ie: our second product

The Issues - I will then need to direct all my existing traffic from www.practo.com to www.ray.practo.com (since product on site one is moving to product site 2 - ie:ray.product.com

Keeping in mind SEO and also since I will be generating new content via our Wordpress instance what are the best ways to do this so that google does not have difficulty in find out content and we dont screw our SEO big time.

1. Would it be good if I put the Wordpress instance as ray.practo.com/ blog(wordpress instance comes in here in the directory) /  article-url

2.Would it be better with www.practo.com / ray(our new product's site) / blog/article-url

I am using wordpress to roll out all our new SEO based content on various keywords and topics for which we want traffice - primary reasons are since we needed a content generation cms platform so that we dont have to deal with html pages and every time publish those content pages via a developer. - I hope this is good for me?

Please guide accordingly.

Thanks for the time!

If people are actually clicking and moving to those landing pages via those urls then yes - please measure this seriously via GA - if you are not then you wont know.

Again have goals that what and where do these go after reaching those  pages or what actions do they peform there on and then measure the goals or events.

Hope this helps

Great - in our case we need open page content generation and cannot put wordpress in the root folder and start out of it. So I need to put it in the sub directory and then begin writing content.

I could of course change the name of that directory from blog to something else.

That reminds me have you also optimized the site above for some keywords in google? If I would want to check how these sites are ranking etc?

Would help me in the forthcoming wordpress site too.

Thanks

I'll do that right away.

Do you think that using wordpress primarily for content generation is the best idea out there dor SEO purposes.?

But someone who wants to generate open page content will have to use something or the other for that - any suggestions?

Actually we are building a new site and wanted to have it as:

www.ray.practo.com but then we also wish to push content on it so I planned to go ahead with a wordpress instance as

www.ray.practo.com/blog/article-url -  this doesnt seem good does it ?

Instead www.practo.com/ray could be it but then the new site will not get its share on the SEO.

Since www.practo.com and practo.com/ray would be totally different product websites catering to our customers and we would want the SEO to not get hampered under any costs.

I am really confused  here !

Also will wordpress be the best content building cms out there to push open page content around?

Thanks

Ah. But actually we need to migrate to a new sub site so we are doing it via ray.example.com as of now. Should we consider www.example.com/ray for SEO benefits?

But then my open page contents will come as www.example.com/ray/blog/article-urls - wont this hurt the SEO url's?

The wordpress instance is primarily going to be there for writing content so it becomes our open content pages on our site we will have urls as example.com/blog/article - urls - does this seem good for SEO content?

My blog as of now is designed same as my site. Already designed that well.

Thanks

Reviews would seldom be considered as a good point for bringing in link strategy.

Instead reviews on a facebook page or something like social media engagement would be much more beneficial.

Also you should keep in mind people talking about it instead of reviewing it would be better ways to consider link building.

We have our site www.practo.com

We have our blog as blog.practo.com

We plan to have our main site in a months time from now as www.ray.practo.com

The Issues - I will then need to direct all my existing traffic from www.practo.com to www.ray.practo.com

Keeping in mind SEO and also since I will be generating new content via our Wordpress instance what are the best ways to do this so that google does not have difficulty in find out content

1. Would it be good if I put the Wordpress instance as ray.practo.com/ blog(wordpress instance comes in here in the directory) /  article-url

2.Would it be better with www.practo.com / ray / blog/article-url

I am using wordpress to roll out all our new SEO based content on various keywords and topics for which we want traffice - primary reasons are since we needed a content generation cms platform so that we dont have to deal with html pages and every time publish those content pages via a developer.

Is the above - what soever I am planning to do in the correct manner keeping SEO in mind.

Any suggestions are welcome. I seriously need to know writing seo based content on wordpress instance and have them in the urls is that a good idea? Or is only html a good idea. But we need some cms to be there so that content writers can write content independently.

Please guide accordingly.

Thanks

Thanks.

I have issues with sorting out advanced segments in GA. I am selecting secondary dimension as keywords.

In the advanced segments I want to exclude the branded keyword of my firm called practo. Now I am excluding keyword containing practo still when I save this and see my result below I see practo in the secondary dimension:keyword.

I want to get only those keywords in GA through which users came in but those keywords should not contain the branded term "practo"

Anywhere I am going wrong with advanced segments?

what could be the correct way to do this.

Thanks

So here is the picture.

We are on blog.practo.com and have roughly about 25 posts on it. Also we have Traffic  Sources>All traffic> and I have a advanced segment where I am excluding the branded keyword of our firm" Practo" I see that very few organic searches have come in to the blog. That too not converting to anything.

What I tend to understand if I move it then will the google analytics considerably?

The issue in analytics I have is when I am excluding that keyword still in the  Secondary dimension: Keyword I can see the branded keyword which I excluded?

Can you help out why?

I read a couple of posts right here and they suggested that sub domains are still not give that much importance when you are looking at serious link building and working with content around keywords to compete in the search engine race..

Now I am confused. Since I was beginning to have this shifted and then start writing down my content all over again.

Can anyone suggest something which works better SEO wise . Sub domains or internal sub directories.

I have my blog at www.blog.practo.com and wish to shift it to practo.com/blog since from an SEO point of view I dont think having good content on blog.practo.com is going to help.

Without having to move the WP instance to /blog can I have all my urls directing as www.practo.com/blog/articles and still work to update the blog from www.blog.practo.com

Is this possible and advisible?

When you said long tail keywords -

I have recently begun with my content and keyword selections.

I used the Adword's keyword tool and for eg: got a few keywords like

laser skin treatment

dermatology

dermatologists

cosmetic laser surgery

The competition for these are low and medium. Now what I understand is. If I wish to use them in my articles on content generation I can have them as medium and long tail keywords to write around.

So for eg: laser skin treatment   = " Benefits of a laser skin treatment in India" and the url for this article could be /laser-skin-treatment

For dermatology = "best dermatology practices"  url could be** /dermatology-practices**

Do the above  happen to be the medium and long tail keywords? Am I going in the correct direction. How do I judge and come out with medium and long tail keywords. Please suggest

Thanks

I have recently begun with my content and keyword selections.

I used the Adword's keyword tool and for eg: got a few keywords like

laser skin treatment

dermatology

dermatologists

cosmetic laser surgery

The competition for these are low and medium. Now what I understand is. If I wish to use them in my articles on content generation I can have them as medium and long tail keywords to write around.

So for eg: laser skin treatment   = " Benefits of a laser skin treatment in India" and the url for this article could be /laser-skin-treatment

For dermatology = "best dermatology practices"  url could be** /dermatology-practices**

Do the above  happen to be the medium and long tail keywords? Am I going in the correct direction. How do I judge and come out with medium and long tail keywords. Please suggest

Thanks

I have recently begun with my content and keyword selections.

I used the Adword's keyword tool and for eg: got a few keywords like

laser skin treatment

dermatology

dermatologists

cosmetic laser surgery

The competition for these are low and medium. Now what I understand is. If I wish to use them in my articles on content generation I can have them as medium and long tail keywords to write around.

So for eg: laser skin treatment   = " Benefits of a laser skin treatment in India" and the url for this article could be /laser-skin-treatment

For dermatology = "best dermatology practices"  url could be /dermatology-practices

Do the above  happen to be the medium and long tail keywords? Am I going in the correct direction. How do I judge and come out with medium and long tail keywords. Please suggest

Thanks

Thanks for your advice. These mid to long tail keywords. Can I generate this easily via some tool.

I use the keyword tool in adwords will that help in doing so ?

As you suggested I looked up GA for ** Content -> Site Content section and then turn on the secondary dimension in the dropdown box of "keyword". **

I was looking under Site content>Pages - is that correct?

Now what I see is that there are some pages where the keyword column says (Not Set) what does this mean?

How do I correct this?

I am still thinking whether to keep subscribed or not to seomoz. We are a startup and spending 100$ per month is costly though I think. I am using GA for majority of my seo and analytics. What could be more enriching here at seomoz so that I can convince people to stick onto it right here with a subscription. Do help and advice

Thanks for the advice. What I was trying to understand is that shall I start with keywords with low competency and then medium and progress towards the high competitive keywords to write content upon? When you mean high quality content.? What exactly can be done to make sure it's enriching? Call to actions, diagrams etc does that help evenly ? Once I have written it and wish to check upon if I am getting good enough rankings or users coming to my site via these content pages I am using GA as of now. So will google auto index those pages? Or I will have to do something extra in order to get new content pages index sooner? Thanks

I have started building content for our website using the Wordpress tool. Now I wanted to know that I use GA and the Adwords keyword tool. I go in for exact matching keywords and have selected a few of them. How do I know if these keywords are actually the ones going to give me good traffic? How can I select good keywords and write content along them. I don't wish to over stuff articles with the keywords. How can I refrain from doing so. Any optimum limit through which I know how much of the keyword needs to occur how many times within an article? Please give some good insights as to how this is accomplished? Thanks

The GA is setup perfectly well. I was trying to understand how to use advance segments. Now there are these Ctr and clicks % changes shown in my webmaster results for searches. Can I get this same % change results in GA too. So say today I start seo with a set of keywords and build content around it. Tomorrow I have fresh traffic coming to it. Then down the month I want to measure the % change in traffic can I do this via GA ? What keywords I need to compete towards is something which I am finding difficult. How can I overcome that. How can I select the right keywords to build content around and then have traffic diverted to our website ? Any tips on this specifically. I don't wish to over stuff the articles with keywords so want to the get the basic correct and then move on. Thanks

Thanks. I managed to create a different profile from today under the same analytics tracking code. But when I move to standard reporting again I see no data. That means from today I will have to actually wait for data to be filled in is that correct for filtered profiles?

Cant I do this in seomoz? Cant seomoz help with tracking how do I fare for my SEO as time progresses.?

That looks good. When you said

"create a filtered profile for Google Analytics which includes only Organic Search Engine traffic and excludes any keywords for which you already rank very well at the start of your SEO campaign (and preferably also exclude traffic from your IP)."

as of now I already have a profile so you want me to create a new filtered profile - for this will I have to create a new profile all over again? How can I create a new filtered profile? I think I should exclude keywords like our firms name and products name right? we have a dynamic IP address then how do I exclude that ?

what exactly would organic serach engine traffic mean to us? Anything which has come in from a definitive search on google or something?
Can you please explain the above for me.

Thanks

Hi,

A very challenging questions I always ask myself is that how exactly do I measure SEO. I am writing content, building pages, correcting links and so on. So now how I measure as to what I am doing is this really working out for me?

Are the content which I am building is it working for the benefit of my website etc.

What tools can I use to measure SEO specifically. What factors should I look at to measure when in cases where I am just begun my seo strategy.

Could anyone highlight the correct tools and where inside these tools or which features inside those tools could give me good measures of the SEO Implementation.

Thanks

Hi,

We have our main website and our blog on blog.practo.com. Now what I see is that we wish to write in content to grow our seo keywords and links.

Should we put the blog as www.practo.com/blog and then begin writing all the content or we should put the wordpress blog as www.practo.com/(wordpress blog here) and then begin writing the content.

For best practices I suppose we should have content lined up as www.sitename.com/category/article name etc  or www.sitename.com/article name etc - am I correct?

Our main site consists of few html pages and then we have our software on a different sub domain.

What are the best ways to publish content and get it crawled at a faster rate for growth?

I would also wish to understand how to measure the number of growth in % to our content we are writing. Only via google analytics or some other tool?

Say I wish to see the growth of 10 articles from month of may and compare it to the month of april or march 2012. So what tools could I use to see if we are progressing or not?

Thanks

We have our saas based website - most of our online customers are those who keep coming back to us and my GA is full of their footprints.

I completely want to concentrate on getting hold of those who might really need our software and as of now are not able to find them .

Including keywords through which people might want to find us is one of the ways. Next how do I publish that to the majority of the users to find and get traction better on that article or post?

Would posting links to facebook twitter etc and getting people to find those articles there and link back and come on our main website to read it - will this help?

We sell cloud based software but have various domains where our customers can make use of it. There are at least 5-10 of them. We don't have content at all on our website.

In a few simple steps how can I get started with this -

Content generation

**Linking back the content **

Generating good foot falls from users to those cotent

Notching up on google for those content page

A detailed insight would prove much helpful

Thanks

Great thanks for the advice. So now I suppose good quality content increase the quality score which in turns helps in lower CPC

For the crawl diagnostics I see a couple of error , warnings and notices - how Important are these to correct so that I have a good stand on the SEO for my website?

Some of them are :** Long url characters,Duplicate page title,Temporary redirect,Permanent redirect, Rel canonical.**

I also ran the keyword difficulty analysis for some of my keywords am planning to improve content on.

The test show difficulty levels from 1% - 61% for multiple of these keywords. How do I measure low,medium and high difficulty?

Search volumes for a lot of these say " Not enough data" - should I interpret this as those keywords for which I should not work on the getting the content better? Or these keywords are not that popularly searched?

Could you kindly throw some light upon the above questions . Thanks

Thanks there.

Also would like to understand how to get some good keywords to put into my adwords campaign. Having different landing pages for each campaign is this possible?

I decide to manage 2 different country locations via 2 campaigns - so I think 2 different landing pages should suffice?

Also would appreciate understanding how did the average daily be = 5 days. I mean is there some forumla to calculate avergae daily clicks.

What about CTR? once a user clicks the add and lands on the page it becomes click through rate? Or I am wrong here. I need to understand exactly how these terms hold value - can you suggest some good read throughs or videos. Blindly searching is always there but suggestions from those who have already done this would really help.

Thanks kindly.

I tried looking for traffic estimates -

attached is a screenshot - http://imgur.com/rTlUw

I need help in analyzing if the Daily Clicks which shows .08? what does this mean that not even 1 click can be accomplished for this keyword if I put it under the adwords campaign?

Can anyone explain that to me please. Also how exactly do I keep track of CTR how will this influence my campaign

I am on with google adwords to find good users for our saas based products in developing countries. The product is mainly for doctors which we have on the cloud.

The tools I am using are adwords,google analytics and Seomoz. Anything else which might help me during this process.

Great I get that now.How can I have a good authoritative site. We've been in the online Saas business for 3 years now primarily in India. How can we work towards getting a good authoritative score?

Cant SEOMOZ tell me the same. On the other hand what are the best keywords to bid for in adwords. The medium or low ones or the high ones?

So then I wish to know how do I compete with my other websites. Lots of them are not that meaningful still they show up before us. What should we do in order to rank high than our competitors? Adwords? Better content? What exactly

Hi,

I wish to understand how do we exactly compete against our competitors.

Do you mean to say that I search for a set of keywords and if results show something else instead of my website these others become my competitors. Is that all?

Do I have a tool to see who my competitors are and how can I compete against them?

Please kindly advice

We are an online Saas Based startup. Strongly 70% of our daily users come directly to us since they know us by the url .

Now there these 30% who scout for software's like ours online. Get to us by some hook or crook and then maybe end up giving the trial a shot.

Our Main site is only of say 5-6 pages. These pages have basic info about our product , pricing and contact etc.

What I wish to understand is that when one says" getting those keywords to the top of the engines rankings" who do you mean  by these - I presume one means that get the keywords you want to compete for and then push in "Adwords" or better content pages?

So If I want to rank well - then my websites should have good content pages you mean? Is that correct-? That means now I have to write good content on those keywords or around those keywords- without that there is no hope to come on good on engines right? Correct me here if I sway away from the actual meaning.

Next I wish to have campaigns setup in google adwords keeping in mind those competitive keywords - here again does content on my website play a role? If I have no content and then have google adwords setup does that help? Please advice

How long before I add good content pages and expect them to show up in my analytics etc?

Thanks

Yes I am using Google Analytics

I just opened my analytics - Am I looking at the correct sections.

Traffic sources>Search>Organic - these are the keywords which users are searching and then coming to my site? I can see some of the keywords there.

If wish to place google adwords as a reverse engineering method for these keywords  does that help?

There is a list of non paid keywords which is showing up but is that all ?

I wish to know all the keywords people are searching and coming to my site? How can I accomplish the same.