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Hi,

First time that we are using Yandex for our website SEO. Main reason is we have great customers coming from this region.

Any tips that you can share on how to rank on this search engine and I was wondering if its possible to automatically use the subsite www.florahospitality.com/ru in yandex and rambler instead of the default www.florahospitality.com?

Does having a lot of property helps in the ranking?

Hi,

We came across with this schema.org and we decide that it will be helpful in our website if we can implement it properly. But somehow reading through the documents still makes us confused on how to use it.

Can anybody show me how to use it?

For example in our homepage www.florahospitality.com I can use the itemType Local business on the content but I can also use the itemType Hotel on the Hotel Listing dropdown.

Is it advisable the two type at the same time?

I'm having a problem with our campaign especially the crawl report. Because the last update is Nov 4 and isn't supposed to be updated weekly?

I already submit a helpdesk support ticket and even send a seperate e-mail regarding this issue but until now the report is still not updated.

Anybody here can help me raise this issue/

Thanks.

Can you share the load time that you got before and after working on those technical parameters? In our website, we usually use the webmaster tools and at the same time compare it to our competitor. For example we are in the hotel business so we try to compare our site performance to the biggest hotel chains.

But then in my opinion once you worked on those technical parameters, there are still other aspect of your  site that you need to check to increase the load performance.

1. Check the size of your page. Initially, our site loads around 10 secs and this is because of our layout and we use a lot of images. First step is we compress all our jpgs without degrading the quality of it. The second part is a reconstruct the layout or our scripts to reduce the DOM elements in our site. I notice a difference on the load time when our DOM elements is less than 1000

2. For sprite images. It will be better to create a sprite image upon development instead of spriting them on the fly which is why I think they said that it is a waste of resources. I use this site for spriting our images. http://spritegen.website-performance.org/

3. You need to minify and combined all your css and javascript.

I also follow all those rules in YSLOW and Page Speed and I can see a significant improvement in our page load time. Without using a CDN our site now loads around 4-5 secs and with CDN, I think around 3-4 secs.

Not really automate the process. You see there's a lot of possible keywords and we are thinking of focusing first on those keywords that our competitor is using. So in a way getting some ideas on which keywords they are using.

Is there a way for us to track the keywords of our competitor and so we can use that to optimize our sites?

I can see now that it is queued for crawling. They might have updated it already. I assumed that they also check questions tag in seomoz tools

When I check our seo campaign I can see that the report was not updated. It still show that the next crawl is Nov 1 but it is already Nov 3.

btw Alan, may I know what browser are you using to see the website? because we are not encountering that freezing and scroll problem.

Actually it works the same way as we are using a cms (umbraco). Umbraco handles the translation but in their setup it is a different document hence needing for a link to direct to other language.

Hi Ryan,

I noticed that change this morning. Probably some caching issues related to google.ae.

Thanks.

Hi Alan,

It is working now. We just deployed some updates this morning that's why there was a little downtime.

Hi Ryan,

It is working now. We just deployed some updates this morning that's why there was a little downtime.

In our campaign I see that it reported that some of our pages have too many on-page links. But I think most of the links that was seen by MozBot is related to our images. There are a lot of images in our site and at the same time we support 11 languages which adds additional links

One of the pages that have a lot of links is www.florahospitality.com/dining.aspx

What can you <a></a>suggest to fix this?

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You are right that in google.com it is the first result. I forgot to mention that we are using google.ae.

Actually we are using a cms and what we do is just to redirect it a different page. like mHome.aspx which means that it is a mobile site. Yes put mobile on the title tag.

Hi Ryan,

Does it display the exact page of flora grand which is http://www.florahospitality.com/dubai-flora-grand-hotel.aspx? Because when I'm searching it what is coming up is the group page

www.florahospitality.com. We just wanted a more personal search result as we are advertising each property differently.

The ranking tool that I was referring to is in the research tools of SEOMoz.

Yes I was referring to google.com. In the ranking tool of SEOMOz you can select which search engine, keyword and the url where it should match.

I use the ranking tools to check each page of our site. I use the keyword flora grand and exact url http://www.florahospitality.com/dubai-flora-grand-hotel.aspx . It return page rank 1 in US, UAE, and UK region but when I try to search it in google it doesn't appear.

Hi,

IWe have this mobile page that keeps on appearing in the google search. I even try to put it in the robots.txt to disallow the crawler but still it keeps on popping on the search results.

How can I prevent it from displaying?

In our campaign, I see this notices

Tag value
florahospitality.com/ar/careers.aspx

Description
Using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which URL should be seen as canonical.

What does it mean? Because If I try to view the source code of our site, it clearly gives me the canonical url.

Well we do have a multilingual site but it is not machine translated and I use canonical tags that include the language code to differentiate each page.

How can I tell google to reindexed these pages?

Hi,

I'm new to SEO and we just recently relaunched our site. Our site consist of 6 hotels that acts as a subsite. We noticed that when search for one of the hotels what is coming in the google is the main website.

Example: We search for flora grand. We expect that in Google it will display the first link as

www.florahospitality.com/dubai-flora-grand-hotel.aspx.

But it show the main site which is www.florahospitality.com

What do I miss here?