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A lot of websites make use of Alt instead of Title for alternative image text, with Alt usually only appearing when images don't, whereas with Title, the alternative text usually appears whether the image is displayed or not.
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Hi Cyto
I've had a look and they do have alt-text on the three feature screenshots. Granted the alt-text doesn't seem to appear when hovering-over, but the alt-text is there. In their respective orders:
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Simon
Hi There
Check out a blog post here on SEOmoz entitled "Face-off - 4 Ways to De-personalize Google"
Regards
Simon
Hi Remco
Taking one of your examples; http://ferienwohnungumbrien.de/ this is a parked domain name, there is no website behind it.
As such, redirecting this to your main website, e.g. to domeinname.com/de/ferienwohnung will provide zero SEO benefit. There is literally no strength to be passed from your parked domain to your website, whether it be an exact match domain or a random domain.
The only benefit would potentially be that you could market http://ferienwohnungumbrien.de/ as your website (which would be 301 redirected) though I wouldn't even recommend doing this as some inbound links would inevitably be pointed here and some link juice lost through a 301 redirect.
So in summary, zero SEO benefit to be had from pointing those parked domains to your main website. Though may be worth hanging onto them for any possible future plans, so keep them and simply 301 redirect them in.
Hope that helps,
Simon
Hi Catherine
It's still considered good practice to include a sitemap.xml though not always essential.
It's debatable as to whether or not it actually brings benefit to do so (likely does in some cases such as for dynamic sites and new sites) though as Webmaster Tools still has the facility to receive sitemap.xml files through a submission, is usually good to spend a little time creating one. One more tick in the box for on-site SEO.
A good read on this topic can found at http://www.brilliantthinking.net/2012/05/22/benefits-of-a-google-xml-sitemap/
Hope that helps,
Simon
That's a great answer from Marcus.
A blog post here on SEOmoz from last week entitled "The Exact Match Domain Playbook: A Guide and Best Practices for EMDs" is well worth a read too, check out the section towards the end, "A few things to consider for solving problems with EMD sites".
Regards
Simon
Hi Annie
I'm surprised there hasn't been lots of answers to your question.
Check-out this video here on SEOmoz entitled "Whiteboard Interview - Google's Matt Cutts on Redirects, Trust + More" featuring Matt Cutts being asked some questions by Rand. It opens with a partial answer to your first question:
"These days we use it a little less" (2 years ago) ~ basically means that in locations such as the US, most of Europe, Japan... & so on, where Bandwidth is rarely an issue anymore, 'If-Modified-Since' isn't taken notice of, it's not worth including anymore.
In say developing countries where bandwidth is sometimes still on the low side, it may still be used, hence why a sweeping 'it doesn't matter anymore' statement wasn't given.
**Your second question: **
Hope that helps,
Simon
Hi Vitaly
A good question. There are usually 2 main considerations when it comes to cross-linking sites:
To benefit the visitor from pointing to a useful related site
To try and aid SEO/Search efforts.
Your goal of trying to improve rankings of the newer sites by linking your hotel booking sites together could be counter-productive. Cross-linking sites with the intention of trying to improve search rankings (through the passing of link juice through the said links) usually has a short-term gain, then either neutral or negative. It's a risky game in trying to 'manipulate' search rankings by linking a load of sites together, which being honest is just what this would be.
With regards to the other reason for doing so, providing links that visitors could find useful, that's a sound and credible reason to link the sites together, just play it safe and NoFollow the links as Ben suggests. This would be playing it by the rules and keep the search engines happy whilst also benefiting your visitors.
Have you considered migrating your websites into one large site to serve all cities? Done properly, always with the visitor experience & offering in mind, it can benefit everyone. You'd only have the one website to create content for and get links into, whilst providing one more in-depth offering and experience to your visitors. Worth considering anyway, local search can still be catered for with one large website.
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Simon
Hi There
From what you've described, it does sound like Duplicate Content is a potential issue for your site, it's great that you're addressing it.
A Canonical Tag as you've suggested is a logical and sensible course of action. Correctly implemented, this will certainly help.
One thought, what would provide the best user experience for your visitors? Have a think about whether these 'additional' pages actually add any value or not for your visitors. I suspect that you could include every different color of a certain type of widget on a single page for each type, rather than having separate pages for each color.
In this scenario, consider 301 redirecting those additional/duplicate pages to the main appropriate widget page, that would almost certainly provide a cleaner better user experience. Obviously need to take into account your business objectives and target audience goals when making such a decision.
So really, it's Canonicals or 301s, depending on what best matches your business objectives and the user experience.
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
Hi Jarno
The Linkscape Index is not updated daily, a schedule of planned (& previous) updates can be found at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
The last update was on January 17th, so your link that you obtained last week won't be showing up just yet. It likely will be after the next update on February 29th (or the next time your site is crawled after that date).
Regards
Simon
Hi Shawn,
Not solely for its PR or age. If you first find a good domain for sale that you'd like to use for a website or blog, then factors such as age, history and current strengths can be taken into account.
If you'd be buying it just to redirect it to another domain, then there will be Zero Pre-existing SEO value if it's dormant (not hosting a site).
Put things like age and PR to one side, think of why you'd like the domain and how you could use it, then bring back factors such as age and history to determine if it's actually a good domain 'for you' and how much you'd be willing to pay based on it's strengths and its value to you.
There are always potential issues to consider when purchasing a domain; check out it's hosting history and who has owned it previously, look out for it being associated with poor quality or poor neighbourhood sites such as porn and evaluate it's own inbound links. Wayback Machine can help as well as registrar history.
There is a useful video for you to view here on SEOmoz, entitled "Age of Site and Old Links - Whiteboard Friday".
Hope that helps, Simon
Hi Filolari
Well done, you've performed the correct actions to try and get your internal page back ranking for the term "realizzazione siti internet". It's even the first page linked to under the 'Featured Spotview' section on your homepage, it's in the navigation, so it's well linked to from your homepage. It's also in the Title, Description and H1 tag on your internal page, which all helps.
Your robots.txt file looks fine, nothing to worry about there.
As the homepage is often (not always) the strongest most authoritive page, it can take time for a deeper page to rank for a particular keyword instead. Switching back from the homepage will take a while, just need to wait a while longer and try as many of the following as you can to aid the process:
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
Hi StreetwiseReports
The code to add onto the end of a URL Search Query is:
Check out a blog post here on SEOmoz from last week, entitled "Face-off - 4 Ways to De-personalize Google" which is all about de-personalizing search.
Regards
Simon
Hi SEOCM, (apologies for the lack of paragraphing here, doesn't work on an iPad). Note: Keri added paragraph marks, and the iPad issue is in our bug queue. (Thank you)
Q1) and Q2) If the redirect was done correctly (a 301 permanent redirect in effect) then Most of the previous website's strength will be applied to your new website, there is some loss though, usually varies between a 5% and 20% loss. A 301 redirect tells the search engines that the move is permanent, so Google after a fairly short while, recognises this new site as the new home of the previous site.
Q3) Keywords in Domains are believed to now not have as much ranking weight as they used to. Most of the old website's overall strength will be applied to the new website rather than say an individual keyword in the previous domain.
So don't worry, so long as the migration from the old site to the new one was done correctly, you'll likely get the maximum benefit that you can.
Regards, Simon
Hi Jarno
The Linkscape Index is not updated daily, a schedule of planned (& previous) updates can be found at https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
The last update was on January 17th, so your link that you obtained last week won't be showing up just yet. It likely will be after the next update on February 29th (or the next time your site is crawled after that date).
Regards
Simon
You're welcome Julie.
Lots of those results as shown on the page ( http://www.myvipwebdesign.com/myvipwebdesign/get-found-on-google-maps.html ) are 'local results' based on local business listings and appear in what's known as a '7 Pack' which lists 7 local results for Google Maps.
Others that are ranking number 1 naturally in Google will be for long tail low competition keywords and chances are, they won't be number 1 for long where there's any degree of competitiveness.
There is some complete nonsense on their website, such as statements like "Their is a certain algorithm that Google follows" and "We also apply the formula we have devised that is "Google Friendly" and submit it to Google on your behalf."
Google don't follow an algorithm, they have the most complex algorithms ever devised. There were over 13,000 changes to their natural search algorithm last year (mostly tests) with around 560 permanent changes. It's impossible to guarantee any top results with any degree of honesty. Also, the second statement is complete nonsense, there is no formula that's 'Google Friendly' that can be submitted to Google, they are making up total rubbish.
So rest assured that you would be making a wise decision by avoiding any such company as this one that makes such ridiculous guarantees and claims.
For some more reassurance, have a read of a page on Google's site "Search Engine Optimization (SEO)" which has some really useful advice and even mentions that no one can guarantee a number 1 ranking on Google.
You've probably noticed that this is something I feel rather strongly about. SEO is an unregulated industry and as such, there are way too many 'cowboys' out there looking to make a quick buck from those that are simply looking to grow their business. It really annoys me when such people take advantage of good honest hard working people. As such, whenever I can, I like to highlight what would be wise to avoid getting into. There are plenty of good ethical agencies and freelancers that can help you in an ethical and sustainable way.
Regards
Simon
PS. I don't work for an agency, I work in-house so do have a totally non-biased view here
Hi There
A good question. I can most confidently tell you that purchasing a domain name and redirecting it to another domain/website will have Zero SEO benefit. It's not even a good idea to market the domain that's being redirected as the links that will inevitably be acquired will be redirected also, loosing some of the link strength through the rediirect.
Plus for User Experience, it's usually not particularly good as visitors expect to land on the expected site rather than being redirected to another.
It's also the general consensus now that exact match domains do not have as much SEO weight as they used to, especially with Google. So exact match domains are not worth what they used to be.
If it's purely purchasing and redirecting it, then don't spend any more than the typical registration cost of a few $. Spend that $10,000 investing in Content and distributing it well, which will lead to some relevant links too, or indeed on PPC as you suggest (though that's not an investment).
If the branded domain has some other value to the business, then paying a fair price is typical as you'd be buying an assett.
I hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
Hi Jason
A good place to start is by reading/studying 'The Beginners Guide to SEO' which can be found here on Moz http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
From your list of keywords, it looks like your target audience is Employers who are looking for new Employees ? This list of keywords looks like it has the Adwords competition index and local monthly searches ?
If so, those are very targeted keywords with little search volume, though likely to convert well.
I'd suggest considering some more generic search terms also, Employers do search on terms such as 'recruitment' and 'recruitment agency', so worth revisiting your list of keywords to incorporate some higher volume terms as well.
That's not to say it's better to target those before the more targeted & longtail, can be easier to rank for those before trying the more generic, which can be supported by the longtail.
As for how many words, as many or as little really, depends on what your website has to offer and who your target audience are. A combination of high volume generics and lower volume longtail could be the way to go, depends on your website's and businesses' objectives.
Each page within your site would ideally be based around one main topic, so one main keyword, supported by one, two or three secondary keywords. Each page should serve a specific purpose and add value based around that purpose.
It can be useful to try keywords that you're unsure about via Paid search to get a feel for volumes, CTRs and conversions.
Hopefully some things to consider there.
Regards
Simon
Hi Diane
in2town.co.uk/tenerife isn't that hard to remember anyway, or even better, in2town.co.uk with great navigation so that the Tenerife section is quickly and easily found.
Whatever you end up choosing, my advice is to put Usability first, SEO can be catered for with all the above options, though probably more effectively with the one main website and a good URL structure.
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
Hi Theresa
That's a really good question, to which you will likely get differing answers.
These days, there isn't so much difference between the way modern websites appear on Desktop browsers, Tablet browsers and Smartphone browsers. Non-smartphone mobiles tend to have more issues.
There are differences though, such as some JavaScript, navigational code and flash not working on tablets and mobiles as well as on desktops.
Personally, I see three main categories at present:
because websites do tend to load differently enough between the three, thus having three different technology platforms to cater for. As tablets and smartphones continue to develop & advance, it's slowly becoming more or less the same, one day not too far off, I believe all 3 will be similar enough and there won't be the need to build different versions (other than perhaps for the speed issue mentioned below).
Within Google Adwords, there remains the option to target 'All Devices', 'Desktop and laptop', 'Mobile devices with full browsers' and 'Tablets with full browsers'
Although another issue is of course Speed; 3G does not usually bode well for full-blown websites to be loaded on a tablet or a smartphone, thus this is a major reason why for the time being, it's usually advisable to cater for tablets and smartphones separately with cut-down versions of the main website. 4G is starting to launch and wireless hotspots and becoming more common, so also one day, speed won't be so much of an issue with tablets and smartphones.
I hope that helps,
Regards
Simon