There should be no issue, just make sure you have a back up of the site before you change anything.
Do not change page names and make sure you have the Robots txt file is on the site once you have moved
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There should be no issue, just make sure you have a back up of the site before you change anything.
Do not change page names and make sure you have the Robots txt file is on the site once you have moved
It is impossible to say to what extent adding a video to your site will increase conversions but adding a good video is one of the things I would try to see if the conversion rate goes up.
Before having the video made you should consider how many new clients you would need to get to pay for the video. Then if you believe that the video will increase the conversions by an amount more than you need to break even do it.
I would use the video to encourage people to contact your office rather than trying to answer all the questions they may have. You can also use it to pre-qualify people if you get a lot of people contacting the office that you are unable to help.
I hope this helps
Sean
If you have not had any luck with contacting the webmasters of the 10,000 plus spammy blogs and not had any luck with getting Google to reconsider your inclusion in the rankings it might make better business sense to start a new site.
As continuing to add content to a site that is only getting 1% of its previous total is like sinking money into a black hole.
The competition for "short hairstyles" is not excessive and if you use the content from your existing site (assuming the quality is high) the job can be completed quite quickly, when you build the new site use the robots txt file to block access to the new site until it is ready to avoid duplication issues.
Then once it is ready use your industry contacts to press release your new URL, get links from appropriate suppliers and friends in related industries and ask those who were linking to the old site to now rank to the new one.
remember to remove the robots txt block when you remove the old site.
Concentrate on some marketing and great content and the new site should rank well in a few months.
Keep an eye on inbound links using a verity of tools and if you see the spam links coming in ask for them to be removed and use the disavow tool to back up your claim.
I hope this helps and I hope you get your traffic back soon
Sean
Hi
This should help you get the Canonical issues sorted
http://www.theintegrationengineer.com/magento-seo-canonical-links/
I would use example.com/product_name-111
I believe you need to do a mod re-write to get the URL to display the way you want it, but others will be better placed to advice you on this than I am.
has your traffic been affected much because of this? or is it more the face that you can not see these terms in WMT that is the issue?
Hi Dominic
Do you know what penalties you were affected by?
What dates did you see the effects?
What messages have you received in Webmaster tools?
There are different responses to different penalties and knowing what you have been penalized for is the first step towards recovery.
Probably not the answer you hoped to hear but it should be the first step you take.
Sean
One thing I found works well is to engage with as many of the people you want to use the infographic as possible before you contact them with the image.
I try and connect with them on Twitter, leave a comment on a blog post (with a link to my twitter rather than my website so it does not look like I am trying to spam the blog) or help them in some way.
Along the help lines I have found an email telling them about a broken link or an error on their site is a good way to get their attention. Then when they say thank you I reply with a question about their work, ask for their advice on something related to what they do and mention I am putting together the graphic, if possible I incorporate the information they have given me into the infographic and let them know.
Then when the infographic is ready to send I let them have an advanced copy along with any data used to produce the statistics in it.
In my mind I came up with these ideas but I am sure the truth is more along the lines of the day I spent going through the posts in the link Keri has been kind enough to post, it may take a while to read but it is full of great information.
I think all the information and tips boil down to give the audience something they want and give them a reason to take it from you.
I hope that makes sense
Sean
Hi Courtney
No you do not just want the home page to get the "link juice" you want the whole site to be visible to the search engines, or at least all the pages and posts that you want people to be able to read for free.
Remember that every word you write on your blog has the chance to send more people to your site, so the more pages you can get Google to index and rank the more chance you have of getting traffic.
I hope this helps
Sean
Hi
What keyword research tool are you referring to?
Hi Chris
I have sent you a PM asking for the URL of the site so I can check it for you
Sean
I would look at how you can stop the issue occurring, it is working well for you now but in 5 years what will it be like?
If you are able to modify the CMS now it may solve a bigger problem down the line
Hope that helps
Sean
Hi
Tom is right about the duplicate content issues.
The other option is to make the 2 sites into 1, with the different language and cultural options available on each page, so someone can click a link and see the English or Indian version.
This would make promotion easier as you would just need to focus on 1 site.
I hope this helps
Sean
I would assume it is because that is a lot more work for the system to do, but you can set your competitors sites up as separate campaigns and get the same information as you do for your sites.
Hi Adam
That is a detailed description, I would also be interested in learning a little more about the tools you are using as there would seem to be several applications working together.
How much of the process involves a person rather than automation?
I like the fact that you plan to split the terms in to education / research and buying terms, this is a valuable recourse for companies.
When you provide someone else with content for them to publish you could include your profile link as a way for others to learn more about you.
The real question is why would I want to visit your social media profiles? if there is a good reason for sending me to your profile (as a person) then include it as you would include any other link to your site when you are looking to send visitors to it, however if the goal is to just increase the number of links then I think you are working on the wrong problem.
I hope this helps
Sean
Hi
If I understand your issue correctly you have run a SEOmoz campaign and one of the things it has picked up are 326 Rel canonical issues highlighted in the blue notices section.
If this is correct then you should have nothing to worry about as it is just informing you that the Rel canonical tag has been used 326 times on the site.
The Rel canonical tag is used to indicate to the search engines that you are aware of 2 or more pages with similar content and that they should take more notice of the one you indicate the Canonical tag looks like
This needs to be added to the header of every page that is a copy (or near copy) of the main page you with to promote.
So if you have a number of pages that are similar to each other you want the Rel canonical in place. Some CMS automatically add Rel Canonical tags to every page and this may be what is happening. I am happy to look at the site for you to determine if the Canonical tags are set correctly if that would help.
Sean
Possibly the best advice I have seen on SEOmoz
"If it ever happens again, rush to you client and demand a bonus"
If I were you I would add the new content and put a plan in place to build up your links then use the disavow tool to cover yourself with Google
If you are worried about the links contact the sites that currently link to the site and tell them the site is not what it was and that they should remove the links as they will not be helpful to their audience.
If you want to make the process more likely to succeed you could suggest another site the person could link to that offers content similar to the one you are replacing.
I hope this helps
Sean
I am not seeing the same as you but I have seen it before when doing a product search and just got pages of Amazon results.
I think it is a glitch in the Google algorythem because they would not want to show results from just one site even if they were the most popular.
Again if there is no website on the domain name then it does not matter what the domain name is that you redirect, so if there is no website on the domain name
Plumbers.com could be pointed at fishing.com and there would be no problems
Does this help?
Sean
Hi
When you say "All of the domains in question are keyword/brand name similar only and do not exist as actual websites." does this mean they are just registered domain names rather than websites?
If that is the case then you do not need to do a 301 redirect you just point the nameservers to the new site rather than where they are at the moment and I do not think there is a limit to the number you can do this for.
Hope this helps
Sean
I have run the campaigns software over a site and it is showing that www.mysite.com/ is a duplicate of www.mysite.com, how do I correct this?
Is it a genuine duplicate page?
My first thought was to use rel canonical but there is no page called / to put it on.
Your suggestions welcomed
Sean
Hi
I have been approached to do some SEO work for a site that has been hit badly by the latest panda update 3.3, they have also had a warning in their Google webmaster tools account saying they had unnatural looking links to their site, they received this in 26 Feb and that prompted them to stop working with their excising seo company and look for a new one.
Apparently their rankings for the keywords they were targeting have dropped dramatically, but it looks like just those they were actively building back links for, other phrases do not look affected.
Before I take them on I want to be clear that it is possible to help them reclaim their rankings?
I have checked the site and the on-page seo is good, the site build is good, just a few errors to fix but the links that have been built by the seo company are low quality with a lot of spun articles and the same anchor text so I see what the Google webmaster tools message is refuring to.
I do not think these links can be removed as there is no contact details on the sites I checked I have not checked all of them but a random sample does not show promise, they are from low authority domains.
So if I am to take them on as a client and help them to regain their previous rankings what is the best strategy? Obviously they want results yesterday and from our phone call they would rather someone else did the work than them, so my initial response of add some better quality content that others in your industry would link to as a reference did not go down well, to be fair I think it is a time issue there are only 3 people in the company and they are not technical at all.
Thanks for your help
Sean
I agree with what has been said here, I do not think there is a "sweet spot" as far as number of words goes but the article needs to be long enough to give useful information.
That being said it is difficult to imagine to many articles that are less than 300 words that would be of interest and use to the reader.
My suggestion would be to find sites that you think give excellent useful information (maybe like seomoz) and see what the average length of their articles are, but always think what does the reader get from this article and how am I helping them.