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Hello community,

Should I be using canonical tags on every job posted on my job board and also every job category page?

I currently use no canonicals on my job board but I still rank well organically.

Hi Donna,

Thank you for your response.

The domain name is: https:// www.skinnyrevolution .co.uk (close the spaces)

The name of the business is Skinny Revolution, notice anything unusual?

Hi all,

I hope somebody can share their thoughts on the below.

A web designer launched my client's new website and I have been tasked with the SEO. I was approached with an immediate problem, www.clientswebsite.co.uk was ranking 9th for their company name after being indexed by Google. The search results above www.clientswebsite.co.uk were related to my client but not all, for example a direct competitor was also ranking.

I have been working on the SEO for 2-3 weeks and I just managed to get to 3rd position for the company name, and then www.clientswebsite.co.uk disappeared from page 1! And now instead, an irelevant sub page is now ranking for the company name on page 2 (a contact page). I have checked and the home page is still indexed (did a site: check).

The only problem software picks up is a redirect chain (http://homepage -> http://www.homepage  -> https://homepage) the web developers said it wouldn't impact rankings (when I asked them to edit the htaccess file to fix it)

I've listed below the SEO tasks I completed whilst attempting to rank the company name:

• I set up analytics and webmaster tools, in which I set up preferred domain (www)

• Added a sitemap

• Edited meta data making sure company name was included

• I contacted the websites above www.clientswebsite.co.uk that were relevant and asked them to place a link linking to their new website, I was successful with a couple of these.

• I placed www.clientswebsite.co.uk on all of their social media profiles

• I reformatted headers on their home page, making sure the H1 included my client's company name

• I found 2 extra versions of my client's home page (not exact copies, but very similar content) that had been published, so I decided to 301 redirect these to the correct home page

• Activated SSL and forced to HTTPS

I would really appreciate it if anyone could share their thoughts here, whether it be explanations or possible solutions

Adam

Hi Andrzej,

I know I can results in FB ad manager but am I able to see the stats in Google Analytics too or does the amount I spend stay confidential to ad manager account?

Hello,

I have a quick question.

I am setting up conversion tracking for my Facebook ads, so I am giving each ad set a tracking URL (UTM) in order to see which ads are converting etc.

Is it possible to see on analytics how much I am spending on these ads or a cost per conversion? Or does the tracking merely track general analytics data such as bounce rate, exit rate, revenue generated etc?

Kind Regards,

James

Hi All,

I will try and keep this as simple as possible.

My product page links to a separate page with an IFrame, giving my users the option to upload artwork for the product. The IFrame contains the external file upload site (mail big file). When finished, the user can use a button link to return to the product page to continue with their order.

As soon as the page with the IFrame was crawled by Google, the IFrame page started to rank in place of where my product page used to rank, yet there is no content on the page relating to my product (just a file upload).

So now users are visiting the IFrame via the same query which must be an absolute headache and not useful at all.

I have tried the following:

1. Added a line in body text which contains an internal link pointing to the product page using exact match anchor text for the query. (This didn't work)

2. I applied a no index tag to the IFrame, and now my product page is no longer ranking at all.

Can anyone help me solve this puzzle. I believe I might be missing something.

Kind regards,

Adam

Hi Community,

I have 2 job boards.

Job board A is a .co.uk domain. Job board B is uk.com domain.

Job board A displays jobs in the UK but has an international jobs section. Job board B focuses entirely on international jobs.

To cut a long story short we are shutting down Job board B as we are going to just be using Job board A in future.

In terms of redirection, would it be best to:

1. 301 redirect job board B domain to Job board A. (www.jobboardb.uk.com -> www.jobboarda.co.uk)

or

2. 301 redirect job board b to the international jobs section on job board a (as this is the most relevant place for the user to go

I am thinking to go with option 2, but I read somewhere that it wasn't best practice. Any help is much appreciated.

Hello,

My client had purchased a few domains and 301 re-directed them, pointing to our main website. As far as I am aware the 'empty domains' are brand related but no content has ever been displayed on them, and I doubt they have much authority.

The issue here is that we took a dive in ranking for our main keyword, I had a look on ahrefs and found the below:

|

www.empty-domain/our-keyword

| 30 | 19 | 1 | fb 0
G+ 0
in 4 | REDIRECT 301 TO

www.main-domain/our-keyword

| 8 Feb '175 d |

The ranking dip happened at the same time as the re-direct was re-discovered / re-crawled.

Could the 'empty' URL in question been causing us any issues?

I understand that this is terrible practice for 301 redirects, I was hoping someone in the community could shed light on any possible solution for this.

Hello Community,

One of my clients runs a job board website. They are having some new framework installed which will lead to them having to delete all their jobs and re-add them. The same jobs will be re-posted but with a different reference number which in turn with change each URL. I believe this will cause significant duplicate content issues, I just thought I would get a second opinion on best practice for approaching a situation like this.

Would a possible solution be to delete jobs gradually and 301 re-direct old URLs to new URLs?

Many thanks in advance,

Adam

Hi All,

I have an international SEO question and was wondering if you could help.

My client runs a website in the UK (www.example.co.uk). The site is ranked well for it's collection of keywords, my client now wishes to target the US market.

He wishes to use the same web structure and design in new site www.example.com as we know this converts well.

My questions are:

What would be the best practice for setting this up? I know there will be duplicate content issues if a website is duplicated.

If we use the same design and website structure but re-word content, would this be acceptable?

Thank you for all your help in advance.

Hi Donna,

Thank you for your response.

The domain name is: https:// www.skinnyrevolution .co.uk (close the spaces)

The name of the business is Skinny Revolution, notice anything unusual?

Hello community,

Should I be using canonical tags on every job posted on my job board and also every job category page?

I currently use no canonicals on my job board but I still rank well organically.