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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 All,

A quick question that may even have a quick answer:

Why would Google display a different meta description for the same URL for a different keyword?

For example I enter 2 of our similar keywords into Google:

KEYWORD A | META DESCRIPTION A DISPLAYED | URL A

KEYWORD B | META DESCRIPTION B DISPLAYED | URL A

Thanks in advance

Hi Community,

I have receiving an increasing number of temporary re-direct status codes via MOZ crawl diagnostics.

I have taken a look more closely and these URLs are 'trackback urls' from blog posts, the website is Wordpress integrated.

What is best practice for these 302 temporary redirects? I have read that best practice for a 302 is to 301 re-direct a URL, but is this the case for a trackback URL?

Thanks Chris

Makes complete sense

Hi Community,

I am currently doing some link building for a client. I have created a case study in the form of an article based around the client on our own website & linked to one of their service subpages so a user can see what kind of work they do.

I am also currently trying to rank the exact same service sub page for 'KEYWORD A'.

I have used 'KEYWORD A' in the title of the article (/KEYWORD-A-TEXT-TEXT) and built a link (not exact match anchor text but contains 'KEYWORD A') within the article pointing to the service subpage.

Our blog post now out-ranks the service subpage by around 5 pages, my question is:

1. How long does Google take to acknowledge that the client's service subpage is more resourceful for KEYWORD A?

Any other hints / tips / advice is appreciated!

Thank you

Hi Phillip

Thanks for your response.

My homepage is ranking no.1 when I do the site: search.

The home page is indexed, and yes sorry I mean PA, the sub page is loosely relevant.

Hi all,

May seem like a simple scenario and I might be missing something, but my subpage seems to be ranking for my main homepage keyword.

The subpage PR is 28 and my domain authority is 17, how can I get my main home page to rank instead of the sub page (product page)?

I want to stay away from exact match anchor text links, any suggestions?

Hi All,

I will try to keep this to the point.

1. One of our websites was hit by penguin for unnatural linking.
2. We are building a new site (same business, different domain), but we would like to take some of the pages/content off the old website and use it on our new site.

Is it just a case of copying each page onto our new site and 301 redirect the old URL? Or should I just be completely rewording/recreating the old content so it is unique?

Any help on this would be great, but I am also open to alternate methods too.

Thanks

Lewis

Hi All,

I named a page URL /plectrums/ within the back end framework.

But then decided to change it to /personalised-plectrums/

I resubmitted a GWT sitemap and 301 redirected plectrums -> personalised-plectrums

My ranking for personalised plectrums has disappeared and has not come back does anyone know why this is? Or is there something I have missed?

Lewis

Hi,

I think my website http://rollerbannerscheap.co.uk has been penalised. There are too many over optimised anchor text links with our target keyword 'roller banners' in them. People have linked to our site using our company name 'roller banners cheap' (which also contains the keyword used in my anchor text link building) resulting in too many match links.

For a couple months now I have;

• Added fresh content to the website on a weekly basis, alt tagging images, internal linking and generally making each post very useful.
• Built a few more external good quality links to try to dilute the over optimised anchor text links.
• Added more content to the home page.

At the moment I am trying to rank for cheap roller banners because I am already on page 1 for that and it seems that keyword hasn't been penalised.

Can anyone please advise or recommend what I can do to recover from being penalised or help rank the new key word? I am really stuck with this now and would really appreciate the help.

Lewis

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your response, will modifying existing anchor text ring alarm bells to Google though?

Hi

I believe our site may have been penalised due to over optimised anchor text links.

Our site is http://rollerbannerscheap.co.uk

It seems we have been penalised for the key word 'Roller Banner' as the over optimised anchor text contains key word 'Roller Banner' or 'Roller Banners'.

We dropped completely off page 1 for 'Roller Banner', how would I recover from this error?

Hi All

We launched our client's website http://rollerbannerscheap.co.uk in January this year. We have been building links making sure we are not over optmising anchor text and only following ethical SEO tactics.

Our client's site eventually hit page 1 for it's main key word 'Roller Banner' 1 week ago, the site received impressions/clicks from the SERPS and has started to gain traffic from that particular keyword.

I have checked today, and I cannot our client's website URL within the first 10 pages of Google, nevermind on page 1.

Our client is currently undercutting competitiors on price, which we stated (the price) in the meta tag.

Is it possible other SEOs could de-rank our website? If not, what would be a likely explaination for this occurance?

Would just like to add, I recently build a link with anchor text 'Roller Banner Website, but one of my older links uses anchor text 'Roller Banners Cheap Website' - They're not exact match, but could this affect our ranking?

Awaiting help

Lewis

Hi Paul,

Firstly i want to thank you for the great effort you have put into answering my question.

I have changed the robots txt file by going to Settings > Privacy > allow SERPs

Do you know how long this may take to remove the dev site from the search engines?

Also when I search site:dev.roller banners cheap . co . uk in google i only see 3 pages being indexed so unable to see the other 70?

Thanks

Hi,

We launched a client's website around 7th January 2013 (http://rollerbannerscheap.co.uk), we originally constructed the website on a development domain (http://dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk) which was active for around 6-8 months (the dev site was unblocked from search engines for the first 3-4 months, but then blocked again) before we migrated dev --> live.

In late Jan 2013 changed the robots.txt file to allow search engines to index the website. A week later I accidentally logged into the DEV website and also changed the robots.txt file to allow the search engines to index it.

This obviously caused a duplicate content issue as both sites were identical. I realised what I had done a couple of days later and blocked the dev site from the search engines with the robots.txt file.

Most of the pages from the dev site had been de-indexed from Google apart from 3, the home page (dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk, and two blog pages). The live site has 184 pages indexed in Google. So I thought the last 3 dev pages would disappear after a few weeks.

I checked back late February and the 3 dev site pages were still indexed in Google. I decided to 301 redirect the dev site to the live site to tell Google to rank the live site and to ignore the dev site content. I also checked the robots.txt file on the dev site and this was blocking search engines too. But still the dev site is being found in Google wherever the live site should be found.

When I do find the dev site in Google it displays this;

Roller Banners Cheap » admin   dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk/ A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.   This is really affecting our clients SEO plan and we can't seem to remove the dev site or rank the live site in Google.

In GWT I have tried to remove the sub domain.

When I visit remove URLs, I enter dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk but then it displays the URL as http://www.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk/dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk.

I want to remove a sub domain not a page.

Can anyone help please?

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your response.

When I visit remove URLs, I enter dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk but then it displays the URL as http://www.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk/dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk.

I want to remove a sub domain not a page, are you able to assist?

Hi,

We launched a client's website around 7th January 2013 (http://rollerbannerscheap.co.uk), we originally constructed the website on a development domain (http://dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk) which was active for around 6-8 months (the dev site was unblocked from search engines for the first 3-4 months, but then blocked again) before we migrated dev --> live.

In late Jan 2013 changed the robots.txt file to allow search engines to index the website. A week later I accidentally logged into the DEV website and also changed the robots.txt file to allow the search engines to index it.

This obviously caused a duplicate content issue as both sites were identical. I realised what I had done a couple of days later and blocked the dev site from the search engines with the robots.txt file.

Most of the pages from the dev site had been de-indexed from Google apart from 3, the home page (dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk, and two blog pages). The live site has 184 pages indexed in Google. So I thought the last 3 dev pages would disappear after a few weeks.

I checked back late February and the 3 dev site pages were still indexed in Google. I decided to 301 redirect the dev site to the live site to tell Google to rank the live site and to ignore the dev site content. I also checked the robots.txt file on the dev site and this was blocking search engines too. But still the dev site is being found in Google wherever the live site should be found.

When I do find the dev site in Google it displays this;

Roller Banners Cheap » admin

<cite>dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk/</cite><a id="srsl_0" class="pplsrsla" tabindex="0" data-ved="0CEQQ5hkwAA" data-url="http://dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk/" data-title="Roller Banners Cheap » admin" data-sli="srsl_0" data-ci="srslc_0" data-vli="srslcl_0" data-slg="webres"></a>A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.This is really affecting our clients SEO plan and we can't seem to remove the dev site or rank the live site in Google.Please can anyone help?