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Hi,

Brilliant, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Steve

Hi,

We have recently been hit with a problem regarding our mobile site, where it is outranking our main site. This is causing a drop in orders and ranknings for our main site.

It would appear that google has indexed our mobile site and so the two are now competing against each other.

Our main site is on a .co.uk and our mobile site on a .mobi, but we have now taken down the mobile site until we get this sorted.

Does anyone else have any experience of this happening and how to stop it happening again?

Thanks

Steve

Hi John,

Thanks for the quick reply.

That was my thought as well. My only concern with Conversion Optimizer revolves around some of the "experts" views, where they feel that it gives too much power to Google.

Steve

Hi,

Just a quickie.

Has anyone on here used Adspert, or a similar bid management tool?

We are currently trialing it, but I have mixed feelings about it. Most of our campaigns have the option of using conversion optimiser and I wonder if I would be better using the Google tools.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks

Steve

Hello SEOMOZ Community I hope you can answer my following question.

I’ve used the Keyword Difficulty and SERPS to analyse why my competitors seem to be higher than me in the SERPS for a certain keyword.

The only problem I can see when I’ve done the full report is that our website has no internal links to the page we are trying to rank for, however when I go into Google webmasters tools  it’s stating we have over 99,000 links.

Can you please let me know why this is showing in the report?

Many Thanks

Matt

I tend to agree with both of you, it was one of those thoughts that jumps into your head and you can't shift.

I was having a discussion with someone (who doesn't work in SEO) today and they asked the question why don't you have seperate pages for product sizes? I answered with the line "it would make the site huge" but I have been giving it some thought and I was wondering what others think.

The scenario is that you have a polo shirt in black, white and blue and in sizes small, medium and large which gives 9 variations (small black, medium black etc). Currently we have one page for each product with the variations available for selection.

Would keeping the current system and having links to a seperate pages be a good or bad thing? So in the above example we would have the main page and then links to each of the variation pages.

So what do you think - good or bad?

Steve

No problem, glad to help.

With the p

Regarding VAT the previous responders are slightyl wrong (sorry).

There are actually 3 rates of VAT in the UK - standard (20%), reduced (5%) and zero rated (0%). It depends what you are selling as to what VAT rate you should apply. The majority of items are 20% but there are some which are lower.

If you are wondering how I know this, our products have a mixture of all three.

Also you need to remember postage as you have to charge or include VAT on your delivery costs at whatever rate the goods are you are sending. So if your goods are 20% then VAT on your postage is also 20%, if it is 5% then delivery is also 5%. However if it is a mix it gets complicated.

As previously mentioned you need to look into the Distance Selling Regulations and to be honest if I saw an item on a site in the UK that wasn't in GBP then there is no way I would buy it.

Could you set up canonical tags so that when users select certain criteria a parent page is shown in the canonical?

Private blog networks - I would be very careful with these, there are loads of blog networks currently being de-indexed.

Blog commenting - I now have proof that the big G isn't considering these as worthy links and instead consider them as spam.

Could you set up canonical tags so that when users select certain criteria a parent page is shown in the canonical?

Hi,

We have recently been hit with a problem regarding our mobile site, where it is outranking our main site. This is causing a drop in orders and ranknings for our main site.

It would appear that google has indexed our mobile site and so the two are now competing against each other.

Our main site is on a .co.uk and our mobile site on a .mobi, but we have now taken down the mobile site until we get this sorted.

Does anyone else have any experience of this happening and how to stop it happening again?

Thanks

Steve

Hi,

Brilliant, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Steve