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ReferralCandy,
When optimizing your page for a set of keywords it's important to keep in mind that exact matches are most powerful. With that in mind, think about your customers and the order of the keywords they type into the search.
Are your customers more likely to google "gift set organic soap"
or
"oganic soap gift set"
In my opinion, the second one is more natural and probably a more common search query.
With that being said, the second URL makes most sense.
Hope this helps!
If your client wants to have an exact copy of the article on their blog without getting penalized by Google, all they need to add a rel=canonical tag to the header of the page that points to the original article on the Huffington Post blog.
This tag tells Google that the original content is elsewhere and to pass all "SEO credit" to that page instead of yours. It's also good practice to link to the original article at the bottom. Something like "View the original article at www.somedomain.com".
You can learn more about the rel=canonical tag here... http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
Hope this helps!
Because H1 tags are meant be explain what the page is about, it's good practice to have them at the top of the page. If you absolutely want to have a friendlier title, make it an H2 that is styled to be bigger than your H1, and style an H2 for that main header of your page. Does that make sense?
MissVe,
you can change your permalinks. You just need to set up 301 redirects from the old permalinks to the new. This not only forwards users to the new location but tells google that you've moved the page as well. This is the best way to handle your situation!
Hope that helps!
All you need to do is sign up for a Google places account, register and confirm you business, and you find yourself included in those listings.
The new flow player is quite impressive. It's feature rich and supports all browsers. It even had a flash fallback for really old browsers.
As far as format goes, different browsers support different file types so your best bet is to encode the videos in several html5 formats and let the player decide which is best for your users.
Peter,
Google's sitelinks will change depending on what's been previously viewed. Attached is a screenshot of the links I see when googlling your website.
I wouldn't say that they are treated exactly like text but are close. Since web crawlers cannot understand what an image actually is, it's important to make sure that you include alt tags on all your images to help with your on page optimization.
I would worry that Goggle may find these pages to be duplicate content if there's only a 10 to 15 word difference. I would recommend re-writing each page from memory without looking at the other in order to help make differentiate the content.
H1 tags are pretty important as they are meant to be the header of what the entire pages is about. Every page should have 1 and only 1 H1 tag and should definitely contain your most targeted keyword.
It's OK to have multiple H2, H3, H4 tags though. Although they don't count as much as an H1 does, it's still important to include your keywords in these tags when applicable too. Make sure that you're not "keyword stuffing" either.
So to answer your question, yes, if you don't have H1 tags on a page, and then add them in with the appropriate keywords, they will def help your on page optimization!
Hope that helps!
H1 tags are pretty important as they are meant to be the header of what the entire pages is about. Every page should have 1 and only 1 H1 tag and should definitely contain your most targeted keyword.
It's OK to have multiple H2, H3, H4 tags though. Although they don't count as much as an H1 does, it's still important to include your keywords in these tags when applicable too. Make sure that you're not "keyword stuffing" either.
So to answer your question, yes, if you don't have H1 tags on a page, and then add them in with the appropriate keywords, they will def help your on page optimization!
Hope that helps!
It's all about the way the page is coded. Most tabs use JavaScript but many of them will simple add a display:none; style tag on the hidden content which is bad. That basically tells Google, that you're not planning to show this content to users even though you may. In return, that content won't give you much "SEO juice" because it's hidden.
Even though this topic is controversial, I have ran some tests that show that when all the content is visible at once, you'll get more "SEO juice" from the content.
hope this helps!
The new flow player is quite impressive. It's feature rich and supports all browsers. It even had a flash fallback for really old browsers.
As far as format goes, different browsers support different file types so your best bet is to encode the videos in several html5 formats and let the player decide which is best for your users.
Virginia,
I don't see your website as ranking 5th. Make sure that you're not logged into Google+ when you're checking your rankings as it will modify your search based on what pages you frequent and like.
This looks like a pretty competitive keyword to rank for. It will take a lot of effort and time to get your page ranking where you want it. Make sure that your on-page optimization is A+ with the SEOMoz on page analyzer, and then focus on building dofollow external links. You can do so through things like article submissions, directory submissions, blog commenting, forum discussion etc...
There has a been a persistent, infrequent bug in the management of merged Google+ Pages for local where the owner of the page is unable to access the management of the page and receives a 500 Error from Google. Google knows about the bug but has been unable to quash it as of yet.
They are working on it though!
Here is a link to some more discussion about it... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/business/47j8yzCbLA0/kOgBJWs1fOUJ
Hope that provides a little clarity!
Clarkie6,
There is no solid statement from the search engines that proves that nofollow links do provide SEO value. There is evidence, however, that shows that having a certain percentage of your backlinks as nofollow helps with rankings.
If you think about it, right now, spammers don't spend time with nofollow links as the officially don't pass any value. So the people that do have nofollow links must be generating content and partaking in real discussion.
Bottom line...They probably don't care as much weight but that must certainly carry some.
Hope this helps!
hey there!
To be sure that you don't get dinged for duplicate content, you can specify these parameters under the "URL Parameters" in Google webmaster tools. This tells Google that these values don't change any of the pages content and therefore only count 1 of the pages.
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You should be using hyphens.
Google treats underscores as word joiners, while it treats hyphens as word separators. In other words the hyphen is like having a space between the words and tells Google and that they should be treated as two separate words.
Matt Cutts explains it in more detail in this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AQcSFsQyct8
Hope this helps!
Your website seems to be pretty image intensive. Google takes a snapshot of your website after a short amount of time whether your site is finished loading or not. It looks like the page hasn't had a chance to completely load before the preview has been generated.
I would look into optimizing all of your images for web with Photoshop, minifying your JavaScript and CSS. That would be a great start in fixing your issue!
Hope that helps!
Because H1 tags are meant be explain what the page is about, it's good practice to have them at the top of the page. If you absolutely want to have a friendlier title, make it an H2 that is styled to be bigger than your H1, and style an H2 for that main header of your page. Does that make sense?
