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Hi, I'm just curious what the majority think of what's the best way to start a blog on your website for SEO benefits. Is it better to have it under a sub domain or a directory? Or does it even matter?

Hi Marie,

Thank you for responding. I'd be happy to share it with you if we do see a positive result.

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for your suggestion.

From what I can see on our analytics, the product detail page, which is the page with the duplicate description, isn't getting any organic traffic. The page is indexed but it's just not ranking. Other websites including manufacturer is out ranking it.

Good suggestion, we are planning on doing the top 250 SKUs and hopefully we'll get some positive result.

On the websites that you've worked on, did you see an increase after you de-duplicate it? The reason why I'm asking is because I'm being asked by higher ups of what kind of percentage increase should we expect from this. I have no answer for it but they want a ball park answer, e.g., 10% or 20% increase.

Hi all,

Most e-commerce websites use the same product description as the manufacturers. We know duplicate content is a huge negative for SEO. We are thinking about de-duplicating ours but our website is so big - it has tens of thousands of products. To de-duplicate it would require a ton of resources. Do you think it's worth it to go ahead de-duplicate our website? Do you have a website where de-duplication was done and did you see any positive result? (if so, did you see a certain percentage increase?)

Thank you in advance

Hi Everyone,

I have a question. Your input will be very much appreciated.

My company's new website design is using a popup. I have some reservation about it and I want to know what your thoughts are.

Ok, some information on what this popup is like. When a user clicks on a subcategory page, there's a popup that would ask for size, color, etc  - it's like a form and those are the criteria. If nothing is selected,  the product list on the subcategory page doesn't load - so the only thing is showing is the the H1 and description but everything else is empty.

When a user does select a criteria the landing page is no longer the subcategory but another page with that ID. So basically the user never really land on the subcategory page but to another page with a different query string.

Is this bad for SEO? Would you recommend to keep the popup?

Thanks,

Good call Francisco.  I checked GWT and forums are driving an insane amount of links.  I wonder why some tools capture this and some don't?

In any case, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Hello,

I am getting starkly different inbound link amounts from Open Site Explorer and my Campaigns tab.

Domain 1
Campaigns: Total links = 10,895,942 Open Site Explorer - Links =  224,000

Domain 2
Campaigns: Total links = 25,670,287
Open Site Explorer - Links =  157,000

Why would these be so different?

For reference, the "Historical Domain Analysis" shows these sites getting exponentially more links starting in February.  This is of concern to me.  I didn't do anything different in February to get so many more links (especially not in the millions).  If anything, I am hoping the "Campaigns" section is simply wrong about this.