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I have recently discovered the same issue with one of my wordpress blogs that is using a different seo plugin than I typically use. It seems as though it has the plugin has the ability to generate unique titles and descriptions based on the name of the tag, but for some reason on this particular one.. it is not.

I can't speak as to how beneficial it would be to have these optimized vs. no-indexing them. I suspect it depends on how the tags are used. For some wordpress sites, having a tag archive appear in search results may not be of much benefit, while others may be a different story. I am interested to see what others have to say about this, but for me personally the tags are more for organization internally and to identify similar content which I display on the blog page and not so much about having another page I am trying to get indexed. Simply put, I have bigger fish to fry...but that is just my opinion.

From time to time I see an ad pop up in search results for blog content and have often wondered how much success these ads have had in promoting the specific post. Does anyone have experience with this? What results did you see?

This is very helpful I appreciate it.

Hi, what is the best way to identify audience overlap? I ask because I manage a collection of sites that I believe serves the same audience and feel that we may be cannibalizing our marketing efforts.

Site A - Is our supplement/vitamin store and receives around 38% of our total traffic. Ultimately, we want people to funnel to this site as it is where they would be converting obviously.

Site B - Is our expert/spokespersons site and receives about 40% of our traffic.

Site C - Is a specific weight loss brand created and endorsed by our spokesperson and sold on Site A. This site gets around 16% of our traffic.

Site D - Is also a specific weight loss program also endorsed by our spokesperson and sold on Site A. It gets the remaining 6% or so of traffic.

Now, all of these sites have a fairly similar focus and I can probably come up with several arguments to either keep or do away with them. I'd like to be able to look at analytics data though, that could help in making that decision. Ultimately, sites a and b would be kept regardless but I have always wondered if we would be better served by consolidating sites c and d into a.

I am not sure of the seo implications, but I would do everything I could to keep 1 installation if I could. It just seems like it would make management a lot easier. I may not be following what you are asking though. It sounds like you have a site without a blog using 1 worpress theme and then you are wanting to add a blog using another wordpress theme, is that right?

Does the type of SSL used on a site have any significance to trust and seo ranking?

Wow, thanks for the very well thought out answer. I really appreciate it. You have given me some things to think about and look into a little further.

Thanks Again!

We recently started using shareasale.com for affiliate marketing and have received literally hundreds of applications from coupon websites wanting to become affiliates. Most we have not approved as the quality of the sites is poor. However, a few sites seem more legitimate. Could having these types of sites harm our seo in any way?

Thanks, I figured that was the case. I am glad I asked.

This may be a hard one for most to answer. I am wondering if supplement facts should be listed as html on a website or as an image? I see the benefit of both.

Having a master image that can be saved into a lower res version and posted to the website eliminates issues with misspellings, etc. It also displays the information the same regardless of user and would be much easier to manage in terms of setup. Our formulations change from time to time, so it is important that our labels are consistent across all platforms.

That being said, having the facts in html, would add potentially useful search content to the page and I imagine it would be helpful for disabled persons who use text readers.

Any thoughts on this? I haven't discovered any recommendations or specs on this but I've seen it done both ways on many different sites.

Ok, we are a vitamin and supplement company.. so all of our products fit within that scope. We have a couple of additional sites for more in depth weight loss programs (our best selling products) that we sell the supporting supplements for on our main site. These additional sites are branded for those programs and have lots of supporting content blogs, recipes, etc.

I suppose we could create some heavily branded areas in our main site specific to those products and build all of that out further.  We are in a highly competitive market so any ground we can gain is helpful. Also, we are a smaller company in comparison to many of our competitors, so my fear is that splitting all of our content into these different sites could put us at a disadvantage.

Thanks for the advice so far, still not sure what route to take... but appreciate you taking the time to respond.

Thanks for the response.

Well, from an administration perspective, we have multiple sites already... so I certainly know the challenges and amount of time that can take. I personally am leaning toward having only one site, but am looking for some reasons why one strategy may be better than the other. I was wondering more from an SEO perspective since the administrative complexity would only be simplified with one site.

I also agree, any answers I get will probably be sweeping generalizations without knowing all the specifics of our business, and analytics.. so I am taking that into account.

Hi, I am wondering what if any affiliate management applications are being used out there. Anyone using Shareasale... I am looking into them.

This is a question that I am not sure has a "right" answer. I am just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on this. I can see benefit of both sides of the coin.

In your opinion, is it better to have one large e-commerce site with all of your content on the same domain or is it better to have multiple more targeted domains with your content broken up into smaller chunks?

The reason I ask is, I feel like while multiple more targeted sites certainly have the benefit of focus, aren't you taking all your traffic and content, splitting it up and leaving you with several sites that most likely are getting less traffic than one large site would.

All opinions welcome.

I've been having the same issue for about a month now. Was just looking for a solution when I found this Q&A. I have tried reconnecting and everything goes through ok, but then when I click into any campaign it starts giving me the message again. So, I followed the procedure that David_Lee described above, but sadly got the same result. Any other ideas?

Update: After about 5 minutes the error went away, everything seems to be working correctly now. Perhaps the error message was cached?? or took a few minutes to resolve... not sure. All I know is what David_Lee suggested seems to have worked. Thanks

Just wondering if these rankings even matter? One will go up while the other goes down.. and the Alexa ranking doesn't seem to follow any rhyme or reason in relation to the data I see in Google analytics. Anyone else using these tools? Is one a better indicator of a websites health than the other or should we scrap both from our reports?

That does help Thomas, and I would add that I see the benefit of a forum for community building. In some instances I think forums could be a huge benefit. What I am seeing on the forum that we manage is a smaller and smaller number of users asking questions and starting topics. We still get a good number of eyeballs checking out older posts though...  lots of lurkers.

Many questions that used to end up on the forum are now being directed to live chat, facebook, blog comments, etc.

In general most forums I see feel very outdated to me, so I am wondering if anyone has seen any great examples of what they would consider more "modernized versions of forums that are successful?

Well, maybe that isn't the best way to word this questions as I am sure it varies by topic but generally speaking what is the consensus on forums, are they worth continued development?

As part of several sites our team manages we have seen our forum traffic slowly die out in recent years. Last year we did a redesign and simplified things for better user experience and we have seen a bump in traffic this year but that has not translated into conversions.

As more blogs, social media sites, etc. continue to gain in popularity it seems as though forums are starting to fall back a little. Would love to hear your opinions though.

Hi, we are using MOZ to monitor errors and warnings. It helped identify some issues we didn't know that we had in terms of some duplicate meta data. The biggest error or warning that is still an issue is the number of links on some of our pages. Anyway, we actually have only had MOZ now for about 4-5 months out of the time frame I described.

We have seen some improvements. Our conversion rate has improved slightly and we have also seen less cart abandonment as a result of some of the changes we made to our sites. Traffic wise things are a little harder to address. On one level we are seeming to have more "new" visitors to our sites but our overall traffic is down. This is a little misleading though as our spokesperson has also started to take a step back as she nears retirement, so we have had much less major media appearances, etc. It does seem as though we are doing a little better in search rankings for some of our keywords though.

Thanks Meghan, that is helpful. Our biggest issue is that it seems as though so many opinions exist on what constitutes good seo. Our focus has been on strengthening the design and branding of our sites while creating as much content as we can. Technically, we have made improvements based on feedback obtained via moz and using other online tools and best practices.

At one point we considered bringing in an outside firm to manage all of our seo but felt that it wasn't practical for us considering our stance on content creation being one of the more critical areas of focus. In my opinion one of our biggest issues right now is obtaining good quality back links... it's been slow going.

Anyway, after a lot of self evaluation and discussion we felt like a review from a third party would be helpful to focus us in on the most critical areas that we can improve.  We also feel that we would be best to implement suggested changes and handle the seo work long term.

We have run into some interesting characters along the way and some really great companies who would do an amazing job if needing a more comprehensive and long term solution. I haven't seen too many that offer more of a "review". Just was wondering what others would consider important in an seo review so we can better evaluate potential seo's.

I think it would be beneficial to have a third party seo review of the network of sites my team and I manage and was wondering if any of you had suggestions for what sort of tests should be done or that we should expect to see done during one of these reviews.

We are a small team who has varying seo experience and have been working hard to make improvements to our sites in the past year. Most of our sites have been completely overhauled in the last 12-16 months and seo work that had not been done in the past has been setup, along with some corrections that may have been harming seo.

We believe we are on the right track and have learned a good amount about seo in that time, but it would be nice to have some "expert" feedback outside of our office to get a clearer picture on anything we may be missing or some suggested improvements. A sort of double check on the work we have done.

Thanks Takeshi, you make some valid points. Makes sense to me.

We have just begun using SEO Moz a few months ago and have been busy cleaning up some of our warnings and errors. One of the errors that has been an issue is ... too many on-page links. I am trying to correct this issue and I am wondering how seo moz counts these links. For instance... we have links to many of our product categories in a drop down from our main menu, those same links are listed in our footer. Does this get counted as two or only one link. If two, should we make one of the link no follow or how would you best suggest correcting this. Our website is www.unikeyhealth.com

Since the menu and the footer appear on virtually every page on our site correcting this issue will quickly sort out this problem. Thanks for any advice.