Google reads "-" as a space.
So always use "-" and certainly don't use "%20"
A lot of people use "_" also, instead of using a "-" .. Which they should not be doing.
Posts made by warcom
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RE: Spaces (actual spaces) in URLposted in Technical SEO
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RE: Best Tools for Invoicing, Accepting Payments, Sending Receiptsposted in Industry News
We have been using http://www.getharvest.com/ for the last few years.
It's decent, but I think we'll move away from it shortly as we no longer really use time tracking.
I'll be looking at something that integrates into Xero, or if Xero does recurring invoices, I'll just use that.
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RE: Optimising /product/ pages for our 15,000 product ecommerce store.posted in Conversion Rate Optimization
Hi Andrea,
We went through the process of using optimisely for a little while, but we didn't really think it was worth while in the end.
People don't just buy based on colors, or wording changes, so making such minute changes and seeing +/- a few percentages, doesn't accurately tell us a lot ..
So we put a lot more emphasis on just choosing the current color trends, title trends, image trends, etc.
Paul.
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RE: Agency footer link, do we keep it ?posted in Algorithm Updates
Short answers: Don't do it.
Chris did a great job at explaining why as well.
Having said that, if the agency is a highly respected an ethical agency, then you could consider it, but nine out of 10 times, they won't be, so I'd advise removing the links.
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RE: Block a country, will affect my ranking?posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
It will affect your rankings, in those countries.
If you don't care about SEO or traffic from those countries, don't worry about it.
We block most countries like .RU, etc.
We don't want to sell anything to then, and we certainly don't want anything they have to sell
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RE: Keyword Position in Headingsposted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
I would run with the second one ..
But from there, you could also go with things like:
- Womens Red Shoes | Free Shipping on all Red Shoes
- Huge Range of Red Shoes | Read our reviews online!
- Guaranteed Best Prices on Womens Red Shoes | Buy stylish new Shoes today!
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Optimising /product/ pages for our 15,000 product ecommerce store.posted in Conversion Rate Optimization
Hi guys!
We're constantly working on evolving our /product/ pages on the site, however some times it's pretty easy to get lost in your own mess. Especially when the sites consists of 15,000+ products. So it's pretty painful to handcraft every single page.
So I thought I'd jump in here to see if anyone had any suggestions for stuff we're missing, and or should improve?
These are product pages:
- http://www.warcom.com.au/products/9954_draytek-vigor-120-single-port-adsl-122-modem
- http://www.warcom.com.au/products/49884_warcom-deluxe-double-lcd-monitor-stand---free-shipping
There is a few issues we're aware of already..
Negatives:
- To many links in the left menus.
- To many links in the footer.
Positives:
- We recently included rich snippets..
- We're always testing out colors and styles.
- We're always testing meta data.
Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Paul.
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RE: Wordwatch Software: PPC Adwords campaign managers heard of, tried, or actively using this?posted in Paid Search Marketing
We've been trialling WordMatch for around two weeks now and I am a bit suspicious as to whether or not any of what they do is actually automated, or if they are just outsourcing management to [insert low cost of living country here].
The only trend I can see by using, the 'Adword's Change History' is that every day they increase around 5 keywords, and then every third day, they decrease 3 words.
It all seems a little strange to me, as I would expect a lot more to be happening than this.
- Paul.
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RE: Local SEOposted in Image & Video Optimization
We're looking a Local SEO expert who can assist us.
Please feel free to get in touch.
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RE: SEO for Wordpressposted in Technical SEO
We use the following SEO Plugins for WordPress:
- All in One SEO Pack
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Inbound Writer (< This is great)
- Broken Link Checker
- Scribe SEO <- This is awesome).
- SEO Smart Links
I highly recommend Scribe SEO.
It's pretty cheap, but does a great job - especially if you have internal staff who write blogs for you.
I just tell me staff to hit 90%+ and then review the blogs.
And the all in One SEO Pack, is still without a debt the best SEO plugin for WordPress!
- Paul.
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RE: Best way to resolve duplicate content issue?posted in Content Development
Is padding out the content on the duplicated pages an option?
ie: If you where to add additional information to those pages, and slightly re-word those pages (as opposed to completely re-writing them), this could be a step in the right direction.
What is actually being duplicated about the page?
- The content
- The page title
Because both of these should be able to be dynamically re-written.
Feel free to PM me some examples.
- Paul.
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Where do I find the best link building company?posted in Link Building
Hi there,
I'm trying to find an ethical, honest, link building company.
We don't want links on shady forums, or comment spam, or any of that black hat nastyness!.
I want links, on proper sites, and I'm prepared to pay for them accordingly.
We're also more than happy to write/have written/ quality content that can be linked to.
(We already pump out about 15 x 400+ word, optimised blogs weeks)
We spend hours on the various social media sites also.
So I think the only thing we're really missing now, is decent backlinks and possibly some more long tail keywords...
Over to you guys.
- Paul.