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Can you elaborate on the duplicate content issue? Both are same content but in different languages.

I am thinking of

example.com/blog/en/urlgoeshere and example.com/blog/bm/urlgoeshere

What else should i be worried about?

Thanks

Hi Moz community,

I have got a wordpress blog currently in the spanish language. I want to create the same blog content but in english version. (manually translate it to english instead of using translation service such as Google Translate). How should i structure the blog for SEO? How will it work? Any structure markups i should know about?

Any examples?

Thanks

Please add https://www.  in front.

Pmed.

Anyone has any ideas? What could be the reasons?

Hi, No the page is fine.. it's index and follow.

Bing indexed 2 of those pages but ditched one of it i think. What's your email i can send over the link

My client has a fairly new site and we were agressively building content to the website. It is an ecommerce store and we have got a blog as well. We guest blogged in a few places and wrote 3-5 articles a day.

Last few days, i noticed 3-4 pages that we were building links to got deindexed. What could be the reason? We weren't using any bots to build links, only a couple of it around 5-10 links to a page.

Google WMT is not showing any messages and no manual action is seen. What could be the reason? I've submitted those URL for reindex and so far nothing seems to work. Any idea?

Please help.

OMGGGGGG.... .Such simple thing.. how could i miss!

Thank you!

Hi Matt

Pmed you.

Thanks

I have an ecommerce site in English and a blog that is in Malay language. We have started the blog 3 weeks ago with about 20-30 articles written. Ecommerce is using MAgento CMS and Blog is wordpress.

URL Structure:

Ecommerce: www.example.com

Blog: www.example.com/blog

Blog category: www.example.com/blog/category/

However, google is indexing all pages including blog category but not individual post that is in Malay language. What could be the issue here? PLEASE help me!

I am being offered by a blog to have more than 5 links in an article that points directly to our money sites. The blog is in the same niche. This is the first time i am being offered more than 2-3 links in an article. Should i do it?

How many links should be in an article so not to be penalized by Google? Does it look unnatural to have more links in an article that points to the same site but different pages?

Thanks

Hello,

We want to add video to our website.
We are not sure if to embed it from YouTube or Vimeo.

Do you guys know whats best that will not hurt the pagespeed of the site ?

Thank you

Thank you very much Monica.

Ill defiantly will use Google analytic.

Yes and this is what we doing as well but we've got quite good offer from site with a lot

of traffic that i believe can bring much conversion.

Thanks it is helping. But how you measure the results ?

Only with Google analyitcs ?

Hi guys,

I've  got one good offer (I think) from one site that i want to advertise my site and i have few
questions.

How can i test the results of the ads ?
Do i check all the datas only trough Google analytics ?
Can i check the CPM or the CPC with Google analytics ?

Any tips or recommended  tools will be more then welcome.

Thanks guys

Thanks guys !

Thanks a lot !

Hi guys,

We have eCommerce.
We connected the site to the Google analytic eCommerce.
Everything was work fine until 3 weeks ago.  Suddenly we stooped getting purchases  information in the analytic although i see purchases  in the website.

We didn't change anything in the website and i really don't know how to solve this problem.
If someone here can point me where i can get some info on how to fix it it can be great.

Thanks a lot!

Hi guys,

Im using the site explorer to compare all the seo metrics of our site to other sites.
I wanted to know how often the data is updating ?

I heard that its 3 month old, is that make sense ?

Thanks

Thank you for your respond.
I know that Google smart these days and i will never use it for one of my sites.
I do have some domain that lying there that i will be happy to play with and see if i can get results.
Im not talking to use it as my main strategy, its more for playing.

And don't you think that you can learn a lot from this ?
What Google's red line?
Which niche its working and not ?

I see it more research Tools and if i will make some money from that so why not.
In the end i believe that Google its a cray machines but in the end machines  have bugs.

I know that in here most  people believe more in white hat and me too but i hear a lot of crazy thing on this.

Thank you

Hello,

Recently i read about all the cloaking world.
I search some information on the internet about it and i fine this service : http://justcloakit.com/.
Since I'm pretty new to whole this "cloaking world" so I have a few questions from from experts in this field.

Is this still working on SEO since all the Google update recently ?
How easy is that for someone that don't have much experience and knowledge on php and servers stuff ?
Is there are more sites such as the above example ?

In general i have the budget and i don't think its very hard to learn all the technical part but i just want to know if this is something 
that still working, is that good investment in your opinion ? (As its not really cheap)

Cheers and thank you for your help

Hi guys,

We are tshirts printing company.
We have of course a website and we have around 18k monthly visitors.
We get around 75 daily quotes.
We are not E commerce so we dot sale on the website.

We can get all the information from Google analytic regarding to how many quotes we got and from where they came from but we can't know how many quotes was converted.

I heard that i can add ref code on the url and then i will see that code in our quotes system and i will know from where that quote arrived.
Another thing that i know i can do is that the system will remember that first url that the visitor enters the site so like that i can know exactly from each url we got the quote and i know that the professional name for this is  SESSION.

So after all this, the obvious questions here is,

Is everything that im saying here is make sense ?
Can i add SESSION to WordPress site ? And how easy is that/or the cost for that ?
For all of you the expert out there, is this the right way to track everything if you are not eCommerce ?

Any help are welcome !!

Should i subscribe moz local for an ecommerce company selling apparels?

isn't moz local for local business only?

Thank you guys for your help.
I think that i got here enough information's to continue.

Thank 's exactly the problem, because our site is not ecommerce so for us conversion = Lead.
I did create in ppc conversion name and gates  so i can know if the conversion is email details,
Or thank you page, but still its very hard to determine if the leads was converted or not.

I know that there is a way to add a code to the url of the ads and then ill see in the quotes system where its coming from. (Im still trying to crack it and to understand how to do it i think the professional name is referral).

We did create goals and targets in analytic so we can know how many comes to the catalog page or fill the quotes form but still in the end we cant really determine the total cost of the leads.

I do believe as soon as ill crack the way to add the referral to the code and ill know in the system from where each leads are coming then we will have 100% control on this.

Thanks

Hi guys,

Im managing the campaigns in the company that im working and so far i think that the results are o.k more or less.

The problem is how can i really know if it is o.k ?
I really don’t have any data to compare to…

For example, this is campaign from the insurance niche from the uk :

Clicks – 132
Impr – 6,958
CTR- 1.90%
Conversion – 20 (Not inducing the one that calls the office)
Conversion rate – 16%
Total cost – 704£

How can i know by these number that the campaign is working ?

Same here (T-shirts campaign for the Spanish market):

Clicks – 1,219
Impr – 26,177
CTR- 4.66%
Conversion – 56
Conversion rate – 4.5%
Total cost – 493€

Probably you will say, check how much you spend and how much you got back ?
This is also a problem for me. I can see the numbers of the conversion but because we are not eCommerce so i cant really know the total income.

Do you know if there’s is a way that each for quote that coming to our system
so i will know where it came from ? Like a comment in the url or something ?

I think that 90% of our income/quotes comes from the organic as we are ranking very high in Google so its a bit mixed in the system.

Any feedback or tips here on this will be very welcome…

Guys i need some urgent help here as we need to get this sorted out soon.

We have a page similar to wayfair shop the look: www.wayfair.com/Shop-The-Look/

What are the best practices for URL structure if we applies 2-3 filters? Is wayfair style good for SEO?

FYI: We create our crawlable, link friendly AJAX website using pushstate() but unsure of the structure for this case.

We followed http://moz.com/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate advice.

Looking for freelancer or firm that can do the following? Any recommendation here?

Graphic designer needed for a women apparel brand. Our business is mainly online and we are seeking designers to design graphics for each section of our website. (Homepage, category pages etc) I'd love to find someone who's very good not only at the graphic design of websites, but can provide design into the UI / UX of the actual tools & back-end dashboards.

Thank you for considering this opportunity. Candidates who possess ALL three experiences are preferred.

1. Graphic Design (Photoshop, Illustrator)
2. Photography
3. Clothing, Shoes, Bags or at the very MINIMUM female products or services experiences

You are both a talented graphic designer AND possess female product (Clothing/shoes/bags) or services experiences.

Job Description: 
We are looking for a talented Graphic Designer who will be responsible for creating compelling and innovative visual design solutions. We need good design and inspiring photography that looks inviting and signals quality for our website. You do not need to code CSS/HTML, you just need to provide us high end designs that will look as good as the design sample attached.
Here's what you need to know.

Your responsibilities:

1. Use bespoke homepage imagery and design to set a positive first impression of the site and convey its brand values. Great product photography is particularly important in visually-driven industries.
2. Understand business and user requirements for each section of our websites (Shoes, Clothing etc)
3. Translate requirements into highly engaging and compelling design concepts
4. Effectively conceptualize, design and create high-quality visuals in a variety of formats
5. Good design and inspiring photography is essential.

Your qualifications:

-Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator expert with a lot of experience in designing homepages, category pages and other pages of the site.

• Firm understanding of intelligent UX/UI Design
• Strong grasp of visual design principles, information design, typography, color, imagery and iconography
• Compelling portfolio that demonstrates elegant and innovative visual design

Site that we think is awesome and example of graphics/photography design of our standard:

1. Crateandbarrel.com
2. Potterybarn.com
3. llbean.com
4. macys.com

Anyone knows where to get quality designer which has the skills above?

Thanks

Hi jane

Say we have an ecommerce store selling shoes. Should we create different stores for each country and geotarget it for best results? Since those items are similar, wouldn't it create duplicate content?

For example:

www.example.com/us/sling-bag-white

www.example.com/uk/sling-bag-white

Aren't those the same? How to tackle this duplicate content? Any Moz article that i should read to get an idea of the whole thing and best practices for this situation?

Hi Jane

Can you show me a tutorial on how to do this in webmaster tools?

Thanks

Guyz, we are new startups and have one very simple question regarding domain name.

Should we use example.com or example.com.au ?

Our Goal initially would be to target customer from Australia and gradually go global. So if we opt for .com.au we may have an edge in terms of local SEO in the beginning but lose out in the long run. What is the best way to tackle this?

Thanks

Hello guys,
I have a client that ask for me to manage all his social activity.
He have an eCommerce store from the fashion market.
His website is in few languages.

I wanted to ask what do you recommend.
To open to every language a FB page or to open a main page with all the information's ?

Any help is welcome

Thank you for responding Keri.

So what do you think is the best to tackle this problem? Create dedicated unique page for all those terms and optimize it the way we do all the time?

Thanks

My friend is running an ecommerce store selling apparels. How can we make internal search results to appear in Google SERPS and rank them?

For example: the query is "peplum dress". You type the query into the internal search box and it returns a set of results. In this case, it's product listing.

How can we optimize and rank it so it appears in Google SERP? Do we do it the traditional way in terms of links?

Say URL is: http://www.asos.com/search/peplum-top?q=peplum+top&r=2

And we build links to it? Some of you may ask why not create a dedicated page for this, the reason being we'd have too many categories if we were to create one for each.

Thoughts?

Got you!!
Thank you for your help.

My main concern was that a big website the ranking with a lot of keys will get a bomp in the ranking.
We will leave the url's the same as its critical for the results.

We decided to move to Joomla because my boss got convinced for some reason that its better then WP.

Thank you for your help !!

Hello guy's,

We have a WP website and we are moving soon to a new site  that will be in Joomla.
Our website is very big and we are ranking with more then 400 keys in all the tshirts industry in the UK.
The new website will be with the same url's and the same domain so we will not lose any of the ranking.
Within this domain we have the blogs as well and a lot of pages.

I'd like to get some tips about how to make the transition as smooth as we can to avoid problems with Google ?

We have more then 700 visitor a day so we can not take any risks regarding to this.

Any help is welcome  !!!

Hey,

I saw the tool that you create, nice one !! Well done...

The problem that we have a very large and complicated form with
a lot of potion.
Do i have to create the form with your system ?
Can i add the code to an exists form ?

Thank you

Hello guys,
im manager the PPC campaign to the company that im working.
Its a t shirt printing company.
I know how PPC and how its work but im not an expert.

So far the campaign is working and we getting clicks and and leads.

But, i cant understand perfectly how to look at the information and decide whether the campaign works well. For example :

What is considered a good conversion ratio?
What is considered a good conversion cost?
How do I get a final summary of how much i spent and how much was the income ?

I add tracking code to the 2 main pages,
The page when they leave their information - The quote,
and the thank you - The payment page.

The problem is, that we don't sale t shirts online, we are printing house so we cant know by the number of the peoples that
land the thank you page the value of the deal, its can be 10 shirts or 1000 shirts.

Is there's a way to track all the information's  but more accurately?
To know each lead that come to our system from where he came from ?

Thank you very much for your help !!

To all the PPC expert,

Im new with all the PPC world but im learning every day.
I wanted to ask if any one know if there is a good tool for organize / creating ads groups from a big keys list ?

Another thing,
what is the best way to manage the budget for all the campaigns ?

Thank you

We are currently designing and developing our new ecommerce website. Due to the complexity involving in duplicate contents as well as the structure of ecommerce websites, we are looking for a firm who can help us on this.

We have a team of 15 people here developing our site and need guidance for URL structure and general flow of the website (Site optimization) that is SEO friendly. This would enable us to build links effectively.

Anyone can recommend us some strategic consulting firm for this work? We have seen moz recommended lists and still waiting for their reply.

Thanks

What is the best way to do internal linking here?

Hey,

Thanks a lot for your answer.
We are B2B company, so its make it even more harder to convince them to write review.
One of our idea was to add in the thank you page after they leave a quote, to add  all the review sites that we have account there and to ask them to write something over there.
Another thing is like you said its to give them coupon for the next order or free t shirts (we are t shirt company).
We will test it and i hoop it will work better.

Thank you for the article and the respond.

Guy

I am a bit confused at internal linking for ecommerce site. Is it wise to link say all "boots" term in the review section to the boots page? Zappos is doing this. Wouldn't this incur penguin penalty? Since all internal anchor to that page is "boots" ?

Scroll down to the bottom and checkout their reviews: http://www.zappos.com/tony-lama-6071l

Is this the wise way to go about doing internal linking?

Thanks

Hello guys,
lately we think how we can improve all the reviews on our site from the clients.
We notice that there are all these option regarding to reviews :

Google Reviews/Local/Places/+
Yelp
Facebook
www.feefo.com
www.trustpilot.co.uk
www.ekomi.co.uk/uk

And much more...

Now, the problem here with a lot of these sites, the person that write the review need to register to the site.
Most of our clients, not interesting in register or to open account.
They need something fast that they can write the review and move on.

What do you think is the right approach to manage all this ?
We getting a lot of traffic but its seems that we don't advantage all of him regarding to the review part.

Any tips here from the expert ?

Thank you

Hello guys,
About a month ago we got in the webmaster tool a message that saying that we have unnatural links to the website.
We got drop from 200 keys that was in page 1-2 to pages 5-8.
We check our links and notice that someone links more then 1000 links to our site.

We apply for reconsideration request plus we send the file with the links to Google to ask to remove.

Yesterday we got message from Google that say : Manual spam action revoked.
We check today the ranking and we saw that from 3 keys that was in the first page, now we are with 24 in the first page. Very good improvement but still very far from the 130 keys that was in the first page a month ago.

I wanted to ask, what can we expect ?
Are we gonna get the lost ranking now ?
Is this happen overnight ?Maybe the big change will be in the next penguin update ?

Bottom Line, what is the chance to get back the ranking as we had before ?
This is the most important thing right now...

Thank you

Hello.

Currently we have an ecommerce site that sells shoes online in France. The site is in English.

Say the keyword is shoes and our page is example.com/shoes

it;s perfectly fine to optimize that page for keyword of "shoes". Now, what about french keyword of shoes "chaussures" ? How do i optimize it?

Should i create a different page or just edit the same page with keyword of "chaussures" in title tag etc? What is the best way to go about doing this?

Thanks

Would it create duplicated pages?

What about SKU? Should i include SKU in the product pages?

What is your very best preferred method? Can you explain more about canonical? The correct way of doing it?