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Is it necessary to have the exact keyword which you are trying to rank for within the first sentence of the content on your web page? For example if we are selling men's shoes, is it ok to have have the meta title and h1 on page say men's shoes and just talk about shoes within the first sentence of the content on the page. Is it obvious to search engines that this page is selling men's shoes even if you don't have the word men's shoes in that first sentence or is it necessary to have the exact keywords which you are trying to rank for written there?

Hi, I am in the process of setting up an affiliate marketing campaign for my site. I have done a bit of research and understand that it is safest in terms of SEO to add no-follow to the links from the affiliate sites. What is the easiest and simplest way to implement this?

Thank you so much for sharing this highly informative article. I have a question regarding the data feed description and duplicate content issue. If the product description on my website and the description in the product feed given to the affiliate site is identical can my site suffer due to this duplicate content or can this only negatively effect the affiliate site?

I have just signed up with a company to do affiliate marketing for my site. I am now in the process of  reaching out to publishers and seeing who will publish my link on their site. Is there any benefit in terms of seo for having these links, and can there be any potential downside to these links as well?

Hi Bryan,

Thanks so much for sending me this very informative article by Neil Patel. I read through it, but my original question still remains, what is the fundamental difference between the meta title and the h1, and practically speaking how would I write them in the optimal way to rank for that page?

Thanks again!

I am working on optimizing the content on my site and am currently reviewing my h1s and seeing how they can be improved. What is the exact purpose of the h1 and how should it differ from the meta title?We sell clothing apparel on my site. So for example- my meta title for women's printed tops category is- Printed tops for women I Patterned Shirts & Tunics I Company Name. How should my h1 differ from this?

Thanks.

Thank you for your responses. I will try to use the word women's once in the title and make sure to use other variations in the description on the page and see how we rank.

Yes, I understand I shouldn't stuff keywords like that. I was just trying to illustrate my question. My question really is, is if possible to rank for women's print shirts or women's print tops if I only use the term women's in the beginning of the title together with the word tops?

I am looking for some clarity on what exactly you need to spell out for google in the exact match and what google understands in terms of using keywords in your meta title which I am trying to rank for.

For example if my category page is for women's top, with both printed and solid color options, would it be ok to write- "Women's Tops: Printed & Solid Shirts & Tunics" and be able to rank for women's tops, women's printed tops, women's solid shirts etc. or would I have to be more specific and use women's as the keyword modifier before each term and  write- "Women's Tops, Women's Printed & Solid Shirts, Women's Tunics"?

I recently received a link, but upon inspecting the page source on the site I did not see the link in the coding. Is this a link with any SEO value? Is google able to see this link?

Note: Upon inspecting the actual link on the page, I do see coding with a followed link, but on the page source, only the actual table in which it is listed shows in the coding, with none of the content - including our link, showing.

Hi, I am in the process of setting up an affiliate marketing campaign for my site. I have done a bit of research and understand that it is safest in terms of SEO to add no-follow to the links from the affiliate sites. What is the easiest and simplest way to implement this?

Hi Bryan,

Thanks so much for sending me this very informative article by Neil Patel. I read through it, but my original question still remains, what is the fundamental difference between the meta title and the h1, and practically speaking how would I write them in the optimal way to rank for that page?

Thanks again!

I stand corrected. Thank you.

Just to confirm, you're saying that although Google can sometimes recognize where the content originated, they may give preference to stronger sites, and that it isn't foolproof?

For the past few days, every time I try posting a comment, no matter how long or short, how informative or simple, I've been getting the error message that the comment isn't being allowed. I only tried a few times, once on several different posts (not spamming, God forbid!), and I never include links in my comments... So what's wrong?!

So frustrated, I am so not up to this right now. Why can't I share my insights and questions on Moz anymore? Gaaaaaaa!

Do I get points for answering my own question? The Q&A video guide said not to delete any questions, but I think I have the answer...

I heard that the indexing was delayed to today for some reason. If anyone can confirm that, that would be cool.

Thanks again!

Just wanted to point out that, to the best of my knowledge, you don't need to be concerned about other sites copying your content, since Google knows where the text first appeared and will only penalize subsequent appearances of the same text.