Hi Everyone! I just transitioned into SEO in the medical spectrum and have never come across such long names. In terms of recommendations for character counts in title tags, what would be the recommendation? Write until it gets truncated (which is current state)? Use the abbreviation? Try to ensure the "plain language" words appear towards the front? Any viewpoints would be appreciated!

Hi Mozers,

There are over 200 pages from our site that have a meta tag "noindex" but are STILL being indexed.

What else can I do to remove them from the Index?

Thank you! Now that I've read your response, the answer seems so obvious! Very helpful.

Hi Mozers,

We have images on their own separate pages that are then pulled onto content pages.

Should the standalone pages be indexable?

On the one hand, it seems good to have an image on it's own page, with it's own title.

On the other hand, it may be better SEO for crawler to find the image on a content page dedicated to that topic.

Unsure.

Would appreciate any guidance!

Yael

Hi Mozers,

Are in-page tabs still detrimental for SEO?

In-page tabs: allow you to  alternate between views within the same context, not to navigate to different areas.  As in one long HTML page that just looks like it's divided into different pages via tabs that you can click between.

Each tab has it's own URL, which I guess is for analytics tracking purposes?

https://XXX

https://XXX?qt-staff_profile_tabs=1

https://XXX?qt-staff_profile_tabs=2

https://XXX?qt-staff_profile_tabs=3

Hi Mozers,

We have a page that's ranking #1 for several very high volume queries but the bounce rate is 90%.

It's puzzling that the page is ranking so well even though the bounce rate is exceedingly high. The algorithm takes user engagement metrics into account so you would think that it those metrics would push the page down.

Having said that, the page does have lots of backlinks. So maybe it's ranking despite the fact that people are clicking out?

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks,

Yael

Hi,

We have dynamic listing pages that are sometimes populated and sometimes not populated. They are clinical trial results pages for disease types, some of which don't always have trials open. This means that sometimes the CMS produces a blank page -- pages that are then flagged as thin content.

We're considering implementing a conditional noindex -- where the page is indexed only if there are results.

However, I'm concerned that this will be confusing to Google and send a negative ranking signal.

Any advice would be super helpful.

Thanks!