Category: On-Page / Site Optimization
Explore on-page optimization and its role in a larger SEO strategy.
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Duplicate Page Title issues
Thank you! I have just update titles by appending string 'Page 1 of 4' at the end of each page title. This will fix the duplicate page title above.
| JohnHuynh0 -
Optimal Copy Length
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're trying to rank for "citibank home loans", you're not going to be able to make that happen in the next couple years unless you have an outstanding promotional strategy for your domain. If you look at the SERP for "citibank home loans", here are the ranking domains I see (it's a 7 pack result page for me): citimortgage.com online.citibank.com online.citibank.com online.citibank.com marketwatch.com (QDF News result from Spring 2013) linked.com/company/citibank/.... (product page) linkedin.com/title/home+lending+specialist/at-citibank/ You're not going to beat any of those results. You should start looking for non-branding or longer tail queries where you have a better shot at getting into the results. The design of your page is decent overall, and the copy length looks sufficient to rank for other search terms. I'd worry about identifying an easier term to rank for, and getting your Domain Authority much higher and pushing internal links to these landing pages. Longer term that's probably your best shot as far as branded queries for bank loans are concerned.
| KaneJamison0 -
URL question
Hi Tony, you will likely get more recommendations if you ask this followup question in a brand new thread. Best of luck!
| Christy-Correll0 -
Articles URL
Well, you need to build some rewrite rules for that to work, it doesn't go automatically to the file querying the DB.
| FedeEinhorn0 -
Is there a way to prevent Google Alerts from picking up old press releases?
Thanks for the post Keri. Yep, the OCR option would still make the image option for hiding "moo" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwYpSCrlHU
| CleverPhD0 -
SEO targeted text on Mobile Site Version
Hard to say whether it's adding any value or not at the moment, so whether or not removing it would make a difference for mobile results is difficult to guess. I generally try and keep mobile content as complete as possible, and if this snippet of text is kept at the bottom in a minor font, I don't think it's adding too much 'weight' to the page.
| KaneJamison0 -
HTML Improvements is not updated
No, I'd just wait for it to drop out on its own and not try to inadvertently mess things up.
| KeriMorgret0 -
What makes a "perfectly optimized page" in 2013?
For example, social sharing links and authorship markup are good additions to a well-created landing page. While they may not technically be on-page factors, they are things that you implement on-page that can have a big impact on the overall strength of the page.
| Chris.Menke0 -
Sitemap.xml parameters
Thank you ! I also found a good tool for creating sitemap: http://www.web-site-map.com/xml_sitemap.php
| JohnHuynh0 -
URL contain special character
I am extremely happy I could be of help. Sincerely, Thomas
| BlueprintMarketing1 -
Duplicate Page Content
Thanks all - will give those options a try and see which works the best for us.
| HamiltonIsland0 -
On site SEO review please
Thanks for the replies guys. I have Moz Pro and all my pages are grade A for on site seo. Therefore I'm really looking for perspectives from industry professionals as to how the one site SEO could be further improved outside of Moz tools suggestions.
| SamCUK0 -
Optimizing pages for keywords
Hello Mike, Thank you for taking your time to respond. I can easily write good content using all those keywords and can do so without stuffing.
| Kelly_S0 -
Locating broken links on site?
I know this is already answered, but SEER did a great guide to Screaming Frog Guide to Doing Almost Anything: 55+ Ways of Looking at a Tool. There are some really cool tips in there. Mike
| Kara.Wallace0 -
If I put 'keyword/url' combination to 'stop run weekly', will it dissapear from the summary page in the on-page grader?
Hi C.S., Thanks for writing in. If you choose the "Stop running weekly" button for any On-Page Report, it will completely remove that report from the tool, including from the summary list. The only way you would see that report again is if the URL still ranks for that keyword (which will automatically generate a report after the next update) or if you manually add the report back into the tool. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Chiaryn Help Team Ninja
| ChiarynMiranda0 -
Best Practice: Should We Always Make No-Follow for External Links from Blogs?
1. If I am allowing advertising on my blog and people advertising by placing Ads, Contextual links in Posts, Should I make them No-Follow? If Yes, then I might lose a good amount of income coming from Advertising. What is the best practice without loosing Organic rankings. If you don't want Google hitting you with a penalization (total, which means bouncing you out of the index, or partial, which means quitting you a substantial part of your PageRank), than you should put them as Nofollow. Be aware that Google is not against selling links or "paid reviews" by themselves, but against using those activities in order to manipulate the rankings. To your "clients", therefore, you should try to sell your blog because of the link equity passed via followed links/ads, but because the blog has referral traffic value, is targeting their audience, has a great social media activity... hence it can really help them in putting themselves in front of the eyes of that audience that want to gain. 2. If I make all the External Links No-Follow (simple wordpress plugin can do), then I may not have anyone to advertise on my blog. What is the advantage that I am going to get? Sincerely I would not put all links as nofollowed, but just the banners/text links/ads out of the body and those which are not editorially justified in the posts. I guess that your blog substantially offers "guest posts" opportunities... If it is so, then I would work on the quality of the posts you publish... also because if you let publishing every single 300 words blog posts a writer can write in 5 minutes, well... your blog won't have a great life and will be easily detected as low quality. 3. Keeping the Do-Follow on all external links, how it will effect my blog? when there is no spam and all quality content on the blog. Again, see answer 2. An editorial control must always be present.
| gfiorelli10 -
Duplicate Content for Men's and Women's Version of Site
Thanks for the responses guys. We were going to just have a unisex version of these pages located on the female sections and have the links on the male part redirect there, but our designer thought this would break the customer process up too much as once on those pages, the only way back to where they were (the male part) would be to click the back bottom on the browser as simply clicking to return home would take them to the home of the female part. I'll make them canonical them - cheers!
| LeahHutcheon0 -
Increasing pageviews on a social networking site
Hello there, I agree with Oleg. As we digital people say, make it sticky and make it look great. Also, try to differentiate it from the most common social media and interests people in order for them to come back.
| PremioOscar1 -
Ref = Canonical
Thanks for the speedy response Streamline, We have just rewritten our web site using a directory structure, rather than having all of the HTML pages in the root folder, and used rel=canonical on all pages, because we were/are really worried about our (fairly good) rankings being negatively impacted. We have also used rel=canonical in the redirect pages, as we believed that this was an appropriate use of of the 'tag.' PS (Sorry about the earlier 'Ref' typo)
| JustInsulation0 -
Is this sitemap valid?
you can use a sitemap validator to check: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/index.php?op=validate-xml-sitemap&go=1&sitemapurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.local-sex-search.com%2Fsitemap.xml&submit=Validate Or just submit into webmaster tools and see if it bounces back any errors.
| Anti-Alex0