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Are you talking about a banner ad or just a banner on your site? If it is just a banner on your own site, I don't really see the harm and Google can't tell what is on the image. You should also contain the information in text on your contact page and possibly in the footer of your site. If you are talking about an ad that appears on other sites, I wouldn't recommend this. You are using up valuable ad space and more than likely someone isn't going to call you or jot down your address before they click on the banner and check out your site.

I agree with Federico, the styling should be fixed through CSS and probably before you start doing any other work. Making these changes really shouldn't take that long. Since the site owner is wanting SEO done for his site, he/she would probably listen to your advice on getting the site cleaned up as soon as possible. Just state the issue and let them know that this problem is potentially costing them money.

Hi Tiedoctor, Yes, here you mentioned two title Tag's 1) Alcohol Rehab Bedfordshire | Alcoholic Rehabilitation Clinics Beds 2) Alcohol Rehab Clinics Bedfordshire | www.alcohol-rehab.ltd.uk According to your business "Alcohol Rehab" is the targeted keyword rite. According to search engine rules if you a domain having the targeted or mostly likely keyword as a domain name then search engines will give you the preference to that domain. And i did little bit change to your Title here. In these two titles " 1 " (Alcoholic Rehabilitation Clinics Beds | Alcohol-Rehab-UK Bedfordshire)  the best option, "Alcohol Rehab" it acts as a user search query and targeted keyword for your domain as well as your Brand isn't it. And you fired this "And is is worth while having the url in each title tag?" Answer is : "No need". Because any way your title (" 1 ") is having both your business brand name and keyword. And SEO wise: I took a tour on your website it is having a good description and keywords you can add more too also, title you can keep " 1 " (Your wish). And under the Articles tab, you have a good Articles with a quality content, but all these articles are lacking "Title","Description","Keywords". If you add all these things, more weight it will get. And when ever a new page or article got added to your site, try to submit sitemap immediately. Thank you....

Although PDFs are indexed, Google recommends creating a copy of that PDF in HTML. There's no reason for leaving a page in PDF if you want it to be indexed. Check Matt Cutts video on the most common mistakes SEOs make. He mentions converting the PDF content to an HTML version: watch?feature=player_embedded&v=421aTJI2Nxc

This thread is over a year old. I'd actually suggest starting a new question, as it will get more visibility. Thanks!

Hi Thomas, Thats great to know, and might make our life a lot easier in the future. Thanks John

You're welcome Marcus

This used to be a good answer for this problem, this plugin as of Magento CE 1.7 is no longer compatible and is not being updated by Yoast anymore.  There are a lot of reports of this completely crashing site post version 1.6 so be forewarned.  I have no experience with Magento EE so I cannot speak to that product.

Takeshi, We started to look at the drop downs in comparison to our competitors and we were doing it wrong. We have removed our drop downs and I will take your advice and figure out what navigation is working, less is more. thank you for the advice. Mike

That is GREAT news! However, a note on canonicals to clarify our issue with existing no-control system: we have no use for them on search engines or SERPs really, they are purely used as landing pages for paid ads liek adwords and/or other planned campaigns like social media targeted for demographics or localities, they will more than likely be considered duplicate content by search engines like google. we do not wish these pages to rank organically at all for anything. However, we need them not to count against us in our SEO efforts or in ranking the main version of our content (non-targeted, not used for ads, want it to rank, with very similar content striped of any such geo or demo info, canonical tagged from all those other duplicate content landing pages) This is VERY VERY crucial if you have a business website that operates in more than one geographic location or has two distinct and fully different market demographics to target which will require separate landing pages, however, no matter how we go about it, we are wary that despite our best efforts these landing pages may be considered duplicate as the data on them can only be slightly changed anyway. That is why I think it will incredibly reassuring to have control over this thing and be able to manually or in some other way set those pages canonical tags properly to the main generic version which is intended for organic ranking. I quote from the same page you posted, Q: Do the pages have to be identical? A: No, but they should be similar. Slight differences are fine. precisely why we worry what Google considers "slight" difference. it is as usual very vague and hard to define or bet on, so we would love to be able to play it safe. I really do hope you guys can find an easy way for your team to implement these two crucial seo features... As a marketing company specializing in web, we are tired of wix only being touted as good for photographers, fashion designers, or newbies with 5 pages of static content! In fact we KNOW it is quite the contrary... Wix imho is an Israeli masterpiece, a showcase of a super genius idea and steadfast development and investment behind it, an invention of the century still quite a secret among webmasters... We have been testing and working and searching it for the past 3 years now. I can confirm we have been able to reduce cost to our clients SIGNIFICANTLY using wix and other 3rd party integrations possible with it, and we have been able to deliver major wix e-commerce sites that used to take 3-6 months dev time in 3-4 languages by a team of pro coders, and $20,000-$50,000 in cost, literally for a fraction of that price and within weeks instead. However, we are a bit stuck with these SEO issues and a couple of other features and issues... including SSL which are not as big a deal as all of our checkouts and forms are SSL anyway, but it just gives a better feel to client to see that https on certain pages, although embedded forms all have seals and are all SSL or TLS based on various uses.... So to sum up, I cannot wait until you guys announce availability of 301 & canonical controls for wix users...

Thanks Kane

Thanks Oliver!

agreed - mine was simply my opinion as well  There is no wrong answer.

Yes, thank you adam. I wrote this up in my own wiki after research: rel="cannonical" tags should be applied to all mobile pages where a corresponding desktop page exists. http://www.example.com/" > At the same time, to pass any SEO rank to mobile sites (for mobile Google users) the desktop site should have a rel="alternate" taghttp://m.example.com/" >There are two reasons to apply these tags: avoid duplicate content issues ensure SEO rank is the same for both mobile/desktop equivalent pages So if you have mobile pages that don't match up to any desktop pages, then the above codes do not apply, as there is no duplicate content issue, and no SEO rank to be shared. Thus these pages will have to rank on their own.Thanks

Thanks Paul for the reply.

Thanks for your reply Ian, yeah I was reading that on SEL. I guess we have to just sit back and wait for Google to play along!

Are you saying to treat "Service > Blue Widgets" as page 1 and "Guide > Blue Widgets" as page 2? I think Google would likely ignore rel=prev/next in that context, but it's hard to say. You might be better off using rel=canonical. I'm not sure that both version have great search value, honestly. I've seen rel=prev/next used on a series that wasn't strictly paginated, but where there was a clear order. Unfortunately, it can be really tough to measure the effectiveness of rel=prev/next, even on fairly large sites.

I try to keep my related products in the same category, because the way I see it when someone is looking for a wedding dress, they rather see more wedding dress suggestions than jumping to accessories. The accessories may be added to the suggestion on the checkout page (I'm looking into that at the moment). I'm going to take crusader's advise and ask different opinions and do some testing to see what works better. Thank you both for taking the time to reply.

Thanks Kevin.