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Hey Thanks, that's a weight off my mind, some of my pages only have the word "Sussex" in the copy once or twice I was just trying to see why the other site has such an edge over mine and wondered if ti could be down to that. Thanks for your insight Ben

Hyphens have worked for me in the past in terms of rankings so I dont doubt the "ranking potential" but i stopped using them as much as possible for my users sakes mainly. It does affect the SEO, like it gets broken links since people misplace the hyphen or the link is without a hyphen so another site benefits. That URL length of yours is ok already. Obviously, I would again prefer an easy-to-remember URL so the shorter and more targeted, the better for me. It's a preference thing.

I'd echo this comment. Your H1 tag should be unique and identify the most important information. H2 tags should be for subcategories. See example below: About us Meet the team Our history Our clients

I will give this php a try and see if it fixes my issues.

I have hundreds of articles on my site and they range in length between 500 and 4000 words - with lots of photos. My retail pages usually have several hundred words of unique relevant content and they often link to article content (500 to 4000 words) that explains how to use the product, how to select, how to repair, etc.  These are clusters of content around retail products.  In my opinion, it is the best way to rank.... but sometimes your articles will rank better than your retail  --  but, that's OK because we have house ads on those pages to let visitors know that we sell the stuff.

I believe that our search is already looking at the product titles and descriptions. The issue is that many of our products have similar names. i.e. if a customer searches for whiteboards it triggers any product with the word board in its description. The other issue is picking up similar phrases/ typos. I think Google Customer Search is the way to go.

Your SEO is right - even if they are updated, it can take a while before they disappear in Webmaster Tools. Google is not really best in class to update these warnings. I did a quick crawl of your site with Screaming Frog, and I couldn't find Duplicate Page Titles or Meta descriptions. 20 pages don't have a metadescription (/tag/ pages) For a site of 89 HTML pages, the tool had to crawl a lot of resources though - you could consider to put a 'nofollow' tag on the reply links in your comments (the url's of type http://www.bluetea.com.au/sydney-kitchen-companies-a-buyers-guiAde/?replytocom=383 are not indexed, but the links to these pages are followed which ads no value, and is just wasting google bot's time) Some of the examples you give are extremely light on content (http://www.bluetea.com.au/portfolio/potts-point-kitchen/, http://www.bluetea.com.au/cleaning-products-and-our-health/toxic-cleaners/  http://www.bluetea.com.au/colour-consultant/fushia-door/ , you could consider to add some text to these pages, and at least add a alt tag to the images you show. While visually very attractive, 27 images are above 100k - check if you can compress them (think about your poor mobile visitors). Page speed seems to be quite good, noticed however your use a lot of javascript (23% of bytes transferred is javascript) - a bit strange as your site doesn't seem to be that complex. Also check your external links, 4 of them lead to pages that do not exist anymore.(http://www.cosmit.it/tool/home.php?s=0,2,67,71,78, http://www.sampfordixl.com.au/neff/t44t97.html, http://www.kitchenwaresuperstore.com.au/, http://www.forbo-flooring.com.au/) rgds, Dirk

Using the right meta title and description is the best practice for on page seo. Since the competition for the keywords are low, you should be able to rank easily for those keywords. All the very best

In the end it wouldn't matter that much but I would also prefer using dashes as well.

Hi the copy just refers to the main body of text! As others have said people don't tend to read full pages of websites but rather skim. Have short paragraphs and some header tags to break up the page into easy to digest sections. This should help increase your engagement

Thanks Anthony, that's what I was thinking as well!

Hi Guy. The Corporation schema is probably best suited to markup for publicly traded companies: http://www.schema.org/Corporation as it has the following uses... tickerSymbol: The exchange traded instrument associated with a Corporation object. The tickerSymbol is expressed as an exchange and an instrument name separated by a space character. For the exchange component of the tickerSymbol attribute, we reccommend using the controlled vocaulary of Market Identifier Codes (MIC) specified in ISO15022. duns: The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person. legalName: The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name. And a few others. It may be a question of using some Extension markup to better indicate the nuances of stock quotes. For example, maxPrice and minPrice could conceivably be used for High and Low price quote values, while price/open could reflect Opening price quote, and price/close the close.  With those you'd have the structure of an OHLC bar.

Don't think they have any SEO issues though of this as still all links will point at the right URL from both social as the rest of the web. They seem to do a weird redirect back to the interstitial page and as they still seem to rank pretty well I doubt they see SEO issues on their side.

Thanks for your response. Screaming Frog is the tool I using when I came across this (I love this tool!). I bet these are just automatically generated by their CMS. That makes the most sense as to why someone would do this in this specific example. They don't have many webpages overall.

There's actually even more scenarios to it than just that, but thankfully there's a great Moz post on this from April 2014: http://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights that covers your questions, and more. To your specifics, yes a user can set a specific language and Google will try to serve results weighted to their language settings, regardless of location (the German user in the UK per your example). They can also serve German results to anyone in Germany by default (location based). Again, the blog post breaks it all down very well. Go take a look and you should be able to parse what you need for your exact situation.  Cheers!

Far as I know - no value at all for serps....but for searchers perhaps...depends on whether it might be a transactional query or a instructional one etc etc....

But, in the first place, why did you choose to NOINDEX, FOLLOW those product pages? If you have a preferred product page among those different variants seen as duplicate why don't you just use canonical to point there? What do you think is the benefit of noindexing? Theoretically leaving them there with the duplicate content and a canonical you are wasting some google bot crawling budget, but unless you need google to crawl your pages with a high frequency (because your content is frequently updated) I wouldn't care much. Personally I see de-indexing as the last resort.

Hi Linda, are archive pages a duplicate page of the blog post? So they are actually separate pages? Best wishes. David.

Awesome. Makes total sense. I've dropped this: User-agent: * Disallow: /community/member/ Into our robots.txt file. Thanks Ray!

Thanks, Chris. I always do forget about that, but I'll go check it out now!