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  • Yes, I want to be able to add manually or be able to filter the results into segmented sitemaps based on the URL structure. I am fine with paying for a tool as long as it works Thanks for the replies so far.

    | Jeff_Lucas
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  • You can use the new HTML5 tags <header> <footer> <aside>. They work the same as a, but give more information to Google. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_header.asp (Header) http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_footer.asp (Footer) http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_aside.asp (Sidebar) </aside> </footer> </header>

    | Crocodesign
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  • William is correct. If you still have trouble crawling, let us know, and we'll help you out!

    | KeriMorgret
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  • But if you're redirecting the old domain, no one will be able to land on it and it won't rank for anything.

    | Chris.Menke
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  • Hi Doug, Thanks for chipping in your thoughts. The site appears to be still ranking high for several of its target keywords, but it's lost a considerable amount of traffic for longer tail keywords. It doesn't appear that the site is facing any new competitors (Ireland is a small market after-all, and the company hasn't been doing any form of outreach/link building. To me it seems the problem has to be something which was changed on their side, which again brings up the point flagged by Robert about the aggregated reviews. Within WMT there have been no messages received either, and I've checked to see if noindex or robots rules have changed...pages losing tracking code etc..and not noticed any issues there.

    | DigitalMarketingInstitute
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  • Hi, Depending on your configuration some times this is located not in the Yoast SEO plugin settings under title and tags like Wiqas suggested, but it is found on the page where you edit your homepage title, content, etc. It would have the following box on your home page edit screen Hope this helps!

    | vmialik
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  • Thank you John for your help!

    | Ideas-Money-Art
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  • You need to title the images what they are, not focused to SEO. So if the dress is called the Summer Green in Fields Dress, the file name should be summer-green-fields-dress.jpg (or something like it) and then the alt text be Summer Green in Fields Dress.

    | katemorris
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  • Thanks Chris. I will check it out.

    | ZiaTG
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  • Julian, As TextureMediainc says keyword cannibalization occurs when you target the same keyword on multiple pages.  It may also occur when different keywords/key phrases are very similar or share the same words, "67 mustang" and  "67 ford mustang", for example or "pink wedding dresses" and "pink wedding dresses with straps" Keep in mind, too, that the On-page Grader report you are looking at is specific to the keyword you entered into the keyword field when you run the report If you change the keyword, you may get a different result.  For example, you may grade one of your category pages for the keyword "wedding dress" and find that it indicates you need to address cannibalization (and you get a grade of "A") but if you grade the same page for "pink wedding dress, you'll may find that it doesn't  (but that you grade of "F"). Be sure to look at your site's keywords hierarchically, with your most competitive keywords toward the top of the hierarchy (homepage); that each category of the site has a specific keyword reason for being it's own category; and that the keywords of category sub pages  fit logically and distinctly within the category.

    | Chris.Menke
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  • if tppmc.co.uk has never been indexed and always (from the start) been redirected then yes...

    | dotfly
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  • I also have the Same Problem as My client is Using Volusion So I am also Going for blog.website.com. Thanks

    | Asjad
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  • Rankings are a lot less stable than they used to be, so I think those days of cleanly seeing differences across data centers are pretty much gone. This is something I deal with a lot in the MozCast project, and today's ranking, even across short time periods on a single data center are pretty volatile, especially for keywords with a news/QDF component. I wrote a bit about it a while back: http://moz.com/blog/a-week-in-the-life-of-3-keywords Sometimes, different data centers will show things like features that are in testing and they may have regional differences for locally sensitive queries, but the index itself seems to propagate pretty quickly these days.

    | Dr-Pete
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  • Hi Tufail, Did these responses answer your question? If so, please mark one or both of them as a "good answer." Thanks! Christy

    | Christy-Correll
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  • I have a similar problem but just a mere 500 extra long links. I have whittled 1,148 broken links down to 22 and aiming for zero. With the titles too long do I need to worry where I have linked out to other sites in a post that that might create new broken links or are there other things I should consider? I always understood that I could fill that title bar and there would not be a problem. On examining the offending links I see that as the domain name has 32 characters from the first www to the m in .com which when prefaced with http:// and the title in the tilte bar creats a huge url. (I know the domain length is pushing it and know about the number of characters for Adwords) So I just change the title in Yoast and don't bother about the title at the top of the page and the prermalink that was originally created? I will do whatever it takes to clear up the problems but would like to sort the title links in one hit as I go through page by page. Your advice would be appreciated.

    | Niamh2
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  • Yes, I got it from Majestic SEO. View page source then ctrl+f and type in 'daisy'. A lot of the domains with a lot of exact match anchors - hidden behind giant images. The registrant of the site probably has no idea this all happened.

    | Travis_Bailey
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  • So it sounds to me that you really just need to focus on the SEO basics, don't do things that you know you're not supposed to do just to try to speed things up (like building a bad link profile) and focus on understanding who your audience is so you can create content that's better than "not too spammy".  Remember, doing SEO stuff without a high regard to its correctness or its adherence to Google's webmaster guidelines gets a lot of newbies in trouble.

    | Chris.Menke
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