Category: Technical SEO Issues
Discuss site health, structure, and other technical SEO issues.
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Should H1 tags include location?
Is it not possible to rank your contact page for Denver seems like the most obvious place. I have seen sites with locations based on every page and they seem to be getting away with it, however with the way Google is working its hard to say what they are thinking or what they may do in the future I don't think it is going to hurt your site as long as it reads well and the way you described them above it looks just fine, however do they really need to be on every page put them on the most relevant page. Paul
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Application/x-msdownload in crawl report?
Hi Joe, It looks like in this instance that tag is referring to a select handful of pages you have that have a 301 redirect on them and have oddly formatted URLs. I'll give an example without divulging any info about your site: Each instance of that is on a URL formatted as such: http://www.example.com/www.example.com/Sample-product-in-red.html Let me know if you have any more questions about that. If you'd like to discuss this in more detail you can drop us a line at help@seomoz.org and put ATTN: Joel in the subject. Cheers, Joel.
| JoelDay0 -
Our homepage currently uses a Meta refresh. Is it worth $1,000 to get it fixed?
Thanks!! I'm happy to help
| jennita0 -
Duplicate content
Hi Mark, Actually, Google can index images that are saved in PDF content. Here's an example from 2009 http://www.seomoz.org/blog/favorite-tidbits-from-pubcon-2009
| KeriMorgret0 -
Snowmobile maine and maine snowmobile
Eric, I don't think creating two pages for essentially going after the same keywords is a sound strategy. If you created two pages you'll just be cannibalizing your rankings and not to mention potential duplicate content issues that would arise. Since there is not a lot of competition for either of phrases, i think you can rank for both keywords with one page. What i would do is take the stronger page from the two listed above and optimize that page for both of the phrases. Add relevant content with both phrase, making sure to update the title tags, meta tags and H-tags to include your #1 targeted keyword phrase. After this, you will need to build internal links from other pages to this page with the targeted keyword phrase. I hope this can help. Samir
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Crawling a subfolder with a dev site
Here's a post with the common reasons why you get that error. https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-re-not-crawling-all-my-pages If that doesn't solve the problem, contact the help team at help@seomoz.org.
| KeriMorgret0 -
Duplicate page error
The site should not look different. We changed some URLs for unranked kewords on minor pages (with 301 links). We added the canonical tag. We got rid of the https and redirected by 301 to http and some of the suggestions you said above. No major stuff and the site is not recovering... so strange. I think we must have done something structurally wrongs. I would happily pay someone to revise my site and make suggestions. I am at my wits end. Need someone familar with MOdx. Can you see something obviously wrong with the site?
| Llanero0 -
Help with Revamping my site/s
Marc- Yes. Make sure before you start optimizing your categories that you focus on several important "low hanging fruit" areas. They are: Make sure your title and meta descriptions are optimized for some of the additional keywords. This should be contained within your wordpress plugins.....we use yoost all in one SEO and it provides a basic and advanced feature which makes it easy. Make sure your existing pages have the additional keyword phrases. If these are low competition phrases that get some traffic, this is the easiest way to get some immediate value for your efforts. Expand the content with meaningful content...not just keyword stuffing. Make sure you do additional keyword research to identify alot of these long tail keywords. Then rank the keywords from the lowest competition and highest search volume to prioritize which ones you work on first. Good luck. Hope this helps. Mark
| Mark_Jay_Apsey_Jr.0 -
Wordpress & use of 'www' vs not for webmaster tools - explanation needed
Thanks Christopher. Sorry I'm not quite sure what the code you have supplied is for? My site currently works fine with or without the 'www' - but does the code you have supplied acheive something else? thanks d
| dnaynay0 -
Website url duplication issues
Hi Tom, As said earlier, we have done a 301 redirection to those urls and we don't find any errors as of now. However, concerned about the long term issues. I have provided our website url below please let us know whether we have to keep a tab of anything to avoid the issues. http://tinyurl.com/brcxpeo
| massimobrogi0 -
Google description showing latest post excerpt
After a lot of pain, we figure out some of the issues. Problem is that Google hasn't seemed to index everything we've fixed. My guess is that it's just a matter of time?
| ttb0 -
3 URLS Being Created All For The Same Page
I meant that I added canonical tags to my site after I noticed almost the exact same thing that you did so I was suggesting that you do the same. Sorry for the confusion. And yes, I was suggesting that perhaps SEOMOZ changed something with their crawl since we both noticed the same thing around the same time.
| Vizergy0