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Top thanks The only strange thing was that when i optimize my HTML code the Text/HTML ratio decreased :S

Hey Lana, Similar to what Anthony said, you're setup should keep the PDF url from being indexed. In order to help ensure the PDF doesn't get indexed you can do the following: Use the robots.txt file to block Google crawlers: User-agent: * Disallow: *.pdf Use rel="nofollow" on links that point to the PDF Download PDF Hope this helps!

I'm also looking to improve upon branding for my site barcodefactory using videos to do some branding...I'm very interested in this topic. We have a Youtube channel for the same purposes of using the traffic to generate some branding attention...just can't beat Youtube's audience over trying to go this alone via your own domain.

Presumably  humans will still be able to find your search results pages as needed by using the search function on your site. This way, they won't enter your site on a page that might be confusing for them - in my view, it's a win-win! Best of luck!

Thanks Nick, We're happy to mention the old brand on the new site and will be talking about the rebrand on the new site. Agree leaving the old brand in the meta title for some time will help. We're also planning on mentioning old and new brands in the meta description so users can easily see we are the same company.

Alright, well my advice runs counter to common wisdom: don't worry so much about whether it's on a sub-domain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/ My feeling is that you should worry a lot more about what the blog is linking to. I've personally had access to look into 2 of the most-cited subdomain examples. In one of them the company moved into a subdomain, but broke a massive document up into about 7 pieces - and each piece started getting organic traffic. This happened at the same time, so I don't think it can be attributed to the sub-domain movement. In another case the blog logo linked back to the blog home, and there were almost no links to the sales pages. Changing the header resulted in more links to the root domain, so yes - rankings improved. I've heard other anecdotes of people moving to sub-folders and seeing big boosts in their non-blog rankings due to the links from the blog. For the last 5 years, though, I've seen no credible evidence. I've been in a good position to see the opposite. One more story: a friend of mine just moved a MASSIVELY-cited blog (blog PA 75) off the sub-domain, but his nav was already mirroring the www version (which has 1/15th the links). Impact on rankings: absolutely none. I'd still install on the same server if I could, just for the sake of maintenance, but if you can't find a technical solution just make sure you link architecture makes sense.

Provided that there are no links to http://clientname.com/products/ and obviously it's not part of the breadcrumbs you're fine though you may want to consider adding these pages to give you a point to all products (of a list of categories of products), etc. But no ... the structure itself isn't inherently going to cause problems.

I don't think you need to worry about it. I think what this blog was talking about is more people who do spam content way down the page under the footer kind of thing. I think if you build a good website which has content below the fold I wouldn't be worried at all. I have clients who rank for some very hard keywords and for conversion we have less above the fold so it's pushing them to do one of our call to actions. Always remember google wants you to build a website which users like not a website that google likes.

Do you have this on any other pages? If so is there a similarity between any of them? Is there anything that you're using that auto generates dates anywhere?

Thanks a lot To be considered for inclusion in Google News content, you need a Google account and (with that account) to submit the site in question for review to the Google News Publisher Center. There is no guarantee a site will be included. Can you tell me where i need to do this?

Hi Oliver, There are a lot of factors that go into on-site optimization. Here are a few: Title Tags Does your website feature Title Tags featuring the keywords you are targeting? This is a major factor Google takes into consideration when indexing your website for your key terms. H1 Headings Same as above, but on the pages themselves. They tell Googlebot what the page is about and what it should be indexed under. When were these changes made? Indexing can take weeks to occur after you have made site changes. Google will get around to it some time. Robots.txt Is your robots.txt file blocking Google access? Make sure you are open to Google before determining it is not indexing your website. Content The content of the page should feature the keywords you are targeting, but make sure not to over-optimize your content for these keywords. Stuffing terms into the page in unnatural places is a good way to have your website penalized. Definition When your friend says "Google isn't indexing your site", what reasons/evidence do they have? Are they using rank tracking software? Some of this software will not show your website if it does not appear in SERP's above a certain point (SERPbook, for example, only should the top 300 SERP results for a keyword if you meet that criteria). Consider each of these factors and see if there is something you are missing - feel free to follow up with me if you have additional questions. Best of luck! Rob

Hi Oliver, I'm assuming what you mean is "can Alt tags be identical for all images if only the number changes"? If that is the question, then you will find that it won't help you out too much. Alt Tags on their own are only a small part of on-site optimization, and feature as a minor factor for Google. This question was answered very well a few years ago in this post: https://moz.com/community/q/alt-tag-labels-that-use-near-duplicate-text-seo-no-no Basically, you will be unlikely to receive a penalty/algorithmic suppression, but this is not best practice. You may be risking keyword stuffing by following this route. Personally, I think you are better off focusing on generating optimized content and a solid, healthy (natural) link profile rather than getting too focused on Alt Tags. Hope this helps! Rob

This is generally a mix of two issues... 1. Handling 404s improperly 2. An improper relative link 9 times out of 10 this is the issue. Let's say, for example, the client's site is "client.com" A link in their main template looks like this... a href="client.com/" instead of... a href="http://client.com" or a href="/" That first link will cause Google, or any crawler, to visit "http://client.com/client.com". When the bot visits this page, it finds the same a href="client.com/" link and, now tries to visit "http://client.com/client.com/client.com" so on and so forth. Now, for this to happen, the page also needs to deliver a 200OK, otherwise Google would likely stop trying to access the page because of the 404. Both of these issues need to be resolved.

The Dirk answer points to some potential answers. Said that, when I click on your SERP's link, I see others sitelinks (just two): the first >>> Robes the second >>> Вся распродажа. As Dirk pointed out, your site has detected my IP (quite surely, but maybe it is user agent), and when I click on the second sitelink I see this url: http://www.revolveclothing.es/r/Brands.jsp?aliasURL=sale/all-sale-items/br/54cc7b&&n=s&s=d&c=All+Sale+Items. The biggest problem, when it comes to IP redirections, is that they are a big problem in terms both of SEO and usability: SEO, because googlebot (and others bots) will mostly be redirected to the USA version due to their IPs, even though Google crawls site also from datacenters present in other country (but much less); Users, because you are making impossible, for instance, to a Spanish user to see the Spanish site whenever they are not in Spain. And that really sucks and pisses off users. There's a solution: making the IP redirection just the first time someone click on a link to your site and if that link is not corresponding to the version of the country from were users and bots are clicking; presenting the links to the others country versions of your site, so that: bots will follow those links and discover those versions (but not being redirected again); users are free to go to the version of your site they really need (but not being redirected again if coming from those country selector links). Said that, it would be better using a system like the one Amazon uses, which consists not forcing a redirection because of IP, but detecting it and launching an alert on-screen, something like: "We see that you are visiting us from [Country X]. Maybe you will prefer visiting [url to user's country site]". Then, i just checked the hreflang implementation, and it seems it was implemented correctly (at least after a very fast review with Flang). I tried to search for "Resolve clothing" in Spain incognito and not personalized search, and it shows me the Spanish website and Spanish sitelinks correctly; I tried the same search from Spain but letting Google consider my user-agent (setup for English in search), and I saw the .com version and English sitelinks (which is fine). Remember, sitelinks are decided by Goggle and we can only demote them. To conclude, I think the real reason has to be searched not in a real international SEO issue (but check out the IP redirection), but to a possible and more general indexation problem.

Hi Allie Stramark has the right idea. That aspect of Yoast is a tool just for you to help with keyword targeting. It doesn't actually impact the SEO of your page though. You could try something like Moz's On-Page grader. Unfortunately, knowing if you can get Yoast's tool to work, would require knowing how the site was in fact coded. It might be a simple fix, or it might be tricky. I'd see if you can ask the developer though, maybe it's an easy fix. -Dan

Hey Meier, I'm glad that was helpful! With Wordpress I use Simple 301 Redirects by Scott Nelle.  It's very simple plugin to understand and use.  Let me know if you have any other questions! Be well, Alex Brown Del Mar Fans & Lighting

Hi Dan Have you compared your Social Media status compared to your competitors? Kind regards David A Viniker

Hi CleverPhD, Thanks for your answer! The website is indeed a little dated and did not consider SEO - or so I have been informed. http://www.g1.de/projekte.aspx is the URL with the most clearest problems, although similar tiles also exist on other pages. As you can see by checking the code, the URL is changed, albeit in a non-ideal way (parameter) and the page basically stays the same with only a tiny fraction of its content changed. The USAtoday approach is interesting and I will look into it. I have a slight feeling, though, that the approach is quite a bit different(?).

Hi, You might want to read this article on faceted navigation on the google webmaster blog which gives some good advice on how to handle the situation. What to use depends a bit on your actual situation. Options include using a nofollow links / use a separate subdomain or block in robots.txt (using a separate folder). On Moz there is this article (the part of faceting) - its mainly about listing sites - but the core problem is more or less similar. Hope this helps, Dirk