Category: Technical SEO Issues
Discuss site health, structure, and other technical SEO issues.
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Canonical question for cross-listed product listings
Thanks for the info. My concern is that there are some instances where Google is splitting the traffic between two PDP urls. I guess it's good to know it is a problem others have. From what I've read and what you've said, I don't see a solution without eliminating cross-listing of PDP's between relevant categories, and doing that (I think) would make for a poor user shopping experience.
| LivDetrick0 -
FAQ Schema Markup
Any page that has a question and answer format can be written up with the schema mentioned. It doesn't matter if it's a blog post per se or an actual FAQ page. Markup is just markup. That doesn't mean it will show up in Google's results. The page you submitted is eligible for rich snippets. The markup looks good. I personally use "QAPage" vs "FAQPage" but the code is good and has been run through Google's tester. See link. https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?utm_campaign=devsite&utm_medium=jsonld&utm_source=qapage&id=BMUQwAqEfagmo9FsrPBvrg I've only been doing the markup for a few months but on the site that I do have snippets, it's for questions that are actually searched for in Google and typically they show up in Google's autocomplete results. Not to say that other forms of questions can't but I've only had success with higher search volume phrases for my site. I also found that the shorter the question phrase the better chance they had to show up. Our FAQ page has 25 Qs and As and only 5 of them show up in rich snippets. We also have a domain authority of 62 so I'm not sure if that helps either. Again, this is mostly anecdotal and not empirical. Hope it helps.
| DarinPirkey0 -
Hii I am trying to put key phrases for me blog but Yoast key phrase gives me an orange face ?
Fast answer is click on the face and scroll down. Not sure if you really have to scroll, yoast design was changing last weeks. But you will find it if you click the face. Ok that should answer everything, because Yoast shows you what it means you are not doing or not doing good enough. And what todo exactly! For both KW-Optimization and Readability. Special for readability is, you can click on an eye-Icon wicht shows you the sentence where you are doing wrong in a colored mark-up. But, to see this, you cant be in most Pagebuilders, you have to be in the WP-Editor mode, so for some Pagebuilders eg Elementor you need to go to WP-Editor. to see what yoast is saying. And for some other pagebuilders, yoast sometimes don't see the text and dont know if it is optimized. But in this case the face would be red I guess.
| paints-n-design0 -
Does google look at H3 tags?
Thank you everyone for your responses. Sorry for the belated reply -- I didn't realize this question had garnered any responses. This is helpful information and thanks again.
| LivDetrick3 -
Faq script doesnt work
Start figuring out here if you actually have implemented the FAQ Schema.org - https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.estakhrbilit.com%2F
| Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
After you remove a 301 redirect that Google has processed, will the new URL retain any of the link equity from the old URL?
Many thanks for your helpful response Gaston!
| johnwalkersmith0 -
Brand name as H1 on every page
what is your advice about my website: my website is related to Bosch home appliances and the H1 tag of my pages is without brand name now. It is my question is it better to have H1 tag with brand name or no? Bosch dishwasher Or dishwasher It is one page of my website as an example: https://20bekhar.com/36-dishwasher
| markdoel0 -
How can i safely eliminate wordpress unused tags?
Hi, I'd simply delete all the ones that get no traffic. Do the rest provide value? If so? Consolidate the rest into logical useful tags. We have done this quite a few times and removing the bloat has positive impacts. You can crawl the site after with something like screaming frog to find any 404's. You can create redirects for broken pages. This will make sure no 404's exist. I hope that helps? PS If you don't need tags at all you can remove them from the index to test the water... If you have Yoast you can set tags to no index on this page: (yourdomain.com)/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_titles#top#taxonomies Then if you don't need them and none are providing no value. Delete and apply redirects for broken pages if necessary.
| SolveWebMedia0 -
Regarding Schema Tag
Same as Mazen, I only see a few warnings for the Product schema on the page. A few other structured data pieces to think about for this page: ItemList WebPage/Website Organization
| Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
Does user engagement or content of pages requiring login help SEO?
Hi Martijin! Thank you very much for your answer. I wasn't sure about that but you really helped me confirm it. Thanks!
| EverettChen0 -
Product Schema Markup for All Products
thanks for the schema code . I already try with my personal website .please have a look at the code seo company in dubai
| falconcity20190 -
Google Penalty and Adwords
I agree with Rajesh you will want to ask from Google ads directly If there's an issue with your Google Ads (formerly known as AdWords) account, contact Google Ads by using the Google customer service number below: The Google Ads Phone Number is 1-866-2GOOGLE (1-866-246-6453) for United States callers. The Google Ads support number is open from 9:00 am - 8:00 pm EST Monday – Friday. It depends on if it is a manual penalty yes, it hurts them. Not every time but in general penalties do hurt Ads most of the time Google’s algorithm changes/penalty yes it can hurt you too but not all the time. "A Google penalty is a punishment against a website whose content conflicts with the marketing practices enforced by Google. This penalty can come as a result of an update to Google's ranking algorithm, or a manual review that suggests a web page used "black hat" SEO tactics." According to Google’s documentation about Manual Actions report, here’s what is stated: "The Manual Actions report lists instances where a human reviewer has determined that pages on your site are not compliant with Google’s webmaster quality guidelines. Google’s algorithms can detect the vast majority of spam and demote it automatically; for the rest, we use human reviewers to manually review pages and flag them if they violate the guidelines. Flagged sites can be demoted or even removed entirely from Google search results. The Manual Actions page lists known issues on your site and provides information to help you address the problem. If your site’s ranking is affected by a manual spam action, we’ll also notify you by email and in the message center. The Manual Actions report lists manually detected issues with a page or site that are mostly attempts to manipulate our search index, but are not necessarily dangerous for users. Most issues reported here will result in pages or site being ranked lower or omitted from search results without any visual indication to the user." I know your working to remove this might help? **Manual Penalty ** https://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal https://www.linkresearchtools.com/link-audit/google-recovery-manual-penalty-removal-tutorial/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-complete-list-of-google-penalties-and-how-to-recover/201510/ https://www.mariehaynes.com/ **Algorithm ** https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1194365014703923200?s=09 https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-penalties/ I have seen sites blocked from Ads/PPC because of Google Ads own unique penalties. All the best, Tom
| BlueprintMarketing0 -
How Often Can I Change My Meta Titles? (Product Discounts)
Yes, Frequently changed title is not good for Customer and Crawler. As it will result in conflict of interest as cumstomer may see 25% and when it lands on your page it says 10% which is wrong and might you end up with high bounce rate.
| Rajesh.Prajapati0 -
No index and Crawl Budget
Hi Nigel, We don;t have a large site, so this won't be a problem as you pointed out. However, we don't have relevant content as of now. That's why i asked about deleting such type of pages. Thanks
| Johnroger0 -
Page redirected too many times
Thanks Nigel. You were right the page was redirecting to itself. I corrected this and now the issue has been resolved.
| Johnroger0 -
Deleting Tags Properly - Advice Needed
Hi Mike, There is no big deal on having tons of 404s when those pages are safely removed and don't carry any importance to users. Even when those tag pages are noindexed, there is less risk there. Google won't dimish your "SEO status" for having 404s that are correctly removed. Here, John Mueller in a Webmasters Hangout said that 404 or 410 won't impact website rankings Hope it helps. Best luck, Gaston
| GastonRiera0 -
Can I safely delete unused tags??
Hi Mike, I wouldnt worry too much about this. Having old pages or removed pages returning 404s is completely fine by Google. Eventually, they will drop those pages from the index. If you are worried about those pages and/or they are being shown in SERPs and want to remove those urls faster you can use the URL removal tool from Search Console. Sadly, you have to manually submit each url and you cannot do it in bulk. Hope ir help, Best luck. Gaston
| GastonRiera0