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There are multiple options you have and no option in my opinion is bad! Option 1: Here the idea is to research some companies, interview them and ask very specific questions about how they can help you achieve your desired goal. If anyone sounds a good fit for you, just check their testimonials and decide if you want to go for it or not! Option 2: If you want a content producer to produce content for your blog then my advice would be to search for popular bloggers within your niche. You follower wonk to see who they are and then contact them to se if they can work for you! Hope this helps!

I'd just swap it. Make the breadcrumbs H2 (or just regular paragraph text) and product title H1 on the product pages. Having the same text for H1 & H2 should be fine, just don't keyword stuff.

Hi, What David mentioned in his response is the best way to remove the /category/ from the URL.  However, based on your comment, you can't remove the /category/ because it conflicts with the page URLs which kind of contradict your initial question. I would suggest reworking on the page URL and the category URL.  If you use 301 redirect to redirect the old URL to the new URL, everything should be fine once Google crawls your site again and see the redirect.

Thank you so much Tommy!

What was the search query you used to get this snippet? When I searched for "site:www.onecklace.com/ name-necklaces" on Google.com I got the snippet as shown in the attachment below. You'll notice that this e-commerce style snippet includes the number of items and a couple of entries from the page. This leaves little room to display the meta-description. I do note that the length of the description used is the same as the one that you've shown. Unfortunately Google will determine how best to list your page in the Search results. vlcWkAp.jpg

Hey There It's also tough to help with the language difference - but I would also recommend building up your social media and even become active in various communities. I have found these two avenues to not only help my company site, but to also generate the best form of leads. I experience pretty poor leads from organic search actually, and the best from referrals, social and networking online. It looks like you so some nice work based upon your portfolio. I'd see if you can leverage some of that for things like case studies which is content you can post on your own site and spread with social. Hope that helps!

I'm pretty sure if you just chop off the last tag, , you are going to be perfectly fine. There should be one canonical tag and it should point to the URL of the original document or the version that you want search engines to view as the main document.

Hi Tyler, Based on your description above, to Google or the bots, it only seem like it is 1 page with the URL and it is definitely bad for SEO.  I am assuming the developers have some sort of script in your website to create this effect.  I would suggest removing the script and making it not so fancy and have different URL for each page. Furthermore, the URL itself is bad since it doesn't tell bots and users what the page is about.  You should look into how to optimize URLs or best practices for optimized URLs.

Thank you both for your help and feedback. Have a great weekend! Gary

Fantatic - thank you David & Frederico!

Based on the last several Google Penguin updates, if your site was going to be harmed or your rankings were going to go down, they probably would have gone down already. That said, that doesn't mean that you could still be penalized. If there are sitewide badge links, they need to look natural. I wouldn't use any specific keyword anchor text, I would use your website name or brand or URL as the anchor text in the link. Don't make it look like you're trying to "game" Google by having too much exact match anchor text. If these links are only a small percentage of the overall links that you have pointing to your site, then there won't be a problem. But if you have only 5 percent like you're saying then it should be fine.

Thanks for pointing this out I will go through the site and see what I can change.

Hi Paul, You're not able to get any keyword information out of "not provided" keywords not matter whether they are branded or not. One work around that can give you a rough idea of branded vs. non-branded keyword traffic is to look at what page your "not provided" traffic landed on. If they landed on your homepage, they probably search for a branded term. If they landed on a product page, they probably searched for a term based on the product name. It's not perfect, but it can help give you understand what's going on. You can find instruction on how to look this info up here - http://www.prontomarketing.com/2013/09/unlock-your-not-provided-keyword-data/ Let me know if you have any other questions! Tim

The authors who I use will be different from the authors that you use.  My authors write about the industry of my websites. If your websites are about wine then go look for great bloggers who post about wine.  Not just any blogger, the great ones.  Find bloggers who have expertise that match the content of your website.

I agree completely with Simon. We too have attempted to syndicate content and had the sites we submitted to then outrank us with our own content. The fact is, if you submit your content to a site that has higher authority than you, chances are they will rank for the content, not you, even if you have canonical tags and authorship in place and even if you publish the content on your site first. We've seen this happen not just with content like articles, we've seen it happen with products (i.e. if we have the same products for sale on our site, Amazon and eBay, Amazon and eBay will outrank us for those same products), and we've certainly seen it with videos. Post the same video on your site and YouTube and YouTube will rank for the video, not your site. This isn't to say nothing should ever leave your site or get posted externally. If your business or someone at your business wins an award or does something positively newsworthy, reaching out to a reporter or blog editor with a story is a great way to raise the brand awareness you seek and obtain valuable referral traffic from the exposure. The scenario at my company is almost identical to yours. The other difficulty I face (and I'm sure you and Simon have seen this too as in-house SEOs) is one of vanity. Stakeholders can get very caught up in the number of views their videos are getting on YouTube, or the number of eyeballs an article will get if it's syndicated versus just placed on their own site. Convincing them that being the sole location of that original content is sometimes a hard sell. I think the best way to do that is to produce a couple of pieces of great content and convince them not to distribute those around, then track how well that content gets positioned in the SERPs. If you can show them some real examples of the strategy being successful on a small scale, they'll be more apt to allow you to continue down that path. Hope that's helpful!

Hi Curtis, Thanks for your reply. Well to be more specific the domain would be: freecarfinder.com/cars-that-start-with-a/ The domain is new so it has not authority whatsoever. The domain is not that long but it's not really short neither. The content on the page is pretty small where the exact keyword that's in the URL is mentioned in the heading 1 and twice on a small piece of text that explains how to use the page to search for results. Totally agree best practise is to test it out. I do see that our competition is using /starts-with/a and is ranking really well with it. Maybe the best option is to create half of the pages using the exact keyword in the URL and half with /starts-with-a/ to see which one performs better?