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Creating a Wordpress Multi-site - Should I have separate Domains or use Subdirectories?
Hi Tyler You would simply direct the traffic to each of the folders/cities so the cost of Adwords could easily be assigned to each separate office. There is nothing else to worry about Regards Nigel
Local Listings | | Nigel_Carr1 -
Deleting 301 Redirect URLs from the CMS
If the pages you are deleting do not have a related page, you can just 410 them out. So if a 301 pointed to these pages, you can safely delete these redirects. Should be no SEO issues with minor 4xx's.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | KevinBudzynski0 -
302 Redirect Question
This will fix the 302 redirect that Moz is showing and will change those redirects from 302 to 301
Technical SEO Issues | | Roman-Delcarmen0 -
Does posting frequency matter?
Right now my company is blogging five days a week, which is way more than our competitors and most other companies do. Five days a week might be focusing on quantity. Blogging will not do anything for your website if the content is not quality... and when I say quality, I mean good enough to attract traffic and natural links. If you are not blogging quality you might be adding dead weight to your website and it might even be Panda bait. Look at your analytics. Are your blog posts pulling in any traffic. Are they pulling in any conversions. Are they attracting natural links from respectable websites? If they are not doing these things then blogging for blogging's sake is a waste of time. Instead of comparing how many times you blog per week, take a look at how your quality compares with your competitor. Determine if the content is useful to your visitors and be very critical and honest with yourself. Are your visitors even seeing it? Does it answer their relevant questions about how to use your products, how to select them, how to maintain them, other information about them? If you are blogging daily and are doing a good job there should be a lot of visitors to your website who arrive through your blog home page or arrive through the main page of your website and click into your blog. If that isn't happening then, maybe your blogging is not useful. Do the assessments above, reflect upon your plan and don't worry about how many days per week you are blogging. Worry about if you are blowing your competitors out of the water with the content that you are producing.
Content & Blogging | | EGOL2 -
Does we need to add a canonical tag with the mobile url in each desktop version as a result of mobile first index?
The mobile first index is not live as of today This is from March of this year http://searchengineland.com/googles-mobile-first-index-still-months-away-271851 "Don’t freak out. That’s what Google’s Gary Illyes repeated this week — at least three times — to SEOs and webmasters who might be concerned about the upcoming switch to a mobile-first index. “The team behind the mobile-first index wants it to launch this year,” Illyes told our SMX West conference on Wednesday. “We’re still experimenting. We don’t have a timeline. It could be a few months or quarters, but it’s definitely not weeks [away]. Don’t freak out, especially if you have a responsive site.” Later in June of this year http://searchengineland.com/googles-mobile-first-index-likely-not-coming-2018-earliest-277074 "Google is “probably many quarters away” from launching its mobile-first index. So said Gary Illyes, Google webmaster trends analyst, during a crowded session Tuesday afternoon at our SMX Advanced conference in Seattle. “It’s going to be a big change, but don’t freak out,” Illyes said. SEOs and webmasters have been wondering and waiting for a couple of years now for news on when the mobile-first index will roll out. Illyes wasn’t able to give an exact answer to that question today. “We don’t have a timeline for the launch yet,” Illyes said. “We have some ideas for when this will launch, but it’s probably many quarters away. Our engineers’ timeline was initially end of 2017. Right now, we think more 2018. ” The point I am making here is that you need to follow the current Google guidance as Roman mention so that you can rank now. Yes, you will probably need to tweak things once the mobile first index comes out, but until it does and Google then updates guidance on how you should setup the canonical and alternative tags as suggested. You other option to act on now is to convert to a responsive site, work with one set of URLs and make sure that when your responsive page shows that it passes mobile friendly tests etc. You may end up with a slower page, but you would need to test and see how much of a difference makes. If the page is still fast overall, you should still be good.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | CleverPhD0 -
Does Google cache every page that is been indexed?
kadut, Eventually Google will cache all indexed urls, however it does not always cache them right away. Thanks, Don
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | donsilvernail0 -
How would you build links to this page?
Why don't you try and do some kind of work with universities? This might be out of date now, please correct me if it is, but I think .edu and .ac.uk links tend to have a nice domain authority. Links from these sites could help your site's trust ranking increase. Maybe donate blog posts about how to build a career in fashion to universities/colleges providing fashion courses. If they publish it online you get link juice. Where I work, we recently ran a workshop with some college students (in a lab, we're a scientific manufacturer) and they wrote a blog post about it. Good PR and we now have a link leading to our website from a .ac.uk domain – I actually saw our domain authority rise by 1 point after that link went live. Anything you can do with education will always help. So internship competitions (have lots of different uni's/colleges publish a post advertising work experience with you) or any other collaboration. Cheers Mike
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | landport1 -
No content in the view source, why?
With a very high probability, the website was developed in some JavaScript platform such as Angular JS. This is exactly what you would get as a result since the content is shown after the initial loading. Let me know if you have further questions.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | iugac0 -
Does Google read dynamic canonical tags?
I believe it's a limitation of our CMS. I'll see if we can try it in htaccess or PHP. Thanks for the insight.
Technical SEO Issues | | SoulSurfer80 -
Duplicate Content in WordPress Taxonomies & Noindex, Follow
Hi Corey Don pretty much nailed this answer. I'll make sure to answer your specific questions: You're not negatively affecting your ability to show in search by noindexing tags. They almost never rank or get traffic since they are just pages of thin content. Noindexing them does not affect your other pages. No other repercussions - unless you have a random tag archive getting traffic. Check your analytics, and if so, you can individually leave specific tags indexed with the Yoast plugin. I wrote a post all about this a while back: http://www.evolvingseo.com/2012/08/10/clean-sweep-yo-tag-archives-now/ You would have to figure out how to have unique title tags on each page - which is honestly more effort than is worth it. The Moz tool is showing an 'error' of duplicate content but the issue is just more that tag pages don't have much value and can just be noindexed and then ignored.
Moz Tools | | evolvingSEO1 -
Label existing keywords
Hi Robert, We're happy you figured this out -- and really appreciate you letting us know! Because you took the time to share the details of how you resolved your issue, anyone who searches the forum with the same question can find it right here.
Other Research Tools | | Christy-Correll2 -
Duplicate Content
Hi Donald, Many thanks for the response, it was just that the developer in the UAE had said that it didnt count as duplicate because of the different countries, this was new to me.
Content & Blogging | | CreativeCow0 -
Moz Local for Spain?
Thanks for the answer, do you know if this is going to change, if in the futuro we can see Moz working for Spain local seo??
Moz Local | | Agenciaseomadrid1