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Best approach to rank for this keyword?
Hey there, I'd definitely create a special page dedicated to white sandals (but only in case you don't have exactly the same sandals in a different color). Then, boost the page with internal linking through relevant anchor texts, such as "white sandals", "white sandals for women/men", "women's white sandals" etc. Then, write some kind of a viral blog post such as "How white sandals can change your life" including Australia related KW's. This should help you rank higher, for now. Cheers, Martin
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | benesmartin0 -
Utilizing CDN & Impact on SEO Results
I have been using MaxCDN (now part of stackpath) for some time now, Initially we utilised it to help serve images quicker and in parralel with our sites files, then to server https files also. The speed increase has been the main help from an SEO perspective, which has in turn offered a slight ranking boost. Our CDN also server via HTTP2 which also provides another boost of speed. It is not only better for seo but also conversions and user experience, as both mobile and desktop users are no longer hanging waiting for load bloating elements.
Online Marketing Tools | | TimHolmes0 -
One Page Design / Single Product Page
Hi Roman! Honestly, this depends a little on: What the product is How competitive it is Because in some cases, if it's a clear/straightforward product and there's not super high competition, you could possibly rank with one page. But if the product has a lot of search query variations, is complicated, and has high competition, you may need more content. As Martin pointed out, you can build the authority of these pages through other content - whether that's internal content linking users to the product, or external. You can actually also try running facebook or instagram ads for the product - perhaps for some direct traffic benefits - but also because this can sometimes boost the rank of the page you're advertising. A final detail - make sure your top targeted keyword in the title tag Not a huge boost, but will help a tiny bit!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | evolvingSEO1 -
Paying a premium or going with a hyphenated domain
Q1. I'm not a domainer, but it's been my general experience that trying to negotiate directly with the owner has a much wider range of risk/reward. In other words, you might be able to contact them and get it for $250, or they might be completely insane and want $250,000 for junk, even though every other person on earth knows that's ridiculous. With the fixed-price sales, you can at least make that decision of whether it's worth the price tag for you. That decision, though, isn't primarily an SEO decision, IMO, it's a business decision. Paying $1,000 for the right domain could be an incredible bargain if this site is your bread and butter and the name is critical. It could be a huge waste of money if this is your personal blog and a hundred different names would do just as well. It's really hard to advise you in a vacuum. If you asked me if $1,000 was a good price for an iPad, I could confidently say "no", but the value of a domain is highly subjective. Q2. I don't believe there's any kind of outright penalty. Hyphenated domains do often correlate with spammy domains, and it may be one signal of many Google considers, but I think they look at it clustered with other factors (that's speculative on my part). So, if your domain looks spammy on other dimensions and you've got a hyphenated, keyword-loaded domain, then yes, it might cause you problems. I don't think you'll get whacked just because of the hyphens. I do think that hyphenated domains have a general trust issue with humans, though. It's not insurmountable, but I tend to agree with Michael -- there's always a non-hyphenated variant or an alternate TLD (even a .co) that's worth considering. Unless you're Eugene's Discount Widgets and your board will not settle for an domain but a .com with those three words in it and no other words, there are probably non-hyphenated options worth exploring.
Search Engine Trends | | Dr-Pete0 -
Does an external link to an image file on my site help my SEO?
They are hot linking, but I was more asking about the accompanying link to the image on my site. If it's not clear, it looks like this: [image: myimage.jpg]
Link Building | | AlexLenhoff0 -
Is a Facebook lookalike audience a good idea when audience requires a necessary characteristic
Gavo, I think in this scenario, I would encourage you to just test it out and see how it works for you. The lookalike audiences can be a great way to reach those that you may not have any option to target normally. And since Facebook cpcs are generally much lower than AdWords, it's worth setting aside a testing budget and running a few different tests. Another idea would be to instead of creating a lookalike audience, to create a target that does match your criteria. Facebook has a large selection of criteria and you can preview the audience size before running a campaign. Do keep in mind that Facebook doesn't have the same intent as SEM marketing. You'll need to give them a strong reason to take action. Best of luck! Let me know if you have any further followup questions! Trenton
Social Media | | TrentonGreener0 -
MOZ Site Crawl - Ignore functionality Request
Hi folks! Jo from the Moz help team here, you can now choose to mark issues as Fixed! When you mark issues as "Fixed" we'll check back when your campaign next updates (or you force a recrawl) to see if it persists. https://screencast.com/t/sqyiphpjEcr :]
Feature Requests | | jocameron0 -
Possible duplicate content issue
As I know the problem with duplicate content is related with spammer with hundreds of TDL trying to trick the search engine, in your case with 5 or 10 pages or post wouldn't be any problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets7nHOV1Yo
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Roman-Delcarmen0 -
Ecommerce site Header tag compulsory to follow till h6?
Hi Igor, Thanks for your great response. I do have query for point no.4 Header tag as per me it's describe header of the page so at product list page I list 30 products so giving 30 product name as h3 is fine? My site is ecommerce not blog so ... Thanks!
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Johny123450 -
At Listing Page Load More Functionality or Pagination which one best?
It depends on the customer experience you want and how many products you have to show? There are pros and cons to both of these options: Load more keeps the user on the same page for longer, allowing them to scroll through the options easily without jumping around too many pages. This should increase engagement to let people see everything in one go. BUT, unless you recall these via ajax or something on demand, then 'hiding' these from the user until they click the see more can slow page speed as you're obviously storing all of that data on the page ready to be loaded. Pagination forces people to flick through different pages and would need rel=next/prev set up and canonicalised back to page1, else you may be seen as having duplicate content for meta titles etc unless you can change these dynamically, or set different pages to be no indexed. It can put some people off as can make someone feel like they have to sift through a LOT of pages to find what they're looking for if you have multiple pages. There's a useful study on this here: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/pagination-infinite-scrolling-load-more-buttons/
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Kelly_Edwards1 -
How to improve PA of Shortened URLs
I'd highly doubt it. You're spending energy getting a redirect linked-to and indexed, rather than the URL you actually want to rank. Point those links and that effort to the page itself and you'll get a far better return.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | randfish0 -
MOZ Site Crawl - Ignore functionality question
Hi Jo, I have a query on crawling errors, can you please look into my post on Moz Q&A forum and it will be great if you can help me with this. https://moz.com/community/q/i-am-looking-for-best-way-to-block-a-domain-from-getting-indexed
Feature Requests | | Prasadgotteti1 -
Landing page video scripts - duplicate content concerns
Thanks Steve! In this scenario I would do the following: Add a noindex tag to all of these PPC landing pages (will ensure the pages aren't indexed). Make sure the URLs aren't in any sitemaps (good practice). Once confirmed that they aren't indexed, add a disallow rule in robots.txt (this will preserve crawl budget). Hope that helps and all the best.
Technical SEO Issues | | sergeystefoglo0 -
How to transfer PA
Most likely after next Mozscape Index. If the 301 is done correctly and PA is not reflected in the short term, I wouldn't worry that much. Make sure to monitor organic positions and traffic to those landing pages for any fluctuations.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | KevinBudzynski0 -
Changing Ecommerce Site Display style will it impact on seo & performance?
The H1s will affect Google. H1s directly affect SEO as it drives how relevant your page is for that keyword. As to whether it would positively or negatively affect SEO is unknown until you do it and depends on the keywords you're targeting and whether the new H1 is better or worse than the new one. Google doesn't particularly care about the other headings too much - as long as they are logical from a user point of view they get bulked into 'content' in terms of SEO rules for relevancy/keyword stuffing etc. The tracking won't affect SEO, but internal linking will affect SEO. If you're linking more to category A for example as compared to the old site linking to category B, then this will give Google a signal that you're site is more relevant to category A terms than B. This goes hand in hand with external linking to give signals to Google. Hope that helps.
Technical SEO Issues | | Kelly_Edwards0 -
Google rankings
Backlinks is the first idea thats come to my head....did you check your backlinks?
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Roman-Delcarmen0 -
Domain Change for a well positioned website... I'm a-scared
Hi Roman, thank you for you exhaustive answer Best
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Enrico_Cassinelli0