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Lesley, Thanks! We have phones and tablets redirected to a mobile friendly version of our site, but just because it says "mobile friendly" in our search results, which I thought meant we're OK, will it still help to have a responsive design?

Hi there While this isn't necessarily a bad thing (at least in my opinion), what I would do is instead have a link or brand logo in the product description or below it that links to the assortment of said brand name. From a user experience standpoint, I would be more likely to click the logo or a "See more mens Arc'teryx products" under the description. Also, H1s are usually not links, especially on eCommerce websites - so users would not think to click that. These are just my thoughts - either have a link or logo that links to your assortment of branded products, but not in the H1. That's my two cents! Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there! Looks like this was discussed a while back. This thread might help. Does that do it?

Hi everyone! Only a year late to this question... Do you know if anyone has done any A/B testing on how H2s in the nav can negatively affect a website's rankings? I'm on the same page with everyone that it is a big no-no to do, but am getting push back from our development team. They want me to prove that it hurts a website before they change the site. Figured I'd reach out here to see if you any of you have seen tests that prove this. Thanks you! -Rachel

Hi Peter, Don't really understand your question about permalink & url - as far as I know a permalink is just an url which remains permanent. Could you give an example of what you mean? GWT is checking if pages exist - it's not showing you errors if only a part of the page (like the image is missing) - Screaming Frog is much better to help you with this. If Screaming Frog is detecting the issues, it implies that there are links to these images. When you go to the "Response Code" tab - filter on 4xx errors and click on the image url - you can see in the window below under "inlinks" which pages are linking to this image. Dirk

Good Morning! I would suggest taking a look at the Moz post on On-page Ranking Factors, in particular roughly at the bottom of the page there is a portion titled "An Ideally Optimized Webpage" which is almost a TLDR of the entire article and in my opinion spells out the structure of a perfect internal linking scheme very well. I personally think it is natural that some of your pages may overlap what your homepage is optimized for. Obviously the more focused your homepage is, the better, but I try and make my homepage as specific as I can while still allowing me wiggle room to expand on the topic throughout the website. For some reason I always imagine the Taxonomy trees from my old Biology classes. On another note a lot of Homepages will integrate a blog feed so that their content is continuously changing. Google is smart, and is always learning. I personally think we are slowly moving away from the days of designing/writing FOR Google. I try and organize everything in a way that my dad would understand. If he can figure out what my website is about, or how to get around, Google can. (keep in mind with my previous statement, we still have to play by Googles rules and Best Practice for SEO, but just my own thoughts) Hope that helps a little!

Hi Patrick, Thanks so much for replying. So, if for example i had a main parent page called house removals which is effectively where we explain the business and how it works and what we do. Then just to appear in some more local searches we had pages coming off of it called 'house removals london', 'house removals birmingham' and 'house removals manchester'. The pages that are ranking are the location specific pages. If i was to put a canonical tag to link them back to the house removals page would we lose any of our ranking and would the house removals page effectively just take the place of the sub page? I'm a little bit nervous to put canonical tags in because it's taken me a while to get us ranking so well. Thanks for all the other advice I will definitely have a look through, Cheers, Robert

Thank you ATP for your answer +1 thumbs up

Thanks a lot, Dirk =)! I followed your suggestion and contacted them from that way. Thanks for answering!!

Many thanks Patrick for your help. I will look at those links etc you mention above. Just quickly, most of my articles are actually how to articles e.g How to aerate your lawn etc , so I am guessing these would come under  -https://schema.org/TechArticle   as oppose to Blog . Is that how it you would do it. thanks Pete

Hi Tyler, I think about AJAX and Google this way: if you can see all of the content on your site that you want Google to see without AJAX, you're good. It looks like all of the content loads without JavaScript, it's just the filters that Google won't be able to use. So, if you have 12 items for sale like this example, I think you're in the clear. The problem is going to come if you start to have more products than you can fit on this page. Site architecture is a big part of rankings; you don't want the crawler to miss out on new products because they're on page 15 and the crawler never gets there. I see that you have a Popular Tags box, which may help with that, but you'll have to be very aware of that as you grow. This set up may also make you miss out on category pages, which can be extremely valuable. With this set up, I'm not sure that you'd be able to have a landing page for "Android Phones," for example. If Google could crawl your filters, it would be able to come up with that combination.Then again, you may have thought this all through, and are just asking about this specific page. Either way, I hope this helped!Kristina

Hi Ravi, Looks ok now. Did you already see changes in WMT (number of url's indexed). To speed up the process you could do a "Fetch as Google" in WMT for the sitemap & submit it to the index. rgds, Dirk

Thanks again Patrick. I thought this was a good summing up by Neil Patel.

I'd been asking about this on Twitter all week with no response.  Thanks for the link; that really helps!

Yeah, these are the newish attributed answer boxes (that come from the index/web), and here's what we know so far. Basically, if Google interprets a query as question-like (which is an ability that may have come out of Hummingbird or been increased by that update), then they look at the sites ranking on page 1 and try to see who's title/snippet/content best match the question. In other words, you have to rank on page 1 organically, and then you have to provide a decent answer. This second part still seems pretty crude right now - Google seems to be trying to match against question/answer keywords in a fairly literal way. So, if you see a competitor ranking, you may want to tweak your page title, Meta Description, and on-page content to better match the intent of the question or to sound more like a succinct answer.

Hi Ira, Thanks for your response, indeed the social profiles are related to the microsite, as at the end the minisite is just a category of the promotional products that I have on the main site, So that part should be fine. I like your idea of promoting the minisite also on the social profiles of the main site that is something that I have not done so far, so I will try that out. Let's see if this way I can get more traffic to minisite also, that gives more information and images about the products and where I have higher conversion rate. Thanks again for your help! Oriol .

Google is officially supporting some emoticons. I talked to one big-brand SEO last week who has tested it with a fair degree of success. A couple of warnings: (1) Testing the impact on one title tag is a fair amount of work, so it really has to be a high-impact SERP. This isn't something you want to spend days on across thousands of results. (2) Make sure the character/symbol really is relevant. People focus on the first two words of a headline, and that emoticon may well take the place of one of those words, so make it count. I wouldn't do this just because you can. (3) Not all characters render properly on all OSs and devices. Make sure to test.