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I agree with the other two response - why have 3 sites selling the same product?

This problem isn't new though. Many big sites have the same problem where they sell the same product as many of their competitors.

You should be fine as long as you make each page different to the others. Amazon got around this by giving users the ability to write reviews of the products, which ensured that each page had unique user generated content on the pages and was therefore useful for Google.

If you can, stick to one site.

No problem Mark. I hope it works out well!

Hi,

I think you need to think about link building as "why would people want to link to my site?".

The problem with e-commerce is that quite often the products you sell will be no different to the products on other sites and therefore there is no USP or Unique Linking Proposition, in this instance.

The most controllable way of building links is to plan a content strategy.

• Think about where you want links from (which sites)
• Research what type of content they link to
• Create content that they are likely to link to
• And contact them to make them aware of the content you've created

The last point works even better if you get them involved in the content creation purpose. There is loads of advice on various content marketing and link building strategies over in the blog.

Your idea about getting links from manufacturers isn't a bad idea but it isn't scalable.

The important thing to remember is that if you approach this with a short term "get as many links as I can" point of view, you'll be wasting your time. If you approach this knowing that it is long term and will take time and effort you'll be on to a winner.

I hope this helps!

Hi KJr,

Thanks for the response, the sites the press release is being published on are not PR sites, but sites relevant to the industry in question - they are follow links, not nofollow links.

Hi all,

Just wondering what people's opinions are on AMP pages - having seen the Google demo of how AMP pages will be given visibility on page one of Google for news-based content, do you think it is worth considering creating AMP versions of all pages, ready for when Google expands its inclusion of these super-fast pages?

As long as your reasons for doing such redirects are legitimate then there is no problem. It is perfectly natural for pages to move, particularly on an eCommerce site and all you are doing is aiding Google with finding where it has moved to. Not only that, but you are also carrying forward some of the link benefit to the old page (not all).

If you're concerned about the type of page you are redirecting to then ask yourself what a user's reaction would be to landing on that page. I'd say that if it isn't natural to redirect an old page to a new product page then redirect it to its parent page or your website's homepage.

I hope this helps.

Elias

Hi all,

I have a site where star ratings are being used in rich snippets. Up until about 8 weeks ago these were displaying in SERPs as normal. They have since stopped being displayed in SERPs even though Google's Rich Snippets testing tool says that the markup is correct and they display within the test tool environment.

I'm just wondering if anybody else has had the same problem and if there's a solution?

Thanks,

Elias

Hello!

We have recently tracked a number of keywords into Moz's Keyword Explorer, but for a number of them the difficulty and priority scores are all -2.

We don't rank currently for these so does anybody know what is causing the difficulty to be in negative figures?

Thanks!

Hello,

I'm not sure whether you will rank better in SERPs for including product reviews on your pages but I am sure that if you tag the reviews with properly using microformats and get rich snippets to appear for your pages in SERPs, you are certain to increase click through from SERPs.

This post explains my point in more detail http://www.seomoz.org/blog/schema-examples

Logically though, I'd expect that the reviews would keep your page fresh and add to the relevant content on that page, which should increase rankings in turn.

I hope this helps.

Elias

Hi Mozzers,

I'm in the process of migrating a whole site, which has excellent rankings built through ongoing SEO over the years, from http to https.

What is the safest way of doing this, while maintaining rankings? I'm assuming 301 redirect of every page from http to https?

Thanks!

I've experienced the same issue recently. No bounce back as yet. But not all hat bothered, as Google still going strong and in the UK it accounts for approx. 94% market share for search engines.

Have you checked whether you keyword is one that is searched often? It may be that the particular keyword you have seen a jump in rankings for is not very popular.

Thanks for you help Logan.

The URLs are actually all form completions to feed a single form completion goal. I just used those very different examples to simplify my explanation.

Thanks again!