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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?

Hi guys,

Just wondering what your processes are when moving a large site to a completely new URL structure on the same domain.

Do you 301 everything from old page to new page, or are your more selective - i.e. only 301 pages that have a certain page authority, for example.

Thanks!

Hi,

We are working on a product page for bespoke camper vans: http://www.broadlane.co.uk/campervans/vw-campers/bespoke-campers . At the moment there is only one page but we are planning add similar pages for other brands of camper vans. Each page will receive its specifically targeted content however the 'Model choice' cart at the bottom (giving you the choice to select the internal structure of the van) will remain the same across all pages.

Will this be considered as duplicate content? And if this is a case, what would be the ideal solution to limit penalty risk: A rel canonical tag seems wrong for this, as there is no original item as such. Would an iFrame around the 'model choice' enable us to isolate the content from being indexed at the same time than the page?

Thanks,

Celine

Hi Ryan,

thanks for this!

I'm also hoping to see more and more markups turn into Rich Snippets in the SERPs. But as you say, this is a story for another time as it will happen gradually. It's about getting a balance right between being too enthusiastic with schema.org and identifying the right level of information to markups... which is trickier than it seems!

Thanks!

Hey Ryan,

Thanks for the response - really appreciate it!

Hi Mozzers,

What are people's opinions on directory website?

As standard, we would always attempt to get our clients listed on reputable generic directories such as Google My Business and Yelp, and then directories that are relevant to the industry in which a company operates.

Do you think this is the right approach to take?

Hi,

I am looking to implement schema markups into a variety of websites and currently wondering about best practices. I am working on energy providers, building material, e-retailers, social association among others. While I understand every single one of these is an individual case, I could do with some advices from you, guys.

Which markups would you consider key for search engines?

I would have naturally chosen markups to highlight the business name, location and products but there is so much more to schema.org!

Thanks,

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the responses - we will look into this further and see what unique content we can gather for the listings.

Thanks again for the advice!

Hi everyone,

We are working on an e-commerce site that has three different physical stores that each hold different products in stock. A listing is created on the website for each product in each location but if the same product is in all three stores the images and description are duplicate content

We can't have one product page and tag locations to it as this would then require keeping two different stock systems updated, but is there a way to avoid the three pages being duplicates of each other?

Many thanks for the advice!

Thanks for the answer!

Do you think this might be the case for this example as well?

Page : http://www.doorfit.co.uk/shelves-and-storage?cat=275

Duplicate: http://www.doorfit.co.uk/shelves-and-storage/tube-rails-and-fittings/18133-25mm-chrome-end-socket-c-w-grub-screw

Moz Crawl Diagnostics is flagging some pages on the Doorfit website as duplicate, yet the page content is completely different and not identical.

Example.

Page: http://www.doorfit.co.uk/locks-security/secondary-security

Duplicate: http://www.doorfit.co.uk/seals-and-sealants?cat=279

Does anybody have any suggestions as to why this might be the case?

Thanks

Hi Mozzers,

Would appreciate your input on this, as many people have differing views on this when asked...

We manage 2 websites for the same company (very different domains) - both sites are targeting the same primary keyword phrase, however, the user journey should incorporate both websites, and therefore the sites are very heavily cross linked - so we can easily pass a user from one site to another.

Whilst site 1 is performing well for the target keyword phrase, site 2 isn't. Site 1 is always around 2 to 3 rank, however we've only seen site 2 reach the top of page 2 in SERPs at best, despite a great deal of white hat optimisation, and is now on the decline.

There's also a trend (all be it minimal) of when site 1 improves in rank, site 2 drops.

Because the 2 sites are so heavily inter-linked could Google be treating them as one site, and therefore dropping site 2 in the SERPs, as it is in Google's interests to show different, relevant sites?

Thanks for the tips! I'll give them a try & report back!

Hi there,

I just wondered if anyone on the forum had experience of using Wistia video rich snippets and how to control the thumbnail image that appears in SERPs?

I have selected a thumbnail with the video information on the Wistia account, but a different one actually appears in the results pages (the image being used doesn't actually appear on the page at all, but it is elsewhere on the site).

Has anyone had anything similar and what did you do the control the thumbnail being used?

Thanks!

Thanks István

I'm not sure if it is the same thing but I will look into it. It just seems odd to suddenly ignore Canonical URLs.

Thanks

Hi Guys,

Has anybody noticed canonical URLs being ignored where they were previously obeyed?

I have a site that is doing this at the moment and just wondered if this was being seen elsewhere and if anyone knows what the solution is?

Thanks,

Elias

I agree with Paddy, don't use nofollow on internal links.

Google follows the first link to a page and ignores subsequent links according to a matt cutts web master video.

My advice would be to make sure that the first link in the page (code view) is the a rich link i.e. the name of the product rather than a 'more info' link.

Hi Rich,

There's one particular page on one of our websites that is very powerful, really high page authprity on a site with a huge domain authority yet the rich snippets are intermitent. Some days they're there some days they're not.

I'm not sure why but it is only the stars that do not always display. The date of the review is consistent.

Strange.

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

Thanks Philipp, we haven't done it by choice - it is a CMS quirk unfortunately.