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Hi Guys,

I'm just looking for confirmation on something.....

In the wake of Panda 2.2 one of my pages has plummeted in the rankings whilst other similar pages have seen healthy improvements.

Am I correct in thinking that Panda effects individual pages and doesn't tar an entire site with the same brush?

Really I'm trying to see if Panda is the reason in the drop on one page or whether it could be something else. The page in question has dropped 130 positions - not just a general fluctuation.

Thanks in advance for your responses!!!

thanks guys - pretty standard stuff then.

Hello,

Just opening a quick discussion to see what you guys think are the best practices and tips for Google news article optimisation?

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions.

Thanks,

Elias

Thanks for the replies both. A bit more investigating will have to be done before we make the final decision.

Hello,

We are looking at creating an eCommerce section to a website and we are just weighing up the options:

1. Magento - host on hour own server - great but it can often be very slow when hosting a shared server.
2. Shopify - hosted solution but hosting is in the US and we are in the UK and shop will be hosted on a subdomain as a result
3. Build our own solution - time consuming and costly

There are two issues that have arisen from this situation....

Is it worse for SEO to host your store in a different country or to host in your country but your store potentially run slower?

I'm swaying to the side of the argument that says give your users a good and fast experience instead of worrying about where you host the store. Bearing in mind that the main website will be hosted in the UK anyway and it is just the subdomain that will be hosted in the US.

Just wondered if anybody has had experience with this or if I'm missing something?

All feedback greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Elias

Does anyone know if we can expect keyword rank tracking in Google mobile?

It would be a cool feature for SEOmoz Pro.

Does anybody know of any reliable software that does this at the moment?

It really depends where the links are. If they are on deep pages then they will take longer to be discovered.

Google Webmaster tools will show you links to your website too. Have you tried that?

I think there's an SEOmoz linkscape update every 4-5 weeks so they might show up then.

Hi Jason,

Although 302's are bad internally they shouldn't effect your rankings if you are 302ing externally.

I'm sorry I can't recommend any plugins, as I haven't used any.

It will if you add r=301 to the last line like so:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L,R=301]

You might want to look into what Google do themselves.

They automatically redirect people in the uk who type in www.google.com to www.google.co.uk

If it's good enough for google it's good enough for us. Just make sure you do not look like you are cloaking.

You need to give users the ability to change language when they are on the website though. As Vince mentioned just because a user is visiting the website from Italy it does not mean that they are Italian.

Hello,

I'm pretty certain it will be to do with back links. The more relevant back links you can get then the better you're indexing will be.

I run a similar small website which has 12 pages but only 4 are indexed and the one thing it has in common with yours is the lack of links.

Have you thought of adding some of your wedding videos to youtube and going down the social route to attract links?

.htaccess is the way to go in my opinion.

Always use 301 redirects over 302 redirects.

Google passes on about 90% of link value through a 301 redirect and no link value through a 302.

I hope this answers your question.

Hi Jonathan,

This is difficult....You have to balance the benefits for the visitors and the search engines.

Although, having relevant domain names still works for gaining good rankings it is not as powerful as it once was. It may eventually not be part of Google's algorithm at all with future updates.

Due to that fact alone I would go with the short name and concentrate on targeting Vancouver web design on-page and with links. I think this would help to future-proof your website and would be more user friendly.

On a side note - I would avoid hyphenated domain names as it is widely believed that Google uses this as a spam indicator.

I hope this helps!

Do all of the pages receive back links? It would be a laborious job and perhaps not worthwhile but you could look at which of the pages receive a substantial amount of links or links from high quality websites. Then just include the "Good" pages in your new site.

Like you say, I think you would benefit from losing some low value content that doesn't rank well and doesn't have many quality links pointing to it.

Whatever you decide it would be interesting to know how that effects your site. Perhaps even worthy of a YOUmoz post?!

I would Aim for 155. Just being picky but I believe this is the recommended amount. Hitting the 160 mark might see you having the ellipsis (...) in your meta description.

Like you say... It's best to get links from pages with a high domain and page authority.

In my opinion, Domain authority is much more important.

The fact that a page has a page authority of 0  does not necessarily mean it is not a important. It's just that links to it might not have been discovered by SEOmoz yet and therefore the page will not have a page authority attributed to it. Therefore take into consideration the age of a page.

You should be looking at MOZrank and MOZtrust attributes too. I think these will give more insight into the quality of the page/website.

Hope this helps.

I hadn't heard of PRweb before - The product looks really good but yeah like you say its quite pricey!

Hi All,

Our dev team have just asked me a very interesting question........

Within the context of an HTML5 page, where it is supported and encouraged to use multiple H1 tags, will the use of multiple H1 tags be detrimental to SEO? or does Google fully understand how HTML5 works and therefore not penalise a website for using multiple H1 tags?

I have an opinion on this that if it helps usability and user experience then it is likely that it will be good for SEO.

It would be really good to hear views of people who have tried this or have decided against it!

Thanks

I think that the best practice is to use  rel="canonical"

It will ensure that you do not lose any links.

This article will explain it better and in more detail http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps