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Hi

So Ive done a crawl of the site using screaming frog.

There are a few old category and sub category pages which don't exist any more but somehow the crawler is finding them. An example is below:

http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Home-Appliances/cat/Health-&-Beauty/subcat/Male-Grooming

Just wondering if anybody had any ideas about how I could go and find these urls and remove them off the site.

Any ideas would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

I agree with the above, you run the risk of getting hit by Panda. If these pages are important to have live to help customers, then surely your priority should be to get good content on their to help your customers / potential customers. If they land on a low quality page with very little content, are they likely to stick around.

I wouldn't put any live until you have the content sorted. I would work out the priority and start there and once the content is good then put live.

There is probably a Panda update around the corner and you don't want to get hit with hit and then you are waiting for Google to release the next version to get out of it.

I wouldnt even run the risk of putting them live with noindex.

Unless of course as said above you have 100,000+ pages of amazing quality content then it probably wont affect you.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

I think it was at BrightonSEO where PI DataMetrics were talking about similar pages on a website can cause rankings to drop for your main page. This has got me thinking.

if we have a category about jumpers so: example.com/jumpers but then our blog has a category about jumpers, where we write all about jumpers etc which creates a category page example.com/blog/category/jumpers, so these blog category pages have no index put on them to stop them ranking in Google?

Thanks in Advance for any tips.

Andy

I am glad I bought my ticket last year. Been to quite a few conferences including:

BrightonSEO

SearchLove

SMXAdvance

But I have been told this is one of the best in the world. I was told If Carlsberg did SEO Conference, then they would just copy urs.

Hi

This is to spark a debate, rather than an answer which has a specific answer.

While Google may claim that being on the certified programme doesn't increase your ranking, but part of their algorithm looks into whether a website is trustworthy.

To get accepted onto the certified shops you have to prove your a trust worthy reliable business that constantly gets audited. So surely this must be directly / indirectly be a ranking factor?

Just thought I would throw it out there for a debate.

Hi

I have a site www.example.com and finally have got the developers to add Google webmaster verification codes for:

example.com

m.example.com

As I was advised this is best practice - however I was wondering does this mean I now need to add the disavow file.

Thanks

Andy

Hi Patrick

I thought that but just wanted to triple check before writing a nice list for my developers tomorrow.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

We have a robots.txt file, but do I need to create a separate file for the m.site or can I just add the line into my normal robots file.

Ive just read the Google Guidelines (what a great read it was) and couldn't find my answer.

Thanks in Advance

Andy

Experts don’t do outreach they do traditional PR and know the journalists and have the contacts that they have built up over the years – while most of us don’t have these direct relations we can rely upon to get links and mentions a great tool I use is Gorkana – a bit pricey but worth every bit of money.

Plus with Gorkana you can get PR requests from journos.

Simple trick search Twitter for hastags PRRequest and JournoRequest to try and get in contact with the PR guys when they need content (great free way of getting additional relevant exposure)

If your trying to outreach infographic and content try something like Buzzstream if you don’t know the journalists all ready.

Hi

Gary illyes from Google confirmed today at BrightonSEO that its just mobile that will be affected - tablet rankings WILL not be affected.

He also confirmed this wont in the April 21st update it wont affect Google Business listings.

Thought I would let you all know.

Thanks

Andy

What tools do you use, and maybe I could recommend some others that way

in short - yes, this used to be a free channel until about 18 months ago and drove a lot of traffic however that traffic is still there and more (now its in the SERPs) you just got to pay for it and its quite expensive for certain keywords.

Unfortunately there isn't a 1 amazing tool like everyone has said, its all about using multiple tools and using the best tool to meet the specific task you are trying to complete.

It also depends on what budget you have for SEO software, I am quite fortunate in that I have quite a lot of the software agreed by my MD, but I know some who really struggle.

I use:

• Moz
• Rankwatch - for rank tracking
• Ahrefs
• Searchmetrics
• SEMRush
• Majestic
• Screaming frog

And those are the ones i use frequently there a couple more i have that I cant remember of top of my head that I use for certain tasks and projects.

I wish there was a one best solution, all the above solutions are good, but not great in isolation and need to be used together.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

What is the url you are wanting to improve - without looking at the page its a bit hard to give some advice. if you don't want to share it - you can send me a private message and I will take a look.

Without looking at the page, does the page actually contain the phrase '1886 $10 bill'.

Also when you are checking your rankings, what area (state, town etc) are you looking from so that I can try replicate the same conditions as you and see the same competitors. So that I can identify what is making them rank above you.

Thanks

Andy

Well done on getting some content published - its seems to be getting harder.

I am a big fan of Guest blogging, but not done for SEO purposes but for brand building.

If you are writing content where your potential customers are and they see your brand in a place they trust they are more likely to come and visit, or if they see you in the SERPs more likely to click on your link.

The link (if you get one), is just a second benefit - before the days of Google to get traffic to your site was to get links and mentions on other websites that was relevant to drive awareness of your site - I don't think anything has changed, just some people in the industry saw it as a way to cheat Google and was punished so its now seen as bad tatic - but if done correctly can drive some wonderful traffic to your site.

We do accept Guest post onto our blog, but this is down to the editors discretion but sometimes they can add some real value to our visitors - so it helps both parties.

So basically we are unsure and will have to wait until 21st April to find out.

Thanks for everyones input, been very useful and informative

HI

Thanks for everyones responses - however we have a m. site, but on certain tablets we force people onto the desktop version for a better user experience.

However when I do a search on the ipad I don't see 'Mobile-friendly' labels.

Can anyone confirm if mobile rankings on tablets are part of the mobile index or desktop index.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

We all know that the mobile update is coming on the 21st April and if your site isnt mobile friendly in Googles eye you will be removed from the mobile index.

Will this affect tablets.

Most of our pages are mobile friendly but there are a few which arent. However these are tablet friendly.

I havent heard Google mention about tablet rankings.

Thanks

Andy

I have a few sites showing the same - I am guessing its a timing thing

Great additional to Moz.

I run an in house team for a large ecommorce company in the UK. We all work from the same office. I love having the team around me to bounce ideas of and debate new ways of solving problems.

I can fully understand how you feel, yes they are not yours and the site I work for I don't own - but I have put it a lot of long hours making the site as good as an experience as possible - I would hate for someone to come in and take control.