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I'm looking to try improving our positions on Bing - does anyone have any tools that monitor rankings for Bing? Or provide keyword research?

Or is it a case of optimise for Google and Bing should follow?

Amazing I will check that thank you!

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I have been looking at removing ads from our videos - I have managed to disable the interest based ones but can't remove the location based ads.Our videos don't have copywritten material either.How can I get these ads removed? Any help would be much appreciated :)Becky

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Does anyone have any good blogs or stats on which video hosting platform is better for SEO?

I'm guessing YouTube as it's owned by Google - but I'd love some stats to support this for an internal debate.

Thanks

Becky

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I want to find out how important people think it is to have the keyword as the first word in the meta title?

Is this something that would even make a difference?

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Thank you both for your replies. I am working through onsite optimisation as this has been overlooked in the past, but it's a huge task for such a big task and taking up all of my time.

We do have schema and I have tried implementing the sitelinks search box but nothing shows in Google - I thought they chose who to show schema for?

I'll read the articles

Thanks!

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We have a large number of pages, all sitting within various categories.

I am struggling to rank a level 3 for example, or increase authority of this page. Apart from putting it in the main menu or trying to build quality links to it, are there any other methods I can try?

We have so many pages I find it hard to workout what the best way to internal link these pages for authority. At the moment they're classified in their relevant categories, but these go from level 1 down to 4 - is this too many classification levels?

Brilliant thank you.

Another question I have is, obviously titles need to be unique, so if the only difference is capacity, & my titles are something like Euro container 50L & Euro container 80L - is this just going to be seen as keyword spamming?

I can't make the titles hugely different if the products are part of the same 'range'

Is there a better way? Or is the alternative not to split the products?

Thanks everyone! I'm still a bit torn on what to do, I understand the implications of both.

I'm working on one page so debating on whether to test this and see how it goes but splitting them out.

The other problem we have is in our pages with multiple products, the tables are not user friendly and need dev time to sort them out which isn't as straight forward as we'd like.

Thanks!

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I had a question regarding product pages and the best way to display the page for SEO.

For example, is it best to have a page for - Blue Euro Containers including a table of the capacity options you can buy..

Or, have each product split out so it has it's own product page - 60L Blue Euro Container, etc etc

I know a lot of the information will be fairly similar, with the capacity being the one major difference - is this a bad thing?

Some of our product tables are too big and the idea was to split them out.

Thanks!

Great thank you for the feedback.

Should we be actively outreaching to the relevant communities or simply sharing this and seeing what the response is from this?

I think what I want to identify is how much time I need to spend on outreach. I know there is no simple answer to this and it's ongoing of course.

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Thank you for the detailed response. I have just looked at their blog and its very creative with some amazing images.

Our offering is some B2C but mostly B2B. I want to invest more into brilliant imagery to go alongside our guides but this is something we'll need to work on.

Thank you for the feedback!

I haven't started doing this yet, is this approach worthwhile for an ecommerce site?

I know that most outreach can be ignored if it's seen to be for ecommerce or sales.

Thanks!

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Does anyone have any advice on how to approach outreach for an ecommerce site? We're in the process of doing user guides, for niche products. I wondered if this was a good angle to approach relevant communities/sites.

Or is this too time consuming for little value at the end? Is it PR outreach we should look to focus on?

Thank you

Thanks for everyone's comments, this is helpful!

Does anyone have any advice on how to better boost category pages? We are looking at user guides, and more content - but this won't all be directly on the category page.

Ill have a bit of content on then category page, but this alone isn't going to have a huge impact.

Becky

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I wanted to ask if anyone knew how much, if at all, product page titles/descriptions affected the rankings of the category page they're linked from?

I am looking for ways to improve the ranking of category pages, but we don't want to put too much content which overshadows the product listings.

Thanks!

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Yes I agree, does anyone have any examples of great product pages which don't use tabs?

A lot of sites do use the tabs to make it easier for customers

Great thank you for the feedback.

This is being run by another team, but we want the chance to provide some feedback. Does anyone have any great examples of product page designs?

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To add to this, I have been presented with a work around to this:

Hidden Text in Websites - SEO Chat instead of having hidden div's to use the z-index and absolute positioning css features to workaround this problem mostly because menus are used a lot in that way, so, search engines apparently still index these words.

"Another way to hide text from the user is to put text in the  Back or Front layer instead of the immediately visible layer. The third dimension of viewable screen is the Z-index. The first two dimensions are (X) and (Y), which indicate “left to right” and “up to down” respectively. The Z-index indicates “back to front” for layers of Web pages. Using the Z-index, Web designers can hide text in the previous layer.

These methods are also used in creating of menus or navigation bars in websites, so search engines index them.

Is this seen as a spammy work around?

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I wanted to find out what makes Google select a site to show the answer to a question you type in search?

For example, typing What is COSHH, brings up this site http://rospaworkplacesafety.com/2013/01/08/what-is-coshh-about-coshh/ and this answer top of Google SERPs.

COSHH stands for 'Control of Substances Hazardous to Health' and under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002, employers need to either prevent or reduce their workers' exposure to substances that are hazardous to their health.8 Jan 2013

Is it their open graph mark up only?

Becky