Welcome to the Q&A Forum

I don't see any problem in that.

Make sure you use hyphens to separate words as Google reads hyphens and not underscores as spaces and a user is more likely to search 'dublin places to rent' or 'places to rent in dublin'

SEOMoz's Opensiteexplorer? You can look at the external link domains, it even breaks it down to show you the page on the external site with a link to you

Ofcourse! I kept thinking "hmm why isn't any text appearing when I hover my mouse"

Thanks Simon

This might be a stupid question but the homepage of SEOMoz doesn't have img alt tags on the three feature screenshots.

I've hovered my mouse and looked at the code, the images just have the link to www.seomoz.org/features

Everyone goes adding image tags is key, any reason why SEOMoz don't?

Developer's argument is that  a chain of redirects could add significant time to the real page. So the 1/2 second load time could go up if 20 people try and access the page at the same time. No good having a great page if it takes too long but then I'm going "c'mon we're not amazon or apple"

I'm with you though, I rather have the correct 301 redirect than a meta refresh, but i'm no expert when it comes to caching knowledge. My understanding is just that, it's a page that is cached so the system can load it quick for the search engine, that's it.

Do you think any additional value is there from an SEO standpoint in the caching? I know Google records a cached page but yeah, I see your point, better to get rid of the temporary redirect.

Thanks Andy, appreciate the feedback

I do two things..

1. If you use Google Adwords, use the 'Ad Preview and Diagnosis' tool. You can define Domains, Languages, Device and even the Location.
2. Add /ncr at the end of the Google URL you want to use. For e.g. if you want to use Google.com (www.google.com/ncr) , Google.co.uk (www.google.co.uk/ncr), Google.de (www.google.de/ncr)

Hi guys,

All of our product pages originate in a URL with a unique number but it redirects to an SEO url for the user. These product pages have blocks on the page and these blocks are automatically populated with our database of content.

Here's an example of the redirect in place:

• www.example.com/45643/xxxx.html

redirects to

• www.example.com/seo-friendly-url.html

The development team did this for  2 reasons.  1) our internal search needs the unique numbered urls for search and 2) it allows quick redirects as pages are cached.

The problem I face is this, the redirects from the cached are being tagged with 'meta refresh', yup, they are 302.

The development team said they could stop caching and respond dynamically with a 301 but this would bring in a delay. Speed wise, the cached pages load within 22ms and dynamically 530ms, so yeah half a second more.

Currently cached pages just do a meta refresh tagged redirect and I want to move away from this.

What would you guys recommend in such a situation? I feel like unless I place a 301, I'll be losing out on rank juice.

Okay, I found this post by Dr Pete called 'How Do I Get Google's Bulleted Snippets?'. The post is describing what I found above.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-do-i-get-googles-bulleted-snippets

Interestingly, no affirmative conclusion was made as to what a user needs to do to obtain the search result..

It's interesting Google isn't displaying every one of your pages with a table that way.  I wonder what makes Google go "aha..I'll display this page this way.."

I did another search and it looks like a majority of their pages with a "table" tend to display the information in Google that way (see attached a search result screenshot).

I think It's a fantastic way to display a search result that can lead to a clickthrough as you're offering information that might not be present in the title or meta description (for e.g. price, different formats etc)

I've seen rich snippets used like this but only for listing songs from an album, not for an ecommerce product listing. The weirdest aspect is that, this site isn't using any rich snippets

3rXJu.png

Yeah, set up a 301 redirect.

Here's another tip, use this tool to browse and check redirects currently in place for your site:

http://www.searchmasters.co.nz/redirect-check/

I reviewed my site and then made sure index.php, index.htm, index.cfm, default.asp amongst others were doing a 301 redirect to /

I also made sure my index.html file had a canonical tag that identified my / as my main page. The following code was placed in the .index.html file for that

rel="canonical" href="/">

Contacted my web guy and he's stumped as well, gave me the following reply:

" I honestly don't know how/why that information is present in the rich snippet. It looks like the information is coming from the table of products (a combination of the h3 and a div, and partnumber div). What's odd is the table isn't actually a table, rather stylised divs and contains no special mark up."

I did a search on Google Shopping and none of the products appear.

The mystery continues...

I came across this search result in Google and I've been racking my brain out in trying to figure out how they did it.

Do a search for Novus CD4 and you'll see a search result where they list additional products from the landing page.

I used Google's Rich Snippet tool to analyse the page and find no microdata at play.

Any ideas how this was achieved? Have you guys come across anything like this? I was thinking of integrating this with schema to display rating stars and prices on an ecommerce site

S4aL5.png