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This resolved. It was internal link anchor text

Hello,

A client of mine has an online store with a pre-made cart. In this cart the name below the product in the category pages and the H1 tag on the product pages themselves are the same textbox entry (they have to be the same thing)

We want to add two product features to the product name, but this will make the H1 longer and diluted.

Let me give you a fictional example,

A category page for cross-trainer shoes would have products in it. Below each product it says things like "Nike Sports One Shoes" and "Adidas Action Series Shoes". We want to make it "Nike Sports Shoes size 7 through 12 for running and walking" and "Adidas Action Series Shoes size 5 through 10 for running, walking, and hiking".

The reason for the change is that we want users to know about size and one more important feature before they visit the product page in our case to save them time. But this changes the H1 on the product page (a pre-made cart problem) from

"Adidas Action Series Shoes" which is the direct search term to "Adidas Action Series Shoes size 5 through 10 for running, walking, and hiking" which is not a direct search term.

This dilutes the keyword in the H1 but will save users time.

We will put a tag inside the H1 just so you know, so that we can bold the name of the product to still be seen clearly, I hope that's not an HTML SEO problem.

**What do you think, for users with diluted SEO or better SEO in this case? Our product pages are our most important pages in this industry.

Thanks**

Hi,

See attached image.

We received a non-manual penalty on March 22, 2015. I don't think we ever came out of it. We have moved up due to the Penguin update, but we should (by DA PA) be up on the first page for tons of stuff and most keyword are lower than their true strength.

What kind of quality errors could be causing this? I assume it was a quality update. I am working on the errors, but don't see anything that would be so severe as to be penalized.

What errors/quality problems am I looking for? We have tons of unique content. Good backlinks. Good design. Good user experience except for some products. Again, what am I looking for?

Thanks.

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Hello,

We have a new store  where an internal category page (our biggest category) is moving up ahead of the home page. What could be the reason for this? It's an exact match .org. Over-optimization? Something else?

It happened both when I didn't optimize the home page title tag and when I did for the main keyword, i.e. mainkeyword | mainkeyword.org, or just mainkeyword.org Home Page. Both didn't help with this.

We have very few backlinks.

Thanks

Hello,

We have an Ecommerce store. We have a lot of content on the home page and product pages and we are going back and forth between which one to use between a toggle "Read More" "Show Less" toggle for each section and a anchor linked menu.

We have long product pages

We're thinking a read more toggle is more appropriate for category descriptions so that they can go at the top of the category and not take up space.

But the read more toggle with lots of content scrolls the page down and doesn't scroll it back up when you hit "show less"

We're leaning towards a linked menu for the home pages and product pages for this reason, but an accordion type set of toggles would look nicer.

What do you recommend, and how have you set up your read more toggles if they have lots of info so that they are not confusing? Are there other options? '

Not looking for code (I can do that) I'm looking for ideas on the cleanest home page, category pages, and product pages when they have tons and tons of textual content. Wanting to trim it up and make it look compact and neat!

Thanks!

Wow, I think that's exactly what is happening. There's a ton of spam being searched for. Really good insight EGOL, thanks a lot!

I found a checkbox in our cart today that rel-cononicals www, non-www, index.html, etc. They were separate. Do you guys think this could have caused it?

We also have a lot of these products on another site, this is a smaller, specific niche.

Thanks Rand, really appreciate it!

So am I correct that logging out and adding &pws=0 is not enough?

Hello,

Moz hasn't written anything about depersonalization for years. This article has methods, but I don't know if they are valid anymore.

What's an easy, effective way to depersonalize Google search these days? I would just log out of Google, but that shows different ranking results than Moz's rank tracker for one of our main keywords, so I don't know if that method is correct.

Thanks

Hello,

How long do you see small niche sites taking to rank where they should be for their strength?

Our last site took at least 6 months. Our current site's home page for our main term is stuck at around the 40th page and not moving. It's an exact match domain so it should be on at least page 2.

We have one site in the industry already that carries similar products but it is much bigger with a much wider scope of products. It took a while to rank too.

Our only backlinks I'm working on are Google & Youtube (and DMOZ), we have a facebook fan page. Our site is nicer than the site in position #1. Working on making as many pages as possible 10X content.

Thank You,

Bob

I was actually looking for articles, how-to-videos, resources, and suggestions.

We've done a disavow through Marie Haynes (wonderful work!) a month ago.

I forgot to re-submit the sitemap. Just did it.

We've got a bunch of 302 redirects, btw, I'm replacing them with 301s in the next couple of days.

We've deleted all doorways and paid links

We've added a blog with 8 pretty good articles - though they need more work and we need more content

We track the changes through a Moz campaign and sales volume, which both show we're hurting.

Only one area of our site is ranking (out of 15). Our home page is not even ranking for our main term, one of our internal pages is that doesn't even provide the right results.

We've got some question marks in our internal links

We've got some 404 errors

We've got some too long/too short/missing meta and title tags

We need to improve the alt tags

We've got enough backlinks and DA to be on page 1

Any help is appreciated.

Hello,

We have a site with 2 Penguin update penalties (drops in traffic) and one quality penalty (another drop in traffic) all years ago, both just drops in rankings and not messages in Google Console.

Now that Penguin is hard coded, do you find that some sites never recover even with a beautiful disavow and cleanup?

We've added content and still have some quality errors, though I thought they were minor. This client used to have doorway sites and paid links, but now is squeaky clean with a disavow done a month ago though most of the cleanup was done by deletion of the doorways and paid links 9 months ago.

Is this a quality problem or is our site permanently gone?

Let me know what information you need. Looking for people with a lot of experience with other sites and Penguin.

Thanks.

Some good stuff! I am wondering about the other SEO factors you recommended...

Backup info:

Since there are very few informational keywords I am just writing (yes unique! good point!) very helpful high quality articles on topics that people need help with. Then refining them to 10X when there is competition.

We let our customer service team provide most of the meat of the articles, then rewrite them for quality, visuals, etc. They are very experienced The only cost is our time.

I've made a list. We can probably squeeze out 20 unique topics

Question:

What can I do besides just post topics and post them (for free) on Facebook? I thought I needed to focus on 10X content and just earn links. Please explain what you guys mean by other SEO factors.

And any more feedback you have based on my refined information.

Thanks.

Andy, any ideas?

Hello,

We're trying to jumpstart our new Ecommerce site with a blog. We just launched and have 4 thorough blog posts which I'm working to refine to 10X content. Trying to make all content 10X. As you know, it's not easy.

Our niche has little to no content written by competitors. We are hoping to get to about $5000/month sales with this site.

How many blog posts should we launch a week (10X content) in order to take advantage of boosting our results in the rankings as fast as possible. Does it usually take 6 months?

I know the more the better, but consider we only have so many resources, so I'm trying to decide if one 10X piece a week is enough, or 2 or 3.

Thanks.

For now, let's just say you have Ecommerce sites that you are promoting via Facebook. I'm not looking for anything high budget, very very low budget. This is just to compliment an Ecommerce site.

I just want to know if I'm missing things. So far we've just been very helpful to our audience, and promote our content at times. We seem to gradually build (less than 1000) likes doing this and having the Facebook like button on our home page. I've done some Facebook campaigns but we are so busy that we don't have time to make videos just for Facebook. We can promote the welcome videos and that's about it.

Just wondering about little things I don't know, without dumping a bunch of resources into Facebook. Our one new site is very low on backlinks, which is why I wanted to promote at least something on Google Plus in means of getting a link back from Google, and I would put enough time in it to draw in some followers.

Hello,

I'm doing some research on Facebook and Google Plus. I have more experience with Facebook.

I'm going to do my own research, but what do you guys think is the best articles or videos for taking Facebook and Google Plus to the next level?

My goals are to engage and promote for Ecommerce and Informational sites. Low budget.

Thanks,

Bob