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Uh ok, thanks for feedback.

What's going on at the moment, i can't find any info on the 5/9th May but Mozcast is showing some movement.

Anyone have any info?

Cheers

Thanks,

The root page is not the 'view all' page but I do have a dropdown which allows for all the products to be viewed.

I wouldn't want this page being the page displayed in the SE's though because so many products are being loaded it can cause a lag.

using the SEOMOZ Toolbar I can see some of the paging along with filters (view all/cheapest/highest/a-z) have some juice, and ideally I only want the root page to show in SE's, so im thinking of canonical tagging all the paging and filters back to the root category page.

Thoughts?

Hi,

Lets say you have a category which displays a list of 20 products and pagination of up to 10 pages.

The root page has some content but when you click through the paging the content is removed leaving only the list of products.

Would it be best to apply a canonical tag on the paging back to the root or apply the prev/next tags.

I understand prev/next is good for say a 3 part article where each page holds unique content but how do you handle the above situation?

Thanks

Hi,

If a blog has a section which contains 40 outbound links almost like a blogroll do you think Google looks at this cluster as suspicious?

Could this come across like paid links to Google?

Awesome news,  I know it wasn't quick enough especially in your situation but you must have done some good work to pull things back in a few months.

Your clients are going to benefit from your new knowledge as well, which is cool.

I'm getting different results then you,

I can see your login to your Google account, try login out or if your using Chrome use incognito to search.

What you got, same or different?

Hi,

So I have a page which is steady for months, sits at say position 15 then every few weeks it will jump to position 7 for maybe 24 hours then back to position 15 again.

I assume it's trying to work out if we should be higher up the results by putting us in a higher position and monitoring the CTR and other metrics.

Anyone got any other ideas? And when it does this can you do anything to signal this position is better? Maybe when it moves, ramp up social activity, shares etc.

Thanks.

Nice,

The link bait would be on the same domain but if your an eCommerce site then PR will be distributed across a large number of pages.

I was thinking of making a content hub, with articles, infographics etc and stripping out the eCommerce navigation which should allow more PR to flow down to the target page.

Thoughts and thanks.

Hi,

Lets say you have two pages, one is your money page which contains products etc and the other is a piece of content used for link bait.

Say the link bait works well and you pick up lots of links from it, how do you then benefit your money page from this? I can only think of creating an anchor text link from the link bait back to the money page.

Is that usually how this process works?

Nope just off-site activity.

So how would you recommend bringing it back? im inclined to try and remove the heavy anchor text and replace it with mixed anchor from higher auth sites, but even then im not sure if Google have marked it and there is no coming back.

Ok so this is what I got,

1 page ranks for about 5 different terms, all closely matching for example: Flower Pots, Flower Pot, Cheap Flower Pots, Buy Flower Pots.

Flower Pot and Flower Pots are on page 2.

Flower Pot stays where it is BUT Flower Pots drops out the rankings completely after being there for years.

Could a blast of exact match anchor text at the term Flower Pots cause this?

I would have thought the page would have been zapped rather then just one keyword.

Any ideas?

Hi,

How would you go about finding a connection between words in the eyes of Google?

So for example if I enter ~shoes -shoes I get a few things turn up in bold.

Boots is one which makes sense and I would assume Google makes a connection between the words so using both in content would help semantically.

BUT the other word it bolds is Store - this is where I get lost why would it make this connection unless Google is taking actual query data from users and making a different type of connection between words.

How do you find a solid connection between words?

Ok,

So we know from your charts 16/17th Jan is when the real drop happened, we know it's not just a handful of keywords it's basically everything down and we know you haven't received a warning so it 'might' not be off the back of a penalty.

What's the drop like in keyword positions in the search engine, we talking a drop from Page 1 to Page 2 or Page 1 to Page 150?

Also in WMT's if you look at the Health tab, flick through some of the sections, see if anything is out of the ordinary around the time the traffic dropped.

EGOL knows what he is doing, so if anything follow his guidance as well.

In Google analytics go traffic sources -> All Traffic -> click Google / organic -> Secondary Dimensions (dropdown) -> Traffic Sources -> Keyword

Now compare the 16th and 17th Jan with the same range in Dec.

Are all keywords massively down or is it a hand full?

Hi,

Lets say you have a 1000 pages, is it ok to generate a template meta description and flip the keywords depending on the page?

For example:

Red Shoes page: Buy Red Shoes at amazing prices. We have a large range of Red Shoe sizes available.

Blue Shoes page: Buy Blue Shoes at amazing prices. We have a large range of Blue Shoe sizes available.

Thoughts?

Cheers Tom

Hi,

I have been using the FWE tool currently in the SeoMoz toolbox but can't seem to do something.

I want to search for say 'Flower Pots' but only return results with the extension .co.uk.

Is this possible using the operators?

Thanks

Hi Mark,

It's not a big deal, more work if anything.

But I don't believe that .net EMD will bring any exact match boost, only the .co.uk and .com will really give you that (I have done some work with EMD's and that's what I have found).

I suppose the only thing to worry about is if it takes a little longer to rank because it's fresh, im guessing they want the EMD because they think it will have some sort of magical powers to jump to page 1?

I just want to reiterate what Andy said about sitespeed as well, try to have as little plugins as possible.

When you visit a WP site and its super slow, its usually because they have gallery plugins and all sorts running which sucks the life out of the sitespeed.

Anyway, good luck seems as though you know what your doing anyway.