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Effects of forwarding content to another site?
Any time you transfer part of a site you transfer away the strength of that portion of your site. Your page count will drop, there will be some drop in visitor engagement and the number of inbound links and linking root domains will drop. I would be prepared to see negative impact on existing rankings.
Technical SEO Issues | | EGOL0 -
Undoing Video SEO
Ugh... not the answer I was looking for. I've removed all the things that would tell google that there is video on the page. I just wasn't sure if there was anything else I could do. Thanks!
On-Page / Site Optimization | | CPollock0 -
Differentiating Content
Ok, I rewrote the content completely on the www.simplifiedbuilding.com site, so I guess we'll see where this goes. Thanks for the input.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | CPollock0 -
Export & Email Keyword Report for Selected Tags
Hi there! This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team. Unfortunately, we don't offer the option to export keywords to a report for specific tags, but I think this is a really great idea that would be perfect to post on our feature request forum: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests You can vote for features you'd like to see and suggest your own, both of which help us determine what to build next. Add your request there and hopefully we'll see it come to fruition sometime down the line. Thanks!
Moz Pro | | MeganSingley0 -
How to Tell if an Image is Indexed
This won't help with the image question but you can see Google Property data in Google Analytics by going to: Traffic Sources>Search Engine Optimization>Queries and then selecting the secondary dimension of 'Google Property'.
Search Engine Trends | | Unity0 -
Modifying Well Established & Well Indexed Content
**What about shortening the title tag? **I would drop all of the CMS stuff. Just be sure that it does not change the URL of your page. Check the referral traffic to see if the CMS words are pulling any traffic if you have any doubts. What about changing the image file names and adding alt tags when they are nonsense or garbage? If you change an image name you will lose all current image traffic for that image. If I had lots of traffic I would not change it. If the traffic was nil I would consider a change. **What about adding a "finish" picture to the top? **I have no fear of adding that. None. It is huge upside if you have a great image. **What about making these changes incrementally? **Do it if you enjoy farting around. I don't think it will make any difference at all. My most important advice. If you are improving the page, keeping it relevant and are not changing the URL, title tag or optimization have no fear.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | EGOL0 -
Title and Url Agreement
Since many studies now see the H1 as having far much less impact (but certainly a bit) I would recommend the following based on anecdotal search index data, "light scientific" studies around H1 impact, the impact of a title for sharing and semantic clustering: 1. Write the page title/H1 with sharing in mind first and search a close second. (given the decreased emphasis on H1s) and the increased weight of sharing. 1B. At this level of detail I would go for the fun "clicky" title for CTR increases. 2. Consider that google (in this day) sees a very clear relationship between 'stand up desk' and "standing desk'. It's just as likely that these variations support each other as much or better than repeating the same term. In your copy, I'd say that even the word "sitting" in (it's very opposition) is related to and supports your "standing" targets. 3. Your URL answers one query while your title/H1 responds to a slightly different query increasing your halo of search reach. At this point I like the semantic cluster rising between your URL and title. And you've got juicy related terms like "working" in the title. This carries through in your content. 4. "Good content" and natural content will have variations on target terms, related terms etc.. thus we can infer perceived content quality to go up (since you're not overly focused on term repetition) I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "varying taxonomy" but variance is much more human and natural than uniformity of every component down the page. But the link below seems relevant although there's tons of great SI articles out there that should also help with your question. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1224698 " text within each node indicates a higher relevance of the materials to the taxonomic classification." Hope that's of some help.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | mcluna0