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it certainly would, must be hard for people with different characters in their alphabet.  However i think if your otherwise scoring a B then you know that really you have scored an A etc etc

Thanks for confirming that Paul !

Ive also noticed that when using services like Buffer etc, to post socially, that the articles image is not being displayed as an option in the images to choose from, to display as the image in the post, Instead its only showing options like the site logo etc which we don't want.  I asked Buffer tech support and they said that if the images had height/width attributes then they should then be presented as image options to accompany the post

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Dan

i would guess that yes it is because of the Latvian characters, if you send Moz a support request they will be able to confirm this for you

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Dan

Hi

How important are the image height/width attributes and would you expect a best practice site to have them included ?

I hear not having them can slow down a page load time is that correct ?

Any other issues from not having them ?

I know some re social sharing (i know bufferapp prefers images with h/w attributes to draw into their selection of image options when you post)

Most importantly though would you expect them to be intrinsic to sites that have been designed according to best practice guidelines ?

Thanks

Many Thanks Tomas for that very interesting information, its a very good reference and i shall frequently refer to it

Thanks so much for taking the time to write such a thorough comment

Have a great day !!

Good answer cheers Tom !

Hi

If a pages url has half the pages target keyphrase (i.e. 1 word instead of 2) is it still worth changing to include entire keyphrase (2 words) given need to then add 301 redirects etc after ?

If it was a new page then I would definately include full keyphrase but the page is a few months old and has quite high page authority as is (i know a 301 should transfer most authority) but given this page and other sub pages would also need to be 301'd if this change occurs and the dev time/cost that would incurred/charged by the design/dev agency. Also thinking Google being cleverer now (the pages content will be about the target kw) so thinking G would work it out from rest of page content and partial match kw in url.

In other words to best target keyphrase is it best to leave url as is or change url to include keyphrase ?

For example if the pages target kw is 'swimming clubs' and the current url is

www.franksleisurecentres.com/clubs

changing it to

www.franksleisurecentres.com/swimming-clubs

:Thanks

Dan

the sites pages are dynamically generated so they have either quoted for an option to create a special page/another step in the process to provide a unique url or adding an event as a goal (with the event being the clicking of a 'submit order' button) but i cant see how this second option would take more than 30-60 minutes as well

Thanks Lynn

Client doesnt want to pay for anything they think should be included as best practice since original dev was quoted as going to be best practice

Cheers

Dan

thanks again but im not after recommendations, im talking about the general principle and approach in regard to it

thanks Tom but im talking about developers not SEO companies

Thanks David but client and developer well integrated & established relationship and if site was supposed to be best practice & seo friendly then i would expect any crawl errors & warnings etc to be fixed for no charge.  Bit more tricky for new stuff like adding goals & ecom tracking

Hi Lynn

As i just replied above to TP , it is a custom/bespoke system and they are an established capital city firm.  The main site pages didnt come with meta descriptions, the site only had an html site map no xml one, all the main content pages had same title (hence dupe titles), no canonicalisation (so lots of dupe content).  And the main pages didn't have any copy (or space to add).

Client was told it was a best practice site and seo friendly, i take it from the above i can be confident telling the client its not & well within rights to request many of the things needing doing like fixing crawl errors & warnings etc should not be chargeable since needed to make best practice when it wasnt originally ?

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for confirming TP !

Yes its a bespoke custom system, only has cms for new content pages, all existing main site pages meta data etc needs to be hard coded, have asked for editable functionality for this so i can add/edit titles, decrip & body copy etc but they have quoted £1750 for just that request

The main site pages didnt come with meta descriptions, the site only had an html site map no xml one, all the main content pages had same title (hence dupe titles), no canonicalisation (so lots of dupe content).  And the main pages didn't have any copy (or space to add).

Client was told it was a best practice site and seo friendly, i take it from the above i can be confident telling the client its not & well within rights to request many of the things needing doing like fixing crawl errors & warnings etc should not be chargeable since needed to make best practice when it wasnt originally ?

Cheers

Dan

Hi

I've submitted some site change request to a clients dev team and they have got back with a rather large quote thats left me gobsmacked, so i want to run it by any of you to get your feedback ?

Creating/integrating a dynamic xml site map @ £3450

Fixing Crawl Errors & Warning reported by Moz report (i..e adding canonicalisation tag to each page to deal with dupe content and a few other small/misc items) @ £4850

Setting up/enabling ecom tracking in Analytics @ £910

Setting up 1 events based goal in analytics @ £490

Are these prices even plausible ?

Cheers

Dan

Thats great thanks Phil !

I wasn't seeing that button but then i'm not the original channel creator just authorised (via G+)

I will tell original channel creator to do that

Many Thanks

Dan

Thats fantastic thank you Thompson Paul

Hi

I've just noticed a video uploaded to a clients youtube channel is misinterpreting a spoken word as a swear word, the F word :), will this have negative connotations ? could it result in video being considered 'adult content' ??

Any idea how to get this changed, should i report/flag it or will that likely make matters worse ? Or YT tech support email (chance would be a fine thing) ?

Also how do you set a video as the channel trailer ? (i cant find any option to do this)

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for commenting Mike

Definately intend to mix it up a bit but just wanted to check by how much/needed to avoid potential dupe issues. But yes will try and tailor it for G+ users so slightly different messaging and not a fax of the home page

cheers

dan

Is there a dupe content issue if your social media profiles and website have same content/copy ?

For example if you have written great copy for your website home page then literally copy & paste that into your G+ co page introduction (since sums everything up perfectly and don't want to change it) would that have a negative effect or be perfectly ok ?

cheers

dan