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thanks for the link SEO5 Team

Cool thanks Clever PHD !

Thanks Sierra, i know i was just jesting re US format being incorrect

However it is important that i can supply reports to my UK clients in Uk date format, so are you saying this isn't currently possible and only thing i can do at the moment is submit a feature request ?

All Best

Dan

My reports dates are showing a very strange format (month/day/year) how do we fix to correct format (day/month/year) ?

cheers anyway

ps - i dont suppose you know off hand if you can set UK date format ?

Thanks Chris !

Cheers

Dan

Cool - Many thanks Kurt !

All Best

Dan

Thanks Chris !

Although that page says cant create those reports on the fly so presume means will have to go through process of generating entire report from scratch which for time reasons isnt an option

Cheers

Dan

Hi

Ive just set up a monthly report for a client but is scheduled to arrive BY the day they need it which is a bit close hence ideally would like to bring it forward by a few days, is this possible ?

Cheers

Dan

The video is already produced hence didnt have the opportunity to define goals from outset.  Being the projects seo im looking to get rich snippets and conversions.  The videos are tv program editions.

Im asking for dedicated page per video with added media such as transcriptions (descriptions as a minimum).  However looking very unlikely will get dedicated page and only thumbnails directory hence trying to decide how aggressively to push for dedicated page or settle for YT as an alternative.

Im obviously also after links so doubt YT option worthwhile although thinking people may well search for programme archives on YT to watch old editions hence programmes should be uploaded there too for that reason (otherwise they will find other peoples uploads of lesser quality old editions and with no particular structure or content control such as descriptions).

Hence to maintain brand ownership of videos archive on YT im thinking of suggesting uploading to YouTube as well as trying to get the max out of self hosting on site for SEO (links, snippets & conversions too)

Great advice thanks Phil !!

So if on site video display options are pretty limited (i.e. not being able to provide dedicated pages per video only thumbnail type directories) then would you say its prob best to choose YouTube over website hosting ?

All Best

Dan

Thanks Kurt

and what about the parameter handling tool ? if canonical tag method you mention will deal with this then is there any need to do anything with parameter handling tool ?

cheers

dan

ps - is a pdf to html coverter different from a plugin that loads the pdf as an open page when you click it ? or same thing ?

Thanks Clever PHD

The site is a major brand/household name and the authors are established experts in their field who will be writing high quality newsworthy content on subjects relating to this and all within a dedicated 'News' section of the site.

However the site does have a primary chargeable service that this CTA will aim to convert readers to from the article.

We will be disallowing 'Google-News' bot from all other areas of the site and only direct to News section (as G advises).

Do you think that will work ?

I have recommended that the CTA be removed from the article body copy and moved to the sites template so is aside from the actual copy but still in view.  Do you think this would help or if it can still be seen 'on-page' wont make a difference hence may as well try and keep in  body ?

Cheers

Dan

thanks Chris

yes you can canonicalise the pdf to the html (according to the comments of that article i just linked to anyway)

Thanks Chris although i thought PDFS were crawlable??:  http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2013/01/10/seo-pdfs/

Hence why im worried about dupe content if use content of pdf as body text too OR are you saying should no-follow the link to the pdf if use its content as body text because it is considered dupe content in that scenario ?

Ideally i want both - the copy on it used as body text copy on page and the pdf a linkable download, or page as embed of open pdf via a plugin.

Hi

I have some pdfs linked to from a page with little content.  Hence thinking best to extract the copy from the pdf and have on-page as body text, and the pdf will still be linked too.  Will this count as dupe content ?

Or is it best to use a pdf plugin so page opens pdf automatically and hence gives page content that way ?

Cheers

Dan

Good Morning Phil,

Sorry another 2 quick questions re video seo:

The project in this case is hosting their own video and embedding on their webpages, due to the nature of the videos i think it lends itself well to YT and the brand certainly wants a YT channel IMO. If they put these on YT too is 2 different video locations (their site & YT) considered duplicate content or undesirable in any other way ?

Unfortunately due to nature of site architecture with pages being dynamically generated, devs saying cant give each vid its own page and need a page of thumbnails etc which from reading the info in your above posted links wont work very well. Hence think its good to have on YT too since wont be able to take advantage of the various methodologies in your article/s. Just a bit worried having in 2 locations will cause probs.

Also If we did use YouTube but developer hosting the videos would that then count as backlink from YT (similar to one of my original questions that embedding YT hosted vids on your site are more of a backlink to YT) ?  Or due to the nature of uploading vids to YT they are always YT hosted

Cheers

Dan

Hi,

If you want to submit articles to Google News (& tag them with G News meta tags), even if high quality original content (that's genuinely objective) will all your efforts still be in vain if you include a CTA (call to action) to the websites primary service at the end of the article ?

Cheers

Dan