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Canonical URL Tag Usage
In a roundabout way, yes, that is the general idea. Decide on the page, create a title that suggests the objective of the page (Learn about Heavy Haulage | Freight Etc Inc). Google is very good at understanding that Haulage will also mean Haul, Hauliers etc, so try to fill the page with lots of related information. Talk about transporting of abnormal loads, types of trailers, training required, etc. Make the page as informative as possible. When it comes to finding the keywords to use and research, look for what others talk about that are doing well in Google and then give your own spin on this - although I don't mean spin the content. Spend some time making your content better than the sites above you. -Andy
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Andy.Drinkwater0 -
Site map creator
Hi, Go indeed with ScreamingFrog if you're not on WordPress. If you are running WordPress go with a SEO Plugin like the one from Yoast. That will make sure new pages will automatically get added to the sitemap instead of having to recrawl your site very often. A sitemap can contain up to 50.000 URLs. So for now with only 1300 URLs I wouldn't worry about the size of the sitemap or having multiple sitemaps.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Martijn_Scheijbeler0 -
Keyword Ranks Jumping all over? Top 10 to 40 back to top 5?
Do not try to slow down the crawl rate, that would be bad for your site and not a good strategy. Investigate what pages are not jumping around. pages i have experienced to jump around are algoritmic penalty kind of jumping. (over optimized or duplicated content or low authority)
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Stramark0 -
.htaccess file uploaded, website won't load
You were almost there buddy. It looks like you have regex characters that need to be escaped with . Plus, most seem to prefer rewriting index before messing with www. Give this at try. I took a look at the site before the loop and it doesn't appear to use any CMS per se. If it were a WordPress site, you would want to place the code before the WordPress rewrites. P.S. You don't need the last comment in the example.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Travis_Bailey0