Are those visits or unique visits? Where are you getting the visits metric from?
Posts made by EricaMcGillivray
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RE: Google Adwords Clicks v.s. Google Analytics Visits
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RE: Ecommerce: content on category pages
Unfortunately, more text is what Google wants. Have you thought about adding maybe a featured product with a good review on it to both enhance the page & to add more content to it?
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RE: Having both <title>and <meta name="title"...> on a web page?</title>
I'd definitely have them remove it as you'll be getting errors for having 2 page titles. You want to stick with <title>...</title>
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RE: Are you a Freelancer? I am looking for an SEOmoz expert who knows the best practices of the tool and can help bring some Fs up to As
You might head over to our SEOmoz group on LinkedIn for posting a job request. Also, Alan is correct in that a better description of what you need would help freelancers determine if the work's in their knowledge-base and it's worth their time to contact you.
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RE: Crawl Errors for duplicate titles/content when canonicalised or noindexed
If you canonicalized the pages correct and added pagination clearly, I wouldn't worry about the errors in crawl. I know one of the most requested features for our crawl errors is the ability to ignore some of the errors. Make sure your voice is added in our request a feature.
For canonicalization and pagination:
The best thing to do is have a "view all" page and rel=canonical to that page from your series pages. However, if you don't have a view all page, then you can put these nifty rel="next" and rel="prev" tags in to let Google know your page has pagination and where the next and previous pages are.
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RE: 202 error page set in robots.txt versus using crawl-able 404 error
Since a 202 error is a server error, that's not categorizing that page right. A 404 says it doesn't exist, which is better. However, redirecting it to another similar and relevant page via a 301 is the best option.
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RE: Anyone have a good example of a CSS-based multi-level nav bar that is semantic (including link level subordination) and is ux positive?
Definitely possible with HTML5. But you're probably going to have to make one from scratch. Then you can share with the world

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RE: Yandex KW Research
Unfortunately, none of our tools check rankings on Yandex. But make sure to let our product team know you're interested on our features request page.
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RE: What does this technique achieve? Is it bad or good?
I think that's kind of a great solution for the fast changing world of rentals.
With this one: www.example.com/details/apartment/id/786 - you're going so many folders down that Google may not even index what you have.
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RE: Redirect blogspot blog ?
You can definitely set www.yoursite.com/blog to redirect (as a 301) to Blogspot. However, your domain is not getting the SEO benefits from your blog by having it on Blogspot. Yes, you can put rich anchor text links, but it's safe to say that Google's smart enough to figure out that you own both your domain and the Blogspot blog.
The best use you could get out the blog would be for link-bait articles, in the hope that people would then circle back to your e-commerce site.
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RE: Number of Indexed Pages are Continuously Going Down
Not to speak for Casey, but both those comments are definitely linked together. If Google thinks your content is thin or too similar to other content, it's going to index what it deems worthy or interesting to searchers. Retail sites often have this problem due to the conundrum of "how much can you really write about a table lamp" and that category and product pages often have similar content.
I'd focus on making your content on the pages more robust so Google seems it as awesome and indexs it.
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RE: Wordpress Plugin Causing Mobile Switcher 404 Errors
We use WPTouch, which is pretty easy to use and seems to work well. It was having issues with WP Super Cache.
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RE: Wordpress Plugin Causing Mobile Switcher 404 Errors
Not sure what plug-in you're using, but my non-profit's website had a similar issue earlier this year where some of the mobile traffic would randomly 404 or show a non-mobile person the mobile site. We found that it was a conflict between that plug-in and another we were using to cache the site. We went ahead and got rid of the cache plug-in, which had numerous issues including slowing down our site, and that seemed to solve it.
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RE: SEOMoz Crawler and rel_canonical_tag Errors
Have a canonical tag on your pages, regardless of whether or not you have the same page in other places, will not harm you. (It would only harm you if you had it on two duplicate pages saying that both were the canonical version.)
I'd check your site for similar or thin content, which is another thing Panda hit. Yes, you may not have direct duplicates, but if your content on the category and product pages are either thin or very similar to each other, you can still get hit. I'd suggest reading this post, which is basically everything you need to know about Panda.
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RE: Link to overall brand pages
In my clothing retail e-commerce experience, I had much the same issues. Most people tend to search more refined than just a brand name, and men's or women's is a pretty basic distinguisher.
That said, I'd do a couple things: 1) figure out what keywords you want to target and make sure your copy's robust and 2) linkbuild. Especially with luxury brands, there are tons of fashion blogs to partner with, and it's pretty amazing what you can get by sending someone an article of clothing.
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RE: Mini site links?
You don't really have control over if Google's going to display that for your site. You want to set up your site's major pages properly in order to get the best chance at Google displaying them. However, you don't get to decide.
You can, however, remove or suggest changes for them in GWT. But I believe in order to do so, Google must already have decided to list them for you.
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RE: No index directory pages?
Thin content is something penalized by Google's Panda, and to avoid it, definitely use James' suggestions depending on what you want from your site.
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RE: Google Panda & Effects On Affiliate Sites
Google's affiliate program is done through their custom links which then redirect, which means they're all no-follow links. With Panda, Google's basically saying that everyone's going to be no-follow from here on out for all affiliate programs, even if they have built in no-follows or redirects that are already not passing link juice.
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RE: Impact of mobile pages on current rankings
Media queries don't redirect, but instead, display CSS stylesheets to fit different devices. 1 page to rule them all, so to say. Which means less work on your end in the long run.
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RE: If googlebot fetch doesnt find our site will it be indexed?
The reason that your site's not being indexed is because your robots.txt file is blocking (see: disallow) bots from searching it.