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If you use Google Analytics there the Experiment area within the Content Tab.

It's easy to setup - only takes a few minutes - it's also free

But in order to use A/B testing (split tests) you need to know what you want to test.

Some good resources can be found with some case studies that can give you a direction on conversion rate experts blog - http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/

There are however a lot of resources out there to give you a direction before you start split testing.

Hope it helps.

it's more then ok - however you should use the full url not the relative one.

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Hi,

Should i make an 301 redirect?

** Only if you can actually redirect using 301 to pages that cover the same or have at least some connection with the old page. Otherwise there won't be too much benefit.

If you are not able to 301 redirect them to new specific pages you could 301 redirect those all to a single page that can act as a topic page  - a gateway.

Make the 404 noindex?

** That won't help. if google gets a 404 response code it will treat it as a not found page and it won't index / crawl the page anyway - so google's bot won't see anything on the page anyway including the no index tag.

Cheers.

Hi,

Anything under Site Errors affects the site performance overall - crawling and even rankings.

However nothing within the Site Errors will affect the overall site performance in anyway. You can have millions of 400 or 500 errors within the Site errors and not even the crawl rate will be affected on a site level.

(404 and 410 dose have an effect - as those pages will be removed out of the index but only in that case)

The only down side is that the exact pages that are returning that error could be crawled less often - this is the single issue you may face.

I've seen similar cases with 403 errors due to outside sources. At the end of the day you can just ignore those with no issues - there is no point in trying to tackle those as you won't get any positive ROI out of it.

My 2 cents. Hope it helps.

People will more likely get involved (circle and comment) on a brand vs on a g+ account that is made for SEO.

The advantages on the SEO side will be higher with more people getting involved vs a keyword optimized vanity URL.

Just my opinion.

Yes, since you use different domains (TLDs) then you have a clear case of duplicate content. Hreflang in this case dosen't solve the duplicate issue. You could however use rel canonical - cross domain and in correlation with hreflang you can actually solve the issue but again, you need to "connect" the two with rel canonical.

+1 for Brand Name as Vanity URL.

Personally I am not sure what you mean by EE.UU. Can you explain ?

Overall -  regardless of the "target" most of the updates are pushed on all countries with some exception (china and japan) so I would't count on being able to do things that  I am not able to do if I target dot es or dot com or dot de and so on on other "less important" areas.

It's ok to count it like this: Usually Google splits the updates on English Queries and Non-English queries.  That means some updates are releases for dot com, UK, NZ, AU and so on and the same update is pushed on non-english queries ( with the exception of Chiana and Japan) on a separate date. No matter what - any update that was pushed on the English queries side it will find its way to the non english side.

Yes, definitely (unless you have another agenda for the branding domain)

Hello. I'm talking about Google Spain.

** Imagine that based on the question mark in the beginning 

To keep it short : can you list the two domains ? (urls) I would say there is no problem no matter what - with the hosting and it's based on queries and domain authority but just to make sure and bring the actual evidence you could list the two urls...

Hi Florent,

All the changes that you did are very good and for sure it will help your site - but not necessarily on the Panda issue.

When talking about panda you need to consider a few things:

• panda is not a penalty - it's a filter (very important difference)

• you don't have to be good to stay safe or recover from panda, you need to be better then the rest of the sites that are covering the same niche.

• panda it's only about the content (site speed, affiliate format, links etc are not taking into account - for those you have other filters and penalties)

So, fi you are 100% that Panda is to blame for your drop in rankings you need to compare your self with the competition first and see how can you be better then them.

Just put your self in Google shoes - if you have 10 sites on the same niche with more or less the same content you want to keep 1 or 2, populate the rest of the results with diverse results and move the rest -50 or whatever.

If you are not the one on the 1 or 2 set then you are one of the one that just got moved back - way back (down).

Spot the ones that are still up and try to improve the content in order to be better then those are have a different approach for the same niche / area in order to get a spot for the diverse spots. In this way you will get back.

First assess the situation and see if you can be better - in terms of content - then those that are still on top in visibility that are targeting more or less the same content as you do.  If you can beat them - change your content strategy and approach the same content in a different format and flow in order to make it on the top results as one of the sites that are part of the diversity results.

Hope it helps. Is it clear or I am beating around the bush ?

Cheers !

Hi,

That warning is a guideline  - it's not really an error that you need to fix.

In your case the home page needs to have more links on page - it make sense based on format and flow.

Since you don't have a high Domain / page authority it's not very good as you don't have that much Page rank to "give" to the other pages you are linking from the home page.

if you can reduce the number of links on this page it will help the remaining internal articles / pages that you  link from home page as those will receive more "votes" but again it's not an error.

As for the sitemap you should't really care about the warning as that is for indexation .. mainly.

You can also look at google's video about this at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0

(this will bring some new insights about the issue).

Hope it helps !

Hi,

The best way to see the "score" of your keywords as far as commercial intent or not is to place them in the keywords tool and see the bid for each (ppc). If it's high it's a commercial keyword - if it's very low it's not.

I guess you mean by "comment" in the "content/ body of the post/page"?

**  That was supposed to be "content" not "comment". Auto-spelling is a bless .. some times

Cheers !

Yes, because it make sense for both the users and Google.

Google is against duplicate description all over your site for home page, contact, about and product pages just because that will impact the users in a negative way. In your case, like in zazzle.com it dose make sense.

It will be weird and un-helpful just to change the description so you don't have duplicates or just change slight words again for the same reason.

There is one golder rule: No more then two commercial keywords in the Title.

Going over this you trigger some special "attention" and if you do over optimize that can back fire. You should focus with one keyword per page but if that is not possibile for some reason and you need to push 5 on teh same page then do it with extra care and don't stuff them all over the place.

From the options that you've posted I would go with option 2 but:

• prioritize the 5 kw and put the main keyword in both title and url

• place the second keyword in url

• add the rest in the comment

• if all 5 are commercial keywords then don't put a second one in the title if there are also some non commercial keywords

my 2 cents !

I have to disagree - I still strongly suggest not to focus to much on this issue in your case - but this is why this filed is exciting  different opinions and approaches

If the description for the product is the same why changing it ? We should do this for the user not google if we want to keep everything clean and white. And in this case for the user it dose make sense to have the same description.

Hi.

Based on the site size  (number of pages) and format (code, elements and structure) and two speed test I just run on it and a trace-route (from Austria) looks like you don't have any issues with it from a technical point of view.

One thing you need to check is still possibile is the time spent downloding a page graph (the third one) from within GWMT. Did this spiked up in the same time when crawl pages went down ?

A few other questions you should consider:

• did you do any changes - especially structure changes around the same time you've notice the issues ?

• are there any public google updates in the same timeframe with those changes that  you've notice ?( you can check them here: http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change )

• is your content duplicate ? (with external sources I mean - not internally)

Please don't get me wrong - i would be ok with the format of the site if it will be very old - before 2000. But the domain is from 2008 - you should get on track with new trends as far as layout, content format and web site format in general.

Hope it helps.

For sure it dosen't count as duplicate content !

The only down side is the CTR in search results pages - if having the same description your user could be confused then it's a problem if not then it's 100% ok.

Hope it helps.

My personal  opinion is not to use Bounce rate as a KPI at all. It's ok to check it from time to time mainly on individual Landing pages but that's about it.

Getting obsessed with Bounce rate will only damage your site as you will lose focus on real important aspects.

Google takes in consideration, for rankings and when google calculates the "quality score" a different type of bounce rate - not the one in Google Analytics - but only the bounces back in serps and a second click for the same query.

Just as a note - I also think the kissmetric formula is wrong but that is pointless since again bouce rate is not really something to be stressed about.

Hope it helps !

Hi,

As far as I know a low crawl rate won't end up with bad rankings but bad rankings will end up with a lower crawl rate.

If you are sure and I mean really sure you don't have any technical issues on your side that will influence the crawl rate and possibile also rankings then you should take in consideration that maybe you do actually have a -950 filter that is causing your rankings to drop, google dosen't consider your site an authority and for thsi reason it won't crawl your site often or as often as it used to do it.

Can you share the url of the site ? Just to have a look and see if at a first glance there are any obvios reason for google to dislike your site.

Cheers !