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Sorry, no good answer on how to effectively explain that "it takes time" (I run multiple stores myself and am not a big fan of hearing that either)

But I do have a question. Are you using PPC in the meantime to drive some sales? Also you could be doing PPC combined with CRO to get their conversions improved while you all are waiting for time to pass and organic ranking to rise. You can learn a lot from PPC about what people really search for and what message motivates them.

It works well. Very quick. Some interesting topic ideas popped up.

I would suggest adding the ability to use some of the common search qualifiers. I first searched "garden", but got lots of Olive Garden results and couldn't use -olive to remove them.

Then switched to "gardening" and that worked great. Further refining it to "gardening tools" caused some circles like Twitter to come up empty and others like Quora to show great results. So it appears it can be used to tell how common or well-received your content may be in different circles.

I was surprised that you did not include Google+ as a circle. Can it be added?

(If you repost your question later, maybe add a screen shot of typical results)

Gotten a few emails recently about their latest promotion. Just wondering if anybody here uses that system (program, method,??) and can share their experiences?

If it is a landing page ONLY for PPC, and regular organic searchers should not be going there, then you could just noindex that page. I think that will make it's bounce and other stats not count towards the rest of the site...

Good morning Chris! I went and looked in IE. There it is not a single line, but it is a solid block of code that is not really readable by humans. It needs spaces in the code.

Do a "View Source" at my site EasyDigging.com, or even here on this Moz page, to see how code should be displayed for humans to easily read it (and look for problems and give suggestions)

Wordpress is easy to create with, but has it's own special challenges for SEO. Are you using any of the SEO plug-ins for Wordpress, like Yoast?

Hi Daniel. I struggle with the same issue on one of my ecommerce websites, while my other site doesn't have that problem (the subpages always appear ahead of the home). I don't know why.  Hopefully one of the smart Moz Members will have some ideas...

I only have general clues on how to get the product pages to rank above the home page, like: 1) get some links pointing to the product pages. 2) get more descriptive text content on the product pages. 3) Have great meta titles and descriptions on the product pages. 4) Include social media functions (such as Like, Tweet, and G+) available on the product pages.

I have set Priorities in my XML sitemap to declare the main product pages as being higher that average priority, and the homepage as being lower than average. From what I read it doesn't appear that Google uses these Priority declarations very much or at all, but it's easy to do and does not appear to hurt anything. You can read a little more about Priority at the bottom of this page: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en

Good luck!

It would help everybody help you with SEO questions if we could read your site code easily. Right now the code is compressed into one long continuous line of code. That saves a little file space, but makes it almost impossible for humans to read.

If you go to most webpages, right click in a blank area, and select "View Source" you will get a screen showing the code  displayed as one item per line, with hundreds of lines. This lets humans easily look for things that are important for SEO. Your webmaster likely has the code this way already on their own computer, but has been making and uploading a compressed version to webhost. Ask him to upload the uncompressed version of important pages.

Other than that, you should hire the service of someone skilled in doing LOCAL SEO - that does not mean some guy who lives in the same area you do. It's a special sort of SEO procedure that is quite different from those of us with a national or worldwide customer base.

You can probably do quite well by spending a reasonable amount with Google Adwords (PPC ads) if you set your ads to display only in the regions you serve.

Also do you have Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics set up for your site? Those will be valuable.

I use GreenGeeks.com for both my sites. Very happy with them. I can call anytime and talk to a person who will answer my questions or fix my problems. No run-arounds, no extra charges.

Look to see if there is /b/ in the middle of the URL of the page you are trying to enter. That means you are using the page as the logged in owner of the page. Moz can't do that of course...

So sign out of your Google account completely, then search and find your G+ business page, and copy that URL. Or you could just try manually editing the /b out of the URL you are attempting to enter.

May be totally wrong here, but it is a quick test...

Switch the order of your redirects. First list all the old specific page to new specific page rules. Then last in the list put this rule - Redirect 301 / http://newdomain.co.uk/ (which you currently have first). That may let most of the specific pages do their thing before that general rule sends whatever is left to the homepage.

The way you code your htaccess is a bit different from what I do. Mine has a lot more code for each rule, and some qualifiers like L and NE...

Let us know if it works?

Thanks Bill. The big drop actually happened back in mid 2012, with partial recovery since then. We do make little text tweaks to the pages fairly often. We do some social media outreach each week.

Still need to know why the clothes drying rack page does so poorly in comparison to the other pages....

I have an ecommerce site for the clothes drying racks my family business makes, and it sells a few other laundry items also. It's about 5 years old. We used to rank on the first page for basic phrases like "clothes drying rack" and "umbrella clothesline".

About 1.5 years ago we fell hard in the rankings. Since then "umbrella clothesline" has moved back to the first page, but "clothes drying rack" is stuck on the 3rd page and always with the result being the generic homepage instead of the good sub-page (which used to rank on the first page) that really shows-n-tells about our drying rack.

Here are the three pages I am talking about. Home page = http://www.bestdryingrack.com/   Drying rack page = http://www.bestdryingrack.com/clothes-drying-rack-main.html  and umbrella clothesline page = http://www.bestdryingrack.com/umbrella-clotheslines.html

Any ideas on how to get the drying rack page to start ranking well again? (hopefully better than the generic homepage ranks)

A little technical background: the Moz campaign on this site says that the home page has a PA = 42 with 190 LRD's and 344 external links. Both the umbrella clothesline page and the clothes drying rack page have almost equal statistics of PA = 35 with 20 LRD's and 23 external links.

My anchor text distribution is maybe unbalanced. The drying rack page has 15 external links with the anchor of "Clothes Drying Rack". But the umbrella clothesline page has 14 external links with the anchor of "outdoor umbrella clothesline" and it ranks on the first page for that search.

I can't figure out how to get OSE to tell me anchor text stats for just the homepage and not the whole site since www.bestdryingrack.com/index.html 301's to the plain www.bestdryingrack.com  (if you know how, please share)

What's wrong with my poor neglected clothes drying rack page? The only way I can get it to show up on the first page is to do a real specific search like "round wooden clothes drying rack"

Your help could save a faltering family business. Thank you!

Hi RealGoodsSolar,

My understanding is that using a self-referential canonical tag in the Head section will cause the link value for any version of that URL to accumulate for the base URL.

So for page www.mydomain.com/inner-page.html , using this tag in the head:

causes incoming links with tail-end variations like:

www.mydomain.com/inner-page.html#id2  or  www.mydomain.com/inner-page.html?searchresult3

to all count towards www.mydomain.com/inner-page.html

Good luck!

I asked a similar question on a number of Forums a couple of weeks ago. The basic answer was No.

But you can have your server block access to IP addresses from chosen countries. Which may block the search engine spiders from that country, or may not if they come from unusual IP addresses. The fuzzy part is knowing what IP addresses are serving what countries, and keeping up with the changes.

Your safest route would be to either 1)patch up the current cart to not appear outdated to your customers or 2) find a different shopping cart system that uses the same  example.com/category.asp  format for it's URL's.

Patching up what is already working will be the least expensive route...

So is "B" just the More Details page for "A"? And is there a different A,B pair for each individual property listing (A1,B1 and A2,B2 and A3,B3 and etc)?

If so, pick a few and do a little where experiment where B has a canonical tag pointing to A. I would also put a self-referential canonical tag on A pointing to itself (A), just in case there is extra junk on the end of link URLs that are pointing to A.

It will take awhile for Google to re-index. To speed it up, you can use GWMT to "Fetch as Google" the experimental B pages and do "Submit to Index". A few days after that do the same thing for the experimental A pages.

let us know if it works...

Hi James,

Our items are large, and shipping to other countries is just way too expensive. So no plans to ever go international.

My understanding is that a low bounce rate (and other stats that relate to a good visitor experience) often result in higher Google rankings. So we really do want to know if there is some way to shut off the flow of foreign visitors...

I have ecommerce sites the only serve US and Canada. Is there a way to prevent a site from appearing in the Google results in foreign countries?

The reason I ask is that we also have a lot of informational pages that folks in other countries are visiting, then leaving right after reading. This is making our overall Bounce Rate very high (64%). When we segment the GA data to look at just our US visitors, then the Bounce Rate drops a lot. (to 48%)

Thanks!

How you are checking the rank will influence the result. Checking from your own computers that often "visit" your own site can make your own pages show up better in the rankings.

Did you try using a rank checking service, or  an anonymous Google search tool like startpage.com ?

If I understand your question correctly, then I think the answer is Yes.

Did you mean this? If pages that were linking to my website went were deleted (become 404 pages ) ... Do they affect my website in google ranking  ?

If yes, then the links on those pages that were pointing to your site (and helping you rank better) were also deleted. That means you now have less incoming links and that may decrease your rank.

If it was only a few links coming from weak sites, then the effect is probably too small to notice. But if many links were lost, or if they were coming from strong websites, then the effect could be large.

I hope this helps,