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Mobile Meta Descriptions
Thomas is correct. To be clear are you only concerned about Mobile traffic? If yes, then it maybe beneficial to reduce your MD's to 120 characters. That said we test MD impacts on CTR each day and we do not see great differences if at all in CTR unless you put your CTA toward the end of the MD. The truncation in MD's has nominal effect generally. The first 4 words of the MD have the highest impact on CTR. Recommend you try and ensure the keywords are therein, as they get boldened. Also the mobile Title also displays differently (than desktop) which we have found can make a big difference in CTR if used properly. So also consider extracting increased value from your Title. Suggest use the entire 512 pixels. This is as the final two words of the title often drop down to centre of the page which has significant impact. On a desktop their value is nominal on CTR. Hope that assists.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ClaytonJ0 -
How to automate this?
You could use something like URL Profiler along with an API key from here or your preferred tool.
Online Marketing Tools | | MickEdwards1 -
Tools to test meta descriptions?
https://moz.com/researchtools/on-page-grader https://moz.com/researchtools/keyword-difficulty Moz has a couple of tools, as Martijn said screaming frog and exporting can work too, you can do this for http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html as well
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | GPainter0 -
Tools to identify link type
I'd suggest Cognitive SEO for this.. I'm personally using it and quite satisfied with the results. Hope this helps! Umar
Online Marketing Tools | | UmarKhan0 -
Duplicate Pages #!
Hi, In most cases having duplicate content is not going to punish/hurt you in terms of SEO (unless it's deceptive content) - see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en It remains however best practice to make sure that content on only one unique url - the example you give seems to be a text book example of 'when to use canonicals' - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en The fact that Google doesn't seem to index the #! pages is probably related to the fact that these pages have few incoming links and that it's making the correct guess that these duplicate pages are not really important. You should also take into account that the site: command is not necessarily giving you all the pages that are indexed. Long answer to confirm that you better add the canonical. Hope this helps, Dirk
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | DirkC0 -
Tools to scan entire site for duplicate content?
Hi Jay, Have you tried any of these : http://www.copyscape.com/originality-check/ or http://www.siteliner.com/ . Hope it helps
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Verve-Innovation0 -
500 and 508 pages?
Could it be because Deep Crawl hammered the site and the server couldn't handle the load or something? Correct. The server reached its max resource limit. Try to set a longer delay on requests, if this is a setting in deepcrawl.co.uk?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seowoody0 -
Duplicate currency page variations?
Thanks Woody, Ok, any issues with adding no-index tag - Disallow: */?currency/ to robots.txt? Rel canonical would be very difficult to implement (CMS is Wordpress) to implement and super time consuming.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jayoliverwright0 -
Bulk Keyword Tools
I read this one a little fast last night. I missed the qualification 'and accurate'. Keyword Planner might not be what you're looking for. But you can get a lot of spreadsheet rows populated, fast. XD
Online Marketing Tools | | Travis_Bailey0 -
Https vs Http Link Equity
Good answers! If you do 301 redirect to all https pages would this cause issues with previous rel canonical tags which point to http version of the page. E.g. this page http://www.the upside sport.com/sale/women/hoodies/recovery-hoodie-coral Has a rel canonical pointing to (which is correct): http://www.the upsidesport.com/recovery-hoodie-coral Then if i implement a 301 redirect to the https version the correct version would be: https://www.theupsidesport.com/recovery-hoodie-coral But the rel canonical would be to the non-http page unless i change it. Would this cause issues if i don't change the rel canonical tags to the https version. - Chris
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jayoliverwright0 -
Link Analysis Tool - Unique Anchor Text
Not sure if some tool actually does that for 1000+ URLs but i guess Majestic should be your choice in that case. Again, I have never tried it myself so its advisable to get a 2nd opinion
Online Marketing Tools | | MoosaHemani0