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Meta Keyword Tags I would totally ignore, of no help or relevance really.

I would insure your meta descriptions are all filled in correctly though as Google will sometimes use these in the results as snippets under your URL

Regards

John

Yes, it will be seen as duplicate content .... They are both identical websites.

Firstly I would immediately add rel canonical tag to each page indexed on the zapto.org website pointing to the page on your main website. I would alos add noidex meta tag to the zapota pages also

You could also set up redirects on the Zapota website to redirect to your main website

Lastly, you could remove the Zapota website, its just a subdomain of the domain Zapota, or that is how it appears in the search results

Hope that helps

Hi guys,

Working with a client that we did not design, build or code their website. And further more they are happy with their website, and to be fair, its all fine.

We are there to try help them improve their poor overall ranking positions website contains an e-commerce solution and as part of the project we are implementing Rich Snippets.

Anytime we have used Rich Snippets, we have always followed Google's guidelines and well structured each product page to adhere to how Google advise. (we have also designed and coded the clients website in these cases, or indeed restructured certain pages).

Problem with this website is the product layout is all over the place.

So my question for people who have used Rich Snippets, have you ever deviated from the layout as advised by Google

For example, with this clients current structure ,we would need to open the product snippet like example below, mark up what we want to use, but between the opening and closing tags, we have content that is not being used for Rich Snippets

Their Product£39Client has a section here containing information we will not use for rich snippets<.div>Anther section containing more irrelevant stuffProduct DescriptionProduct ID: SKUCode

<--- Close Schema product ---->

I have tested the above structure out with Google's tool, and well its finding all the rich content fine, I am just worried that the two divs in-between the opening and closing tag for the Product Div may cause problems.

Has anyone deviated from the exact flow as outlined by Google and still got their snippets displayed fine

Thanks in advance

John

Reading up on it, Wix are adamant that the way they present content would not effect SEO performance ...

Then again, I am assuming it would make it quite difficult to optimise the content, include Rich Snippets, but I am not realyl sure as I never ever used Wix template ... and wont !

Though doing a search did present this

http://www.wix.com/support/forum/flash/other/other/navigation-link-in-escaped-fragment-version-of

Example site - www.wixexample.com1. Home Page - place ?escaped_fragment= at the end of your URLwww.wixexample.com/?escaped_fragment=

Example site - www.wixexample.com#!AboutUs/c24142. Individual pages - ?escaped_fragment= in place of the #!www.wixexample.com/?escaped_fragment=AboutUs/c2414

Example site - www.wixexample.com#!portfolio/vstc3=lifestyle 3. Individual pages with an = in the URL - ?escaped_fragment= in place of the #! AND change the = in the mini page URL to%3Dwww.wixexample.com/?escaped_fragment=portfolio/vstc3%3Dlifestyle

We can assure you that your individual pages are seen by Google.

Hope that helps

Regards

John

No, it wouldn't be because of the rel canonical ...That would have nothing to do with redirects of any sort.

Have you spoke with the crowd that did your website

I assume they find it here

http://www.appointeddhq.com/?escaped_fragment

I don't have any experience of Wix, or indeed ranking Ajax websites, maybe someone else can offer advice on ranking Ajax websites

Regards

J

http://bit.ly/ajaxcrawling

I would read this, this is WIX policy on content being crawled via Ajax.

You website is built with WIX, they use a standard format tempting system, and embeds all content with JS.

A lot of people, especially WP users use modules that may block certain spiders crawling your site, but in your case, you don't seem to have any.

I'd also insure its not something to do with your .htacess file.

Hi

In your on-page analysis, you can specifically instruct a keyword to be graded against a page.

Its in the on-page report

Hope that helps

Regards

John

You need to edit your .htaccess,

<code>RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index\.php (or whatever extension you use) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L]</code>

The way I see it, its much like you missing the last flight home, and you have a choice of getting the bus, that means you might take a little longer, or of course you can wait for the next flight ,which happens to be tomorrow evening, the bus will get you home that night.

I get the bus each and every time, I get home, later than expected I grant you, but I get home a lot quicker than waiting for the plane tomorrow.

Bewildered, I didn't realise it had fallen out of the diction, its a common word (I think) in Ireland, oh and I am still young (ish)

I am bewildered by this, I have told you one, Lynn has told you another piece of free software that will do this for you.

Anyway, good luck with however you resolve our issues

Darin

Its a stand alone piece of software you run, it crawls your website and finds out broken inbound, outbound or internal links, tells you them ,you go and fix them

Enter your URL, be it a page or directory, run it, it will give you all bad links. And it wont limit you to 25.

You don't need to implement anything ... run the software once, use it, and well bin it afterwards if you wish

But by all means, you can do as you suggest with SE ...

Regards

John

Free tool, non SEO Moz related

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ , run that, will find all broken links, where they are coming from etc etc

Hope I aint braking any rules posting it

Rachel,

I assume you mean as in Web Hosting, be it private or shared

We have plenty of clients who use shared hosting with non-related websites, using identical IP's as the hosting is shared, and we have never seen any performance issue in our work relating to the fact they used shared hosting.

I would go as far as saying the majority of websites use shared hosting, thus identical IP's, unless you specifically pay for a private IP.

I would suggest though ,and this is our own experiences, you have an IP that resides in the country you are trying to rank for assuming its local SEO

Regards

J

Assuming we are talking about the meta tag Keywords

They are not used by Search Engines, have not been used since pre 2009.

We never ever use them, as they hold no benefit and well we would be only telling competitors what we we where trying to rank for.

Saying that, if you use them for your CMS, they wont harm your site performance.

Thanks a million Thomas ...

Your advice is very much appreciated ...

I had never came across Scribe, at first I thought it was another text spinner .... but watching their video, it seems a lot more ...

Cheers again

John

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply

Yes, I mean Front Page when I refer to index page (should I take my web designer old school web designer hat off :D) .... We had suggested using text as opposed to his logo, but the font is an issue (always something) ,so unfortunately we are left with using an image.

We will optimize meta tags correctly ,as with the two alt tags we will have, we purposely decided not to use JS for the resizing of the front image full page and will target each monitor size with a different image through CSS ,thus allowing us a second alt tag along with the one for the logo.

But here also lies the problem, its essentially an e-commerce website, we have built it the website and incorporated Foxy Cart (shameless plug for amazing software for any developers out there), allowing us to dictate all URL naming extensions and so on

But content internally is not great either, but that's something we know we need to address. We will include a structured blog style section within thew website, which we are sure will give us a lot more scope in relation to targeting phrases. Its the only road we can go down in realtion to getting content within the website

But refreshingly, you give me hope if you say that it wont be detrimental to the project that lack of front page content

Regards

John