I'd go for leaving meta titles up longer, even permanently if they're the best to describe your content. SEO is a long-term project in general in achieve the best SERP requires the factor of time. Instead of changing the meta title, you can try link building for different terms that you're trying to drive to your main pages that maybe don't fit in the meta title. There are many keywords that describe any website, but usually, there are better ones and search engines sometimes end up choosing what they think is best for your page from the content, no matter what you put in the title.
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RE: Meta title updates?
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RE: Separate .mobi site or make .com site mobile friendly?
I'm a fan of just developing your .com to fit mobile sites.
My two reasons are:
1. If the user is on their phone & typing in the URL, they probably are going to do .com instead of .mobi. And if they're using a search engine, they may not find the .mobi. Unless, of course, you are doing some kind of autoredirect that detects when people are on mobile devices and then sends them to the .mobi site.
2. From a content management perspective, I like the simplicity of only having one site to update. I suppose this really depends on how much content you have on your site, how often you update, and how your back-end works. I'd look at how much time and effort it takes to update your current content, consider how much of it you'd want on the .mobi & how often you'd be updating that, and factor that into your decision if you're optimizing the .com or going with a .mobi. For the sites I work on, the issue of content really pushed me into deciding to optimize the .com.
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RE: Custom Social Media icons: Good or bad?
Besides what Ryan said, I'd also add that they still need to clearly convey that they're links to those social media sites. I've seen some customized icons that have gone too far on the stylistic side and they were impossible to tell what they were for.
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RE: Linkbuilding TO Your Guest Blog Post?
If the traffic you're getting to your own domain off it is does what you want -- whether the goal is conversion for profit, more social media followers, or just more visit -- go for it.
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RE: Domain Authority and Google keywords
There could be a variety of reasons as a higher DA doesn't guarantee better ranking than your competitors.
A couple thoughts off the top of my head:
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Age of domain. You do have a newer one.
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Pertaining to those specific keywords, they could have better backlinks or better SEO'd pages for those keywords.
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Do you have a proper .xml sitemap submitted to Google Webmaster Tools?
I'm not sure what your skill level is, but I'd read through the Beginner's Guide to SEO and assess what your own site for what's lacking. Then make some good changes on it. Also look at your competitor's site and figure out what they're doing well and what they're doing poorly, so you know how you can build your site to be better than theirs, which will eventually pay in those better rankings.
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RE: Is it fine to use an iframe for video content? Will it still be indexed on your URL?
The video will be indexed as coming from the 3rd party site. Google reads iframes like a separate html page, and your iframe code is indexed as being from wherever the iframe code lives.
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RE: Product Giveaways and No-Follow
I work with a lot of bloggers with giveaways as the company supplying them the products. The only guidelines I'm aware of are those by the FCC (if you're America). The FCC requires that you mention your contest was sponsored.
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RE: Article Submission, is it Spam?
If it's meaningless for humans, it's spam to get them to rank higher. And I would suggest not using services like they have simply because Google has been going after sites who employ content farms for links. Instead, create quality, for-human content that promotes your niche. As dvtruong pointed out, doing guests posts on other quality sites is a great way to get links. You can also work partnerships out with other sites. Or use other 'white hat' ways to build your links. Eventually, your links will be of higher quality and thus, higher value to Google compared to your competitors. They will eventually get stung for using content farms.
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RE: Question regarding **and <bold>tags</bold>**
I think that the bolding is less overkill for SEO than hard for the human eye to track. For instance, my eye is really drawn to the middle text where you've bolded "Independent Mortgage Advice." But the closer I look at the website, I see in the left-hand text column that the H1 says the same thing, not to mention your tag line above the hero image. It seems upon quick glance to be a lot of keywords and not enough substance. (I'm of the quality of content will draw in the customers and appease the search engines school of thinking.)
(Also, on a small screen, the "click to chat" covers up some of the left-hand text (using Chrome).)
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RE: Open link to a new window, +/-?
I think it depends how many explanations you need to put in and how long they are or how the information of more explanation needs to be compared to the other information. Plus, you have to factor in how flexible your site is, coding-wise and what your team can accomplish.
Opening the link in a new window is great when you have a few things as it's easy to code. Plus, it's important to have in a new window if there's information the customer needs to compare from the explanation. (Like Rene mentioned, sizing charts for clothing.)
You can also use a hover to show the information, but I'd only use it if the explanation is super short, like say a definition.
The third option is having the page expand with the information when they click on it. Of course, this option will be the most technical to code.
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RE: 4XX results from a campaign
I would use Xenu Link Sleuth to double-check for broken links and see what it finds. It will tell you if something's broken from a bot's point-of-view.
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RE: Social Media Adult Websites
I couldn't find anything if Twitter does have rules against adult sites.
I think it is worth it. Certainly people who run adult sites network together and sites that allow anonymous usernames were people can have their hidden accounts from people who don't want their adult content interests under their real names. Which give Google +1's argument for real names only, it might not be worth your time with them.
I'd set up a test on a couple popular content pages and compare if people do indeed share if there are buttons that allow them to do so and if the rate is at a level to justify doing it on all your pages.
I'd also take a look at your current analytics to see what percentage of your traffic is coming from socials sites people have more manually put in and if that traffic is worth it.
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RE: 100 One-Way .EDU Backlinks $30?
Sounds like a scam. Either in that they're lying and aiming for something else from you (whatever else they're trying to sell) or they'll be linking from spammy sites that won't give you quality links. I'd stay far away.
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RE: Separate .mobi site or make .com site mobile friendly?
You're welcome!
I think having a temporary option is great if there's enough mobile traffic coming to your website that you know it's vital for your customers. You can always put a "full, un-optimized for mobile" site link to allow mobile users to get out of the mobile interface if they can't find what they're looking for in the temporary mobile site.
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RE: 4XX results from a campaign
You're welcome! I'm glad that you were able to find the broken links.