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Hi, my website is www.theprinterdepo.com and I have been in seomoz pro for 2 months.
When it started it crawled 10000 pages, then I modified robots.txt to disallow some specific parameters in the pages to be crawled.
We have about 3500 products, so thhe number of crawled pages should be close to that number
In the last crawl, it shows only 1700, What should I do?
We found this website
https://shareasale.com/learnmore.cfm
Actually is an affiliate site, where the users there would be in charge of driving traffic into our website, and then we pay them in some way, I just wanted to know if this can affect my seo efforts negativele?
THanks
I have tried that also, but they never do. Even if they are satisfied, its kind of complicated
I know what a 301 its, but I dont understand how you found that?
Just a little background information
we had a website called www.theprinterdepot.net and we wanted to move to .com
when we moved we put a 301 redirect in the www.theprinterdepot.net to the .com
I did that in the php.ini, its that the 301 you are talking about? should I remove it and replace the welcome page with a we have moved to or something?
I suppose less competitive keywords would be the product specific keywords
hp 1320 printer, or its variations.
Well, I am very beginner seo.
our website is www.theprinterdepo.com and our main keyword for the moment is refurbished printers, but there might be hundreds of more keywords.
I was analyzing the SERPs and found that for our keyword, the first 2 websites that come up have very different content
1.http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=PRN
They rank first, but I dont see a lot of text with the keyword in their text or links
2. http://www.valstarprinters.com/
They mention the keywords lots of times in the text, probably they are doing keyword stuffing?
So this makes me thing, how the 1st one ranked there? just by link builiding?
Well, I am very beginner seo.
our website is www.theprinterdepo.com and our main keyword for the moment is refurbished printers, but there might be hundreds of more keywords.
I was analyzing the SERPs and found that for our keyword, the first 2 websites that come up have very different content
1.http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=PRN
They rank first, but I dont see a lot of text with the keyword in their text or links
2. http://www.valstarprinters.com/
They mention the keywords lots of times in the text, probably they are doing keyword stuffing?
So this makes me thing, how the 1st one ranked there? just by link builiding?
Can someone explain me what is this? I just ran a keyword difficulty report for my keyword "refurbished printers", we are not in the top 10, and I see a table with 4 columns: page authority, Page Linking Root Domains, Domain Authority, Root Domain Linking Root Domains
I have many questions here:
1. The bigger the number the better?
2. The most green the better? What about the red in the last 2 columns?
3, How can I improve an specific page to rank there and improve these numbers?
4. What does it mean the green check next to some numbers?
Thanks
Can you please explain further, you meant to set the entire PRODUCT DESCRIPTION as an h2? or specific parts? keywords only?
I made a few changes in my site to show the products listing in List format instead of grid format, in format mode it was only showing the name, but in list mode it also shows a short description that I think should be benefical for SEO because it might require words related to the product itself.
The question is, how long is too much?
Please see example here
so one thing I could do is to put the template backwards in the breadcrump
condition - name - model.
Then breadcrumb, h1 and meta title would be different
What I want is to avoid keyword canibalization for the term refurbished printers, which is in almost 500 printers we have, and that I just understood yesterday with your explanation.
Probably on google users will search in 3 different ways
hp cp2025n
cp2025n printer
hp cp20205n printer
or just cp2025n
I was thinking that maybe I should remove the word laserjet...,
I was thinking that probably I should use the same template in the category listing pages?
Could you please check this other question??
http://www.seomoz.org/q/keyword-canabalisation-and-my-solution
Hi.
According to one guy, in this thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/good-seo-titles, the Meta Title, H1 Tag Title on the product page, and the category listing pages should be different to avoid keyword canabilisation.
One problem I noticed in my website after reading about this topic, is that all my printers have the keyword sentence :"refurbished printer", yes 99% of the products are refurbished but in that way according to the answer in the above post I am competing against self, too many pages (1000) with the same keywords on it.
So I decided to make some changes and I I would like to know the opinion of the experts here, I did this only for one product, then I would of course need to this for lots of products.
1. I created a different meta title. check here please
http://www.theprinterdepo.com/hp-color-laserjet-cp2025n-printer-new
2. In the product page itself, I removed the condition from the name of the product, instead I put the template, NAME - MODEL -CONDITION.
3. In the category listing page I havent made any change yet, it still shows the product name only
http://www.theprinterdepo.com/new-printers/color-laser-new-printers
Check 1st row, 4th column.
Is this a good approach?
Hi.
In the last few days I have studied a little bit about this, and I would like to know the opinion of experts.
My website www.theprinterdepo.com is a Magento site and I have the product review disabled by default because nobody makes reviews.
However I have seen that other vendors out there have big databases of reviews that can be plugged in into my website.
www.powerreviews.com for example
Will this really boost my site? seo talking?
If so, any other provider you can recommend me, www.powerreviews.com seems too expensive.
Update: I have a technical problem in the site. and I had to rever the changes. I will update you as soon as you can see this again.
I did some changes according to what I learnt in this thread.
Normally the condition is in the TITLE itself so I will have to edit all products to remove it.
1. http://www.theprinterdepo.com/hp-color-laserjet-cp2025n-printer-new
Check the meta title, I put your suggestion.
2. Check the H1, I removed the condition from the title, but I put it at the end.
3. It has the SKU below, maybe I should put into the h1 itself with the following template.
Title + Model + condition
4. The listings page(category, search results) will show like this:
http://www.theprinterdepo.com/new-printers/color-laser-new-printers
Check the four item on the right.
5. Please also see the breadcrumb.
Please let me know more suggestions so I can start editing all my products 
So, Summarizing. This is what I learnt today. 1. Product Title (will be seen on category listing pages, and also search results page) -HP 1320 Printer - Refurbished - Q5928A. IN our business the condition its very important because we might have the same printer in NEW, Refurbished, USED or Factory Recertified. It would not look nice, to put in this field BUY... AT ..$ ... 2. H1. It will be the visible TITLE to the user on each page. (The GREEN ONE) HP 1320 Printer - Refurbished - Q5928A 3. Meta Title, This one will be the one that google shows on the search results and should encourage an action. Buy HP 1320 Printer - Refurbished - Q5928A - Free Shipping at $129.99 As I can see it, 1 and 2 will be the same, 3 is different and will encourage an action! BUY!
so in your opinion title, meta title, and h1 must be 3 different things?
The suggestion you gave above would be for H1, and meta title only.
For Title, its better to leave the short title without the BUY xxx at xxxx
I have a big question here:
Your suggestion is for the meta title only, right? not for the H1 Tag on each product page?
I ask this, because magento has 2 fields, Title and Meta Title. If I change it in the title, it will show that long title also in the category pages.
Image this page:
http://www.theprinterdepo.com/plotters-drawing
And then imagine all products will have this template.
Buy HP 750 Designjet Model XXXXX Refurbished at $1199.99, and then the price again below.
Thx