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Hi Joel,

In my opinion CSS is "The Best". Simple, easy usage, easy changes, very good speed of page load ... etc...

As I red on many forums on the internet  JQuery and JS are are available for robots, so there are no contraindications to employ them.

But

CSS  - better code/text ratio (no long scripts in page code)

CSS - simple usage and changes (CSS3, HTML5)

CSS - faster loading (only simple text and html)

In my opinion, now when we have HTML5 and CSS3 there is no better way - it's innovative and simple solution,

Marek

Hi Andrew,

On the right side of a keyword you can see the button with label and with "x" sign. Just click on "x" and that's it.

Other way  to delete a label is - check the keyword (tick) and from menu Add/Clear Labels tick label and next click Remove labels

Marek

Hi,

I see but it can be a reason, they are identical. Try to change twitter and property and check. It is possible that SEO MOZ crawler/scaner looks only for "description" ?

Hi,

As I see in the code you have exactly the same descriptions

"A photographic collection of hunting animals. See how these built for the kill creatures rule the jungles. A nature photography extravaganza."

for:

meta name="description"

meta name="twitter:description

meta property='og:description'

and it can be a reason.

Marek

Hi,

Discussion becomes hot

In addition to my last response. WP templates (themes) have nothing to Google Page Rank.

Template can have good design, helpful admin page, good additional features, widgets etc... It can be very good for call to action solutions, eye-caching features ..... And the rest is your continuous work.

Page Rank is calculated factor based on link power, number of links, link structure and many more...

For general view of PR you just read an article in wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

Don't think (or dream) about high PR, rather go out to meet the expectations of [your site] visitors and adjust to what your customers want ... and be active

Marek

Hi,

I think you all right but ... I have tried many WP templates and can say that some of them works better then other in SEO. There is no straight recipe to choose good one, having in mind other than SEO features or design.

CMC-SD wrote about Yoast experience with SP themes ... I also don't trust.

Don't use templates with build-in SEO module, I haven't met even one good. Choose good design, useful features, check code validation (W3C) and test & try and so on...

Large selection of WP templates you can find on Themeforest ... but some of them are good - some not.

Marek

Hi,

In my opinion 1 client = 1 Google account (GWT, G+, GA ...etc). I agree with Davinia that linking accounts is good solution to make your work easier...

Having one account per client let you transfer whole data to client after contract termination and the client will be satisfied.

Hi,

in my opinion you should 'no index' sites with high bounce rate compare to short time of visit (less than 10 sek). It's true or real bounce rate - visitor spent less than 10 sek on the one site and then left website.

Also good idea is no index or even delete posts with 'heavy' content with long time of page load ... as I think flash galleries could be heavy.  Page loading time (long) could also increase bounce rate.

So you have a choice to have 600 posts or ... maybe 100 good posts ... good content vs average or poor content.

Answer is simple

Marek

Holy shit, I will love such a prices in Poland. We have tons of SEO companies and red ocean market.

Congrats

Marek

Hi Karl,

Here you can find Linkscape update schedule.

What are your links? Are they links from trust and well ranked sites? or deep and from poor quality sites?

See also my question and Ryan answer

All the best.

Marek

Hi again,

Cesar I think your problem is not different order of keywords but duplicated content. If you have two websites with the same content it can be a problem and it was probably the reason of Panda influence on your website.

let me understand, do you have: http://www.example.com and http://example.com  with the same content?

more: http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=duplicated+content

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=www+or+non+www

In my opinion you should choose better site (www or non-www) by checking a value in OSE and finally do a 301 redirection of lower ranked to higher ranked and do the same in GWT ...that  means choose higher ranked as your primary.

Marek

Hello Willem,

Yes, in my opinion you should submit languages. I'm not sure but think that main site on .com should be set as basic NL site.

For each sub-site (language ver) sitemap in particular language is needed, I have no idea how your sitemaps are created. If on automatic way (plugin or other way) it seems to be a bit complicated, but it's better to have sitemap than not to have, it is worth your effort.

Use meta tags "alternative" in section on each site.

And ... ask other people, maybe there is something new. Theres a lot of stuff in the GWT blog and forum...

Marek

HI Willem,

I'm not a prestashop specialist but i know that on one licence you ca do something like that shop-en shop-cs - it is from Polish prestashop forum  ... forum.prestashop.pl

My " use rel="alternative" for language versions" refers to the situation when you have language versions and you want to prevent from duplicated content.

When it comes your situation - rankings, in my opinion it is better to have 3 different subdomains or subfolders for different languages.

As I understand your site uses language switcher... and a versions are in main domain subfolders. For GWT doesn't matter which method you use - subdomain or folder.

Key thing is that you should submit to GWT 3 different language versions (subfolders) and do a verification with different GWT meta tag (if you use this method for GWT verification) or code or with three diff GA accounts.

So 3 lang ver -> 3 GWT "sites" -> 3 verifications by GWT

And last but not least ... you still should use "alternative" tag to ensure crawl-bots that it is different site version not duplicated content. remember that not only text can be duplicated content... images or other stuff too

It should work...

Cheers,

Marek

Hello Cesar,

Firs of all what are your server and site settings? There are many tools to check it. If you have www and non-www you have duplicate content and probably thats why you lost on rankings.

For all my sites I used without www address and redirect everything *.example.com (all subdomains) to example.com (respectively http://www.example.com or http://example.com).

Why ... theory is internet behavior.

1. It's obvious that in present times more people search directly writing a words to search engine address field  rather than write in google search-box field. So if you have a good brand it is more likely that they write your branded name than your branded name with the www in front of branded name.

2. www is a subdomain of a main domain - there's no point to guide people to subdomain.

3. In server configuration *.example.com with everything in subdomain will direct traffic to example.com

4. It is simple and short, now everything going to shortage and simplicity, why not site names?

5. Like in point 1 but bit different - it's mostly young users behavior to shortage addresses so treat 5 as a reaffirmation of 1 dedicated to the future

It is my theory. Maybe someone will add something ...

Marek

Hi Syndicate,

As you wrote - you did change nothing. It is possible that one keyword still has a good support for content, links etc... but other not.

Your competition probably did changes. Few tips:

• you should analyze bounce rate in correlation with time spent on page

• for pages with low bounce rate and short time spent and low traffic is better do them noidex and nofollow - they decreases site quality

• implement microformats,

- big impact has rel="author", "author" links should provide to author's site not to publisher site

• social media are the key to modern SEO position

• G+1 is not a social media but it helps a lot

• employ responsive site content (mobile) more than 20% of the internet traffic is on mobile devices (usage of CSS3 and HTML5 is a need)

• use rel="alternative" for language versions

• use Google Map Maker 

• and many many more, I advice you to read mentioned conference materials

You have to change your site - it is a must.

Just imagine that you start on Ford Model T in Formula 1 ...

The distance between Ford T and McLaren MP4-27 (2012) is the same like between internet five years ago and now.

Marek

Hi Bron,

Maybe it was because you did nothing, remember the words "Change or die" said in 4th century by Claudian Claudianus and also in recent times by marketing guru John Porter from Harvard.

In 2011 google did 525 changes in algorithm. In 2012 they are still doing changes. Google new trend is to promote sites friendly for users not for robots. Backlinks are still have  have impact but not as big as in the past. Now we're stepping in new world ... semantic search. Now for Google good article is article between 1000 - 2000 words with good quality and with minimum once a week publication on your site/blog. There are also lots of other changes and news ... you should take a look on SMX conference materials.

...so maybe you have to change something, do a site revision and next do changes...

Take care,

Marek

Hi MangoMM,

I looked through your website. As I think you have some pagination problem or/and non existing categories/tags,

First  four links are 404 error with content:

"Not Found"

"Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help."

... so you have duplicated content... because it is the same

fifth url

(w.falkosgold.co.uk/gold-platinum-prices/scrap-platinum/)

returns good content ... but sixth is redirection to fifth.

Also have in mind Anthony's recommendations.

Take care

Marek

Hi,

Agree with Devin, meta description is very important but not major factor but I've noticed that in question head you asked about TITLE tag.

Title tag is major SEO issue, so if you can employ even automatic meta tag generator.

If not ask programmers to export all meta title and description to excel sort by URL and set unique title and description and next ask your tech staff to import it to the blog. I hope it is not dynamic generated content if yes only first solution is possible.

Hi Kenny,

Thanks, let us - Mozzers know when you fix that issue.

Marek

PS. I know that SERP CP is a part of MozBar I wanted to emphasize that is the problem with CP the rest of MozBar working good.

Hi again,

I asked about SERP control panel (not MOZbar). I have last version of chrome and mozbar and I lost it... I'm working on Mac

Marek