I'm a little confused over the correct area to place a H1 title Tag.

When I look at Wordpress templates and published Wordpress sites, it suggests placing the H1 tag within the header area. However, SEO companies and other well postioned sites place the H1 title tag at the start of the main content area.

What is the correct and/or best practice for placing H1 page title tags?

Thanks Mark

Thank you for the additional advise.

I have implemented by keyword/phrase policy based on the above UK wide logic.

Thank Mark

Thank you for your responses.

Based on the logic of creating a page called 'Home' and setting the template file, I believe the Canonical URL would also need to be defined as: www.mydomain.co.uk

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Hi All,

I'm using Studiopress Genesis Enterprise child theme in Wordpress + InstantWP + Yoast SEO.

I have created a standard home page (see image) along with bespoke pages

My question is this: When I select Pages | All Pages  ... I cannot see the home page and therefore cannot optimise the home page with Yoast SEO.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks Mark

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Thank you Federico.

My concerns are that whilst local city targeting would address the Google Geo Targeting issues, the UK wide metrics may be more accurate of users KW input. I got the impression having spoken to the Google Adwords Team that Geo Targeting is not an exact science and therefore may yield lost opportunities with little or no traffic metrics.

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I've used Google Adwords, Google Analytics and competitors keywords to compile a master list. I'm now looking to evaluate metrics on the keywords / phrases / long tail phrases.

My question is this ...

Based on Googles use of Geo Targeting, would I be better to evaluate metrics (Avg. Monthly Searches, Competition, Avg CPC) based on United Kingdom or my local city (I only operate in my local city).

I am looking to use the results to redesign my website. I will use the favorable keywords / phrases / long tail keywords to implement a new menu, new content page creation, articles, etc.

Thanks Mark

Thanks for the great advise and extended use of the Title Headings

Mark

Hi All,

Where is the best place to position the keyword / keyphrase within a heading?

i.e. for keyphrase Red Shoes Which of the below would yield better SEO results whilst ensuring readability to us humans.

Latest fashions in red shoes.
or

Red shoes at an affordable price.

Thanks Mark

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the great info.

Mark

Hi All,

As a brand new user to Wordpress and having read articles and forum posts I have purchased Studiopress Genesis Enterprise Theme.

QuestionWordpress like any traditional bespoke site can be written to incorporate variations of columns structures.
What is the best column strategy or page layout strategy for SEO?

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Hi Zach,

Thank you for all your help today.

Regards Mark

Hi Zach,

Your logic of copying same content and setting would only apply if my current website where previously created in Wordpress.

My current website was created in Dreamweaver and tweaked by hand. It currently has not interaction with a database or Wordpress.

In short, I believe my needs would be to create a new instance of Wordpress.

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Thank you Mike & Zach for the feature rich solutions.

With the above information, I will be creating a subdomain along the lines of staging.sampledomain.co.uk
I will further password protect this subdomain using Plesk.
I will tweak the setting of Wordpress to noindex, follow to stop search engines from trying to crawl.

I assume Wordpress would be installed in the subdomain staging directory along with all relevant themes and plugins.

Also, I assume for each and every instance of a new domain, a fresh install of Wordpress will be required?

Thanks Mark

Hi Mike,

Thank you for the response.
How would I go about creating a staging site?  I'm new to this...

Mark

Hi,

I'm looking to redesign my current live website to a new Wordpress site using "Studiopress Enterprise Theme".

I'm new to Wordpress and therefore will be embarking on lots of testing & development.
I do not want to hurt my current live website whilst testing the new Wordpress site. However, it would be nice to bring the test site into the current live environment without changing untold urls, etc.

Question
What is the best practice to setup this new Wordpress environment for my domain: www.sampledomain.co.uk

How would you restrict Google, Bing, etc from indexing, etc. whilst testing in the live environment.

What other consideration should I be aware of

Thanks

Mark

Hi All,

Having read a useful article http://yoast.com/site-structure-seo/ I'm now looking to acquire a means of being able to simply type in a URL and see the site structure including link flow.

A free website or software app would be great...

Thanks in advance

Mark

Hi Tom,

Thank you for you help & support.

Regards

Mark

Various URL Structure
mydomain.co.uk
www.mydomain.co.uk
http://www.mydomain.co.uk
http://mydomain.co.uk
mydomain.co.uk/index.html
www.mydomain.co.uk/index.html
http://www.mydomain.co.uk/index.html
http://mydomain.co.uk/index.html

HTACCESS File

Index Rewrite

RewriteRule ^index.(htm|html|php) http://www.mydomain.co.uk/ [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^(.)/index.(htm|html|php) http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.co.uk
RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Google WMT Setting: Configuration | Settings
Preferred domain: radio check on "don't set a preferred domain"

SEOMoz Open Site Explorer
mydomain.co.uk - (301 Redirect) [No Data]    PA38  DA30
http://www.mydomain.co.uk/index.html - (301 Redirect) [No Data]    PA23  DA30

Majestic Site Explorer
Number of Referring Domains & External Backlinks vary between the following instances:
URL:                    http://www.mydomain.co.uk
SUBDOMAIN:     www.mydomain.co.uk
ROOT DOMAIN: mydomain.co.uk
Question
I have set up my htaccess file to rewrite "Various URL Structure" to www.mydomain.co.uk. However when i view metrics in Majestic SEO, the url / Subdomain / Root Domain all differ.

Why is this happening?
Is this harming my site?
What is common practice when defining URL Structure?

Any other quality advise and implementation structure would be much appreciated.

Regards

Mark

Thanks for your reply.

I have a couple of further questions.

Q: Are there any free tools or free online services that I can use to gather a live email address for a given site.

Q: Additionally, how long from sending "Removal Link" email before using Disavow?