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I published some new landing pages about a month a go which are much better quality than previous pages and on an optimised URL. The old pages never ranked and the new pages aren't ranking either although they are much better.

The old pages 301 redirect to the new pages.

Any quick ways I can at least get them ranking? Not expecting Page 1 overnight but to at least see the new pages on Page 5 would be great!

Hi all,

I have a client who wants to rank for "personal trainer agency london"

They are a .com site with offices worldwide and they have 1 contact page per location.

I've been registering their UK address across Yell, Yelp, G+ etc but I wondered if that would be enough to get their rankings moving for the "london" related terms or should I be creating a landing page related to "personal trainer agency london" specifically? I don't feel comfortable doing it this way as it goes against what I believe is good SEO. They have other services they offer so I don't want to end up having to build a "london" related page for every service and then every location.

Surely I can make their Personal Trainers page rank for location terms?

Any thoughts HUGELY appreciated!

Hi all,

I'm trying to get a homepage to rank for a certain term, but the page keeps showing up in the SERPS with the "Brand Name: Keyword" when I have written it as "Keyword - Brand Name" in the  <title>tag. I can't even see "Brand Name" Keyword" in the code of the page so I don't know where Google is pulling this from? </p> <p>I have <meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir"/> on the page.</p> <p>I'm running Yoast and have removed the Brand from the Site Name and the Page Title for the homepage is "Keyword - Brand Name" in WordPress. I've changed the meta description so I can see the page has been crawled and re-indexed as the new meta description is showing in the SERPs</p> <p>Any idea, where Google is pulling this Page Title from and how I can get it changed to read the actual <title> tag? Or is there something I need to change in WordPress?</p> <p>Thank you!</p></title>

I'm looking at running a campaign to get a site ranking for terms that include "near me" so for instance, "personal trainers near me", "yoga lessons near me"

I'm wondering if this should be a local campaign because of the the "near me" in the term and Google basing results on IP addresses of the searcher (if that's possible possible instead of town names) or will it come down to words on the page including "near me"

Any help or examples would be hugely appreciated, thanks community!

Thank you so much Gianlucca! Lots to take away and get fixed.

Hi Folks, hoping someone can help me out please

I have a site that I'd like to rank in France and the UK but I'm getting a stack of duplicate content errors due to English and French pages and GBP and EUR prices.

Below is an example of how the home page is duplicated:

http://www.site.com/?sl=en?sl=fr
http://www.site.com/?sl=fr?sl=fr
http://www.site.com
http://www.site.com/?currency=GBP?sl=fr
http://www.site.com/?currency=GBP?sl=en
http://www.site.com/?sl=fr?sl=en
http://www.site.com/?currency=EUR?sl=fr
http://www.site.com/?currency=EUR?sl=en
http://www.site.com/?currency=EUR
http://www.site.com/?sl=en¤cy=EUR
http://www.site.com/?sl=en¤cy=GBP
http://www.site.com/?sl=en
http://www.site.com/?currency=GBP
http://www.site.com/?sl=en?sl=en

Each page has the following code in the that updates according to the page you are on:

How do I simplify this and what's the correct approach?

Can anyone share what they feel is the best strategy to follow for a single service site?

Would you optimise and target the homepage for the primary service they offer or target a page one level lower and leave the homepage to target the Brand name?

Links to any references or case studies would also be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Excellent, that reference is just what I needed, thank you!

I have a site that lists events and then removes them from the site once the date and event has passed.

Is it best to let the old event page 404 or 301 back up to a subfolder that lists the current events?

Thank you very much. What file would manage page by page or directory by directory redirects on an IIS server?

I'm working on a project where a site has gone through a rebrand and is therefore also moving to a new domain name. Some pages have been merged on the new site so it's not a lift and shift job and so I'm writing up a redirect plan.

Their IT dept have asked if we want redirects done by DNS redirect or IIS redirect. Which one will allow us to have redirects on a page level and not a domain level?

I think IIS may be the right route but would love your thoughts on this please.

QUESTION 1
I'm working on a site where a canonical link is implemented as

That's not the normal format that I am used to, as I would have written it as

Is that a problem?

QUESTION 2
Why do so many sites these days have a sitewide canonical tag which refers to itself as the canonical?
For example: http://www.site.co.uk/page has a canonical of

I have a client who has a site live at example**.co.uk** and would like to rank for the term "example". But example**.com** is owned by another company who offers a different product and service and has been live since 2003.

I know that I can make example**.co.uk** rank for keywords related to their service but I think it's going to be a struggle to get them to rank for the brand term "example" as the .com site already owns Page 1 with their domain name, Facebook page, Wiki page etc etc.

The only variation is that example**.com** is a US based company and my client want to ranks in the UK only.

What are the chances I can out rank example**.com** for the brand term on www.google.co.uk if example**.com** currently owns Page 1 on google**.co.uk**?