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What type of website do you plan to launch?

As it's nearly November, personally I'd feel that maybe you're a little bit too late. Without considerable time and resources, it would be quite difficult for you to make much progress with this.

You might be able to rank for a few low competitive keywords depending on what industry you're in. It would be quite interesting to see the search volume for your site this year so you could be very well prepared ahead of next Christmas.

Hi there,

It might be worth sending your request directly to the Moz team so it doesn't get missed -

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests

Annotations would be a pretty cool addition,

Mark

What's everyones opinion canonicali URL being setup site-wide?

Hi guys,

I'm working my way through a URL restructure at the moment and I've several ideas about the best way to do it.

However, it would be good to get some views on this.

At the moment I'm working on a property website - http://bit.ly/N7eew7

As you can quickly see, the URL structure of the site needs a lot of work.

Similar websites  -

http://bit.ly/WXH5WG

http://bit.ly/Q3UiLC

One of the sites has http://www.domain.ie/property-to-let/location/

And the other has  http://www.domain.ie/rentals/location/property-to-let/

I could do with some guidance about the best steps to take with this.

I've a few ideas myself but this is a massive project.

Cheers,

Mark

I think Francisco covered these points very well.

You need to speak to management about the business objectives. Only then can you identify a suitable SEO strategy to help the company meet these objectives.

Are there specific money keywords they want you to focus on?

Does the site itself get large traffic but few conversions? Could CRO help to improve this?

I think you really need to ask management what it is they want you to focus on. Developing an SEO strategy is too broad of a request to expect from you.

They need to provide guidance so you can focus on specific areas. If you need any further help, we'll gladfully help you.

Best of luck,

Mark

I've got to agree. Crawling a site more than this just seems a little bit pointless.

I believe 2 crawl credits per day is the limit set for all PRO members. You can't buy more.

Yeah that should be fine. Sorry, you didn't mention before how closely related the products were.

Just try to keep the description as unique as you can, as hard as that might be when exact same product but a different colour.

Hi David,

If it's exactly the same description used for different products then yes, it still counts as duplicate content.

Why are you not writing unique descriptions? It would be much more informative for the customer if the description was specific to the product they wished to purchase.

Multiple product pages with the same description is a large problem now with Google Panda.

Avoid doing it.

Hi Mohammad,

I'm not sure what level your SEO knowledge is at but judging by your questions, I'd guess you're just starting out?

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Take a read through SEOmoz's guide above and you can begin to identify the key areas of your website which need to be addressed.

Typically, I would recommend starting with a full site audit for an already established website. Identify the on-page and off-page factors, prioritize them in terms of important and place a time scale next to them.

You don't need a tool to develop a strategy. You need to know the underlying factors affected your website.

Best of luck,

Mark

Hi John,

I think you're worrying too much here. Google's algorithms are not harsh enough to penalize little blips like this in a persons back link profile.

If worried, you could do as Fredrik suggested and setup a WMT account for your site but I honestly feel like you've nothing to worry about.

I've been victim of an unnatural link warning from Google but it was justified due to 1000's of unnatural links built by a previous agency. In your case, you had 1500 links live for 24 hours. I'd be surprised if Google crawled and acknowledged them all as backlinks to your site. And even if they did, that many links means very little since they all come from one domain.

No problem Neil - Just focus on the end user and the decisions should be easy to make in regards the footer etc.

I mentioned page load time issues with Twitter because of experience I've had. It's always been 3rd party content which has resulted in site speed issues.

Social media feeds/widgets are just sometimes not worth the issues they can cause.

I think you need to look at it from two perspectives.

Is it really needed? Does every page of the site really need this content displayed on it? I would be hesitant about recommending you putting all these things into the footer of every page.

Secondly, Twitter feeds can slow page load time. This will impact on the bounce rate of your site and since site speed can impact ranking, you really gotta ask yourself again about the need for this on every page.

A couple of footer navigational links are fine. Just avoid stuffing the footer with Twitter, newsletter, navigational and blog post links.

Can you offer a link to your website Neil so we can see whether the use of links in the footer is excessive?

If the content in the footer can be justified for navigational purposes from Google's perspective, then you should be fine.

Hi Angie,

From GA, what date did you notice the drop in keyword rankings and traffic? I ask because it could be attributed to an algorithm update from Google.

From looking at OSE, the domain and page metrics of your site are basically non existent. How long has it been operational?

Up until now, what have you been doing in terms of on-page and off-page SEO to achieve the rankings you had before? The more information you can provide, the easier it will be for us to offer advice

OSE can still report links that have been deleted due to it not being updated on a daily basis

The last Open Site Explorer index update was on the 8th October. How long ago did you delete these links?

Just to clarify, inbound links from other sites? If this is the case, are you still receiving traffic from these links which is being reported in GA?

Will do - cheers Matthew

I'll probably take you up on that offer.

Hi Matthew, thanks for chipping in.

At the moment we do have canonical URLs setup for property listings such as the example you given above.

We'll still be going ahead with cleaning up the URL structure and ensuring categories following the correct practice as well.

I think we need a little bit more information here. Can you provide a little bit of an explanation about what you've done?