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Hi Richard,

Absolutely, in the case you mentioned within the article it was a duplicate page of their normal pro page. So adding a canonical tag with the URL of the original page was by far the best way to make clear for Google that the original version of the page could be found elsewhere.

Hope this helps!

They will only show the base URL for the URLs so they'll remove the UTM tags from the URL.

Btw, by using these custom UTM tags it won't show up in the paid reports of Google Analytics. As display is not the right medium to show up in the Paid reports.

Hi Jason,

Have your competitors changed anything and for how long has this change been there at the moment? Sometimes we see it happen that we rank stable for weeks on a certain keyword and that after that we rank terrible for a day or 2-3 while afterwards returning to our 'old and normal' positions.

That will be 'Total linking domains' . It's the number of different sites that are linking to yours. The second one that otherwise would be used is the sum of the two external links (follow/nofollow). That's the number that you'd get if you take the number of links from every individual name.

Hi Sarah,

Just keep the 400 and make sure you can track even more, you probably don't want to rank on all of them at the same time but doing it this way you'll make sure that you can keep track of the general trends for your keywords that you focus on. We usually do this and have thousands of keywords in several regions so we can track performance across them for the same page + keyword combination.

M.

Hi Kristi,

I would definitely recommend watching the Webmaster video by Matt Cutts where he explains a bit how Google determines who is the original source. The video could be found here. In summary he explains that there are several ways to determine for Google who's been the first writer of the article.

Hope this helps shine a little light on this!

Hi Sida,

Probably the links generated through those social network feeds have a really low authority as the pages they mostly created are just based with thin content en have no links to these pages as well. That's why I wouldn't bother about these links.

I would do both, I guess you're already planning on creating these groups automatically with 1300 ad groups. You'll find out easily enough after running the campaigns for a couple of days/ weeks if there's is a volume, if it's not you could just pause them. This will give you best of both worlds as it will provide you with the data on which products don't have that much volume.

Hi James

What would be best is making sure that both domain.com and www.domain.com come back to the same page through a redirect in your server settings. By doing that you'll make sure they end up being the same page and they'll also have the same Page Authority in the future.

@Kris: Have you even read this post and watched the video that Gianluca posted on this thread earlier: https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/keyword-density-seo-myth/ ? I do agree that mentioning keywords needs to happen obviously. But what I'm completely against is measuring that against a metric like keyword density. TF-IDF is already a better way (which was also already written about in this thread).

For many reasons keyword density is a flawed metric, like I mentioned before. But let me add some more explanation to it:

• The percentage of 1 keyword mentioned v.s. all words on the page. But what does that percentage mean, you have no clue right? Is 1% good, is 2% bad?
• Keyword density takes very many things not into account: the number of words on a page, if I have a 100 word description and 10 mentions of the keyword it could potentially be fine and not keyword spammy. But if I have 1000 words and 25 mentions it could potentially be that it's absolute spam.
• Competition? What are all my other competitors doing, what is their density for a certain keyword. All of that is not being taken into account when looking at these numbers. Maybe a 5% density is high in your industry, maybe it's 0.5% you wouldn't know.

These are just some examples of why the metric in itself is not more then just a percentage and for that I would never recommend using it.

Hi Cyto,

the problem could be found within the use of the enclosed tags as they're not in anyway used by Google bots to don't crawl the content within the tags. The tags ( and ) you're using are only used within Google Search Appliance and don't have any value for the normal Google bots which you're trying to target with this.

Hope this helps!

Hi,

I would add all the shops as different sites to Google Webmaster Tools as it will provide you with search query data for the specific subfolders. However I would add the sitemaps to the root domain within Webmaster Tools to make it easier for yourself to find the data.

It could be that you need to switch accounts in the navigation itself. Or that he hasn't created any campaigns so far.

Hi Simon,

WordPress isn't great at handling slideshows and paginated pages in order for SEO. What would be best to do is have a developer look into this and make sure that canonical URLs are added to the page in order to respect the duplicate content. There are as far as I know no out of the box solutions for this.

Hi Eric,

Your canonical URL on this page is totally OK like this, as Moz also mentions in the report about the rel canonicals it's just a notice so not a warning or an error. They just give you a notice that this page is containing a canonical tag to make sure you're aware of this!

Hope this answers your question!

But are you also reporting on the results that certain SEO changes have an impact on? Otherwise it will never be clear what the changes of anything will result on the bottom line. I'm an SEO, moving a bit more to general online marketing though, and love talking about all these geeky SEO things and implementations but as long as I can't even prove for myself that it will influence the bottom line why would I pick these things up. It's same working for bigger companies, they don't care about links and domain authorities probably but revenue and more visitors.

Hi Mark,

Can you store the details in a cookie that you can retrieve later? Can you load Google Tag Manager in SquareSpace? I know they're a bit limited but I'm not totally familiar with all the possibilities.

Martijn.

Hi Kit,

That could be the case, it depends a bit on how the tools are calculating the search visibility and what they're using as the source of the page. You might be right about the change, also interested in the answer here. So will follow this for future updates.

Martijn.

Hi Sam,

Just to be honest, it really doesn't matter. These factors are so really really small that it would never make a real difference when trying to rank for a certain page. As both URLs will point in the same direction you can really forget about this one.

Auto-translated can never be a good idea, but what you could do is add just the rel canonical for hreflang on the site. Then it would make sure that you can target these specific languages.