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Hi Julio,

The fact that your site is 'just' missing H1s and likely only using H2 shouldn't be too big of an issue. I'd say that Google is smart enough to notice that you basically would use the H2 instead of the H1 everywhere. However, I would make sure that the use of the H2 is not overdoing it. If you have 6171 H2s on your page then obviously its value is minimal. It's in the end, all about the proper use of these tags, and in that case, it shouldn't matter if there is no use of the H1 tag.

Martijn.

Hi Leonie,

If it's not to hard for your developers I would split them up in 10 categories. You wouldn't benefit from this for SEO but you would be able to see per category how many pages are indexed. In some cases this could make it easier to see where pages are indexed and where not.

Hey Malika,

If you're talking about HTML sitemaps for a site with thousands of pages then I would even stay away from it and go for the XML sitemaps that you could add to speed up indexation. The keyword focused ones won't help you enough for now to make life easier to speed up indexation and might even cause bigger issues as you'll have thousand or hundreds of links on one page.

Martijn.

It would be a better advice in my opinion to only say that the last URL should only be used if the content on the page doesn't work and rank for itself already. Otherwise the URL has to contribute for all of it.

Hi Marc,

I can only agree with Andy that it's highly unlikely that Google picked up your new content so fast, did you check if the cached time of the content that you have changed, has changed as well so that you know for sure it's based on on-site stuff that caused this?

M

Hmm, yeah this is not the best position you want to be in. I would make sure that your Web site is listed in both Google Webmaster Tools as Bing Webmaster Tools. If you already are I would also really submit my sitemaps like 20 times to be sure that Google is aware that your pages need to be recrawled again in the hope that they then also will index them again and hope they will put them back on their old positions.

Hi Wil,

Well the ultimate fix would be to make sure that you won't create a new page for every piece of updated information that you would run into. It depends on which codebase or framework/CMS you're using in order to set this for all the pages you need, but in general it should be possible to do it.

This is a tough one, I have been in the same industry before (education) and in some cases, Google will see the word training the same as the word course. So I'd start with trying to find out what the overlap is with your competitors in ranking for these keywords. If the same sites/pages are ranking then you don't need to create another page and probably can optimize the current one to address the issues. If that's not the case then I would clearly look into creating a second page, but as the keywords are so aligned I would do my best to create a truly unique page instead of just replacing training with course.

As long as you submit the URL to your sitemap there it will pick up any changes.

Google the queries: black hat seo, link buying. Click the first 100 results for both + read the guide on SEO by Google and then you probably get the point ;-).

Hi,

It seems like that you would have to go with the first option of No. Sometimes certain parameters indeed don't have any affect on the pages, like tracking parameters or other ones that might send some referral information.

Martijn.

Hi Andrei,

It won't be necessary but also depends on the structure that you'll be using to set up your SEO campaigns. You could use the same content and pages to also do link building for other countries but next to that you could also change the content and make sure it will be more targeted to the other audiences in different countries.

Good to know, I would never use them if you were targeting a specific country but for this it should be fine. I wouldn't worry to much about the .info you'll have bigger problems in your SEO strategy to take care off, so based on that your TLD probably won't make the biggest difference.

Hi,

Getting listed in Google News sometimes can be rather hard, mostly because it's not depending on the URL structures or things related to that but mostly the content that should/is news. As long as it's not related to News they won't approve your submissions for Google News. We are for example clearly a tech news site but back in the days also had quite some issues in being accepted there.

Hi,

What you could do is a built a custom filter that would redirect the products that are not available anymore and direct it back to either the category they belong to our the homepage of the products. As it probably isn't an available feature you would have to code that yourself, but I'd say it would make sense to have.

Yeah this is a typical case lately where Google is picking up whatever they like on your page and find the most relevant to stet that as the page title in the SERPs. Usually not much you can do about except for setting the <title>to something even more relevant to the search query.</p></title>

Hi Peter,

Usually I would say it's not enough as the robots.txt is forgeting about excluding the search pages and in most cases you want to make sure the WP core files are not included + tag pages. Take a look at our robots.txt to see what we've included there: http://thenextweb.com/robots.txt then you'll notice we include for example these:

User-agent: *
Disallow: ?p=
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/*
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/icetea/includes/*
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: ?s=
Disallow: /search/*

Other cases in our robots.txt are very specifically in there because of our site and may not apply to others.

That's probably why you would like to check the status of the product to see if it's out of stock or not and based on that redirect the user or not.

Hi

A sub domain could be doable obviously but why not put them via a CDN on the main domain to make sure that the credits for all of these images will go through the root domain and that it won't get them in trouble via a CDN for speed issues.

No, I would always include the reviews on the same page. Keyword stuffing is one of the most overrated SEO issues + the intention there is way different if you would do it just for stuffing the page. In this case it's user generated content.