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Hi MOZland,

With a new (our first e-commerce) client, we're going through a massive learning curve in handling a site of substantial size and complexity for the first time.

While we've weeded out most of the on-page stuff that needed sorting, and we're in the process of dumping poor links implemented by previous SEO/online marketing efforts, do you have any suggestions about how to take a big e-commerce site forward in 2014, especially concerning technical pitfalls and link building efforts (and given that guest blogging has become something of a faux pas).

Cheers,

M

That's great Adam,

Thanks so much for taking the time elaborate like this.

Hi Gregory,

We're talking thousands (mostly clothing/accessories within a sport-specific field) of products, and they're using magento I believe.

Thanks!

Any advice on the SEO technicalities of working with an E-commerce site? That's probably where we need to most help and advice...

Happy new year, Mozzers

We are about to take on our first E-commerce client which will be something new for us as we expand in 2014. Being a small outfit, we've never taken on a type of site like this before, which is great for new experiences and challenges.

Do you have any advice, recommendations, suggestions, things to look out for etc, etc when working with E-commerce sites for the first time ever?

thanks

M

If you were to offer up some quick wins to a client to get a project off with an immediate bang, what would you recommend as quick wins to get the conversions ticking over from the outset?

Thanks in advance.

• What are you or your SEO agency doing for your client's link building efforts?
• What are you (or the agency) doing yourself, or out-sourcing, or having the client do for link building?
• If a new client needs some serious link building done, what do you prescribe and implement straight off the bat?
• What are your go-to link building tactics for clients?
• What are the link building challenges faced by your agency in 2013/2014?
• What's working for your agency and what's not?
• Does your agency work closely with the client's marketing department to gain link traction? If so, what are collaborating on?
• What else might you be willing to share about your agencies link building practices?

Thanks

yeah, I think it's best to suggest they rewrite their blogs before re-distributing now.

Thanks,

I think you've answered this in that it's best just not to use duplicate content all together.

Hello,

A client is having one of their daily blogs published on a industry news site along with on their own site. This is a clear-cut case of having a canonical tag implemented on the client's site on each blog page, right?

Thanks

Hi all,

Of those who've done it or have valuable advice to impart, what are the things to look out for when re-designing a homepage?

In the same breath, what are vital considerations and elements to include/features to bear in mind when 'prettying up' a primary landing page as a homepage essentially serves as? UX fundamentals?

Thanks folks

Did you see much movement with your SERPs after submitting the disavow?

Anyone out their actually used the disavow tool? A lot of SEO's on Moz recommend it as a (last resort) solution but don't seem to have actually submitted a disavow and documented what happened next.

Anyone?

Good day,

I'm really struggling to get a client to appear in the Google Local map snapshot (on the right of the SERPs), even when their company name is Googled. I've tried everything including getting the main Google Local account verified, had some reviews put up, all the required and relevant info has been completed, yet their location and the map never appear.

Any help out there as to how I can remedy this?

Thanks

Thanks Carla and Marie,

Morning guys,

I've the unenviable task of having to rectify poor link building (a previous company's work, not mine) which inevitably means emailing tons and tons of horrible directories with links to the client from as far back as 5/6 years ago.

I'm sure many of you are in the same boat so it begs the question:

What have you said to these types of sites that is effective in getting them to remove the links?

This could even be a two/three-parter:

If you've had little joy in requesting removals, have you dis-avowed the links, and what (if any) effect did it have?

Thanks,

M.

Morning peeps,

A client wants to clone their website for a foreign language market, obviously swapping all English content for whichever language/market they're looking to target.

Any advice on how to research a foreign market (when I only speak English), or perhaps any pitfalls to look out for or advice you might have with a launch like this?

thanks

I have parts of an online portal displaying in SERPs which it definitely shouldn't be. It's due to thoughtless developers but I need to have the whole portal's domain de-indexed and prevented from future indexing.

I'm not too tech savvy but how is this achieved? No index? Robots?

thanks

Thanks Takeshi.

It was suggested in Quick Sprout's Advanced SEO guide that it's good form to place your Feedburner RSS link into the header tag of your blog.

Anyone know if this needs to be done for every page header of the blog, or just the home/main/index page?

Thanks