Questions
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When rebranding, what's the best thing to do with the new domain before rebranding?
I would say make sure to include a 'meta no index' tag and block search engines from crawling it with a robots.txt. Then you can think about creating a placeholder with information about the rebrand. No sense in having it indexed just yet. Hope that helps some.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JordanLowry0 -
Rebranding & Responsive design. What first? Or do both at the same time?
Hi there! I have to agree with Jordan. I would tackle both the rebranding and the responsive website separately, that way if there are any issues with the redirects at any point in the transition process, it will be easier to pinpoint the problem and correct it in a time-efficient manner. Doing both at the same time could end up being extremely complicated/overwhelming.
Branding / Brand Awareness | | BlueCorona0 -
Does a number of products in anchor text (link to product list page) have any influence on SEO?
Hi, It isn't something I would recommend. The title would keep changing as the stock changed, but as Ikkie said, Google will just ignore this element. Try and think about you you can make the title engaging at the same time as telling Google what the page is about - and remember, you have 70 characters (approx) to play with now. -Andy
Technical SEO Issues | | Andy.Drinkwater0 -
Responsive Content
Hi, It's my understanding that using responsive design/content, and dynamically serving content, does not cause a risk for any cloaking penalties. These are all recommended ways, along with a separate mobile site, to serve content to users (see this Google Webmaster article) The most important thing is that smartphone users see all content which Google's Smartphone Googlebot will see, and that desktop users see all content which the desktop Googlebot will see (as there are different Googlebots for this). Here's a video from Matt Cutts, explaining that as long as the hiding is done for user experience rather than search engine deception, it's ok: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hiding-content-17136.html
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ZoeRigley0 -
Local Markup
Hi there If you have other locations listed on your website you can use Schema markup to indicate more than one location where you do business if you have two addresses. You can also look into use the branchOf attribute. Beyond that, you can look into Service-area businesses on Google, although I don't think that will really cover what you need. I would look into Moz Local or Whitespark to indicate your storefront business location as well as areas you serve. Business listings will ask you that sometimes. I would indicate on your website (if it's necessary and natural) what areas you serve as well. Hope this helps! Good luck!
Local Listings | | PatrickDelehanty0