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Hi Asaff,

Moz recommends using a H1 tag only once on your page (although its not a significant disadvantage to have multiple, and they only did correlation tests, and as they always say "correlation does not mean causation!"). If the carousel is rotating it visually, it probably isn't rotating it code wise. To do so would require an AJAX call and if it did do an AJAX call on the H1 tag it wouldn't get displayed to Google. So either you will have multiple H1 tags or 1 H1 tag with multiple tags not being indexed.

The first would be a slight disadvantage, the second even more so. The first is not a huge problem. Probably best if you swap them out for H2 but this discussion here, might set your mind to rest.

http://moz.com/community/q/h1-tag-proper-uses

Adam

Hi Taimoor,

I think it might be URL Parameters see:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/configuring-url-parameters-in-webmaster.html

In webmaster tools -> crawl -> url parameters.

Hope it works,

Adam

I was just wondering who your competitors were.

what is a good keyword example you are competing in?

I just googled roclay here in the uk and all the top serps were for you. The website only came third though, with Facebook 1 and 2 (2nd is just a dynamic url of 1). So if this is an issue you should definitely do some branding on the website, other than that I wonder if you should be targeting other keywords you have a shot with.

Take your title tag and start there. Pick your top level keywords then branch out. So homepage would be technology reviews or something and keep moving down getting more specific.

TBH though copy copy copy. Take these guys

http://liliputing.com/

They do a niche version of what you are doing. Wordpress site, with a similar setup.

Hi Azhar,

This might help it was posted a couple of weeks back. About half way down it talks about how to group your content together. He creates hubs and spiders out to pages. So each hub has words it targets and then drills down to more niche areas. Might be helpful.

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+seomoz+%2528SEOmoz+Daily+Blog%2529

Adam

Hey Miriam,

Thanks for the reply. This is what I'm trying to relicate

1. Go to maps.google.com
2. Search "Small Hope Bay Lodge Andros Island, North Andros, The Bahamas"
3. Click on the one that shows a picture of a fish being held up to the right of all the options
4. Then on the map pop up click "more info"

This takes you to the Google Plus page for the property. Here Google has recognised that this is a hotel and even offers a booking feature which is not setup.

If this was you how would you go about replicating it, or would you wait until google has picked up on it? When I say manually I mean wait for Google to do it (automatic) or do it myself (manual). Although as I type this I wonder if Google ever does this automatically (although I'm sure I remember them doing it).

What do you think,

Adam

p.s I know they dont support it but the example above shows they do.... wierd one

Is the schema on the pages you have dates appearing on?

Got any examples?

Do you have any schema at all?

Yeah, if you have other things to concentrate on I would do them. Personally I'd only do it as a UI point.

Good luck

I just randomly opened a few of your images and got a 404 error.If you are submitting that XML to google, I don't think Google can find any images...

What about adding a rel canonical tag and going from wordpress to the main domain?

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

The wordpress blog though is getting its own links that page has another domain linking to it.

Couldn't you just delete it though and redirect traffic? Not sure if you could do a 301 or not..

Adam

Hi Azhar,

This might help it was posted a couple of weeks back. About half way down it talks about how to group your content together. He creates hubs and spiders out to pages. So each hub has words it targets and then drills down to more niche areas. Might be helpful.

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+seomoz+%2528SEOmoz+Daily+Blog%2529

Adam

Is the schema on the pages you have dates appearing on?

Got any examples?

Agreed very bad, looks really odd too.

What if you don't have an inquiry but to gain an overall impression of the site?

You could do the same thing with a jquery overlay or just a box for inquiries, but I always think the home page should encapsulate the business in an instant then give you direction for more resources. Why not have a prominent link to the inquiry, or generate lead pages on some of you keywords etc....

Adam

p.s. also all your links to the home page are going to leak link juice with the 301 in place.

Thanks Leat, I know its odd. I think I've been penalized for spam like behaviour when I changed the title. I'm a little concerned as America is the main source of traffic.

I just googled roclay here in the uk and all the top serps were for you. The website only came third though, with Facebook 1 and 2 (2nd is just a dynamic url of 1). So if this is an issue you should definitely do some branding on the website, other than that I wonder if you should be targeting other keywords you have a shot with.

Take your title tag and start there. Pick your top level keywords then branch out. So homepage would be technology reviews or something and keep moving down getting more specific.

TBH though copy copy copy. Take these guys

http://liliputing.com/

They do a niche version of what you are doing. Wordpress site, with a similar setup.

Hey Hampig,

Looks like you are running a joomla site, I see you went from the initial ID way of handling articles to the SEF way and I think that is causing the problems.

First things first though like Baldea says you need to find out what errors you have, where they are coming from and why.

If you go to Webmaster Tools -> Heatlh -> Crawl Errors  and click on one of the errors you can see the URL linking to your unavailable page. Also try the new link section and see if people have recently found your old site map or something and are linking from that.

I think though the problem is probably a bad extension or something similar. I ran Xenu on your web address and it returned a few 404 errors. But interestingly it also returned errors saying Forbidden Access (flooding), this looks to be a security "feature" of the SH404SEF extension used to handle your SEF requests (this is a guess whether you have it though). If too many requests come in it returns a forbidden error I guess to stop people flooding your server. This could be where Google is running up against errors. Maybe its trying to crawl your site but gets a flooding request and returns a 404 error or something similar

In order for me to run Xenu I had to drop it down to one thread so that I didnt cause too many flood errors. Eventually Xenu gave me this..

| ok | 822 URLs | 82.70% |
| connection aborted | 1 URLs | 0.10% |
| forbidden request | 30 URLs | 3.02% |
| not found | 21 URLs | 2.11% |
| skip external | 95 URLs | 9.56% |
| no info to return | 25 URLs | 2.52% |
| Total | 994 URLs | 100.00% |

As you can see 7.5% of your urls return errors when running a crawl bot against it. I bet you woudn't get this from a user, well maybe a power user opening many many tabs. You would still get the 404 errors though.

So the fact you have lots of 404 errors, Forbidden Request errors, and odd things happening with SEF i would recommend looking at your SEF Extension and see if that is causing you some problems.

Also dont be afraid to look in your server logs. Use Notepad++ to search through it. Find an example error and search for that through the log, give you lots of info (maybe too much though if you are just starting out).

Adam

edit:

you are also running JCH_Optimise to group your CSS and Javascript files. This can cause 500 errors. Try clearing the cache and run xenu against it.

Ah that's ok  I'm newbie myself..

When you go to a webpage the website returns a code to let the browser or Google, or who ever is browsing what the current status of the webpage is. Normally you go to a webpage and you are returned a 200, meaning everything is ok, but you dont need to know it all the time so the browser hides it.

If you try and find a page that is not there the server returns a 404 code, often people designing websites try and redirect you to a customised 404 code/error page, so that they can try and retain you, but in the background the server is returning a 404 code to tell the browser it couldn't find the page it wanted.

With a 301 redirect, what we do is force who ever is trying to access that page to go to another page and tell them that its permanent by telling the server to issue a 301 code.

This tells Google that the page is moved to a new location and should be considered the same page for future purposes. Its kinda like going to the post office to tell them you have moved address and to forward all your mail on.

Now you normally do a 301 redirect using a .htaccess file, but that's a whole other can of worms

Although saying all that I'd assumed it was a 301 but I wanted to give you a tool to check them out yourself and tested it. The website is showing a 302 code which is a temporary redirect. Very bad... but then you new you that

Use this http://web-sniffer.net/ and look mid way down under the yellow bar..

Adam

I think that's it then! Ha that is a weight of my mind, now I have a reason I can create a solution. I just checked my Webmaster Tools data and we went from a stable level of 3000 impressions on the 24th July going straight down to 1000 impressions by the 28th July then picking up slightly and staying around the 1600 level ever since.

I checked the Panda update and they said ~1% have been affected but I've got a lot of duplicate page data on there. I'm going to push forward with a complete change to the text on the front page. Ahh that is a weight off knowing what the problem probably is. Whew....

Thanks for all the help guys its really really appreciated.

Adam