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That plugin is great, it shows search volumes even on predictive search. I figured how to add a list to SEMRush too - thank you!!

We use Keyword Planner to get a rough idea if a keyword has search volumes and worth tracking. But recently, it's showing zeroes (all locations) for very broad search terms such as "corn seed" "sorghum seed" "canola seed" and all variations of these three with "seed" in the phrase.

We checked trends and there are searches for it. Has keyword planner gone bonkers? There were search volumes for corn, canola and sorghum variations, just not words with "seed", which is very odd. "corn grain" has 9,900 searches and "canola plant" has 5,400 searches, for example. "canola seed" has 201-500 searches on Moz, so keyword planner, I think really filtered out seed words.

Is there another tool where we could just copy/paste or import a list and it'll show us the search volumes? I uploaded words on Moz, but we can only get search vol ranges and mostly don't have data yet for Australian searches.

Does SEMRush have this capability too? I couldn't seem to find where to upload a list.

If Google just filtered out these words, is there a way to get around it?

From what I read here, the use of multiple H1 tags depends on what HTML version you are using. If it's HTML4 or XHTML, only use one H1 per page, but if you are using HTML5 you can have one per section. HTML5 uses the new semantic elements like

<header>and

<footer>to work out the hierarchy, with headings only affecting hierarchy within one of those tags.

Source: https://moz.com/community/q/how-will-it-effect-seo-to-have-multiple-h1-tags-on-a-page

</footer>

</header>

It obviously depends on budget and needs. When you're a customer, you want options so you can make an informed decision.

Here's a comparison article for pitchbox, ninja outreach, buzzstream and mailshake - https://www.pointvisible.com/blog/outreach-tools-spotlight-pitchbox-vs-ninja-outreach-vs-buzzstream-vs-mailshake/

Just to echo Andrew's answer above, making the heading, URL etc say what the page is about is also more user-friendly. If they're looking for more information about you, they may not know that this page contains the info they want.

You can change the URL back to about and request google to crawl and index the page (use the fetch tool). If they've indexed /storytelling, it's going to come up in the broken links section of Google Search Console. If so, yes, do a 301 redirect.

Thanks, Paul! We'll try disabling RocketLoader.

The website is https://ashleydouglas.com.au/

• I tried using http://www.seo-browser.com/ to see if bots could see the content on the site, but the tool was unable to retrieve the page.
• I used mobile-friendly test and it just rendered some menu links - no content and images.
• I also used Fetch and Render on Search Console. The result for 'how google sees the page' and 'how a visitor sees the page' are the same and only showing the main header image. Anything below isn't shown.

Does this mean that bots can't actually read all content on the page past the header image?

I'm not well versed with what's going on with the code. Why are the elements below the header not rendering? Is it the theme? Plugins?

Thank you.

Hello there, I asked the same question here and we've followed this advice:

"This is a common issue and if you do a Google search about this issue, you will find a lot of discussion about this with many kind of opinions. Sitewide footer links are generally not a safe idea. Many people recommend making those links nofollow.

One solution could be to make the sitewide links nofollow, except the link in your customers frontpage footer. Then you'll get the link juice from the front page, but no penalty from sitewide links."

Hi Jack, try to copy-paste your keyword list directly into the ad group list on the right hand panel. From there, download your list and it should show the search volumes of all keywords on the list even if they've been grouped originally on the 'keyword ideas' table. You would also find that grouped keywords have the same search volume individually. Hope this helps, let me know how you go.

If your current backlinks also average DA 20-30, that may be preventing your site to go any higher. Try obtaining links that are in the DA 40-50 range or higher. Having those quality sites consistently linking back to you should move the needle up.

Hi Alan, I don't think the extra 3 spaces would affect your SEO / rankings tremendously. Bots would still crawl and recognise the keywords in the URL. If you're after visibility on SERPs, you can optimise your meta title and description in a way that your brand & keywords are visible and clickable. As the meta title font is heaps bigger than the URL and description, that would be the first thing searchers see. Also, I doubt your URL will get truncated in SERPs with the extra 3 characters. Hope this helps!

Hello there, according to this guide there is no SEO benefit with choosing one over the other - it all depends on preference. Whatever you choose, let Google know your preference through Google Search Console. With regards to technical differences, adding www acts as a hostname that helps with DNS flexibility, restricting cookies etc. non-www doesn't have the same technical advantage according to the guide.

Both help in SEO. Internal links for ensuring that bots crawl and connect your pages together. Backlinks for improving your site's authority. The latter has more weight in terms of outranking competitors.

Hello, just some guidelines:

• Write simple and straightforward headlines. Add compelling content that explains what your product is and how it solves customers' problems. Your content should provide readers all the value that they'll get from buying your product.

-Avoid super long paragraphs. Try to write your content in a way that it's easy to read and understand. Break them apart into lists, add subheadings or Question and Answers.

• Use calls to action that entice users to click. Try to instill a sense of urgency in your CTA buttons. Depending on how long your content / page is, you should have a couple of CTAs.

• Add images and videos. Make sure the images are in sync with your content. Layout matters - it needs to guide your customers to the end goal, which is to convert. It needs to be easy on the eyes.

• To help improve web page speed, make sure that your images are optimised for web page use.

Hello there, from what I've read, so long as you write unique, interesting natural content, you don't need to worry about keyword stuffing. If content flows naturally and gives a lot of value to users, it should be fine. Unnatural keyword usage looks like this: "Bob's cheap Seattle plumber is the best cheap Seattle plumber for all your plumbing needs. Contact a cheap Seattle plumber before it's too late."

If you are worried, maybe try spreading the keywords around, using synonyms or adding more valuable content to thin out the keyword mentions. Hope this helps.

Perfect, thanks for sharing the link!

Thanks for this! We won't be worrying about the T&Cs and such and will try to rewrite the product pages as we work on SEO on these individual brands and are trying to rank them all in their respective locations.

I think it's best to respond as a company rather than as an individual. Company responses seem more legitimate and help to build trust especially when responding to a negative review. Personally, when I see these responses, I don't really think it's the actual owner but are representatives of the company.

Hi everyone,

We are working on 5 websites that offer the same products but are of different brands and locations. They are owned by the same company, but each run independently. On the sites, they have content such as privacy policies, terms and conditions and guides that are the same across all brands. Will publishing these be flagged as duplicate content by Google? If yes, is it recommended to add rel=canonical to all duplicate pages across all sites pointing to one of the five?

We are just concerned that the 4 sites with duplicate content would be valued less than the canonical as a result of passed link equity. We are doing SEO optimisations for all and are trying to rank them well in SERPs.

If a canonical is not the best solution here, what would be the best to do apart from completely rewriting content? Is it noindex tag or turning the texts into images and adding to PDFs?

Thank you.