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Thank you so much for all replies, Ive now commissioned a word press site

Buon Giorno from 6 degrees C wetherby UK

I'm close to commissioning a designer to create a wordpress driven site but I'm anxious around the standard of the markup. Specifically I need pages to have the classic unique title tags, one H1 tag per page and contnet in p tags.
Now I know theres a wordpress plugin claiming to empower the administartor to have control but are there any icebergs ahead I need navigate to ensure my sites meets Google optimization guildlines?

Any advice welcome

Also to add.... the old urls have stacks of repeated title tags Now if i redirect i'm guessing I'll still have to correct the repeated title tags or will webmaster tools still nag me about repeated title tags.

I have a feeling if i redirect the old urls I'll also have to undo the repeated title tags. Would be great if someone could confirm this would be the case so i can order some strong coffee for the grim task ahead!

Buongiorno from foggy & wet wetherby UK

Having launched a website there is a cluster of old redundant pages which i dont want to appear in the serach engines problem is they deliver search traffic.

Would it be best to 301 redirect them? Or delete them & 404 Not found alert, I'm really not sure whats best

Any insights welcome

Buon Giorno,
Thank you for all your answers
Ciao

Buon Pormeriggio from Yorkshires answer to Silicon Valley Wetherby UK

Ok on this page http://www.onesys.co.uk/ half way down guests are invited to download pdfs but via jquery application window as illustrated here -
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/form-abondonment_zps604b6c13.jpg

What i'd like to do is measure abandonment rates as in how many users cant be arsed to fill out the application form. Whilst I have done funnels before theyve been wired into actual pages using Goal funnels in analytics but this scenario of a kind of splash jQuery page appearing has got me stumped, ive no idead how to measure frequeny of click aways (if you see what i mean).
Any ideas welcome

Thanks,
David

Hey Chris, thnk you for that bit of advice that is something I'll foolow here on in

Ok permision to vent first

Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!! Fu@king Google authorship, for fuc@s sake why so fuc@ing useless....Ok vent over....

Mission: I wanted to add Google+ authorship images to appear in the serps so I followed this guide to the letter:
https://plus.google.com/authorship

I then tested it my authorship link on page http://www.netconstruct.co.uk/services/digital-marketing/  work via the testing tool http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

And i get a thumbs down(arggg!!) no authorship data recognised but  here's the mark up:
Author: [xxxxxxx](https://plus.google.com/u/0/114149997094688010790/?<br />   rel=author) onpafe  http://www.netconstruct.co.uk/services/digital-marketing/

So please can someone give me any insight into why this is not working

Grazie,
David

!!IGNORE!! Spotted a gap in the authorship code afre the the question mark! Now it recognisies authorship mark up!

Thank you for all your replies

Buon giorno

With more & more clients creating facebook pages theyve no idea wether they should create a personal account or a business page and neither do i.

One question:

Is this  https://www.facebook.com/Natureflex a business facebook page or a personal account & how can you tell?

Grazie,
David

Good Morning from Sh@t its still raining wetherby UK...

I want to just make sure the process i go through when a new site is launched is nort overlooking some fundamentals.

Most sites we launch are not brand new, do allready have a link heritage and have been indexed by Google. With that in mid i do not submit a sites url thru the following links:

www.google.com/addurl
search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx

Am i right in saying you should really only bother with this if the site a newbie ie no history no link heritage and the site is enering cyberspace for the forst time.

And i wonder if for example you launched a new site made sure the xml site map was in place and it had a few inbound links anyway it would be indexed anyway.

So is the practice of submitting your url to search engined relevant anymore?

Any insights welcome

Hope not been using PR WEB (Paid for servioce) my self and not seen any measurable "damage"...

I think Google is on a covert mission to napalm the SEO industry....

Good Morning from heavily raining but cherrefull wetherby UK 

How do you places images in these posts? Img tags clearly dont work eg...

[IMG]http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/case_closed.jpg[/IMG]

Looking forward to getting put in the picture

Good Monrning from snow dusted minus 3 degrees C Wetherby UK...

Is there a quick way to diagnose wether or not a website has a canonical problem or not?

So far Ive been doing this for example: Typing a full web address then one without the w's and seeing if a 301 redirect has been set up. But I'm not confident this is the best way to diagnose if there is a canonical problem with a site.

I would like to ad that I want to see if a canonical problem exists with any site and webmanster tools is not available.

Any insights welcome

HI Hg,

I too have experienced this type of behaviour. If i was in your shoes I'd leave it for at least a week if the rankings show no signs of recovery heres what i's do next:

1. Go into your webmaster tools and isolate and resolve any crawl issues i.e Broken links, duplicate content etc.
2. Make sure youve got an upp to date xml sute map in place
3. Make sure your site has a user site map in place
4. Make sure your inbound link building strategy isnyt just targeting "commercial terms" eg "glee fansite" the Google Algorithm Penguin update is onto this
5. Make sure your ranking score is accurate e.g measure it through a paid for package eg Web CEO

I too am in a similar boat and if you have been hit by the penguin update I'm trying to figure out what the hell I'm supposed to do about it apart from the nuclear option of changing hosts and starting all over again

Buongiorno from 22 degrees C too damn humid Wetherby UK,

The other day a client wanted to know how much a ppc campaign would cost with a specific bank of keywords. So off i went and loaded in the key words and set the ads thinking it was not live....

A week later i get a tap on the shoulder asking why weve been invoiced for £xxxx oh dio mio!! The damn campaign went to live. So ive got two questions:

1. Do Google adwords automatically go to Live once youve loaded up phrases and ads, i really thought it would have made it more obvious, A " Would you like your campaign to go live" prompt would have been appreciated.

2. As a safety measure is configuring a Google Alert in Analytics to ping when paid traffic is picked up not a bad idea just so ive got a warning sytem set up so to speak.

Grazie tanto,
David

Buongiorno  from Wether by UK Latitude 53.92705600 Longitude -1.38481600

Ok after 20 mins or clicking around https://followerwonk.com/ I couldnt find any way of measuring sentiment tracking. For example i wanted to know how many users where mentioning @PhilpottsLtd but all i could get was a salvo of follow data. Whilst I know this is of some use sentiment tracking i.e being able to measure users dissing or loving your brand would be more usefull.

So my question is please..."In follerwonk how can you measure whats being said about a brand"

Grazie Tanto,

David

Hi from sunny but freezing wetherby UK..

Ive noticed when you enter "York solicitors" some listings have + Show map symbol. Hers is a screen shot to illustrate:

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/plus-map-serps-langleyscopy.jpg

I'd like to know please what i would have to do to emulate this.

Thanks in advance,

David

Buongiorno from 12 degrees C wetherby UK

I'm interested in measuring content engagagement, things like what gets clicked on mouse tracking beahaviour etc. Google Analytics in page analytics does a good job but is there another product able to guage user interactive behaviour with content (Yes ive added event tracking).

Thanks in advance,
David