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Hi @SEOConsult

Thank you so much vgery helpfull indeed....

regarding: "there aren't any duplicate content issues listed within SERPs currently"

Do you do this by entering the url in the search box and simply looking for duplicate content? How do you do this bit please?

Thanks and keep warm

Damn no i didnt  thanks Ben. Sometimes i forget the KISS principle

Good Morning from -3 Degrees C, still  no paths gritted wetherby UK

Following an on page audit one recommendation instructs me to ad:
http://www.barrettsteel.com/" /> on the home page of barrett steel. I'm confused, i thought i only had to add this to duplications
the home page which to my knowledge dont exist.

So my question is please: "Why shoul i ad this snippet of code on the home page of http://www.barrettsteel.com http://www.barrettsteel.com/" />

Any insights welcome

Hi Gary

regarding - "Are you looking at putting content onto www.steel-suppliers.co.uk?"

Nope, i was questioning the clients perception that registering such a URL just to forward it to www.barrettsteel.com will have zero benefit.

Good Morning from -3 Degrees C no paths gritted wetherby UK

Imagine this scenario. http://www.barrettsteel.com/ has been optimised for "Steel suppliers" & "Steel stockholders". After runnning an on page SEO moz report its recommended that the target terms should be placed in the url eg www.steel-suppliers.co.uk

Now the organisation will not change the url but think setting up a forwarding url eg registering  www.steel-suppliers.co.uk to then forward to  www.steel-suppliers.co.uk will be of benfit from an SEO perspective. But i think not.

So my question is please "is a forwarding url of no value but a permanent URL (struggling for the terminology to describe the url a site is set up with) such as www.steel-suppliers.co.uk would be of value?"

Any insights welcome

Good afternoon from 1 degrees C overcast frozen wetherby UK...

I've made a number of on page html markup changes to optimise the page for steel suppliers steel stockholders but I'd like to know if there are any other on page improvments I could make for this page http://www.barrettsteel.com/

Im particulary concerned that contnet in in li tags and not p, could this be an issue?

And finaaly on the home page a third party developer has slapped a header banner pointing to an external site know as woodberry tools, that cant be good can it?

Any insights welcome

Good Morning from Zero Degrees C very icy Wetherby UK...

For eons i was under the understanding that if you had a choice over just inbound links verses a link exchange just inbound links wins hands down. Ive always just chased inbound links and never advocated link exhanges ie I link to you, you link to me.

But stop the bus! I just read this here on the A - Z of link building strategies which advocates recipricol link exchanges:

"Creating link pages that carry hundreds of links to slightly relevant 'partners' don't work anymore (ever wondered why most links.php pages have a grey PageRank?), but establishing link partnerships with a small amount of highly relevant websites can definitely be useful."

So is it best practice now to have link exchanges? I always thought this was a mistake as it would lead to SEO juice leakage (Hate this term, but couldnt muster another one)unless you "Covertly" added a do no follow snippet in your outbound links.

Any insights welcome

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

Thank you for all your replies.. The code is getting cleaned up as I type

Hi from minus 3 degrees C not snowing yest wetherby UK

Ok imagine this scenario....

Me: I'm going to register your business on  Google Places www.google.com/places/

Client: Oh yeah dont bother who needs Google places ive got a website

Me: Ok here are some benefits

•helps visitors find your address, even when they're not looking at your web site
•Results from Google LBC show up for searches on Google and on Google Maps
•attracts visitors who click on photos and content gleaned from your site
•your business profile presents directory-style information to visitors is a sensible format all in one place, such as services, directions, phone number, opening hours
•clients can write reviews - a good place to gain independent credibility
•offers a small side box to promote your current events

But seriously this is the sort of dialogue you enter when facing clients and rightfully justifying what their paying for.

But is this true, if you dont lock down your listing with the pin number Google sends you on a postacrd is it invisible via the Google places app?

Reason I ask is that via the google places app (on an iPhone) I could find a business that was locked down but a site that had not verified was invisible, has anyone else had this experience?

Any insights welcome

Thank you Vahe

Hi Margarita and thanks for you reply

If you get a chance what does this mean please?

"and it is also a best practice to set the canonical link elements of on your mobile site to point to your regular site"

Good evening from I can just about keep my eyes open 7th cup of Coffeee David,

Ok I'm adding a mobile sitemap to a mobile site. Whilst I know this is important the client wants one good reason why he should have one integrated into  http://www.innoviafilms.com/m/Home.aspx

I'm so knackered I cant articulate one, could some one put me out my misery and give me one good reason I should toil away with mobile xml; sitemap?

Resource:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34648

Any insights welcome

Hi from quaint & folksy Wetherby Town UK...

Ok so Geo tagging is easy to apply http://www.geo-tag.de/generator/en.html but whats the big benefit? & can any moz guest show me a site that has Geo Tagging and what visible benefits it holds. I mean does a flashing compass or something appear in the serps?

Any insights welcome

p.s No theory answers just some examples woukd be good...

Good Morning from dull & overcast 2 degrees C wetherby UK

Whilst Ive changed markup for seo purposes on desktop versions I would like to know if the principles of optimising on page content ie modifyting <title><h1> is exactly the same for <a href="http://www.innoviafilms.com/m/Home.aspx">http://www.innoviafilms.com/m/Home.aspx</a></p> <p>Whilst the desktop version of innovia films ranks well for the terms the client requested some time back now their attention is focusing on the mobile site but I feel a bit confused and I'll try my best to explain...</p> <p>Is it not totally redundant to "Optimise" a mobile site content as when i search via google on a smartphone i'm seeing the SERPS from the desktop version and when I click on a snippet the mobile site just piggybacks on the back of the listing anyway.</p> <p>Put another way is it not a royal waist of time tinkering with mobile site on page content for long as Googles SERPS on a smartphone are exactly the same as on a desktop ie they are not too seperate entities.</p> <p>Or am i totally wrong and you could optimise a mobile for a completely different term to its parent desktop version.?</p> <p>Tried to explain this the best i can, my head hurts... :-(</p> <p>Any insights</p> <p>welcome :-)</p></title>

Good morning from 2 degrees C mostly cloudy wetherby UK,

Image this situation...

Ive got two versions of a website: A desktop version & a mobile version, here are their respective urls:

Desk top: http://www.innoviafilms.com

Mobile:   http://www.innoviafilms.com/m/home.aspx

With blackberry bold in hand I type in via google search "Innovia films" i click on the search snippet and it renders

the desktop version.

But when i type the url directly in my Blackberry bold 9700 it returns the mobile version

This confuses me. Having read this: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/02/making-websites-mobile-

friendly.html I thought the desktop version would render in smartphones which the balckberry bold is. So my question

is...

"Why does the the mobile version only appear when you type in www.innoviafilms.com on a blackberry (and iphone 4) and

the desktop version appears only when you enter "Innovia films" via google search"

Any insights welcome

HI Alan, I'm brand new to SEO moz, may i ask whats GWMT please?

HI Aful,

Your event tracking anatomy does not look righ to me. Go here to see how to structure it correctly:
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html#Anatomy

Reagrding where the data should render in Google Anlytics go to Content sub category events ,

Good luck!

Good Morning from 1 degrees C light drizzle Wetherby UK

Ok here is todays puzzle. When I Google "Great Inns" ( http://www.greatinns.co.uk ) I get a search snippet which looks like this: http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/great-inns-title-glitch.jpg

As the screen grab illustrates the Title tag is missing and simply says untitled. So my questions is pleased why is google rendering this when in the source code there is a tag eg: <title>Great Inns of Britain - Home – Independent, Historic Inns, Quality Service Any insights welcome :-)</p></title>

Good morning from Wetherby UK Ok imagine this scenario. You ask the developers to design a site where "offices to let" is on level two of a sites hierachy and so the URL would look like this:

http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let. But Yikes when it goes live it ends up like this:

http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk...s/residential/office-to-let Is a fix to this a URL re - write? Or is the only fix relocating the office to let content further up the site structure?

Any insights welcome