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The site's pretty new, so it may take some time. According to Moz, you have no backlinks to your site and a DA/PA of 1. Just keep up with what you're doing, build some decent links and you'll soon see the fruits of your labour.

Lewis

Yeah, true. I guess social activity may not be part of the algo, but certainly improves your organic presence, albeit indirectly!

Cutts says that social signals aren't part of the algorithm, but, after his research, a certain Mr Patel would argue the case!

However, the article you have posted has obliviously stuck a chord with so many people, so I can't see any issues. Moreover, at the end of the day, Google is all about rewarding useful content - so keep up the good work!

Greetings,

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to afford subscriptions to all the top SEO and marketing tools. So if you could choose only one, not including MOZ, which would it be? Screaming Frog? Ahrefs? SEMRush?

Discuss.

Lewis

Morning!

The main competitor of an eCommerce site I'm working on has a total of 31 sites for 31 different countries. Each one of these sites has a different domain extension (.com, .co.uk, .fr, .it etc.), and every single one of these sites' pages links to all the other homepages through a dropdown menu on the navigation bar.

When I pop the .co.uk URL (our main competitor) into Open Site Explorer, I'm advised they have a 45,079 links from 475 domains. If I look at 'just discovered' links, most are from their own sites - I guess MOZ picks these up every time a new page is created.

Now, these guys are huge in the UK. They rank in the top 10 for pretty much every single search term and, to put it into some kind of perspective, their Search Metrics score is 33,000 compared to our measly 160!

Don't get me wrong, they do get some decent links from authoritative sites, but it seem most of their links are from their own sites. How does Google view these? Does my competitor have these thousands of 'internal' backlinks to thank for their current position?

I've just checked their .kr URL and this has 12.5 million(!) links from just 450 domains. Do every single one of these links pass equity? Or does Google just look at one from each domain?

Thanks,

Lewis

I tried to implement this for our non-customer facing e-commerce site and failed. Google contacted me and advised that, as we didn't have a 'bricks and mortar' store where customers could purchase goods, we were not permitted to have that info on the right-hand side.

It's fine for me on Chrome. Chrome also has a whole load of useful marketing and SEO add-ons that can make your job easier!

Hi there,

The copy is exactly the same - bar the product name - on both pages. Although it's a pain, it's better to have completely unique copy on each product page.

Hope this helps,

Lewis

Just a side thought - I'm not sure what the page speed was prior to the decline, but it's pretty slow at the moment. So that won't be doing you any favours

According to John Meuller, any content that is only visible to a user after they have clicked a tab, button or link may not be indexed.

Do you have an example of a URL that is allegedly missing a description?

Cheers

As already said, it's unlikely these comments are negatively affecting the page. Moreover, Google's John Meuller intimated that hidden content within 'click to expand' style boxes is not indexed. With this in mind, only the most recent review will be looked at by Google.

I guess it's a very delicate situation, especially if your CEO doesn't have a clue about SEO. You asking him for more money/manpower could come across to him as "I can't handle the workload". But, in reality, that workload is pretty much impossible. At best, you'll just end up treading water without making any meaningful improvements.

What I'd do is create some kind of document detailing everything SEO-related that needs to be done for each site. This would include things like blog writing, on-page content, proof reading, technical SEO (this could cover a multitude of tasks), link building, reporting, keyword research, etc. Then jot down how much time you would need to spend on each of these tasks for each site, times this by 50 and that should give your CEO a good idea of the workload involved. If he's not prepared to meet your demands, your position will be pretty much rendered untenable, in my opinion.

Sounds like you have your work cut out for you. I don't see the point in having Moz if you can't use it for all of your sites. 50 websites seems an absurd amount of SEO for one person to deal with. I'd be sitting down with the CEO and advising it's simply not possible to do a decent job with just one person.

If you want to use Moz, you're going to have to upgrade to a premium package. Get some more staff in. I'd be tempted to ask for an SEO for every two or three sites.

I think a 302 should be OK in this instance, but you may want to wait for a response from a more technically minded Mozzer. However, if there are thousands of 302s, I imagine there are quite a few others that will need looking at.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you want to redirect a visitor permanently you should be using a 301.

A 302 redirect is a temporary redirect and should only be used if you want to redirect your site visitors to another page for a short period time. Ultimately, you will remove the 302 once it has served its purpose. As this is only a temporary redirect, it will not pass its 'link juice' to the target page as Google thinks you'll be removing it after so long.

If you plan on removing these 302s in the near future, then it should be fine. However, if you're wanting customers to be redirected permanently then you should change these to 301 redirects.

Also, if you have tons of redirects it could affect your site's speed/performance.

Thousands of 302 redirects doesn't sound quite right, though, so I'd pull all of the 302s, review them and see which ones need removing or changing to 301s.

Good topic.

A few of things I've noticed after a quick look:

• The PA of the desktop version is 1, whilst the PA of the mobile version is 43
• The MozRank of the desktop version is 1, versus the mobile's 3.83 mR
• The desktop version has no backlinks
• The mobile version has 50 backlinks from 1 domain
• The desktop version has a really awful dynamic advert either side of the content
• The desktop version has the following tag - href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dvd/" rel="canonical" itemprop="url" /> - could this mean Google is ignoring this page? The mobile code has no such tag

I'll be interested to see how this pans out.

Cheers,

Lewis

Hello,

You're correct. www.ourdomain.co.uk/products/category/subcategory/theproduct1 shouldn't have a rel=canonical pointing to /products. You can either remove the tag altogether or change the tag to point to itself:

You currently have a tag pointing towards /products, which means it's likely Google will disregard the page you want to rank. Sometimes, if Google thinks you've made an error, they'll ignore the rel=canonical. But it's better to be safe than sorry, so remove/amend it.

Cheers,

Lewis

Hi,

No more links than a standard e-commerce site should have...

I'm chasing the sitemap as we speak.

Cheers,