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Many Thanks Egol,

Some good ideas here which I will look to replicate

thanks

Peter

Ah , I see. Many thanks Linda

Pete

Hello All,

On our eCommerce site some products have additional information which we currently show via a PDF link next to the product.

I am thinking, is it more beneficial from an SEO point of view , If I was to put this additional pdf information to a webpage and have a link going from the product to this .

From what I read, google cannot read contents of pdfs so if I was to have this as webpage via a link , then the product page would get more keywords and strength around it which would help improve it's seo etc.

Just wondered if this is the best way forward or not ?

thanks

Peter

Hi All,

I have a number of branches as we have separate branch pages and separate google local listings for these. I have been trying to keep them in consistent for citation purposes but google keeps trying to tweak the address in the local listings.

Sometimes for example , google is trying to remove the premises number from the Road e.g  78 Doncaster Road is the actual branch address but google local business wants it as Doncaster Road,

I also see Google is wanting to sometimes remove the locality name etc?..

Also If the local listing has a county ( in America - you would have State) , google is sometimes wanting to remove this add United Kingdom in Country instead ?.

Is this a problem and how to deal with it as I think this is obviously impacting my local rankings?.

If i approve all these changes then do I need update all my citations and page addresses all the time ?

Or can I just leave the suggested "Update" or overwrite googles suggestion with what I had originally.

Does anyone else have this problem ?

thanks

pete

Hi Monica,

The pages do have the same information and topic as the reason I use Pagination is that I have too many products in the same category to show on one page,so its there to tell Google that Page 2 ,3,4 etc is an extension of Page 1 along with my View All page

The only differences I can put in the H1 , H2 tag would really be synonymys or alternative keyword phrases. On page content would be same though, as I can't really write about the same set of products many different ways for the 2nd, 3rd , 4th pages etc.

Would that be okay ?

thanks

Pete

Hi All,

I use pagination (Rel=Prev , Rel=Next) and a canconical tag on my paginated pages and also on my View All page to point to my root page (Page 1).

My thoughts are am I missing a trick by having the same H1 and H2 tag on each of my paginated pages ?

Should I having different ones on say Page 2, 3,4 and view all , to give the Collective Page better SEO .

Just wondered what peoples thoughts here were ?.

thanks

Pete

Hi Monica,

Many thanks . OK cool

Will do

Pete

Many thanks Ryan , Much appreciated

Pete

Many thanks Phillip

Pete

Hello All,

On my ecommerce landing pages, I currently have links to my products as H3 Tags.

I also have useful guides displayed on the page with links useful articles we have written (they currently go to my news section). I am wondering if I should put those article links as additional H3 tags as well for added seo benefit  or do I have to many tags as it is ?.

A link to my Landing Page I am talking about is - http://goo.gl/h838RW

Screenshot of my h1-h6 tags - http://imgur.com/hLtX0n7

I enclose screenshot my guides and also of my H1-H6 tags.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Peter

Hello all,

I have 2 301 redirects on my some of my landing pages and wondering if this will cause me serious issues.

I first did 301 directs across the whole website as we redid our url structure a couple of months ago.

We also has location specific landing pages on our categories but due to thin/duplicate content , we have got rid of these by doing 301's back to the main category pages. We do have physical branches at these locations but given that we didnt get much traffic for those specific categories at those locations and the fact that we cannot write thousands of pages of unique content content , we did 301's.

Is this going to cause me issues. I would have thought that 301's drop out of serps ? so is this is an issue than it would only be a temporary one ?.. Or should I have 404'd the location category pages instead.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

thanks

Peter

Many thanks All

Pete

Hello All,

We are looking at our internal links and most of them say "More" or "View All"

The "more" anchor Text links - are usually positioned on the Body Content as we only display a portion of the content and then the user clicks more to see all the content ? - Should we be changing the "More" Text to something more keyword /phrase friendly i.e " more information about carpet cleaning" or "more information on Tool hire"  or would that be deemed as spammy ?

thanks

Peter

Hi All,

Screaming frog has identified that we have a few H2 tags on our pages , although we only have 1 H1 tag. We have numerous H3,H4's etc.

I am wondering, is it good SEO to have only 1 H2 tag like with H1 tag or can you have more ?

thanks

Peter

Dear All,

We have an xml and image site map but we currently don't have a separate GEO Site Map / map files for our branches.

I am wondering if such a thing exists and if so , if this something that we should be doing to help our branches rank locally on google maps etc. We have google local listings for our branches and we already do schema.org for our branches.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

thanks

Peter

Hello Ryan,

Many thanks for taking the time to answer this. I will give that go .

Peter

Hello All,

I have an eCommerce site and have implemented the use rel="prev"  and rel="next" for Page Pagination. However, we also have a View All which shows all the products but we currently don't  have a canonical tag pointing to this as I don't believe showing the user a page with shed loads of products on it is actually a good user experience so we havent done anything with this page.

I have a sample url from one of our categories which may help - http://goo.gl/9LPDOZ

This is obviously causing me duplication issues as well .

Also , the main category pages has historically been the pages which ranks better as opposed to Page 2, Page 3 etc etc.

I am wondering what I should do about the View All Page and has anyone else had this same issue and how did they deal with it. Do we just get rid of the View All even though Google says it prefers you to have it ?

I also want to concentrate my link juice on the main category pages as opposed being diluted between all my paginated pages ? - Does anyone have any tips on how to best do this and have you seen any ranking improvement from this ?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

thanks

Peter

Hello Monica,

Many thanks for your response.

We currently don't have any user generated content on these pages. It is something we are looking at doing but being a tool rental business , reviews is something, I have found that the industry (my competitors etc) have previously stayed aways from. Thoughts, being that most people who give a review with regards to this, would tend to give a negative review as opposed to saying the carpet cleaner they rented was ace !..

We are currently spending alot of money on the location content writting, it's just with over 100 categories and so many locations, the cost of doing this for everything would be way beyond our budgets. We have like you said, picked our most  valuable locations depending on category (where we rent more of a certain product) and have written unique content for these pages.

If we Rel Canonical Tag the remaining location pages with the duplicate content, is this not going to cause problems as the main location varies category to category and these duplicate location pages still have their own NAP etc etc so , in effect I am pointing one branch page to another branch page at a different location which gets more rentals ?.. Would the location pages with the duplicate content still get affected by panda ?...

There's nothing really on the web I can find about this specific problem but I am sure , there must be loads of multiple location business who have done similar to us.

I will take a read and research on your suggestion and probably try it out for a few of them to see what happens in the rankings.

Many thanks

Pete

Hello All,

I have a eCommerce site and we operate out of mulitple locations. We currently have individual location pages for these locations against each of our many categories. However on the flip slide , this create alot of duplicate content.

All of our location pages whether unique or duplicated have a unique title Tag, H1, H2 tag , NAP and they all bring in the City Name . The content on the duplicated content also brings in the City name as well.

We have been going through our categories and writing unique content for our most popular locations to help rank on local search.

Currently I've been setting up 301 redirects for the locations in the categories with the duplicated content pointing back to the category page.

I am wondering whether the increase in number of 301's will do more harm than having many duplicate location pages ?..

I am sure my site is affected by the panda algorithm penalty(on the duplicated content issues) as a couple of years ago , this didn't matter and we ranked top 3 for pretty much for every location but now we are ranking between 8 - 20th depending on keyword.

An Alternative I thought,  may be to instead of 301 those locations pages with duplicate content, is to put No Follow tags on them instead ?...

What do you think ?.

It's not economically viable to write unique content for every location on every category and these would not only take years but would cost us far to much money. Our Site is currently approx 10,000 pages

Any thoughts on this greatly appreciated ?

thanks

Pete

I would also like to see it available in the UK as well as I don't think we have anything similar here which does this.

Peter