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**C **to B

Because **A **is already redirect to **B. **

The problem is that even though **A **is redirect to **B **I have lots of duplicate issues. I have lots of URL's like this.

The problem is that the canonical tag can't be used as there it's been used already, the only option could be the 301 redirect, but there are quite a lot of pages with this issue, will it be okay to use the 301 for all of them?

This is the structure of the site:

A www.example.com/Product.asp?PID=1845    which was the original page, this page is redirect to

B www.example.com/Product/whatever-the-product-is/1845  which is the page reachable from the website and then there is another page

C www.example.com/Product/whatever-the-product-could-be/1845

These URL's represent the same page.

Also note that on page B there is already a canonical tag to another page in which are grouped all the products that differs from each other for colour, length or some other feature.

Hello there,

I found out that some pages of the site have two different URL's pointing at the same page generating duplicate content, title and description.

Is there a way to block one of them?

cheers

Thanks very much for your help!

The Google bot did visit the page and i don't think this is a new rule, it has been done before. How can I get Google Bot to crawl my pages?

Hi Anders,

I checked and there are redirects on those pages but why in GWT appears as duplicate title tag and description?

Thanks for your help!

I am going to look into it but I have so many like it within GWT.

I will talk to the developer and see what he says.

Cheers

Oscar

It does redirect to a user friendly url but I have no idea what that url represents. Also it causes duplicate issues with the site.

Hello everyone!

Can anyone help me understanding this url?

Product.asp?PID=1236

cheers

If the thank you page is the same, Google registers the goal when users get to the URL that you set as a goal completions.

In order to see the data split you should create two different thank you pages according to the different payment methods, or just create one goal (purchase) and then using reverse goal path you can see the information you want to know.

Hello there,

I would start by creating personas, it is one of starting point that really helps.

Think about the people that could potentially buy from you, give them names, profession, income, lifestyle, what sort of online behavior they can have online, what sort of engagement and the list goes on and on.

If you sell luxury goods then students may not be your target audience (just a quick example).

Create at least three different personas, with different characteristics and also find relevant information about your market in order to give real data to your assumptions.

Hope it helps.

Oscar

Hey there,

Have a look at this article!

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

Hope it helps!

Hello guys,

After fixing the rel tag on similar pages on the site I thought that duplicate content issue were resolved. I checked HTML Improvements on GWT and instead of going down as I expected, it went up.

The duplicate issues affect identical product pages which differ from each other just for one detail, let's say length or colour.

I could write different meta tags as the duplicate is the meta description, and I did it for some products but still didn't have any effects and they are still showing as duplicates.

What would the problem be?

Cheers

Salve David

If you create a campaign in adwords it goes live straight away. There is no message coming up saying "would you send it live?"

So you better create it on AdWords Editor and then post in on Adwords when you decide to go live with it.

About the alerts I think could be a good idea, but if the keyword get a lot of traffic you might end up having tons of alerts that I am not sure would give you any benefit.

Ciao ciao!

Are these links relevant for your customers? Are related to your industry? If yes, then go for it, if it is just  for link building purposes and there is no benefit for customers or they are not relevant, I'd suggest you not to.

As Egol said, people might not be bidding on it.

That explains the lower cost.

As you are looking at those data for different purposes other than PPC ads, make sure you look at the right metrics; don't rely only on those data as they could mislead you.

Oh okay, well keep in mind that the numbers you see are related to paid searches and Google doesn't really tell you the amount of traffic coming from specific keywords.

Also, if you notice the competition you see that is higher for Customer Acquisition, which means more companies bid on that keyword because it could be more profitable and drive more targeted traffic rather than the simple acronym CAC.

This could explain why the CPC for that keyword is higher.

Ok.

Well changing the page title could help, as well as on-page optimization but what really could help is to create some good content and get (build) some good relevant links to help your page rank.

Have a look at this article

http://moz.com/blog/ranking-factors-2013

Hope it helps.

Hello Paul,

I agree with you, there are too many links everywhere and it is a bit confusing.

I would review the left menu and make it a bit slimmer to improve usability. Also the links in the footer (Product range) don't really do anything. I think most customer go through the left menu or search box so I would definitely get rid of them and put the other links with the information at the bottom. Have a look on Analytics/ In-page analytics if those links receive any clicks, if not just take them off.

Also, the information that people might want to know should be closer to the product, so the customers can quickly scan the page and see if that is what they want instead of going through the whole page and look for it.

Try to use long tail keywords and use the modified broad match option in this way you will get more relevant traffic for the keywords you want, it will cost you less and your ads will also appear for more specific search queries.

As the cost per click is 5.69 for Customer Acquisition Cost and it might be high compared to your budget what I would do is to enrich that keyword with more specific words.

Example:

+Customer +Acquisition +Cost example

example +Customer +Acquisition +Cost

In this way you are telling Google that your target keyword is **example +Customer +Acquisition +Cost **and the cost will be be for this keyword (which can be cheaper as it is a long tail keyword).

But your ads will also show up for people that type in just  **+Customer +Acquisition +Cost **

Take a look at this post for a complete explanation

http://www.google.co.uk/ads/innovations/bmm.html

By using this option I kind of skipped the problem you have.

Hope it helps.