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I've just gone and bought Screaming Frog

Hey,

I have suggested it to the boss but for now need something frre but it needs to support SSL (hhtps) URL's. Thanks.

Gareth

Hi Folks,

Can anyone recommend a decent XML sitemap generator tool. I have Screaming Frog but it's only the free version.

Cheers

Gareth

Hi Leonie,

Thanks for the response and clarifying the position for me. Much appreciated.

Regards

Gareth

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the great response and for the complements on the SEO work completed so far. Though I wish it was a team that implemented it all but it was in fact just me who designed, developed and SEO'ed the website. So thank you, that's a big complement.

I had a feeling that this would be OK, so thanks for clarifying it for me.

Regards

Gareth

Hi Folks,

At this URL https://purplegriffon.com/courses/project-management/prince2 as an example, you can see that I am outputting all course dates in a table. Each table row contains information regarding the specific course such as start date, duration, location but also course title. In the course title it will obviously contain the keyword, in this example that is 'prince2'.

So my question is this. As the MOZ on-page grader indicates that I am keyword stuffing (even though I receive an A grade) will Google be clever enough to know that I am displaying a table of events for PRINCE2? Or will it class the page as containing too many keywords?

Each event links to a specific event page for that event, so is unique.

I am interested in hearing the thoughts of the community on this. Thanks.

Regards

Gareth

Hi Folks,

I was having a discussion with a friend and colleague of mine yesterday about the pros and cons of targeting keyword phrases that have very little if any search volume.

I was of the opinion that if the keyword phrases (whether they were local or not) did not have any search volume as indicated by Google's Keyword Planner tool, then they had little if any value.

Would this be a correct assumption? Or is there merit to targeting these phrases in order to begin to build a picture of a sites overall subject matter and to help rank in local search? For example, say there is a phrase like 'second hand clothing slough' (just a random phrase) which has no search volume but 'second hand clothing' has 2400 visits a month, would it be worth targeting the search phrase with no volume to build a better local profile, so that if someone in Slough searches for 'second hand clothing' the site shows up for that keyword?

Thanks in advance guys!

Gareth

Thanks Chiaryn, Really appreciate it.

In addition to Bereijk's answer, have you tried testing it with the Google Structured Data Testing Tool? http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Ah, I see. OK, well I'll hang on until this Wednesday and see if it changes. Thanks.

Hi Folks,

I have 300 keywords in the moz rankings tool but I would say over 90% of them simply show a 'WED' icon instead of the icon. It has been like this for nearly 3 weeks now. Any ideas why this is?

Cheers

Gaz

Cheers. I'd love some of your 'golden nuggets' please!

Brilliant. Pretty much what I had expected, so thanks for clarifying that for me Trespass. I'll get to work.

No problem. I appreciate you taking the time to answer.

Hi Trespass,

Thanks for your response.

As I mention above, we do have a physical presence in the locations we are targeting. So, to further clarify my question, how would you go about getting these in to your local listing? Would I need to create separate listings for each location?

Cheers

Gaz

Hi Nelly,

Thanks for taking the time to answer, and while your response is good advice for creating localised landing pages and optimising them for search, my question was specifically about local search results in Google, as in the local listings.

Thanks

Hi Folks,

The company I work for is based in Kendal in Cumbria in the United Kingdom (that's our head office) but as we are a training company and we have training locations all over the UK, how would I go about updating the local listings to reflect this. I'd like to specifically target our London based venues.

Any help much appreciated.

Gaz

Excellent, thanks again mate. That's a really big help.

Thanks Matthew.

Can you go in to a little detail as to what you mean by distribution of PageRank please? Also, what indicators do you look for in terms of quality and toxicity? Thanks again.

Hi,

The canonical tag is used to give authority to a specific page on your site where other pages have the same or very similar content.

You can place a canonical link element in the head section of all non-canonical pages with the same or similar content to tell Google that there is a page on your site that you would like them to index for this content.

Generally it's ecommerce websites that benefit here, as they may have several routes by which you could reach the same product information, for example, you could have a product under several different sub-categories. You would want to place a canonical tag on each page to point to one specific page.

Check out the Google Webmaster Tools explanation for more detail https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

Hope this helps.