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Hi,

No it means that in your HTML-tag you should have an ALT attribute.

Like so:

-Rasmus

A quick google on "visual sitemap" gave the following URL:
http://www.powermapper.com/products/mapper/index.htm

Seems to be what you are looking for? I do not have any experience with it I must admit.

-Rasmus

The votes you need to take care of on your end. Facilitate voting for your users and use the result to set a meaningful value in the following meta:
<meta < span="">itemprop="reviewRating" content="5.0" /></meta <>

Users are not able to vote from the SERPS. The SERPS only display results, and the stars/votes is a rather good way of showing google searchers that you have some valuable information. Also, graphically, SERPS with stars catches the eye.

I would say, if used properly, the stars can have a positive effect on clicks from Google SERPS.

I am also very interested in hearing any information about a "good" percentage. We also have pages with no to much content leading to the menus and footer being the larger part of the content of the page. This marks the pages as duplicates.

Despite also searching for an answer, I can give a little input.

If your pages do not have the same content, however Google/SEOmoz labels them as duplicates, you should not just add the canonical link. Not if the pages do not have the same topic or compete for the same keyword.

I have been told that marking up the pages correctly will give a better crawl from google. If one uses the markups from schema.org, one should be able to mark up the menu as a menu, footer as a footer, content as content - in a way such that Google looks at the actual content and not the layout and menus.

Hope this was of some help.

-Rasmus

We have these stars for some reviews we have made. Using the following three metas we have stars in our SERPS, which really helps us distunguish from some of our competitors.

itemprop="reviewRating" content="5.0" />

itemprop="datePublished" content="2012-01-07" />

itemprop="itemReviewed" content="TEXT" />

Hope this can be helpful.

-Rasmus

One thing i am certain you should NOT do is to put revisit-after "1 DAYS" on all pages. That could give you a punishment.

We have a sitemap where some of our pages are set to be updated monthly. However, Google visits the pages often than that.

If your site has a good structure, with a good amount of pages I think you will do fine without the tag. Especially if you have a sitemap with good and honest values for update frequency for the entries. I think it is good to have good values IF you choose to have the tag. I really can not see Google punishing you unless you have a revisit which is a lot more frequent than your actual updates on the page.

I would recommend you skipping the tag and concentrate on haveing a good sitemap, with solid values for "priority" and "changefreq".

Best regards,

Rasmus

Very helpful, thank you!

I will look forward to the update with the upmost anticipation. Hopefully giving a lift to the DA. Fortunately the fall in DA does not seem to be equivalent in Google rankings where the site is performing okay.

Hi all,

I have a question. I have been working SEO on our site www.betxpert.com for the last 4-6 weeks and I have been looking forward to seeing the new DA and PA numbers. However today, our DA is now 30...where it was 31 or 33 a couple of days ago. How come the decrease? I have only improved the site i should say...

Hope someone can shed a little light on the issue...

-Rasmus

I would recommend making the redirects from subfolder to subfolder. If you redirect all pages to the new frontpage Google needs to crawl the new site from scratch in order to index all pages.

If you make the 301 redirect from old pages to corresponding new pages I would say it is worth the effort. Otherwise www.newdomain.com/newsubfolder1/index.html needs to build up its own new page ranking since it is a new URL that Google does not know.

Question is if Google has already crawled a lot of the old URLs, but if it was me I would get on making the correct redirects before Google crawls to many of the old URLs. This will give the new site better ranking from the start I should think AND it will save time for the Google crawlers. One should always anticipate a drop when changing domain, but it is always a good idea to take precautions in order to ensure a quick bounce back.

I would guess a better and faster answer by going here:
http://www.seomoz.org/about/contact

Not certain that SEOmoz answers support issues through the Q&A.

Have a nice day!

-Rasmus

I am pretty sure that SuperlativB means:

http://www.schema.org

We have used it for our review section, and have seen a slight increase in clicks from Google, so I can only recommend the use of it.

Just want to add a short note on the issue with logging out of google to see the search results correctly. If you use Chrome as a browser i would recommend the add on called "SEO SERP" - it gives you the search result for a keyword on a selected area (.com, .uk, .dk or whatever) and list the sites you wish to see positions for. Great add on which i use daily.

-Rasmus

The strategy really depends on the product i would say. Going toe to toe with the world on the keyword "print" really calls for a superb website if you want to rank at the top.

I must admit I am not the biggest fan of the concept of trying to rank high on an overly generalized set of keywords. In my opinion it is just too difficult. At least on keywords like print, photography and cheap.

Without having looked at your site (could you post a URL) I would say a good strategy is to:

1. Identify the sites keywords on which you would like to be found
2. Use these keywords in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Adwords to see what people are Googlin' for
3. Use the information to pick out the most important keywords for your site. Here you should be aware of the competition. "print" and "cheap" is probably very tough. A more specific keyword like combining "print" with localized information (city, products and so on) could be the better approach.
4. Use the info and selected keywords to optimize the site...

It is my experience that more specific keywords have a better click rate than overly generalized keywords in the SERPs. If I were you I would look at your key pages from the above described perspective and make a new strategy - if the one the "experts" have made is not working, that is.

Hope this can help you. If not - or I am too vague - please repost and I will try to explain it better.

Regards,

Rasmus

Please, do so. And post back here to let us know if it helps. Always great to see if suggestions and answers pay off

The best thing is to wait i think, That will give the best amount of data. BUT!

You can try to crawl the site from here:

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

You can get some pretty good data there also in a report. It requires a bit of reading in the report and will not give as good an overview as a full crawl, but still you should be able to see if you have managed to fix some issues (depending on what the issues are).

The crawl test will crawl 3000 pages for you, instead of the usual 10.000 for a pro account.

Best Regards,

Rasmus

As Robert says, you are lacking a bit of information in order for anyone to give a good answer to your question. However, I will try and give som pointers in how you perhaps can find the problem your self:

If you have Webmaster Tools account at Google i would recommend you visit it to see if Google has sent you any warnings. If not try to look at the development in the statistics. Perhaps Google has been finding a lot of error pages or duplicate content?

It is my experience that a lot of problems can be identified in Google Webmaster Tools - and more than often they are due to changes made to the web site.

Best Regards,

Rasmus

Time heals all wounds...

Now we rank in at position 14-15 for this keyword. No further improvements have been made. So the changes I made two weeks ago and perhaps some kind of punishment being obsolete has helped the SERP.

You could consider adding the page to the sitemap?

I have some pages in my sitemap which are set to be updated monthly, and still only days after the change of title/description Google has updated this. I must add, though, that a lot of pages in my site links to these pages.

Does your site have a sitemap?

If not, perhaps this blog could help you out:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xml-sitemaps-guidelines-on-their-use

Best regards,

Rasmus

I managed to fix this, just wanted to post the solution.

For redirecting traffic without "www." to "www.":

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

For redirecting "test." pages to "www." pages:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test.domain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Add these lines to .htaccess and all is well

Yes i have resubmitted a sitemap.

http://www.betxpert.com/sitemap.xml

Also I have added more links to the reviews based on page content. If a discussion in our forum is about a bookmaker the review is linked in a widget. Also if our freelancers or users make a bet at a bookmaker we link to the review. So good solid and meaningful internal links. These links have given good results for pretty much any review page (of 63 keywords in SEOmoz we have seen positive results for 28 in the last week alone). Of these 63 keywords only "betsafe" is outside top 50.