Are you using a CMS? Often some archive files or sitemap, could generate traffic to pages which doesn't exist. How about a search function? Do you have any type of domain.com/s=?something that is being linked to?
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renehansen
@renehansen
Job Title: Digital Consultant
Company: Synergi
Website Description
Online marketing, WordPress and data analysis. A blog site for search marketing.
Favorite Thing about SEO
The psychology of 'users intent' and the benifits of personified search.
Latest posts made by renehansen
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RE: Pages with Temporary Redirects on pages that don't exist!
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RE: SEO Dilution: Key Words in Sub Directories v Using a Hyphen in a Single Directory
Shopify is good in many ways, but is also somewhat restrictive, in terms of URL. I would go with the shortest URL possible, which in this case is also the most describing one.
Shopify URLs are not good in terms of having a descriptive URL structure, and from I can tell, the so called, Shopify Experts, are only concerned about a webshop making any money. Not that they are possibly losing SEO benefits.
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RE: Learn how to reclaim links using Open Site Explorer: Get your Daily SEO Fix!
Short and simple. I look forward to see the series!
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RE: Canonical for blog tag or search site
Yes use noindex, follow for that
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RE: Indexing of Search Pages
I can see the issue with auctionbased e-commerce sites. But a search result page could be both dynamic and static:
domain.com/results/name-of-search-string
or
domain.com/results/?q=something
I think that optimizing a search result page would be rather difficult since it depends on a unique search which is inpredictable. However, using a static URL for a result page is no good either, as it creates a ton of pages in an index with no meaning.
I wouldn't think that any common site should index their search result pages.
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RE: Duplicate page wordpress title
I am not sure that I understand, but I will try to guess a bit here:
1. You are publishing a post that contains the image of a Lamborghini but with no text content.
2. When you hit publish, it creates 2 posts with 2 almost identical URLS.
Are you having issues with WordPress making 2 posts at the same time?
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RE: Robot.txt file issue on wordpress site.
If you wish to block your pages from search engines, then you should use noindex and not disallow in robots.txt. In many cases, a robots,txt is doing more harm than good.
What is your URL?
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RE: Duplicate page wordpress title
As far as I can see, you have made a new post with the same URL. That is why WordPress writes -2 at the end.
Is this happening automatically? Otherwise you could manually remove it.
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RE: How to dominate first page results?
Well, you could be present with a local result, organic and paid (AdWords) and have different pages with variants of your keyword rank for that term.
What is the URL of your site?
Try to have a look at Dr. Petes analysis of the SERP: http://moz.com/blog/the-incredible-shrinking-serp
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RE: Canonical for blog tag or search site
You are welcome, I do not seem to recognize a CMS present on your site, but it should be something that your programmer would be able to fix.
On another note, your are outputting Google Analytics as well as Google Tag Manager at the same time. Beware that this might conflict with your Analytics data.If you want to use GTM, then fire a GA tag instead of outputting it directly on the page.
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RE: Any E Commerce SEO expets
First off, suggesting all possible changes is quite broad. What are your goals with optimizing these sites? Starting structuring your e-commerce sites and laying down the user flow is a good start.
Have you taken a look at Moz SEO guide?: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo (updated with link tag)
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RE: Learn how to reclaim links using Open Site Explorer: Get your Daily SEO Fix!
Short and simple. I look forward to see the series!
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RE: Changing website to Mobile site
If the domain name and URLs are the same, then you shouldn't worry. Prompt for an reindexation using Google Webmaster Tools to let Google know that the site has changed.
If URLs have changed, make 301 redirets to related pages.I am guessing that you are using RWD and not a mobile site?
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RE: Any E Commerce SEO expets
By the way, taking a second look at the code, I can see that you are not adhering to best practices when it comes to the header tags. See example from your mentioned page:
<title></span>Buy Abc Wine Glass Red Online India: Red Wine Glass by Ego Alter: Colored Glasses, Red Wine Glass: Urbandazzle<span class="html-tag"></title>
<meta <span class="html-attribute-name">name</meta <span>="description" content="Buy Ego Alter Abc Wine Glass Red at Rs. 5,225.00 online in India. Set Of 6 Pieces: The force and energy of the color red. Beauty is everywhere, if you know how to look at it: even inside a chalice, get ready to impress even the most distracted guest with gusto. These bold red wine glasses from the Italian house of ego alter are definitely the scene stealers.: Urbandazzle"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="abc wine="" glass="" red,="" ego="" alter="" red="" glass,="" buy="" alter,="" colored="" glasses,="" glass"=""></meta name="keywords" content="abc>
Take a look at http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool which will display where Google cutts you off in the SERP.
The length is now in pixels and does not follow the 50-60 /150-160 length for title and meta description tags. Also remember to focus the title and description on the user and convince them to buy (putting the primary keyword first off course in the title tag).
The meta name="keywords"? Ditch that all together. There is an option for that in Magento CMS. No search engines are using that anymore, and the only creates more code, thus slower page.
Use this Tool for testing the structured data: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/
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RE: Canonical for blog tag or search site
Well, your issues are with tags and I would rather noindex them than using a canonical tag.
There are no reason for the search engines to find tag categories and it doesn't help a searcher either (on site it can be useful however).
rel="canonical" should be used for content which is similiar like a product with different attributes, a product with multiple URLs with the same content, or if you syndicate content from another site.
Remember that rel="canonical" is only good to use if you cannot hardcode your way out of it. If you can remove the need for the tag, by either removing the indexation of the tag category or making the blog function different, then that would be the deal solution.
Read about rel="canonical" here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
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RE: Does having redirects in a Adwords text ad destination URL hurt quality scores?
Regarding Google AdWords, it counts the actual landing page that the user (bot) ends up at. So if you are redirecting from 1 page to another on your domain, that is perfectly fine. Google AdWords accounts for CTR, relevance etc. (see more here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2454010?hl=en).
This means that the QS will be calculated using the landing page after all redirects, just remember to keep the number of redirects to a minimum due to load time for the user.
Another thing, if you wanted to make an ad which pointed to a redirect which did not work, your ad would get disaproved. Google AdWords will surely keep you notified if your landing page is not working.
Like Highland is saying, most often a redirect is used to track a click from AdWords, if they want to collect additional data about their campaign.
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RE: Error Meta Description
Well first off, the meta description is not something that Google will be forced to use and as far as I can tell, the description looks fine in the code.
_ "Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content" _- from support.google.com: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en#1 (I created a link that jumps to the specific section).
Regarding your issue with site command, remember to remove the space in between the command and the url. E.g. site:domain.com.
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RE: What should I consider before setting up a sub domain?
Subdomains are seperate from your root domain SEO. I guess that you do not want search engines to discover the new site?
Deploy a noindex tag on the site to make sure that it is not indexed in the search engines. However, if you place it in a subfolder on your site (e.g. domain.com/site/) I will affect the overall impression of the site from a search engines perspective.
You could take a look at the Moz guide about domains (it could help you understand the difference in subdomains and root domains in respect to SEO): http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain
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RE: Local SEO In A Different Language
I will recommend that you take a look at the Moz Guide on this topic: http://moz.com/learn/seo/international-seo
Google will differentiate content if it is served on a different domain in a different content. So a 1:1 relationship should in theory not create DC as long as it is not in the same language. However, I would take the time to make sure that the content is written properly in the right tongue and take into account local cultural aspects.
Which method are you using?
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RE: Any E Commerce SEO expets
For urbandazzle.com:
Well, I can see that you have thought about some basics, e.g. making a clean structure in the menu and categories (you should remove the .html suffix if it is possible).
A clear issue that you should be aware of, is duplicate content. I can see that you are using Magento and with my personal experience with Magento is that you easily create duplicate content with your products.
Check to see if your products are appearing in multiple categories with different URLs (just briefly looking at the sites did not pose any issues), and especially with featured products.
I can see that the products I looked at, did not include its own category and was placed closest to the root domain: http://www.urbandazzle.com/divider-container.html. That is great and follows best practices, dealing with a lot of products like you do.
When you are sure that DC is not an issue, I would look at the performance of the site. Using different tools, the load speed was quite high. Are you using a CDN or compression methods on your static files?
Take a look at:
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cJJ3p6/http://www.urbandazzle.com/ and http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.urbandazzle.com/r910gWNk
For gobol.in it is almost the same walkthrough. When dealing with a massive index of products, you must make sure that each product is unique.
If you want to rank for a certain product, each product must have a unique URL and proper content.
Another thing, how are your users behaving on your site? What are the conversion rates and could you leverage UGC in terms of reviews and video?
These are just some of the things on top of my mind, that I think you should take a look at.
Dedicated search specialist, with a strong focus on inbound marketing (SEM). I am devoted to translate heavy technical SEM jargon and make it easy accessible for everyone.