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Hi all

We are marketing an e-commerce site and seem to have a weird issue. For some reason the clearly specified meta description is not being used in the SERPs. Had a look in the source but all tags seems to be there.

The site can be found here:
www.bangerhead.se

A sample search in Google that uses the wrong info in the SERP:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C5CHFA_enSE548SE548&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&q=bangerhead

Any ideas to why this is? Grateful for any inputHave a nice day

Fredrik

Hi

I got good news and I got bad news for you:

Good news: your not nuts. The text is visually there.
Bad news: the text is actually not in the original source code since its loaded with AJAX.

An easy way to check this is to do a view source on the page. Dependent on browser the function is in different places but in Google Chrome its under View -> Developer -> View source. When your seeing the source code try to do a search and you see that the word "handbook" is not there.

So what does this mean: 1. It means that the moz tool can not handle this AJAX way of making the page. 2. It could also mean that Google can not index the site.

Good look forward

Fredrik

Hi

In my opinion the logo should not contain H1 or H2 tags, if it does not contain indexable text such as slogan, byline etc.

H1 should be used for the most important heading comparable to how its used in a word document. This should also be your main heading. Also there should be only one H1 on a page.

H1 should be used for the second most important heading comparable to how its used as a subheading in a word document. This should also be your main heading. There could then be multiple H2s on a page since they describe sub content.

You can find more useful information about this and other SEO challenges in the great Moz Guide.

Hope this answers you question.

Have a great day

Fredrik

Forget to mention, this has been discussed before in this thread:
http://moz.com/community/q/visitsweden-indexing-error

Unfortunately those suggestions did not seem to solve the issue.

Hi

Been building and optimising sites for 15 years and this is one of the hardest problems I ever came across. So any help would be very much appreciated. Here we go:

For some mysterious reason this URL http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ has been indexed as http://weekend.visitsweden.com even if we tried all we can to correct it. The problem is that since the latter points to the first URL with a 301 it refuses to get any page rank. Also it does not get visible in Google at all.

Just a recap of what we have tried so far:

• Add site to webmaster tools
• Add proper sitemap.xml
• Add 301 redirect to the correct URL

An easy way to locate the problem is to search for the main content of the site. As you can see it returns the wrong URL and the correct URL does not even get listed.

Again, any help is very much appreciated.

Kind regards

Fredrik

Hi

Again thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately we still have the same issue even though we have performed many checks and tests. Any more smart ideas on how this can be corrected?

Regards

Fredrik

Hi again

The weirdest this is that it does not seem to update. When I do a site:weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ the page is still nowhere to be found.

https://www.google.no/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:weekend.visitsweden.com%2Fno%2F

Any ideas?

Again thanks

Fredrik

Thanks for the great input! Have now tried to do the changes as per your suggestion.

Does it look better now?

Again thanks

Fredrik

Hi all

Just got a new site up about weekend travel for VisitSweden, the official tourism office of Sweden. Everything went just fine except som issues with indexing.

The site can be found here at weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

For some weird reason the "frontpage" of the site does not get indexed. What I have done myself to find the issue:

• Added sitemaps.xml
• Configured and added site to webmaster tools
• Checked 301s so they are not faulty

By doing a simple site:weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ you can see that the frontpage is simple not in the index. Also by doing a cache:weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ I see that Google tries to index the page without the trailing /no/ for some reason.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/

Any smart ideas to get this fixed or where to start looking?

All help greatly appreciated

Kind regards

Fredrik

Having the same WHOIS info as contact info on the site would possible be a sign of authenticity i guess? More on topic here:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-question-do-whois-privacy-services-harm-seo/5874/

Thanks for great input.

What about the ownership info? I heard that its a plus if contact details and info match that of the website. Any ideas on that?

Fredrik

Hi

How important is it to configure your domain info in the same way as the contact info of your website? I heard having a long expiry date on the domain and having proper contact info helps create domain trust?

Any tips on this? Info on how to set this up in an optimal way?

Thanks in advance

Fredrik

Hi guys

Great suggestions and great comments. Think I got the most sorted out now.

BUT, got one major issue left:

As you can see here: http://www.citcop.se/varmepumpar-luft-luft the links to the actual product is not the same as the canonical URL for it?

Now the links on this page are like:

http://www.citcop.se/varmepumpar-luft-luft/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw

When they really should be(this is also the canonical url):

http://www.citcop.se/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw

I have setup magento to use a flat catalog structure but seems like the links in menus etc are still pointing to a URL using the complete path with category and all.

Any ideas how to get all links to a product to be the same?

Thanks

F

Hi all

We got some serious issues with duplicate content on a Magento site that we are marketing.

For example:

http://www.citcop.se/varmepumpar-luft-luft/panasonic/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw

http://www.citcop.se/panasonic/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw

http://www.citcop.se/panasonic-nordic-ce9nke-5-0kw

All of the above seem to work just fine as it is now but since they are excatly the same product they should ofcourse do a 301 redirect to the main page.

Any ideas on how to sort this out in Magnto without having to resort to manual work in .htaccess?

Have a great day

Fredrik

Hi all

I guess we all know what happend to Raven, loosing its AdWords API and being forced into removing SERP tracking. If not, see more here:

http://raventools.com/blog/scraped-data-serp-tracker/

What is SEOMOZ stand on this? Will you continue to provide SERP tracking?

Kind regards

Fredrik

Hi

Hard to tell if those links could be bad for you without seeing them.

I would suggest:

Sign up for webmaster tools, they now offer warnings for unnatural links.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-unnatural-links-warnings

IF you get warnings in webmastertools then you could consider using the new Disawow tool.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-disavow-tool-take-a-deep-breath

Hope this helps

Fredrik

Hi Dave

The Google Analytics In Page view actually does not show how many people click on a specific button but rather how many people visit the page the button links to. As you know Analytics only, at least by default, register pageviews, not clicks on links or buttons.

So if you would have more than one link on a page pointing to a specific page you would not be able to see what button actually got the clicks. The number on both of them would be the views on the page they lead to.

In your  case the button is implemented with a somewhat "odd"  instead of a "normal" button. I would suspect that the in page tools is not configured to show statistics for this tag. BUT, that does not mean that the data is not there. Its just not shown in the in page view.

You might want to consider swapping it to a href or submit button and then add the image with some simple CSS. This would actually be "better"  HTML as well. Maybe something like:

input.delete {    background-image: url('bin/images/common/delete.png');    width: 20px;    height: 20px;    border: 0;    cursor: pointer;}

Hope this helps

Fredrik

Hi

I fully agree with you, there is no need to put a "fake" H1 instead of the logo. Just add the logo, and if you want you can add the company name in both the filename and the alt text of that image.

H1 is for marking the most important heading of the page. Think of it as you would structure the headings in a school paper. H1 would then represent a very important section. But after all the headings are for the user to understand, not the bots indexing the site.

So all in all, I think you already knew the answer to this one

Fredrik

Thanks

Learned the hard way when it was all too late

Fredrik

Hi

Having keywords in the domain name can help you rank for this, not as much as it used to help but still some.

You should also think about how relevant the domain is for the users, does it connect to the overall scope of the site?

If you are to use SSL on your domain some companies might refuse u a certificate if you are using brandnames in the domain. Sounds far fetched but happend to me a few times.

Hope this could help you out?

Kind regards

Fredrik