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No-index your pages and you will be fine for the quality score All the best Richard

Hi Scott Take a look at this http://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-url-in-posts All the best Richard

I agree with Brighton College.

Dont do it if your sole purpose is SEO.

Hi Abi

Not 100% sure of your question however:

Should H1 and H2 on the same page differ? I would say yes. It would look odd to a reader so perhaps odd to Google to.

If I've not answered the question you were after you can find my number on my profile.

The thing to be wary about is building a website for search engines - focus on the user needs and that the page 'reads and looks right'

All the best

Richard

HI Abi

Well done, much better and visually looks good to.

One thing though.... you still have two H1's on the home page. It looks like the rogue H1is related to your logo. Look around line 139 in the source code.

If you are a pro member try running the SEO web crawler (goto Research Tools). Its a good way to pick up other things. Otherwise drop me a line.

Enjoy!

Richard

Hi Abi

Getting there.... but you should only have one H1 on a page (you've now got 2).

You can have multiple H2's and H3's and so on.

The H1 on your home page is important - should contain your keywords, be readable and to the point.

I would suggest 'Expert Locksmiths in Bristol Bath, South Gloucs, North Somerset and West Wiltshire'.

ie dropping the vertical spacer ' | '

Personally I would drop the 'Welcome to Lockcity' (as you currently have 3 headings) but add in a paragraph of standard text that starts with a welcome, mention what you do, the 1 hour pitch and location (as you are rather light on overall page copy,)

All the best

Richard

PS Nigel is my middle name but it was confusing so amended to Richard - see my profile for more

Hi You mention rebuilding on another platform - I assume you made sure if pages changed URL you put in redirects. A blog will tend to have a higher bounce rate as it is something people read and then go. Try adding in more useful links within the content to get people to click through your site. Have you checked the keywords your blog is attracting? Maybe they are not aligned to the blog content. Unless your blog is accounting for the majority of page views and visits I don't think the bounce rate is likely to be your main issue. A high overall bounce rate tells Google people don't find what they were looking for - thus is a contributing factor to search results. You don't mention your website so can't give specific suggestions but have you checked your moz rank / compared to your competitors - that might indicate what else is wrong. All the best Nigel

My pleasure.

To answer your question - the post code does not need to be a link to the contact us page - just have a link called 'Contact us'

The contact us page should have tel, your full address and postcode and good idea to imbed a google map.

I have not tried it but there are some wordpress plugins that allow for multiple addresses in one map.

By the way on your home page your heading 'Looking for a expert locksmith? Welcome to Lock City.....' is currently a H2 - it should be a  H1.

It could be cut back and more focused eg Expert Locksmiths covering Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire' ... even that is a mouthful so consider do you really need to mention all locations?

I would also suggest adding in a paragraph of home page copy - maybe this could include reference to the locations (so you can get the H1 back) and end with the 'Contact us' you asked about.

Also give your images alt text which makes reference to location. The urls for the images could also include a location.

Hope this helps

Nigel

Hi Abi Don't worry about the left hand side or global navigation items - Google will focus its attention to the copy and links within the main body of the page. You are correct - if the body copy has two links going to the same location then only the first will count. Links nearer the top of the copy will get more link juice than those further down the page, so put the important stuff nearer the top. The more links you have the more diluted (less effect) those links will have so don't try and cover everything - for example if you sold many different types of cars you could have a 'BMW cars' link, then on the BMW cars page have links to the different models. Make sure you have copy referring to your location / zip / postcode. Have a contact us page with your full address and map. Make sure you have listings / links on local websites.... All the tells Google your location. Finally check Google Webmaster is targeted on your country. Best of luck Nigel

Many thanks Neil All the best, Nigel

Hi I would not worry if you have 2 links to the same page, especially if one is in your global nav. You can add a no follow however I would not worry about it. Many websites have the contact us in the global nav - Google knows about navigation items so instead pays more attention to links in the body of the pages. Google will only follow one instance of a link so it won't double up on the link juice being sent to the next page.. Finally dont have too many links on your home page - the page only has a certain amount of link juice so you end up diluting the juice too much if you have loads of links. All the best Nigel

Hi

I have www.example.net  however trying to judge if it is better having www.example**.**co.uk instead  (as it will be targeted for UK people).

I could use Webmaster tool to geographically target UK - however perhaps best to use a .co.uk domain instead.

Any views on using a .net ending domain?

Many thanks

Nigel

Hi Cary

From what you say it suggests to me the subdomains have gone / dead / been removed.

Therefore you only need to remove it from WMT and ensure only the correct people have access to your WMT / GA etc as I outlined above.

All the best

Nigel

Hi Cary, you are getting that message as the subdomain cannot be reached by Google.

On the Google Webmaster 'Home page' click the dropdown on the right - there should be 3 options.

First click 'Add or remove users' to ensure and deal with users you no longer want.

Then click 'Delete site' to remove the subdomain (make sure you delete the right one!)

Other things you may want to consider:

Check your main site has the right users accessing it.

Did you have Google Analytics on the subdomians - that data will still be there. You may want to consider who has access to that in future.

Check if the affiliates had any access to email, documents, regular reports or other tool you may want to lock down on.

All the best

Nigel

Hi Sara

If the non branded website is identical to the main website then you could use the canonical tag.This way Google would pass the seo benefit onto the main website.

You could also ensure the robots.txt is used to stop the search engine bots. For more info on this look in your google webmaster tool.

All the best

Nigel

Hi

Your website is indexed for about 140 pages - try this in the Google search bar: site:www.award-certificates.com

Are you a Pro member? If not then I suggest sign up for free trial and check the reporting for issues.

If you search for Badminton Certificates in Google you appear on the first page.

Decide on your keywords and track their ranking position. It maybe some of your keywords have very little demand so your search traffic will be small no matter how good you are.

You dont mention what you have done so far for SEO, so it maybe wise to buy a book on SEO or look at some of the useful reports on this website and start ticking off what you have / have not done.

Best of luck

Hi Michael

In short, it could be many reasons. A few things to consider:

Have you checked your Google Webmaster tool for clues?

Have you seen a drop in actual visitor traffic through GA?

Does the drop match the dates of some of the Google updates?

Have your competitor sites had the similar fate?

Are the red and yellow errors in your SEOMoz campaign reports increasing?

Checked Site Explorer for issues?

From of the three things you mention the first one maybe one to check - perhaps you are suggesting some iffy link building had taken place?

I assume you have had a capitilisation issue for ages so that in itself wont have caused a sudden drop.

Its more likely a series of things you need to fix so check back whats happened on the site in the past few months.

Finally, has it effected your bottom line? - sales / leads etc? That is what really matters.

Best of luck

Nigel

Your a star!

Many thanks Mike

Nigel

Hi

Within Google Webmaster Tool 'Crawl errors' report by clicking 'Not found' it shows 404 errors its found.

By clicking any column headings and it will reorder them.

One column is 'Priority' - do you think Google is telling me its ranked the errors in priority of needing a fix?

There is no reference to this in the Webmaster tool help.

Many thanks

Nigel

Hi Martijn & Matt

Many thanks for your quick replies, good stuff!

All the best

Nigel