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Is paper.li a Penguin no-no?
I am but there are issues, WMT has some serious issues few people know about. When you download your latest links and compare it with the previous one (lets say two weeks apart), now check the same date for example 1st June. The links will be different! For some reason a vast majority of dates will have different links. So if your file is like mine and has 16,000+ links, going through them and working out dofollw/nofollow/notfound is hell on earth to do even once a month. Google does not want you to recover. If they did they would give you some assistance in this matter, instead they direct you to ahrefs and majestic etc.. That do not have as all the links either and leave room for mistakes. If they wanted you to clean up the mess you or seo agencies made then why not give us the tools to do so and we would all get a good job done. Anyway I don't want to hijack your question with my rant LOL
Inbound Marketing Industry | | gazzerman10 -
Where does Schema.org Microdata go on a page?
Yes, your question makes sense. You can put the schema.org properties in any order, but spitting the description like that is going to be problematic. I would also suggest that your example is tedious to read and lacks a product description heading. A more realistic example would be: h1 Widget /h1 The widget comes in blue, green, ... Hiding the price in the middle of the description is also difficult for humans to read. Putting aside the schema syntax, the example IMO is a poor user experience.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ChristopherGlaeser0 -
Does Google count the domain name in its 115-character "ideal" URL length?
I have understood the length of the URL to be calculated post http:// unless it's https://. Just the way it is displayed in the results.
Web Design | | MickEdwards1 -
Duplicate YouTube Script Content - Penalty?
So..here's the thing... Your template script will be absolutely fine - as long as you don't put those videos on YouTube, where it could be seen as low quality content and will therefore be devalued. However - luckily for you, best practice would actually be to not put this content on YouTube at all, and rather to self host the content (or use a secure third party hosting platform) and then submit a video XML sitemap in order to get rich snippets for your videos. YouTube is an absolutely terrible place to put Product videos as the traffic you get on YouTube is typically low quality (nobody goes to YouTube to buy things) which will mean your videos don't rank will in YouTube, yet you still risk having customers searching for your products go to youtube.com rather than your landing page if the youtube.com url ranks in the Google organic search results for your product. Conversely, if you securely host the content - Google will only drive customers to your site (and not to YouTube) and the algorithm won't be able to work out that you have lots of near duplicate video content. So, in short - yes it is a problem if you put it on YouTube for the reasons mentioned - but it's not a problem if you self host. Plus, you should self host this kind of content anyway. For more information on these principles - have a look here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo and here:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy
Content & Blogging | | PhilNottingham0 -
Is this helping?
Prob won't do much for SEO but will improve UX. Only way this would help is if other sites decide to link to your glossary and bring in more authority. I've had clients who had nice glossary pages but they didn't improve traffic much (low inbound links and low keyword traffic).
On-Page / Site Optimization | | OlegKorneitchouk0 -
"Daily Special" = Duplicate Content?
Yes, especially if the pages are identical. I would leave the new url (/internet-daily-special/itemA.html) and set a canonical to the page that is permanent (/subcategory/itemA.html). That way users and magento will be able to navigate to the daily specials section easily and crawlers would know that the permanent home for itemA is inside the subcategory. Cheers, Oleg
Technical SEO Issues | | OlegKorneitchouk0 -
Is there a tool that will "grade" content?
Yoast dose a excellent job and it similar to scribe content however I do not believe that they are on the same level. For content creation this is my opinion and I'm basing it on the ability to integrate with social media and many other abilitys scribe has that WordpressSEO dose not yoast has some of the http://www.linkdex.com/about/features/ but not all If you look at what linkdex actually can do it is much more similar to scribe when outside of the plug-in and used fully then inside the plug-in where does the next one job for free plug-in it's the best for a free plug in. I think raven tools choice to use Scribe speaks volumes and I do agree with you scribe three was not very good. However scribe four is much different and better tool I hope you'll take a look at it if you have not seen it since scribe three. I completely understand your point and some people like Pepsi others like Coke in out. That both excellent tools and I would recommend them both to anybody using WordPress over you can use scribe without WordPress. But anybody doing content creation I believe should use one of these tools. Yes there is a cost incurred with scribe and I do believe it's worth it. Sincerely, Thomas
On-Page / Site Optimization | | BlueprintMarketing0 -
Regarding the META KEYWORDS tag
I just checked the page's source code using my browser and—lo and behold!—there was the META KEYWORD tag . . . which it appears Magento had populated on its own. I'm not competent to edit templates, and as long as there's no penalty, I don't think I'll mess with it. It's unfortunate, though, that the on-page optimization tool doesn't like it.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | RScime250 -
Can I get Google to re-evaluate my comany's website?
If you've been affected by Panda then it won't help at all to ask Google to reconsider your site. You need to make all of the changes and then wait for a Panda refresh. They seem to happen about once a month. If you've made siginifcant changes on a page then you can do as MartinEvolveRetail suggested and go into webmaster tools and fetch an URL and then submit it to the index. It's a good idea to do that for each page that you have changed just in case Google doesn't recrawl the page before the next Panda update comes out. However, you are limited to 50 submissions per week. Similarly, if you have pages on your site that you have noindexed or 404'd in order to help with Panda, you'll want to use the Google URL removal tool so that they get removed from the index before Panda refreshes again.
Content & Blogging | | MarieHaynes0 -
Is this duplicate content?
I would definitely point the link to #2 (http://www.foo.com/item.html) - because of the directory structure in the URL. You could NOINDEX http://www.foo.com/category/sub-category/sub-sub-category/item.html with robots.txt.
Content & Blogging | | csmithal0