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I have been using addthis for quite a while - and I do like the "recommended content".

I feel really uncomfortable about:

1. Site speed .. it seems to slow the site down considerably.
2. It calls a number of other domains - sitescout.com , tubemogul.com , crwdcntrl.com - and a number of others.

Is there a paid alternative to addthis?  Any thoughts around this? the recommended content that pops up is pretty cool.

Thanks

M

Why would you canonically link Product pages to the category page?  Of course that is going to disappear the product pages.  Why not just link from the product pages to category pages with a normal link <a>to increase page authority on the category page?</a>

Hi - we have an ecommerce site and we also educate people with a lot of researched content around health.

Obviously our goal is to get more traffic and more conversions ( not just one or the other )

I am using jetpack in the wordpress part of the site with the "left hovering" like buttons and I have the share content at the bottom of the post.

I was thinking of adding some of the sumo me apps in as well.  I read it's not good to have social on ecommerce product pages ( https://vwo.com/blog/removing-social-sharing-buttons-from-ecommerce-product-page-increase-conversions/ )  - but I would expect it to be a good idea on informational content.

Thoughts? Negative or positive appreciated.

Hi.  I have been using Addthis on our site for quite some time ( 1-2 years )  - it certainly gets a lot of clicks ..  I just wonder if it is too intrusive.

We had one recently person say "I will never buy from you again unless you take these down".

I am having trouble finding some good stats on usability & whether it is a good idea to keep it or not - or maybe there is another plugin I could use.  I don't think it affects speed too much.

Thoughts?

I'm a bit stumped with this.  I optimise all my titles etc for Australia - and now the organic liatings are showing something strange.  For example ( we sell health supplements )

Meta title = "My Product , Buy Online Australia"

If I type "My Product" -  the title in the organic listings says "My Product - My Company Limited" - and the only place I can see it getting that from is a combination of Meta Data used in Google Tag Manager + the Name on my Google places page.  This is much more obvious for categories.. but it's a pain in the butt.

If I type "My Product Australia"  Then the original "My Product , Buy Online Australia" comes up.

Any ideas on policy etc? I have taken the "Limited" off the Google business page - so hopefully this will change over time - but I can't find any information on why google would do something like this.

If you had shed any light on this - would be much appreciated.

Thanks - I'll give it a try!

Hello

Technical question:

I have category pages in my site - and product pages in my site.

Category Pages

1. I Have listed Grouped products on them ( i.e. a product that could have multiple offers for each size )
2. I Have the relevant markup for them ( one for each product ) .

Product Pages

1. The Product pages have grouped products as well - but the individual simple products are note marked up.
2. The Product pages have Aggregate reviews on them.

My question is this: Should I use the grouped product sku to identify the grouped product on the category page and the product page?  Technically they aren't Stock Keeping Units ( SKU's ) - but they could be used to link the 2 together to avoid duplicates.

Ideas?

OK.  Read the docs properly.  Any Ideas about Brands?

Hello Please comment on which you think is best SEO practice for each & any comments on link juice following through.

Title text ( on Product Page )

<title>Brandname ProductName</title>
OR
<title>ProductName by Brandname</title>

on category page

• <a <span="" class="html-attribute-name">itemprop="name" href="[producturl]">ProductName</a>
  <a <span="" class="html-attribute-name">itemprop="brand" href="[brandurl]>BrandName</a>

OR

• <a <span class="html-attribute-name">itemprop="name" href="[producturl]">BrandName ProductName
  ( Leave Brand Link Out)</a <span>

Product Page

<a itemprop="name" href="[producturl]">ProductName
<a itemprop="brand" href="[brandurl]>BrandName</a itemprop="brand" href="[brandurl]></a itemprop="name" href="[producturl]">

OR

<a itemprop="name" href="[producturl]">BrandName ProductName
( Leave Brand Link Out)</a itemprop="name" href="[producturl]">

Thoughts?

Hello

Best Practice for rich snippets / structured data in ecommerce category pages?

I put structured markup in the category pages and it seems to have negatively impacted SEO.  Webmaster tools is showing about 2.5:1 products to pages ratio.

Should I be putting structured data in category Pages at all?

Thanks for your time

I have to develop a strategy for link building.

The SEO guy I have been speaking with has started putting links on .edu sites etc .

To me - this "stinks" of manipulating the search engines - which I know we will get stung by at some point.

I hope this isn't standard practice - but I don't know what the best way to improve rankings in terms of links etc.

We sell health products and are starting to put out 3-4 high quality articles per week.

Ideas?

Kind Regards

Martin

I'm a bit divided about the URL structure for ecommerce sites.

I'm using Magento and I have Canonical URLs plugin installed. My question is about the URL structure and length.

1st Way: If I set up Product to have categories in the URL it will appear like this

mysite.com/category/subcategory/product/  - and while the product can be in multiple places , the Canonical URL can be either short or long.

The advantage of having this URL is that it shows all the categories in the breadcrumbs ( and a whole lot more links over the site ) .  The disadvantage is the URL Length

2nd Way: Setting up the product to have no category in the URL

URL will be  mysite.com/product/

Advantage: short URL.  disadvantage - doesn't show the categories in the breadcrumbs if you link direct.

Thoughts?

I still think the better option is to have 1 URL.  I was using the root URL for products ( effectively 1 URL ) and not having the category in the URL and my SEO was doing well - BUT I wanted the Categories to be displayed in Google as clickable - so I changed to the canonical method having different URLs with 1 Canonical. Over a couple of months my SEO suffered terribly - some categories in the top 10 down to 20-30 . I have just implemented having 1 URL ( with category in it ) - we will see how we go..

yes - sorry , had a brainwave this morning.. I put the offers in conditionally only if there is a ?cur=aud  parameter in the URL. that way there are 2 scenarios:

1. Organic Listings = no currency parameters so no offers shown

2. Google Shopping , forces cur=aud  parameter in the URL so offers ( pricing ) and availability is available to google shopping

I re-submitted .that page about 6 hours ago via webmaster tools .. so fingers crossed.  If there is any reason why you think it wouldn't display snippets for ratings let me know ( I know google change things ALL the time  )

Thanks.  Realistically the Currency specific pages are purely for google shopping to verify the right price corresponds with their experience - so I didn't really need to have offers in the page.

My workaround was to remove the offers in multi currencies for regular page and only show the offers when a currency was selected.  Snippets ( stars ) have returned

Kind Regards
Martin

Why would you canonically link Product pages to the category page?  Of course that is going to disappear the product pages.  Why not just link from the product pages to category pages with a normal link <a>to increase page authority on the category page?</a>