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Hi Chris,

Thanks for the response. I have used the structured data testing tool and it says the pages in question do not contain authorship markup but they do contain publisher markup. Could it be that Google is picking up the admin author of the publisher page?

Hi,

A few months ago we set up authorship for on our blog articles for multiple authors, which has helped driving extra traffic to our blog posts. Today, I did a search for one of most important search terms and one of our non-blog pages is showing in the first page of the results with one of our authors headshot next to it. Technically we have not not set it up to do this, the page is on a different CMS to our blog (which is wordpress).

I'm not complaining because I think this is a positive outcome, but does anyone have an idea why it has done this? I was under the impression that only blog article pages could have authorship set up.

Thanks,

Stu

I would agree that 300 is too low and you're right that there doesn't seem to be a consensus out there.

I generally read that 350/400 is the recommended minimum - so I normally advise 400 to be safe.

I'm unsure about maximum but 1,500/2,000 sounds excessive to me. You would need to be writing a very interesting and helpful blog to keep readers attention for that long.

Hope that helps.

Stu

Hi There,

We are currently redeveloping our website and we're rewriting and optimising our many of our service pages.

I think I may already know the answer but should we apply 301 redirects from our old services pages to the new versions? The content subject matter will be the same on the new versions, they will just be completely reworded.

I would be interested to hear your views.

Thanks,

Stu

Hi There,

I work in legal services and the most common search terms in our field always contain 'solicitors' (or lawyers) after specialist areas e.g. landlord solicitors, property solicitors, divorce solicitors etc.

Naturally, we have a page dedicated to each of these specialist areas but we haven't optimised our pages with keywords. Is there any known issues with repeatedly optimising our pages across the site using these keywords?

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi GMan,

Thanks for your feedback. I have since checked analytics and organic traffic for that keyword mentioned has not decreased drastically. In fact, it has highlighted that the landing page for that keyword needs quite a lot of attention.

Overall, organic traffic has fallen, but only slightly, andisn't a cause for concern.

Probably a storm in a teacup!

Thanks,

Stuart

We have recently signed up to SEOMOZ and found that our site had over 2,500 duplicated pages. We reported it the the web designer and they found links on the website to an old prototype version of the website and so they did a SQL run to get rid of them. Doing this got rid of 90% of them.

However, this morning, moz has just done another crawl of our website and our keyword rankings have fallen off a cliff. Particularly, important one that we were at position 1 for. We are now on the fifth page.

Can anyone shed any light on it? Will this be temporary?

Thanks

Stuart