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Hi Andy,

thank you for your answer!
I have checked the post from Aleya Solis, and is really useful.

So, I think that I should avoid 301 redirects in this situation... and use exclusively hreflang and canonicals, right?

Thank you!

Hi!

I'm checking a site that has something like a News section, where they publish some posts, quite similar to a blog.
They have a canonical url pointing to the page=1.

I was thinking of implementing the rel=next/ prev and the view all page and set the view all page as the canonical. But, as this is not a category page of an ecommerce site, and it would has more than 100 posts inside in less than a year, It made me think that maybe the best solution would be the following

Implementing rel=next/prev
Keep page 1 as the canonical version.

I don't want to make the users wait for a such a big page to load (a view all with more than 100 elements would be too much, I think)

What do you think about this solution?

Thank you!

Hi,
I have been asking about this case before, but now my question is different. 
We have a new school that offers courses and programs . Its website is quite new (just a five months old)

It is very common between these schools to publish the courses and programs in training portals to promote those courses and to increase the visibility of them.

As the website is really new, I found when I was doing the technical audit, that when I googled a text snipped from the site, the new school website was being omitted, and instead, the course portals are being shown.

Of course, I know that the best recommendation would be to create a different content for that purpose, but I would like to explore if there is more options.

• Most of those portals doesn't allow to place a link to the website in the content and not to mention canonical.
• Of course most of them are older than the new website and their authority is higher.

so,... with this situation, I think the only solution is to create a different content for the website and for the portals.
I was thinking that maybe, If we create the content first in the new website, send it to the index, and wait for google to index it, and then send the content to the portals, maybe we would have more opportunites to not be ommited by Google in search results.

What do you think?

Thank you!

Thanks Everett, I agree that the best would be creating diferent content, but It is a little difficult, cause it is the explanation of the contents and programming of one course.

Thank you for your answer, and I will recomend publishing the content first in NEWSCHOOL and sending to the index before sending that content to other pages or portals!

Hi!

I was wondering what would be the best strategy to solve duplicated content generated by the homepage and its differents URLS

This is an international website. Now it only has one language working: Spanish, but the url structure is already ready to work with the language approach

So we have now

www.brand.com -> Spanish Homepage (canonical www.brand.com/es)
www.brand.com/es -> Spanish Homepage (canonical www.brand.com/es)
www.brand.com/index.php -> Spanish Homepage (canonical www.brand.com/es)

I would like to know if this is the correct approach of if we should add 301 redirects instead of canonical.

Let's image that they want to active the /en language, so they will have

www.brand.com
www.brand.com/index.php 
www.brand.com/es
www.brand.com/en

now what? I image they have to use hreflang, but I am a little lost with how this should work. 301? canonical? hreflang?

Could you help me?

Thank you!

Victoria

Hi!

So, your point is to wait for that to happen, isn't it? What do you think about sending a link from the BIGSCHOOL course page to the NEWSCHOOL course page? I mean, canonical + link

Thank you!

Thanks Rebecca! I would probably go that way!

Thanks  Umar!

What do you mean with ...

"I reckon your "New School" is not offering lots of degree courses so yes you can get the link from "Big School's" content but make sure, you are linking in a proper and natural way"

I woudn't be natural... cause both have the same owner...

Hi!

I am analyzing a website right now. It's a school, let's name it NEWSCHOOL. This school is owned by other school, let's name it, BIGSCHOOL

NEWSCHOOL is specialized in tourism degrees, and the BIGSCHOOL is a bigger and older one with a lot of different degrees.

What happens is that NEWSCHOOL has a course, let's name it TOURISM DEGREE.
BIGSCHOOL has that course too, with the same content, trying to help to promote the content, because this school is older, well known and has a consolidated brand internationally.

BIGSCHOOL, has placed a canonical tag, telling Google that content comes from NEWSCHOOL.

What is happening is that the result of newschool is beeing omited by google. The first result is the BIGSCHOOL content, and then a lot of training portals, where the degree content is too to increase its visibility.

So, I would like to know, how can we do to say google that the content that it should show is the one of NEWSCHOOL and not the one in BIGSCHOOL. It's pretty clear that Google knows that those portals are closed related, because it is omitting the NEWSCHOOL results.

I know that we can send a link from the content area from one portal to the other in the content we want. But... would it solve the problem... and y we have to repeat that for each degree, woudn't it be a little dangerous?

Would like to know your points of view!

Thanks!

I will recommend that too. Thank you!

Very useful! Thanks!

Thank you Patrick!

Hi everybody!

While I was checking all points of the Technical Site Audit Checklist 2015 (great checklist!), I found that the distrubutors of my client are copying part of the content to add it in their websites.

When I take a content snippet, and put it in quotes and search for it I get four or five sites that have copied the content. They are distributors of my client.

The first result is still my client (the manufacturer), but... should I recommend any action to this situation. We don't want to bother the distributors with obstacles.

This situation could be a problem or is it a common situation and Google knows perfectly where the content is comming from?

Any recommendation?

Thank you!

Thank you!

Very helpful

Hi community!

For this case, which would be the best strategy for image filenames?

This is a funiture company, with its own brand. What they sell is what they have created and designed

Let's think on a kitchen. And we have a page we want to rank for the primary Kw "modern kitchen", and secondaries "white modern kitchen", "modern minimalist kitchen", "modern kitchen designs".

• Would you use the brand name in the filenames? I mean:
  ---------- white-modern-kitchen-brandname.jpg
  ---------- modern-minimalist-kitchen-brandname.jpg
  ---------- modern-kitchen-brandname.jpg

• Would you use just the kws in the filename and the brand in the alt text?
  ---------- filename: white-modern-kitchen.jpg  Alt: "White Modern Kitchen, Brand"

or should we use the brand in both items: filename and Alt?

¿Which would be the best way to do it in this case?

Any suggestions? Thank you!

Hi!

I am now studing a website, and I have detected that they are maybe generating duplicate content because of image galleries.

When they want to show details of some of their products, they link to a gallery url
something like this

www.domain.com/en/gallery/slide/101

where you can find the logotype, a full image and a small description. There is a next and a prev button over the slider. The next goes to the next picture

www.domain.com/en/gallery/slide/102

and so on. But the next picture is in a different URL!!!!

The problem is that they are generating lots of urls with very thin content inside.
The pictures have very good resolution, and they are perfect for google images searchers, so we don't want to use the noindex tag.

I thought that maybe it would be best to work with a single url with the whole gallery inside it (for example, the 6 pictures working with a slideshow in the same url ), but as the pictures are very big, the page weight would be greater than 7 Mb.

If we keep the pictures working that way (different urls per picture), we will be generating duplicate content each time they want to create a gallery.

What is your recommendation?

Thank you!

Thank you! I completly agree!

Thank you so much for your insights!

Hi, 
a client of mine has a site with a domain name brand.es. They are a furniture manufacturer. They has a well known brand in its sector.
brand.com is registered by a US company. (Completly different activity)

This client registered its domain name 10 years ago, and its audience was in Spain.
As it is a .es ccTLD it is directly geotargeted to Spain.

5 years ago, they began to export to other countries, and today they have distributors in a lot of countries like Italy, France, England, Portugal, Germany, and many more...

As they are manufacturers and they sell their products to multiple locations worldwide, the language aproach seems to be the more efficient way to reach they users.

The problem is that they are using a ccTLD domain brand.es, beacuse the .com domain was registered.
Actually the international organic traffic is very poor, mostly related to queries with the brand name.

My question:
Is it possible to do international seo with a geotargeted domain .es? 
Should they register a .com that doesn't match exactly their brand name? (it is a little difficult, beacause brandfurniture.com would be good for England, but not for Spain or France. )
Or should they focus their strategy with some ccTLDs for 3 or 4 of the main countries? (Not sure this would be an alternative... too much cost)

I know, that in this situation there is no perfect solution, but I would appreciate your opinions.
Any Ideas ??????

Thank you!!

Hi Danny,

google search console shows this:

• 14527 indexed pages
• 19 resources blocked (js files, wp-includes is being blocked by robots.txt)

Errors, desktop:

• 3 server errors
• 1 soft 404 error
• 51 404 errors

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Errors, news:
4 errors: article fragmented and article too short.

sitemap.xml (146 warnings)
14439 urls, sent
13886 urls, indexed

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No security problems.

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No more issues, I would like to know whay you say it comes from a technical problem... I think there must be something that is making you think that way. I would appreciate your opinion on this issue. Thank you so much!