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Not sure why this is happening, but I am having a lot of trouble viewing your gzipped sitemap.

Your robots.txt file is pointing at a gzip sitemap

http://www.tomlondonmagic.com/robots.txt

http://www.tomlondonmagic.com/sitemap.xml.gz

Is that what you submitted to google?  Try submitting the non gzip version and see if that makes a difference:

http://www.tomlondonmagic.com/sitemap.xml

Thanks

I think to get any helpful responses you will have to give some specific details.

It could be down to a number of factors, so in order to help the community is going to need to know what your site is to be able to look at it and give you some pointers.

With the info you have given, you are just going to get a bog standard list of all possible reasons for delisting, which isn't going to help you at all.

Hey There

I would say if you think the content will be useful for your visitors/customers then add it.  If you are wanting to add the content to attract new browsers through the SERPs then you are out of luck.  As you say the content is not unique, so you are unlikely to be attributed as the source/original author of the content.

I don't think (although someone will come along and put me in my place) you will be penalised for adding the content, you just won't receive any SERP boost for it.

But as I say, if it helps your customers, then go ahead and add it.

Thanks EGOL

This all makes sense.  It's nice to get a bit of a sanity check.

I think I worry because in the SERPs we struggle against our competition, but once we get a browser conversion is good.  So I keep worrying about the SERPs.  But I know I need to just concentrate on writing good content and adding depth to the site, and that will hopefully give us the pay day we are looking for.

Thanks

Paul

Excellent, great stuff

Thanks for your help.  I think these blog posts provide real value to the customers, which is the main thing.

Thanks

Paul

Hi guys

I have an eCommerce site and a blog. the blog is on a suddomain. I am writing content about our products on the blog, I.e. Full in depth reviews and top 10 lists etc.

These blog posts link back to the main product page.

It would also be nice for customers on the site to a "blogs about this product" section. However, would a link from the product page to the blog weaken the internal link from the blog to the product?

Thanks

Paul

Hi Tom

Thanks for taking the time to help me.  I like your ideas.  It's good to get input from someone with fresh eyes.

I hadn't thought about outreaching to Glamour, because we are a third party agent who sell subscriptions on behalf of the publishers of Glamour.  In effect we supply them with supplementary subscription orders, in addition to those they get themselves, so I think they would be unlikely to want to push people to us.  However, they may like to link to  that content, as it puts a fresh spin on their title.  I will look into that.

I like the idea about speaking to other bloggers.  Would you suggest opening with asking them what they think of the blog, and what they think about this topic of buying a magazine as a gift?  What's the best way to find these people?  Search for fashion blogs, twitter accounts etc?

Infographics, I have mused on these for a while.  They are all the rage, but I often wonder what percentage of total infographics actually become wide spread.  Therefore is it worth the time and effort creating one?  I might spend an hour or 2 playing with the idea and if it looks good I will add that to our blog also.

Thanks again

Paul

Morning Guys

As part of a bigger SEO Project I am writing some blog posts.  I am trying to use information we have based on shopping habits within our store.

So I have written this first blog post:

http://blog.uniquemagazines.co.uk/2013/03/top-10-womens-magazines-purchased-as.html

What can I do with my blog now to get more exposure?  I have submitted our blog to a couple of RSS directory lists.  I also created a pintrest board, and announced the blog post on our facebook and twitter accounts.

I am hoping to do 1 of these bigger posts per week, and this took me about 3-4 hours to research the stats and compile the information, so obviously the more I can get out of it the better.  Also, I am hoping over a number of weeks I can identify what sort of content relates best to our customers/browsers.

Thanks

Paul

That does indeed help.

Thanks

Paul

Hi Guys

I have worked throug this SEOMoz article to examine our back link profile

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings

This is an image of the chart I ended up with.

http://bit.ly/Z7Pp1G

Does this look like an OK back link profile?  Should I be doing something about the high number of 0 and -1/NA rank links?

Thanks

Paul

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Hey There

I would say if you think the content will be useful for your visitors/customers then add it.  If you are wanting to add the content to attract new browsers through the SERPs then you are out of luck.  As you say the content is not unique, so you are unlikely to be attributed as the source/original author of the content.

I don't think (although someone will come along and put me in my place) you will be penalised for adding the content, you just won't receive any SERP boost for it.

But as I say, if it helps your customers, then go ahead and add it.

That's great Mike, thanks for your help.

I have also found this webmaster guideline

" Pages we determine aren't viewable on a mobile phone won't be included in our mobile site index (although they may be included in the regular web index). This determination is based on a variety of factors, one of which is the "DTD (Doc Type Definition)" declaration. Check that your mobile-friendly URLs' DTD declaration is in an appropriate mobile format such as XHTML Mobile or Compact HTML (3). If it's in a compatible format, the page is eligible for the mobile search index"

This links through to http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72462

I think I should change the DTD to a mobile friendly one and see if that helps.

Thanks Chris

I checked the links to the UK Vogue page with both the internal link checker on web master tools and screaming frog.  There were less to the UK page. So that's pretty clear I need to improve the architecture of links here.

Regarding the top 10 women's magazines area, what would be the most effective way of utlising that content?  I could do something as simple as a numbered list 1-10 with the mag names in a side bar, or I could do a seperate page, with a paragraph of content or 2 for each title.  This could take the form of a blog post.

I guess I could do both?

Thanks for your extremely helpful input.

Paul

That does indeed help.

Thanks

Paul