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Hey guys

Just wanted to thank you all for your suggestions and let you know that all of your suggestions are included in the final blog post here.

I've thanked you all at the end

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

Anthony

Great shout Craig. Every now and then I'll find a "#" link on live websites. Looks careless and lazy!

Hey Dirk

Great advice! I'm a big fan of Screaming Frog too. A handy free tool especially for small startup websites.

Thanks for commenting

Not forgetting our own personal mobile devices too

We've used all of those

Others we use are Bootcamp, Virtualbox and we also use inspect element in chrome to emulate devices and remote inspect element using Safari.

Love all of these Fuel Interactive! All of which we do here too so it's pleasing to hear other agencies doing the same

I think cross-browser and cross-device QA is extremely important given the browsing habits of the modern day consumer.

Do you use any tools for cross-browser and cross-device QA?

Hey Michael,

Yes, an incorrect robots.txt is definitely more common than you would think.

I guess the overarching tip to the fetch and render function would be to register your site with Webmaster Tools and make use of their tools.

Thanks for sharing!

Anthony

Linda - awesome tips!

Especially number 1. User testing is something that just isn't on some people's radar, yet it can unveil plenty of unforeseen usability issues.

Thanks for sharing

Anthony

Hi guys

I'm looking for tips and advice to help prevent a startup website launch from embarrassment or disaster.

Couple of examples I have so far are:

1. Test contact and download forms
2. Check website for duplicate content, lorem ipsum and missing content
3. Check page load speed

What would be your best advice/tip(s) be?

Thanks

Anthony

@Anthony_Mac85

P.S. Just to be clear, I'm not looking for advice on how to growth hack a startup website launch.

Hi Marcus

Thanks for the reply.

Yeh I think you're right in that it needs to be reviewed on a case by case basis taking into account the goal of the page.

Off topic: Just checked out your latest blog post (cracking post btw!),clicked through to the kwfinder tool out of interest and the keyword data it returns for UK searches appear to be American? Have you tested the tool yourself? Do you find the same problem as me? Feel free to reply to me on Twitter given it's noting to do with this Q & A thread

Cheers!

Anthony

Hi Mozzers

I read an interesting post over on Authority Labs this morning about title tag length and how Google changes the way they are displayed. The author Brian advises that, "if you want your title tag to remain unchanged, it's worth making sure that you're staying within the 50-59 character window and that your titles fit with the content of the page".

This got me thinking...

Given the limited amount of title tag characters that are now shown in the SERPs, I find it difficult to include a primary keyword, secondary keyword and the company name. So, if you're a lesser known brand is it worth sacrificing your company name in the title tags of deeper pages for a secondary keyword to help with rankings, or even a special offer to grab a users eye in the SERPs?

What are people's views on this?

Thanks

Anthony

Hi Gerard

Thanks for sharing that link with me - very interesting.

So according to that post, Google are saying that for the search query "Picosure Tattoo Removal" the URL - "treatments/picosure-tattoo-removal" delivers more relevance, as opposed to the original title tag - "PicoSure Tattoo Removal UK | Serving Manchester..."

Think I'd prefer the original title tag to be honest. What do you think guys?

Thanks

Anthony

PicoSure Tattoo Removal UK

Yeh I guess it doesn't matter either way.

I tried the structured data testing tool and the title tag displays correctly.

Hmmm, think I'll wait a few days and see it sorts itself out. Then try amending the title tag option

Thanks

Hey Chris

Just done some reading into putting a rel canonical on a page pointing to itself and it seems that it's harmless. Matt Cutts even says so in this video.

Also, a couple of people have said that "having a tag on your page protects you somewhat from scrapers and people stealing your content.  If your page is indexed first with your tag, any syndicated or duplicate versions from 3rd parties in theory should not be able to rank that content." Found that in this thread here.

They don't seem to be doing any harm so think I'm going to leave them

Anthony

Thanks for your responses Chris and Jane - both very useful!

I will try your suggestions and thanks for the other tips re: dupe content on directory listings and and canonicals. I'll get those sorted too

Anthony

Hi Mozzers

Does anyone know why my clients title tag appears like it does in the image attached?

It seems as though Google is pulling the parent page url and putting that at the front.

All other title tags are normal.

Anyone any ideas and is it anything to be worried about?

Thanks

Anthony

@Anthony_Mac85

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HI Dan

Sorry for the late reply on this! I've attached a screenshot of the 302 redirect report in Moz.

The top one redirects to http://www.deskcentre.co.uk/shop/chairs/operator-chairs.html

Not sure if this is the screenshot you were after but just let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks for taking the time to help me out on this

Anthony

@Anthony_Mac85

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Thanks guys!

God I feel so stupid - I should have checked that. I got so obsessed about the magento/wordpress thing that checking the canonical completely slipped my mind!

Oh well at least if anyone else ever has the same problem, the resolution is here for all to see!

Take care,

Anthony

HI MozzersIn my websites sitemap.xml, pages are listed, such as /blog/ and /blog/textile-fact-or-fiction-egyptian-cotton-explained/These pages are visible when you visit them in a browser and when you use the Google Webmaster tool - Fetch as Google to view them (see attachment), however they aren't being indexed in Google, not even the root directory for the blog (/blog/) is being indexed, and when we query:site: www.hilden.co.uk/blog/ It returns 0 results in Google.Also note that:The Wordpress installation is located at /blog/ which is a subdirectory of the main root directory which is managed by Magento. I'm wondering if this causing the problem.Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!AnthonyToTOHuj.png?1

Hi Mozzers

I need a little help with Magento redirects.

We are using the Ultimo theme [1] and our crawl report has discovered several thousand 302 redirects occurring for links such as: Product comparison links and add to basket links which are formatted as “REPLACE THIS WITH THE INITIAL LINK” are rewritten to links such as “REPLACE THIS WITH THE REWRITTEN LINK ”.

Is there any way to stop this from happening? Should I change these rewrites to 301 redirects? Or is this perfectly normal?

[1] - http://themeforest.net/item/ultimo-fluid-responsive-magento-theme/3231798

Thanks in advance

@Anthony_Mac85