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Hi,

I've been thinking of placing our brand name in the front of our title tag for brand recognition purposes. While doing research I came across a few sites that seem to have their brand name on every title tag, regardless of whether of not their title tag was too long and getting cut off by Google.

Ex: Personalized Cutting Broads & Humidors...-Etsy

The title tag for the example above was for a store in Etsy that sells personalized cutting broads, which was what i searched for. Normally a title tag that is too long gets cut off by Google and your brand name no longer shows if you've positioned it at the end of your title tag.

Is there a way to get your brand name to show up at the end of every title tag even if your title is long and gets cut off by Google? Obviously, I could just place the brand name at the front of my title tag, but if I wanted something like my example above is that possible?

Thanks You

Thanks Oleg,

The link you sent for the webmaster page had been deprecated since Oct 2015, does your recommendation still hold?

I would like to make a change to the way our main navigation is currently rendered on our e-commerce site. Currently, all of the content that appears when you click a navigation category is rendering on page load. This is currently a large portion of every page visit’s bandwidth and even the images are downloaded even if a user doesn’t choose to use the navigation.

I’d like to change it so the content appears and is downloaded only IF the user clicks on it, I'm planning on using AJAX.  As that is the case it wouldn’t not be automatically on the site(which may or may not mean Google would crawl it). As we already provide a sitemap.xml for Google I want to make sure this change would not adversely affect our SEO.

As of October this year the Webmaster AJAX crawling doc. suggestions has been depreciated. While the new version does say that its crawlers are smart enough to render AJAX content, something I've tested, I'm not sure if that only applies to content injected on page load as opposed to in click like I'm planning to do.

Here is the message:

"Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site: http://www.uncommongoods.com/"

Should i try to do anything about this? We are not having any indexation issues so we think Google is still crawling our whole site. What could be some possible repercussions of ignoring this?

Thanks Mozzers!

-Zack

Yeah if you can determine a set schedule, with no overlap, I would try to aggregate promotions onto a common URL.

For instance, we host local events in Brooklyn, for which the content becomes obsolete once the event is over. We maintain one URL for our events:

http://www.uncommongoods.com/designs/events

And simply rotate the content. That way the links to the page help build more specific authority for "design events". If we were to 301 redirect content to the HP, we'd lose this niche.

Before 1-2 weeks ago, our G+ posts containing links to our product pages would show up in in SERPs (when searching for our brand name) with a thumbnail of the product image. Now, they do not  (see image below for visual). Our tech team confirmed there hasn't been any coding change that might be to blame and I see that this isn't happening to other sites. Any idea what may be the problem here?

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Gregory,

We added the appropriate schema info and now images appear perfectly. Thanks!

Rocky

Gregory,

Thanks for the quick reply! We're going to try this out.

Rocky

When we post links to product pages onto our Google Plus account, the image never shows up in the post. Only the name of the product and our domain name appears. Has anyone experienced this problem or have ideas on how to fix?

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I noticed that our total # of indexed pages dropped recently by a substantial amount (see chart below)

Is this normal?

http://imgur.com/4GWzkph

Also, 3 weeks after this started dropping, we got a message on increased # of crawl errors and found that a site update was causing 300+ new 404s.

could this be related ?

No its different on every page.

That sucks. If I were you I would probably would not submit a new disavow link file, because the first one is probably still in their queue.

How many different URLs were the spammy links pointing to ? If it's just a few, could you just no-index the tainted goods and create new URLs ?

Hey Mozzers,

I run SEO for a retail site www.uncommongoods.com. We are building a mobile version of our site on m.uncommongoods.com

On each of the category pages of www.uncommongoods.com, we have included a few lines of text at the bottom of the page to get some of our target keywords into the body. As an example, if you look at this page:

http://www.uncommongoods.com/office/journals-stationery/journals

You'll see this copy at the bottom:

"Find unique journals and diaries at UncommonGoods. Our creative journal gifts are great for marking special occasions with sentimental keepsakes."

We are debating whether or not to remove this copy on the category pages of our mobile site, just to keep the pages as clean as possible. Would there be any risk in leaving this out ?

Thanks for your help on this!

-Zack

Thanks Takeshi thats good advice, I am going to try and figure out how to test it.

Hi Mozzers,

I am an SEO at uncommongoods.com and looking for your opinion on our site nav.

Currently our nav & URLs are structured in 3 levels. From the top level down, they are:

1. Category

ex: http://www.uncommongoods.com/home-garden

2. Subcat

ex: http://www.uncommongoods.com/home-garden/bed-bath

3. Family

ex:http://www.uncommongoods.com/home-garden/bed-bath/bath-accessories

Right now, all levels are accessible from our top nav but we are considering removing the family pages. If we did that, Google could still find & crawl links to the family pages, but they would have to drill down to the subcat pages to find them.

Do you guys think this would help or hurt our SEO efforts?

Thanks!

-Zack

How would you improve their exposure on Google?

Kane, Matt,  Andrew thank you for all of your responses. After trying various tools, I found that Chris Le at SEER has definitely created the best one. If you haven't seen it, check it out below. It's super easy!

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/updated-tool-seomoz-api-data-for-google-docs#jtc179772

I know this is a late response, but thanks for your comment here. That was what I needed to hear

I went to Distilled's linklove conference earlier this week. Many of the presenters showed spreadsheets where they had pulled in Page Authority for a long list of sites. What tool can you use to quickly do this?

For instance, I want to be able to copy a list of 100 sites into a tool and have it spit out the PA for every site...anybody know how to do this?

OK cool that's reassuring, thanks!