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Hello Guys,
I post this thread here since i don't know where else. So the problem i face is this.
I rank for one of my websites on second page for the tag not meta title for an article i have wrote about someone."Jerry Billett" is the keyword and my site is on second page !
It's really strange ! Please give me some good answers on this !
Regards !
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From one of your last reply!
PS. I don't know if it is just me, but I don't think the audio that automatically plays on your site when you visit a page will help people to stay on your site. I think it's a bit bewildering as it is not clear where it is coming from and you don't know how to turn it off which may prompt people to quickly click away. If they do, that will negatively affect your SEO. I understand the desire to promote the free 60 day course, but I think you would be much better to give people the option to hear the audio play by allowing them to click a button to choose to play it (e.g. "Listen to our free offer to turn you into a marketing rock star") rather than feeding it to them automatically. I think you could find your conversion rate would go up. Sorry to mention this, but I know you want to make your site work better for you so I thought it better to share what I think could help you with that too.
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Hello Matei
I don't what you mean by "auto"? Please can you explain.
Peter
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Hello Peter,
Can you guide me on what audio plays auto. I searched every page and got no result on this.
Looking forward your answer,
Matei:)
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My other site is having the same issue:
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0e1280x2fd
Is the same problem?
Also by any chance is possible to send you private, a video sitemap and tell me if I need to add anything to make these videos rank higher?
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Hi, I am not familiar with Yoast SEO, but it's not what Google is doing as Google is just indexing the pages it finds on your website. As I said, it is to do with both of those pages using rel="canonical" code that points to themselves. I suspect that is the same with other pages. Follow one of the suggestions I have already given and you should be able to resolve this.
I don't know what you mean that your Google+ is not showing in the results for some of the Keywords you rank for this already. The Google+ profile listed as the rel="author" of your Jerry Billett page links to a profile that has a total of 2 posts. It's not going to rank for anything.
Peter
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Hello Peter,
A very good answer and thank you for that.
Why is google doing this - do I have some misplaced setting in yoast seo?
see attached image - there are a few pages that are splitting juice with the /tag version
( See the webmaster tool attachment ).
Also, my Google+ is not showing in the results for some of the kw i rank already ! Any advice on this too !?
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OK, I think I understand now.
Essentially, you have two URLs that answer the same query of "Jerry Billett". In that case Google makes a decision on which page they think best answers the user's query.
Looking at the two pages, I would be inclined to agree that the non-tagged page does, but for some reason Google doesn't. If it's important for you that the other page is the one that surfaces in search then you have some options:
Remove the tag page from your URLs and set up a 301 redirect to the non-tagged page. That will mean that the existing link in Google's index will straight away link through to the non tag page and once they have updated their index, so their link will be updated.
Alternatively, change the rel="canonical" code you have in your tag page to point to the non tag page. At the moment it is pointing to itself. This is what Google's support page says on using rel="canonical":
Adding this link and attribute lets site owners identify sets of identical content and suggest to Google: "Of all these pages with identical content, this page is the most useful. Please prioritize it in search results."
Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en
Whilst the two pages are not identical (hence my scoring through the word 'identical' in the extract, by using rel="canonical" to point to the non tage page you are suggesting to Google that the non tag page is the most useful and asking them to prioritise it in their search results.
I hope that helps,
PeterPS. I don't know if it is just me, but I don't think the audio that automatically plays on your site when you visit a page will help people to stay on your site. I think it's a bit bewildering as it is not clear where it is coming from and you don't know how to turn it off which may prompt people to quickly click away. If they do, that will negatively affect your SEO. I understand the desire to promote the free 60 day course, but I think you would be much better to give people the option to hear the audio play by allowing them to click a button to choose to play it (e.g. "Listen to our free offer to turn you into a marketing rock star") rather than feeding it to them automatically. I think you could find your conversion rate would go up. Sorry to mention this, but I know you want to make your site work better for you so I thought it better to share what I think could help you with that too.
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This is what i am talking about:
Jerry Billett - Andrew Murray HQ
<cite class="vurls">www.andrewmurrayhq.com/tag/jerry-billett/</cite>
Shouldn't be my title in the result instead tag ?
Title of the article is : Jerry Billett – The REAL Truth
Hope is clear now !
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I am still not clear really. So are you saying you are wondering why it is ranking for the page linked to a tag in your blog rather than to the actual article page itself? I couldn't find another untagged copy of this page if there is one.
Peter
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Hello Peter,
Please see the attachment,it might help. So my results for the specified keyword are for tag, not for title. All setup are done correct. I don't see where the problem is !
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Hi Matt
Sorry, but I am unclear about what question you are asking that you need help with. Please explain more.
Thanks,
Peter
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