Vadim, thanks, but article is mainly about crawl bandwidth concerns. My concern is not crawl bandwidth, but link juice flow.
Posts made by lcourse
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RE: Best solution for facets in ecommerce store for optimum link juice distribution?
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Best solution for facets in ecommerce store for optimum link juice distribution?
Now I have facets setup with ajax and ajax just adding parameter #facet1... at end of URL and I have setup canonical so that
domain.com/category/#facet1 refers to
domain.com/category/Would you make the facet links no-follow or better better not to add no-follow for better link juice distribution?
Would you hide the whole facet block from google and if so how?Any thoughts?
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Is there a list of most important international web directories ?
Would like to submit the different language versions of our site to some non-english web directories worth submitting to. Does anybody know about a good list as a starting point? To get an idea what may be the 3-5 most important web directories in different countries/languages.
Thanks
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RE: Shall I automatically redirect international visitors from www.domain.com to e.g. www.domain.com/es? What is best SEO practice?
Thanks.We believe in our case language versions in subdirectry over country specific TLDs is the better choice. My doubt is really just about how to best deal with international visits to www.domain.com.
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Shall I automatically redirect international visitors from www.domain.com to e.g. www.domain.com/es? What is best SEO practice?
We have chosen the one domain approach with our international site having different language versions in subdirectory of main domain:
www.domain.com/es
www.domain.com/it
etc.What is SEO-wise best practice for implementing international index pages. I see following options:
- entering www.domain.com will display without redirection the index page in language of user (e.g based on IP or browser) in www.domain.com
Example: www.booking.com - entering www.domain.com will always show English index page.
Additionally one may display a message in the header if IP from other country with link to other language version.
Example: www.apple.com - entering www.domain.com will always redirect automatically to country specific subdirectory based on IP
Example: www.samsung.com
Any thoughts/suggestions on what may be best solution from a SEO perspective? For a user I believe options 1) & 3) are preferable.
- entering www.domain.com will display without redirection the index page in language of user (e.g based on IP or browser) in www.domain.com
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RE: Migrating EMD to brand name domain. Risk of Penguin Penalty?
Marie, thanks a lot for clarifying.
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RE: Migrating EMD to brand name domain. Risk of Penguin Penalty?
To clarify, our link profile is very clean, but naturally people used the keyword from the domain name and the domain name to link to us.
It really comes down to the question:
How will google penguin value anchor text to the old domain and will 301 to new domain increase the risk of a penguin penalty.Anybody with experience of migrating an EMD? Anybody experiencing Penguin shortly afterwards?
Certainly would be useful to consult with someone specialized in penguin recoveries who has dealt with a very large volume of penguin cases and learn about their impression of this risk.
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RE: Migrating EMD to brand name domain. Risk of Penguin Penalty?
Thanks Bradley.
Yes we plan page level 301 redirects from old to new domain and will follow best practices for domain migration.
I am afraid changing anchor text clean up of EMD may have only limited success in our case since many links are very old and some sites may not be maintained anymore. However targeting especially the 5% links with keyword as anchor text may be good idea to try.
Having to disassociate the old domain and losing 10 years effort of clean link building would probably mean that we would need to close down the company as our segment is too competitive to get a new domain quickly up in the rankings. So therefore I really want to understand the associated penguin risk as well as possible.
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Migrating EMD to brand name domain. Risk of Penguin Penalty?
We would like to migrate from an EMD to a brand name domain, since our service offer has become much broader than indicated by the current EMD. The current domain name is a money keyword.
Do you believe there is a big risk of suffering a penguin penalty if we go ahead with the domain migration, due to large share of anchor texts containing keyword of old domain name?
Quick facts about our site:
-about 500.000 pages indexed by google- PR6
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10 years old
- 1200 linking root domains
- 30% of linking root domains contain our domain name with domain ending as anchor text
- 5% of linking root domains have just the domain keyword as anchor text
Any thoughts?
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RE: Can I filter the results of an user comparison by language/country?
Also another program would be ok! It's just important to perform a comparison first. Any suggestions?
Many thanks!
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Can I filter the results of an user comparison by language/country?
Is it possible to filter the follower list after comparing the followers of 2 twitter accounts? E.g comparing Twitter acc. A and B, select followers of both, receive follower list --> no language/country filter available.
Any chance?
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Noindex or canonical tag for products which have no unique product description?
I have several ecommerce sites in the same niche and there are a high number of products shared among these sites. I understand that having unique product descriptions for each site may be ideal, but for several reasons this is not an option for the short term. Sales-wise it would be useful to continue products on several sites at the same time. Also it would not be a problem if only the product pages of our main store would show up in the google index.
I thought about adding noindex xrobots tag to avoid that product pages are indexed in more than one store to avoid issues with duplicated or thin content or would you implement canonical tag here?
What would you suggest?
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RE: Best practice for footer in ecommerce - Shall I add Top Category links?
thanks for the feedback. Will stick to few dynamic footer category links and test it.
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Best practice for footer in ecommerce - Shall I add Top Category links?
What would you recommend regarding links to "Top Products" and "Top Categories" in footer?
- Would you add them to give extra link juice to top categories?
- would you try to avoid category links in footer that are already in the header navigationor in the main content area to avoid linking twice from all pages?
- would you vary these top category links in footer according to main category
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Will changing order of bullet points in product descriptions add some uniqueness?
We write our own unique product descriptions and have a unique product video for each color variation and multiple unique product images and display seperate user reviews per color variation.
We prefer to have seperate product pages for each color variation for several reasons (targeting color searches and user experience seeing all color variations when browsing category pages).
Product descriptions of color variations are quite similar.
I was thinking about spinning dynamically order how bullet points of product descriptions are presented to add some more uniqueness.I am not expecting a massive impact, but do you think this increases a bit googles perception of page uniqueness?
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Ideal product descriptions. What instructions to give to copywriter?
I plan to hire a copywriter to write high quality unique product descriptions for luxury products in one of our ecommerce sites.
Apart from being well written and unique, any suggestions on what specifications to give to copywriter?
E.g. length of text per product, obviously no keyword stuffing, but any instructions regarding keywords? Any good posts or specifications you can refer me to on the topic?thanks
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How to implement products in facebook to generate maximum traffic to site and facebook profile page?
Lets take the example of a hotel reservation site offering 500 hotels.
Any suggestions on how to present the 500 hotels within their facebook page so that they generate maximum traffic and interaction? No intention to offer checkout on facebook.
E.g. adding image of each hotel in the photo album with link to website and some information about hotel.
Any ideas? Any good posts or articles on the topic?
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RE: 1 Ecommerce site for several product segments or 1 Ecommerce site for each product segment ?
Thanks a lot everybody for your input.
In order to make the decision it would be great to learn more on how google determines the topic of an ecommerce site. Many of these potential factors should be relatively easy to test, by watching ranking changes after additions of new product segments to a site. Did you ever see any article/post on the topic or did you notice yourself drops of rankings after adding a limited number of new product segments to a site?
Main factors could be:
- related keywords on index page/title
- percentage of products with related keywords
- percentage of links from external topical related sites
Anything else?
By considering these, I could increase likelyhood that google considers my site relevant for all 3 segments.
So maybe by offering just a limited number of 3 different product segments, disadvantage for ranking on keywords may not be so significant compared to single topic site.
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1 Ecommerce site for several product segments or 1 Ecommerce site for each product segment ?
I am currently struggling with the decision whether to create individual ecommerce sites for each of 3 consumer product segments or rather to integrate them all under one umbrella domain.
Obviously integration under 1 domain makes link building easier, but I am not sure how far google will favor in rankings websites focussed on one topic=product segment.
Product segments are medium competitive.Product segments are not directly related but there may be some overlap in customer demographics-
Any thoughts ?
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Is using dots in URL path really a problem?
we have a couple of pages displaying a dot in the URL path like
domain.com/mr.smith/widget-mr.smith
It displays fine in chrome, firefox and IE and for the user it may actually look better than replacing it by _ or -.
Did this ever cause problems to anybody?
Any statement from google about it?
Should I change existing URLs?If so, which other characters can I use in the URL instead of underscore and dash, since in our system dash and underscore are already used for rewriting other characters.
Thanks
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RE: Is having duplicated content on different domains a problem when using alternate tag, but no canonical?
Gianluca,
thanks again.
yes I meant rel="alternate" hreflang.regarding canonical so if I understood well what you are suggesting is that canonicals should point to same page on same domain and should not point to pages on other domains
domain.com/pt should have canonical to domain.com/pt
domain.com.br should have canonical to domain.com.br
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RE: Can you recommend a tool to identify contact email for list of 1000 domains?
thanks: I tried it. Buzzstream identified about 25% contact emails of the list.
In the end I did not find a way to export the email adresses out of buzzstream. I contacted support but now after 1 week no repsonse.
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RE: Can you recommend a tool to identify contact email for list of 1000 domains?
Mark,
thanks. I tried seogadget.co.uk, good for lower numbers of websites.
It identified contact emails for about 20% of the sites I tested. You can test a max. of 200 websites at a time.
on the upside it is free.Still will be searching for other tools (even if paid).
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RE: Should I noindex the site search page? It is generating 4% of my organic traffic.
Mike, Everett,
thanks a lot. Will go ahead and noindex.Our navigation path is easy to crawl.
So I add noindex, nofollow in meta or xrobots tag?We have thousands of site search pages already in the google index, so I understand x rotobs or meta tag are preferred to using robots.txt right?
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Should I noindex the site search page? It is generating 4% of my organic traffic.
I read about some recommendations to noindex the URL of the site search.
Checked in analytics that site search URL generated about 4% of my total organic search traffic (<2% of sales).My reasoning is that site search may generate duplicated content issues and may prevent the more relevant product or category pages from showing up instead.
Would you noindex this page or not?
Any thoughts?
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RE: Can you recommend a tool to identify contact email for list of 1000 domains?
Keri,
perfectly understand your concern.
in this case all domains are from an updated industry directory with a very specific niche of businesses.Our email is highly relevant to each of these businesses and we actually neither ask for a link nor plan to sell them anything. -
Can you recommend a tool to identify contact email for list of 1000 domains?
We researched a list of about 1000 domains, which are all in one industry segment.
Any tool you can recommend to identify corresponding contact emails, based on domain whois or email on website or in contact page?
what is your experience with sending emails just to info@DOMAIN_NAME ?
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RE: Adding video snippet caused drop of star rating snippet in google SERP. Any solution to show both?
thanks. On first sight could not find any other reason for disappearance in rankings, but will have a second look.
Relevance of aggregate review on category is not so black or white.
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RE: Adding video snippet caused drop of star rating snippet in google SERP. Any solution to show both?
Excellent advice. Will do as you suggest.
Thanks a lot Phil.You mentioned category pages. It'is something giving me extreme headaches at the moment.
On one of my e-commerce sites I used aggregated review markup on the category pages and some months later they stopped ranking in google. Did you hear about any case where google penalized because of category page review markup? I am not sure whether this was the reason? -
RE: Need to shorten and change site-wide meta titles (50.000 pages). OK to do all at once?
thanks Tim.
started launch of new shortened optimized titles today for most important pages. -
RE: Need to shorten and change site-wide meta titles (50.000 pages). OK to do all at once?
Takeshi, thanks.
How long would you wait and monitor ranking changes before to roll out sitewide after first test?
Not sure whether keeping changes to minimum will reduce risk (so mainly shortening without much other improvement/changes)?
Titles are all unique.
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RE: Adding video snippet caused drop of star rating snippet in google SERP. Any solution to show both?
just tested it in rich snippet tool and only the star ratings show up.
As video snippet also requires video sitemap, I am not sure whether rich snippet tool is actually able to preview video snippets.
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Need to shorten and change site-wide meta titles (50.000 pages). OK to do all at once?
Just noticed that google completely screws up our meta titles in the SERPs. Google decided to show titles which are not understandable to visitors and worst of all even shows titles in different languages than the actual page. The words of the displayedf titles are nowhere on the page (actually they are parts of old title tags that we stopped using 6 months ago and that we used on different pages). Pages are crawled weekly.
All our meta titles are a bit longer than the 70 character limit, so I plan to rephrase and shorten them so that they are all max. 66 characters. Dynamically we choose different variations of title texts based on character length of keywords.
Having titles that fit into SERPs without cutting are supposed to have less probability to be changed by google.
I heard some people reporting loss of rankings after site-wide meta title changes. Especially since we changed title tags sitewide already about 6 months ago I am a bit concerned.
How would you proceed? Just do the site-wide change all at once?
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Adding video snippet caused drop of star rating snippet in google SERP. Any solution to show both?
We are using on our product pages review schema markup which showed up well in google SERP. Now we added schema video markup as well and google shows in SERP now only the video snippet, but not the review snippet anymore.
Any idea whether there may be a solution to show both video and review snippets?
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RE: Title tags with >70 characters but most important words at start. Is this really a problem?
thanks everybody for the feedback.
I actually also stumbled upon an excellent whiteboard friday from Cyrus related to the topic (also excellent comments at the bottom of the post)
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/title-tags-is-70-characters-the-best-practice-whiteboard-friday
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RE: Changing meta title dynamically e.g. with number of reviews in title. Is this a problem?
Moosa, Martjin thanks a lot for your feedback.
So I will give it a try.
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Changing meta title dynamically e.g. with number of reviews in title. Is this a problem?
I would like to put the number of reviews in the meta title of a product page.
I noticed that tripadvisor for example does the same. However I read in some places that people encountered problems with frequent title tag changes.
Did you ever encounter problems by just changing numbers in title tag?
Do you think it is really a problem if just the number of the reviews changes?what about putting number of reviews in the meta description instead?
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RE: Title tags with >70 characters but most important words at start. Is this really a problem?
thanks Tim, thanks eyepaq
The point with the dilution is very interesting
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Title tags with >70 characters but most important words at start. Is this really a problem?
Is there in fact any kind of negative impact having title tags longer than 70 characters, as long as I place the most important keywords at the start and make sure that title still is compelling when cut somewhere around 70 characters?
Are the additional words after the 70 characters limit just ignored? May additional words dillute the strength of the first words or may they even be helpful ?
Any experience or any studies you know about impact of longer title tags? Or any statement from google about it?
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Using AggregateReview markup to generate star sinppets for wordpress blog posts? OK or Spam?
Do you believe using a plugin that allows visitors to rate your blog posts and then generating AggregateReview markup code for each blog post is in accordance with google guidelines?
I saw there are a couple of wordpress plugins that offer this functionality.
Anybody who had any negative experience?
Star icons will certainly increase visibility in SERP.
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Ever had a case where publication of products & descriptions in ebay or amazon caused Panda penalty?
One of our shops got a Panda penalty back in september.
We sell all our items with same product name and same product description also on amazon.com , amazon.co.uk, ebay.com and ebay.co.uk.
Did you ever have a case where such multichannel sales caused panda penalty?
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RE: What time to expect until onpage change is reflected in google ranking?
Stephen, Kevin, thanks a lot for your comments.
So basically change in ranking should be happening mostly immediately after google crawl without any further delay?
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What time to expect until onpage change is reflected in google ranking?
Most pages on our site are crawled by google about once per week.
We plan to implement a new navigation structure with much more interlinks among our pages. I would like to test it first just for a few pages to measure impact. How long may it take approximately until an onpage change related to link structure is reflected in google rankings?
Any experience?
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Is having duplicated content on different domains a problem when using alternate tag, but no canonical?
We will be launching a couple of new language versions.
I understand that ccTLD is mostly considered as best option, however I thought that to start with it might be better to launch the new language version first on a subdirectory of our established domain with strong backlink profile as it may rank much better until I can attract some strong links to new ccTLD.
I would wait for the pages of new language versions to be indexed on the main domain and then after a month launch the same content paralell on the ccTLD setting up an alternate tag in the main domain pointing to the ccTLD. I would not setup any canonical tag. As I understand google would rank whatever of the 2 versions ranks higher.
Should not cause duplicated content issues right?
Any thoughts?EDIT:
For clarification. The language we are launching are mostly spoken in several countries. E.g. for Portuguese I would add in main domain an altnernate tag for Brazilian visitors to Brazilian ccTLD, but no alternate tag for Portuguese visitors. For Corean I would add in main domain an alternate tag for visitors in south corea, but not one for visitors in north corea. -
RE: Stopped ranking. Suspect links with keyword in blog posts and blog username. What to do? Disvow?
thanks Kyle.
looking more closely. traffic drop for keyword happened at a date coinciding with a panda update.
In this case you would not make any effort to remove the blog links preventively in order that this may not trigger any future penguin update?
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Stopped ranking. Suspect links with keyword in blog posts and blog username. What to do? Disvow?
One of our staff thought it was a good idea to comment in 30 blogs in our niche using "keyword" as username in blog post linked to our website and additionally adding links to our website in the posts.
We now got caught by panda or penguin (google confirmed no manual penalty was taken) and not ranking anymore for this keyword. No notification in webmaster tools neither.
We have links from around 90 root domains of which 30 are from these blog posts. What would you suggest to do?
Just building more legitimate links so that share of bad links goes down?
Using google disvow tool? We would then loose potential to get later legitimate links from these sites?Any ideas/suggestions?
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RE: Outreach to bloggers for product reviews. All at once or stretched over time?
thanks.
excellent idea to combine it with press release.
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Outreach to bloggers for product reviews. All at once or stretched over time?
We have identified about 150 bloggers in our niche worldwide and want to send them a free product sample for a review on their blog. From former similar promotion we know that actually the vast majority will accept.
Would you send the proposal at once to all bloggers or just contact lets say 5 per week over 6 months?
Do you think it is better to vary the products to be reviewed instead of sending all the exact same product model?
Not sure how bloggers will like it if they notice that we made the same proposal to every blogger and that on all blogs in our niche about the same time suddenly reviews of same products appear?
Any thoughts?
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RE: How to identify 404 that get links from external sites (but not search engines)?
Hi Robert,
thanks a lot. So I will not take action to get 404s out of google index.
Regarding your first point, I am not sure I understand how screaming frog would help. I did not use screaming frog yet but link sleuth for status code checks. The status check of 404 in google webmaster tools will probably generally also give 404 status in screaming frog. My objective is to identify among these thousands of 404, the few which are caused by inaccurate or outdated links on external websites so that I can create a 301 for these.
Best,
Daniel
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How to identify 404 that get links from external sites (but not search engines)?
one of our site had a poor site architecture causing now about 10.000s of 404 being currently reported in google webmaster tools.
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Any idea about easily detecting among these thousands of 404, which ones are coming from links from external websites (so filtering out 404 caused by links from our own domain and 404 from search engines)?
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crawl bandwidth seems to be an issue on this domain. Anything that can be done to accelerate google removing these 404 pages from their index? Due to number of 404 manual submission in google wbt one by one is not an option.
Or do you believe that google automatically will stop crawling these 404 pages within a month or so and no action needs to be taken?
thanks
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