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  • khi5
    khi5 last edited by Apr 16, 2014, 9:50 PM

    I have a page where I want to upload 20 pictures that are in a slideshow. Idea is that pictures will only load when users scroll down the page (otherwise too heavy loading). I see documentation on how to make this work and ensure search engines index all content. However, I do not see any documentation how to make this work for 20 pictures in a slideshow. It seems impossible to get a search engines to index all such pictures, when it shows only as users scroll down a page. This is documentation I am already familiar with, and which does not address my issue:
    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/02/infinite-scroll-search-friendly.html http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload http://luis-almeida.github.io/unveil/

    thank you

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    • khi5
      khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by May 15, 2014, 3:50 AM May 15, 2014, 3:50 AM

      Hi Pete, I just wanted to confirm, based on what you wrote:
      "I don't think the picture- and video-heavy pages are going to rank all that well by themselves. It's just a question of whether those additional pages are diluting your MLS listing pages (by using similar regional keywords, etc.)."

      I did following:

      1. Deleted words "Home" and "Condo" from the title tag and H1 so the neighborhood name is still in title tag and H1, but no mention of home, condo, real estate etc.
      2. all written content has been moved from "guides" (where pictures and videos are) to lower part of MLS result pages and I imagine over a 1-2 month period the MLS result pages will get the SEO credit for this unique written content (despite no 301 redirect)
      3. I interlink from picture / video pages to MLS result pages with "neighborhood homes for sale"

      My hypothesis is that over the next few months as G gets a better idea of my website (as the site gets more popular - still only 5 months old) G will know what to rank for "neighborhood homes for sale" search terms.

      Makes sense?

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      • khi5
        khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by May 1, 2014, 9:11 PM May 1, 2014, 9:11 PM

        Thats right. Zero search value. Maybe I can simply change Title tag, H1 etc. Get rid of keyword (ex "Honolulu") a d instead call ("Gallery 1"). In this way I can keep structure without diluting ranking potential for MLS result pages?

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        • Dr-Pete
          Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by May 1, 2014, 9:09 PM May 1, 2014, 9:09 PM

          I generally wouldn't NOINDEX something that's part of your navigation structure, unless it's a deep layer (and you want to cut off anything "below" it). If you're concerned that they don't have search value, I'd consider consolidating somehow, which I thought was the general plan from the original question. I just don't know that you need all of the content or to get too complicated with the consolidation.

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          • khi5
            khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by May 1, 2014, 9:06 PM May 1, 2014, 9:06 PM

            Interesting, thx. Can I do following: Add "noindex, follow" to those guide pages? In this way they wont compete w MLS result pages, which they currently do. Issue is all that geeat unique picture and video content wont be indexed by Google.....maybe not a big issue?

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            • Dr-Pete
              Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by May 1, 2014, 9:06 PM May 1, 2014, 8:31 PM

              Yeah, I don't think the picture- and video-heavy pages are going to rank all that well by themselves. It's just a question of whether those additional pages are diluting your MLS listing pages (by using similar regional keywords, etc.).

              At the scale of a large site, it's hard to tell without understanding the data, including where your traffic is coming from. If it's producing value (traffic, links, etc.), great. If not, then you may want to revisit whether those pages are worth having and/or can be combined somehow. I don't think "combined" means everything on both pages gets put onto one mega-page - you could pick and choose at that point.

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              • khi5
                khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by Apr 29, 2014, 6:36 PM Apr 29, 2014, 6:36 PM

                thx, Pete. Guides are more for users who are curious about pictures and videos - not something I care about ranking for. Ex: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/waikiki-condos-real-estate/

                MLS result pages is my life and I moved a lot of written content to MLS result pages to add unique content. Ex: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu/metro/waikiki-condos/ (you will see unique content below map and thumb MLS pictures).

                I feel this layout is ideal long-term. I link from guide (as you can see above) to the corresponding MLS result page. Hope this makes sense

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                • Dr-Pete
                  Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by Apr 29, 2014, 6:31 PM Apr 29, 2014, 6:31 PM

                  That depends on a lot of factors. Consolidating those to one page has advantages, SEO-wise, but you're losing the benefits of the photo page. I lean toward consolidation, but it really depends on how the pages are structured in the navigation, what sort of content and meta-data they have, etc. I'm not clear on what's left on Page A currently, but the biggest issue is probably dilution from the extra pages. Since there are "guide" pages, though, I'm not sure how they fit your site architecture. To remove 200 of them, you may need to also rethink your internal link structure.

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                  • khi5
                    khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by Apr 29, 2014, 5:23 PM Apr 29, 2014, 5:23 PM

                    thx a lot. "Viewing it as manipulative" - it makes sense. I will certainly refrain from doing so.

                    I keep saying last question, but this should be: moving some written content from Page A to Page B (yet keeping Page A, just less content remaining on Page A) is OK and will after a while be viewing as Page B's original content and Page B will get the SEO credit. This is done without a 301 re-direct, since Page A is still a page with pictures that are original and unique and I want Google to index all those pictures. Just that a bunch of unique written content was moved from Page A to Page B. I have moved written content from about 200 different guide type pages to 200 MLS result pages, as it makes more sense to have it there. Would it be safer to include the 301 re-direct and simply lose the picture indexing to play it safe?

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                    • Dr-Pete
                      Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by Apr 29, 2014, 5:18 PM Apr 29, 2014, 5:12 PM

                      That's a trick that used to occasionally work, but there's no evidence for it in the past couple of years. Google has gotten pretty good at understand how pages are rendered and is no longer completely dependent on source-code order. In some cases, they may even view it as manipulative.

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                      • khi5
                        khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by Apr 29, 2014, 11:14 AM Apr 29, 2014, 11:14 AM

                        thx. 1 last slight different, but related question: What is your view in placing written content above other content in source code, but on webpage written content displays below other content? In my case: MLS thumb pictures and descriptions (same as other realtors' websites) show on top of page and as users scroll down they see a lot of written unique original content I have. Search engines like written content higher on page, so would it be a good idea to place written content above the MLS data in the source code, though on webpage it will still display below MLS data.

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                        • Dr-Pete
                          Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by Apr 28, 2014, 2:03 PM Apr 28, 2014, 2:03 PM

                          I don't think the risk of harm, done right, is high, but: (1) it's easy to do wrong, and (2) I suspect the benefits are small at best. I think your time/money is better spent elsewhere.

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                          • khi5
                            khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by Apr 24, 2014, 4:40 PM Apr 24, 2014, 4:40 PM

                            thank you very much. The idea was to move a lot of great pictures from a "gallery" to a page I want to rank for. Gallery page serves no purpose but for users to see beautiful pictures and obviously for Google to index a lot of unique pictures. I guess I will leave the gallery as is and simply from the gallery inter-link to the important page.

                            Implementation on your suggestion can be done (my web developers have already completed, just not implemented), however, it sounds to me, if I read between the lines correctly, that there is a risk Google may screw up on interpretation of such implementation and this could potentially even hurt my site with duplicate content issues…….

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                            • Dr-Pete
                              Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by Apr 24, 2014, 4:34 PM Apr 24, 2014, 2:42 PM

                              By assigning a URL to each virtual "page", you allow Google to crawl the images, done correctly. What Google is suggesting is that you then set up rel=prev/next between those pages. This tells them to treat all of the image URLs as a paginated series (like a mutli-page article or search results).

                              My enterprise SEO friends have mixed feelings about rel=prev/next. The evidence of it's effectiveness is limited, but what it's supposed to do is allowing the individual pages (images, in this case) to rank while not looking like duplicate or near-duplicate content. The other options would be to rel=canonical these virtual pages, but then you'd essentially take the additional images out of ranking contention.

                              This infinite scroll + pagination approach is VERY technical and the implementation is well beyond Q&A's scope (it would take fairly in-depth knowledge of your site). Honestly, my gut reaction is that the time spent wouldn't be worth the gain. Most users won't know to scroll, and having 10-20 pictures vs. just a few may not add that much value. The SEO impact would be relatively small, I suspect. I think there may be easier solutions that would achieve 90% of your goals with a lot less complexity.

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                              • khi5
                                khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by Apr 24, 2014, 5:11 AM Apr 24, 2014, 5:11 AM

                                Hi Pete,
                                There is no mechanisim that will allow a) Lots of different pictures in a slideshow only to load when users scroll to a certain part of a part yet not slowing page speed and all pictures being indexed by Google. If you can show me 1 example on the Internet that has a solution to this, I would love to see it.

                                This is what is possible to create (not my website, just an example): http://diveintohtml5.info/examples/history/brandy.html - I can implement such picture slideshow - which loads when users scroll down on my page - and then notice how the URL will change for each picture (as you change picture), but rest of the content on the page will stay the same. Now, the big questions go:

                                1. Will the main (important) URL get the SEO credit for all these other URL's where each picture is located?
                                2. Since each picture is on a different URL, each URL will get SEO credit separately and main URL will gain nothing from these pictures from an SEO perspective
                                3. Since written content is EXACTLY the same across each of these picture URL's it will look like duplicate content and it would be good to use a canonical to make sure main URL gets all SEO credit.
                                4. How would you place 20 unique copyrighted pictures on a URL and make sure that URL gets the SEO credit, keeping in mind the pictures can ONLY load after users scroll to a certain point on the page, as the page will otherwise load too slowly.

                                Highly appreciate your thoughts on this, since experts say there is a solution, but I am yet to seeing 1 concrete piece of evidence.

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                                • Dr-Pete
                                  Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by Apr 22, 2014, 6:23 PM Apr 22, 2014, 6:23 PM

                                  There should be no real difference, in terms of Google's infinite scroll solution. If you can chunk the content into pages with corresponding URLs, you can put any source code on those pages - text and/or images, along with corresponding alt text, etc. Once you've got one solution implemented, it should work for any kind of HTML. Not sure why images would be different in this case.

                                  There are also ways to create photo galleries that can be crawled, mostly using AJAX. It's complex, but here's one example/discussion:

                                  http://www.cometton.com/thoughts/optimized-photo-galleries/

                                  khi5 1 Reply Last reply Apr 24, 2014, 5:11 AM Reply Quote 1
                                  • khi5
                                    khi5 @khi5 last edited by Apr 22, 2014, 3:32 AM Apr 22, 2014, 3:32 AM

                                    CORRECTION: URL 1 and URL 2 are the opposite of what I described. In other words, I want to move pictures from 1) to 2). I already moved written content from 1) to 2).

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                                    • khi5
                                      khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by Apr 22, 2014, 3:30 AM Apr 22, 2014, 3:30 AM

                                      On this URL 1) http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu-city-real-estate/ - you will see written content at lower part of the page. This written content was originally on this URL 2) http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu-homes/. I moved it because the URL 1) is the page I want to rank for and 2) served more as a guide. I want to move the pictures from 2) as well to 1) and then add a 301 redirect. However, this is NOT possible, because if I place pictures on 1) where users only see it after scrolling down to a certain place on the URL, Google is not able to index all those pictures. Only way to index those pictures is having them load when users land on the page, which would slow down the page and be a terrible user experience.

                                      I am told there is a solution to get these pictures indexed, but so far no one has been able to present a concrete solution.

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                                      • khi5
                                        khi5 @Dr-Pete last edited by Apr 22, 2014, 12:04 AM Apr 22, 2014, 12:04 AM

                                        thank you, Pete.

                                        1. All images are my own and unique (ex: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu-city-real-estate/)
                                        2. Infinite scrolling is what I am to use, otherwise loading will be too slow. Issue: When user scrolls and the pictures load, how do I set it so those images are indexed by Google? For written content it is easy to get the content indexed by Google with infinite scrolling. However, with images there seems to be no solution. In other words: if a URL has 10 images that only show after users scroll down to lower part of a given page, then those 10 images will not be indexed by Google and the page will not get the SEO credit. Any solution to this? These sources deals with the infinite scrolling and indexing issues, but does not apply to images:

                                        http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/02/infinite-scroll-search-friendly.html http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload http://luis-almeida.github.io/unveil/

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                                        • Dr-Pete
                                          Dr-Pete Staff @khi5 last edited by Apr 21, 2014, 5:51 PM Apr 21, 2014, 5:51 PM

                                          Keep in mind that just adding 20 images/videos to this page isn't going to automatically increase the quality. Images have limited Google can crawl, and unless they're unique images that you own, they'll potentially be duplicated across the web. If adding those 20 images slows down the page a lot, that could actually harm your SEO and usability.

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                                          • Dr-Pete
                                            Dr-Pete Staff last edited by Apr 21, 2014, 5:50 PM Apr 21, 2014, 5:50 PM

                                            Unfortunately, it depends entirely on your implementation, but the short answer is that it depends if the images are loaded all at once and only displayed by scrolling or if they're loaded as you scroll. The latter is essentially what "infinite scrolling is" - it's generally not actually infinite, but scrolling will cause load events until there's nothing left to load.

                                            The key is that the content has to be crawlable somehow and can't only be triggered by the event, or Google won't see it. So, if you're going to load as you go, the infinite scrolling posts should apply. If the images are pre-loaded, then you shouldn't have a problem, but I'd have to understand the implementation better.

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                                            • khi5
                                              khi5 @Travis_Bailey last edited by Apr 17, 2014, 4:16 AM Apr 17, 2014, 4:16 AM

                                              I missed your point here. The page does not naturally suit for infinite scrolling in your opinion?

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                                              • Travis_Bailey
                                                Travis_Bailey last edited by Apr 17, 2014, 4:13 AM Apr 17, 2014, 4:13 AM

                                                It's not an infinitely scrolling website. I'm going to drown myself now.

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                                                • khi5
                                                  khi5 @Travis_Bailey last edited by Apr 17, 2014, 3:16 AM Apr 17, 2014, 3:16 AM

                                                  Travis: slight different, but related question: The written content you see at lower part of the URL I want to rank for, used to be on the other URL and I recently moved the content (no 301 redirect since I still have the pictures and video on the other URL). Will Google over time accept the unique content on the URL I want to rank for and credit that URL fully, OR will google notice the content originally was on the not important URL initially and therefore I risk the URL that now has the content will not get any credit for the content?

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                                                  • khi5
                                                    khi5 @Travis_Bailey last edited by Apr 17, 2014, 3:14 AM Apr 17, 2014, 3:14 AM

                                                    thx, Travis. The idea is not about being fancy: I do not want infinite scrolling. It comes down to me wanting to move a lot of great pictures and a video to this page that I want to rank for: 
                                                    http://www.honoluluhi5.com/oahu/honolulu/metro/waikiki-condos/
                                                    …and here are the pictures and video: http://www.honoluluhi5.com/waikiki-condos-real-estate/

                                                    The ladder page means nothing to me, except being nice pictures and video for the user. However, if I placed it under the written content on the 1st URL that would add extra "juice" of quality content to that page and I would long-term rank that much better. However, those pictures would tremendously slow loading and that is the issue……

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                                                    • Travis_Bailey
                                                      Travis_Bailey last edited by Apr 17, 2014, 2:49 AM Apr 17, 2014, 2:49 AM

                                                      I would say don't use infinite scrolling, not yet. A designer doesn't understand. They want everything to be fancy. Google isn't terribly ready for fancy yet.

                                                      At this point, I think infinite scroll is a horrible thing that needs to be shot in the face.

                                                      "Hey guys, let's load the entire site - all of the bells and whistles at once!"

                                                      That can be really mess with page load speed. So what about time to first byte? It doesn't matter if the first byte appears at the speed of light, if you're loading 450 MB.

                                                      If the Webmaster Central Blog didn't answer your question, you're pretty well on your own.

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                                                        We have three Directory Listing pages that are being indexed by Google: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/jsp/ http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/jsp/html/ http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/jsp/pdf/ How and why is Googlebot crawling and indexing these pages? Nothing else links to them (although the /jsp.html/ and /jsp/pdf/ both link back to /jsp/). They aren't disallowed in our robots.txt file and I understand that this could be why. If we add them to our robots.txt file and disallow, will this prevent Googlebot from crawling and indexing those Directory Listing pages without prohibiting them from crawling and indexing the content that resides there which is used to populate pages on our site? Having these pages indexed in Google is causing a myriad of issues, not the least of which is duplicate content. For example, this file <tt>CCI-SALES-STAFF.HTML</tt> (which appears on this Directory Listing referenced above - http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/jsp/html/) clicks through to this Web page: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/jsp/html/CCI-SALES-STAFF.HTML This page is indexed in Google and we don't want it to be. But so is the actual page where we intended the content contained in that file to display: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/meet-our-sales-staff As you can see, this results in duplicate content problems. Is there a way to disallow Googlebot from crawling that Directory Listing page, and, provided that we have this URL in our sitemap: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/meet-our-sales-staff, solve the duplicate content issue as a result? For example: Disallow: /StoreFront/jsp/ Disallow: /StoreFront/jsp/html/ Disallow: /StoreFront/jsp/pdf/ Can we do this without risking blocking Googlebot from content we do want crawled and indexed? Many thanks in advance for any and all help on this one!

                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Sep 13, 2013, 6:49 PM | danatanseo
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                                                      • webestate

                                                        Yoast SEO Plugin: To Index or Not to index Categories?

                                                        Taking a poll out there......In most cases would you want to index or NOT index your category pages using the Yoast SEO plugin?

                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Feb 22, 2013, 5:52 PM | webestate
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                                                      • Martin_S

                                                        How do you de-index and prevent indexation of a whole domain?

                                                        I have parts of an online portal displaying in SERPs which it definitely shouldn't be. It's due to thoughtless developers but I need to have the whole portal's domain de-indexed and prevented from future indexing. I'm not too tech savvy but how is this achieved? No index? Robots? thanks

                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Feb 13, 2013, 8:53 AM | Martin_S
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                                                      • TauriU

                                                        Google is indexing wordpress attachment pages

                                                        Hey, I have a bit of a problem/issue what is freaking me out a bit. I hope you can help me. If i do site:www.somesitename.com search in Google i see that Google is indexing my attachment pages. I want to redirect attachment URL's to parent post and stop google from indexing them. I have used different redirect plugins in hope that i can fix it myself but plugins don't work. I get a error:"too many redirects occurred trying to open www.somesitename.com/?attachment_id=1982 ". Do i need to change something in my attachment.php fail? Any idea what is causing this problem? get_header(); ?> /* Run the loop to output the attachment. * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file * called loop-attachment.php and that will be used instead. */ get_template_part( 'loop', 'attachment' ); ?>

                                                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | May 14, 2013, 1:32 PM | TauriU
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