Latest posts made by Daylan
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RE: What is an acceptable bounce rate?
Depends on the purpose of the page too.
EG: If your call to action of a page is to call a phone number, then a high bounce rate is acceptable due to the purpose being met.
Bounce rate is a great metric to measure improvements and calls to action. Try and get it lower by all means, but there's no silver bullet with bounce rate or magic number.
As David mentioned, a bounce could mean elimination of an unqualified lead, either way it's quality over quantity in most cases.
Good luck.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Robots.txt and canonical tag
Thats correct in most cases:
It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.
Robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.
More information available here about:
http://www.robotstxt.org/
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: Landing Pages: New Domain or Sub Folder?
As John mentioned page rank will be minimal and new domains won't have much domain rank either (likely a lot less than your main established domain) if you're wanting them for organic search purposes.
Unless you're wanting to keep building upon the domain and establish them as more than 'one off' landing pages (link building etc) then using them over your main domain wont do you much good short term or long.
posted in On-Page Optimization
Best posts made by Daylan
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RE: What is an acceptable bounce rate?
Depends on the purpose of the page too.
EG: If your call to action of a page is to call a phone number, then a high bounce rate is acceptable due to the purpose being met.
Bounce rate is a great metric to measure improvements and calls to action. Try and get it lower by all means, but there's no silver bullet with bounce rate or magic number.
As David mentioned, a bounce could mean elimination of an unqualified lead, either way it's quality over quantity in most cases.
Good luck.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Robots.txt and canonical tag
Thats correct in most cases:
It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.
Robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.
More information available here about:
http://www.robotstxt.org/
posted in Technical SEO
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