In my opinion, I dont think it matters much. However, i do like my urls to have keyword placement in the same manner as they would be typed by users (so, basically keywords with more search volume or what you think people would be typing in)

To answer your question, I would ask what do you think people are going to type in Google for if they wanted any of these services? Will it be 'whitening treatment' or 'treatment whitening'?

As Logan said, its not going to make or break your SEO, I wouldnt be too worried about it but yes, when being in a situation like this, I would like to go with what I mentioned earlier.

In my opinion, you dont have to redirect if you have set the canonicals. Couple of things to keep in check (more best practice) with this approach -

1. All the internal links are lower case - just makes the website look cleaner by saving a lot of search engine bots time identifying the canonical urls. Less processing for search engine bots this way. Also, it will help with analytics tracking. If the internal links are uppercase then users will end up browsing upper case URLs. If lower case URLs are indexed and getting traffic but after reaching your website users start viewing upper case URLs too then it can cause your analytics data to be scattered between these two.

2. Monitor your organic results to see what URLs are indexed in SERPs. If the canonical tags are implemented well and search engines have crawled your website, your preferred URLs should show in organic SERPs.

you will have to redirect one URL to another in order to have them resolved the way you want.

If you have canonical tags implemented, then it wont redirect and resolve. The purpose of canonical tag is to let search engines know about your preferred URL. It doesnt redirect search engines or users to your preferred page.

Hope this makes sense.

• Malika

Hi Thomas,

would you have a simpler tutorial for me to understand? I am struggling a bit.

Thanks heaps in advance

I think I want something that is dumbed down to my level for me to understand. The above tutorials are great but not being a full time coder, I get lost while reading those.

Hi Matt,

I havent had a luck with this one yet.

Hi Thomas,

That's a lot of useful information there. I will have a go on it and let you know how it went.

Thanks heaps!

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for responding, much appreciated!

Does that mean, if I type in something like -

HTTP request user agent -

Crawler access V2

&

Robots user agent

Crawler access V2

This will work too?

Hi all,

Probably a dumb question, but I wanted to make sure I get this right.

How do we set a custom user agent in Screaming Frog? I know its in the configuration settings, but what do I have to do to create a custom user agent specifically for a website?

Thanks much!

• Malika

I am assuming that these pages don't hold any authority or backlinks at all. You can simply delete these pages (if the purposes of these pages has been solved.

Or if you still need these pages live, use Robots.txt file to make these pages (or the whole subdomain/directory they are sitting as disallowed, no-index)

Open Graph and Meta Titles act slightly different. Open Graph is for audience on social media such as Facebook and Meta Title information can be processed by search engine bots and display results in the organic listings on search engine page such as Google.

Meta title are usually crafted by keeping the keyword search volume, target market and user interest in mind. This help with the rankings on search engines like Google.

Open Graph are usually created to serve meta title that look 'appealing' to the users on social media (Facebook) so as to receive more clicks. There are no rankings involved here.

You can have meta titles and open graph titles as the same or different, it depends on what you are after.

In my opinion, I dont think it matters much. However, i do like my urls to have keyword placement in the same manner as they would be typed by users (so, basically keywords with more search volume or what you think people would be typing in)

To answer your question, I would ask what do you think people are going to type in Google for if they wanted any of these services? Will it be 'whitening treatment' or 'treatment whitening'?

As Logan said, its not going to make or break your SEO, I wouldnt be too worried about it but yes, when being in a situation like this, I would like to go with what I mentioned earlier.

Hi MOZers,

This probably is a dumb question but I have a case where the robots.tags has an image url blocked but this image is used on a page (lets call it Page A) which can be indexed. If the image on Page A has an Alt tags, then how is this information digested by crawlers?

A) would Google totally ignore the image and the ALT tags information? OR

B) Google would consider the ALT tags information?

I am asking this because all the images on the website are blocked by robots.txt at the moment but I would really like website crawlers to crawl the alt tags information. Chances are that I will ask the webmaster to allow indexing of images too but I would like to understand what's happening currently.

Looking forward to all your responses

Malika

I am assuming that these pages don't hold any authority or backlinks at all. You can simply delete these pages (if the purposes of these pages has been solved.

Or if you still need these pages live, use Robots.txt file to make these pages (or the whole subdomain/directory they are sitting as disallowed, no-index)

you will have to redirect one URL to another in order to have them resolved the way you want.

If you have canonical tags implemented, then it wont redirect and resolve. The purpose of canonical tag is to let search engines know about your preferred URL. It doesnt redirect search engines or users to your preferred page.

Hope this makes sense.

• Malika

Hi Thomas,

That's a lot of useful information there. I will have a go on it and let you know how it went.

Thanks heaps!