“Professional Service Provider”

No, but I agree to the fact that handing over your code to someone who may or may not know about SEO and SEO friendly codes is simply the worst idea ever. I think SEOs and content producer (in your example) have to learn at least that much of a code that they can fix their things by themselves instead of handing over it to someone who might make things worse for you!

Just a thought!

Longtime back Wil Reynolds discuss in one of his presentation that .EDU domains are same as any other normal domains. The reason why they become so important is that most people and reputable website easily link to .EDU or .GOV websites, which make themselves reputable with time.

But, at its core, saying that just because one domain s .EDU it will be respectable automatically, is not true.

So no matter if the URL contain .EDU extension or not, you should look into their link profile and see if the link profile is clean and valuable, you should consider getting a link from them like you would have done for .EDU website.

Just a thought!

I believe this is what you are looking for:

http://www.wpexplorer.com/delete-wordpress-admin/

If you have a developer inhouse, I am sure they will be able to do that easily.

totally agree with EGOL.

Also, if you are an ecommerce company where products go out of stock for some time and then comes back, why 301 redirect at the first place. My idea is to add pre-booking option or may be a subscribe button for a user so that they can subscribe to get a notification when the product will be back in stock.

Btw, this will also increase your email marketing list that you can use in multiple ways. #justathought!

From descriptions, if you are talking about Meta descriptions, than I would second the advice given by Rebeeca. Meta description does have a value when it comes to increasing CRT for your website but from the SEO standpoint, I don’t see it as a major ranking factor.

Again, as it plays an important role in increase CTR, I will never recommend you copying or writing low quality descriptions. So, idea is to go slow but go quality so that you can win more potential users to click on your website.

From the SEO prospective, I am dead sure that there is low to no ranking benefits with well-crafted meta descriptions.

Just a thought!

I personally think this is not really a big problem. The problem arrives what your page is accessible via both http and https.

Plus, the ranking plus for https is so minor that you might not even notice every time.

Just a thought!

There are always pros and cons for it!

Pros are that you will get a chance to target certain type of audience on one particular website. This means you will be able to create more targeted content around the specific type of audience instead of writing web copy keeping multiple audiences in mind.

You can easily target more powerful keywords that tar related to specific niche which is otherwise difficult on a website that convers multiple niches.

As the websites will be more targeted, it will be easier for you to complete within search engine from competitors and rank on the first page for targeted key phrases.

Cons have a list too! It’s not easy to come up with multiple sites as multiple sites means more and more content specific for every niche which can shoot your initial expense like anything.

Multiple websites means multiple SEO campaigns this can again put a huge dent on your initial marketing budget. If there will be one website, there will be one SEO campaign which can lead you towards the conversion in the longer run.

If it’s a local business, you cannot add multiple websites for one business page (I guess) and you cannot create multiple business pages as probably your physical location is the same.

I think the best idea is to see how your audience will react if you come up with multiple websites as compare for having one website for all services. Also what is more beneficial for your brand name. Once you have the answer you can take decisions accordingly.

Hope this helps!

If I would be at your place, I would have looked in to the Google Analytics data (although good amount of data is hidden but still it can help you give it a clue) and would have seen how many people are coming from near me keywords and what are the top services most people are searching for.

Ranking for extra keyword is never bad but should you invest your time on it or not is a big question.

Once I will have the GA data of top 5 services that most people are searching for according to the available data I would have tested the near me keywords in a PPC to see impression vs. click ratio of my targeted audience.

If amount of data I received would be interesting, I would have invested my time and if the traffic is not good enough I would have focused on other important areas.

Hope this helps!

First thing first: Meta description is not really a part of the ranking signal (atleast not major if it really have any impact at all) so you have to care more about your audience and how they will react on it instead of the search engines.

Emoji is not a common trend and I haven’t seen any business using this in their description but if your competitors are using and you think your audience will like it, giving it a try won’t hurt you. Make sure you keep a full tack of your CTR to see if the change increase or decrease the CTR and click ratio.

If the results are positive, stick with that, if not move back accordingly.

Just a thought!

I agree with Matt, there is no penalty I know that has to do anything with penalty but if you run screaming frog crawler it will ask you to limit the size of the image to 100KB but again going above is not really a penalty.

Yes if the images will be heavy the time on site will increase and if the page take more than usual to load this is where you might lose your rankings as site load time is a ranking signal now.

Hope this helps!

Well there is a very old debate and many SEO will recommend you using sub directory instead of sub domain.

Reasons why you should use Sub directory instead of sub-domain:

• Search engine still counts sub domain as another website so if the blog is in sub directory it will be considered as the part of the website
• Your over all SEO efforts will impact on sub directory which is not the case in terms of sub domain.
• Its way easier to rank for long tail keywords with sub directory instead of sub domain.

If SEO is not a problem for you are you are more interested in branding then i think subdomain goes well as its easier to remember and write directly in the URL bar.

I believe this depends from case to case. On my own blog I have disabled tags but not categories and this is because I believe few category URL are very much user friendly.

Before you actually implement anything, ask yourself if this will hurt user experience or not and If the answer is no then just go ahead and do that!

Hope this helps!

Garrett trust me you are doing it right and especially for the client end I don’t really see any need of it. The most they can deliver you is some extra amount of traffic (with the bounce rate of 90% and plus) as far as the link equity from social bookmarking is concern, it’s more like directories.

The reason why they are shocked is because they have no idea how to ACTUALLY build quality links so they keep workin on shit that are not important at all in my opinion.

If query string is the only choice you have in order to identify location then why not using canonical on the page. This will tell Google what the preferred version of the page is and so Google will only index the preferred version and avoid all other form of the URLs.

This way you will be able to use query string and avoid duplicate content at the same time.

Hope this helps!

There are always pros and cons for it!

Pros are that you will get a chance to target certain type of audience on one particular website. This means you will be able to create more targeted content around the specific type of audience instead of writing web copy keeping multiple audiences in mind.

You can easily target more powerful keywords that tar related to specific niche which is otherwise difficult on a website that convers multiple niches.

As the websites will be more targeted, it will be easier for you to complete within search engine from competitors and rank on the first page for targeted key phrases.

Cons have a list too! It’s not easy to come up with multiple sites as multiple sites means more and more content specific for every niche which can shoot your initial expense like anything.

Multiple websites means multiple SEO campaigns this can again put a huge dent on your initial marketing budget. If there will be one website, there will be one SEO campaign which can lead you towards the conversion in the longer run.

If it’s a local business, you cannot add multiple websites for one business page (I guess) and you cannot create multiple business pages as probably your physical location is the same.

I think the best idea is to see how your audience will react if you come up with multiple websites as compare for having one website for all services. Also what is more beneficial for your brand name. Once you have the answer you can take decisions accordingly.

Hope this helps!

PA and DA might indicate how many links are pointing back to your website but this is not the only thing that is important to consider when plan ranking better in SERPs from the targeted key phrases.

Again, DA increases when links pointing to your website increases but it does not measure quality of link and how relevant it is to your website. Other things you should consider including is quality of content on the website, internal linking, how powerful the link is and few more.

There are times when you actually deserve better ranking but some websites are outranking you using tactics that are prohibited by Google. In that case you can report them to Google or wait for the update as these things usually cutoff as soon as  the Google launches the algo update.

Hope this helps!

I go by the basic rule here, if the two different URLs displaying identical information then this will be considered as duplicated content but including no-index, no-follow tag is also not a good idea as this will affect your traffic and conversions.

All websites are fetching the data from the central resource but you got the ability to display it differently! Like try to display only the related information about the properly and in the rest of the page you can add UGC, content related to the property, some tips or something similar kind of content and more…

In the ecommerce world, we tend to see different websites selling the same products and that is why the pages become identical sometimes so in order to avoid that we try to add extra content like UGC, tips, videos or more to make the page unique in the eye of Google as well as a little more interactive for search engines.

Hope this helps!

I don’t think there is a way to get the DA of a sub-domain as sub domains are the part of the overall domain and this is why it contains the same domain authority as the main.

The way to check the power of the sub-domain should be checked by PA in my opinion (for that URL only). I do understand that Google count sub domains as a separate entity but i don’t think this leads to have a different DA of a sub-domain then the main domain.

Just my opinion!

As far as I see your website I see images are getting indexed (not all of them but they are in the Google search index). Why are they not appearing in the search results when someone type in related keyword is a different question. If you are looking for that my advice would be to use proper, optimized and natural anchor text instead of targeting keywords all the time.

Also try to change the name of the images to something more relevant. “liposuction.jpg is much better than big-imagejpg”

Hope this helps!

This is not really irrelevant... I mean I have a website that dedicated offer SEO service, and I have few links coming from good web design websites and this is not irrelevant because somehow there is a connection!

Similarly, here the links that are pointing to the website have some connection... I mean if the websites that are link back to your website have a bad health, then you must stay away from their links but saying that the links are simply irrelevant is not true!