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Hello!
Search Engines don't care about Meta Descriptions! It's NOT a Ranking factor.
Although, it's very important because is that text that that appears below the TItle and the URL in the results.
But, 170 characters are the maximum that is showed there. So, this is the recommended maximum number, as you can predict what your potencial customers are going to see.
And it's another chance to write something catchy and get their attention!
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Hope it helps!
Hello Mihaly!
Talking about more operating stuff, I think you should study:
2)Canonical - to show to the Search Engine where is the most important products
3)Meta Robots - to avoid Content and Title Duplication.
With that in mind, you can think better how you are going to optimize your site.
I think that this three topics is a good start for e-commerce
Hope it helps! =]
Hello!
I'm from Brazil and also thought about that, so let's see:
If I search about café or cafe (it means coffee in portuguese), the Google Adwords broad match doesn't care much, it gets them as the same, with Local Search Volume of 3,500,000 for both.
But in the Google Adwords Exact Match, it goes different:
Local Search Global Search
café 27,100 60,500
cafe 18,100 246,000
So, it seem that you can use in theory both keyword for Broadsearch, but you are going to lose some when it goes Exact.
So you have to see which one is the best one for you, that brings more traffic and at the same time a good conversion.
1)You're going to have a keyword ranking for each of the words.
2)I don't recommend you to hide a "no accent keyword" because Google can see it as a Black Hat and punish you.
3)And if some of the words don't make sense without the accent, you should use them with it, because you can't forget your users, because won't make sense to them either. Therefore, it's going to have a big bounce rate.
Hope it helps! =]
Hello!
http://doorhandle.ie/door-handles
http://doorhandle.ie/door-hinges
http://doorhandle.ie/door-locks
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When you create a www, you have to use one as the main one. So redirect this actual one to the www version using 301 redirecting.
I would recommend you also put some keywords in H1 (just one tag of these in each page), about what the page is.
And use some rel=nofollow on the links that is not strictly of your business, like support, privacy policy or about us.
Hope it helps! =]
Hello Michael,
Once I watched Rand talking about this, that maybe spam is not the worst thing that happens.
People sending bad links to you doesn't get your site in bad sheets!
Why? Because Google threats them giving a low value, like a nofollow link.
Exactly for this kind of anti-ethical things.
In fact, the competitor could be making for you a low value link building!
So you should concern about building good links, to make it right.
Check this really good Whiteboard Friday!
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/im-being-outranked-by-a-spammer-whiteboard-friday
Hope it helped!
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Hello Jake!
In your title is good that you use the keyword the same form that people search in the SE's.
So, you should use <title></em>Dog Leashes .... <em></title> , and as you may know, the more to the left is better.
Otherwise, in your URL, it's recommended that, if a keyword has two separated words, you use "-".
Hope it helps!
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You're welcome!
I understand your problem, and the canonical cannot solve it. It only works for internal duplicate content.
I saw something about a external canonical, but it looks like you're going to pass your relevance to another site, and you don't want that! ; )
Do you and your competitors have too many duplicated content?
I would suggest you to write your own content in the cases of external duplicate content, and this way go ahead of your competitors!
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Hello Alan!
DON'T use the 301 redirect in this case, because you will certainly create a loop, and then nobody will access the filtered page.
I am optimizing a e-commerce site, that has some duplicated content too.
We are trying just now to use some canonical, and it looks it's going well.
I think that this time your client should pay for, it will surely worth it.
You could also use some meta robots in this case. It can be complementary just with the canonicals.
Here is a good and quick explanation: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html
Hope it helps!
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I think that you should not take this as true.
It's weird because there are zillions of pages with relevant content that have less than 200 words, mainly news sites.
I'm used to write blog articles around 400 words, that is the standard size for a article.
But, you could ask the writer where did she get that info.
That's why you should put a link to the page where you picked informations.
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Hello,
I'd like to know what happens when you use canonical to the same page itself, like:
Page "example.com"
rel canonical="example.com"
Does that impact in something? Bad or good?
See ya!
