Hi Dan,

Thanks for your input, invaluable!

Well its going to be a warm weekend on the coast so enjoy the lovely sunshine and birthday!

Regards

Craig

Thanks for the answer. I'll take a closer look at this.

Regards

Craig

Thanks Dan, a good answer.

We already have products reviews, however we have had problems with integrating these so they are passing on seo value as the are provided by a 3rd party, Feefo. A bit of java script supplies the reviews at present.

What's your thought on categories? As I suggested or otherwise?

Appreciate your input.

Craig

I want to keep our site up to date and fresh with content. How often should I update categories and products pages with content? What angel should I take with categories (new products/services etc.)

Thanks Craig

This was my concern to be honest. Probably best to leave as is.

Thanks

Craig

We are seeing Google Analytic's drop transaction on our site so therefore all the figures are skewed.

Is there a way I can manually add transactions to GA to cover the missing one?

Hi Mat.

OK I had optimized this page for "Turkish cotton bath towels" and "Turkish bath Towels". That said, it still had 47 instances of the keyword in alt tags and a further 16 instances on the page. I can see why and where the extra instances are being generated unnecessarily which can be addressed when the product page is redesigned. As for the lat tags this is beyond me as to why its generating these so many times.

BTW, your helps really been useful. This is relatively new to me (2 months working on this site actively) and so much has come to light that you just wouldn't ever ask unless you get "hands on".

Hi Mat

Thanks for the response. I have run all pages being optimsed through the on page checker and am getting A results for those pages optimised.

In regards to keyword stuffing, the issue I have is a lot of the keywords are dynamically generated by the system we use which is frustrating, I will be discussing this with them as I will regarding alt tags (40 instances of our keyword on 1 page in alt tags seems strange). We are about to have the product page redesigned to remove all tabs and have a 1 page affair so all the information is right in front of the customer without them having to click all over the place for more information.

Any further comments greatly appreciated.

At present most of our products are listed in the singular form.

http://www.towelsrus.co.uk/towels-bath-towels/aztex/turkish-cotton-bath-towel_ct473bd182pd2744.htm

However we are optimising for the plural form after carrying out keyword research

The question is should I update the product title to reflect this change? This would then change the URL of the page, H1 tag, H2 tag (both auto generated from the product title)

My concern here is that these pages will then become "new pages" and will need to index and rank, albeit they don't rank well as they have never been optimised until now. I could put 301 re-directs in place on the old URL's or i could just let the return a 404.

What do people think?

That's a great response, thank you, really helpful.

What about making sure the first instance of your keyword is in bold close to the start of the body text?

Again I get mixed views on this.

Thanks

Craig

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your input, invaluable!

Well its going to be a warm weekend on the coast so enjoy the lovely sunshine and birthday!

Regards

Craig

I am working through our site and see that meta keywords are being used heavily and unnecessarily. Each of our info pages will have 2 or 3 keyword phrases built into them. Should we just duplicate the keyword phrases into the meta keyword field, should put in additional keywords beyond or not use it at all?

Thoughts and opinions appreciated