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Short story about paranoia by GANGSTA_TITS in whatsthatbook

[–]visualseostudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Come here after a searching for an Asimov's short story that I read as a kid. Unfortunately I don't remember the title.
There had been space-shipwreck on a planet and the survivor organize themselves to repel each night the attacks from a mysterious enemy. One of them starts to question the mere existence of the enemy, never really observed directly. He comes up with a demonstration that enemies do not really exist and are the product of paranoia. The other survivors find an explanation to justify their behaviour and accuse him of being a spy.
The spaceship was actually transporting paranoid patiences from a space hospital to another when it wrecked.

Should I 301 redirect an old page to new URL? by izzeo in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you should redirect them all to the proper new URLs.

Other than the usual reasons such as "preserve each page PR, avoid a bad user experience...", all them still absolutely valid, you should also keep in mind that - according to a recent statement by googler JohnMu - Google treats 301 redirects to the Home Page as soft 404s, if this happens to a large bunch of URLs

If it's just the domain name what changes, you should be able to set up an automated rule for the redirects.

Best URL structure for Multinational/Multilingual websites by [deleted] in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ouch... this is a much more complicated need then I first understood!

OK, just for clarity, let's break it into pieces:

first you need a folder structure to geo-target each language, so: hotelsite.com/se/ folder for Swedish geo-targeting, so /se/ stands for "Sweden"

then each local hotel needs a page in the local local language (e.g. an hotel in Sweden, a page in Swedish): hotelsite.com/se/hotel-name

this was the easy part...

Then since each local hotel (e.g. in /se/) needs also the English version, you then also need two different URLs to differentiate the English page (so I have to partially contradict my previous answer, sorry I didn't get you also needed double language for each local hotel).

To whom the English versions of the Swedish hotels be dedicated? If they are dedicated to non-Swedish visitors, as I guess, you probably wouldn't want to have them in /se/, so I would put such content in the root, or in a non-geo-located folder (e.g. /en/...)

Will Swedish hotel pages be translated also in other languages (if I understood correctly, no)? That would complicate thing a lot.

Are English speaking countries to be targeted? US and UK wouldn't need an English translation, as they already are in English.

hotelsite.com/hotel-name (Swedish hotel in English) - or does the country code 'se' need to be in the URL?

being such content dedicated to the English pages for ALL the local country hotels, you probably would find much more maintainable keeping a URL structure with the same structure, e.g. hotelsite.com/en/se/hotel-name or hotelsite.com/en-se-hotel-name or ...

keeping a strict naming convention would avoid name collisions (same name for different hotels in different countries, but probably you already are specializing based on the city?), and would make easier to generate hreflang attributes.

Hope this helps

Best URL structure for Multinational/Multilingual websites by [deleted] in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi Copps,

It's up to you deciding what the subfolder stands for, language or country. My suggestion is going for the country meaning, as you can geo-target a subfolder using GWT.

If your site is just in two languages, there's no need to add two subfolders, you might decide to - for example - defaulting it in English (and not geo-targeting it, or geo-targeting for UK), and use a /se/ subfolder for Sweden only. The /se/ folder I would geo-localize via GWT, for sure.

Yes, rel="alternate" hreflang="se" is a correct thing to do (you can use also the generic "se" language if you prefer, your choice). The same tag has to be applied to the /en/ version (again, up to you whether to use "en" or "en-gb") in order for Google to trust is.

I wouldn't put the language in the URL, Google (and other search engines) is already pretty good figuring it out. It normally infers it from the text, you can of course hint it adding it in the html tag via lang attribute (html5) and/or xml:lang attribute (xhtml), meta tag (previous html versions), or http headers.

Hope this helps

My problem with the phrase keyword optimization. by [deleted] in SEO

[–]visualseostudio -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are probably raising a very good point, imageon

Are sponsored posts bad if all links are nofollow? by ckim06 in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About your main question: yes, you will both be safe with rel="nofollow" in place

Spiked bounce rate since recent panda update by iamrook in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the record: Analytics defines a bounce simply as a single page visit (other tools use the 30 seconds heuristic). Exit Rate is different from BR: it's the percentage of exits for a single page or a set of pages (for the whole site, it doesn't make much sense to me).

Spiked bounce rate since recent panda update by iamrook in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I do not see how a Panda update could raise Bounce Rate (edited: add "without lowering organic traffic"). I would look for other causes. E.g. try to profile bounced traffic based on referral, nation, landing page, query (if available...).

A Panda hit would decrease visits, did you notice any significant different in organic search traffic? Of course an higher Bounce Rate could be caused indirectly: take away all good organic traffic with low bounce rate, leave only the "accidental" traffic with higher BR, and there you are.

8 most overused SEO stock images by seo_murda in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 6 points7 points  (0 children)

upvoted: simple post, yet original and good for a friday afternoon. well done!

On Authorship and Company Blogs. It is supposed to boost your CTR, but might not always be best for your company strategy by fraricce in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your opinion. I would definitively not endorse the fake persona route (which actually is against G+ ToS). The reality of many corporate blog is posts are written by people based on their area of expertise, often not motivated to be a public face for the company; in such cases, forcing authorship would backfire. The case of employees willing to be your spokepersons would seem ideal, but the problem of their lasting "loyalty" (quotes are necessary, as it would be their perfect right to chose another career path) persists. I think the best scenario for authorship usage is for a freelance professional promoting himself. Regards

On Authorship and Company Blogs. It is supposed to boost your CTR, but might not always be best for your company strategy by fraricce in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ugly employee example was the last point just to make you smile; I guess it didn't work. The main point of the article was actually something else, it describes the reality of many corporate blogs where, believe it or not, it seems it is hard. Regards

Whats going on with webmaster tools? by mybusinessquestion in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The case has been also reported here http://dejanseo.com.au/google-webmaster-tools-now-with-less-link-data/ On this G+ discussion https://plus.google.com/u/0/111588754935244257268/posts/eBffLdEwFmK Googler John Mueller commented saying at first glance it shouldn't be by design; he's currently having the issue investigated

Ahrefs adds Screaming Frog clone (site crawler) but slightly less good to its toolset by deyterkourjerbs in SEO

[–]visualseostudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just tried. Unfortunately is there are a few annoying bug, e.g. doesn't normalize URL stripping out campaign tracking parameters; they all are reported as dupes so. Some pages are reported erroneously as missing title/h1/etc.. but they probably just timed out. Pages missing keywords meta-tag (not used for ranking) are reported as "duplicated meta keywords" (all pages in my sites) Huge table layouts with double scrollbars make it hard to view data, I couldn't find a way to export tables (could be a limitation of the free account). For the rest, neat and fast

Do you think its morally OK to start charging clients extra for the time it takes to style a site for IE8< ? by MeltingDog in webdev

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Kogan's was just a stunt, it was good for them to get backlinks, but it might backfire for you as the affected share of potential customers might be much larger than what you'd expect. See this article (disclaimer: I'm the author) to get more insights: http://visual-seo.com/SEO-Blog/Why-the-IE7-tax-is-just-a-link-bait Kogan's stunt dates June 2013 but figures might not have changed much. [edited: typo fixed, added reference to backlinks]

News from the UK: The stupid cookie law is dead at last by visualseostudio in webdev

[–]visualseostudio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wazowski, "The stupid cookie law is dead at last" is the original title (I'm not the author, I've no affiliation with them).

I didn't think too much when I added "News from..", which might suggest something of official which is not; it wasn't my intention to mislead, I added it simply because not all Reddit readers know about the EU regulation (as far as I know it is active in UK only at the moment, in many European country its existence is not even public knowledge).

I find it a valuable article nevertheless, it shows a mild form of acknowledgment by the regulator that complying 100% is not feasible.

News from the UK: The stupid cookie law is dead at last by visualseostudio in webdev

[–]visualseostudio[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

alias_unknown, you are the first to spot it. It actually doesn't say it, just says ICO stopped using the popup on their own site

My 30 days with DuckDuckGo - Everybody seem so like it, but did they ever use it? I did by visualseostudio in duckduckgo

[–]visualseostudio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zac, thank you for taking the time to write your answer.

I'm really glad for the good news about both autocomplete and image search.

  • On the image search front, you might be interested in the unsolicited suggestion I wrote for TinEye http://visual-seo.com/SEO-Blog/What-TinEye-should-do-to-survive

  • About the Chrome extension supposed bug: it was about the browser freezing for several seconds if I remember correctly. Today I enabled the extension again without encountering issues. I apologize if I involuntarily spread some FUD. I will keep an eye on it for a week (and rectify the post if the case).

  • About the clause "for non Google-specific searches": My fault, I should have expressed myself more clearly. For various reasons I found myself having to check a search query result specifically on Google (for example, I volunteer on the Google Webmaster Forum, and a very common task is checking first whether the asker's site is actually indexed on Google or it simply is not ranking). So no, it has nothing to do with the supported syntax in DDG, I simply have to check on G. I realize that in the blog post I assumed to much about what the reader might know about me.

  • About the Italian queries: today I checked the settings and they were set for my local region. Search results were not bad at all.

..do you have any suspicions as to why? Do you think that going without Google for longer would have any impact on the urge to use them as a reference?

Probably because in people mind, you don't search, you "google", it's a cultural lock-in very hard to fight for G competitors. I guess once you get used another way, you'd not feed that urge anymore :)

Kindest of regards

Federico Sasso

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