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tigersohelll

Hello Mozzers!

MOZ keeps kindly telling me the URLs are too long. However, this is largely due to the structure of E-commerce site, which has to include 'brand' 'range' and 'products' keyword.

For example -
https://www.choicefurnituresuperstore.co.uk/Devonshire-Rustic-Oak-Bedside-Cabinet-1-Drawer-p40668.html

MOZ recommends no more than 75 characters. This means we have 25-30 characters for both the brand name and product name.

Questions:
If it is an issue, how to fix it on my site?
If it's not an issue, how can we turn off this alert from MOZ?
Anyone know how big an issue URLs are as a ranking factor? I thought pretty low.

tigersohelll

Hello Mozzers!

I've received an error message saying the site can't be crawled because Moz is unable to access the robots.txt. I've spoken to the webmaster and he can't understand why the robot.txt can't be accessed in Moz.

https://www.thefurnshop.co.uk/robots.txt

and Google isn't flagging anything up to us.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Thanks

tigersohelll

I submitted the image sitemap in GWT and only few of them get indexed in google, but now the indexed images are also getting de-index. Any solution for it? See the attached

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tigersohelll

We've have been facing a strange issue with our Organic Image Search Traffic since July month, 10th July 2016 to be precise. There is a significant decline in our Organic Image Search Traffic that we can see in our Google Search Console Account, We have noticed a sudden drop (Almost 80%-90%) in our daily clicks through image search in Google Search Console, Does anyone here have any idea why this has happened suddenly though everything is same as it was before and we haven't done any changes in image names and images path.

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tigersohelll

Thank you EGOL for your reply, Really Appreciate Your Help.

tigersohelll

We are planning to move few high ranking pages permanently (301 Permanent Redirection) to another domain, Currently these pages are getting good traffic from organic search and ranking on top positions in Google search engine result pages. We have few questions in our mind right now, It would be a great help if anyone can answer following questions;

Is it possible to move few pages from one domain to another by using 301 Redirection in .htaccess file?
Will it have any negative impact on our website's current search engine performance?
Will it be considered as a legitimate SEO practice by Google Search Engine?
Will Google understand that these pages have been moved permanently to another domain and start showing URL's from the new domain on the same positions where they were ranking before moving to new location?

tigersohelll

Hi Egol/Matt/Moosa,

Many Thanks for your responses, Its more clear to me as consciously I am not repeating the brand keyword, Its just that the ranges are known with the brand name as prefix with the range name.

I checked in keywordtool.io and the searches made by users for the ranges are 99% with the brand name + range.

So i shall stick to it as it is and ignore the warnings on on page grader.

Its just that, psychologically you want to see a green score on grader tool.

Thank you again

Sohail

tigersohelll

Hi All,

On my on-page-grade-report its suggested not to use keyword more than 15 times.

Its a eCommerce site and we have brands and we have ranges within the brand. Now the problem i am facing is before each range the brand name is mentioned

For eg. Levis is the brand and 501 is the range - the brand page is being optimized for keyword "Levis".

All ranges for Levis is listed on same page as Levis 501, Levis 503, Levis 506 and so on...

As the ranges are above 15 in number my main keyword "Levis" is being used well over 15 times.

I would appreciate if you guys can suggest if its very necessary to remove repetitive keyword before each range i.e call it Just 501, 503, 506.

Or can i leave it as it is.

Let me know your views,

Sohail

tigersohelll

Hello Guys,

Thank you for your reply and excellent advises. We have made a decision to drop the transformation all together and will continue with our existing URL structure.

Thank you all again.

Cheers !

tigersohelll

Hi Guys,

We are contemplating of changing our site URL structure from sentence case to all lowercase.

www.example.com/All-Products/Bedroom-Furniture/

www.example.com/all-products/bedroom-furniture/

We will use 301 redirect for old to new.

Its a 3 year old ecommerce site and currently rank very decent on serps.

The agency that does our seo is recommending this change and reckons that all lowecase URLs as preferred over our current URL structure.

My worry is we will lose our current ranking but agency advises that rankings will probably go lower or fluctuate for some time and get back to its original position or may even rank better in due course as we are doing a 301 redirect and once the site is crawled Google will know the change.

We are approaching Christmas and thenext 2 months are most busiest period of the year, we don't want to risk on traffic.

I would really appreciate if the community experts can advise,

Is it really that lowercase URLs are better than our current url structure?

By doing 301 will our rankings come back to same in "due course" ?

How much of a risk is it to do these changes at this time of the year?

Thanking you in advance,

Sohail

tigersohelll