Welcome to the IMG Weekly Chat Digest #43
IMG Weekly Chat Digest #43
Here are a few highlights:
- Internal Links on Footer
- Near Me Searches
- Virtual Silos & Internal Links
- Listing pages on classified sites
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SEO Fight Club | Episode 77
In this episode, Ted Kubaitis, Simon White, Lee Witcher, and Terry Power discusses personalization in the SERPs and how that could affect SEO, the best SEO-friendly platform for e-commerce, PBN software recommendations, and more.
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1. Removing internal links from footer
Members: Bryan Halverson, M.Isse, Todd Weeks, Keith Evans and Tomasz P. Kucharski
Topic – General SEO
Summary: The footer contains 45 links for internal pages. If we remove most of the links (most likely the product page links that are also in the main navigation), how will it affect SEO? …
M. Isse: Would collapsing it with JS work for you? You get to keep the same structure, and anyone who really wants to see the links can…
2. Improving results for “near me” searches
Members: Brian Thomasson, Suzy B and DRE De Vera
Topic: General SEO
Summary: What are your suggestions to improve your results for “X nearby” or “X near me” searches? “X.” can be whatever unless it matters….
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Suzy: I had good results by including ‘near me’ on the URL of a geo-target optimized (on-page SEO) page. Domain/service/near-me…
3. Virtual silos and internal links
Topics: General SEO
Summary: When creating virtual silos, do you only internal link with the silo in mind, or do you internal link with the silo and internal link other pages that may make sense/mentioned?
Kyle: Not every page that you link to the target page needs to be part of a silo. If it makes sense to link it, link to it.…
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4. Mobile SERP with row of pictures
Members: Sercan Kahraman and Kyle Roof
Topic: General SEO
Summary: Mobile SERP is showing a row of pictures in result (products). Where can I learn more about this?
Kyle: Are they all from the same site?…
5. Are Spearman’s and Pearson’s skewing the results?
Members: Alex Guemez, Jo Priest and Ted Kubaitis
Tags: General SEO
Summary: Chart clearly shows what could be a STRONG ranking factor, but Pearson shows -0.6, Spearman -0.2 and Kendall -0.1. So are Spearman’s and Pearson’s skewing the results?
Jo: IMO you shouldn’t trust anything without a larger sample size. You should be wary of outliers too….
6. Can a supporting article be part of two silos?
Members: Kyle Mcfarlane and Kyle Roof
Topic: General SEO
Summary: Reorganizing some of the content on my site and was wondering if a supporting article can be part of two silos?
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Kyle : Opinions vary but if I’m looking at a page that is good to link to multiple pages I don’t consider it a silo page, I consider it a hub page. Hub pages are great because they can be used to distribute juice to multiple pages…
7. Handling removed listing pages on a site of classified ads
Topic: Premium | Priority Questions.
Summary: Classified ads site on with listing pages that get removed. What’s the best way to handle this?
Todd: 301 will be your best bet… it’s best practice to generally avoid the 404’s if you can…
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That’s it for now. Hope you enjoyed the read. See you in the community over the weekend!