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Ecommerce panda penalty and recovery

How to recover an Ecommerce Site from a Google Panda Penalty

I know from personal experience what a Panda penalty can do to an ecommerce store. Simply put, the traffic stats start heading south, and they don't come back quickly! Common Reasons for Ecommerce Panda Penalties While I'm sure you have…

May 16, 2017
Matt Jackson

Learn SEO with these Useful Resources

Use these SEO resources to teach yourself SEO. From basic SEO techniques, to advanced search marketing tactics, these resources will help you improve your techniques.

April 27, 2017
Matt Jackson

Index your sitemap in Google

Index a Sitemap

How to index a sitemap in Google without entering their Search Console The mainstream understanding is that there are only two ways to index your website in Google, via a sitemap submission, or a Fetch as Google request (both found…

April 27, 2017
Matt Jackson

Edit the homepage breadcrumb in opencart

Edit The Opencart Homepage Breadcrumb

Learn how to fix the default Opencart homepage breadcrumb, so that it's more SEO friendly. You can also edit the homepage text on the breadcrumb link.

April 16, 2017
Matt Jackson

How to add canonicals in Opencart

Opencart Canonicals & Duplicate Content

Opencart has a lot of duplicate content, and adding canonical urls can be a great option to improve your SEO. However Opencart doesn't make this easy by default, so we will have to make some changes, or use the FREE VQMOD to add them in and avoid the dreaded Google Panda penalty!

April 9, 2017
Matt Jackson

Here you will learn about the basic SEO settings to enable in Opencart

How to enable basic SEO settings in Opencart for Free

Learn how to enable the most important SEO settings in the Opencart CMS, to let you fully optimise the CMS for Google and other search engines. Watch the full video tutorial now.

April 9, 2017
Matt Jackson

Learn how to market your garden centre on Google

SEO for Garden Centres

Bringing you more customers SEO & Online Marketing for Garden Centres We work with garden centres to consistently bring them more customers from the web. Get started today.

August 23, 2016
Matt Jackson

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