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That is the shortest answer i have ever seen Ryan give.

I can agree on all of it

goodness knows why they do it

But place this javascript in the page, and it will reload the page in the parent window, in short it will redirect to your page

if(top.location.href!= window.location.href){
window.parent.location.href = "yourURL" 
}

That will piss them off

I remember this forum was full of people whinging about being out ranked by spammy websites with cheap links.
Now I see people with spammy websites and cheap links whinging they have lost rankings.
Those who were the wingers are now the winners and those that were winning are now whinging.
Every dog has his day
There was a time where you could beat the system, those days have long gone, for long term results its not a matter of beating the search engines, but making sure you have not made any mistakes, that you are free from errors, you have prefect crawlability, good content and quality links.

You have a lot of canonical issues.

one that will certainly be giivng you problenms is this

The page with URL "http://www.ilihost.cl/" can also be accessed by using URL "http://www.ilihost.cl/index.php" and  "http://ilihost.cl/" and "http://ilihost.cl/index.php"

Thats your home page rank split in 4.

Do a 301 redirect to either www or non www,

You should also 301 redirect to get rid of index.php.

Then you need to go thought your site and make sure you have no links point to the wrong version of the home page.

if you decide on http://www.ilihost.cl/ then keep to it, make sure all internal links point to it.

This alone will help heaps, because of how link juice flows in a site from the home page and back is very importannt, in your site the link juice does not get back to http://www.ilihost.cl/ it comes back to http://www.ilihost.cl/index.php

please read this page for an explaination http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

You have overr 500 broken links, each one of these is sending link juice to nowhere. It looks like the same 4 broken links on every page,

Fix these things and you should rank better.

no, shorten them to 65, to fit all search engines
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-title-is-too-long

Having many keywords means your are diluting them,

the title Keyword gives all its credit to one keyword, but Keyword1 Keyword2 only gives half the credit to each.

Your parents can leave you all their money, but if you have a brother you will only get half.

All links consume link juice even nofollow links.
What happens to the link juice is the question, does href="#" just flow back to the same page, first thoughts are yes, but then if that is the case, you would be able to manipulate how much link juice flows out of other links but adding more. so I think they may waste link juice. JavaScript links use link juice and there is no guarantee that Google is able to pass that link juice on.

A lot of CMS use this type of links href="#" on a A tag then use the A tag for some other reason, such as a button to fire JavaScript. I believe that if you want a button use a button, if you want a JavaScript link then attach the event to a SPAN or DIV, use A tags only for real links and be sure you know what is happening to your link juice.

I would agree with you. You have to ask yourself why do we have a blog. i find many people have one but dont know how or if it is helping them. Why have one on a different domain? To give links to your main site? Then why reciprocal link back to it? If your blog can attract a handfull of links under the same domain, it would out-weigh any links from your own blog on a seperate domain. (hope that makes sense)

I think having the blog in a subfolder or subdomain is the best use, you stand to gain links and traffic and you can use these pages to funnel PR to your home and landing pages, see link
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

I wont disagree, links can be good, but links that you can just go out and get are usually not worth it.
Quality and unique content described by Egol is what you need.

Click data will eventually get you ranking better and better for the keywords that your content deserves not necessarily the ones you wont to rank for. Search engines look at the activities of users, they see what keywords they enter and what results they click on, did the user come back and click on a different result, what was the last result they clicked on. From all this click data they can start to see what results served the users needs for each keyword and rank you accordingly.

I create many websites for people, from their content and purpose I can just tell if they are going to successful. I make sure the site crawls perfectly with no errors no redirects and mess, I make sure the content is described to the search engine well using structured data, its the clients job to supply good content. If that content is good. I will see over the next few months it continually rise in the rankings.

click data will eventually overrule everything, of your site does not satisfy the users needs the search engine will eventually know this no matter how many links you have, and visa versa

A blog can help, but often does not. you need to have a blog that people want top link to, it much be relevant and link back to your landing pages

make sure content is relevant, try to attract links.

dont post the same artciles anywhere else, this will lead to duplicate content.

I had a look at a few pages and i am not convinved that they have unique content. these 2 pages for example are not very unique, they both have the same text,

/catalog/product/view/id/1003/s/qus993/category/58/

/catalog/product/view/id/3387/s/wr54-1236c/category/58/

I can’t tell you why your rankings have dropped maybe Google has found a load of doggy links and dismissed them, I don’t know.
But I can tell you have a lot of problems in your site that are not helping your rankings.

You also have over 3800 un-necessary redirects, each one leaking link juice. I say un-necessary because the links are internal links and you could point then at the correct destination and avoid the redirect and the leak. An example.
The link to " /plastic-storage-specials.html" has resulted in HTTP redirection to " /plastic-storage-specials".

You have many pages with contains a large amount of script code.
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-a-large-amount-of-script-code

You have 25 css pages  excluded by robots.txt, it is my belief that search engines do not like this, you could be hiding content with css, it does not help them trust your site.

You have many pages with duplicate titles or description .

There are various other problems but these look like your main ones

have a look at this site map, see the lasmod date
http://perthseocompany.com.au/sitemap.xml

you need to adjust this when you update a page

good answer

but i would add, spend your efforts doing somthing else more productive.

I thought it would be handy if we had a timeline with dates of any updates to the algo's.
Does one exists here at SEOMoz or elsewhere.
Thanks

As others have stated, its a bit in your face to the user.

May i suggest rather then a pop-up, just insert it somewhere un-obtrusive, after a few seconds, a simple bit of movement is all that is needed, and it would not stop the user from reading your content

Well it is hard to get good quality links, but out of the easier links to get. Matt Cutts stated that out of article posting, blog comments and directories, he said tha directoreis mixed with a few quallity links still hold value, the others do not.

What to look for in a directory? either quality, relevancy or local.

OSE does not include every page on the internet, or every page of a given website, in fact i remember reading that they tuned it to read less of any given one site in order to read more sites.
It may be that the crawler comes across your competitor’s link before it moves on, but unfortunately does not comes across yours.

OSE is a good indicator, but not entorly acurate, but things should average out, there would be links on all sites that are not found.

it looks like your site was down when it was last crawled

I find that very hard to believe, I have never heard of it.

no not like a noindex. more like a merge.

will it make you rank for many keywords? not necessarly, as a page all about blue widgets is going to rank higher then a page has many different subjects including blue widgets.

A canonical is really for duplicate content, or very alike content.

So you have to decide what your page is, is it duplicate or alike content, or is it unique?

if the pages are unique then do nothing, let them rank. if yopu think they are alike, then use a canonical. if there are only a few, then i would not worry either way.

if you decide they are unique, they I would look at making the page title unique also, maybe even description too.

good to hear that i am not alone.
I can avoid a job day after day after day. but once im on my way, the sun comming up tells me its time to quit

i would not get reciprocal links, Search engines look for un-natural patterns of linking, although they happan natrualy somtimes, SE's can see not only your pattern but those you have reciprocal links with.
But having said that, you are on the right track, link out on a page with low PR, include a load of links back to your own site so that you only give away a small percenatge of link juice.

I dont think the actual value is know, but thinking how easy the cheap links are to how hard a quality link is to get, i think the diffrnece would be large.

No, that page may not be helped but your site would not be suffering.
The 80/20 rule holds true to almost every business, you make 80% of your money from 20% of your products, and 20% of your money from 80% of your products.
you make 80% of your money from 20% of your customers, and 20% of your money from 80% of your customers.
80% of your customers take 20% of your time, and 20% of your customers take 80% of your time.
If you try to get rid of the 20% that don’t make money on, the 80/20 rule will result on what you have left. If you increase your variety, you will still have the 80/20 rule apply.

so rather then get rid of products, you should increase your range.

What list is this?

From all i have heard, it is spam that is getting de-indexed, i would not say everyone is spamming, I certainly do not risk my clients sites with spam.

Yes and no. having a 404 that the SE finds is not going to hurt you, it will eventualy remove it from its index, but if you have a broken link pointing to a 404 then yes you are leaking PR. Seeing you did a scan, that usely follow links, i think you must have the later.

That's depends.

Visitors to your site have fonts on there computer already, using these fonts will give you the best load speed, you can look up "web safe fonts" to find these.
Using non web safe fonts means downloading font objects, now wether these are downloaded from your web server or from google they still have to be downloaded, if you have a fast server it may be better to host the font objects yourself, if not you may be better downloading from google.
Me myself, if I use non web safe fonts I like to host them myself, I don't like having any third part resources on my sites.
Thanks

Low conversion. Are the people searching for keyword looking for your client. UIf you own a quarry, ranking for stones may not help you as people searching for stones may be looking for the band the rolling stones.

does your serp look spammy?

When some one scrapes your site they take the canonical with them, pointing back to the original, so you still get credit. that is if they dont take it out.

But this is a miss use of a canonical, a canonical should not point back to the same page.

Bing for one has said that they will lose trust in your site if you do this, they will start to not trust all your canonicals, those that are there for a good reason.
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/10/06/managing-redirects-301s-302s-and-canonicals.aspx

Google have said that they can handle it.

But a canonical does not pass all the link juice, so a canonical to itself, does it leak link juice? google says that can handle it, but that does not mean there is not a leak in link juice.

I for one dont do it, bing has made it clear they dont like, and even though google have said they can handle it, it does not mean there is no down side.

You seem to have done everything ok, but from my understanding google does not honer 301's or caninicals first crawl, they wait a few times to make sure its not a mistake.

What sort of server are you using? if you are using windows with iis7 is is very easy to impliment the urlrewites and corasponding 301's

i would 301, a canonical is a hint, a301 is a directive. and also if people stil go to your old pages, they may make a link to the old page rather then the new url.

Simon is correct, there is no such factor I have heard of. What i do suspect is that you had somthing in your old design holding you back. some unknown factor that was not liked by the SE's, putting up your new design has rid you of it.

Plus there is also the QDF factor, Query deserves freshness. where search results like to inclued a few sites that have new content along with the normal high ranking sites. in this case you can exspect to drop again, sorry

Between these points nad what Simon has suggested i think it can be eplained

No imposible, but you are correct you could spend a lot of time and money trying. but depending on the keyword being below them is not so bad.

If your keyword was lawnmowing, then someone wanting their lawns mowed would skip wikipedia and the .gov and go to you, but if the keyword was Founding Fathers, then where better then wikipedia to get info.

There is no reason to have a www, i dont have one on any of my domains, and recomend against it for my clients.

Imagine if people were call me www.alan, it would be stupid, so why call your web site www.domain.com

I believe this is a leftover from old unix servers, it is not needed today.

Youy should be looking for high pages per day as a indication that google sees your site as good content or changing content, you should be looking for low time spent to show your site has quick download times.

Kilios per day is relevant to pages downloaded, if your time spent is high you might look at this more closly

If you linked to Microsoft, and they linked to you, I think you would gain trust.

but lets face it, the sort of sites that do reciprocal linking are not the ones that are going to give you high trust. You get trust from trustworth sites, not spmmers

i dont think it will help, and it has a side affect, you will loose PageRank, your PR is split between all the links on your page, if you no-follow the links will still use there share of PR, but it will not be passed to the linked page, it will just be wasted.

as for redusing the link count, i dont think so, this is what bing says on the subject and it reads to me as if it the number of links, not the fact that they are follow or no follow

http://thatsit.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-too-many-hyperlinks

also somthing on page rank and links

http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

yes, but they should be noindex,follow so that the link juice flows back out of the pages, if no index,nofollow then the link juice will be lost

I myself like to use the non www, but in your case you are right your www version is stronger.
What is happening at the moment is that the links pointing to the www version are still giving your site credit, but when the are 301 redirected they lose a bit of link juice between 5 to 15%. That is not much but seeing how many links you have that adds up to a lot.
All you need to do is 301 redirect the other way to the www. This will confuse the search engines for a few weeks but will sort itself out.

there was a story in the press about a lawyer who was doing well out of places, utill another lawyer moved into the same building and google merged their places into one, and the phone number was that of the new guy. So they certainly are on the look out for it.

I believe i have found a problem that would lead to bad ranking of your home page.

You have 85 internal links that point to domain.com/index.htm instead of domain.com.
Fromthere they are 302 redirected to domain.com.

Link juice frows around your website though internal links, and usually a lot fo it ends back on your home page, but because of the reason above it is not getting back to your home page.

Find all links pointing to index.htm and change them.

Also you should not use 302 redirects they do not pass link juice. you ned to use 301 redirects.

Also if you enter something like domain.com/some-junk-url it redirects to your home page. search engines will dismiss mass redirects to your home page, these shoudl be redirected to a 404 not found page.

Hi Phillipp

The guild lines say not to, the idea is one listing per place.

• "Businesses with multiple specializations, such as law firms and doctors, should not create multiple listings to cover all of their specialties. You may create one listing per practitioner, and one listing for the hospital or clinic at large.* Do not include information in address lines that does not pertain your business’s physical location (e.g. URLs, keywords)."

http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528

There are certainly some crappy ones there, but that still not to say there are not some good ones in gogoles eyes. i cant go thought them all.

this is what i say to my clinets,

You may see a drug dealer that does not work but spends more money than you, but do you really want to be him, and have his concerns and future?

you need to turn of web history, top right hand corner, and log out of google. you can also use inprivate browsing.

If you no index a page, link juice will flow to that page still. if you no follow it, it will still flow but will not flow out of it again.

you should always add noindex,follow if you want the link juice to return to your index pages. Even then some link juice will be lost that stays on that noindex page

I tried also could not find it. but here is a quote from Matt Cutts "Eric Enge:  Can a NoIndex page accumulate PageRank?

Matt Cutts:  A NoIndex page can accumulate PageRank, because the links are still followed outwards from a NoIndex page.

Eric Enge:  So, it can accumulate and pass PageRank.

Matt Cutts:  Right, and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won't be showing in our Index.  So, I wouldn't make a NoIndex page that itself is a dead end.  You can make a NoIndex page that has links to lots of other pages.

For example you might want to have a master Sitemap page and for whatever reason NoIndex that, but then have links to all your sub Sitemaps.

Eric Enge:  Another example is if you have pages on a site with content that from a user point of view you recognize that it's valuable to have the page, but you feel that is too duplicative of content on another page on the site

That page might still get links, but you don't want it in the Index and you want the crawler to follow the paths into the rest of the site.

Matt Cutts:  That's right.  Another good example is, maybe you have a login page, and everybody ends up linking to that login page.  That provides very little content value, so you could NoIndex that page, but then the outgoing links would still have PageRank.

Now, if you want to you can also add a NoFollow metatag, and that will say don't show this page at all in Google's Index, and don't follow any outgoing links, and no PageRank flows from that page.  We really think of these things as trying to provide as many opportunities as possible to sculpt where you want your PageRank to flow, or where you want Googlebot to spend more time and attention."

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.shtml

If a page has 5 links, the page rank will be split between those 5 links and will flow to the pages they point to. There are some modifiers to this, but general its 20% per link.

if you no-follow one of those links, 20% of your page rank will be lost. It will be wasted. it is better that your contact page gets it. If you have a link back to your home page from your contact page. you will get some back.
how pagerank works http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank

Matt Cutts has just anouced that they are bringing in a penalty for over optimized sites, to try and reward good content.

http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%e2%80%99s-working-on-an-%e2%80%9cover-optimization%e2%80%9d-penalty-for-that-115627?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main

There is no ideal length, its more like writing a play, its not the length of the play that makes it a success, its how well you portray the story, how you set the stage how you identify the charatures

Yep report it to Google and Bing. Hidden text is against Google guidelines. I would not contact the owner or they may try to get you back with spam likes or something.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en Bing also once had a page, ubt I can no longer find it