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I agree with everything Daniel said. I would like to add that a brilliant developer knows that they are great and they know they can pick for who they work for, so when they see a job description like yours; 1 - Sounds super comic. 2 - They will run because sounds like you want to abuse them. (i am not saying you want I am just telling you what a developer will think).

If You want find an amazing developer you need to find a developer that;1 - Blog about his stuff, 2 Have an active github account with great projects, 3 - It's involve with open source.

When you find this developer you have to understand that money is "out of table" for them. They are already making very good money.  Enough to them not worry about money anymore that's why when they leave their work they keep "working" for "free" in open source projects because coding is what they love....    You have to offer them more than high salary, they want a great work environment, they want to feel they will be building something that will "change the world"... they DO NOT want to be micro manage and yes they expect to be very well paid too.

Your content can be about things that your target public would like to read about.  For example who reads about "cleaning marble floors" mostly like would like to read about "home improvements".

About outsourcing your blog content creation scripted.com is a good provider.

Hey Mike

"Example Location" would be my choice.

You could still rank for "Example Location" with the title "Example is the best in location" but on my experience exact match is a best option...

Another thing to keep in mind is how competitive "Example Location" is,  maybe "Example location" is too competitive than you might want optimize for a long tail keyword and keep building links so eventually you might rank for the most competitive keyword too.

HI Bob,

• I wouldn't replace the H1 and H2 for  strong.
• I think is good idea to use exactly matching in the Title.
• You can check the "perfectly Opimized page" in this image by Rand: http://dc8hdnsmzapvm.cloudfront.net/rand/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/perfectly-optimized-page3.gif

I like http://prweb.com/ -> good price decent service.

Keep mind that the Search Volume displayed, is only for bing! You can use Google ad words tool to get an estimate from Google.

Did your site ever rank well on Google? If you don't see anything on GWT most like you don't have a penalty. Ranking on bing and Yahoo is usually much easier than ranking on Google.

You can use the "compare" button on opensiteexplorer to see how your link metrics are different from the websites ranking higher. Here is a step by step:

1. Go to opensiteexplorer.org
2. Put your site URL there and click on "Compare up to five sites".
3. Include in the list websites ranking in the top 10 for your keyword

ps: Make sure you compare not only the home page, but the pages targeting the keywords you are going after for example:

• mysite.com/targetkeyword
• competitor1/com/targetkeyword

You can also use the on page grander to compare  and fix your on page optimization.

I hope it helps.

Unfortunately Google created a easy way for competitors or people with bad intention, destroy other people business. If website "Y" is being outrank by website "Z". Website Y instead of improve their link profile, have the option to buy bad links for the competitor.  Also if you offend someone and this person has nothing to do with your industry  the person can still drop your ranks paying less than $100 dollars.

Matt Cuts said that a simple disavow would work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znOqJu3le2g

But from what you  and many others are saying is not working.

When the  upgrade was released  Google knew those problems would happens yet, they didn't do anything to avoid the issue. In my humble opinion Google just want sale more PPC.

I think the only way to build a solid web business is having your traffic coming from  many sources  or  you create a single point of failure. This is complex task if you think how big is Google Market share, but as web Marketers we have to figure out a way to do so.

Robert,

Have you tried Authentic Jobs?

Felipe

Visual.ly is pretty good site with a lot of visitors http://www.similarweb.com/website/visual.lyI dont think is unsafe to link them with your Google Analytics.

About getting "easy-to-undertand" report I recommend you use some ready-made dashboards here is a link with a few samples: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/62828-10-useful-google-analytics-custom-dashboards

You can find other online and see which one will adapt better for your needs.

No. Display url are just for "display".

Google adwords will calculate your quality score based on your destination URL.  Therefor if you destination URL is a 404 page you quality score will be affect.

Your quality score has a direct effect in how much you per click. (check this image http://www.wordstream.com/images/quality-score-cpc-savings.jpg)

You can check your current quality score by:

1. Click the Campaigns tab at the top.
2. Select the Keywords tab.
3. Look for the **Qual. score **column in the statistics table. If you don't see this column in your table, you can add this column by doing the following:

• Click the Columns drop-down menu in the toolbar above the statistics table.
• Select Customize columns.
• Select Attributes.
• Click Add next to Qual. score.
• Click Save.

I hope it helps.

Here are the links for  the ones I use:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/

http://www.hupso.com/share/

Roger, you are trying to hire above average developer and you are not finding, so you must be doing something wrong. Right?

We are trying to help you, giving you suggestions, we already told you to make the job description shorter removing "having an understanding of", we told you about the importance of the company culture to attract great developers, we told you to check the developer github and blog and many other things...

i do not understand why instead of try some of the suggestions out, you are trying to prove (sometimes even being mean with who tried help you) that all  suggestions are not valid and all that you are doing so far is already great and you dont need to improve anything.

Maybe all that you need to do to find the developer you need is to be a little bit more humble.

You can use the Google Penalty Checker tool from Fruition: http://fruition.net/google-penalty-checker-tool/

I would not believe 100% on the tool results, but you can at least have an initial Analise, you'll need to go deeper to double check if this initial Analise is  100% relevant or not.

• Felipe

Hi Rachel.

Before you spend money hiring a Magento Expert (the good ones aren't cheap) you can try do the follow:

1. Move your site for a Magento optimize server. I use and recommend Simple Helix.  (they will even move your site for free).
2. Use cloud flare pro as your CDN, they have very nice options that will optimize your website code in the fly. https://www.cloudflare.com/features-optimizer
3. Install the GT Metrix Magento Extension. (they have a very nice feature to optimize all the images in your site).

Those steps should be enough to bring your load time to 2-3 seconds, I did myself in many magento sites with speed issues however if after that you still having problem you might need hire a magento expert.

• Felipe

I noticed that a few people are using Triond.com to do "guest post".Is that a good way to diversify the link profile and get more traffic? Is anyone here using Triond? What do you guys think about the service?

Strange, I tested on my site and the load time is 2.69 without the plugin and 2.75 with the plugin.

In 2008 our "friend" Matt Cutts wrote a post where he suggested 5 plugins, I am not sure how relevant those plugins are after so many is years, but is worth a try.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-related-posts/

To make it look good they hired a good designer and spend time and money doing CRO.  You can see in the links below the technologies behind the scenes. However produce a great website is not about the technology it's about knowing the theories about designing a website.  A professional using only Microsoft Pain as tool will do far better than some one with all the tools in the world  that only knows how to use the tool, one can master every single feature of Photoshop for example and still  make poor designs is not about knowing the tools is about knowing design.

http://builtwith.com/?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quicksprout.com%2Fthe-advanced-guide-to-seo%2F

http://builtwith.com/?http%3A%2F%2Fbacklinko.com%2Flink-building

HI Tom...

You will have to do 301 redirect, Same thing as Moz did when they stop being Seomoz and became Moz.

The task will get more complex based on how much content you have.

The flow for a small site would be:

1 - Move all the content for the new platform:

2 - Make a spreadsheet with old url and new url.

3 - Create a 301 redirect.

301 do not guarantee you will keep 100% of your traffic, I noticed the most times the sites lost about 15-20% on traffic right after the 301.

Also I think that if you self host your WordPress you will have more freedom than if you just use WordPress.com

Felipe

3.  Is there a reason Why can't it just look like this:

Yes, It would generate a lot of duplicates issues, for example your  robots.txt you have the follow line:

Disallow: /catalog/category/view/ -> That's the "real" category URL, you can access any category on magento by /catalog/category/view/id or by the "pretty" URL.
Because you disallow the "real: URL only the pretty URL will be viable for search engines. 

This same rule apply for many other parts of the robots.txt.

Hi,

Depending on your client niche  you can host an event.  Events are an easy way to build a lot of links:

"Why are they easy? So long as you have an interesting event that is put on by a legitimate organization, you’re very likely to get accepted by most event listing sites. Many of the event sites require a simple form consisting of an event title, description, when and where the event takes place, and of course, a URL for more information. And as long as your event is valuable to the people that will attend, the outreach portion can be much easier than other link outreach methods."

Check the full article here: http://moz.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-link-building-with-local-events

You can try crawl the site using screamingfrog, make sure you  check the box “Check Links Outside Folder” in the spider menu.

If you check your Robots.txt https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/robots.txt You will see the fallow lines:

## Do not crawl seach pages and not-SEO optimized catalog links
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/

Also if you Google  site:https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/6/

Your site do not show up... So you are GOOD.

Hi Tim,

I think you should do the migration all at once.

Make sure you 301 every page or at least the most important ones.

This video might help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

Magento is great platform, but if not well implement it became very slow. If you 301 your old pages for a much slower page or a page with very different content you might have problems. As long you make sure you content is aligned and your mageto site is fast you'll be fine.