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Thank you for a great response!  Would love to hire out but I cannot hire anyone as I have done that in the past and got nothing. I have friends who have spent thousands and got no improvement as well. This seomoz site was my hope of learning more on my own. You sound like its possible which is a good thing. I am also looking at a Wordpress ecommerce site that has a great call to action, and prodcut focus, hopefully I can move to that without looking cold and unfriendly. I need a blance of charm.

I have taken your advice and can make changes on most things on my own but I have a couple questions if I may ask.

Alt tags- I can do it on photos but in my commerce cart, there is no method I see for adding alt tags to the pictures.

H1- An SEO person told me that the first sentence under the banner is my H1 tag,  is that not true? If not, how and where do I add one?

KeyWord Usage- On my crawl report it said I had too many keywords on my front page so I removed them. Now being thrown off google, could that be the reason? should I add them back?

Drop down menu- When I use the word "Apron" in page titles on the drop down menu, does that count as keyword usage?

Thank you vey much for your help.

Hello,

Thank you for responding. The website is www.vermontapron.com. My errors were duplicate pages related to the blog so I got rid of them, I also had missing meta tags, long descriptions, and too many key words on a page. I fixed everything and disapeared from google.

I would love all and any advice I can get.

Thank you!

Hello,

I have had this service for my  free month. I had over 150 errors on my website which I fixed.  My problem is that  in doing this my traffic is actually worse and I have now fallen completely off google.

From the start of my website I would slowly creep to within t he top 3 pages of google for the search term apron and aprons, then suddenly I fall to somewhere around page 20. No one, even people I hired has been able to explain this. I hear google changes, it takes time, etc, etc... Its been 5 years and other newer companies are on the  top page right in their first year..

After working with this site for a month, I have looked  to page 65 for apron and aprons and still cant find me. And I know some people say Alexa is a gimmick, but now instead of rising to 10 million and falling back down to 23 million, Alexa says there is no info regarding my  website whatsoever.

Any advice? I was excited to have this service but I cant get my partner to agree to keep it if  my month long result is worse then I ever was before. And please dont say it takes time , 5 years is more than enough.

Thank you in advance!

Thank you for helping. I think I'll just move it to a wordpress and solve it all instantly. The only duplicates are coming from the blog, moving it will fix it the lazy way...:).

Thank you!

Hi,

Here is a page lsitedon the list as a duplicate title and also duplpicate content.

Gathered Bibs and Not - The Vermont Apron Company

Here are the links that show when I click the number in the first column

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/02/gathered-bibs-and-not.html

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/category/gathered%20bib%20aprons/1.html

Thank you!

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Hello,

This is part of the list of 80 pages that they state has duplicate content. The first column of numbers is for other urls and the second is page authority, 3rd column is linking root domains.

I really need to know whether to get the business blog off the website and instead host at wordpress. I thought having it at the website would drive traffic , not ruin it.

Thank you for your help.

Sorting and Organizing - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/02/sorting-and-organizing.html	2	12	1

Summer Dresses - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/02/summer-dresses.html	1	12	1

Being Sick and Business - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/03/being-sick-and-business.html	1	12	1

Formality of Black and White - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/03/formality-of-black-and-white.html	2	12	1

Goth - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/03/goth.html	1	12	1

More about Goth - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/03/more-about-goth.html	2	12	1

New Adventures and Widening Horizons - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/03/new-adventures-and-widening-horizons.html	1	12	1

Coffee Pot Apron - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/04/coffee-pot-apron.html	2	12	1

The Denim Group - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/04/the-denim-group.html	1	12	1

Today - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/04/today.html	2	12	1

Website Work - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/04/website-work.html	1	12	1

Adding a Bib - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/05/adding-a-bib.html	1	12	1

Contact Phone Number - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/1/contact-phone-number.html	1	1	0

Our First Post - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/1/first-post.html	1	1	0

Getting on Track - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/1/getting-on-track.html	1	1	0

Hostess Aprons - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/1/hostess-aprons.html	2	1	0

New Work - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/1/new-work.html	1	1	0

Photography - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/1/photography.html	1	1	0

Winter Aprons - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/1/winter-aprons.html	1	1	0

Cute Aprons - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/2/cute-aprons.html	1	1	0

Gathered Bibs and Not - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/2/gathered-bibs-and-not.html	2	1	0

Gathering Aprons - The Vermont Apron Company

http://www.vermontapron.com/1/post/2012/2/gathering-aprons.html | 1 |

Yes, thank you, it's..

This is the website...

www.vermontapron.com

This is the blog on the website, which the campaign lists every page of it as a duplicate.

http://www.vermontapron.com/blog.html

Thank you for your help.

Hello,

Previously I asked if I should remove my blog from Weebly if I cannot change the page titles as they are being reported as duplicates.  The answer was,yes and I headed to Weebly to remove it. Upon looking closer, every page and post does in fact show a different address. Now Im confused, I dont see duplicates but the campaign lists all the blog pages and states they are duplicates. I'm not sure what to do. Am I misunderstanding duplicate page?

Thank you.

I searched and couldn't find an answer, so I thought to ask. I use Weebly and it's all drag and drop features. Reading through all the information here, I see it stated over and over again that the use of frames makes it hard for search engines. Are Weebly's drag and drop boxes what is referred to as "frames"?

Here is what I created.

www.vermontapron.com

Thank you. I will check again to see if I can change titles on the blog, I hate to get rid of it as it does get some traffic but I have warnings on here about duplicate pages and they are all the blog entries.

If Alexa is a gimmick, then is Cubestat and other also a gimmick? Is there any authentic places to use?

Thank you!

Hello,

I added a blog to my website, which is hosted at weebly. I was told this would drive traffic but I have actually fallen way, way down in Alexa rankings. When I ran a campaign here, the results show over a 100 errors, all to do with the website blog. It states they are duplicate pages and titles. I dont see a way to rename the pages. Am I better off getting rid of the blog?

Thanks