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Hello all,

I would appreciate any help in identifying the following bots:

Vagabondo/4.0

TwengaBot-2.0

FatBot 2.0

Googlebot/2.1

bingbot/2.0

Baiduspider/2.0

Yahoo! Slurp

SeznamBot/3.0

ShopWiki/1.0

MJ12bot/v1.4.0

YandexBot/3.0

Sosospider+

Ezooms/1.0

Gigabot/3.0

Thanks

Shehzad

Thanks Keri, Much appreciated

I think the toolbar shows total links where as the summary in ose shows followed only.

Thanks for your answer Bryce.

I was going to replace the occupational page with an occupational health services page so all of the relevant content under it will still be within a relevant category.

What do you think?

Hello all,

Hope everyone is well and are enjoying the summer.

I am currently working with a site: www.corporatehealth.co.uk and have been trying to rank on the first page for the keyword occupational health. currently we are ranking on the second page:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=occupational+health&pws=0&gl=uk#q=occupational+health&hl=en&pws=0&gl=uk&prmd=ivnsb&ei=38dUTuHCDdGKhQetqZn5BQ&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=80a9548917d021a&biw=1920&bih=878

I understand I need to get more links pointing to the site and page itself. My idea was to do a 301 redirect from the occupational health page to the homepage and add occupational health content to the homepage as ultimately they are an occupational health service supplier.

Was hoping to get anyones thoughts on the issue.

Thanks in advance

Shehzad

I have a client that has 2 websites in a particular industry. The first website concentrates on advertising services and products to other organisations/companies but does not sell anything online. The second website is an ecommerce site with many products from the same industry and is more a b2c operation.

Would it be considered ok to add maybe 5 footer links from one to the other and vice versa?

considering that they are footer links and will ultimately increase total links pointing to both site exponentially.

Both sites are hosted in the same location.

Hello Tom and Asif,

First of all Tom thanks for the excellent blog post re google docs.

We are also using the Jshop platform for one of our sites. And am not sure whether it is working correctly in terms of SEO. I just ran an seomoz crawl of the site and found that every single link in the list has a rel canonical in it, even the ones with session id's.

Here is an example:

www.strictlybeautiful.com/section.php/184/1/davines_shampoo/d112a41df89190c3a211ec14fdd705e9

www.strictlybeautiful.com/section.php/184/1/davines_shampoo

As Asif has pointed out the Jshop people say they have programmed it so that google cannot pick up the session ids, firstly is that even possible? And if I assume thats not an issue then what about the fact that every single page on the site has a rel canonical link on it?

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Joomla can be very slow for large sites and drupal requires programmers. I would also recommend looking at the yoast wordpress seo plugin. I use it for all my sites and he has alot of info on how to optimise wordpress.

I am a regular reader of dawn, Good to see they are finally upgrading

I agree with EGOL, setup the blog on the .com domain and begin posting to it. A blog is ideally the center of your social media campaign. Create a facebook page and twiiter account and spend time trying to create relationships with people in your industry and potential customers and ultimately use these social media platofmrs to bring traffic back to your blog and your site.

100% agree thank you both for your excellent answers

Hello all,

We are using a tool called backlink booster that works in the following way:

• you view a page with a backlink to your site

• click on a boost link saved in favourites

• the link is pinged to rss directories and web 2.0 sites

The idea is to get your links indexed faster.

Has anyone used this or something like this and had any benefit from it?

Thanks

Shehzad.

Hi Barry,

Yeah I use yootheme templates for Joomla and Wordpress and they seem to use some sort of javascript to do it really well, i think its called MOOtools

I think it would be safer to add the tag, although search engines are getting more clever this way you would be making sure search engines recognise the link you want to be indexed. Hope that makes sense.

Hello All,

Does anyone have a list of good free web directories that are still woth registering with especially any for the UK.

My boss is willing to pay for a good list.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Shehzad

Thanks very much guys. Much appreciated

Thanks for the answers guys.

Wouldnt it be considered spamming if I add all the towns in the footer?

Hello,

We have a clients site who we are trying to rank for 10 keywords accross 20 towns so a combination of 200. What would be the best way to tackle this. Their url is www.abbottclarkeifa.co.uk.

Thanks

Shehzad