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Well my personal slider preference is https://smartslider3.com/ it's light, it's groovy and it's free.

On the other hand, if you are an anti-stlider crusader then a full width image with a strong call to action will do the trick.

I agree with Martin, this case goes beyond "old school SEO". Yes the links pass some juice, but with this you can help them rank higher. On the other hand you can ask back for a backlink.

The answer here is: it depends. Are these links a little bit shaddy? Or they are just generic web directories. On occasion number #1 I would disallow them. On Occasion number #2 I would not. It is never bad to have more links as long as they do not negative-seo you

In my humble opinion I believe it is a matter of value. I believe that a 3000-word page targeting 6 keywords has (and is perceived by google as having) more value or than 6 pages with 500 words each.

Greetings Trey, from a speed perspective your website is really slow and big. I mean 30mb for your front page? You really need to resize those images and minify you CSS JS, ASAP. That will give you some space to breathe and your website will be more Google friendly (Google insights give you a 1/100 rating). Your competitors websites is a mere 3,7mb big. Speed, Speed and more Speed. Also you need to audit your website because it returns a ton of query errors (27 to be exact.)

I would start with those.

1)resize images (good photoshop compression or https://tinypng.com/ )

2)cache you website (wp super cache plugin if on wordpress platform)

3)Minify your CSS/JS (autoptimize plugin if  on wordpress)

I use https://tinypng.com/ it is a great tool for image compression.

alternatively I would use CTR+ALT+SHIFT+S on photoshop to save as png/jpeg for web. It does a hell of a compression (no quality damage).

Can you provide us with a link to your e-commerce site? You could try and create internal links to your category page, because like all category page they have tons of outbound links but little inbound links.

The short answer is "no", you wont get penalized for having multiple H1 tags if the UI is subtle and the User Experience is great.

Well my personal slider preference is https://smartslider3.com/ it's light, it's groovy and it's free.

On the other hand, if you are an anti-stlider crusader then a full width image with a strong call to action will do the trick.

In my humble opinion I believe it is a matter of value. I believe that a 3000-word page targeting 6 keywords has (and is perceived by google as having) more value or than 6 pages with 500 words each.

I use https://tinypng.com/ it is a great tool for image compression.

alternatively I would use CTR+ALT+SHIFT+S on photoshop to save as png/jpeg for web. It does a hell of a compression (no quality damage).