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I have a website that is not very pretty but has great rankings. I want to redesign the website and loose as little rankings as possible and still clean up the navigation. What are the best practices? Thanks in advance.

Thanks, That's what I was looking for.

I have a large ecommerce site and several smaller nitche ecommerce sites. All have the same products, but the smaller sites are loosing traffic.

I want to combine all the sites to the larger site so it will be easier to manage, but I don't want to loose any rank on the smaller sites.

Example:

www.yourpromopeople.com - This is the large site I want to use.

www.logocoolies.com

www.fourcolormagnets.com - These are a couple of the smaller sites I want to combine with the larger one.

Questions:

What are the pros and cons in doing this?

What would be the best way to do this?

Would redirecting the URL's to the larger site's product pages do the trick or is there a better option?

Thanks for the help.

1. Be sure your Meta titles and descriptions are unique, add value to the user and the grammar & spelling are correct.

2. Be sure your content flows and the keyword density is under 3% as a guideline. Use synonyms.

3. Remove keyword Meta tags. The only thing it is good for is letting your competitors know what keywords you are targeting.

4. Set up Google Analytics / Web tools.

5. Use Inner linking throughout your pages.

6. Set-up Sitemap & Robots.txt

7. Videos and Alt tags for images.

Follow these steps and you will climb the ranking in no time.

This is kind of a trick question, but if you could only do ONE thing to improve your search ranking what would you do?

Be careful with the "wheelchair" keyword. It shows up in the web copy a lot. You may want to very the keyword with some synonyms to avoid the over optimization penalty. Also, take out the keyword meta tag. It only tells competitors what keywords you are targeting. Keyword stuffed, duplicate titles. I would add Google Analytics for tracking.

Just what I saw from a quick look. I hope it helps.

Bolding is fine and even helps some. Anchor text is good practice also. Just remember to keep your keyword density under 3% to avoid the over optimization penalty and vary your anchor text using different keywords. Plus, the anchor text should flow within your page copy. Don't force the keywords. Most important, think about what is best for the user anytime you create links in content.

SEO is important, but ask yourself these two questions when creating content for pages, because Google is -

What is the user searching for?

Is my page delivering it?

How many started to hum the mission impossible theme as you were reading this post?

We have an e-commerce site with a blog and I agree totally with Thomas and Adam. The only thing I would like to add is be sure to make your content interesting for the user. It is difficult with a e-commerce site to give value to your customer without trying to "sell" in every article. Just keep in mind to post blog articles your readers will want to share along with promoting your products and brand.

Links and page authority. I'm sure that is the main reason.

The website apple.com has 6,028,446 backlinks. It has 23,558 rankings in Google's organic results, a Link Influence Score of 100% to the website. That means that links from apple.com have an extremely high influence on the search engine positions of the linked sites. Plus, having a page rank of 9 doesn't hurt either.

I haven't seen many new .net sites. The .com sites are the most sought after and usually have more authority. I read an article that said .org site are being indexed well lately.

Also, be sure to use a long tail keyword if you are a small site just getting started.

If you go to the reports tab you can create customized reports and SEOmoz will email them to you weekly or monthly depending on your needs. You can go back and review anytime.

Google should recognize the original source and give credit due.

How many started to hum the mission impossible theme as you were reading this post?

1. Be sure your Meta titles and descriptions are unique, add value to the user and the grammar & spelling are correct.

2. Be sure your content flows and the keyword density is under 3% as a guideline. Use synonyms.

3. Remove keyword Meta tags. The only thing it is good for is letting your competitors know what keywords you are targeting.

4. Set up Google Analytics / Web tools.

5. Use Inner linking throughout your pages.

6. Set-up Sitemap & Robots.txt

7. Videos and Alt tags for images.

Follow these steps and you will climb the ranking in no time.

We have an e-commerce site with a blog and I agree totally with Thomas and Adam. The only thing I would like to add is be sure to make your content interesting for the user. It is difficult with a e-commerce site to give value to your customer without trying to "sell" in every article. Just keep in mind to post blog articles your readers will want to share along with promoting your products and brand.

Bolding is fine and even helps some. Anchor text is good practice also. Just remember to keep your keyword density under 3% to avoid the over optimization penalty and vary your anchor text using different keywords. Plus, the anchor text should flow within your page copy. Don't force the keywords. Most important, think about what is best for the user anytime you create links in content.

SEO is important, but ask yourself these two questions when creating content for pages, because Google is -

What is the user searching for?

Is my page delivering it?