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Why do you want the IP address of every visitor? You can look at http://piwik.org which is another analytics and the last time I remember that it does show the IP.

https://www.kissmetrics.com is person based analytics. I would highly suggest them.

Why don't you just jump to wpengine for that? Why move to a subdomain - I don't think is a good idea. Why do you want to push them to move away from IIS to Apache? Because of redirects? You can do that too in IIS. What value does the client get when you move to apache? Because you're more comfortable with it?

The value of having the blog on the root is for the freshness, and when people share, engage, it adds value to the entire root domain no matter what directory it is. So, moving it to a subdomain is like moving it to a completely new website. Why?

Well if you're getting that many links - I would keep a close eye on your 404 pages. How is your link velocity? What I would do is try to get involved in the conversions online. Go get buzz bundle and monitor your brand and keywords there and at that rate you said will be able to maybe increase/influence conversions.

Good Job. Bravo!

Why don't you try to measure the impact one maybe 4 or 5 of the pages?

I would keep the ending slash there. Not for any reason - just preference. Also, try to keep your URLs short and consistent.

I would say scrape all of your URLs and throw everything into excel have a old and new. Spend some time on this as you don't want to change the URL structure after this.

Sidenote: You don't want to stack 301s. Oldest URL -> Prev URL -> Current URL. Both Oldest and Prev should point to Current.

When you're done submit your updated sitemap to both google and bing webmaster tools.

Yes, it really is a good video! I had the honor of Everett respond to one of my own QAs. By the way, what a nice website you have there! I'm actually in the watch niche as well.

Have you been watching your redirect log to see if there are any errors there? I would take a look at http://phantomjs.org and automate the redirect rules you have and watch the log file.

Also, go ahead and take a look here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html which is faster then the 301s you have in your htaccess.

Also for magento seo, you're going to want to watch this: http://moz.com/webinars/ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues as Everett Sizemore done a lot with eCommerce and magento. He goes through common issues.

Good luck!

You should use what you have set in google webmaster tools and whats indexed in google.

• site: domain.com
• site: www.domin.com

Good luck!

Well, if you're on a VPS/Dedicated Machine. - I would take a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html

RewriteMap has 0 effect on the load time like if you were to have the same in .htaccess it will eat those redirect rules. Remember 301s cache in the browser so when you're testing have them all 302s until you're happy and then watch your rewrite log when you launch. If you need help let us know.

This does take some knowhow and learning but you should be able to get this done in a few days. ( testing, reading documentation )

http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguintool/ offers a cool overlay of your organic traffic.. and offers a good insight to see how you were effected by each known update.

Now from recovering. This will cost you money but you can recover in less then 2 weeks in my experience but its going to cost you about $600 in just tools plus about 300 or so in link removals.

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/products-overview/ - you need the superhero plan. Looking here they have a October sale which saves you a little over 100 bucks. Cool so there is 400 bucks. Next: http://www.rmoov.com/ go get this for a month. Its a 100 bucks. Now what you want to do is go through and run their detox tool. Get the ones that are not indexed and the toxic ones.

Open up both excel spreadsheets and copy the pages that are linking to you. Open a new excel sheet remove duplicate rows or if you want to do it quick you can just use http://textmechanic.com/Remove-Duplicate-Lines.html

Next you take your list of URLs and run that through rmoov. Next it will do its thing go through the campaign settings and check Add Report Back Link to Webmaster Email & FlipFlop Emails. FlipFlop Emails basically sends one time to one email for that domain if it found more then one - it will send next time to that one.

Once it finds all the contact information what you want to do next is go through and enter the campaign. There is a Show Problems checkbox. See what ones are missing contact info. Some of these are going to be tough to find so you will have to delete some of them but; please.. take your time and try to find out who it is. Sometimes its just as doing a whois again.. and you will see that they have a name or another domain you can google to dig deeper.

Now what you're going to want to do is go through each one of these and make sure there are no bad links here.. just make a triple spot check and qualify them. Sometimes the most I had to remove 4 or 5 but Im glad I did. Sometimes you will find that the links it found was just a different view of the same link. So you can just go there and clean it up.

Next what you want to do is send out the campaign email. What this basically does is sends out a email every single day to these guys until they remove it. I found that sometimes the webmaster doesnt even reply but just deletes them and if it goes though and sees that its a deadlink, win. You will get people asking from 3 bucks to 25.. I found that saying: if I disavow you - it doesnt help One guy just raised the price. Just pay them. I found a lot of people who have these directory networks and he found 1000s of directory links he could remove. That can get costly - I just make a note ( rmoov has a good note taker for each site ) and if they want 3000 bucks, screw them, disavow and thanks for the list.

After you run that for a week. Take the clean disavow and upload that. Next - run that campaign again and while thats running you can submit your notes in your reconsideration requests. I talked to so and so, I paid this and this is when. I even add paypal transaction ids. The next thing you can do is when your replying to the web masters is use the note system in rmoov, and when they remove it, and you check, click the link thats in the email which reports back to rmoov that its removed.

Now - I see that once you submit your reconsideration request it takes about 8 business days to get back. Everytime I do this ( more then once ) I get a email saying the manual action has been revoked.

Now that you have a list of what links you removed. Right? Now Im sure you have a link indexing service or a tool that does it.. run that to the ones thats been removed. Im not sure how much this step helps but we all know that the disavow list that you have it takes some time for google-bot to run through this and recheck and do what it does. So to speed up a speedy recovery, I do that.

At the end of the day, end your subscription with rmoov and just let it run for the rest of the month and you may get people mad and they just remove the links so you stop emailing them. So keep a eye on the email and you can get some more wins from it.

This got a little too long. Im sorry. When you do something so many times its easy to talk about.

good answer. Remember that it will take google some time to go back and index those links. A good trick is to use some indexing tools on the old links that were removed.

If you have a LinkAssistant you could put all those links in there and see when the last time they were indexed - this could speed things up.

Have you looked for panda triggers? The pages with the highest exit stats AND lowest average time on page mean low user satisfaction and is a panda trigger.  You want to make sure that the landing pages with the highest exit rate AND lowest time on page are best serving the "query intent" of whatever query the person made to get there.

Also I feel like you have too many ads above the fold.

I really like http://www.linkresearchtools.com and one of the many awesome tools, is the Link Juice Recovery Tool.

maybe you could automate similar RVs thats in that price range or model and a "contact us for similar" button. I like formable pro - because I can see entries.. and capture emails to mailchimp - there you can email that email list new RV entries.

Good example of a site that does show up in the SERPs for all things related

Personally I would just $_POST price and size - and be done with it. ( as opposed to $_GET which shows the parameter in the URL ) - No need to over think creating more URLs and complicating life.

If anything - you can define in WMT what price is and what size is but just keep it clean. Also, remember # tags in the URL doesn't get followed by google. So, clone.com/Apartments/New-York#price=30&size=100 could work too.

Yes,

You should exclude coupons. I do, personally, at least.

Look here:

• admin.php?page=wpseo_titles#top#post_types
• admin.php?page=wpseo_titles#top#taxonomies

Make sure that you're not nofollowing any of them.. Also look here:

• admin.php?page=wpseo_xml

To make sure you're excluding taxonomies. I'm currently using wordpress and woocommerce as well with yoast seo.

No, dont 301 to a 301 website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all - you just need to set the canonical of website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all

Good luck!

I've recently discovered http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ to be helpful. It doesnt monitor your 404's but it does find all 301/302's/404's/500's you have - as they come in.

If you change a URL of a page, it will track those as well.

I just realized who you we're! I really enjoyed your eCommerce presentation you did here. It had me GLUED and analyzing every word you said.

You Sir - influenced the new site I just launched today. For example, all my product urls do have: /product/ categories are prefixed with /category/

How would you approach the search on eCommerce sites that have good pages and blog posts on the same search results? Who have you seen "do it right?" - examples?

Hello,

I have been through your reply a few times and I'm going to give some feedback here. I really wanted to shake your hand on your reply. I know you spent some time replying to it and giving it some thought. Thank you sir. Lets get to it.

You: it may be cheaper and faster to just start on a new domain.

Me: Yes, but thats not really possible. We have a million bucks a month in revenue streams.. not all from google but we're a big company. The name change would maybe be better for low quality sites that that does dropshipping - or affiliate stuff.. we have a huge brand following.

You: Remove all of the bad links that you can, and disavow the rest.

Me: Yes - I signed up for link detox http://www.linkdetox.com - and exported all the low quality pages and imported into LinkAssistent to start the outreach.

You: Perhaps building a better quality site will be all you need.

Me: Yes, that's exactly right and we actually just went live today with the new site. Though it still needs work, user metrics, engagement improvement has been impressive.

You: I would block the internal search result pages from being indexed using the robots.txt file

Me: Yes, I have done that.

You: regarding faceted navigation, it is often a great user experience, but can wreak havoc on your site's SEO strategy.

Me: I have not read any of those until today and I will just AJAX the layered navigation all together. Currently, it does add parameters to the URL but I have those noindex, followed and I went into webmaster tools and defined what they are in the crawl-url-parameters. This is how I set it up:

• Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? - Yes: Changed, Reorders, or Narrows page content.
• How does this parameter affect page content? - Narrows
• Which URLs with this parameter should Googlebot crawl? - No URLs

I approached this like this: First, I need to approve the user experience and get what I can done with SEO but later, I can fix all the SEO problems. For example, I know I could have used AJAX for the layered navigation but I was thinking - lets get it working and populated. It took 5 minutes of my time to use this tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters which is 2010 - when Rand did the whiteboard friday, this tool didn't exist.

You: I've heard of temporary escapes via redirects, but the site usually ends up in the same trouble again once the link graph has been updated.

Me: I'll let you know how it goes but my goal was to get the people who did have it bookmarked, or from old good links that would bring in traffic.. at least they would find what they we're searching for while I find the time to clean up bad links. Since I was restructuring the keyword strategy to be more target ( mens, ladies ) I needed to be able to do something with them. I felt, that the search results would be the best placefor them on our site, as it is right now.

What I have been doing today:

• We have a lot of similar products. So I am going through them and adding the rel=canonical or changing the content, url, etc, etc.
• Looking for a solution to getting a view all canonical in place on paginated results.
• Fixing small bugs.
• Thinking about how I can make the search better. For example, we are a eCommerce site but we also have a great blog with good, well written content. Now, how can I offer both of them in the search results as a good user experience.

I'm going to mark your post as a good answer because, I'm realizing that my case, my be different because of the architecture change and without giving a link to the site so you can really see - no ones maybe, going to be able to "grasp" it.

..and just building a better site. you always need to try to maximize the value of a click. What do you want them to do when they land on that page? Where do you want them to go? What are they asking for when they come to that page?

Each page - has a purpose. You want them to sign up to the site? building leads to new jobs? Why not have a form where you send them new types of jobs when you have them posted.. Take a look at http://www.shoemoney.com - he thinks like this: sending out a email is like going to the bank.

build your email list.

GOOD LUCK!

but when did it happen? what day? it could also not even be you but the sites you got backlinks from.

Take a look here: http://www.linkdex.com and it will be the best way to get this fixed. When you disvow these links, add comments and group things together. i.e. #possible link network - emailed webmaster joes@email.com - for removal.

#link directory - emailed webmaster@somesite.com

You dont have a lot of back links - and if you do disavow the links and need help qualifying them than reach out to me with the list you come up with.. or post them here. I'm sure we can help you qualify them.

There is nothing you can do to prevent it and really, you're not loosing a lot either. It may have been just that one back link. Webmasters change their sites. Domains expire. You just need to build links.

This is an awesome tool: http://www.link-assistant.com/buzzbundle/ - and you can learn how to use it here: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/buzzbundle-review-how-i-drive-traffic-to-my-blog/

I would look in webmaster tools to see when it changed.. I dont know what exactly else could have caused it without really looking into it. What I would do if I were you is change the title and description a little bit. You really don't need to use graduate that much.

Well - you're loosing more back links a day than gaining: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks-new/prefix/www.graduate-jobs.com%252Fgraduate-schemes

link velocity is important but you prob. lost those one or two back links that pushed it to where it needed to be.

Yea - I know what 302 means - I just don't want to pass link juice to the search page and if there is a penalty on those older pages. I dont know what else to do with them and for example, if the page was about red apples, then I will redirect it to ?s=red+apples - this page does have a faceted search.

Currently, if they landed on /category/model-name/ they would have to choose where to go. Do I want a gender-metel-type

I went after larger, _non-targeted _keywords before. Categories reflected that. I feel that the search page, would be a better user experience for the older categories. Am I right? I dont know what else to do with them.. What would you do? I dont want to keep them and some of them have some real bad links which will be cleaned up in time, but for now - the new categories, new pages, I feel, is a good step forward with a completely new design, layered navigation and faceted search.. I am building a better site.

but how would google know if its a eBay transaction or not because when we import it - it gets it's own order id when we import. hmm.

We're not going PPC at the moment but we may want to in the near feature to be honest. We do have 200+ orders a month.. most months. Like everyone we do have a slow season. Do you know if you can have two conversion pages? Do they track the entire funnel i.e. cart/shipping/billing/confirm order/order complete or can I skip the funnel to email: "confirm shipping address" kind of thing -> order complete?

And maybe its worth it just for the badge that we're a trusted store. Maybe it will increase conversions..

• https://ahrefs.com/index.php
• http://mixrank.com
• http://www.linkresearchtools.com

You can also check out Market Samurai!

Hello,

So we sell millions of dollars a month in merchandise - most of that comes from eBay transactions. We do have a script that posts to eBay and we do download our transactions from eBay and process the orders from our admin.

Now I feel we will do a lot better in the SERPs if we have the trusted stores quality signal. However; it comes down to this. The conversion pixel. Since the don't pay through the site - do you think we can get away of sending a email to a second conversion page for eBay transactions?

Have any of you noticed a boost in SERPs once you were approved with the Trusted Stores? Any advise?

I need some advise. I am remapping the eCommerce Categories to achieve a few goals:

• Have better landing pages - for a better user experience.
• I've been a bad boy - some crappy links. Panda did hurt.
• I've added layered navigation and faceted search.

In order to achieve a better user experience I've had a to break up the old categories. For example, when you landed on these pages - you had to choose between different sets of gender and medal type.

Model Name

• Mens Gold
• Mens Stainless
• Ladies Two Tone
• Mid-Size Yellow Gold

Do you see? So - here is what I am doing.. I created a better menu to be a lot more specific for people who land on other pages to get there. Now they can goto mens model name and select stainless or whatever, if they want, to dig in there or use the layered navigation. What we also did is now you can even view 20 products on these pages too as well as see the layered navigation to filter.

Now this is my question - I'm creating a list of these old categories and my plan is to 302 them to the search page with the faceted search. I have my search page globally, noindex, nofollow - is this the best strategy? How would you do it?

Apart from Redirects - what have you , other SEOs, learned about layered navigation and faceted search - where can it cause issues for SEO?

Take a look here: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/buzzbundle-review-how-i-drive-traffic-to-my-blog/ - its awesome.

exactly.

Just do it yourself. http://www.link-assistant.com/buzzbundle/

Buzz Bundle is awesome. When you set up a new article and publish that - add in your keywords and then promote it. Do it for a hour a day and you will save money and get results.. just from using buzz bundle.

I would ask for references. Ask what industries they worked with then get specific. If I were to suggest anyone it would be: http://signup.terrykyleseo.com and I would also reach out to josh bachynski: https://plus.google.com/103148597495865728968/posts

No, I understand. Thanks for jumping in. The only reason why said it was a uglier subdomain, just to express that - even that didn't have a impact impressions, traffic, or CTR on images in my case.

Note, I get 80k+ UV a month and I spend more time monitoring traffic sources and do date comparisons than I should. I have alerts that tell me if I loose x% of traffic on a landing page.

As you can see - a lot of GB - we get a lot of image traffic - no impact, with my ugly url that I wont even make a effort to change.

Joseph

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You could always change his name to an alias as a ghost writer for someone important in the company?

I use buzz bundle. It's awesome. As far as 50+ accounts - i dont have that many clients so I couldn't tell you. I would still check it out though. This review is awesome: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/buzzbundle-review-how-i-drive-traffic-to-my-blog/

Great answer. Also, tables are harder to fix later.. the smaller the page, the less your page "weights" - I think right now you should work on fixing architecture, and the rest of the on page stuff. I'm thinking recoding his site to use divs wouldn't have an immediate impact on user engagement. Time spent best, somewhere else. ( Maybe working on errors in WMT )

Im thinking you can create a denver page. I know you think that having these big images on the home page is what people want to see but I'm sure you can do a lot better by adding a form on the home page and get more leads. I can wireframe something out for you if you want.

Thinking -  You can have both your denver office and austin office on the home page. On the Austin Page - have your address and number on the bottom. On your Denver Page, have your phone number and address there for just your denver location.

Make it easier for people to contact you. Also, your page is kind of slow.

I think this will do you wonders: http://wordpress.org/plugins/pinterest-pin-it-button-for-images/

By the way, I love your font.

No, I recently switched to wpengine ( http://moz.com/perks - we get 4 months free ) and they have a CDN. I haven't noticed any impact on my image results/impressions and the url for the image is pretty ugly like: username-wpengine.domain.com/2013/05/image.jpg or something like that.

From what I seen, I dont think that matters. I hope that helps.

Yea - maybe the niche but you should always try to improve your CTR in webmaster tools. Whats the search impressions? Thats what makes us SEOs.. because we always ask: why is this ranking and not this.

I would go check out this: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/buzzbundle-review-how-i-drive-traffic-to-my-blog/ - Buzz Bundle is the only tool I use for SEO. Each Product, Post, Landing Page I want to rank..

If its a informational site with a blog, and you're using wordpress pages for the front of the site. It make since to have the blog its own "folder" - it makes since to filter down in google analytics because you have something to "hold on too" but I'm sure having blog in the URL does not decrease value its just how you want to structure your site.

If you wanted to send me links via PM and add me on analytics, I can take a look and let you know what I think. Have you checked WMT and see what pages people are landing on and the CTR?

Grey Hat I think.

Do you have root access to the server? If you do then a rewrite map is a lot faster then a bunch of rewrite rules & conditions.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap

You can always just add comments with the hash tag: # what each thing does and group them. That would be cleaner.

many people run home businesses. I would say: Yes. They can send you a letter and you will get it. I have a DBA name with my home address. My answer is YES.

Make sure you UPDATE your database settings, and change all of your passwords. Also, UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE! I'm glad you got this fixed.

Great answer!

answered. I hope I was helpful.