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yea if you goto her profile you will see her site. I see what's going on. She owns the domain. Call hostgator - you own the hosting so they backup. Hurry before they "override it" with a newer version.

I just think your over complicating it.

Many hosts back up stuff like this.. I would reach out to them. You still the domain? Is this is a shared host? I imagine so.. Contact them right now and they will restore a backup then UPGRADE your wordpress to the latest version. change the database user and password, change all of your passwords.

It looks like hostgator is hosting your site. they do weekly/monthly backups I think.

**If you need me to upgrade your site for freee I will do it for you. **

Sure it says the same thing but if you look at it and you feel the message your delivering is better then you should be able to rank higher.

Think of it like this: /car/make/year/part/ How many people have that  url structure.. a lot. Just because you have the same url structure does not mean it's duplicate.

Then I would go with: www.example.com/tulips-amsterdam because there is no reason to have a / vs - www.example.com/tulips-amsterdam does fine.

You need to encode it.

[komimoda@home ~]$ php echo urlencode('http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery,-35%-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html'); ?> http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geographics.com%2FGraduation-Stationery%2C-35%25-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates%2Fc1353_1354_1359%2Findex.html[komimoda@home ~]$

It's bombing on the %-  that isn't a number after it. If you want to shoot me a email I can get it done for you for free? joseph@michael-chambers.com

Without db hashing, it's nearly impossible to get those from htaccess into a rewrite table lookup. %20 for sure. apache turns the char back to a space before passing it on for comparison. and text based of course, uses the space as a separater between match, and replacement. It probably also turns %25 back into a % before hash tables too. sorry tmi.

Oh look at this:

http://www.geographics.com/Graduation-Stationery%2C-35%25-OFF-Printable-Certificates-Blank-Gift-Certificates/c1353_1354_1359/index.html

You want to use a 301 because 302 is only temporally. Does that make since? A case where you can use a 302 is when a site is under construction and you just redirect all traffic temporally to /under-constriction/ for maintaance or something. Not the ideal solution but to answer your question: 301 that. 301 = permanent move.

Will you have more information about /amsterdam/ ? since we going with flowers in amsterdam then I would imagine a page about the different flowers in amsterdam.

So if you have more information of offer in amsterdam then I would say: /amsterdam/tulips

Maybe add things you can do to improve performance?

Well, since google is obsessed with speed and it's likely that the "handshake" -- I won't get that deep.

https:// and http:// are two different links. We all know that. .TLDs don't matter.. HTTPS:// doesn't matter. It's all the same. However maybe you can run a test: www.google.com/websiteoptimizer and see if the user engagement is better.

How fast is the site? Add: _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);  to your google analytics ( right after your _trackPageview ) and see how everyone else is handing it.

The bottom answer is: No. It will not effect your SERPs however if your sites not fast then thats something you should think about. I just installed: http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/ on my server and that does help a bit.

I did get approved though. SWEET.

So I noticed today that there is now Real Time Data: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html and I cannot figure out how to access this.

You also need long tail and branded links. Don't stop building links to justify the change. You should see a change back in the SERPs in about 3 weeks. I did the same thing.

yea me too: Listening to Matt Cutts here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/ If you want to fast forward to: 1:30 and it seems to me that hes saying that you can have a canonical from what I understand: anywhere. Hearing that and wondering how the search engines REALLY interpret iframes ( as they want to read a site more like a human ) how will they handle the canonical.

Sure not 100% of the site actually us a duplicate but the main stuff is. It makes me wonder. I'll really know if I see a backlink from eBay in OSE. ( not saying that that is the goal but the content is ours and if the shoe was on the other foot and we getting penalized..)

My client is generating templates for his eBay template based on content he has on his eCommerce platform.

I'm 100% sure this will cause duplicate content issues. My question is this.. and I'm not sure where eBay policy stands with this but adding the canonical tag to the template.. will this work if it's coming from a different page i.e. eBay?

Update:

I'm not finding any information regarding this on the eBay policy's: http://ocs.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?CustomerSupport&action=0&searchstring=canonical

So it does look like I can have rel="canonical" tag in custom eBay templates but I'm concern this can be considered: "cheating" since rel="canonical is actually a 301 but as this says: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html it's legitimately duplicate content.

The question is now: should I add it or not?

UPDATE seems eBay templates are embedded in a iframe but the snap shot on google actually shows the template. This makes me wonder how they are handling iframes now. looking at http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml does shows the content inside the iframe. Interesting.

Anyone else have feedback?

Yes -- I have the @ in my title.

Thats a good question! I can't honestly say but if that is showing correctly then you don't need to worry about it effecting the rankings or your CTR.

How does the magnifying glass look that takes a snapshot of the page? If that looks fine then remember what the search crawler actually sees: http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

If you're blocking /scripts and your CSS is in there then yes - you are blocking it.

I work with a dating agency and I see this a lot now where google would actually take the content from the site and display what they think is relevant to that search term. They change where the description would be..  with your page content. It's actually helped us. I actually haven't seen this case in the title but I imagine its the same kind of thing.

In another note: Did your meta data change recently? If so you would need to wait for Google to re-cache.

I imagine they are going to release it when they release social monitoring tool. Did you notice today the new dashboard for the "pro"?

Multiple sitemaps help! There is a really good article here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/multiple-xml-sitemaps-increased-indexation-and-traffic and I think this is where you're going to need to start.

One thing you can do is help google with pagination: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

In google webmaster tools under site configuration there is a section for URL parameters. I would look at that too.

If you want to fix all of the url parameters like: ?profession=RN&speciality= then maybe use $_POST instead of $_GET or set up landing pages for all of the different types of pages.

What does: http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20034082-crawl-diagnostics say?

A good way to check is go to google.com and type in your full URL like this:

site:www.domain.com

Then you will be populated with your sites pages of course. Now there is a link there that says: "cache" and you can see what it cached.

I think they may be getting better at knowing what's in a iframe. Look at how many sites use facebook comments on the blog and how do you think thats ran? iframes. Do you remember google and adobe working together at reading .pdf's and flash.

The little magnifying glass has some cool technology behind it that I'm sure helped them know whats really on the site. Without getting to far off track I do feel like they are better at reading iframes. Just my .02c in this thread.

Sure we all know about oDesk or textbroker but is there a place people can go to hire higher quality writers?

Let me tell you this from what I seen. I just moved a website from /store/ to root about 3 weeks ago and google still has all of the OLD /store/ links in the search engines however all of the serp results have / in them. So it's like it didn't update its index for 3 weeks. I have never done anything like this before so I am wondering the same thing.

That's a good question. I don't know how any of you other pros out there handle article marketing but I switch it up a little. I use different anchor text for each submission..

I never really thought about it like this. Good question Sammy! I'm interested in seeing what other people here have to say.

yea, sometimes it happens. I noticed that he caches data too. For example a site used to have stuff in /store/ but later it was 301'd to root and for the longest time it would give me a alert ( it looks like this page redirects to /store/ do you want to look there instead? It would be so annoying but I learned to deal with it.

Hmm - if you did 50 per week for 2 weeks then did 100 for 3 weeks and 150 for 4 weeks then you wont be looked at as spammy. Think of this: when do you think those links will get indexed anyway? It's best to keep a chart of what you did each day and come back and check to see if it's there or not. ( like blog commenting )

If you are doing blog commenting them maybe you can subscribe to responses as well. But like EGOL said: natural. As long as you're not using software to build links then you will be fine. The question is: How many links CAN you build a day?

this is always not the best answer. I've seen cases where the click has too many pages and it takes a long time to get to a product. A lot of the products too are similar so I combined a lot of parts together and hes getting 67% higher ctr and 3x more sales and phone calls.

Do you have any case studies that measure how much it helps when you have a feed updated everyday? I like your answer.

• In google webmaster tools you would need to verify the domain.
• Get a list of similar pages your website has with the other one you want to buy.
• 301 all of the pages to a similar page on your existing website.
• Tell google you did so in webmaster tools.

The reason you want to 301 these pages is because you want to rank for those as well and you dont want all of the people finding links on the web and being redirected to your home page. The authority will happen over time.

Yea I never heard of Advanced Web Ranking so I'm downloading it now. I use Market Samurai to monitor keywords so I dont know how different it is.

What I would like to find is a way I can set different competitors for different labels of keywords. For example:

If I'm selling car parts and I have a set of competitors for  the keyword: Honda Performance Parts

And 30 different other keywords. However if I also want to rank for Mazda Performance Parts and any kind of sets like that.. I may have different competitors for that kind of list.

What shopping cart are you using? I know that pinnaclecart ( my favorite eCommerce platform ) has a out of box solution. Maybe I can perform a search for you?

but it's still user friendly.

I use rackspace | cloud sites. Is there a way I can request to have a domain pushed to a pool you have in UK or CA for example?

very good and well thought out answer.

Yes -- I actually just got done reverting back from HTTPS -> HTTP because of the handshake. Think about this.

• How many images does the page have? All of your images need to have SSL.
• How many styles and external style sheets? All of your style sheets need to have SSL
• Does all of the sites you link to have SSL as well? I found that if I link something it can sometimes red flag that there are elements in the page that are not secure.

It's a lot of work and a lot of maintenance and at the end: the visitor gets frustrated and leaves. Even if you are at rackspace and you have a dedicated SSL proxy server with load bouncers and it auto scales. The clients browser still needs to form a relationship with the SSL certificate for all of the images/scripts on your page.

Well, how big is your budget? You can get uchin 7 ( Google Analytics Core ) http://www.google.com/urchin/ for about 10 grand. I haven't been able to find any resellers for uchin 7 but 5 & 6 are sold for $5/mo with www.softlayer.com but I believe you need to have a dedicated server with them to get that package.

http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

http://getclicky.com/

There are a few but you're always going to find differences.

Im not sure how you will handle 301 without access to IIS itself. Is there a reason why you want IIS7? If you can run apache with "classic asp" then would that work for you:

http://www.apache-asp.org/install.html

I personally use rackspace. If you know how to install everything then the cloud sites with 1GB of rank would do good for you which runs about 50 bucks a month.