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Thanks for your answer.

They did not optimize anything.... But for the rest it is plausible that it took quite some time, yes.

This blog won't need much optimization, Yoast is fine.

You are right, I have not thought about that, but it is definitely important!

This is a simple theme, I used it on another domain of mine, it takes 5 minutes to setup.

good advice, thanks

Thanks for your response.

All I can think of is some tweaking of the http access? All they did was install the wordpress and install the theme, they did not tweak the theme.

My client has medium sized website (15k pages).

They have a company that takes care of everything related to the website.

Recently they decided to put a wordpress blog on the site, with a bought theme that only needed the yoast SEO plugin. On an extension like this www.domain.com/blog  I could do this very quickly and I am not a professional programmer.

The company claims it took them 40 hours and charged 40 x 125$ = 5,000 $ for it. That does not make sense to me at all. Can anyone explain to me how a clean wordpress install with a preselected theme can take 40 hours? Especially when the people that are installing it call themselves wordpress experts and make custom themes etc.

Thanks in advance.

Should not be too hard, there are options for mass 301ing.

What is going wrong? It is not very clear for me why 301 is not working

Can it be that the old indexed page still shows the old text? In my experience when I change metas and titles it takes a random amount of time to get indexed the way I want it, even though webmaster tools show the correct info.

The randomness is even worse when it comes to ranking rich snippets (in my experience).

How long has it been? I would just give it some time

For my client I need to add some structure to its pages. The deepest pages are about restaurants and are sorted per city and then per province as a larger silo. I want to do this:

Homepage > Provinces > Cities > Restaurant page

This structure is optimal, but I as a usability freak I prefer making the experience cool for the users.

I want to add interactive pictures that are cool for the user and hopefully are readable for the google bots, I want to do it like this:

The homepage shows a map of my country that has the twelve provinces outlined, that light up when you hover over them. Then when you click a province you get to the province page. On the province page you see a large image of the province and see all cities where there are restaurants, when you hover over a city it grows a little and when you click it you arrive at the city page, at that page you will find a list of all restaurants that are available in the city.

What I need to know is, is it possible for google to see these pictures as a nice site structure? Or do I need to add the ugly footer links and have pages with lists of links...? And what is the smartest way to structure this, flash?

Thnx Kyle, I figured that we should add the noindex, follow tag. It is nice to see that you agree on it.

I am still wondering if it is normal to add a link to the frame and get that link indexed, it would be awesome. It would be a relevant link because the user can find reviews of the restaurant it wants to book a table for.

Is there any way to test how much Google can read from my Iframe?

The Iframe is a plugin where people can make a reservation.

I think it is relevant to place a link in the frame where people can read reviews from the people that have visited this restaurant.

Yes I have the control over it, because it is our own iframe

I am doing some SEO work for client that has a restaurant reservation plugin with a review website connected to it, they handle reservations through an iframe plugin on all pages of the restaurants that are connected to it.

Can I place a link in the iframe and get Google to index it? Would be nice.

Google is indexing the iframes when you look for certain very longtail keywords. Google displays a page where only the iframe is displayed, this is not relevant for the user and I would like to remove it. But I prefer links and indexed iframes over no links and no indexed iframes on longtail keywords.