Actually you can take those off in wordpress. You just have to be careful about collisions. A collision being say a page that has the same name as a product. I use one of the SEO plugins to take the category names off of my site. I know it is not the yoast plugin, but it is the other popular one.

Sorry, I would log in and tell you what it is, but I am on a mobile device and someone has actually been trying to crack my site for the last few days, so I deleted my wp-login page. So the site cannot be logged into currently. When I get back around my desktop I will give you the name of the SEO module I use to do it.

For using the tv route like you mentioned, the new chromecast by google looks like it could be a viable idea for pretty cheap. I don't know if I understand correctly, but from what i get you can mirror your laptop on a tv wirelessly and use your phone to control it.

I have seen lots of discussion about 301 passing "link juice" and page authority, and what not. If you can mimic the exact structure you have now, then it won't be an issue of whether things will pass. Also, there is a down time in SE's when you change a whole sites urls. You can skip that too if you leave them the same.

You can use seorch.eu it will list the prominence of words on the page for you. That should give you a good idea of what the keywords are.

It seems fixed on my end, also the javascript problem is fixed too. Clear your cache and try, see this screenshot http://screencast.com/t/y93SDZScAR

Check it now, the editor bugged out.

I did not notice this before, but it looks like you have a js error on your site. Try moving this

Right under this line

rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.myfairytalebooks.com/product_images/favicon.ico?1370451016" />

All of the css needs to be included before the first line of javascript, including inline javascript. That is why you would move that css up to where you deleted the two lines from.

Try taking these two lines out

http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />

http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />

And moving this line to where they were

href="http://www.myfairytalebooks.com/templates/__custom/Styles/styles.css" media="all" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

With chromecast coming to market, it could be a more pervasive problem. I haven't actually used a device like this or the others out, but I would bet that you could not get the resolution of the daisy chained display.

A thing I mentioned earlier in another thread, you might watch out about doing that. With the new devices being able to share screens, someone could be trying to cast your site on a monitor or a tv from their phone. It would be frustrating viewing a mobile site on a big tv.

You totally can, but be careful. With media queries, your viewers will still be loading all of the resources even if they are not present on the screen. That is one main reason why people normally opt to using smaller versions of their current graphics, they just resize them in the css.

Ahrefs will let you do this, see this link https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains-new/subdomains/moz.com

The best way is to ask. With the ever changing landscape of devices, automatically redirecting is falling out of favor. I would use a cookied little bar at the bottom of the page that asks if they want to view the mobile site. Let them select or close it and have it expire after the session.

One thing to keep in mind, google wants you to redirect to the same mobile page. Like if a user is on site.com/products/nifty-hair-gizmo.html don't redirect them to m.site.com, redirect them to m.site.com/products/nifty-hair-gizmo.html

The reason that automatically redirecting is falling out is because of devices like the new chrome cast and how other phones are set up. I might browse to your site on my phone and be casting it to my 46" lcd and you would never know. But I am going to be irritated if I have to look at your site in a mobile version on my tv.

Correct, it is a pita to do, but if you do things correctly and have an array that you can draw meta information from, it will get indexed. That is what we all want, instead of making a category of "red ipods" you can just have the search for "red pods" indexed, while disallowing anything from ?search=other term

MOZ is a great tool for that, it has linkscape built in. You can enter 3 competitors into your campaign to track them. If you really want to get indepth in tracking them, you can enter them as an actual campaign, then you can track their ranking in the SERP's too.

That is actually totally sector driven. I manage a wide range of e-commerce sites and I  can say that no day is better than another as a whole, but each shop has its busiest day.

I would start by sharing them yourself. Sounds spammy doesn't it? You can do it in a way that is not spammy though, let me tell ya how.

I am familiar with inmotion, I don't really care for them either, but at the same time I am a moderator for an e-commerce package called Prestashop. All the time people are asking for hosting recommendations, so this would be helpful to those people. The great part is, Prestashop has two hosting partners that they recommend, A2 and Inmotion. They have deals worked out with both of those companies, check here http://www.prestashop.com/en/industry-partners  (because of ajax, I cannot directly link you, but click webhosting partners)

This leads me to what I would do if I were you, I would troll the boards and look for people wanting recommendations, post a short message about inmotion and a link to the reviews. In the case of Prestashop I know with almost 100% certainty that it would not get flagged as spam since you are promoting a partner.

Most hosting companies have partnerships with other companies, use that and exploit it. Once you start posting the reviews, it will be more viable for other people to start posting them as well.

How many campaigns do you have?

If you have under 30, and are wanting to upgrade to an account with more campaigns, click the little person icon in upper right of the screen. Under it click billing and subscriptions. From there you can upgrade your account. If you need more than 30, click billing information while on the billing screen and there is a box on the right to contact Moz.

If you click on insights right here http://screencast.com/t/d1KboeRyIuQV , you get this view http://screencast.com/t/2p3KbTNpP which shows all of your posts if you keep click show older.

@Dana Tan, thanks for the good words.

@Hampig I am more a marketing person than an SEO. From my perspective, you are missing the big picture. 13k people a month is nice, but unless your product is a super extra specialized niche product, you are tapping the wrong market. When I first started in this market I would take just about every client that walked in the door, now that I have more experience I turn about 50% of clients away. The reason being is they have hired me because I am an expert at something (even if it is just self proclaimed ) and if they do not take my advice, there really is no point in me being an expert. For that matter I could just be some salaried employee to them, that has no say.

That being said, I think who ever is making these decisions has not thought them through on the economic end. By trying to take the customer away from the store, the cost to acquire a customer is going to be at least double if not triple of what it is to obtain a new customer. Would it not be a feasible suggestion for the retail stores to keep their 13k customers a month and for you to get 13k new customers? You would essentially triple your gross income depending on what the mark down to wholesale is.

I am guessing you are like I was, a guy in a beauty industry, that has no direction. I have a client in this industry and let me give you some of my resources that I have used and tell you how they have worked.

Beauty boxes, there are a lot of them and if your product is cheap enough that you can give away samples they work awesome. The basic premise is that you give them a sample and a coupon for your shop. They send this out in their monthly boxes. The best thing about this is the reach. My rough estimates from a couple of months ago is their reach is between 250,000 - 400,000 boxes a month with the top several companies combined together. Basically what people do is pay between $12 to $25 a month, and every month they get a box of beauty products set to their home to test. Here is a huff post slide show about the top ones, I think birch is still the biggest. http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/2012/beauty-sample-services#intro

Reddit r/makeupaddiction is a good place to advertise, covertly post. The ROI I have from posting their is incredible. Spend 20 minutes thinking out a good post, and it picks up traction, I have posted 8k in sales off of one forum post. Don't be spammy though, it will back fire on you.

Specktra.net they are a large makeup community that has a great news letter reach. They send out season mailings like "Best products to buy for christmas" and things like that. They are strictly paid placements, so are their blog posts and just about everything on the site. But it doesn't appear that way, which makes them not a bad resource.

I have several other if this is a route you want to go, the ROI would be greater and cost to acquire a customer would be lower. It is a route worth pitching.

I have a pet peeve about these situations. I saw one posted earlier today that was really similar. I do not see why people would want to start wholesaling their products, then turn around and cut the wholesaler's out of the loop. I understand that your client more than likely makes more money selling directly to the consumer, but at the same time they do not have the reach that however many brick and mortar stores have. Plus if the companies are selling online too, they have even greater reach. What you are wanting to do is the proverbial "cutting your nose off despite your face". If the company is ok with that, just don't renew wholesaler agreements. Then you can have all of the market share.

Barring doing that, and going against good advice, give product away for free. Have an insert in the box with a code that people can enter online to get a free one of what ever they buy. Do it smartly though, issue a code range to each store, so you can track where people are coming to buy the product. Then you can create a map and see how far people are actually traveling to get the product. The people that are the furthest away from the store will be the low hanging fruit, I would push more marketing effort in to them.

Also, when you give the the free product, you might try to goad them into an automatically re-ordering system. Hype it up, so they know that they will get the product delivered when they need it. You might even have a survey of 3-4 questions to get the free product and ask them how often they purchase it. Then with that information, give them re-occurring options based on that. Also do a discount system with that, say you sell 1 bottle for $20 maybe do a 6 month subscription for $100.

What is the purpose of the company wanting to do this?

You can either use /cats/ or /cats/* that should just block the cats folder and not the other folder. Note the first use is the preferred one.

Remove the products.. it adds no value. What the article is describing is if you have collisions. Like say you have a "page" in wordpress call "ipod" and you also have a product called "ipod" When you remove the category, everything will be like yoursite.com/ipod so if you have a product named the exact name as a page you will have a collision. Just ensure that you do not have this. SEO ultimate plugin can do this, I use it on my blog for the very same thing with no problems. Or you can manually do the rewrites in the htaccess file.

You absolute best bet since you are not dealing with a lot of products, it sounds like it is a small site, is do it in the middle of the night and do a spider from MOZ and see if it picks up errors.

Like the taco commercial says "Why not do both" seriously, that is what I would do. What cart / cms are you using? I have a trick I have done on a few sites that does a 1up to google on that one. Here is what I do (if it is possible in your cart /cms)

On an e-commerce site, there are some fairly common searches. The cart that i develop in actually saves the searches and how many times people have searched them. What I do is find the top 10 or so and use the htaccess to rewrite the url of the search. So instead of it being like http://mydomain.com/products/all-products?search=ipod have that rewritten to http://mydomain.com/products/all-products/ipod you can do the same for categories as well, which I think is what you are working with. The only thing you have to keep in mind, is most cms / carts will use the same title and meta description for the pages. So you can either write an override or a module that prints out what you want for the meta information on the search pages. Its pretty crafty, but it works well once you get it down.

More than likely it was one 3 things, a DNS issue, a peering issue, or a temp ban.

If you were currently ftp'ing into the site and had too many threads open, usually above 4 or 5 but all depends on the server setting. They can issue a temporary ban on your ip address for the site. Depending on how the server is set up, you can either get an explicit message, which is bad. Or you can just get an error like you, which is good and it means the server is shedding the load.

A DNS issue could be that a name server is down somewhere or having other problems. You generally cannot do anything about this and they are generally fixed quickly because of the amount of sites / information hosted on them is vital.

A peering problem, like a DNS issue is usually spotty. More than likely that is what was happening. A peering issue means you cannot access the "chunk" of internet that the peer directs traffic through. So say you can access 99.9% of everything you want, because it is not going through the peer with the issues.

The best tools you can use to diagnose these problems are TOR, it is a socks proxy that routes your traffic so essentially you will be accessing the site through another isp, who could not be having peering or DNS issues with the hosting isp. Also you can use http://www.whatsmydns.net/  which will let you know what different dns servers around the world are returning. It will let you know if a major DNS server is having an issue. For general checking you can use this as well, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

I have since moved to Freshbooks, because I wanted a light weight billing system, but I did use a pretty powerful one once. What I used was WHMCS, it is what web hosts use. It has a ton of features and it is all hosted on your server. You can set it up with say a Namecheap api and offer domain registrations through your billing too. Since I am a developer more than an SEO guy, I recommended and developed a site for a client that shudders sells alexa ranking increases. I talked them into using that and they love it. It has a very large payment gateway support, it can suspend accounts, charge late fees, and a whole host of other things. It might be something to look into.

One I would not recommend is box billing. I tried it for like a week, it double charged every single client.

If it were me dealing with this, this is what I would do. I would craft a 404 page that has your most popular articles on it. Then right below the navigation in a very obvious place, I would Put an error message that says the article has been removed or what ever you want really. Then I would follow your page guides and have a list of several other articles that the person might like. Be sure in all of this to send the 404 status code with the header and make sure that no other pages link to the 404 page. If you use a different 404 page for the site, I would set it so that this special page only works with the articles that you are removing.

I gave a concrete answer, I said disavow them. The simple reason being is that YOU need to manipulate the link direction of your website, not someone else.

Always use the disavow tool for anything that you did not create or would not want created. The higher the sites PR, the more links it will take to drop the PR and get a penalty. Think how hard it would be to spam facebook or twitter for google to level a penalty on them. The lower the page rank, the easier it is to get a penalty leveled. Its a matter of numbers really. If you have 150 good links, they can be washed away with 5000 bad links. But Facebook who might have 10,000,000 good links, it would take 5bn or more links to do it.

If it were me I would disavow them. You don't want them, you don't want to have to lose sleep over them. 6 months later if the site dips in rankings, you will always wonder if it was the bad backlinks.

From my understanding, that is not what that tag is for. You can read more about it here, http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/x-default-hreflang-for-international-pages.html

As a suggestion, I would recommend having different content. Just because they both speak english, it does not mean that they speak the same flavor of english. If you can change the content enough to suit the people in the UK I think you will have better overall results.

Notice my first sentence "Depending on how they are using the brand name..."  my whole post hangs on that.

Depending on how they are using the brand name, it might be a legal matter. It could be something easy enough as filing a DMCA notice with their hosting company or sending them a cease and desist notice. They aren't immediate solutions, but they will solve the problem.

It is going to be a little bit more difficult than that. Unless you have a wildcard certificate your ssl certificate is not good for sub domains. www.site.com is considered a sub domain of site.com. That being said, I would use url rewriting to handle the problem. Here is a small example of what you could use.

Rewrite Rules for site.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Redirect from example.com to www.site.com

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Turn SSL on for payments

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} /payments.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Turn SSL off everything but payments

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !/payments.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

You will have to enter the other pages that you want to be ssl too, this should get you started though.

It looks like it is a cache problem to me, everything works on this end.

One thing I would recommend is adding a redirect, redirecting your general pages to the non secure http. All of your pages seem to be able to be accessed with both protocols. I would leave the checkout process, login, user account, and contact pages behind the https, and make them only redirect to https.

No problem. What platform do you use, because you can include what CleverPhD said as well, it really just depends on how the headers of the template are generated. I am not familiar with a platform that uses directories for the cart pages, but I am sure that some exist. One thing to watch out for if you try to no follow a whole directory is, some carts put all of their secured (ssl) pages in the same place. This could include the contact page, which you want to leave index able. If you are not familiar with coding in the platform, I would avoid it, because if you got the conditional code wrong, you could de-index a portion of your site accidentally.

Generally you always disallow the cart page in e-commerce sites. The reason being is that some spiders like baidu, will make fake shopping carts when spidering your site. If you keep track of your abandoned cart rate, this will wreak havoc on your stats.

When you disallow the cart.php, it will keep the whole page from being indexed, which ideally is not a bad thing. More than likely the way your cart works is it uses ajax to post the product to that page silently to add it to the cart. But at the same time if you go to site.com/cart.php it will more than likely take you to the cart screen. There really is no inherit value in having that page indexed by search engines. If people are coming to that page, it will also skew your numbers when you are trying to figure why people are dropping out of the checkout process.

I would leave them be. Use accurate meta tags initially, then just let them stay. One thing I would add if it is possible, is to use authorship rich snippets. If the news articles are reviewed, add that one too. Another suggestion I might give is to internally link them to newer articles. Like say you have one from 2007 that talks about Googles stock price, I would link it to the most current one that talks about Googles stock price and put a little message in about an updated article. Other than that, I think you will be fine.

This might give you some information about the site as a whole, http://builtwith.com/?http%3a%2f%2fmoz.com%2fcommunity%2fq   RoR is what it looks like the site is built in.

Generally yes it will. The cases that I have seen it not work is when people use a plugin that turns their site into a responsive theme. But people using those these days are rare.

1. Correct, it is best not to use manufacturers descriptions alone, you need to water it down with more on page content or you need to have your own written (best case).

2. Ehh, I know it will be contrary to what other people do here, but I always put the 3 products on one page and use combinations to access them. Depending on the platform you use, you can use a query string to set the product displayed by default too. I know a lot of people go for more pages, but I go for more / better content on one page. I don't think the searches between colors of the product will vary enough to warrant 2 more pages. Plus, in e-commerce it can hurt you in the form of lost orders. If someone lands on the wrong color product they might just hit back in google and try the next site.

The reason is because of the way that your server is set up. You can read more about how asp handles errors here http://www.colincochrane.com/post/2008/01/ASP-NET-Custom-Errors-Preventing-302-Redirects-To-Custom-Error-Pages.aspx

You can check the status codes that your server is sending here, http://web-sniffer.net/

Were you signed into any google services? I am not aware of it, but google might be caching profiles to ip addresses. Then that could taint the results that Moz brings back. It is really a tough area, google tries to stop people like Moz and Moz tries to get around google.

My best guess would be because of the landscape of search engines. Search results used to be if anyone searched for "dogs" everyone saw the same results. For the past few years google has been actively tailoring search results to what you want to see. These things are based on what you have searched for in the past, sites that you frequent, geographic location, and many other factors.

My best guess is that Moz uses proxies to do their search monitoring. So they generally return general results. When you are testing, are you just opening up your browser and googling what terms you want to rank for? If so, you are more than likely getting results tailored to you. Use a proxy like tor, not logged into a google account and search. Try changing nodes to and you will see the results differ as well.

It is part of the universal analytics code. You can read more about it here, https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/

If it were me, I would do a spam report and send a DMCA notice to both the host and to the contact on the site. I would press the issue as hard as I could. Basically contact anyone who will listen and can do something.

This is really to be expected. The authorship is in beta and their is no guarantee that google will use your picture or that you will be included in the beta. That being said, my best guess is that they do this so they can monitor click thru rate. Every site I manage has this problem, so I wouldn't fret.