Not being silly, but have you tried Google? Searching for seo consultant or seo agency etc together with your location will surely bring up some likely candidates. Linkedin might also be a good place to try the same type of search for some local talent. I agree with svmedia that it is nice to be able to meet them in person, although certainly not absolutely needed.

Hi Bridget,

There is no alt attribute in css, so no you cannot add it there,

There are a couple of things you can do.

1. Optimizing your image file names will at least give an indication of what the image is about and

2. Rethink your css and the use of background images. Specifically you could get the same effect as you have now without background images using a combination of absolutely and relatively positioned divs. This way you can have the same layout as now but with the image in the html rather than the css and alt tags will be available for them.

Check the link here for some demo code: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8708945/how-to-position-text-over-an-image-in-css

Hope that helps!

Hi,

htaccess can be a pain and I will admit I usually manage what I am after with a bit of trial and error. Try the following, and if you have problems concentrate on the lines:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

I have added a redirect for index.html to root, and from non www to www and removed the last .html from the last list of _ to - redirects. Give it a shot, and keep that backup handy just in case. If no go, maybe one of the htaccess experts around can step in and have a look, I am not 100% sure what some of those other rules are doing to be honest!

<ifmodule pagespeed_module="">ModPagespeed on 
ModPagespeedEnableFilters extend_cache,combine_css, collapse_whitespace,move_css_to_head, remove_comments</ifmodule>

<ifmodule mod_headers.c="">Header set Connection keep-alive</ifmodule>

AddCharset UTF-8 .html

<filesmatch ".(js|css|html|htm|php|xml|swf|flv|ashx)$"="">

#SetOutputFilter DEFLATE 
#</filesmatch>

<ifmodule mod_expires.c="">ExpiresActive On 
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 years" 
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 years" 
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 years" 
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 years" 
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 years" 
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access 1 years" 
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 years"</ifmodule>

<files 403.shtml="">order allow,deny allow from all</files>

# mod_rewrite On only needed once
RewriteEngine On

301 permanent redirect old underscore.html to new dash urls

redirect 301 /PRODUCTS http://www.timports.co.uk/kiln-dried-logs 
redirect 301 /kindling_firewood.html http://www.timports.co.uk/kindling-firewood
redirect 301 /about_us.html http://www.timports.co.uk/about-us
redirect 301 /log_delivery.html http://www.timports.co.uk/log-delivery
redirect 301 /oak_boards_delivery.html http://www.timports.co.uk/oak-boards-delivery
redirect 301 /un_edged_oak_boards.html http://www.timports.co.uk/un-edged-oak-boards
redirect 301 /wholesale_logs.html http://www.timports.co.uk/wholesale-logs
redirect 301 /privacy_policy.html http://www.timports.co.uk/privacy-policy
redirect 301 /payment_failed.html http://www.timports.co.uk/payment-failed
redirect 301 /payment_info.html http://www.timports.co.uk/payment-info

301 permanent redirect index.html to folder

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)index.html?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/))index.html?$ http://www.timports.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

301 permanent redirect non-www to www

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www.timports.co.uk)?$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.timports.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

301 permanent redirect all .html to non .html

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .html
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Hi,

I think you will only need this bit:

#301 from example.com/page.html to example.com/page
RewriteCond%{THE_REQUEST}^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /..html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule^(.).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

And you would replace this bit below with the above:

Rewrite valid requests on .html files  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f

RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html?rw=1 [L,QSA] 
 #

Return 404 on direct requests against .html files

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .html$  
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !rw=1 [NC] 
 RewriteRule ^ - [R=404]

But leave the  at the end of that section.

htaccess files can be a bit picky, so be sure to keep a backup so you can quickly undo something if it is not working!

Hi,

Indeed there seems to be an issue with your redirects since the .html versions are still available on your site. Two things to check in the first instance:

1. The redirect line for the .html to non .html versions:

Rewrite valid requests on .html files  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f

RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html?rw=1 [L,QSA]

I am not sure if this will work the way you want it. First of all a # at the beginning of this line means it is a comment and not processed so you seem to have the RewriteCond part of the statement as a comment (maybe this is just the forum formatting it wrong, but good to check).
You can check some other solutions for redirecting .html to non .html here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5730092/how-to-remove-html-from-url

2. At the bottom of the file you have a bunch of 301 redirects like this:

redirect 301 /kindling_firewood.html http://www.timports.co.uk/kindling-firewood.html

Which are working as expected redirecting underscored urls to urls with dashes. But they are also redirecting to the .html version which means you will be getting into double redirects which is pointless in your case. Once you have the non .html redirects working as expected you should adjust these 301s to go to the non .html version like so:

redirect 301 /kindling_firewood.html http://www.timports.co.uk/kindling-firewood

Hope that helps!

Hi

This should do it, you place the robots.txt in the root directory of your site.

User-agent: * Disallow: /product-category/

You can check out some more examples here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt

As for the multiple urls linking to the same pages, you will just need to check all possible variants and make sure you have them covered in the robots.txt file.

Google webmaster tools has a page where you can use to check if the robots.txt file is doing what you expect it to do (under Health -> Blocked Urls).

It might be easier to block the pages with a meta tag as described in the link above if you are running a plugin allowing this, that should take care of all the different url structures also.

Hope that helps!