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Great. Thankyou.

Hi Guys,

Just have a small problem with a htaccess 301 redirect.

I would like to 301:

www.old-domain.com & old-domain.com

to

www.new-domain.com.

The site is exactly the same with the same directory structure so i would also like all the subpages to work. Eg:

www.old-domain.com/folder/page & old-domain.com/folder/page

to

www.new-domain.com/folder/page

Many thanks

Hi Vijay

We've been dealing in domains for nearly 10 years now and we have never noticed a difference in the ranking ability.

For some reason the hyphenated domains do seem to have a lower resale value on the aftermarket but if you plan is to develop it rather than investment, i'd go for it.

All the best

I'd always recommend that the navigation is useful to the user. e.g.

if your website covered other areas of finance then this would make sense:

finance.com/insurance/home-insurance/
finance.com/insurance/motor-insurance/
finance.com/loans/homeowner-loans/

but if you were adding it just for seo, personally i wouldn't bother. I'd go for

Insurance.com/home-insurance/
insurance.com/motor-insurance/

This all depends on where the press releases have been posted.

If you've got the urls of the sites they're on it may be worth looking at these in OSE to see if SEOmoz has them indexed. However, don't forget that the SEOmoz index is not the same as google's. Just because it's not showing on OSE doesn't mean that G hasn't seen it.

Hi Daniel,

I don't have a list but i have recently seen some benefit from business.com. It's not the cheapest directory at around $300 per year but you might be able to find a coupon code on google.

Best of luck

Ben

Very noble Ryan. Thanks

You're welcome Jeanie. Glad to be of assistance.

Ben

If you've got less than 500 pages you can create a free xml sitemap here http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Can you give us a little more info? Are you refering to an SSL Certificate?

In short, yes. I've always found them to be a benefit - essential on an image search ranking. Also don't forget your alt tags.

Have you been comparing with Open Site Explorer? http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

I have experienced this myself when a competitor is ranking top with no explaination. It can be very frustrating but there is always something behind a No 1 ranked site.

If you want to send me the url's i will take a look.

The key question to ask yourself is always 'will this help my users/customers?'

I do know some people that try this, but in my opinion there's no benefit.

If this is the only criteria that your page is failing on, i wouldn't worry about it too much.

If you think having 48 occurences of your keyword is beneficial to the user of the site i would leave it as is.

edit: From your info above it would suggest that you have 39 occurences in the body of your text. This does actually sound a little bit over the top. If you're able to get this down to around 6 i think your customers would find you content more useful.

Have you noticed any change in your ranking positions?

Hi John

I'd agree with Paul "CMMS Software | EAM Maintenance Management Software" is the best looking structure for your title.

You might find this useful if you've not already seen it.

http://static.seomoz.org/user_files/SEO_Web_Developer_Cheat_Sheet.pdf

The backlink operator only works without the space. This would suggest that google many have few/no links to your site. This is a not a great way to check backlinks though. Google webmaster tools often displays a more accurate result.

"You can perform a Google search using the link: operator to find a sampling of links to any site. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list a selection of the web pages that have links pointing to the Google home page. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page URL."

Mor Info here https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=44231

You can perform a Google search using the link: operator to find a sampling of links to any site. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list a selection of the web pages that have links pointing to the Google home page. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page URL.

The site is likley to be penalised as long as the site is breaking the webmaster guidelines. If you believe that you have corrected the issues causing the penalty you can ask google to reconsider your site here http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843

Good Luck

I think your concerns are well founded. For an SEO guru his site is badly built and optimised.

Personally, i think SEOmoz has all the SEO experts you'll ever need.