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Dear Eben,

When you use "noarchive" you don't permite that google safes you websites cache, but there is nothing to do with links.

More info: http://noarchive.net/meta/

In my opinion is not the same. First, because the link has a very strong effect in your website rank, and the like has a minor effect.

I made some research and I didn't found anything about that. Don't worry, there is no problem.

Usually when you change themes you can have a temporary drop down, this is normal.

Please, read this Q&A there is a very good answer from EGOL: http://www.seomoz.org/q/seo-template-for-new-website

Im using normal html website.

I used the www.templatemonster.com or http://themeforest.net/, but is difficult to find a template with a focus on SEO.

Also with the necessity to include text in the beginning of the website, is difficulty to found something really good.

Hi Jonathan,

Welcome to the gray SEO world, full of "ifs" and google actualization. Is very hard to tell what happened, there is a lot of factors.

Google is change the algoritms again, and some points as load speed and text in the beginning of the website are becoming important.

And there is also the action from the concorrent websites. They got more links? they changed the website?

One tip I can give to you is stay connected at SEOMOZ blog to see the last changes at google and get a change to be ahead of the other websites.

Hy Gareth,

In my opnion its look like spammy. Try to use more long tail keywords, so your presence at google will be more wide. When you focus only one keyword, it will be harder and you will not increase the number of visitors in your webpage (the key here is the long tail keywords).

I think the above Blog posts will help you:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/breadcrumbs-how-important-are-they

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-long-tail-patterns

Hi Russel,

Welcome to the club my friend! I'm in the same boat as you and I decide to get the SEO process by myself.

The difficulty is that everything is gray, with severals "ifs" that change with the time. So, for beginning read the SEOMOZ Beginner SEO Guide. Second, buy several books - difference points of view will help you with your's webpages specifics issues. Read the blogs form SEO MOZ - to be always with the more update information.

This is the easy part of the job, the difficulty one is to put this in practice and understand for your business what is better. I'm almost two years studying and until now I didn't reach #1. Its a hard SEO world

For you I see no problem leaving the links without nofollow. I hope I could help.

Best Regards,

Naghirniac

Leave only the 
RedirectMatch permanent /.* http://www.newdomain.com/

take out the other part

Than you will need to make a 301 redirection to solve the problem. You will need to edit your  .htaccess file. You will find it at you public_html fold. If it doesnt exist, create one.

Inside this file you in write the follow:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^web-writer-articles.co.uk RewriteRule (.*) http://www.web-writer-articles.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Problem solved and google will not more complain.

Hello Shelly, me again...

I used this list to work with my blog: http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/

There is also the problem with http://www.example.com and http:/example.com - they also generate duplicate content.

What you should do?

First - solve the http://www.example vs http://example issue
Edit your .htaccess file (if you don't have it, create one). Inside this file you need to input:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
(where example.com is your website

Second - solve the index.html duplicate content

You need to include in the index.html file the follow metag inside the section:

This tag will tell google to forget the index.html and focus at www.example.com. So you will avoid the duplicate content without any problem

I hope I could help you.

I was with the same difficult - what is key word stuffing for google? And I didn't found a black and white answer. There is a lot of "i think", and with this answer you will need to create your "i think".

First, there was in Q&A a very good answer for that from Ryan Kent, you will fount it here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/stuffing-keywords-into-urls

Second, you should use the schema.org to define more detailed your website. So, if work with products, you can define via schema your product name, description and so on. This might be not considered in keyword stuffing for google.

Third, use your judment. Its always the best solution.

Fourth, if you find the answer, please let me know....

Yes, you will have a duplication issue. You can work with both, but you will need to use the rel cannonical.

There is an post i think it will be perfect for you. There you will find several tests with videos. It well detailed and will solve all your questions

You can check at: http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-closed-captions-seo/

Good luck

You have more experience than I. I using SEOMOZ. Should you give any other good sugestion for complementary services?

Yes, now it should work. If not, write to me and I can help you

For SEO the 301 is the best and simple solution

Rikki,

I read two books that I liked:

http://www.amazon.com/PPC-Made-Simple-Strategies-ebook/dp/B003ODI7FK/

http://www.amazon.com/AdWords-University-Complete-Guide-ebook/dp/B002KE4GEK/

I hope this can help you. If you found more interest books, could you please tell me? Thank you man!