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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

You can use like this:

RewriteEngine On

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

RedirectMatch permanent /.* http://www.newdomain.com/

Hi James,

I made some research, and there is several solutions, some depends on your Apache version. Try the rule above to see if it solve your problem:

RedirectMatch permanent /.* http://www.newdomain.com/

If not, you should take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/ The website has a lot of discussion on this theme.

Hy Samuel,

In this case one good option is to use the metatag rel cannonical. Do you know this? You will need to input in the page, inside the section the follow:

where example.com/index.html is the page that you want google consider. With this google will no more consider duplicate content for your other pages.

To have more detailed info, check this post out: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts

Dear Paul,

SEO is a crasy world, and when your website droped down, you can have one million options to really explain what happened.

In my opinion, there is not wrong with your site adress, I think the problem should be in other places. I made a fast analyses, and there is some important points:

First, in opensiteexplorer you see that you have a new website, without Pagerank. So you will need to wait a little bit until google read your site and understand it.

Second, I don't find any backlinks yet. This is one of the most important poins in SEO.

There are also minor corrections:
Page Title - its to long (max is 66) and the "compare travel insurance" should be the first words of the title.
Page description - watch ou for keyword stuffing.

Your page has a lot of content, and this is very important.

My opinion - wait a little bit that your website will rocket. Use the opensiteexplorer.com to follow how is your website evolution go. And good luck, because the life in SEO is not easy.

This is a very important point, because google change a lot how they threat the nofollow links, and some people stay with old premisses.

The nofollow links lose the benefit of the link juice. In my opinion, for you website, there is no problem to use links without the nofollow.

You should read these posts to help you out:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/nofollow-is-dying-the-impact-of-microblogging-and-nofollow-on-seo

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-dangers-of-nofollow

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-how-do-we-plug-the-nofollow-leak

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....

Ian,

You will need to do the follow:

1) Search pages indexed by google

You will need to do the 301 redirection only for the pages that google already indexed. To discovery then you need to google "site:www.example.com", where example.com is your website

2) Create the .htaccess file

Inside of the .htaccess file you will need to include:

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

redirect 301 /old.html http://www.example.com/new.html

The first part is to avoid duplicated content from www.example.com and example.com. The line redirect 301 you will need to write for each page you need a redirection (founded at step 1). That's all.

Xee,

It always help, and it is very easy to implement. This function to show the path to the sitemap ir very good.

Anyone already use it? There is some speed benefit?

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html 

If you don't have an robot.txt file, you need to include some important stuff first.

First, do you have a sitemap.xlm for your website? If not, its very important and you should creat it at: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Create a robot.txt file and include the follow:

User-agent: * allow: / disallow: /directoryname
Sitemap: http://www.yousite.com/sitemap.xml

With this you will inform all robots where is your sitemap. You should read more about robots.txt in this great post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts

Yes, I am... trying to have some more seomoz points to reach 200....

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

Hello Shelly, me again...

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

You should work in the directories at http://www.seomoz.org/directories. The chance to get a spann directory is small and you will have hundreds of directories to submit.

In my opinion, you should work your keyword in one of your strong products and use the other products to focus in the long tail. You will have a more deep presence at google.

Hi Shelly,

In my opnion is the same thing. If it is a spamm directory, you will suffer in the same way.

Working with spann directories is always a bad idea. I read a post from Cyrius in SEOMOZ blog that i think will help you. You should read it: Conquer Link Directory Best Pratices for Seo.

A little help just to check if the service worth the money spend.

Thank you Peter. More clear now - I was afraid that was a fixed rule.

Sorry, but i didn't understood what you talking about. What you mean by beautiful display

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 reading a lot about this, and the better solution is using more than one method.

There is a post in SEO MOZ Blog from Lindsay that I think will answer your question: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts

I want to buy a new template, and at template monster they are selling web 2.0 templates. Is there a difference? They say that this templates allow a more friendly interface, bigger fonts, and so on....

The web 2.0 is also an html?

You only need a robot file at your main directory and it is used for the whole website.

If you want to have more info's about robots.txt, there is an very good post from Lindsay: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts

With this I think it will be easier for you to go pro in robots files. Good luck!

A little bit confused with the new stuff. The web 2.0 webpages are so much better? What changes?

You are welcome... good luck in your changes!

The best way is the Chrome extension "Google Eyes". With this extension you can see as a boot.You will find it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nnfbmlcnheohiajjmloocbaclnpdhfdp

In the on page report indicates that the maximum is 15. What are the best? It includes keywords on title, description and images names?

Google work on the JS, and now they can read some of them. But still a problem for SEO. The best way to use the JS is to improve the user experience.

When you use JS to create the menus or other content stuff, than you will face a big problem, because google will not read it.

The most often problem is to use JS to create the menus. If it is your case, you will need to find another solution. Another problem with JS menu is that google now will give a lot o importance to text in the beginning of the website.

I had a menu in my website with JS. I solve including the follow menu from codecanyon.net. You find it here: http://codecanyon.net/item/css3-mega-drop-down-menu/126387

Dear Serge,

Your question is difficulty to answer, because you have several possibilities. If you use the noindex, will stop all the robots.

There is a post at SEOMoz blog writed by Lindsay that i think will answer your question. You will find it here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts

For me the scenario 2 is a lot better.Make a test: try some keywords and see the pagerank of the websites. Always there are lower PR sites in front of higher PR.

In my experience, the link juice is one of the most important parts of SEO. I had a new website, structured and with good content. It only get well for the keywords when I started to have backlinks.

So, in my experience, links are very important.

What I read about there is no difference for google.

In my personal opnion, you should include additional cities for the current content. You already have pages with goog PR and backlinks. If you create new pages, you will need to work on SEO from beginning.

One good solution is to make use of alt image texts and inside your website content. It will be easier and faster than creating new pages.

301 is the safe solution for you. When you use this kind of redirection, the link juice will flow for your new pages. There is no better solution, you did it great.

Hy Egol,

As I write to vizergy, im totally lost about this theme. When I analyse the websites from my top keywords, none of them have good content (the #1 is an iframe website). You can create good content, but google read this? Is more important to have an trick content to looks nice or really have good content?

Im using google.com.br and my keyword is "acampamento"

The number 1 website is www.acampar.net. My website is at #12 and it is www.acampamentoaguiasdaserra.com.br

Im surprised to....if you check at opensiteexplorer, my website has more links, tweets and likes...Im almost one year fighting in this keyword, without success. And the f.... iframe website allways at first place.

Because of this, i don't see the content matter so much. Everything in the www.acampar.net is wrong, and still #1 - there is no content, low level of backlinks, terrible content, key word density low.... im a little bit lost

But when I analyse the websites from my top keywords, none of them have good content (the #1 is an iframe website). You can create good content, but google read this? Is more important to have an trick content to looks nice or really have good content?

Im using google.com.br and my keyword is "acampamento"

The number 1 website is www.acampar.net. My website is at #12 and it is www.acampamentoaguiasdaserra.com.br

When we start to study SEO and how google see our webpage, one important point is to have good content. But, for beginners like me, we get lost on this. Is not so black and white:

what for you is a good content?

the text amount matters?

there is any trick that all good content websites need to have?

I dont have the Elite subscription, but what i understand the number of competitors wil be the same unfortunatelly. (I have the same problem).