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I'm not familiar with shopify so I can't tell you how to fit it, but I can tell you that it does need to be fixed. Simply doing this would make the difference:

http://brok3nclothing.com/collections/accessories/girls-skate-clothing-accessories
http://brok3nclothing.com/collections/tanks/girls-surf-clothing

you might even consider restructuring the like this:

http://brok3nclothing.com/collections/girls-skate-clothing/accessories
http://brok3nclothing.com/collections/girls-surf-clothing**/tanks**

This would be a much better than the current version and will prevent much fewer problems in the future.

Good luck!

I'm not greatly familiar with this topic but this is what I suggest.

• For starters: Don't Pay For Content. Not even for guest posts.

In my opinion, you should just be able to ask someone to write a guest post on a certain topic, maybe you think someone else's point of view might be better than your own or you just don't want to write about it. You both will benefit from the post if it is a well written post, it is marketed correctly and linked back to the authors site.

I think the ROI can be represented by traffic increases and user engagement. If you are running adwords then you might find a monetary return that way. If you are selling a product and the article helps direct readers to your site or product you can monitor the monetary gains that way.

Setup Goals tracking in google analytics and track visits through article to your products (you can create a funnel all the way through checkout if you want). I hope all o this makes sense. like I said above, I'm not really familiar with guest posts. Oh and don't forget to return the favor for the guest author!

I just did a search on moz for "guest blogging". Here are a few article links.

The ultimate guide to advanced guest blogging

Getting Started with guest blogging WBF

Why guest posts and blogging is a slippery slope

I am not aware of another product that is comparable. However you should really be only targeting 1 maybe 2 keywords per page.

Thank you all for your input. I couldn't agree more with everyone. Like I said, i needed to have more points of views to bring to the table.

I have a client who attends an internet marketing meetup. I have been once myself. Good group of people but most seem lost when it comes to SEO and can't tell Black from White!

Well today my client emailed me and in the email she mentioned doing a trick to the title tags.

Client: "there is a trick to use with the title by putting keywords in quotes and parenthasis.   I'm sure you know how to do that little trick. If we do it in the title and in the first few lines of the verbage it will soar us near the top and hopefully on the first page of Google."

a few sentences later

"We could use a tad more content on the first page ( with parantesis and quotes) to boost us up in the ratings. At least it is an easy trick to do."

I have never heard of this. Has anyone else heard about this. Please share thoughts. It sounds completely bogus to me but I will be the first to admit that i don't know everything! However i would like to have more than just my opinion when I talk to my client.

Let me know what you think.

The best way to deal with sitemaps on wordpress is to simply use a plugin. I can recommend the yoast seo plugin which has a built in sitemap feature or I have more recently been using the "google xml sitemap" plugin. Both will work fine. Both update automatically. So no need to update it manually. yoast creates a link to your sitemap link such (yourwebsite.com/sitemap-index.xml) and the other plugin creates one like this(yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml). once your sitemap is created there they both offer a link to it and you can copy the link and submit it to GWT.

I don't really know how your sitemap got messed up but i hope that the info above can make your life a little easier down the road. if you decide to use one of the plugins, you won't have to worry about that problem again.

Good luck.

I would suggest checking your permalink structure. Go to Settings>>permalinks. I typically use the custom structure and just add /%postname%/ . If you are using a custom structure make sure it is correct.

That being said, After visiting your site I don't even see a "bands page" so you might want to also go through your source code and and see if there is an old link that didn't get removed. I found one today on a clients site. It was in a slider. So i just removed the link from the slider itself.

Good luck hope that helps

I would have to second Gary Lee on this one. Chris as great info as well but like Chris is saying you probably need to do some rewriting.

It's perfectly normal. It's not a url on its own but rather a "link" on the domain.  Basicly what you are seeing is the path to the image on that domain. For example if you put the picture on your computer in folder called house you might find it at mycomputer/pictures/house. Kinda the same concept.

I Have a client who is interested in qr codes. Not by my suggestion. I haven't heard much about them lately and was wonder if anyone thinks its worth the time.

If you think they are, then where is "the" place to get them at a reasonable cost?

No problem,

Thanks for sharing the URL, that really help clear things up.

After doing some digging around this is what I've come up with. Keep in mind that this is my opinion and not a guaranteed answer.

• Your URL is www.getmovin-in.com, this is the root domain.
• Ever page created on your site should be a sub-domain. e.g. www.getmove-in.com/sub-domain page.
• There should be no need to purchase these pages, they are just created and labeled neatly
• I have no idea what CMS they are using, it is not wordpress (which is what I work with). According to the developers site it is a hand built CMS. Not sure why they would do this when there are others already built and really easy to use.
• You basically have a non-profit/real-estate site. Here is a good example of that kind of site here in the states, http://www.hudhomestore.com

Unfortunately I have little experience in dealing with this type of site, but I can tell you, if you site returns a search result like region, city, price, etc, then you will have those ugly URLs. I want to say there is a way to deal with it but I'm not sure. You might try browsing through the blogs at distilled.net, or even contacting them since they are based in the UK I believe. (I am not good with European geography, forgive my ignorance! )

Again I hope this helps, even if only a little.

The site looks great. I like the parallax scrolling, I don't see it very often.

I'm glad you chose Responsive over mobile! Makes it much easier from an SEO standpoint and less time.

I can't really give my opinion on the on-page SEO since there is little content on the pages I looked at. Just continue to add content and be specific about your topics e.g. i saw on the link build page this sentence "Get direct links to each website and appear in the directories will allow businesses to be found by your customers and better positioning in Google.". (google translated this to english for me!) Other than the translation issues.....be specific about what kind of links....RELEVANT LInks. Not just any old link, that will get you in trouble!

All in all I think you are on the right track. If you are a Moz subscriber then the information the tools provides will be extremely helpful.

It's perfectly normal. It's not a url on its own but rather a "link" on the domain.  Basicly what you are seeing is the path to the image on that domain. For example if you put the picture on your computer in folder called house you might find it at mycomputer/pictures/house. Kinda the same concept.

As far as the footer links go, I believe google has stated that the have devalued them because of the issues with out niche links like web designers and seo and such. That being said it i haven't seen and problems with them so long as you use them with proper containing words e.g."website designed by..." Google bots are smart enough to understand that.

I would agree that there are plenty of people using the footer links in ways that just get them penalized. It does more for branding than it does for adding value to clients. besides most people aren't looking at the footer links anyway unless they are looking for the designer or something like that or just happen to scroll to the bottom.

I personally use it for branding purposes mainly. I think Google will work this issue out in time.

Have you tried creating a Groupon offer or a google offer. I get notices on my phone about everyday from google offers.

Look into it here:

https://www.google.com/offers/business/

and

http://www.groupon.com 

Hi Silas,

While moving content would probably solve your problem, a cheaper option would be to use the "disavow links" tools from Google. This is to be used if you know what links are causing the problem. I have not had to deal with this problem yet myself but from my reading i believe this may solve your problem as well as prevent you from any potential problem from creating a new url, the hassle of re-branding that url and just having to figure out a good new one!

Just simply Google "disavow tool" and it should be the first result. It will take you to your webmaster tools page but i'm not sure how to find it without doing a search.

Hello Alex,

I was about to give you a different answer but as i was typing i changed my mind!

So at first i was thinking that you can't do this as it would create duplicate content but then i realized that was wrong cause it is only a link. DUH!

That being said, I suppose you could add the "about us" to the drop down but there is no point and it would look silly. I suppose you could do it and show them and hope they change their mind. If they are a tough client then maybe you can change the first "about us" to something else and not link it so it won't do anything and then add the second "about us" to the drop down. Otherwise I would just tell them that it is redundant and can make things confusing for the users.

Again, if they are a stubborn client then just simply give them what they want. Other than being confusing for the user it shouldn't hurt anything. Well I suppose it might make for a confusing sitemap, not that people actually use those.

Good luck!

I don't see how this can hurt. Since citations are just simply mentions, and you can't really insert your self into other pages (unless your a hacker).

In fact I think it could help in a small way.

Just make sure that it not a listing, not that listings are bad or anything. Just know the difference. If it a listing on a site like Yelp or yellow pages or something like that the create an account and claim that listing.A great tool for this is (recently purchased by SEOMOZ), getlisted.org

I am not aware of another product that is comparable. However you should really be only targeting 1 maybe 2 keywords per page.

The best way to deal with sitemaps on wordpress is to simply use a plugin. I can recommend the yoast seo plugin which has a built in sitemap feature or I have more recently been using the "google xml sitemap" plugin. Both will work fine. Both update automatically. So no need to update it manually. yoast creates a link to your sitemap link such (yourwebsite.com/sitemap-index.xml) and the other plugin creates one like this(yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml). once your sitemap is created there they both offer a link to it and you can copy the link and submit it to GWT.

I don't really know how your sitemap got messed up but i hope that the info above can make your life a little easier down the road. if you decide to use one of the plugins, you won't have to worry about that problem again.

Good luck.