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Thanks for the input, but my system isn't actually products.  I just used that as an example.

Do you think there are any seo benefits of having static links to related products as opposed to random ones (different links every time google crawls)

Hello,

I was curious about where to get related products from.  Currently I just grab some random products from the same category.

Would there be any benefit to always linking to the same related products on a product page?

Thanks

I've asked about this issue before, and got a decent response.  But It didn't accurately identified my problem.  Maybe I could ask again and see if I could get another person to respond.

I was just hoping to skip all the run around and pay a reputable company to tell me what's wrong and exactly how I can fix it.

Hello, I have a site that has been doing good for quite a while now.  But lately I'm running into issues with on page seo.  I have ranked well for long periods of time, but changes like adding content or moving stuff around has bumped me out of the rankings.  I would prefer not to publicly disclose the site.

My main keyword I rank for is "word1 word2".  I notice if I do a site: search for "word1 word2" homepage is #1, site search for just word1 it's #1 as well, but the word2 returns a category listing above the homepage.  I noticed this happen right as I fell back from the rankings.

I am looking to hire an SEO profession to help me out with on page issues.  I've come to admit that I just don't understand something about this and I need help from someone who has a lot of experience with this.

I was hoping to find recommendations by people here for a company I could hire for this.  I would want to pay no more than $1,000.  I hope that budget is high enough to get a skilled individual/company working with me.

I'm not sure where to search for online to get a skilled on page seo professional, so I thought a personal recommendation from someone here would possibly be able to help.

Thanks

Hello, I am seeing my sitemap.xml show up in Google webmaster tools at the top for one of the main keywords for my site.  This is in the Your Site on the Web - Keywords section.  The URLs of my site contain this keyword, which is why I figure it showed up.

I'm curious if this should be a concern to me?  I find it odd that the sitemap would show up in this way.

Thanks

I'm not sure if you can use htaccess with your hosting, but if so this will force www:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]

RewriteRule .* http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

and this should force no Default.aspx:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*Default\.aspx\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)Default\.aspx$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

References:

http://www.stevefortuna.com/redirect-to-www/

http://www.stevefortuna.com/remove-index-php-from-url/

Two things I see when I did a quick look at it.

First, I suggest you change the title to "Federal Auto Loan: Fast and Easy Auto Loans" instead of "FederalAutoLoan.com: Fast and Easy Auto Loans".  Right now your first keyword in the title is your domain name.  Ranking for this keyword won't be an issue at all and will happen naturally.  Federal Auto Loan would be a much more relevant keyword to push for.  The keywords in the title are given importance from left to right.

Second, I would make sure your homepage is only accessible from one URL.

I see you can access the homepage with these different URLs right now:

http://federalautoloan.com/

http://www.federalautoloan.com/

http://www.federalautoloan.com/Default.aspx

Google may be able to differentiate between all of this, but links built in with one URL will quite possibly only benefit that one URL and not the other two.

Here's how I do it in .htaccess in Linux:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] RewriteRule .* http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

If you already have a RewriteEngine in your .htaccess, you can skip that part.

What this does is check if the host contains www.  If it doesn't it redirects to www. version.  You can find more info here: http://www.stevefortuna.com/redirect-to-www/

Based on what I understand, duplicate pages can be pages with nearly identical content.

For example, I run some sites with profiles for users. If someone only fills in the username and no other personal details, two different users will be reported as duplicate content.  The whole page is the same except for one word.

Keep this in mind when evaluating the reported URLs of duplicate content.