Considering that you don't have keywords in either case, doesn't really matter. Won't affect your rankings.

My opinion, add more keywords along the lines of: LEDSupply - Best Deals on LED Drivers, Strips & Lights!

Everything you need to know in video form from Matt Cutt's himself

Recap: underscores combine the two words (apple_pie.htm = applepie) and dashes indicate a separator (apple-pie.htm = apple pie). So stick to dashes but it really doesn't affect seo.

A lot depends on what the mobile forum is - a separate url or just a css change? Read this

In the end, you need to tell Google what version of the site to serve to regular visitors and which to serve to mobile users.

If it's such a big forum, the crawlers are probably constantly on the site anyways so sitemaps would do you less good than optimizing the actual forum.

However, if you are inclined to create a sitemap, consider making a sitemap index and splitting up the threads/sections/replies into separate sitemaps (at your discretion). The goal being that each sitemap is updated as often as the next the crawler can keep up with it (so if sitemap gets checked 3 times a day, make sure all the links that need to be crawled would probably appear during those 3 checks)

I found https://www.sidley.com/-/media/publications/cslp-september-2016-1516.pdf helpful.

Essentially, unless you have a specific reason/need to store this personal information (aggregate data isn't affected), you need to minimize your personal data retention period.

Here is how to do it properly: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/02/infinite-scroll-search-friendly.html

Demo: http://scrollsample.appspot.com/items

LEDSupply - Best Deals On Cree LEDs, LED Drivers & LED Supplies

For All Your LED Project Needs!

Prob not a big deal but could be seen as too spammy by G with the whole thing (mention LED 5x vs 4 + the "for all..." dilutes the other keywords)

Depending on the plan you have, the spider crawlers 10k - 20k pages per campaign

Search site:yourdomain.com, click on "Search Tools" in the left column and choose "Last week" (or within whatever period you saw the increase in indexed pages).

Or, you can choose "Past Year" and then choose "Sort by Date" - this will give you the latest links indexed in order.

Yes, you would canonical to that searchnew.aspx page.

In this scenario, I would set up mod_rewrite to create "Category" page for each specific model so you can rank for more pages.

e.g /model/Honda-Civic-Coupe/ would be a static page and you can canonical all of the other filters to their respective pages.

I recommend you consider changing ecommerce platforms as it would benefit you most.

If that's out of the question, you should set a canonical to your most popular color (i.e. if red shirt is the top seller, make blue, white, green, yellow shirts have a canonical link pointing to red shirt). This would scrap the duplicate content issue, but would also get rid of those other pages from the index.

If you do that, the H1 tags wont really matter much. I would even have the H1 tag be more generic (i.e. don't include color) so that it applies to all various of the product.

See "Must the content on a set of pages be similar to the content on the canonical version?" on http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

To sum up...

1. 301 redirect all non-www urls to www versions (since it has a higher page authority) and add canonicals to all pages with the www version of the url
2. For all lower case / upper case page duplicates... pick one, set a canonical tag and 301 to the chosen case, make sure all your links point to the correct url case.
3. 301 redirect default.htm to your root domain - http://www.cheaptubes.com

In general, you should either have the tag OR categories OR archives page indexed, the others noindexed. Having all 3 creates duplicate content issues (usually they have the same post content snippets in different order/page #s).

If you choose not to noindex them, you should mod_rewrite those URLs to looks like.com sacma.com/blog/tag/inbound-marketing/. And the /blog/ page should have a canonical set to itself to avoid dupe content.

Common consensus: 301 redirects will drop your rankings for ~ 2 weeks but you should bounce back in rankings after then. You do lose a small amount of link juice but if the word "guides" is a common search term for your widget queries, it might be worth the move.

In addition, I would review the backlinks you currently have, sort out the most powerful backlinks, and contact the respective webmasters to change the URL to the new address and avoid the redirect.

I wouldn't say there is a limit but you if you are writing about a limited topic, the more you write, the less focused your content may become. Although it will improve long tail, could hurt the target phrase you are trying to rank for.

In addition, if you just start repeating yourself over and over again, it wont do you any favors. You are better off writing more succinctly with high quality so that people looking to solve a specific problem can visit that page and find a solution (and hopefully link back to it!). If its too long, it might be harder for a person to find what they are looking for.

Text in hidden divs is indexed and included in SERPs. The content is still on the page just in video form - I don't see a problem with adding the transcript for SE to "read" the video. I would recommend also offering the option to view the transcript via click for visitors - some people may not have access to sound or prefer reading.

Also be sure to use Schema markup for VideoObject - there is an attribute for transcript that you should apply.

Read these two posts... they cover everything.

• http://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
• http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions

Yes there is but there was an update this weekend that lowered the value of exact match domains (emd) and partial match domains (pmd)

Lets put it this way, if you post an unrelated link into a forum and it isn't removed, that is not a link you want.

Un-moderated forums are filled with spam, high pagerank ones even more so. You risk that link hurting your website's rankings.

Don't know of any script that would do that but it can be pretty easily done with cookies.

You can create a counter cookie that tracks number of visits based on the timestamps relative to the last visit (where you set a different cookie). Tracking pages would get a bit more complicated but can still be done.

If you are unable to find a pre-existing tool that accomplishes this, look into hiring someone to develop it for you.

Cheers,
Oleg

That would be redundant. If anything, maybe offer the option to hide the transcript (for people who don't want to read it and it gets in the way). Otherwise, just make sure you mark it up with all the proper mark up.

Don't think either would be different from an SEO standpoint.

i'd go the /catering/locationname/ route for cleanliness/breadcrumb structure. Unless you are going to create other service pages for each location (e.g. /locationname/menu/, /locationname/reviews/), making locations a subcategory of catering would be the way to go (and can list them on the /catering/ page)

Stumbled upon some additional information and decided to update you...

According to the internationalization FAQ...

Q: <a name="q5"></a>Can I use automated translations?
A: Yes, but they must be blocked from indexing with the “noindex” robots meta tag. We consider automated translations to be auto-generated content, so allowing them to be indexed would be a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines.

So if you decide to autotranslate the text, you should use a noindex tag instead of the hreflang tag.

Yeah, that's a tough subject but you'll just need to get more creative.

I would go after a more general niche: Hygiene & Health.

For content ideas, pop in "towel" to:

https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&__o=te&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS

http://ubersuggest.org/

http://www.soovle.com/

Nope, you are fine.

Duplicate content = 2+ copies of the same text on 2+ separate indexable URLs

Sucks, don't it? Google isn't perfect and there are still many flaws that let sites like this rise to the top.

I've seen this happen many times (especially in the more competitive industries). This is the difference between black hat and white hat seo.

White hat route: keep providing good material, get higher quality backlinks and eventually you'll overtake him (and the results will be more permanent).

Fast & Risky Route: Looks like he just did a big social bookmarking blast to the sites. You can find these services around the web and order them for yourself (get a link report first and see if the sites match up). You'll be on even ground but the downside is the risk of going under next update.

Best of luck,
Oleg

Matt Cutts just released a video that addresses this exact question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HX_8BAhB4

Pretty important - read https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409437

"Googlebot couldn’t access your site because the request timed out or because your site is blocking Google. As a result, Googlebot was forced to abandon the request."

If G can't access your site, it's not going to end well.

Theoretically, if you paginate it correctly, it shouldn't make a difference (each paginated page would be treated as part of a whole). If you don't, might hurt you for having more thinner pages vs fewer quality pages (it doesn't sound like you will be targeting any additional keywords).

"Google is pretty good a catching things like this. If you are doing "white hat" SEO and marketing, you probably don't need to worry about it."

You will be in for a rude awakening when the site triggers an algo penalty. I would be proactive and disavow the links. GWT lists links by date so routinely keep an eye on the recent links you get and disavow them. Also, pingback/comment links are generally nofollow - if that's the case, then it shouldn't trigger penalties.

Schema microdata is a type markup that results in rich snippets (bonus details in SERPs).

Other rich snippet markups include RDFa and Microformats

Its because your new site is a duplicate of your old site (the listings that appear in SERPs). I would 301 all the pages from the old version to the new one and create canonical links on the new pages. That should fix your problem.

Read this post by Matt Cutts on nofollow and pagerank sculpting

Essentially, you still divide your link authority between the total number of links on the page (including nofollowed links) and only pass authority to the followed links.

So you still pass just as much authority to the links that are followed while reducing the authority to the newly nofollowed link (which doesn't fix your situation from what I can tell).

You can possibly noindex the duplicate pages? I'd have to see specifics before I can say for sure.

Best course of action is a navigation restructure (maybe even site if each product is a post (timely)... should at least be a page(timeless)).

Good luck!
Oleg

1 visit, 3 pageviews

From an SEO perspective, each page is considered a part of the same article. So the difference is really you get more page views if you split it up (given that users will choose to go to next page)

If your rankings are being hurt by these links, I would move them to a new URL and 404 the old page. I would then go through the link profile for the old URLs. Find all the high quality links and contact the webmasters asking to change it to the new URLs.

Should only have 1 H1 per page... ideally containing the target keyword. If this were a blog post, your H1 would be your article title.

H2 would be used more for subheadings, i.e. if you split your article up into sections with subheadings, each should be an H2

H3-H6 are just sub-sub headings, etc.

Overall, I believe H1 (and perhaps to an even lesser extent H2) has any SEO value - even though it is very minute since it's easily gamed.

Not sure how you are checking. I clicked through the first 10-20 links and found a few that didn't redirect.

• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/extras/definitions
• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/extras
• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/component/content/
• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/extras/blog-posts

Definitely go through every link and double check.

Check this out for joomla canonical link setup

It won't be automatic and depends on how often google crawls your website. Link to your site from some social sites to make it happen faster. In addition, noindex the old site (via robots and a tag on the page). The more direction you give G, the faster it will fix all the links.

It's because you are blocking crawlers in via your robots.txt file - http://images2.spies.dk/robots.txt

Just make it blank and wait for your images to be indexed. Should appear in search after that.

I'm a big fan of popup contact forms.. the user isn't taken to another page and everything else goes into the background. But you'd have to test both variations for yourself to see which converts better for your traffic.

In terms of tracking changes, you'd need to change it to an event (on submit) type goal.

Longer with more keyword for sure.

Title is important for rankings so definitely include keywords describing the product with search terms.

edit: to defend my point, look at the titles of the largest ecommerce sites like amazon, walmart, overstock - they have the product title which contains many relevant terms.

1. remove bad links (via contacting webmasters and disavow - make sure you KNOW what links are low quality before removing)

2. continue writing unique, high quality content (about relevant topics that get searched and would ideally be shared)

3. build new high quality, relevant links (reach out to other sites that link to related content and give them a reason to link to you)

Follow those 3 and you should be golden.

Is Google suddenly ignoring rewrite rules and redirects?

Shouldn't be.. pretty odd. You can try blocking the crawler from accessing the old .jsp pages if they all follow a format (below code is if every page starts with /xref_)

User-agent:*
Disallow: /xref_*

Looks like you don't really need a RewriteRule line there.. just a redirect would do the trick

Redirect 301 /xref_interlux_antifoulingoutboards&keels.jsp /userportal/search_subCategory.do?categoryName=Bottom%20Paint&categoryId=35&refine=1&page=GRID

But I don't think that is the problem since its still sending a 301 response code when you visit the .jsp file.

One thing that may help is adding canonical tags to your current pages - make sure you utilize rel=canonical as well as rel=next/prev for your paginated pages.

Overall, I'm not sure =/ Try posting/submitting it to G, could be a bug.

If you are willing to pay, go with vBulletin.

phpBB would be the best free alternative (there are plenty of mods/plugins that can make the site very SEO friendly)

Keep an eye on your GWT Links Report. If you start to see many fishy links pop up there, it might be safer to disavow them periodically. This sounds like a negative SEO attack and should be dealt with proactively.

If you are ranking great without those new spammy links, it safer to keep removing them before G decides to slap you.

Alt text should be a description of the image. So I would include the product title as well as the keywords. e.g. By the Sea - Blue Sea Glass Necklace

Have you checked the links that dropped? Maybe your link or that page just no longer exists. Likewise, G could be discrediting some negative links and therefor you aren't seeing them. There were many updates last month (October) and a few in September.

If your traffic is only slightly down, I would just continue to build high quality links to your site and not do anything drastic.

Ah, in that case the main factor is: how are all ranking currently? If they each receive traffic for their respective local keywords, it would make sense to just keep them as is (don't fix what ain't broken).

However, if you feel they aren't getting the rankings they deserve, you should combine all the sites into 1 and consolidate the authority. As long as you set up 301 redirects correctly, you should be able to transfer your rankings and even improve them (if you set up your internal linking structure correctly). Just know you will most likely lose rankings for around 2 weeks.

Something to keep in mind: it's much easier to maintain and improve one website over three. If you plan on generating new content (as you should), having 1 blog with kickass content is far better than 3 mediocre ones.

Best,
Oleg

Best way: manually going to the sites and finding contact info (name, email, contact form, skim the about me)

Scaled method: this is a really neat free tool and you can also check out buzzstream (which also gives social links so you can outreach through there first, then email for a better response rate)

Cheers,

Oleg

http://info.vilesilencer.com/top

You are better off just finding local and niche specific directories by searching google, then run some metrics on the sites (PR, DA, Social, Indexed Pages) as well as visit the sites to see which ones you should post to.