I was having the same problem ( for me it seemed to be Bings ads bot) .  I used this guide below and it seems to filter out most of the bot visits.

http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2013/09/05/filter-bots-google-analytics/#sr=g&m=o&cp=or&ct=-tmc&st=(opu qspwjefe)&ts=1403614027

to add to what Dean said, think about how that title looks in the SURPs,  what would improve its click rate?

I agree with lesley, make a short list of which platforms your are looking at, make a list of what you want, then see which ones check the most boxes.  Might be worth visiting the forums of each and asking questions there.

Well that sites uses WooCommerce

http://builtwith.com/ayurvediccure.com

I would add some hosts have 1 click installs for some open source e-commerce and then auto upgrades.  That could make your live easier as it sounds to me you only want a simple e-commerce system so pretty much any opensource system will do the job for you.

Most systems support paypal by default, but paypal rates are not the best, but if your not selling much then they are still the best option as proper payment gateways have monthly costs, so only make sense if your doing decent numbers (and they can take some work to get setup).

First you want to decide if you want open-source vs a closed platform.  As a general rule open source need more work and at least some technical knowledge, but there are cheap/free and you have complete freedom with them.  Closed platforms are generally easier to setup and easier to maintain but are more expensive (up front costs at least) and because its closed you have little freedom ( at the mercy of the company the develops it)

Note that is a very general rule and every platform is different and there is always the argument (normally put forward from closed platforms) that open source is can be  expensive in the long term because the costs of upgrading/maintaining it, espically if you our sourcing that work out.

I have used Zen-cart alot. big bonus is its free, its got a nice community (but not huge) and its a decent platform, but can require a bit of work to get it the way you want. big negative is that it can't do stock control for products with options eg you have a shirt that comes in an option of red or black, it just tracks the shirt stock not the amounts of red and black shirts.  If you are not using it for stock control then its not an issue (as I believe they are working on a fix for this) .   Over all Zen-cart is a good start if you have a low budget.

Starting to use Magneto, and even though its also "open source" it frees alot more commercial than zen-cart, but has a far bigger community and tons of extensions.  It still need a bit of work to get setup but it alot more flexible than zencart and has more 3rd party modules. There is a reason its the biggest E-commerce system in the world.

Never used Open-cart, but I did look into it and it looks nice ( but a know of a competitor that moved from open-cart to magento enterprise)

Another one I looked at is visualsoft, people that I know use it are happy with it as is easy to use and because it a closed platform you don't have to worry about alot of the technical stuff.  The basic price for it is ok, but they really  get you with the addon and can soon add up on price (that and you don't have the freedom of opensource is the reason I did not go with them)

I'm sure there are more platforms that are just as good if not better that the ones above, but I can only tell you about the ones I have experience with 

Hi Evan

It can take 5-8 weeks for a link to show in OSE, its just depends when in the OSE crawl cycle you got the link. The last update was on the 21st april but that is based on data gathered from the 4+ weeks before that date so if that link appeared in the middle of that craw it could have been missed.  Also there is a chance it just missed that page during the last crawl.

The next update is on the 19th of May, so hopefully your link will show then.

Btw if the link is showing under "Just-Discovered Links" is OSE then you know it will be picked up.  (

more info http://moz.com/products/api/updates

google might recognise it as an affiliate link and therefore unnatural and so reduce or remove its seo value.

Skimlinks is a automated affiliate marketing company.  My first guess it whatever cms they are using (word press?) is using a plug in that automaticly put that into all there links.

Gregory is on the money with adwords, and I agree with organic, its not worth the effort.  Also ips address are not always right, I have seen some ip ranges for UK visitors show as Ireland and some Ip ranges for Ireland visitors showing as Austria!!

Interesting article and I understand your frustration, but my understanding is that DA and PA are just a guide line, mimicking google's algo on a much smaller scale and will therefore will miss a lot of the smaller back links.

Also you should not compare DA from month to past months as its value is constantly recalculated, and should on be really used to compare to other website from the same time frame.

But its a good point if a dodgy "SEO Service" used DA as proof of progress to clients they could manipulate the DA to look more impressive.