I performed the following Google.com search "SE test insite:seomoz". The result is the page found at: http://www.seomoz.org/q/se-test-jon-goldberg-123-91-389412345678951234567

The search result appears with the complete title including the full appended " | SEOmoz Q&A" added to the end. All characters appear as entered with none converted.

Do these results answer your question?

Martijn and Todd share some good points. I'll add a different viewpoint. If your site offers solid navigation and no island pages, sitemaps are completely unnecessary.

When you register your site, Google will begin attempting to crawl the main page of the site. If you offer standard, crawlable navigation, then Google will find every page on your site naturally. Sitemaps offer Google and Bing a list of links to your site's pages. If a link is noticed in your sitemap which has not been otherwise crawled, then your sitemap offers an opportunity for search engines to crawl the page.

As for timing, just be sure there is actual content on your site prior to submitting a sitemap. I had once installed forum software on a site and then submitted a sitemap to Google prior to any posts being made. I received a penalty notice and had to submit a reconsideration request to have the site later indexed.

There are only a few cases where I can see the benefit of submitting a sitemap. A couple examples:

• if you add a new sub-domain which is otherwise not linked to by your main site

• if you add an island page to your site which you wish to be indexed

The functional purpose of H1 tags is to identify sections of text so CSS formatting can easily be applied such as text size, bold, font, etc. Those text modifiers don't apply to images.

I checked and enclosing an image within a H1 tag is actually valid HTML as per the W3C standards.

I doubt this idea has ever been tested to see if the alt tag was given any increased importance because it was contained in a H1 tag. I would not believe it would as the entire point is bold or enlarged text increases visibility, whereas ALT text is not visible to most readers.

This is an instance where you are making a change that does not benefit users in an effort to manipulate search rankings. I wouldn't suggest it as helpful.

The problem is that page is not simply targeting "sarees" but many other keywords. Your title shows as: Saree | Indian Saree | Designer Sarees | Wedding Sarees | Bridal Sarees | Sarees Collection: cbazaar.in

You only want to include the phrases in the title which you are targeting.By including "Wedding Sarees" you are indicating this page is focusing that phrase. Then when you link the term "wedding sarees" to another page, search engines will get confused and you are cannibalizing the term.

My recommendation would be to change your title to something like "Sarees | cbazaar.in".

I also noticed your landing page has the highest number of links I have ever seen on a page, 800+. I realize you want to capture as much search traffic as possible but you are going about it the wrong way.

I really love the concept of your site. I know your product is a great niche with a lot of popularity. Your site needs quite a bit of SEO work. I would highly recommend hiring a professional. I think you would be amazed at how much additional traffic you can earn with some adjustments.

f you decide to go it alone, I recommend beginning with the SEOmoz guide.

Can you share more details about these reciprocal links? What is the purpose of placing them on your site?

Generally speaking, I would recommend that you do NOT copy these links from your competitor. The optimal way to use an analysis of a competitor's backlink profile is so you can copy the good links and leave the bad ones.

If you want to search your competitor's site for these links, you can try using the site: operator in Google, or perhaps the specific site's own search box.

There are forms of quality reciprocal links. They can be found on a "Resources" type of page on your site. If your site focuses on health topics you may link to the Mayo Clinic, the National Institute of Health, and other quality sites. The purpose of these links are to help your readers locate quality information. Some relevant sites may link to you as well and these links could be reciprocal which is fine.

If you have a "Resources" page where you provide links with perfect anchor text (i.e. "best real estate agent") to sites which are not relevant to yours, that is a rather obvious attempt to manipulate search engine rankings. The links you provide will offer little to no value, as well as the links you will receive. You need to give search engines a lot more credit. You are spending time and effort on what frankly amounts to bullsh*t SEO.

Investigate all your competitor's links. Look for their best links and investigate them. You want ideas, not to copy cat. The best you can do by copying your competitors is to eventually catch up to them. Provide better content, focus better keywords, be more current and relevant, be more authoritative and then you will gain links that a competitor can't copy...because the links you gain have to be earned.

Hi Marc. I would recommend contacting the help desk help@seomoz.org. The help desk personnel don't normally read the Q&A so your response should be much faster by e-mailing them. If you need even faster results you can give them a call as well.

Under anything remotely normal, it is highly unlikely a search engine would consider a "website developed by EGOL Design" as a paid link. If a site owner tried a footer of "[website development], [website design], [graphic artwork], [seo] and other work performed by ABC Enterprises" where each term in brackets was a link, that clearly steps to the spammy side.

Even then I wouldn't necessarily call it paid links, but manipulative links which falls into the same category.

I still strongly dislike the idea of having product ids in the product title. I am not clear of your reasonings for adding the id to the title. The only place the title is seen is in search results.

Social media buttons next to each product is a very good thing.

Any time I work with a website, I envision what a "world-class" version of the site would look like, then work to make the image a reality.

Design your pages for a world-class audience:

• If Steven Spielberg wants to find a lamp for a movie scene, are your pages something he would want to look at for ideas?

• If Madonna needs a new lamp in her living room, would she ever look at your pages and think "wow, that would go perfect in my home"

• Can you imagine any interior design magazines or Good Housekeeping linking to your page and mentioning it?

You have lamps which show a retail price of $1000. It's not really a price thing, because you will see models wear inexpensive clothes if they have the right look. The idea is to showcase your products in the best possible light.

You want to stick to a maximum of 2 terms in your URL. Three is pushing it. Four words is too much.

Doing a google search for "minneapolis fitness" shows most of the top results do not have minneapolis nor fitness in the URL. You can freely try names such as "Sunshine Fitness" or whatever your business name is in an effort to brand the URL rather then attempt keyword matches.

If you really want a URL match then minneapolisfitness.net is available. While I strongly prefer a .com, I would prefer this particular .net over the URL you suggested.