Thanks for your response Thomas. The redesign was simply the theme and none of my URL's have changed or anything..so what would I need to have 301 redirects for?

I recently changed my wordpress theme from a standard free theme to a newer theme. The home page I switched up a bit adding more calls to action to some of our top posts and leading people to popular categories and so on. This greatly improved the usability of our site as it allowed us to highlight new posts. The previous free template simply listed 10 of our most recent posts on a page with small snippets and then you had to move to the next page to keep reading.

Since switching my theme the blog traffic has stayed relatively level. That being said, the specific posts traffic is going up a lot whereas the organic traffic to the blog homepage is now nearly depleted.

Is this a common thing to happen or is there anything I can do to fix this issue?

so you're saying going to blog.ledsupply.com is likely to negatively affect traffic and we should find a way to increase security without moving it?

Hi All-  We had a security issue that started on out blog (ledsupply.com/blog) and moved into our shopping cart, so IT suggested and moved the blog to its own server.  This means we had to change the URL structure.  It's now blog.ledsupply.com/ instead of ledsupply.com/blog...Is there evidence or opinion on whether this will effect SEO/Traffic (assuming we set-up redirects, etc.)?

I remember reading that Google suggests having your BLOG be part of your main domain and not a SUB domain, so I'm very hesitant to switch and also welcome any additional security measure suggestions we could set-up, so that we can keep the preferred domain structure.

Thank you so much!

-Brooke

nice site btw. i looked through it and good rankings. 1st page for your tag line!

thanks for responding.

any particulate advise on making the switch?

I'm not too excited about losing all the URLs we have had for years and adding 301s.  I guess the upside out weighs the short-term down side.

thanks for responding.  The thing about  'ranking ok' is that these aren't the only products on our site and while we do rank wll for lots of the examples I mentioned, these products have also been something we have carried for many many years and were the first to sell them.  We have become an authority on them, however, again I'm concerned that panda is seeing lots of duplicate content and giving us a 'bad grade or score', which may not seriously hurt those particular pages, but in-turn negatively effect the site as a whole.

My thought is that if I condense all the variations onto their own pages using 'attributes' then Panda would improve our score and consequently improve traffic to the site as a whole???

Anyone done this with success?

What do you think?

I'm torn. Many of our 'niche' ecommerce products rank well, however I'm concerned that duplicate content is negatively effecting our overall rankings via Panda Algo. Here is an example that can be found through quite a few products on the site.

This sub-category page (http://www.ledsupply.com/buckblock-constant-current-led-drivers) in our 'led drivers' --> 'luxdrive drivers' section has three products that are virtually identical with much of the same content on each page, except for their 'output current' - sort of like a shirt selling in different size attributes: S, M, L and XL.

I could realistically condense 44 product pages (similar to example above) down to 13 within this sub-category section alone (http://www.ledsupply.com/luxdrive-constant-current-led-drivers). Again, we sell many of these products and rank ok for them, but given the outline for how Panda works I believe this structure could be compromising our overall Panda 'quality score', consequently keeping our traffic from increasing.

Has anyone had similar issues and found that its worth the risk to condense product pages by adding attributes?

If so, do I make the new pages and just 301 all the old URLs or is there a better way?

I thought this question would be very interesting to lots of people.  someone please!

I'm torn.  Many of our 'niche' ecommerce products rank ok, however I'm concerned that duplicate content is negatively effecting our overall rankings via Panda Algo.  Here is an example that can be found through quite a few products on the site.

This sub-category page (http://www.ledsupply.com/buckblock-constant-current-led-drivers) in our 'led drivers' --> 'luxdrive drivers' section has three products that are virtually identical with much of the same content on each page, except for their 'output current' - sort of like a shirt selling in different size attributes: S, M, L and XL.

I could realistically condense 44 product pages (similar to example above) down to 13 within this sub-category section alone (http://www.ledsupply.com/luxdrive-constant-current-led-drivers).  Again, we sell many of these products and rank ok for them, but given the outline for how Panda works I believe this structure could be compromising our overall Panda 'quality score', consequently keeping our traffic from increasing.

Has anyone had similar issues and found that its worth the risk to condense product pages by adding attributes?

If so, do I make the new pages and just 301 all the old URLs or is there a better way?

only on the product pages. it's live.

LEDSupply.com is my site, and before becoming familiar with schema mark-up I used the 'data-highlighter' in webmaster tools to mark-up as much of the site as I could.  Now that Schema is set-up I'm wondering if having both active is bad and am thinking I should delete the previous work with the 'data highlighter' tool.

To delete or not to delete?  Thank you!

User wise, my product menu @LEDSupply.com is user friendly, but I'm concerned that it might be seen by crawlers as bad because of the TOO MANY ON-PAGE LINKS error I am getting in my moz crawl report.  Is it really counting all the links in every drop-down menu?  If so, is there are resource on how to fix it????

i was thinking that same thing, so I took out the LED before supplies.  I could probably take out the LED before project and add "lighting" in there!

LEDSupply - Best Deals on Cree LEDs, LED Drivers & Supplies For All Your Lighting Project Needs!

It's live on the site.  I like it, thanks for the comments, that was helpful!

How about this:

LEDSupply - Best Deals On Cree LEDs, LED Drivers & LED Supplies For All Your LED Project Needs!

?

thank you for the suggestion.

The name of our company is LEDSupply; our tag line is: "For All Your LED Project Needs!".

Currently the H1 Tag for our homepage is

LEDSupply: For All Your LED Project Needs - Low Prices, Big Bulk Discounts & Free Shipping

My questions is should I break out everything but the tag line so the new H1 tag is:

LEDSupply:  For All Your LED Project Needs!

Which is better in your opinion?

Here is a link to our homepage: http://www.ledsupply.com/

Thanks! -Brooke