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Hi,

Thanks for the detailed answer.  What part of Denver are you in?  Where do you play soccer, and are you familiar with our retail stores in the Denver area?

Yes, I am interested in hearing about your blogging rates.  Please email me at jamesr at soccerstop.com.  We may be able to work something out...

Thanks
James

That's a great question.  I have wondered the same thing for so long, as I have been working on the SEO of our soccer equipment store at www.soccerstop.com for several years.  One thing I have noticed is that it takes time.  When I optimize or focus our backlink network to particular keywords it takes affect for the different search engines at different times, but eventually it seems to get to all of them.  It's so easy to want to keep making changes because you may see a result in one and not the other.  Then from the changes you don't know what's working or not working because the first set of changes hasn't taken affect in one or more of the search engines.  I have felt that you have to come up with a plan and make those changes as you see necessary, and then give it some time to take affect.

Thanks
James

Hi,

I am no expert at all of this, but I do know that for our online retail store at www.soccerstop.com we rank very different from different locations performing the search on any specific keyword.  In other words, if I perform a rank analysis on a keyword such as "Soccer Gear" using one of our ranking software tools from an IP address that is close in proximately to one of our retail stores in Denver, Colorado I will get a result from Google such as "3".  Then if I perform the same analysis from an IP address that is located in New York, our ranking would come up much different, somewhere around "12".  So what I am suggesting is that location can be a factor in differences in rankings.  May not apply to your situation but it certainly does for us.

Thanks
James

Hello,

We have an online soccer equipment retail store (http://www.soccerstop.com) that we have been working on to get higher ranking results in many different areas of specific product pages, as well as our general homepage for several years.  SeoMoz has been an excellent addition for us to learn and analyze, etc.

In addition to our current PPC, and SEO efforts, we are going to create a blog as we have many thoughts, opinions and interesting information for what hopefully will be a good sized audience of soccer enthusiasts!  We currently have a person who goes on other soccer blogger websites and offers our thoughts and expressions, but we now want to give our own blog. My thought is to create a subdirectory of our domain something like: http://www.soccerstop.com/blog as that seems what is recommended in many posts here in this forum.

I am also thinking of using wordpress blog as it also seems recommended.  We have a lot of ideas about content, and feel we will bring people to our blog in various ways through our existing and coming customers at the retail online store.  However, it seems to get the best backlink performance possible out of our new blog, we need to join blog networks to get our blogs posted on outside third party websites.  Is this right, and where would I begin to understand and start this process?  I understand the first step is to get our blog started, but I want to foundationally have an idea where we are going with this as we build.  This way it is built in a sound way, ready to be as effective as possible!  Please understand I am a builder and not the blogger, which is why the structure and initial setup of syndication is so important to me!

Thanks for any advice.
James

Hello,

We have many pages in our crawler report that are showing duplicate content.  However, the content is not duplicateon the pages.  It is somewhat close, but different.  I am not sure how to fix the problem so it leaves our report.

Here is an example.  It is showing these as duplicate content to each other.

www.soccerstop.com/c-119-womens.aspx

www.soccerstop.com/c-120-youth.aspx

www.soccerstop.com/c-124-adult.aspx

Any help you could provide would be most appreciated.  I am going through our crawler report and resolving issues, and this seems to be big one for us with lots in the report, but not sure what to do about it.

Thanks
James

I am new to this, so my question may seem a little rookie type...

When looking at my crawl diagnostic errors there are 1604 warnings for "302 redirects".  Of those 1604 warnings 1500 of them are for the same page with different product ID's on them such as: www.soccerstop.com/EMailproduct.aspx?productid=999
www.soccerstop.com/EMailproduct.aspx?productid=998

In our robots.txt file we have Disallow: /emailproduct.aspx

Wouldn't that take care of this problem?  If so, why is it still giving me these warning errors?  It does take into account our robots.txt file when generating this report does it not?

Thanks for any help you can provide.
James