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In terms of “Australia” and “men”, I would suggest using Adwords-keyword tool or similar tools to see what people are searching try mixing product/category with gender terms e.g. “vitamins men”, “vitamins man”, “vitamins male”. If people are searching for these phrases I would suggest using them in your anchor text. I would expect people to be searching for man or male relates health and fitness products.

When using Adwords remember to use Broad, Exact and phrases match types, to get the whole picture.

If your site is clear Australia site (.au) or it’s marked within Google Webmaster > Site Settings > Geographic target as Australian, then you will probably not need to include Australia in the anchor text. But please check first.

I would recommend varying your link text on external sites. You can get idea of alternative phrases from Google Adwords>Keyword tool, Google Suggestions and “related searches” on the Google search page, also use a thesaurus. When the link is in a paragraph sometimes consider using site name or click here, so Google & Bing will look are the surrounding text.

In terms of on-site, I would have anchor text, file names, title pages and h1 titles in line with each other (not necessary the same). So when a visitor navigates from Google/Bing to your site & through your site they feel that they are getting what they clinked on, while building a strong SEO optimisation of the key phrase for that page.

Hope this helps.

K

The html sitemap should not be there for Google or Bing but for real people. If no one is using the html site map and it’s causing lots of problems to maintaining it, then drop it.

But if visitors are using it, look to get it replaced with a dynamics generated html sitemap, which helps the visitors find what they are looking for. You may wish to consider using similar to amazon’s “Shop all departments” page, which allows visitors to drill into the categories.

Hope this helps.

K

There are lots of factors which can affect the loading time of a web page, without a URL I cannot give you an indication of where the performance issue is likely to be.

With a url I can tell you which areas the issues are caused by i.e. creation of page at server, poor css, e.t.a.

It is very unlikely (but I can't rule out completely) that hard coding will cause performance issues. Hard code does cause problems when making changes or updates to a site.

Thanks Vinnie, I've just done some investigation on Seripiq.com and its been really useful.

Additional to the above points, I would suggest adding Canonical tag to the articles. For major articles you can also use Google Webmaster tools to request Google to fetch and index a page, you have a limited number of these requests, so used them wisely.

The following data is from Link Building Seminar, Scaling White H by Will Critchlow in 2011. The rough number of articles published to gain an addition link from a new domain:

• Cracked.com : 2 articles
• Wikipedia.com:  4 articles
• BBC: 12 articles
• Nytimes.com : 17 articles
• Mahalo.com: 30 articles
• Ehow.com: 50 articles
• Youtube.com: 100 videos
• Faceboo.com 400 new users
• Amazon.com: 500 products
• Answers.yahoo.com: 900 new posts

High quality articles are more likely to generate links the poor quality articles. Other factors also have an effect like humour.

Hope this gives you some ideas, on what is required to produce a link.

I’m trying to find some long tail phrases for some competitive products, with reasonable number of local searches per month.  I’ve tried using Google Adword/ keyword tool but I’m not having much luck.

Ideally I would like to keep the product name as the first part of the long tail phrase.

Which other tools would you recommend I try?

K

In the early years of the internet, tables were the best options for controlling the layout of a webpage.  CSS changed that; layout should be controlled by div & CSS.

Table can be styled like any other html tag.  The problem with tables and more importantly with tables, within tables, within tables eta, is that the order of the content show on the screen is different to the order they are listed in the html.  This can cause problems for search engine bots and with screen readers.

There are still places for tables, when you are displaying tabular data for example.

For Google and Bing the order of links within html is important and the further down the page the less significant they are (with all other factors being equal). The use of tables for design layout may cause important links to be treated less important than you would like.

I hope this answers your question.

As well as following Alan's advice I would also create an xml site map of your site and submit Google & Bing.

Hi Alexander,

If you are the only one getting this issue another possibility might be that you have had a previously permanently redirect the other way around and your browser has cached this info.

I hope this is not the cast, as it very difficult to fix on a public site.

K

The following data is from Link Building Seminar, Scaling White H by Will Critchlow in 2011. The rough number of articles published to gain an addition link from a new domain:

• Cracked.com : 2 articles
• Wikipedia.com:  4 articles
• BBC: 12 articles
• Nytimes.com : 17 articles
• Mahalo.com: 30 articles
• Ehow.com: 50 articles
• Youtube.com: 100 videos
• Faceboo.com 400 new users
• Amazon.com: 500 products
• Answers.yahoo.com: 900 new posts

High quality articles are more likely to generate links the poor quality articles. Other factors also have an effect like humour.

Hope this gives you some ideas, on what is required to produce a link.

As well as following Alan's advice I would also create an xml site map of your site and submit Google & Bing.

In the early years of the internet, tables were the best options for controlling the layout of a webpage.  CSS changed that; layout should be controlled by div & CSS.

Table can be styled like any other html tag.  The problem with tables and more importantly with tables, within tables, within tables eta, is that the order of the content show on the screen is different to the order they are listed in the html.  This can cause problems for search engine bots and with screen readers.

There are still places for tables, when you are displaying tabular data for example.

For Google and Bing the order of links within html is important and the further down the page the less significant they are (with all other factors being equal). The use of tables for design layout may cause important links to be treated less important than you would like.

I hope this answers your question.

There are lots of factors which can affect the loading time of a web page, without a URL I cannot give you an indication of where the performance issue is likely to be.

With a url I can tell you which areas the issues are caused by i.e. creation of page at server, poor css, e.t.a.

It is very unlikely (but I can't rule out completely) that hard coding will cause performance issues. Hard code does cause problems when making changes or updates to a site.

I’m trying to find some long tail phrases for some competitive products, with reasonable number of local searches per month.  I’ve tried using Google Adword/ keyword tool but I’m not having much luck.

Ideally I would like to keep the product name as the first part of the long tail phrase.

Which other tools would you recommend I try?

K