Unfortunately these kind of companies pop up all over the place. We need to be vigilant and educate people about potential fraud tactics like this.

Hi Guys

I have a very good client with whom we have been working with for over 2 years.

When we 1st arrived, their website was built in Wordpress. During our SEO, the dleted the site and changed it to Drupal over night.

Youc an imagin i went balistic and its been a horrid year in getting all the rrors down and redirects etc.

Finally done

I have just been informed that they will be deleting the website from Drupal to Joomla again!

This is crazy as we have finally fix all the rrors and are driving quality traffic to the site. Now its back to square one...

What do i do?

ps the change from Drupal to Joomla is due to MYSQL issues

Hi there

I am doing a mobile website for a client and they asked me what the dieal word count would be per page.

They are SEO conciosu but we are not doing SEO on this site. I would just like to know a general rule of thumb.

Regards

Stef

Hi Karl

WIX is a great tool for building websites easily. Unfortunately, WIX is not SEO friendly as it is a FLASH based.

Flash is a big no no for SEO as the SERPS cant read flash and images.

Regards

Stef

Thank you for the reply. Yes, they are great and authoritative links so was finding it strange that they weren't being picked up.

Looking forward to the 4th of Jan

Hi David,

I am using seomoz and majestic seo to see my links. Im just concerned to see that my links aren't being picked up.

Would you recommend to ping links and how many links to ping at a  time?

Hi there mozzers,

Got a quick question regarding link building. I built a fsir bit of links, and was just wondering when these links will be indexed as links pointing to my sites?

Silly novice question but been over a month and links still arent being picked up, so was just wondering.

Stef

Great way of relating this to the drive way story. I agree, dont do it, you will drop as fast as you rank.

Yes unfortunately not an option. The website is huge and is built in 1.5 > Cant get out of this one unfortunately. Any suggestions?

Yes i also noticed this, especially with top keywords that i optimized for. Previously returning huge search results and no they are returning 0. I have a feeling it has to do with some kind of update that is taking place in googles backed and i wouldn't be too concerned for the time being. I would stick to my guns if i were you and maybe concentrate on other SEO aspects while this great tool is returned to normal.

Open Search Explorer helps with Facebook likes and shares on a  domain including Google +

Hi there

I have a domain which is built in Drupal 1.5 . We managed to redirect all nodes to the actial SEF URL.

The one issue we have no is redirecting the taxonomy urls to the SEF url.

The obviuos answr is to do a manual 301 redirect n the htaccess file but this will a long process as there are over 500 urls affected.

Is there a better way to do this automatically within Drupal?

Your thoughts and ideas are welcome.

Hi there Alexander

Personally i would look at the following seeing that you want to have areas in your service at urls'.

mydomain.com/Florida/surety-bonds/Contractor-License-Bond/

That way you can build relevance over the area for other services too such as below if you know what i mean

ie. mydomain.com/Florida/bonds-now/license/

SEOMOz said it best:http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Build a company blog and make it a valuable, informative and entertaining resource

• This content and link building strategy is so popular and valuable that it's one of the few recommended personally by the engineers at Google (source: USA Today & Stone Temple). Blogs have the unique ability to contribute fresh material on a consistent basis, participate in conversations across the web, and earn listings and links from other blogs, including blogrolls and blog directories.

Concentrate on creating good, original content for your users and the rest will come.

Sorry for late reply guys. Great advice by both of you.

@ Alan, great display on how Page Rank flows. Great illustration which i totally could never explain to clients

I was reading  the "How Search Engines Work" which is chapter 1 of the Beginners Guide to SEO by SEOMOZ.

Came across an interesting point:

"Don’t put the text that you want indexed inside images. For example, if you want your company name or address to be indexed, make sure it is not displayed inside a company logo."

Surely most people will alt text their images with keywords or am i missing something here?

Nice, i really like that example that you gave. My one is similar and categorized too. Question still remains, do i ignore this warning for this page?

I have about 220 links

So do you think that i should ignore this warning for the sitemap html page?

Hi there

I have a domain which has a sitemap in html for regular users and a sitemap in xml for the spiders.

I have a warning via seomoz saying that i have too many links on the html version.

What do i do here?

regards

Stef

ooops, yeah sorry my mistake..lol..i changed it to my domain. hope that this helps and apologies to all the seo mozzers i upset. it was an unintentional mistake.

I have a page that has a missing Title Tag. I had a look at the page and it looks like an action, this is part of th cart.

http://mydomainxyz.com/billing/status/index.php?action=phpinfo

Is this a problem? How dod i deal with this?

By the way, your website sends my virus protection off due to thei-farem. Not sure if this is intended but something to look at.

Hi Vjay

Using Open Site Explorer offered by SEOMOZ is propbably your best bet.

Open Site Explorer:

Research and compare backlinks with competitors for intelligent and targeted link building. Identify top pages, view social activity data, and analyze anchor text.

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

You can also maybe have a look at Majestic SEO who also offer some great link building information, with regards to how many links you have, anchor text information and they update their data regularly.

I totally agree. Best way forward. By the way, well done on only having 3 404 errors on re-doing a whole website

I totally agree hee with you. Keep it and start working on the pages with the wrong information.

HI Maria

Can you explain your question in more details.

Are you referring to building links towards your homepage or other pages?

A rel=nofollow HTML attribute on a link tells the search engine not to follow that link & crawl the page.

"nofollow" links aren't counted by Google when they assign value to the page.

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I like to use this as it gives a full breakdown http://fpt.pingdom.com/

this is also one from google https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

Hope this helps.

Have a look at this post on SEOMOZ. Great tips for resolving this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/check-my-links-chrome-extension-a-link-builders-dream

Let me know if this helped you.

That is so strange. I have been using that plugin for years with great results.

What errors are you recieving? Are you trying to add it to some external tool?

Yeast is a great all-in one seo plugin.

Only a pleasure

I totally agree with you on that, sorry my terminology was incorrect. Long few days

Basically change this

/”>bloginfo(‘name’); ?>

to this

?>/”>

If this helped then please mark this answered

Hi Alan, thanks for the feedback and much respected

What would you say to a client who has a keyword density of 80%?

Look forward to your thoughts.

I totally agree with you on this. This is a personal blog, I get about 80 000 unqiues a month but would like to push it up a notch. I feel that my only downfall is getting enough posts. I can only manage 1 -2 posts max a week and I feel that this is harming my user engagement. I agree on some of the indian developers and writers, the bulk of them don't understand too well and can be funny lol.

Hi there, If memory serves me correctly. Yoast has an option which allows you to remove the catagory for any post. This should apply for the commerce products too. Please let me know if this helps you. regards Stef

Thanks Robert

Much appreciated advice

What are your thoughts on these blog posters that do mass posting at close to zero rates(i think they pay around $2 per post?)? I have a few big guys who own massive blogs and i know that they utilize these services and are having great results...

Any thoughts?

Hi there

Would anyone know where i could fund affordable, reliable blog post writers who would be able to produce quality posts at affordable rates?

What would the accepted rate be etc?

Regards

Stef

Hi Maria

I had the same issue and this helped me.

Regards

Stef

Have a copy of your current theme. If not, make one!

Change the code of the blog title and subtitle.

Open Header.php and look for:

/”>bloginfo(‘name’); ?>

Replace the H1-tags by SPAN-tags, like this:

?>/”>

Don’t forget to add an id to the span tag!

Do the same for the H2-tags; look for:

And replace the H2-tags by SPAN-tags like this:

Don’t forget to add an id to the span tag!

Now change the css, open the Styelesheet (style.css).

Search for h1.art-logo-name and replace it everywhere by span.art-logo-name
Search for h2.art-logo-text and replace it everywhere by span.art-logo-text

Open wrappers.php and find the following code:

’.$title.’

And replace the H2-tags by H1-tags:

’.$title.’

Hi there Jason

Look at building those back links. This is an important aspect and you can find loads of articles and posts in the SEOMOZ Blog to verify this and where you should start.

I had a look at your website and these are my thoughts:

1. No Website Name in Website Title(Home Page). Your keywords are your title. I would look at adding the company name to the title of website(Meta Title). having keywords in my opinion is a bit spammy and not ranking potentially for branded terms like your business name is a major downfall.
2. I would also suggest adding those keywords in a well written meta description. i see that this is missing and a downfall for you.
3. Check your keyword density for those terms. Dont go over 6% on one given page.
4. You seem to optimizing all the pages for those terms. So how would the search engines know which page is the right page? Dont duplicate or make pages / titles seem the same.

Hope that this helps.

Use this link http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/tutorials.html

Learn directly from Google and master the basics Then start looking at the forum.

If this helped then please mark this answered Thumbs Up

Hi Will

I like using Google Webmaster Tools. Sign up and add your websites to it and you will get a wide range of information from that platform.

Or you can type site:www.domain.com in the search of each search engine.

easy

Have a look at using some of these tools :

http://www.selfseo.com/search_engines_index_report.php

Hi Rush

In the contrary, i belive that a well tested change to navigation can indeed aid in your overall stats and kpi's. Better navigation can lead to users staying on the site longer and in turn could lead to better conversions.

I would suggest using split testing and see which pages and navigation structures would lend to better user participation and navigation. Look at using Google Website optimizer.

Hope that this gives you some answers 

Hi Micahel

Yes, you can export articles and redirect pages/posts to other urls.

Exporting:

1. Go to tools.
2. Select export
3. Select what you would like to export ie. Posts, Pages or all content.
4. You can from there select more parameters.

Importing

1. Tools
2. Select import
3. Import information
4. Sorted

Redirects

There is a great redirect plugin i like to use called: **Quick page / Post Redirect **  . This will help you redirect any pages, post to another url.

regards

Stef