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I just asked a question about ALT tags and then this got me to wondering....I have 300 products, so coming up with titles is not the easiest at times.  Some have my keywords and some do not.  Should they all have my keywords, despite making the title and the URL longer? It seems like you would want the keyword in the title, but then again the category itself it long. Here is an example: www.site.com/sea-glass-jewelry/by-the-sea (not too long) www.site.com/sea-glass-jewelry/blue-sea-glass-necklace (longer...I have some even longer than this) Thoughts?

I have about 300 products.  Should I make all my IMG ALT tags with my keywords, such as sea glass jewelry, sea glass necklace, sea glass bracelets?  Or, should I make them what their title is, some of which do not pertain to the keyword, such as By the Sea. Some of my products do have keywords in them, but not all. I am hesitant on changing all the titles, as almost all URLs are indexed.

I have been working with my site for some time.  Sadly, I am moving lower and lower in ranking.  I am wondering if I should just transfer my site to a new URL (this time including keywords).  I don't understand the whole disavow link thing.  I hired someone about 2 years ago, when I lost my ranking due to malicious software.  Well, it turns out that, she submitted my link to weird sites that I don't even know what they are.  It is like sites with thousands of websites just listed.  Things have never been half of what they were and I am really just growing frustrated. I understand that having an a URL for awhile is helpful, but I appear to have lost many of my good linking sites. Any thoughts?

Sea Glass Jewelry or Sea-Glass-Jewelry My domain name does not have my keyword in it, so I have been using the category as a means to get the keyword in the URL.  My site would say www.abcdefghijk.com/sea-glass-jewelry/sterling-starfish-necklace When I run the review, it tells me that I have too many parameters.  Is it too long? Should I remove hyphens? Which is better?

My site ranked in the top 3 for my keyword for many years until someone hacked into my blog in December 2012, which is a subdomain.  Google saw I had malicious malware on my domain and removed my site from being indexed (I think that is the word).  Basically, I was no longer in the search engines. My domain and products have been featured on blogs and other places for many years (2 celebrity sites for gift guides), but not many are coming up (actual links  with anchor text, not spammy links).  I even have one on a friend's site and one in a directory.  When I went to Google and put link:www.site.com  , I got 1 link.  I have seen a few, so I know they exist. Now, I am on page 3 and have not moved from this place since getting it back up in December 2012.  For all of 2013, I thought I would have to wait it out, but now, I fear that waiting it out hurt me. Is there anyway to get Google to look further back and retrieve old links? Should I submit the high ranking ones? I am just wondering if I lost all my hard work in the past.  Please advise.

Let's say I have a sea glass ankle bracelet.  On my site, my main keyword is "Sea Glass Jewelry" and have ranked relatively well for this, but this main page has over 200 products in it. I thought that if the URL has the keywords in it, it would be beneficial.  I also have a section for all my bracelets, so it would be there and then, a more specific ankle bracelets category. So, technically, an ankle bracelet will show up 3x. Sea Glass Jewelry (all products go here) Bracelets (all bracelets go here) Ankle Bracelets (only ankle bracelets) The URL is only attached to the main category so to speak.  If you click the ankle bracelets category, the url will still revert back to the original main category:  seaglassjewelry/sterlinganklebracelet  so I don't believe there is duplicate content. I have had my domain for years and it has ranked well until someone hacked into my site 2 years back.  I have never been able to recover from this loss.  Since then, I have tried to optimize my site, but nothing seems to be working and I just want to make sure that I am not hurting my ranking by doing this. Can someone confirm this is the best way to do it or make a suggestion? Thank you.

For the on-page grader, I rank A's for 9 keywords. I struggle with F's I have because it is searching keywords on pages that are not supposed to be searched. For example, I have a "bracelets" page, so I didn't optimize it for "rings", so I got an F.  However, it graded me an A for the bracelets keyword, which is great. To be sure I am correct, each page should have it's own keyword, such as bracelet.  So why is the grader checking my "Bracelets" page for "Rings"? Maybe there is something I am missing. Just trying to see why this happening.

Is it to just have different URLs pointing to my site? I understand that if 1 site posts 5 of my URLs, it only counts as 1.  I am just not understanding how I increase this number if link building is now frowned up.  Thoughts?

I asked this question before, but with a different scenario.  I upgraded my plan to a more advanced cart and all of my URLs changed about 1.5 years ago.  I knew nothing about redirects and such, so none of that was done. Basically, let's say my site was: http://www.abc.com, but when people actually visit my site, they are directed to https://www.abc.com/. I have asked my host about redirecting and she that it is not possible.  In the past, the link shared has been just www.abc.com .  Will this hurt my ranking? My second question is ...let's say I have a link  http://www.abc.com/blog , but now, the link is http://www.abc.com/blog/ . Will I be affected, since all my old links omit the slash?

In other words, how can see the text and what not it sees from start to finish on each page. I know there was a site, but I can't remember it.

Almost every one of my product has this message: Rel Canonical (Using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which URL should be seen as canonical. ) What is the best way to correct this?

I believe there is a difference between http://www.abc.com vs https://www.abc.com I also know that it shows security and whatnot, but how do you treat it? Do you submit both? Do you re-direct one to the other? What if you have had the non-secure site for years and the links are mostly crawled? My second question is similar as my report shows these two as different: http://www.abc.com/blog vs http://www.abc.com/blog/ I didn't think it made a difference, but when I submitted the links to Google it would not accept them without the slash at the end. Again, the same questions as above in regards to how to treat it. Do you submit both? Do you re-direct one to the other? What if you have had the non-slash site for years and the links are mostly crawled? -What about http://www.abc.com vs http://abc.com ? They go to the same page, but are they treated the same?

When I add new products (approx. 10 a month), I usually delete the old sitemap and submit a new one.  Is this ok to do, or should I just re-submit it with the new info included? Also, is once a month too much?