Hi Virginia

Your last point really clinches it for me. Hosting with a template/CMS provider is something I'm really not happy with (especially given the price). I find the CMS and the resulting website very friendly to use and I think it's quite well SEO-optimised, but the limitation of hosting with Squarespace is just counter-productive to me.

If your client really likes Squarespace, there are a number of parallax scrolling Wordpress themes you might be interested in. Here's a selection at Themeforest.

Hope this helps

Hi there

Well yes, a CMS can have an effect on SEO performance.  If the CMS makes elements on the page uncrawlable, or the website load very slowly, this could have an adverse effect on your performance.  Similarly, if the CMS produces a lot of duplicate webpages, URL or content, which can often be a problem with e-commerce sites, that could lead to algorithmic Panda penalties.

However, looking at your homepage, the Googlebot sees this on the page - so it looks as though everything is fine with its crawl there.  In addition, your site load speed appears to be good.  I also can't find any obvious duplicate content or URL issues - the search function works well and each product listing looks to have good unique content, with no duplications of the pages (at least at very first glance).

So your CMS, at first glance, looks to be working really well.  The issue that I see is that, as a result of your bad backlink cleanup, you have a very small amount of links pointing to your domain.  Majestic SEO is reporting that you have gone from a peak of 9000 backlinks and 1000 root domains to just 69 backlinks and 25 root domains.  That is a huge reduction in links.  While being completely necessary, it essentially means that your off-site SEO is back to zero and so you need to earn more links. Now, it's about quality rather than quantity, but to give you a quick example: the top 5 results for "specialist paints" each have over 10,000 links to their domain.

You've done a great job with your onsite optimisation and an extremely thorough link removal process.  What you're left with, however, is a site with very few links and so not a lot of power to help it increase its visibility in organic search.  I would say that you need to replace the bad links you have had removed with strong, contextual and high-quality links in order to start performing well again.

I hope this helps.

Hi there

You don't have anything to worry about with this.  Having a hashtag query after a URL is widely recognised as the denomination for an internal page anchor.  Simply put, Google won't attempt to index a URL like http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/#tabThree as it knows that it is linking to a point on an existing page, rather than a completely new page or URL.

To put your mind completely at ease, you could set up a canonical tag on the http://www.discountstickerprinting.co.uk/ page that points to itself - instructing Google that any variations of that URL with #'s or ?querystrings etc. should not be indexed or considered duplicate content.  I consider this good practice in any case and so would recommend that you do that anyway.

Hope this helps.

Hi Kevin

The Keyword Planner does a pretty good job of this now.  If you select any of the options and type in your keyword, you'll get the search volume.

Next to the "Avg. monthly search volume" there's a little graph icon.  Hover over that and you'll get the last 12 months and the average search data for that month.  There you should be able to see any peaks or troughs.

Hope this helps!

Great to hear Ruben, good luck!

Pagemodo (comes with a free version) can also help you out with Facebook contests, giveaways and the like.

As said above, disappointingly this isn't an option.

One alternative for giveaways would be to hold a Facebook raffle exclusively to your page fans.  Rafflecopter helps you do this.

It requires the fans opting in so you may miss some, but on the other hand you'll see which users are actively checking and engaging with your facebook page on a regular basis.  That way, you'll know how many active fans you have, which is arguably more valuable.