I found the problem.  It is in the way an old template functions adding the section to the product and thus making them too long.  It is not an SEOmoz or Yahoo issue it's in my template.

I have one question.   While researching this I talked to two SEO "experts" who stated while the titles are too long to be indexed.  The spiders still look at the first 70 characters and just do not look at the rest.   What is your opinion?  Do you think this hurts ranking or I should just be aware if there are key words past 70 characters it will not be read.

I am not sure if SEOmoz is compatible with Yahoo Small Business.   The crawl states that the title page is too long for over a hundred titles, but they are not.  SEOmoz is taking the title page and the parent or catagory page and grouping together.

Please only respond if you work SEO for Yahoo Small Business accounts.  Would be glad to take discussion thread off line or show the SEOmoz report.

SEOmoz crawl states I have 3 pages with too many links.   My sites are hosted on Yahoo small business.  One page they state is too long is the home page/ind. with 600 links to each page on the web site ( I think).

Is this really a problem and how do I fix it?

The other two pages are product categories that link to the products under the main product type.   What I do not understand is that we have many larger product categories that SEOmoz crawl is not stating too many.

I distribute  industrial products B2B with e commerce.

I have a personal profile on LinkedIn.    I listed the products I sell and  I could have all my partners and associates list my web site on their profiles.

Do search engines review LinkedIn personal profiles or company profiles and is it a good marketing strategy to have my web site, keywords, and my two largest selling products on LinkedIn?

OK, last question of the week.  I promise.    I'm doing something right.   I distribute for manufacturers.  For some of my less known manufactuers I am #3 or #2 rank.  For my main product the manufacturer is #1,2 with some numerical code as the discription.

The manufacture will sell direct.  To get the customers attention I need to PPC, and luckily it's inexpensive.

Is there any way to control what the content is of the listing?.   I would like to state in my #3 rank " 10-10-PP, In stock, same day shipping, best pricing."

Does Google choose what to display and if so is there some where on my site I can influece this?  For you experts, perhaps this is the joke of the week.? Please do not have a heart attack when laughing.

In another question regarding keywords,  another " authority told me if I make the title page::

101055 / 10-10 55.

That this would be keyword stuffing.     What is your opinion?

Thank you for the response.  I have another related question.  My best selling part

is Red-Widget-123.  If I search for this I come up #3.  The manufacturer is 1 and 2.

If I search for Redwidget123 my competitor comes up.   In another queston an " authority" told me to make the tile page Red-widge-123 /Redwidget123.  Since you state this is stuffing how do I get better ranking for when customers mistakenly do not add the dashes.

If you have a key generic keyword phase that describes the product but not the brand and is strong ($10 PPC), should these phrases be first?

Also, should my brand names be in Meta tags?

Note that I prefer responses from individuals familiar with Yahoo RTML. due to what I think is automatic meta tags.

I hope I'm not investing too much of the communities time but I diving into saving my site from the Panda or other unknown damage and have issues.

My two biggest selling  parts are in a configuration  like 10-10-55-P. They are low searched, maybe 50 people per month worldwide but this sale is crucial to us.

The manufacture ( which sells direct but more difficult to deal with, I think you still need to give them your birthday and sex to place an online order) has #1 and 2 rank,  I have 3,4.

I have 3000 parts and focused. . The other 5 large competitive distributors have 100,000 to 1,000,000 parts and have more resources.   Sometimes when I test 101055 or 10-10 55( which sometimes is used) I can drop to 7 or 8 and the competitive distributor beats out the manufacturer.  I suspect because they get 1000 times more traffic.

Today I still am 3,4 for 101055p, but is there an organic strategy to address dashes and is capitalization import and should it be addressed to insure #3 organic rank?..

Thanks for your prompt reply.   I'm including more background information but the question below probably can be answered  without it.  I did some searching before I replayed.  The  complete part numbers are the manufactures part numbers.  They show up on searches but the manufacturer is the only listing.   This 10-10 part is an assembly that only VAD's selll.  The manufacture has the part # only  and selles the component parts and we are a VAD and purchase the components and assemble and sell it.

The manufacturer also makes units ( usually sold to OEM) that are completely assembled, less cost, higher need  The manufacture sells about 200,000/yr each of the major part 2 parts  at $14.00 each and for the assblies we are discussing, maybe 100 in the last 5 years. at $300 each.    I am usually the only one on the planet that pays for PPC for the exact part # opf the high volume part  and it only cost $.20 and the average sale is $100

So, if I use the exact part # in the title I would get the replacement part business for the 100 in the filed when they fail .

Question: ** Since these low volume part #'s are so rarely searched will it help ranking or hurt ranking to have 1/5 of my part numbers******  with these strong keywords in front of the part for such a high % of the site**..  Will it be viewed by the engines as trickery.**

Note:  I bold major content for your quick skim for your convenience.  Does this help you decide if its a fit for your response?

My site has been devastated by the Panda or unknown reasons so I need to think outside the box.

I distribute industrial products with average brand recognition.  I only have about 5 competitors selling this same brand.    My  other brand competitors are billion dollar companies that  pay a lot for PPC and have sites with 10 times the product offering.

Since my brand recognition is not as important as the function.I'm thinking about changing the part numbers to reflect function.   This will affect about 1/5of the parts ( about 500 out of 3,000 parts)  .   My concern is will ranking be hurt or helped by changing these parts with these strong keywords in front of the part for such a high % of the site.  The strong keywords cost $10 for a chance at a $200 sale with repeat business.

Example: Current part is: 10-10  Black Plastic;  which is a Big Red Truck with my brand part # as 10-10 and comes in different colors of plastic. .    Keyword is Big Red Truck.   I would like to put my manufactures brand in the description.    My same brand competitors sell 10,000 parts and my logic is that if I have the brand in 1/5 of my parts ranking would be improved because of the % of brand per the site versus my same brand competitors..

So I would change the part # to : **Brand  10-10-Black Plastic  Big Red Truck **

In conversation I would state the part as:

Brand: 18 characters, Part #: 8, Material:12, Keyword: 27

If the keyword should be first I could change to: K,B P,M.   Which is recommended?

For Yahoo stores.  The template built by 1choice4yourstore has Name which Yahoo tells me is the H1tag.   There is also an option of Headline.

Name works as the title for the page without headline.  If you enter anything in Headline it overrides Name and becomes the visible title for the page.

So if Name is: 11 and Headline is: 22, the viewer sees 22 as the visible title.

Do the spiders see Name and Headline differently?  Is there a clear advantage to duplicating and having both Name and Headline identical?

I sell B2B industrial products.  I have 300 products on the site.

Some products are seldom purchased and the brand name is not significant for these products

If the title page is the right wording and length, and there is a valid product widget -1-1-1 but nobody  has bought one in 5 years due to it being a niche product, but they could and it's a profitable sale.

Question:  Is** overall site rankin**g **being hurt **by valid content ( Description, Part # and Price and it can be checked out in the cart), but is is never/seldom searched for.?

I see a few other new members need to clarify there questions.  It must be a new member thing?  I sell B2B industrial products.  I have 300 products on the site.

Some products are seldom purchased and the brand name is not significant for these products and your great input will lead me to change their title to the function rather than the part number.  Thanks.

If the title page is the right wording and length, and there is a valid product widget -1-1-1 but nobody  has bought one in 5 years due to it being a niche product, but they could and it's a profitable sale.

Question:  Is** overall site rankin**g being hurt by valid content ( Description, Part # and Price and it can be checked out in the cart), but is is never/seldom searched for.?

This should be an easy one.   I signed up for this service in November.  The first report showed many title pages too long etc.   I fixed all known errors.   On December 28 there was another crawl but the errors still show up on the report.   Why?  Is there anything I can do to update so I can get down to the few I missed

In my first seomoz test I have many tilte pages for products that are over 70 charachers long.

The part #'s are long like 10-782-10-10-10-PPxxxx etc.

All these part #'s are not my key products and I could delete or truncate.   My question is if the part numbers are not that important,  is it OK to leave them as is or is ranking being damaged because they exist?

Both another consultant and my first seomoz test stated that I have two websites and that confuses the spiders. .  One is www.mystore.com ( example) and the other is mystore.com.   Yahoo states that's how they role and I can not delete one.  I can do a 301 redirect and redirect one site to the other but they do not have a recommendaation as to which one to redicrect.

Which one should I redirrect?