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Cheers. Exactly how I thought it would be.

Hi,

As I await my sitemap to go live, can someone tell me the main benefits of it? A Google sitemap that is .xml one.

I have a images sitemap also as the site is an e-commerce store.

Should I be expecting to see an increase in visitors when I implement it initially?

Thanks

Will

Hi,

I read somewhere that Google reads a page in a certain way.

All my product pages are listed (or most of them) in Alphabetical order.

Now say I am targeting brands named Cruyff and Money Clothing, should I put all the Cruyff and Money products above everything else?

See here for example...

http://www.designerboutique-online.com/jackets/

They are in Alph order, except the sales items at the bottom. So would it be beneficial to do this? To put my targeted brands at the top of the page?

And if not, is there anything I should be doing with the layout of the products to improve/help with SEO?

Thanks

Will

Basically no one wants to touch the site, so were stuck with them for now.

They have come back to me with £100 for an hours work of testing the script, because they do not know what it contains.

How long does it take to install on server and do what you have to do to test it?

They are ripping us off, I know they are.

Cheers

Cheers. Very interesting.

What would you advice be on sites like this: http://sixrevisions.com/css/30-exceptional-css-navigation-techniques/

One of our competitors have a link on this site, it is a PA of 69 and a DA of 88.

I always though guest replies would be ignored by Google, is this the case?

Our competitor sells clothing but has a reply on a CSS site?

Would this be worth doing like this or is it a waste of time?

If you look for the comment from Aphrodite, that links to their site.

Cheers

Will

Hi,

I am in the process of finding blogs to have a few articles published with a couple of links in each. Articles will all be unique and relevant to the link I drop in and relevant in someway to the reader

However I have a few questions.

My site is a designer menswear site, so I have picked fashion and sports sites first and foremost to have the articles published.

Now, I have a guy who owns about 30 different websites. 2 of them are sports based and about 10 are fashion based. Around $10-$15 an article.

I have ran them all through the Open Site Explorer Tool and picked out the best ranked ones.

Now my problem is, how do I know if its a good site to not only list an article on, but to pay for it as well.

The sites page ranks are around the 30-45 range, the domains are around the 35-45 range. What is a good range to have? I know the higher the better but is 30-45 good enough to pay for? (I don't mind paying the $10 each (£7 my money) for each one)

Also as he is quoted me in dollars, I assume there all USA based, so majority of users are USA based. Well I am UK based and only ship to the UK. Will this matter as much if I am trying to gain backlinks? Obviously a UK based site, would be ideal, but is it a case of getting more external links on the web for Google to find, as long as they are relevant to the user?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Will

Cheers and I will post a new thread. Final Q in here though, how do I get the H1 tags onto the things I want? And what are the things I want it on? As we also have a H1 tag on the line...

Designer Boutique - The Best in Quality and Heritage Menswear

Should we be using only 1 H1 tag and should it really go on something more keywords specific like Designer Boutique - Official Stockists of Cruyff Trainers, Money Clothing and more?

As they are two brands we are targetting?

Thanks.

What I do not get is other peoples descriptions seem to be like ours, short, bullets.

What lengh should i be aiming for here.

20 words, 50 words, 100 words?

Do the content of the descriptions look ok or should I be getting more of the brand/product in there? As I notice it is maybe mentioned once in the description along with the clolour, fit etc...

Within the CMS is a short description section, which is basically text that appears below the price when viewing the overall products. See here: http://www.designerboutique-online.com/all-clothing/money-clothing/ , you will see below the prices is 1 sentance, should this include brand/product/colour again?

I struggle to find what is more important, how would you rank the following in terms of importance, this is how I viewed it.

1. SEO Page Title
2. SEO Description
3. Item Title
4. Item Long Description
5. Item Short Desciption
6. SEO Keywords

Cheers

Will

Thanks. The site was badly designed a few years ago and the compnay who designed it charge us for any updates. So for now the independant pages for Money Hoodies etc... would have to wait.

I am going to fill out each brand page with keywords content.

Could you tell me if the Product Description and Meta Description for the following item is ok? http://www.designerboutique-online.com/all-clothing/money-clothing/money-jeans-blue-ape-outline/0/

Am I going in the right direction? Meta Title, Meta Description, Procut Title and Product Descriptions all look ok to you? If not what advice would you give?

Same goes for my Money Clothing page: http://www.designerboutique-online.com/all-clothing/money-clothing/

Thanks for your help.

Will

Hi Marcus, Thanks for your help.

if you have a look around various product pages here: www.designerboutique-online.com you will see the descriptions that are put on for each item.

I am in the process of working with the lady who inputs the product decriptions to try and make them a bit more fulfilling and decriptive.

As for the SEO decriptions, these can at times be similar with maybe colours and styling changing.

What would you suggest for effective product descriptions and effective SEO descriptions? How long should each be, and what words should I be getting in there?

Cheers

Will

As much as I apprieciate everyones comments, why does it seem that only in the SEO world do people reply to beginners questions with unhelpful, snide comments that offer no input or knowledge what so ever.

Its like reading a crypic code trying to figure out what people mean.

What problems do you forsee? Do you have any advice, guidance etc... that will actually help me and others who read this post, or is it all just simple one liners that leave the user thinking, what am I doing wrong and what can I do to get better?

I do not simply use the colour, I was more stating that putting it at the beginning allows the duplicate title problem to be sorted in some way.

All product titles will include a colour, brand, model, style etc...

Any help would be great.

Thanks