Meta keywords are being phased out - it was a good way to keyword stuff and influence the prehistoric search engines but these days Google, Bing, Yahoo, Blekko etc are quite savvy & ignore these often-manipulated tags.

Could be due to a number of reasons - just a couple of quick ones:

On page/Tech:

1. Poor (lack of unique) URL structure
2. Home page missing h1
3. Lots of short page titles
4. Site-wide duplicate meta descriptions

Off page:

1. Not many links (according to OSE - http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=joeyvalyphotography.com )
2. It's moderately competetive (http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty/results.html?commit=Run+Report&date=2012-01-19&engine_id=96&keywords=Orlando+Wedding+Photographer&utf8=%E2%9C%93) - the comp has links

Have a look at what's in the Google index by searching:

site:joeyvalyphotography.com

Hope that helps!

Yes, that would be best

Link your main site with the G+ business pages & then link your personal G+ with your author page

I actually changed a slide in one of my decks with this correction hehe

Keep all the love in one spot.. also, will lower maintenance costs

That's right - and then they will send you a postcard containing a PIN number to verify. Once you enter the PIN in Places, you will be able to take control.

Good times

This may be of use: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/determining-whether-a-page-site-passes-link-juice

Yes

Something similar to what is on your G+ profile.. are you linking it to a personal or business one?

I'd be inclined to remove the decimal point.. reduces the URL by 1 character Use the title & meta tags for this

If you're taking that approach, I'd make the h1 and opening paragraph as close to the opening body tag as possible (even move the free delivery van near the nav & position everything absolutely via the CSS), reduce the amount of javascript calls, use div tags instead of tables... I've built sites this way and have noticed some improvements. The main thing is to clean up the code as much as possible by removing inline CSS calls, comments, externalising all javascript etc to make the site load faster.

Some other things to consider:

• site has 229 links on the home page - consider reducing to under 100 (the footer contains excessive links)
• center the design.. looks strange on a big monitor

In short, it won't pass link juice but will still get crawled

1. http://www.ultraseo.com/author/seo-team/ - seems to be the more relevant one.. in fact it would be best to create a new page all together, e.g. http://www.ultraseo.com/author/atul-sharma/ with some profile info rather than a list of articles
2. Under the "About" tab > in the right hand column click "Contributor to" and add the blog there (make sure it's set to public)

Here is some more info/further reading from Google: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

Go subfolders over subdomains if they are your options...

Have a look at apple.com - e.g.

• http://www.apple.com/pt/
• http://www.apple.com/jp/
• http://www.apple.com/au/

e.g.

<iframe src="widget.htm"></iframe>
provided by Babyhuddle

Can you get to it using a proxy service like proxify.com?

Good responses

Having a look at your site.. another option you could look at is to create a "food-truck-franchise" landing page, i.e.: http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise (with content targetted to food truck fanchises & links to each different franchise type)

And have all the franchise pages site in a folder beneath:

• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/american
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/chillipeppers
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/deli-cuisine

From that "parent" page you could create a whole heap of knowledge base articles:

• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/how-to-create
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/costs
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/locations etc etc

I'm guessing the paths used to reference the images & css files are relative to the the results.php file.. now that there are "/"s the best thing to do is to change the template to either hard code an absolute path or use forward slash at the start to always start at the root.. eg

Old code:

New code

or

No worries Look forward to seeing the site with the new URLs in place - a lot of great photos on that site that need to be shared with everyone

There are 2 issues here:

1. Need to fix the URLs for better user experience & search engines and can do so by using rewrite rules in htaccess

   The one suggested by the support forum (I've modified to better match your site but it's untested):

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^photographer/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+).php$ results.php?category=$2 The URLs would then be:
   http://www.bartramgallery.com/photographer/charles-cramer/10.php (not ideal with "/10.php" at the end but may be best given the limitations of the cart)
   rewrites to: http://www.bartramgallery.com/results.php?category=10

2. Clean up the Google index (remove old URLs & add new ones)
   Since both URLs will render the same content we can fix by adding a
   tag - attributing 1 source to the duplicate content - check if you can do this dynamically in the templates but be very careful not to canonical everything to the homepage or all your pages will be wiped out the index except the home page!)

Also, have your traffic levels increased noticeably? Could be a server/hosting issue maybe

As Autobytel mentioned, specifying the canonical would be the way to go.. considering you also have www & non www versions:

• http://thegorillafirm.com/bikes/
• http://thegorillafirm.com/bikes/index.asp
• http://www.thegorillafirm.com/bikes/
• http://www.thegorillafirm.com/bikes/index.asp

Agree

Think about it from the user's point of view. What would work best for them? Maybe even get some feedback from some site users if possible

Will the site categories/products grow? If so, then the slash could be used to organise the structure & prepare for the future

In the example, you presented:

1. www.example.com/accounts-titanium
2. www.example.com**/**accounts/titanium

These are the same length & make no real difference

When we compare these 2, however:

1. www.example.com/open-demo-account
2. www.example.com/accounts/open-demo-account

You can see that #1 is shorter, doesn't repeat keyword (even though they are plural) & would be more likely clicked in the SERPs

Does that help some more?

Thanks

I'd use folders or categories if the amount of products/items is large and/or going to expand

If it's a small amount & finite then make the URLs as short as possible

you could try blocking via x-robots in the htaccess file:

http://www.blackdog.ie/blog/remove-sitemaps-from-serps/

Hey Duncan, Not sure what you mean by they'll get redirected to the httpS - if they come in from a link that is

...

[They will just pass through the SSL cert without redirection - returns a 200 code - which is fine. The canonical will take care of assigning 1 URL to the homepage

And.. yes, this is correct "and for internal links, say to other blog posts, i should also drop the secure 's' but the URLs in the example are back to front ;)](https://www.getvetter.com/)

Oh I just found the culprits.. in this blog post:
http://www.getvetter.com/posts/35-continuous-improvement-continuous-innovation-at-toyota-in-the-1950-s-classic-photo

the anchor "employee creativity" points to:

https://www.getvetter.com/posts/29-employee-creativity-encouraged-by-crazy-office-decoration

also in,

http://www.getvetter.com/posts/44-disrupt-think-the-unthinkable-to-spark-transformation-in-your-business-something-for-the-to-read-list

the anchor "employee creativity" points to:

**https://**www.getvetter.com/posts/33-what-is-incremental-innovation-is-vetter-incremental-innovation-software

there are more.. too check the internal links throught the blog and change any https:// to just http:// and crawlers will no longer find them

Ensure that the canonical & what you point everything to is the same..

i.e. http://www.getvetter.com for all inbound links & canonicals

or https://www.getvetter.com for all inbound links & canonicals

Given that the link profile is strongest with just http (& SSL certificates are generally slower for crawlers and end users) I'd go with that one

Looks like there are inbound links split between http://getvetter.com, http://www.getvetter.com and the https versions (https://getvetter.com & https://www.getvetter.com)

I always recommend to either use https sitewide - always on, or to only allow it after a form has been submitted so it doesn't get crawled

A link canonical should be applied to the homepage at least, the https issue may take longer to resolve:

If you're comfortable, then add a canonical to each page, e.g.
to the www.getvetter.com/tour page

(but be careful to ensure it is respective to that page)

This may not fix the specific PR problem but should be addressed nevertheless

There are 980 pages in the main Google index & the rest are in the supplemental index. Bing has around 129 or so in the main.

A lot in Google are for the subdomain philippinemining.imaginet.com.ph but not many subdomain ones are in Bing

My pleasure If you set up redirects, you shouldn't loose any traffic

This can also be controlled via htaccess

In google, search for this "site:bartramgallery.com" (without the double quotes) & you will see all the pages you need to redirect

I see the Charles Cramer page as the first photographers page that comes up & the redirect would be something as simple as:

Redirect 301 /results.php?category=10       http://www.bartramgallery.com/charles-cramer

I'm not familiar with Cartweaver but these are just guides..

First define an organised URL structure - on bartramgallery.com, at a quick glance, a good one could be:

• bartramgallery.com/photographer (e.g. bartramgallery.com/gordon-michael)

• bartramgallery.com/photographer/photo (e.g. bartramgallery.com/gordon-michael/juniper-study-joshua-tree)

  OR
  bartramgallery.com/landscape-photography/photo (e.g. bartramgallery.com/landscape-photography/juniper-study-joshua-tree)

Keep in mind that the shorter URLs the better (could even have bartramgallery.com/photography/juniper-study-joshua-tree)

Second, rewrite the URLs using Rewrite Rules in the htaccess file (see this post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/rewriterule-split-personality-explained)

I did a search on the Cartweaver support forums and found this:
http://forums.cartweaver.com/topic/google-analytics-identifying-products-and-categories

Oli, from the Cartweaver Support Team, seems to suggest the same "untested" approach as above

Let me know if you need any further help

@Simon agreed - could be a 302 & check WMT

Also, it may not be a bad thing having results in position #1 & #2 in the SERPs Means your client has listings in the best positions

Another option could be to use a rel=canonical to wipe the site out very quickly - see Rand's example of how he removed his old blog: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday (generally, be extremely cautious with this approach but given your goals , i.e. remove site from index, it should be fine)

Thanks Charles I'm really happy with him

The 301s are warnings and could be in place for a reason - you can also download a spreadsheet with all the crawl findings.. it's really useful.

Generally, fix all the errors (in red) if any.. fix warnings as required & examine the notices

For example, I have a site that has 100+ canonicals - all fine & a couple of warnings (titles too long but only over by 1 or 2 characters)

Hope that helps a little

Is it using response.redirect in .NET by any chance?

I haven't encountered any problems with using the same address accross different cities / places listings

You may like to consider setting up separate "branch" pages with some details specific to each dealership - it would enhance usability and you could point the website field to the different pages:

• www.carstore.com/contact/suburb
• www.carstore.com/contact/suburb-east
• www.carstore.com/contact/suburb-north

Absolutely. If there isn't a relevant page then 301 to the home page.. eventually the old page will get removed out the respective indexes

Agree with all these responses.. add 301 redirects via .htaccess (or relevant technology applicable to your server) that will permanently redirect humans & crawlers to, at least, the home page or a relevant page with similar content.

Some of the deleted pages may still be linked from other sites or internal pages within you site...

Order of heading tags is important... use CSS to control size & tags other than headings!

Think of a HTML doc as you would any other academic document..

Animals

Cats

Red Cats

Pink Cats

Dogs

Round Dogs

Square Dogs

..you get the idea

To achieve a balance between visual aesthetics and search engine interoperability, you could use a Javascript font renderer like cufon: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ - which will give you nice anti-aliasing.

Look at Google Fonts too - http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select

I would redesign & work towards getting a H1 on there rather than working backwards

Thanks Ryan - yeah that's what I was leaning towards.. I need to check all the inbound links too

I've already discovered a tonne of duplicate content slaps forehead

Delete!

Generally the shorter the URL the better - both from an indexing & usability perspectives..

Also, shorter URLs attract higher click-thru rates

Further discussion/reading:

• http://www.seomoz.org/q/why-isn-t-seomoz-using-file-extensions-html-etc-on-any-of-their-web-page-urls
• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls
• http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/8183/do-file-extensions-matter-anymore

Hi

I've just discovered that my client, who has a medical practice, has created a series of micro sites about their doctors (around 10 or so).

The problem is that they're on a shared host with the same C-class, providing no real link benefit at all.

Would it be best to:

A) Look for seperate C class hosts for each site & migrate

B) Recreate the pages on the main site & 301 all doctor micro sites to new pages

C) Leave as is and pursue other link building activites?

Has anyone run into a similar issue before?

Thanks a bunch!

Woj

Thanks, makes perfect sense