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Thanks guys, much appreciated. Think I'll implement the canonical tag.

Yes and No... Yes from a user's point of view, its easier to remember and nicer to read - though length should be a consideration too. No from the point of view that exact match domains (and potentially folders within) are being targeted and down graded by Google... / it won't harm you but you may not gain as much as you once would have done.

Yea, that's it! A bit pricey. Thanks for the "software review". Maybe I'll sit this one out.

Hi Martin, Firstly, rather than keyword density, be more concerned about keyword frequency compared to your other content. My view would be to do one of two things Add more content - maybe an intro paragraph to that section of e-commerce site or maybe include customer reviews - something helpful and relevant to give your page more meat. Vary your product descriptions I know it's harder in e-commerce when you have similar products, we have a couple of large e-commerce clients and on-page optimisation, potential for accidental 'keyword stuffing' and cannibalization exists because products are so similar, all the best with it and hope this helped.

Juan, I just checked your feeds, they're valid now: http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tarifakitesurfcamp.com%2Ffeed%2F Good job.

I agree with Chris. You can definitely rank a page for multiple keywords through both on-page strategy and through co-citations.  If the keywords you are trying to rank for are naturally on the same topic then it really won't be an issue to rank for them.  For instance, if you are shooting for automotive parts and car parts.  If one keyword is automotive parts and the other is tires, I would generally recommend two separate sub-pages for these words.  You'll also have to remember that having both keywords in the URL title, H1, etc. will be hard if you have multiple keywords on the page.

Also regarding fixing the broken links - the reason I asked about what caused them to break is that, if a couple of permalink structure changes are responsible for the bulk of them, it's likely possible to fix most of them with just one or two rewrite rules. This will be vastly quicker than manually redirecting each one, and will be much better for your site, as that many individual redirects is going to slow down your site. Paul

Hello Lance, please pardon the belated reply. Your answer is very precise, thanks for elaborating in such detail. Number 7 - "410 errors are reportedly a bit faster at getting content removed" - is a gem. I see the logic behind # 8, makes lots of sense, and so does number 9. Nice recipe for a recovery. Again, thank you for the insight.

Thanks - I have always found it a quick win in terms increasing traffic to your site and it is one of the first places I would look at optimising in order to see noticeable benefits.

Hi Ollan, Thanks,  I guess I had a round about way of asking my question and you confirmed what I thought.  I am using the canonical tag on these pages: http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=1 http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=21 http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=31 http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=41 Thanks again, Jake

Matt, Cody has given you some excellent replies. Just want to be sure this point hits home. Do not write your title tags like this: Dog Walking and Pet Sitting in Anytown USA - Home Dog Walking and Pet Sitting in Anytown USA - About Us Dog Walking and Pet Sitting in Anytown USA - Rates Dog Walking and Pet Sitting in Anytown USA - FAQ Dog Walking and Pet Sitting in Anytown USA - Etc These are nearly duplicates. Title tags appear as the first line in many search engine listings and should read in a manner that engages the user, as well as incorporating your keywords. Be sure you are writing a unique title, header and meta description for every page on the website. Further, if you are planning to work with mainly local businesses, it will be critical that you understand not just traditional SEO best practices for on-page optimization, but also Local SEO best practices for on-page optimization. There are special opportunities and best practices both on-site and off for Local business that your website design firm will need to master in order to be helping clients achieve the visibility they will be hoping for.

This is great article. I am trying to build video tutorial for Magento SEO, i think this could be helpful.

i'm not so sure you need a folder for /owasso-movers/   it won't help for seo so do it only if you think you need the structure. and if you do, make it different keywords like /owasso-moving-companies/owasso-office-movers if you don't need it for structure then something like: .com/office-movers-in-owasso-oklahoma .com/furniture-movers-in-owasso-oklahoma depending on the amount of content you can provide, you might want to consider county pages as well. .com/office-movers-in-bergen-county-ok read up on adding local info such as zip codes, microformatting addresses and other local SEO optimization for these pages to be better geo targeted

I'd like to just add that a 301 redirect passes the same amount of page rank as a regular link would. Pretty much there's no reason not to use a 301 in your htaccess. Go for it!

Hi Margaret, Here is a link to Lisa's slides from search love 2012. I think you'll find just about everything you need there. http://www.vervesearch.com/blog/presentations/international-seo-my-slides-from-search-love-london/ The correct markup really makes a difference. I would certainly suggest keeping it on the same domain. Rgds Kyle

thanks Martijn!

Thank you all for you answers!!!

Hi there, Thank you for reaching out!  I took a look at the issue, it looks like what went on is that you have a few 302 redirects in place on your site where it formed a series that took Roger to a place where he is having trouble crawling your site.  Here's what the interaction looks like: Initial homepage ---302---> intermediary index page ---302----> final landing index page. This interaction is not an idea situation with Roger crawling your site, since it has a traditional problem crawling redirects in the first place, this is an issue with the site structure that caused this issue. In regards to your site having more pages, it looks like to get to those pages, you would have to register or log in, at this time roger does not the ability to fill out forms in a crawl.  Unfortunately I am not a web developer, so I don't know the exact way to implement changes on your end to allow our crawler to crawl your site. Hope that helps, I will keep this thread open to allow others to chime in. Best, Peter SEOmoz Help Team.

Hi Tom, It was one of my colleagues that asked the question on my behalf. To clarify, we are actually aware the text is crawlable, what I was wondering is whether the text in title tags on thumbnails would be treated (in terms of exact match keyword weight) the same/grouped together with copy between span tags, for instance. We have a category page with 75 instances of 'example' and 'examples'  including title tags on thumbnails, anchor text and sales/seo copy (and 325 instances of the keyword in the source code) So the question is, would we be better to make the thumbnail text uncrawlable to avoid over-optimisation penalisation?  Just a thought Thanks for you reply.

Thanks Dan, I appended the asterisk.  I also tested the robots.txt in google webmaster tools.  It alerted me of the required : colon after the disallow statement.  I missed that somehow. The next crawl should finally ignore those search catalog pages. Best Regards, Alan