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Matt Cutts says those are symbols and that they are looked at as spaces.

Thanks, EGOL. It's definitely weaker, but will ask them to change it.

I include an alt tag on every image on my website.  I use the alt tags not for keywords, but a clear description of what the image is trying to portray. The description usually includes a the keyword, but also includes other descriptors as well.

I have sent the information. To your PM and please feel free to reply that way. I have one call I have to make very quickly. And that I will be available.

Oh if webmaster tools is showing 404's for those pages that is most likely why Google has removed them from the index. It's hard to dig in without accessing your tools but here's what I would do. Find out what urls are returning a 404. It could be an error in the sitemap due to a change in the website? Set up 301 redirects for these broken links to point where the content actually is.

Thanks for the resource. Much appreciated!

So was it escaping the special characters that did the trick, Ted?

I've worked out a solution. I set up SSL on https://secure.domain.com and removed SSL from www.domain.com. Then I moved all the secure content to secure.domain.com.

Thank you so much Takeshi! All clear! I understand, thank you very very much and have a good day.

Hi, There was a conversation here a few days ago about this. It seems to be Google trying out ways of focusing more on brands and in this case bringing the brand name to the front of the title. The following link was mentioned and seems to outline the case pretty well: http://www.gordoncampbell.co.uk/colons-page-titles

If you want all of your reports, you'll have to wait it out, otherwise, you can use the research tool here... http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new To view your on-page reports 1 at a time instantly.

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Actually, the SEOmoz Q&A is not in Google News, yet questions are indexed within minutes of being asked.

Prob won't do much for SEO but will improve UX. Only way this would help is if other sites decide to link to your glossary and bring in more authority. I've had clients who had nice glossary pages but they didn't improve traffic much (low inbound links and low keyword traffic).

Would you feel of will comfortable sharing the URL either here or in a private message. a screenshot perhaps of what you would like it to look like? A screenshot of what you have now. I built many blogs and have followed the Advice given  on copyblogger.com  it has not steered me wrong yet. http://www.copyblogger.com/wordpress-setup-mistakes/#more-30398 What you're doing is adding a parent category or page? You can add new categories and subcategories as shown below, however you will want to link to every one of them meaning each one has its own page without a / category/ sub/ You want examples/category/tag/ That will do what you are wishing the subcategory to do however it will do it in a much cleaner and better way for your blog. http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-categories-and-subcategories-to-wordpress/ I get what you're saying now your WordPress structure is set to use categories and subcategories http://www.copyblogger.com/wordpress-setup-mistakes/#more-30398 Mistake 3: Too many categories, not enough tags This is a really common error that even proficient content publishers can make — especially once your site starts to outgrow its original purpose. It’s easy to just assign another category and dump posts into it, but that starts to create a very cluttered category structure. This is where tags can step in to do the job of tying together your posts. Think of it this way: Categories are best for segmenting your content into broad sections. Tags help further refine and filter each post into specific sub-sections. Category Sub category 1 Sub category 1 New Category Sub category 1 Etc. http://wordpress.org/tags/subcategories Would you like the categories to show up as URLs or would you like them to show up simply as a choice inside of the main URL? My reason for asking is not due to URL structure so much as how your blog will operate. I also want to ask you what framework you're using? My reason their different ways of going about things on different frameworks is I am sure you know. I'm sure that you've gotten rid of the category Uncategorized right? http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic/automatic-building-sublevels-menus-using-subcategories http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sub-categories-widget/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11594678/wordpress-categories-linking-to-subcategories Would be more worried about burying my links using the subcategories for every subcategory you create Google's going to have to dig a little deeper I would suggest building pages instead of categories I understand in certain instances that is not an option. However if using subcategories I would need to know if you want them to be shown? If yes you may use tools like this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sub-categories-widget/ Or http://yoast.com/showing-subcategories-on-wordpress-category-pages/ I would be very wary of doing that but I to understand if you want to essentially categorize your information. Maybe SEO Hosting Etc. Make them into tags not subcategories. I hope what I've written makes sense. And I had to do some research I do everything on WordPress myself so if I could see a screenshot pictures worth 1000 words as they say. Sincerely, Thomas

Yes I did have significant drops. Under “photographers dallas” I dropped 29 spots on google. “green screen photographers dallas” dropped 6, and “sports photographers dallas” dropped 5. The only changes I’ve made on the backend were the suggestions made like reducing duplicate page names, not having meta keywords, trying to use the keywords in my text, etc. all of which I thought would improve my rankings but it had the opposite effect. Maybe I’m missing something.