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  • You would never be penalized for having to many links on a page unless it is being done for a spammy/deceptive reason (and after reviewing your page - you are obviously not). The reason SEOMoz marks it as a "warning" is because it is something worth knowing for two major reasons: Most search engines can only crawl the first 100 links on a website. So it is important to place the most important links higher up on a page. With more internal/external links on your page you disperse the link value far more quickly. So once again, it is nothing to worry about but something to be aware of. Keep focusing on the great content you are publishing and less on the minutia of technical SEO Good luck! - Kyle

    | kchandler
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  • Weebly is fine.  The frame your are worried about are html iframe tags.  An IFrame (Inline Frame) is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website.

    | rmontanez
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  • Hello CommercePundit, I'm going to recommend Justin Taylor's first reply as the best solution here. You want your cake and you want to eat it too, but unfortunately that is against several of Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Either give each of those sites their own content, which would mean not using the same database, which would mean investing a LOT of money, which is probably not scalable or doable - OR - Give up the idea of having a mirror-site on multiple geotargeted domains and instead 301 redirect those to the primary / canonical domain at www.lilyanncabinets.com . You could also use the cross-domain rel canonical tag as suggested by Justin, but I find that does best on content websites. Due to the nature of an eCommerce site (e.g. secure shopping carts, etc...) I think just redirecting the domains would be best. You can put up a landing page for each location if you have a good reason to, such as having office or warehouse locations in those areas. But if you have no presence in those areas and are just trying to get traffic because they are big markets I wouldn't do that either. Go for the national market instead. I see on the Orlando site that the contact address is in Toledo, Ohio. You don't have to take our advice, but you asked for it and despite your other sites getting traffic I think getting rid of, and redirecting, all of those mirror sites is the best long-term option if you want to continue getting business from search engines. Let's assume that you can get local traffic with those other domains and business does really well for a few months or even a year or two. You hire more people and buy a bigger house/warehouse/infrastructure... only to have Google wipe out every one of your sites completely with a single algorithm update. Now you're firing people, selling your house and looking for a job. It's not worth it, IMO.

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  • I love it when my competitors use the keyword tag! Not sure why you want to use it even if the smaller engines use it, as the downside must outway any benefits!

    | Ant71
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  • Hey thanks for the response. I am back at #7 so I guess it was just temporary. But don't you think it makes sense that using the same keyword in the Title for the rest of the site would take away importance from the home page??

    | DTOSI
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  • looks good. a) anchor texts are lining up with URLs b) gotta be good for user experience and conversion c) Distributing PR well I see no problems here! 100 link recommendation was from a long time ago, Google now has the resources and desire to follow everything they possible can.

    | irvingw
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  • Yes as we are an eCommerce site, we have login and cart pages as secure. So as per the responses received so far, we should not worry about it. -The canonical element is already there for protection Adding no index or restricting through robots can be added precaution Thanks everyone for the reply!

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    | avassa
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  • Great info guys! I am going to try putting form on homepage on a few sites to see the response rates. Ill let post the data later. Thanks again!

    | TheSEODR
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  • Hi Tony, Depends how you wanted to do it. There are two simple ways of doing it: Submit the new pages as Posts, and give them a category (ES,DE), then set your permalink structure to /category/post-name This might mess with your existing URL structure set up though. The alternative way around this is using custom post types, so creating a custom post type called 'es', and any post submitted in it will automatically have the structure /es There are other ways to do go about it, including multiple Wordpress installs, although it all starts to get a bit messy. Cheers

    | mrdavidingram
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  • If they are relevant and on pages in geo targeted sub folders I don't see whey they would need to change. Hope it helps!

    | Marcus_Miller
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  • Yeah! just ran another report and now they have all changed again!!. Definitely reckon its having a dance!!

    | nezona
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  • Thanks Maximise!

    | RanjeetP
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  • There seems to be a problem with RogerBot and others are reporting problems as well. SEOmoz Community Specialist, Keri Morgret has referred subscribers to go to http://www.seomoz.org/help report the problem. Exact Quote: "It does look like we're having some troubles. The best way to report a problem with the app is to contact the help desk rather than Q&A. If you could go to http://www.seomoz.org/helpand click the big red "contact our help team" button at the top right, you'll be taken to a screen where you can let us know that you're having a problem. That'll help us to be able to track it down, and contact you when we have a resolution. Thanks so much!"

    | William.Lau
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  • Yes freshness does help. In your regards to your problem, best sellers are usually best selling items within your own business/site. So generally all these stats would be from your own business. Whats been selling and what hasn't been selling. If a certain product is converting on your site, it would make sense to show that it is a top seller to create more conversions. Lets say a visitor comes to your site basically to buy shirts, but one of your 'retailers'/brands sell more jeans than usual, then that top seller would not benefit your visitors. It is your business and you should use those implications to decide what to put on that list.

    | William.Lau
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  • Hi Rob, The On-Page report is a timed report. It's pulled Weekly automatically. You can run a report here: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new to do a cursory evaluation of your On-Page on the fly. If it's within a few days of your last crawl it is possible that it will pull cached data, so please keep that in mind. I hope that helps! Cheers, Joel.

    | JoelDay
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  • Build trust with content that people actually use. This might mean its good enough to; bookmark to refer to later email to a friend or collegue refer back to later yourself get shared on social naturally get linked to natually Content that does this is helpful (new info or old info just more detailed or done better than anyone, or put in a new way) entertaining - gets people to laugh, cry, feel inspired teaches something shares something personal innovative. I always refer to this to jump start my brain with ideas. -Dan

    | evolvingSEO
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  • Hi, Thank you for your reply!. I do think it maybe a over optimisation penalty but here "Used BMW Parts & Spares" (top left corner) instead. However he is on the first page for "Used BMW Parts" too, just "BMW Parts" is on the 22nd page Kind Regards Neil

    | nezona
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