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Hi Paul. On many CMS's you'll find that the additional comments don't change the page's Last Modified http header or indeed the posted date in the body of the article. The comments are so far down the page that their perceived importance is going to be pretty low. That said, active commends do show that there's significant visitor engagement which has got to be a good thing! Interesting question about running a poll regarding the order of comments. I think however the order of the comments can work either way depending on the content/context. For example, "news" type articles with a relatively short shelf-life tend to work better with comments in chronological order. There tend to be fewer comments (which dry-up as the article ages) so the ability to follow disussions in the comments is greatly improved. For "ever-green" content it doesn't work so well. It can be jarring to come to the comments and be presented with one from 5 years ago! The other SEO issues related to comments (especially out of the box on many CMS's) is the use of links (followed or no-followed). If I've got a VERY popular page that's earning lots of real links, having all those links in the comments is going to be eating into the page equity that's going to be available to other pages I'm linking to on my own site. Paginating comments might be one way affect this? I'm hoping to get some time to make the changes to the page in question - it'll be interesting to see what (if anything) changes! Thanks!

Thanks Majid, Sucuri Scanner looks good. I wonder if you had any experience of it? If it can remove the malware as well as alerting me of any future hacks it would seem money well-spent. Colin

That would be ok. Your should read following articles as well . http://www.bayshoresolutions.com/blog/seo/what-are-hcards/ http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/make_contact_with_hcards/

Greg Thanks so much for helping out! If you don't mind I'm just going to correct a few finer details so people don't confuse anything "Essentially the tags display the exact content as the original URL so the pages are identical but the URL is different." Its totally true that this happens, but this is not what causes the duplicate content error in the crawl report. The errors are usually from sub-pages of any given tag archive having the same title tag. "Remove the tags" By this I'm sure you just mean noindex tags. You don't need to remove them from the site altogether, just remove them from the index. "If you want the Tags and Categories for user experience, Install Yoast SEO plugin which allows you to insert a canonical URL on the duplicate category pages." You should leave categories indexed and noindex tags. Yoast does canonicals no matter what, you don't need to think about them and they are not what handles duplicate category pages. Everything else stated is more or less ok but I just don't people to be confused. Thanks again! -Dan

Thank you for answer I didn't think about rel canonical, great advice!

Hello, Do you have another page that you created instead of this one: http://www.thexxxhouse.com/what_sets_us_aparat.html If so then you need to redirect it to the new page. Also I just tried going to your homepage http://www.thexxxhouse.com and its showing a 404 page as well. Are you using a CMS? It might be that somehow you or someone else removed all of your content. Please send more details on what happened prior to this...

Partial duplicate content can be OK if you provide your own product description. The main problem is writing a product description containing useful, unique content that is not already in the manufacturer's description. If you have the budget to make these useful descriptions, do it and remove the manufacturer content.

I think it is very difficult to judge your own site objectively.  I tend to snap at my wife when she is critical of something on my website (although I am more tolerable with other people weirdly).  It sounds like you need fresh eyes on the situation.  I am no expert at SEO although I know enough to know when something is not right.  I am pretty new to SEOmoz so I am not sure what the rules area about sharing sites etc but if I have your web address I would be happy to give you feedback on your campaign at no charge (if this is allowed) and whether there are any obvious steps that could improve it.  I am not looking for SEO business so this is in no way going to lead to me selling you anything.  From what you are saying though it sounds like you need to divert some of your time from content creation and syndication to developing relationships with authoritative sites so that they link to you although without looking at your site etc it is hard to make any solid recommendations. It sounds like you are in a situation where you could really benefit from a professional SEO but do not have the resources to fund one and I really feel for you with this.  If your assumptions are correct it is very easy to see how in as little as two months getting the right SEO expertise to add value to your efforts could really pay for itself many times over as if $1000 or $2000 a month makes you an extra $200 plus a day it very quickly pays for itself.

Thanks Marcus - really great advice! We checked out SupportPress on WooThemes and really liked it! Plus you are right as to how we can run it on our own domain. What we might do is pick 5 keywords we want to rank for, and move all our sites under one domain - this should help spread the link juice through to the less performing sites, as our main site gets a lot more press and links. Hopefully this is a good strategy! Thanks for the help.

The only consequence is that a 301 will pass most but not all of the link juice through to the new page. It is quite common after site redesigns etc to have lots of 301's in place. You may want to check out the Web Site Migration Guide blog post, it is extremely comprehensive and certainly worth a read before you embark on the transfer process. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos

Then you agree 100% with Marie. Thank you for your time Claudio

We're not an aggregator of user reviews, we provide our own reviews. _For the review in question, I added the metadata to communicate the rating we gave to the camera: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/sony-rx100/sony-rx100A.HTM Specifically: All things considered, we think the Sony RX100 is an impressive achievement and we give it a rating of 5 out of 5 points, as well as an enthusiastic Dave's Pick.

Is this site live yet? Can SEOMoz access it? That might be a problem. Also, if you want to see the top results for the keyword and the competitive nature of the SERP, I highly recommend the keyword difficulty tool - it rocks! http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty

I'm not sure if Yoast is more complicated I have not used it - anyone with experience with both?

There's not really much more I can tell you without seeing and checking the actual site, LB. If you're not comfortable listing the site address here publicly, you can send it to me in a PM (personal message) if that's better. Otherwise it's just going to be too many back and forth messages for me to be certain I'm clear how your site & domains are configured. P. P.S. I appreciate you marking a couple of good answers!

Hi! I believe we're having an issue with the keyword rankings. I'm not sure of the full status, as I was on vacation today, but if you open a ticket with the help desk at http://www.seomoz.org/help they'll keep you in the loop. thanks!

Thanks for the "Good Answer" flag, David! I reformatted & added a little extra info to make the process a little clearer. Paul

Ah, nevermind.  I found this other threads discussing the exact same thing.  Should have searched... http://www.seomoz.org/q/will-using-https-across-our-entire-site-hurt-our-external-backlinks

I've got a site with something similar in the home page title tag and there are not problems at all getting that site to rank on fairly competitive terms.  Whether it would rank better without that is hard to say.  Ours changes only once or twice a week though, although I don't imagine that makes a difference. However, it has helped our click through rates - which means more traffic.  Traffic is the aim, so I'm happy with that. My only concern would be whether it impacts bounce rate.  If the thing being counted is a key part of the decision and people click through and see something different (because the cached version is out of date) that might have an effect.  Pretty easy to measure that though.