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Very helpful, thank you.

Yahoo's Smushit.it is a tool that can do some lossless compression on your images and may be of use. If you use Wordpress, there's also a smushit plugin that will compress your images on upload. Page load speed does have an impact both for users and search engines. It's certainly something to consider.

Just make sure that when/if you copy over the staging site to the live domain that you don't copy over the robots.txt, htaccess, or whatever means you use to block that site from being indexed and thus have your shiny new site be blocked.

Whiteboard Friday Link: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/title-tags-is-70-characters-the-best-practice-whiteboard-friday

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Good answer, measure the results!

Hi Malte, Even though technically and logically it should not hurt your sites, I do have some experience in this where I had seen rankings and saturation affected when I had added unrelated websites into my GA account for easier management. Of course this could have been coincidental or perhaps I was being paranoid. But I could not find any other explanation (as far as my investigation went) for this.

thanks daniel, i figured out that the metatag missing errors are due to them missing on the "Comments on" feed generated after every post. The actual pages are fine, it is generating feeds for the comments which is where seomoz picked the missing metatag error. Not sure, how I can fix it though as my wp comments are already disabled...

@irvingw, I agree with most of your feedback. remember you don't need to fix everything wrong on your site before filing for reconsideration While this could possibly be true, the reconsideration request form is very clear. The only check box requires the submitter to confirm they have read and understand the Google guidelines, the site currently meets those guidelines, and the site will adhere to the guidelines going forward. I would not recommend submitting a reconsideration request unless you had some level of confidence that all issues on your site were resolved. Based on the wording of the original question, I think Daniel wanted to find out if a penalty could be removed from a particular page of the site without Google reviewing the entire site. Since Reconsideration Requests are subject to human review by the Spam team, anything is possible, but the policy is set up to be a site review.

I have never used either, but from a developer point of view Telerik (makers of Sitefinity) are excellent, telerik are from Bulgaria (Bulgarians are big on programming). I cant speak highly enough of them. I have done plenty of work on Telerik MVC Controls and have been very impressed, Sitefinityis ASP.NET, where Word press is PHP, I do know that they are looking to move sitinfinity to ASP.NET MVC, MVC is superior to ASP.NET Webforms, and far superior to php. MVC is also very SEO friendly, it has a clean separation of concerns giving very clean html, no post backs or viewstate, Already they are using the MVC Routing engine that gives full control over urls, no messy file names or parameters, you can make your URL say whatever you want, it does not have to match your folders. If you intend to further develop your site in the future, I would go with Telerik

I can't find the perfect quote right now, but I have often read articles were Eric Enge, Matt Cutts and others with a high degree of credibility talked about how unnatural anchor text patterns will likely lead to a (algorithmic) penalty. Some example articles: http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/anchor-text.shtml http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-061608.shtml The premise is anchor links are supposed to be independent, and such links will vary naturally if not unduly influenced. When the identical anchor text is used past a certain threshhold, it is clear some extra influence is at work and the links will not have the same value. That influence can include such factors as a widget with specific code, links submitted to 100s of directories, republished articles, standard software created by links, etc. A natural, independent link has more value then any form of influenced link, and Google does what it can to differentiate them and weight them accordingly.

Really helpful. Thanks very much, Sha. Much appreciated!

Thanks Ade, I will check this company out.

Two of the three links look like they're in javascript and wouldn't be picked up as a straight link. For all of the links, keep in mind that Linkscape only crawls about the top 25% of the web, so your count in OSE may not reflect all of your links. Also, the links are updated about once a month, when you account for the time it takes to crawl the web then process the links. How long have you had the links in place? It can take up to 60 days for Linkscape to find the links if it is crawling those pages.

Is your blog hosted on a subdomain? Personally I have noticed that Panda is sitewide but the subdomains might remain unaffected. In our case, our ecommerce site with 6,000+ pages got affected but the blog (subdomain) actually increased in traffic due to better content, more social signals and other factors.

Thanks Everyone. I think for the ease of set up - and so the client can do it himself a wordpress is going to be the way to go. We only really got the second domain so that no-one else can and we maight as well use it I figure.