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I have read articles where people were using blackhat seo tactics through javascript thinking that google does not analyze it and were caught. Apparently they do analyze javascript. This analysis is actually not difficult to achieve. All you need is a javascript interpreter, like spider monkey. Im sure google can write something themselves without even using a third party product. This is computatively intensive however. So google might spider the page and then run an analysis several weeks later off the live internet with one of their background computers. So whatever is in javascript may not be picked immediately but will probably be picked eventually.

agreed, that would make the issue a lot easier.  the problem is that the page above the product page needs to show all colors.  i don't think swatches are an option.

It must have been a glitch in Google. They processed our sitemap again last night and there aren't any error messages now.

That's a bit of a pain. If anything tell them to set up a custom informative 404 error page that will at least direct them somewhere else and not bail from the site.

Hi Jason! Alex has a good point there, spanish anchor text inside english text will just look spammy. One thing to remember is that Google recognize synonyms and other languages as well. If you want to build links for the spanish word "perder peso" and find it very tough to make it effective, links from english sites with the english anchor text "weight loss" will help you as well (the effect might not be as good as with spanish, but it will help). Google will understand that "perder peso" equals "weight loss". But the recommendation is to work with links for the goal language, it´s most relevant for the users and in the eyes of Google.

So, shall i accept the project considering i am safe at seomoz ! That is entirely your decision. I would not recommend depending on SEOmoz for assistance. The Q&A is a fantastic resource for asking an occasional question, but some questions go unanswered and the quality of answers can vary. You are being paid for your expertise on a subject. Only accept the job if you are confident you can offer a solid benefit to the client.  I was very candid with my first clients about my experience. I offered to work hard, work extra and work for less money but I did not ever hide my lack of experience. You may wish to do the same. Any tool to know the different terms used by australia and uk people. None that I am aware of. I would recommend locating someone from each country.

We use caching and have seen no ill effects. I seriously doubt spidering robots will be hitting your site's pages every 15 minutes. One thing you might want to look into is the "If Modified Since" header, which could help notify Google that your content has changed http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-interview-googles-matt-cutts-on-redirects-trust-more

Great. Thanks for your prompt reply and I suppose to integrate with my problems.

Hi Is that a page where the homepage shows up instead of the desired page?  I didn't see anything from your domain on the first 1-20 results. But see the screenshots.  That's a highly competitive term.  And then check out your client's domain's backlinks and facebook shares.  Very sparse. That clearly needs a lot of work.  Ryan's right, it does seem you've got your on page SEO down pretty good.  I'd take a look at your backlinking and social sharing metrics now, especially building links to those inner pages you want to rank for. Maybe there's a better example where the homepage shows instead of the menu page?  That was the original question you had, yes? -Dan EgkoYzLyg A82cpNJ6p

No probs glad to help! Best of luck!

I've used the review markup quite a bit, and Google Places has added a link to the reviews on one of my client's Reviews page. I know Google Places also factors some (who knows how they choose?) of the reviews into their local algo. I also use some geo tagging and author type markups (see the main and contact page of my site). It works, and it will only get better Hope that helps Andy

I agree - it was Google itself that suggested hyphenating keywords in url's. Example - I was just using the Moz keyword tool on a site named sellmybusinesscolorado.com. The search term it was tuned to was "sell business colorado". The tool, and so likely the bots, did not recognize those very words in that long URL. Had it been hyphenated - they would have been recognized. What brought me here was - is hyphenating, itself, non kosher in a sub domain? Thomas, coincidentally - the subdomain I was pondering is pest-control.straza.com. He is a business broker that sells a lot of pest control businesses. I also would do medical.straza.com. These subs will deal with their namesakes as if they were the only businesses they sell. Google recognizes the hyphen as the universal word separator. I stopped using underbars ten years ago - a nasty habit I learned from programmers. I think it is more the ABUSE of a good thing, as it always is, that should be avoided. ........... I didn't name that site, by the way ;-]

Hi getzen, The primary problem here is that these links are resulting in 404's which can hurt your site. If they are just not terribly relevant, but may produce traffic that is useful to you, then you can create a nice "Oops!" page to give visitors options to go to other pages on your site (we call this our "Bounce Page").  This is preferable to a "catch-all" redirect to your home page when you know that the likelihood of a high bounce rate is a concern, since Bounce is now known to be a ranking factor for major Search Engines. If you are clever with the design of this page you can create ways to keep these non-relevant visitors on the page (rotating banners with funny or clever images, or maybe a video embed could be used). The primary goal is to eliminate the 404 Errors, but to also be mindful of the impact of Bounce. Hope that helps, Sha

Taken from http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization Avoid Excessive External Links <dl> <dt>Explanation</dt> <dd>Linking externally is generally a good thing, but as with many optimization tactics in SEO, moderation is the best path. Employing a high number of followed external links may prevent the engines from passing much value through any given link and can also trigger potential issues of spam/manipulation (particularly if those links are not pointing to high quality/trustworthy sites).</dd> <dd> Avoid Excessive Internal Links <dl> <dt>Explanation</dt> <dd>Employing an excessive quantity of internal-pointing links may not directly harm the value of a page, but it can influence the quanity of link juice sent through those links and dilute it's ability to help get link targets crawled, indexed and ranked.</dd> <dt>Recommendation</dt> <dd>Scale down the number of internal links to fewer than 100 (preferrably), and, at a minimum, fewer than 300</dd> </dl> </dd> </dl>

1 - the absolute path. It's less error-prone. For example, if the rest of the URL was sometimes partly upper case, and other times completely lower case.

Hi Dylan, All evidence is that if the URL is not wrapped in an <a href="">tag, then it won't be crawled.</a> <a href=""></a> <a href="">Matt Cutts has discussed this and not surprisingly suggested that it would not be a good thing if these URL's were crawlable. If that happened it would be open slather on adding your link to any user generated content such as forums, comments etc. You can view the video here</a> Will Google use non-link references? There is a post from SEOmofo that suggests in certain circumstances, google may accidentally make links crawlable if it strips out <text area="">code, but once again, the URL's in his demonstration are actually wrapped in the a href tag. You can find the post here</text> So, as far as I am aware, there is no evidence that URL's wrapped in a SPAN tag would be crawled - but as you will see, Matt emphasises that Google doesn't like to ever take anything "off the table". Hope that helps, Sha

I'd recommend ScribeSEO  (affiliate link) or http://scribeseo.com (non-affiliate link) Great tool for keyword checking right on the post as well as some basic SEO review.  It has a plugin that works great in WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.

Like Brian and Wayne say, Google does reserve the right to change title tags, and they do so even with big brands like Apple. Here are two posts about that: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-tag-13704.html