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I haven't heard anything regarding DMOZ shutting down. Where did you hear that?

Forums are open ended so you can easily end up with pages that are low in quality content and with post-panda google this could have a negative effect on the whole domain.  Forums are also targeted for link building schemes which, unless actively moderated, could end up with you linking to lots of illegal sites that could end up penalising you.

This issue needs to be cleaned up. It can definitely affect your rankings and search results. Steps to take: 1. Contact your web host and inform them you wish to redirect all "non-www" URLs to their "www" counterpart. This request is quite common and can be done easily by your host. 2. After your host makes the change, verify that it works. Visit a couple pages from your site and remove the "www" prefix. When you hit enter to visit the non-www version of the page, the "www" subdomain should automatically appear. 3. Since your site is only 12 pages, take a close look at your site. Check every page and examine the URL listed in every link. Be certain the URLs use the "www" prefix and you do not have any broken links. 4. When you are finished, try creating a sitemap. You can generate a free sitemap at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. If your site has 12 pages, your site map should show 12 pages. If it shows more, try to figure out why. 5. You can also use the SEOmoz crawler to get a detailed look of your site if there are further issues with your sitemap that you cannot figure out. Once this issue is cleaned up, it will probably take a month for Google to clean up your site in their index. You can log into Google Webmaster Tools to monitor the status. The "number of indexed pages" should decrease a bit each week.

Hi James, I know that I can SEO it even if it as a domain hack because i have been doing so and have it ranking second. I don't have anywhere near that amount of backlinks but I am not trying to rank it on .com, it is showing second in local Ireland Google but I still think that it is strong enough for local search to pick up on the hack as one word. I guess the real question is, is there some code to be placed on the website or something to be done in webmasters, I don't think it can simply be about the amount of backlinks. Any thoughts on this will help. Thanks, Ronan

Thanks. Understood.

You can see that from the W3schools article I linked above: "Even if works in all browsers, writing instead is more future proof." HTML worked with the idea that certain tags could be opened but did not need to be closed such as the and tags. The XHTML standard requires all tags be closed. As I understand the idea, it's just a better means of presenting that every tag is closed. Functionally there is currently no difference BUT it can lead to different behaviors in various browsers if you use invalid code.

Cheers for your reply and answer & Yes most of your assumptions were correct I am using sitemap generation. The issue is fixed there was a problem with the sitmap when created but it's all sorted now & submitted correctly in WMT. Thanks...

Thanks so much, Joe and Anthony. Both answers help! AK

The index.html file name offers no value for SEO nor users. I recommend not using it and directing users to a "clean" URL (eg seomoz.org/ instead of seomoz.org/index.html). As long as you properly set this up and consistently link to the same URL there are not any duplicate content issues. If you wish to go one step further you can add the canonical tag to your page.

My understanding of nofollow is that you really shouldn't be using it for links to other pages on your site.  There's no benefit to it.  You used to be able to sculpt the flow of pagerank, but they changed how it worked awhile ago to make it so it's not beneficial to do this to your own links.  For example, suppose page A has 6 units of pagerank to pass, and links out to the following pages: page B Page C Page D Normally, each of the pages would get 2 units of pagerank.  Suppose you nofollow the link to page D.  What will happen is that page B and page C will continue to get 2 units of pagerank, and page D will get none.  It didn't increase the pagerank passed to pages B and C. So, nofollowing a link will prevent pagerank from getting passed to that page, but won't increase the pagerank passed to the other linked pages from that page, so I wouldn't do it.

Essentially Google only really gives any real weight to the first link on the page anyway, so by the time you get down there, it will be of miniscule benefit. I would suggest you concentrate on a few good anchor links in the body of the page and not worry about the footer for anything SEO related

Thanks James. I agree the reviews should be good, at least in terms of CTR. I am also looking at doing the image, item name, price, brand etc and wondered if this would have any impact as well?

xenu does to job

To update this thread, finally starting to see feeds being approved. We use kissinsights on a lot of client sites and google is classify this as a popup and has rejected some feeds based on this. It seems if we setup a feed, have kissinsights disabled and wait 1-2 weeks it gets approved. If not approved within two weeks, logging a support ticket seems to get it sorted within a few days.