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Hey, I see that your website is still out of Google's index but it does show up in Bing. I saw your website was using WordPress, so may be it was hacked and you might not know. Did you look if you had any messages in your Google Webmaster Tools account?  Have your verified your website and submited a sitemap in it? In case you don't know what is Google Webmaster Tools, you can find it there : http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools This place is used for Google to communicate with you if they have a problem with your website.  So if they found out it was hacked, you should have a message about that there. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Ça fait plaisir Martin! Si ma réponse t'as été util, ne néglige pas le bouton Good Answer! Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Hey Zack, It seems your website is now returning a 200 so you apparently managed to fix the problem. Was the problem coming from the server configuration as I suggested? Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Understood. I'm not talking about buying and selling websites. Just owning it and making changes to the registration... private from public and street address. Thanks!

I have a Mac and I use Pages to make my articles and them save them as a PDF.  I'm pretty sure you can do this with Open Office as well. Adobe Acrobat is expensive!  I'm pretty sure you don't need to spend the money on it!

HTML / CSS.  I just found a way to change this setting in my server host (GoDaddy), so it looks like that's all I have to do.  It doesn't appear that I would need to change anything in my htaccess file. I take the following statement from Google as meaning we should only use the default 404 setting and not direct it to the homepage?  "Another example is when a site redirects any unknown URLs to their homepage instead of returning 404s. Both of these cases can have negative effects.............."   I guess I'm a little thrown off by the word "any urls."

I know the feeling, it's the same story with me and my own site.

Wow! thank you, many of the robots.txt testers still show them as disallow, good to know! thank you!

I notice the page speed of your equity site was 60/100, a super quick fix for this is Gzip compression in HT Access (if on linux, not so quick on Windows). A little more complex would be caching rules, both will have a great beneficial effect on page speed, and hopefully SERPs too. Best of luck, just noticed your in Lancaster! just down the road from me in Chorley!

Poor conversion can be cause by many things... - unprofessional copy - high prices - high shipping - bad checkout procedure - out-of-date merchandise - difficult to navigate site - great offers by your competitors - low quality traffic Consider the above and compare your site, your offer, your prices and your conversion funnel to what your competitors are doing. There is a lot more to making a sale than getting good ranks.

Hi, I wouldn't worry too much about them, but you can mark them as nofollow and exclude them via the robots.txt ... as they are on so many pages throughout the web, I'd assume Google & Co do kind of ignore them when putting weight on different links ...

No problem, thanks for the input. I've read the post which actually created some of my questions originally.

Many thanks David. Regards Blaine