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Hello. Depending on your CMS, shopping cart, or web site design software you can often find sites that are well-designed and ranking well, as one example: https://wordpress.org/showcase/tag/ecommerce/ (for Wordpress). you'll be able to find similar pages for Magento, Shopify, and others.  Cheers!

Many Thanks Egol, Some good ideas here which I will look to replicate thanks Peter

Great! All clear to me now. I'll let you know how things will have developed soon. Thanks for your input! Best, Ivor

Hi Howard, Infographic sites have a lot of Domain Authority, but Google decreased the value of these as a lot of people were developing infographics for backlink purposes. Because it's image based, you're not going to get hit with duplicate content issues. However, the best use for infographics is to get social sharing/engagement pumping. You can watch this video and read our case study on how we used an infographic to get heaps of earned links. http://searchfactory.com.au/blog/case-study-skyscraper-technique-sfgettingsmarter/ All the best! Stel

Addition to any concerns about Google, Pinterest has been making efforts in order to end keyword stuffing. They are working to surface more content to users based on what they're interest in and working on their search efforts. Keyword stuffed pins will get an algorithmic-style penalty in that Pinterest won't recommend them in either users' Pinterest home feed or in search. To my knowledge, they have not banned anyone for keyword stuffing, but I imagine at least making spam reporting easier on the platform will be coming soon. (At least that would be my guess.)

Hello, i think that´s totally normal, generics keyword are very hard to rank and they really need time. Focus on long tails, you will rank them much faster and most of them contains a generic term which will be ranked over the time Good luck! //Oliver

Thank you so much Dan, this is the answer I was looking for.

Thanks Chris. Everything you've said makes complete sense! Best, Jake

So If i move the content of the current blog: http://www.nursesfornurses.com.au/blog To my subdomain:  http://news.nursesfornurses.com.au/Nursing-news/ Should I be expecting to see a decrease in rankings, even if I do 301 redirects from all the blog posts to the new ones..? I'm just trying to get this as black and white as possible for my directors.

"a significant rankings boost" Here is how I see it..... If a page of mine moved from #5 to #4, I would call that a significant rankings boost.   If it moved from #50 to #40, I would call that trivial.   If I am on the first page and get any movement up I would call it awesome. About domain authority...  I almost never look at it and can't tell you the DA of my websites.  It has just slightly more than "entertainment value" to me.   But, plenty of people worship those numbers.

thanks for the info, I was also interested in this matter

Hi As Ryan said, if it's the only option it's OK to do. It won't hurt your SEO abilities.

How do you know you are getting beat? Do you have national keyword reports that support this? What are you using for tracking?

Thanks Ryan, much appreciated! Andy

Hi Don, Normally it's not really necessary to put a canonical on each the pages with different pageid - the most important reason to put a canonical url on a page is to let Google know that if the same content is published under different url's which url needs to be indexed. In your example - a canonical url on http://www.example.co.uk/Product.aspx?p=2692&pageid=3 would be needed if the same content would also be available under http://www.example.co.uk/Product.aspx?p=2692&pageid=3&sessionid=123456 (or any other additional parameter). Strictly speaking the canonical is not to indicate Google that the content is unique but to indicate on which preferred url you want the content to be indexed. That is also the reason why you can implement both together. If you check the example from Google  - they use the rel next/previous to indicate that the different pages belong together - the canonical is basically used to indicate that the session id needs to be ignored when indexing the page. If you are sure that there is only one version of http://www.example.co.uk/Product.aspx?p=2692&pageid=3 the canonical url is not really necessary. Note that e-commerce platforms have a tendency to add additional parameters to url's depending on the view - example when sorting on price etc - if this is the case the canonical would be needed. Hope this helps, Dirk

http://www.domain.com is the same as www.domain.com.  http is the protocol in which web pages are formatted and sent and would be part of any "complete" URL. So to answer your question, if there are no redirects in place you can choose either the non www or www version for your canonical tags.  However if you are looking to consolidate to a particular version I would look at updating your htaccess file to create a redirect rule from one version to the other. #Force non-www to www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC] or #Force www to non-www: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

As you have a download site and the site is relatively new the first thought that springs to mind is the Pirate 2.0 algorithm - http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change. Apart from that have you had any notification/s in GWT and is the sudden fall in rankings sustained or fluctuating?

I'd give the sitemap a submission as soon as you get the URLs cleaned up. That should really help. Cheers!

That is odd. I'm unfamiliar with that markup other than as an RSS emulation here: https://gist.github.com/jonathantneal/5096851 and used with RSS / Atom feeds: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287.  Maybe your forum software is doing them in this way in order to provide users with the corresponding RSS feed when subscribing to the post.  I'd look into the documentation for your forum software to try and get a better insight into why it's there.  Cheers!