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I see that there are some plugins that add copyright info to the rss feed, some have a finger print thing going on Was wondering is there a plugin or trick that is standard practice Only had my site in google news for 6 months so new to this

Hi Joel, This question has been addressed at length in one of the Google Product forums. Here's the link. Points 1 , 2 and 3 relate to your question. Hope this helps.

It's an interesting idea.  There's a very popular blog in the SEO industry that is 'do follow'.  He is very interactive and the comments there are generally good. Here are some considerations: outside of the SEO industry, how many people really understand the difference of 'do follow' vs 'no follow'.  If you're topic is something niche and very technical, the fact that it's 'do follow' may potentially have 0 impact on the type of person that you really want to have leave feedback. be prepared to be a firm moderator for the comments.  I think you'll often find yourself on the fence you'll see a comment with marginal value.  I would try to set the bar higher on which comments you approve. Facebook comments might be useful.  Since Facebook comments show up on a users wall, and can generally be viewed by friends who might be in the same industry, it might be a good way of generating more discussions.  We've used Facebook comments for a few sites, and have had very little problem at all with spam comments.  The downside with Facebook comments is that the content is stored on Facebook rather than your own blog (though there are some plugins that attempt to address this by download the comments to the blog). The SEOMoz profile system is kind of cool.  Once a user has generated enough 'points' - their profile link becomes followed.  I sometimes wish there was a similar system for blog comments.  Maybe there is?

Well, I may have answered my own question I found an SEOMoz forum post by Ruchard Baxter (of course!) - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/schemaorg-a-new-approach-to-structured-data-for-seo It appears Schema.org is the way to go....I wish Schema.org hadn't referenced GoodRelations because I feel they sent me hopping down a bunny trail of the "old ways," Still, any insights, ideas or experiences any of you have had with structured data markup on large e-commerce sites would be very helpful and interesting to me.

Hi Bob, Some thoughts below: You might want to try a sticky navigation so that the top navigation follows the user as they scroll down the article page Trying a sliding secondary navigation option. Sort of like gmail with the labels following the user as they scroll down their mail Hope this helps.

That's what our next move is.  I'll let you all know what comes of it.  Thanks for the response!

Hi Robyn, Tom Schmitz has written awesome post on inter linking and website structure. Here is the link: http://searchengineland.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-seo-web-structure-internal-links-110994 Hope this will help you out....

Howdy, I've recently become a fan of WPengine for this reason - they've got some neat staging features, including, I believe, being able to stage changes, check them out, and push them live. But, that would probably require you to change hosting. That said, here's how I tend to move sites from development to production (or production to development). Someone who knows more might have some changes or suggestions, or an easier way, but this is what works for me: Install WordPress somewhere. Make sure its noindexed and/or password protect the directory. Download a copy of your wp-content folder from your existing site (this will pull all of your themes, plugins, etc.) Export a copy of your wordpress database (how to here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database) Open up your database in a text editor (I like Notepad++) and locate the first instance of your old domain name with the new one and then use find and replace to switch out all instances of the old domain name for the new one e.g. if it's noahsdad.com/ and you're moving to dev.noahsdad.com/ use find and replace to switch all occurances of noahsdad.com/ to dev.noahsdad.com/. Be careful to look at trailing slashes etc. Upload your wp-content file to the new wordpress install. Overwrite the old one. Open the database for the fresh WP install using PHPmyadmin (or the equivalent, on your server). Import the database that you conducted the search/replace on. The advantage of uploading the wp-content folders and then then database is that the Database changes while the files for plugins etc. are already in place. Therefore, it should retain many of the plugin settings so you won't get any serious weirdness due to an important plugin not working. Here's a guide that I like http://wpmu.org/migrating-wordpress-to-a-new-server/. It doesn't conform exactly to the method I use (they upload the database first), and it has some extra stuff in it like updating your nameservers which you should ignore, but it covers the database part pretty nicely. Hope this helps. Bede

I'm with Highland on this one.  Once your new sites are up and running submit them via GWT to ensure that they get found. 301 for now.

I think your question is about internal linking structure. If so, check out Moz's best practices on internal linking. In deciding which internal links to keep on the homepage, think about those links that would be most helpful to the visitors of your site.

Hi Tom, Thanks for that answer, unfortunately what I expected. I am currently just rel=canonical-ing to one of the items like the good ol' Google 'Green T Shirt' example. If I reduce the item detail to the differences between the items, it then becomes 'thin content' in the template, so it's bad both directions. Looks like 'Spun' individual item descriptions seems the preferred method, but there is only so much you can say about what is essentially the same unit with just different types of output controller but otherwise with identical features. IMHO a situation many will have that Google just doesn't understand (or perhaps want to understand ). Thanks again.

No canonical back to the main product page?

I don't know of any case studies, but I remembered reading a couple posts about H1's a couple months back: http://www.seomoz.org/q/multiple-h1-tags-on-same-page and another from earlier in the year: http://www.seomoz.org/q/one-h1-tag-dead-long-live-multiple-h1-tags

Sorry, these questions are impossible to answer correctly. In my opinion though, Google will pass value through the link especially if it is a strong news site. Usually I just ask myself: Would I feel comfortable telling Google about this link at a later date? If the answer is yes I go for it.

Are there no opinions on this topic?

Hi Megan, Thanks for your reply. I'll run a crawl now and hopefully all will be okay. Sam.

Oleg Thank you for the reply. I am going to submit to G as well. What's really interesting is that for some of those ancient pages that have somehow resurfaced, you can view the cache dates.  Those pages seem to have cache dates from late nov and dec 2012. But for others, attempting to view the cached version yields a google 404! IMO, this suggests to its a bug. As an aside, you are certainly correct about canonical and pagination issues on our site. We have implemented canonical thus far only on product pages (over 10k prod pages), and I've had getting next/prev for pagination of subcategories as a top priority for months now. Thanks

I'd start with our guide to link building at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links and also check out our blog posts about link building at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/link-building