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Hi Donnie, You might like to check out this previous discussion here in Q&A: http://www.seomoz.org/q/serving-different-content-based-on-ip-location Does that help?

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I found this in Webmaster Tools Support which may help: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334 It includes best practises for site links and it also explains how and where to denote urls as Rebekah mentioned above.

Terrific, Bob! So glad to be of help. Ventures like yours deserve big success!

Scott, just because a link is not indexed by Google does not mean they don't know that your link exists. I would definitely remove these directory links from your link profile and if you are unsuccessful contacting the webmasters make sure you keep the emails and notes in your spreadsheet. I have found its good to have this data in a Google Docs Sheet as it makes it easier to share with the Google Spam team once you do submit your reconsideration request Cheers Chris

It all makes sense, sir. And I have to admit you are spot on with the way they have distracted me. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

Depending on your sites hierarchy and structure, the sitemap may make the whole crawling process easier for Google rather than making the crawler dig through your menus and links to find pages within your site.  So in that case, it wont limit Google. Sitemaps can also include instructions on how often a page changes to determine how often Google should revisit that page.  If your pages that have already been crawled are fairly static and do not change often, set the crawl frequency rate to low so you dont have to worry about taking up too much of your crawling bandwidth on already indexed pages. Here is a good blog post about setting your sitemap page priority levels: http://www.seoboy.com/does-setting-priority-and-frequency-in-your-sitemap-help-increase-rankings/

Hi Brandon, This is a great question, and one I too cannot find a straight answer for either. I found that article you reference as well, and wasn't able to find the enable option either. If I had to guess, I'd say no - they don't know how to handle it. My site was recently changed to integrate an AJAX based search product at our category page level. The url structures and server responses are designed to Google's standards regarding AJAX crawl ability, but our rankings on these category pages have basically disappeared in Bing/Hoo. The underlying HTML is full of crawlable links as well to compensate. Hopefully someone chimes in with an answer.

Thanks George. That resolve my issues:)

The terms that you list are not "easy".  When you compete for terms like that you are in a "battle of resources".  Those resources in my opinion start with best-on-the-web text content, fantastic images and informative video. You want a website loaded with content that will make people say.. "Wow!" I would spend lots of time staging small room scenes to get professional-quality photos of these products that demonstrate "in the home" settings.  Google image search and pintrest can generate a lot of traffic for this type of product.  Some people shop this way or look for ideas and then are inspired to purchase.  We spend lots of time and lots of money to get great images and acquire the props and acquire great photos. I would spend lots of time making video that shows shoppers how to recognize high-quality products, how to care for them, how to arrange them into a great living space, etc. As you acquire a library of great content start making category pages on your site that can steer people to your products and educational/inspirational content.  Blog publishing is easy but it is more chronological than topically organized in a way that allows people to drill down. After you have a mass of kickass content you can try to get links from manufacturers, trade associations, home decor sites, interior design sites, etc.

Cesar, I hear where you're coming from - I am prone to some of the same challenges. Here's a phrase to keep in mind: Success isn't about getting things done right, it's about getting the right things done. The reality is there is a literally never-ending supply of the "little things" that are easier to focus on because the steps needed for them are clear and less stressful, therefore more comfortable to deal with. Except focusing only on them is the path to almost certain destruction. It's way harder to work on the bigger stuff not just because it takes longer, but because there are far more unknowns involved, which makes it so much more uncomfortable. But working through them and figuring them out will give far greater returns in the actual advancement of your site, as you already admit. So a suggestion: what if you blocked out a couple of hours twice a week to work only on the really big stuff. Don't allow yourself to even look at or start any little stuff during those times. If you spot something little that bugs you, jot down a note for later, but make those several hours sacred - BIG STUFF ONLY!! The rest of the time, you can work as usual, but at least for a couple hours twice a week, the big stuff is getting attention. One last thing. You're going to HAVE to learn to get comfortable with not finishing everything at one sitting. Much of the "big stuff" is just too big to chew through all in one go. If you have to, break a big one into specific chunks, and work a chunk all the way through, but stop thinking you have to "eat the elephant all in one sitting". Usually you just can't. As the project management experts all advise, break large tasks into smaller specific jobs. Then you won't feel as overwhelmed about starting them. My $.02. Whattaya think? Paul

why do you think it would be better to space it out?

Hello Gagan, please note my suggestion is to use "noindex, follow", not "noindex, nofollow". Your links will still be followed, it's just that your paginated pages will not be indexed which should eliminate problems with duplicate content. You might even be more interested in using rel="next" and rel="prev" as described here.

Agree with Justin, and would add a twist. Consider buying the example.ca for the 2 Canadian cities and use them in your Canadian marketing. Just make sure they're 301-redirected to the appropriate directories on the main site. We Canadians do like to know that US-based companies actually have info that's specifically for us Also means that the call-to-action can be example.ca instead of example.com/city which might get a little cumbersome. Google Webmaster Tools will let you geo-target a directory, so helpful to do that as well.. Getting links from other .ca sites is also a bit of a signal to SEs that the destination page is for the Canadian market.. Getting Canadian user reviews citing the Canadian directory would also likely help the localization process Paul

Remember some points. Allow H1 one time in the article. Allow H2 two time in the article. Allow H3 three time in the article. Allow strong tag 3 time in the article. Note use strong tag not bold. Allow underline tag 3 time in the article. Allow italic tag 3 time in the article. Keyword Density 1% in the article. Always remember that content is king. simply focus on delivering high quality content.

Don't know about the dates yet Mat but you are right about the links!

Here's an SEOmoz post about it that may be of help. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos