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Thanks for that MoosaHemani appreciate the input. We are not concerned about the updates as the two platforms will be "very different" with regards to overall widgets and portals. My main concern is that the two WordPress installs can run without issue on the same domain. Appreciate it!

Thanks Jeff!

Anytime! Good luck to you!

Nope, This seems kind of normal. Organic traffic can be coming from Bing and Yahoo also. I think you are fine. I noticed a jump in rankings also. That is why you want to make sure you don't drop below your lowest average, if you do then you might see a dramatic decrease in your rankings when everything settles down.

Unfortunately, in Google Analytics, there is no way to see these old speed reports before you did all the changes. (Unless you saved them to your computer or something.)

Hiya, It really depends on what you want, personally I favor having on the site (option1) that way any SEO work you do helps build up the whole domain. Here are some options to help you (only rough) Option 1. -  Create the product onsite Pro's - helps build up whole domain, less work needed between two sites. Already existing site can help rankings. cons - can clutter site, can backfire with any badly done SEO on the whole domain option 2. - Create a sub domain (e..g sub-domain.example.com) Pros - Can still help build you brand and gain association of site Cons - link juice doesn't tend to flow between subdomains meaning more work Option 3. - Completely separate domain Pros - Can keep it separate from main domain (different link strategies etc.) Cons - Absolutely no link juice flowed between it and main domain could double the effort to maintain two domains  Fresh sites can be harder to rank This is what I came up with in a couple of min and one else feel free to add to my pro's & con's as i'm sure i missed some bits and pieces.

Hi Don covered most of it correctly. Yes if you follow the above you should be ok, don't worry to much about the power of the link, its all about link relevancy, and the only little thing I would add in, don't try and get to many links too quickly, this could be a sign to Google you are trying to spam them. Get them to link over time to you. Also don't tell them which pages to link too or which anchor text, let them pick and choice (sometimes a mention is just as good as a link) this way it looks more natural and don't worry if a few of them say, we're happy to put links but they are nofollow, this again make the process look more natural. Once you have written Jargon guide, I would spend a lot of time outreaching sections of this to relevant people and getting them to mention it. There is software and services out there which are basically directories of journalists names and email addresses, I would highly recommend signing up to these to get the process started. If you can make them a bit light hearted, a bit of fun some of the misconceptions try getting it listed on Buzzfeed (http://moz.com/blog/my-recipe-for-success-how-to-launch-a-successful-blog) while you may not get the perfect link, if its picked up and share you could suddenly have a lot of additional people visiting your website. But you have the basics of SEO, so good luck

Hi Jeff, I really appreciate the articles. Thanks, Ruben

Depending on how often (how little) you update the blog it could technically been seen as duplicate content. Pagination (rel=next/prev) doesn't apply to those category pages, but you definitely do want them indexed so don't noindex or rel=canonical them. Your archive pages are that important, but you don't really need to noindex them also. If you end up finding that the archive pages are duplicating some of your regular blog pages or category pages, then throw a noindex,follow on them. Hope this helps!

From an SEO perspective, duplicate content and how it is handled is important.  There are two ways to handle it.  The first is to determine which page you identify as the "original".  In this case, I'm guessing that would be the testimonials page.  The next step is to add a canonical tag to any page that uses the same content.  (In your case that would be "our work/project" page).  The canonical tag will point to the orignal page. One thing to keep in mind is that you should only use canonical tags if both pages have the exact same (or almost the exact same content).  If the "our work/project" page has multiple testimonials on it, then that page would actually have content that a search engine would deem unique, even thought it consists of a compilation of content that appears elsewhere. This moz post provides a pretty good overview of how to use canonicals.  http://moz.com/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not

// PLEASE IGNORE THIS RESPONSE, AM TESTING SOMETHING. THANKS!! // One thing I would add is a "Book Services" button or "Request a Quote". I have used this technique on tons of my sites with amazing success. It allows people to feel like they are actually buying something and it takes people from "information requesters" (contact us) to buyers faster. Most sites I create I let them buy right there. But your situation is a little different as you need to give a bid. People want immediate gratification, buy now!!! Let them give you all the info right away if they will. For the booking page/request a quote page: Make check boxes for what people want: -Web Design -Logo Design -Graphic design Make a place for them to upload suggestions or urls of sites they like or Pinterest pins for logo designs. All the things you need to make your life easier. Or that you already request. You can actually use it for every client, so you have a run down of just what they want. Refine it as you find out just what people want from the form. It just takes the customer into your process faster and helps skip steps. Also, I noticed on your navigation you should lump service types together. It is to much to look at quickly and immediately makes me want to look away. I would use something more like (most popular first): Design Services: Graphic Design Logo Design Web Design Marketing Services: content writing social media marketing You get the idea (with a bread crumb trail or hover to show other services). I know you may have put them all on the same services tab because of indexing, but they will all get indexed. Once indexed, the 'child pages' pages will make the 'parent page' Stronger. Example: Parent: Design Services Child: Graphic Design -Logo Design-Web Design The child pages are going to help build more relevance for your page "Design Services" because of your great "Child page" references about different kinds of design. Hope that helps! Visually it looks great!

Erica this is fantastic - thanks for the link - great blog!

Thanks Gazzerman - This helps as well. Yes, I agree the site definitely needs SEO attention. It was not until recently that a more experience team was brought on to 'fix the site'.

Trello for mapping out plans, strategy stage and discussions Coschedule for your editorial calendar, getting writers to follow schedule, assigning tasks, discussions per piece. I hate spreadsheets when it comes to content ideation,creation,launches. LOL

_Firstly what type of tool are you using which shows up the errors in site code? I would like to check the site myself for these errors. _ I have been a coder since 1993 before most browser lol. I look at everything with my own eyes and just see it immediately. _It would be maybe a lot of work to change the entire site in one go etc. _ Nothing wrong with doing it bit by bit. Google algorithms will however take a look at the site as a whole for additional ranking signals, so I would look at extracting that data and dropping it into a new template at some point. It is also very confusing for a customer to land on that page only to click on a link and have a totally new site layout. Do you think initially it will be a good idea to get a coder to just look at the old site and fix any errors? Yes the errors will likely all be the same or similar and should not take long to fix. From customer feedback they seem to think it looks okay for the products old cottages That is always a good sign, however that may be a very specific audience and you might be missing out on a much larger audience who may hold less trust in a site that looks dated compared to other sites. Its all about first impressions. _I have run a test _ Plenty of tools out there to look at things however they wont reveal too much detail just the standard things its looking for that most people get wrong. I assure you that the coding issues you have that need fixing are not the same as others. Even down to the broken google plus code you have in the top left corner. They will be pretty unique to your site.

The visual design itself is not a major concern as far as ranking, however the underlying code changes can present an issue (or an opportunity) depending on the code quality of both the current and new designs. This guide from SEER covers the essentials you need to be aware of during a redesign: http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/seo-website-redesign-checklist If you avoid dramatically changing the body content of the page, the URLs, the title tags, and the internal linking structure, those are the most common changes that would produce issues.

Did you find what you needed Kiwi Man? I can't vouch for any specific plug-in, but these two might be worth looking into:WooCommerce Drop Ship Manager Pro: Costs $200 and specifically mentions inventory updates via spreadsheet. Spark Shipping offers "Dropship eCommerce Automation" services and they work with WooCommerce stores, among others: "Spark Shipping will process feeds from your suppliers and automatically update your inventory. Automated Inventory Management keeps your inventory in sync with all of your vendors." One thing you need to be sure of is that you aren't publishing the manufacturer/vendor supplied product descriptions on your site. You should be overwriting the ones that come in via the feed and using your own custom product descriptions instead.

Hey, I did a quick run through your homepage and it looks like you have no Open Graph tags,  No Schema Markup,  You Meta title is way to long try to say as short and concise as possible. You have no meta description which is your marketing call for the consumer to click on your link in google's search results. You have WAYYYYY to many 's you should only have 1,  you should make the rest Consider adjusting your Alt Text so that they actuall describe all your images because currently they all say "link to video" which is spaming Hope this helps and is a great start

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