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Thanks David. Yes, we did this for Travis who responded above. Would you be interested in taking a look as well? If you private message me your username I can have my IT Director set up access for you.

yeah I have decided to go multi-page with it. but this is a good idea - I think I will throw a blog in there as well, to keep the content fresh. Thanks for the response.

Hi Kingalan, Feel free to mark the response as good / thumbs up / answered. To answer the other question. Should you have an SSL, last year I would have said no if you don't collect any user information. However, today my answer would be a little more murky. Google recently announced they are in fact factoring HTTPS in their algorithm as a ranking factor. To have HTTPS you would then need a SSL, to get an SSL you then need a dedicated IP address (you may already have one). If you are not hosting your own website you then have to pay for SSL and possibly the dedicated IP in addition to the normal hosting cost. The benefit right now, probably wouldn't be immediate as this is a relatively new announcement. However, if you think about why Google would incorporate it into a ranking factor you really understand that it makes since. To get an SSL you have to verify your domain with a trusted 3rd party, and have a dedicated IP, these 3rd parties are competing for your money so they often offer fraud insurance which looks good to users (which is what Google cares about). Now that last part of the statement can be expanded on to a full blown article, as Google makes nothing from users and everything from businesses. Suffice to say, in the end Google wants to serve the best user experience results, and if a website goes through the process of getting an SSL all other things being equal that website should rank higher. Hope that all makes sense and is helpful. Don

The code Martijn suggested will account for this; essentially, it will act the same as if someone was going through a multi-URL checkout, including if/when they go back a step.

Here is what I use in the PHP files for pages and posts on my Wordpress sites: class="entry-title post-title">Name of Website Page Note: I don't think I've ever seen someone put the page title in the header file. You may want to move it to the template files for posts/pages. In your case, though, it may work just to put an H1 tag at the beginning and end of the whole thing: <title><br /><?php<br />// Generate Page Title dynamically<br />if (is_home()) {<br />  bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description');<br />} elseif (is_category()) {<br />  single_cat_title(); ?> - <?php bloginfo('name');<br />} elseif (is_single()) {<br />  single_post_title();<br />} elseif (is_page()) {<br />  bloginfo('name'); ?>: <?php single_post_title();<br />} elseif (is_404()) {<br />  bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php _e("Page not found", "fungames");<br />} elseif (is_search()) {<br />   bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php _e("Search results for", "fungames"); echo esc_html($s, 1);<br />}<br />?><br /></title> I hope this may help -- good luck!

Hi CFSSEO, I don't have any hard evidence, but I would think that it doesn't help your site get crawled more frequently. Most of the time Google decides how frequent they will crawl your site, especially if it is a large and high traffic website (they remove the crawl settings and assign you a 'special crawl rate'). Yes, this would cause slower page load times - if the no-cache rule is actually being followed which doesn't happen all the time. It will remove the 'cached' link in the SERPs In a scenario where the page has dynamic content that updates frequently, then it may be a good idea to use that tag. However, I don't think it will provide much of an SEO benefit.

Google will look for the first character.  So unless there is some hidden character in the form of an entity (which I don't think is possible anyway) spaces are no problem whatsoever.

Hi, Google is quite clever at distinguishing what your code does and since you can search for the sentence inside the hidden element and find the page, it is being indexed. What you’re seeing in the Google cache is what a user without javascript enabled would see, so it’s personal choice if you think this is a problem for your site or not. But if Google thinks your site has poor usability for non-js browsers your rankings may be impacted. There are a few things you could do if you wanted to fix this: 1. Remove the hide class from your code and have javascript add this class so only users with javascript enabled will have the content hidden from them, leaving it visible to crawlers and in your text-only cache. 2. Google recommends using <noscript>tags to display content that is dynamically added by javascript. I know your js is not adding the content, just displaying it, but it will have the same effect in the text-only cache – your content will be visible both with and without javascript enabled.</p> <p>Hope this helps,</p> <p>Tom</p> <p> </p> <p> </p></noscript>

This is an old question, but I'll answer.  Yes - we just set a number of WordPress sites on SiteGound.  Bought their Geek account.  Very, very happy with it so far, but am aware that the costs will increase significantly as they do draw you in a bit with their slashed pricing for the first year. Happy with the package as it is super-fast and really like their caching solution.

A different thought here. Since you are doing printing as the service, would some things (especially business cards) be able to give a good clue as to industry without having to ask people?

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Thank you. This is helpful insight.

An interesting article on moz relating to your question here: The First Link Counts Rule and the Hash Sign - Does it Change PR Sculpting? I'm sure wayback I had an issue with apple devices not being happy with the # not having a slash. index.html#saving-water didn't work but this index.html/#saving-water did. You might want to check it out or I may have just dreamt it!

So ideally you would do page to page redirects which would be on the .htaccess level. Meaning sitea.com/topicx redirects to siteb.com/similartopicx If you don't have that ability/don't want to do that, use the DNS 301 and point it all to siteb.com. I would also first verify both websites in GWT and tell Google the website is moving locations.

Looks fine to me - http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2F54.86.51.30%2Fsearch-space-for-rent%2FHouston%23top Great layout btw

Perhaps you could try focussing on the exclamation mark (!). That you use the HTACCESS file to rewrite the url with the exclamation mark to the url without? Something like: RewriteRule ^!(.*) http://www.site.com/locations/$1 [R=301,L] The exact syntaxis for this statement should come close to this one. I'm not sure that this will work but it might work. Regards Jarno

Yes you will need to add the code manually if using wordpress. Also make sure to set up a gravatar.com account using your google email.

This is a really tough one to answer because while there are examples of companies doing this in stages and examples of this being done all at once, it's impossible to know what the results would have been if any one example had been done differently. I am tempted to say that the more changes you can make all at once, the better. The reason for this is that if you go through one set of big redirects to go from www.domain.com/url-structure to www.newsite.com/new-url-structure, that's only one set of redirects Google has to process. If you do this in too many stages, Google has to find and process each set of 301s every few months. The more times you 301 a URL, the less authority it seems to retain from the original URL. This is disputed and debated, but it definitely still seems like a poor idea to go through more 301s than you really need to. 301s can definitely result in temporary ranking problems, so the fewer of these you need to endure, the better. That said, this is a huge task with a lot of changes and it doesn't sound like they'll be able to do the whole thing at once?

By masking are you talking about rewriting the url? If so, they will stay in the index. You can also send a canonical header with your image files too, Google will respect that as well.