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Howdy, So this is a Top Pages report that you ran on your own site in Open Site Explorer? What this report shows is the top pages as determined by the link authority features of your incoming links. It is actually not based on a crawl of your site. So here's what can, and often does happen: External websites link to pages on your site that don't actually exist. A brief glance suggests this is what happened here. Those links look like auto-generated spam to me, and likely were made by a wayward robot. The good news is that because your server is returning a 403 response code (Forbidden) those pages on your site don't really exist, and the effect of those links is basically null. If you returned a 404 (which would be more common) the effect would be the same. So why does OSE report on Top Pages if they don't actually exist? The real value is when you find links coming into broken or misdirected pages (think 404, 302, etc) and you can then fix those pages to take advantage of the link juice. Hope this helps. If you like, you can dig around OSE to try and find where those links originated, but it likely doesn't make a big difference either way.

There are definitely sites that are (to quote George Orwell) "more equal than others". Wordpress would be hooped is those types of links were catalysts to a penalty ... at least in a level world. I dont' think anyone could say with 100% certainty that it won't bite you in the butt so nofollow is probably the route to go.

Daniel, There is an easy way to Lazy Load images using JQuery. However this means changing the image's src attribute to nothing and replacing it later on. Do I understand correctly from your answer that it is not recommended? (I assume because Google misses these images). Please advise (and also provide an alternative if there is one for a page with more than 100 images - even though each image is approx 8kb). Thanks

O.K. finally I can answer this question myself: I installed lately a True Type Font: ufonts.com_helvetica_neue_ultralight.ttf which affected many browser fonts that I hardly could not use moz anymore. So problem is solved. Never install the font mentioned above !

That sounds fine. I would choose either google apps or zoho for custom email. I have not heard of Hostasaurus up to this point. Hope this helps

I was killing time looking at some old posts and came across yours. I just Googled 'construction human resources' and found this site:  http://www.clp.com/Construction-Human-Resources They seem to do a decent job of SEO. Although I did not audit the page, I just spot checked a bunch of those sections from the sidebar and they were first page for many of them.

I found this video extremely helpful in terms of the architecture of one's site: http://moz.com/academy/website-architecture Since I don't know what products or services you provide, I'll just give you some suggestions I have implemented with other websites which may or may not work with your concept. 1. Implement appropriate, useful social media icons. Too often, people put EVERY icon possible on there but just add the ones that your community uses. One exception, I'd add Google+ regardless of how large your community is. 2. Add a "subscribe to our newsletter" form somewhere tasteful. 3. "Brand out" your homepage, but make sure it's well written. If necessary, hire a copywriter. 4. If you have a web design company build your site, make sure if they add a "website designed by X" that you are getting something out of that in return or delete their link. 5. Do not use a slider. It makes your site slower and serves no valuable purpose. Good luck! Ruben

Yes, it really is a good video! I had the honor of Everett respond to one of my own QAs. By the way, what a nice website you have there! I'm actually in the watch niche as well.

Hey! What's happening here is your website is loading a single offices.htm page and showing different data within that page depending upon the ID of the office selected. It's basically using the page as a template and filling in the blanks dependant upon the query. The reason for it being there is simply because that is how your developer/agency has built your website. I would not recommend using this method in this instance as each office would be best suited to a unique page of their own as you've already mentioned. For a better understanding of why it has been built in this manner I'd recommend talking to your developer. Hope you found this useful.

Josh, You might also look at the organic search traffic coming from Bing, since they still share their keyword data. It sounds like this client doesn't have a lot of organic search traffic, but if the site hasn't changed much recently you could review a longer time period - like six months - and see which keywords drove organic visits via Bing. You can then extrapolate the Bing data to estimate what keywords might be driving a lot of volume through Google. Agree with Craig about looking at the GA 'Top Pages' report too.

In css there are classes and id's. Classes have a period, so it would look something like this in your css file - .nav { } ID's have a # sign so it would look like this - #homelink { } You can also string these different elements together to target a specific element, but your question the code within your html file should look something like the code below. That id will trigger the css element have listed. Replace 'www.link-to-your-page.com' with your link. Your Link Name

Thank you very much! I will give it a try. All the best Iris

Hi Greg, what did you find out? Please update the question and let us know if it has been answered, thanks! (Christy)

Hi All, It looks like Google has setup a nice dev site and FAQ page to go over the options here especially when using AJAX and hash tags to link to hidden content. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/faq#whereinresults. It looks as if Google will be able to index the content of the entire page (hidden and initially shown) and not create a separate URL if you use a ! before the #. I'd read up on that FAQ page, and play with site commands on the Google dev site.

Hi Woj, Good luck on your project! I created a board with Seo Parallax Responsive Websites. Please add your project to the board if you get it too work! http://www.pinterest.com/ecumbre/seo-and-parallax-scrolling/ thanks Carla

Well there's nothing in the page source. No clue what to make of it. Here's another screencap from Analytics. FvZ5g1Z.jpg

I would absolutely use 301s in this case as the client is, in essence, picking a new URL. Switching from .uk/uk to .org/uk could Have unintended consequences for your rankings, but this could be offset by an international bump upwards. Without knowing your traffic, it's difficult to codify the potential issues of keeping or leaving the .uk TLD. However, it's always fun To make statements after A disclaimer, so to steal Google's own PPC targeting terminology: People in, searching for, or viewing pages about your targeted location <-- May go down. People in your targeted location <-- May go down. People searching for or viewing pages about your targeted location <-- May go up. At the very least, I would be sure that regional targeting is set to within WMT to ensure that Google knows your target region, based on your audience.

Your welcome. Here's a little insight on the two shopping cart systems I mentioned. Note that both systems have added (and are promoting) the standard e-commerce hoopla of auto-generated product pages and the sort of stuff systems like BigCommerce do. But they do both also have the simpler option of just using the cart and checkout system and allowing you to put your Buy buttons anywhere you can reach. I started trying to set up AmeriCommerce because it had the most features. But as I got in deeper, the complexity of the features and the poorly written technical documentation overwhelmed me and I gave up. If you have some brainy tech guys they can probably understand the documentation better than I could. I then switched to UltraCart and have found it much easier to use. You can see the standard cart appearance on some example pages on their website. My cart at EasyDigging.com is pretty heavily customized. They will soon have a easily modified HTML/CSS based cart available. There documentation and tech support is pretty good.

Hi Paul, I totally agree with you. Development is outgrowing crawlers but then again this has always been true. Designing and programing for crawlers is something SEOers do but not programers. The thing is that clients want traffic and conversiones and cool technology. However if you only do cool technology without accomplishing business objectives, the project will not be consider successful in the clients eyes...just my 2 cents.. Regarding doing SEO and Parallax Scrolling, I think these two sites accomplished it nicely. I have not found any others. Both are responsive which is also a must. Kickpoint.ca accomplished telling a story through its graphics and the site is light and versatile. However its onsite SEO could be improved with a little effort. Posicionamiento Web accomplished great onsite SEO but poor "story telling parallax scrolling" effects. The site is heavy and not as versatile as kickpoint's. One option is to do parallax scrolling on the home and regular internal pages. This makes the site light. Good Luck. Carla