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Hi there, I assume, you want to generate an XML sitemap. If that's the case, you can try GSitecrawler? Its free. Here you go: http://gsitecrawler.com/ It has many options to include and exclude certain file types and all other features that you would need for the purpose and much more. Best, Devanur Rafi

Your best bet is to place a meta noindex tag on each secure page.  If it's only a few pages, you could just add it by hand.  If it's many, you should be able to access each pages protocol with whatever server-side language you're using, and dynamically add it on all secure pages. If you use robots.txt to exclude the pages, Google can still show them in search results, with the description below them that reads, "A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more."  Personally, I don't care for that.

I have used Host Gator and GoDaddy in the past. To be honest I find Host Gator to be a better for what I needed at the time. Overall these three solutions are entry level hosting providers.

Yes bad for both.  You now have the name of a file acting as the name of a folder. As mentioned above - kill the use of index.php as your index "file" - just end in a slash. I know php treats these as routes/queries that then produce a page, but it can get things all messed up real quick.

I do often agree with your assessment and perhaps I should have worded it as "you might want to consider" instead of "make sure". Its because in certain circumstances, having a blog post about something like "5 Reasons the New Toshiba Laptop is Awesome" with a link to your ecommerce page selling the product could be considered a paid link or the post may be seen as an advertorial. Because you sell laptops and you're writing a blog post about laptops that includes a link to the sale of laptops on your own site, there is concern it _migh_t be devalued especially after all the news concerning press release links and advertorials in recent months. Of course, much of this is conjecture and the more I think about it the more it would seem that the people I've seen concerned about being hit for something like that are people that have been doing other, more sketchy things.

What you are describing is not a shopping cart website; it sounds more like a "classified" website. Maybe the WP plugin below is suitable? I haven't tried it myself by it seems to have all the features that you need. http://wordpress.org/plugins/another-wordpress-classifieds-plugin/

You mentioned an interest to run this on wordpress, if so this should guide you right through it: http://wpmu.org/turn-your-wordpress-blog-into-an-ebay-style-auction-site/ Also here is a theme to make it happen for you as well: http://onlinedemo.sitemile.com/?theme=auction Hope this helps

Yes, I think it's a must for them now as their current site is almost unusable on a phone. The main issue with the mobile site and Google's stance are the faulty redirects. I believe everything redirects to the mobile home page right now. It may not be a huge deal right now because they have limited content but it's something we'll have to address. The mobile site currently can be indexed by Google as well, which is an issue.

This question is two years old, and you may have a better response rate if you ask a separate, new question.

A lot of the time carousels can tack on lots of added bandwidth, both in the slider functionality as well as the images within the slider.  Site speed is a large factor within SEO and has been known to make a site respond accordingly. You mentioned you switched CMS's as well:  did you pay attention to your permalink structure during the change?  Were any 404's created.  Did you 3xx old posts to the new ones? Sitemap? All things worth looking ito.

I personally would go with WordPress as well. WordPress is easier to understand, and it is more popular as well. Less people are familiar with Joomla, so there would be a more difficult transition period if you ever decide to pass the site off to someone else or ask someone else to help. There are also a large number of plug-ins for WordPress, and the cost of hiring help is relatively inexpensive. From an SEO perspective, I believe they would be about equal.

Since DA is a Moz metric, we're not looking at a case where all of a sudden a whole bunch of domains linking to you have been devalued, nor are we looking at a penalty. The only conclusion I can come to is that Roger is no longer seeing a bunch of links it used to see.  If that's the case, then that probably means that a set of domains that used to link to you are now offline.  And if that's true, then Google is also going to see the drop, and your rankings will slide accordingly. That's my best guess.

Thanks Michael!

Thank You! The site in question had the same malicious scripts detailed here. After finding them and removing them the site is up and running as it should thanks again for the advice.

Great, thanks for the insight! Ruben

I agree with you. This is quite clear for me now after reading this Google link: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/176035 Thanks!

Thank you Dan:) I'll do as you advise.

Google cares about duplicate content not duplicate CSS

Hi There While I'm not entirely familiar with how things work on the SellerDeck end - you can I believe have one WordPress install in the root and have different sections like /blog and /help etc - but put other non-wordpress things in /store or any other folder you want. So long as you don't try to make a page, post, category, tag, etc at /store you should be good to go. FYI two WordPress installs shouldn't affect speed but it may be more of a management and consistency concern, but I don't think you need to do that. I am not totally sure I get the bonus question In this scenario, the ecommerce platform would serve the homepage? What would WordPress be doing in this situation? Thanks for clarifying and I'll try to help out! -Dan

Cool. Thanks a lot Moosa!