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I have seen IIS servers usually throwing in index.php in the urls ( while working on wordpress sites ) . It's best to talk to your hosting company about it, they will have a good idea why this is the case. Usually you will have to edit the web.config file to rewrite the urls without index.php in them. Again this would depend a lot on your server configuration and the CMS you are using , best to ask your host.

Inline scripts aren't bad per se, search engines just can't always understand them. Worst case scenario: you have extra code that Google has to crawl but doesn't understand, which takes up bandwidth and doesn't add value. But, it won't lower your rankings. So, do whatever you need to do to deliver the best user experience you can on your site with this map and related route, and figure that Google will ignore it (Google is trying to understand it, though, so it may be helpful in the long run). Then, for search engines, include some text content describing the map and the route so that search engines can send the right searchers to your page. Good luck! Kristina

Hi Asaff, Moz recommends using a H1 tag only once on your page (although its not a significant disadvantage to have multiple, and they only did correlation tests, and as they always say "correlation does not mean causation!"). If the carousel is rotating it visually, it probably isn't rotating it code wise. To do so would require an AJAX call and if it did do an AJAX call on the H1 tag it wouldn't get displayed to Google. So either you will have multiple H1 tags or 1 H1 tag with multiple tags not being indexed. The first would be a slight disadvantage, the second even more so. The first is not a huge problem. Probably best if you swap them out for H2 but this discussion here, might set your mind to rest. http://moz.com/community/q/h1-tag-proper-uses Adam

Hi Zach, Thank you for all your help today. Regards Mark

Ok thanks guys for your input. As per your suggestion, yes I could redirect multiple 404's to one page on the new site as the content would be relevant to the end user. As per pages that have no relevancy any-more I think I will just allow them to drop from the index. Cheers for the link also. Regards, Glen

I'm not saying that you should stay away from a CMS.  In many cases there are more  advantages to using them than there are using something like Dreamweaver.  Just be sure that you understand the variety of SEO issues you'll run into when updating your site--regardless of whether you're coding in HTML or using a CMS.

This is a very typical question that has been answered many times. Go with subfolders. Unless for some security reasons, it's better to go with subfolders.

Thanks Doug, I will perhaps try having the links removed from the product page and see if that helps.

I'm trying to determine right now whether it's been an issue of this particular post being the symptom of a broader discrimination against our site or whether there has been competition introduced for this page. All the peaks and valleys of the site's organic traffic are exactly the peaks and valleys of popularity for this post. Graphing other major (organic) landing pages for our site (the top three of which have much less traffic than this one stupid page) does not indicate that the other pages have been similarly affected — their popularity is far more undulating, and subject to far fewer crazy movements. So I'm pretty sure at this point that it's the one page. And, yes, this particular blog post accounts for about 1/2 of our site's organic traffic. We've reduced the bounce rate on this blog post down to the low 80's, percentage wise, which I think is respectable for what the blog post is & it's relationship to the site and the site's purpose as a whole, which is commercial and not immensely related to the post's content. I suppose that's a new question, isn't it? How much should we care about the fortunes of one page that has a high bounce rate? Obviously, we should reduce the bounce rate (and there are some things we haven't done yet to do that) but the nature of this particular post is just not a super strong match for the content and direction of our site. The bounce rate will always been fairly high, it's just the way it will always be. Yet it has so. much. traffic. Another site I work on has a similar page, similarly somewhat-tangential to the site's content: the "when to use spray foam insulation" page. Thus I always want to call these the "spray foam insulation pages."

No harm in using role=”heading” instead of H1 but as far as Chris is saying about adding keywords in heading tag will negatively affect your SEO... I didn’t experience this myself but obviously you cannot simply ignore the SEL research!

Bereijk, unfortunately those directions are aimed at moving a wordpress.com blog from one domain to the other, and not from wordpress.com to self-hosted like I am trying to do. Thanks though!

HTML5 allows for multiple h1's in header groups - it's totally fine. Read more here: http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/fixing-seo-problems-with-html5/ So is having more than one h1 on a page with the same value going to have a negative SEO impact? <header> If I have too much of the same copy on the page </header> Is this unique enough? <header> If I have too much of the same copy on the page </header> If the text in both of the two H1 tags makes your page more than 70% duplicate (that's an arbitrary number btw), I'd say you'd have an issue. I suspect this is going to be very unlikely and that you won't have a problem. I don't fully understand why you'd want to repeat the same text, but I'd encourage you to use variants of the keywords in the top h1. Good luck!

They want to keep ownership so they have the classes, framework or whatever for reuse for future clients, increasing their profits.  But I think that is slightly different to having a licence agreement and as you say with that model you could become prone to unreasonable fees.

As others have said, definitely the new/tweaked version, it's a big improvement, nice work! Greg

Thanks, am wondering whether the rdf microdata is correct in it

Thanks for your answer. They did not optimize anything.... But for the rest it is plausible that it took quite some time, yes. This blog won't need much optimization, Yoast is fine.

Why not make a Nother navigation bar called Q&A or frequently asked questions something similar to that tips. And set of adding to the length which could be hard to click on some mobile devices. I honestly do not think that you're going to get much more out of your website by no following good links on your site for instance if those webpages are going to get any information at all pointing to them or anything links pointing to them it'll all be wasted. So I don't really believe the fishbowl effect is necessary for this type of thing. A great resource I found for very technical questions is this one right here. http://www.distilled.net/u/ To make a long answer short I would not no follow or no index I would simply add on another category called tips or questions FAQ whatever you like. I also agree with SEO consultant that is never a good idea to build sites with search engines in mind you should always do it with the customer or user. I hope this is of help sincerely, Thomas

I dont have much experience with any of them , so cant personally recommend one over the other. That said I think wpmu plugin comes with support , so if you are already using that why not reach out to support and ask them whats the best way to resolve your issue ?

I will try that.  Thank you Erik for your input.

Thank you for the information @Martijn. May I know using this cufon font increase the loading time of a webpage?