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I didn't develop the site and I don't currently have FTP access to actually edit the templates, or I could probably eliminate that myself. Thanks! I will figure out exactly what's going on with your help now. I appreciate it.

You need to show them how many abandoned shopping cart views are being generated.  Then i would take your average sales value and multiply it with the amount of abandoned carts to get a figure to show them. (take out some for normal abandon carts for industry )

SIMPLE: All you need to do is "noindex subpages of archives" using the Yoast SEO Plugin. This keeps the subpages from being indexed, but the first page in each category will get indexed. Check out further resources; My post on WordPress SEO A recent Mozinar someone did on WordPress -Dan

Matt, The duplication of template won't hurt you at all. It would be worthwhile to vary the images, though. As for the linking between subdomains , If the content is good and unique on both sites, link between them in a manner  that is appropriate for the user and the subject matter. I wouldn't link between directories from the footer if you already have navigation that has links to those directories.

Hi Tyler Looks like the duplicate title tags are largely from empty pages like these: http://www.uncommonthread.com/008-Pink-Ice-p/14410008.htm http://www.uncommonthread.com/001-Gold-p/14410001.htm http://www.uncommonthread.com/019-Copper-p/14410019.htm http://www.uncommonthread.com/027-Electric-Blue-p/14410027.htm Even though these pages are somewhat unique, the content is definitely "thin" and having a lot of pages like this typically isn't good for rankings. Ideally, you would list small product variations on the same page, or even have several similar product pages canonical to a master page. Generally if you don't have a 200 words minimum of good editorial content, Google might consider it duplicate. I don't see any reason why switching to http should cause too much problem if you passed everything through a 301 redirect. To be honest, it's typical for rankings to fluxuate frequently so it could be a million things. If I look at the text-only cache of the page you sent: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.ontracparts.com&strip=1 ... it looks pretty similar. If it were my page, I'd probably try to include more descriptive text on the page, richer descriptions, ets. Hope this helps!

If you want to know if google panda or penguine updates. Then you should check your GA . You should add chartelligence plug in in chrome .

Hey Mark Good idea? Yep! Basic process; Plan out the structure of your new site. Map the old pages to the new pages. Create the new site on a development or local server (some folks will build it right on the main domain, but just keep it hidden - I don't recommend that). If using a dev server, use your privacy settings and "discourage search engines from indexing the site" - you don't want the dev site indexed!! Prepare your 301 redirects (as Kade suggested, I actually don't think you should keep your URLs the same at all - now's a good time for improvement). Move WordPress from the dev environment to the new server. You basically "pull the plug" on the old site by removing index.hrml and letting index.php (which is part of wordpress) take over. Put in your 301 redirects ASAP. Crawl the new site for 404s Monitor WMT like crazy for a few weeks looking for any missed redirects. I definitely recommend getting a dev to assist you if you don't feel comfortable! Hope that helps. -Dan

Hi Chris I don't know who did the audit obviously, but just speaking from how I do it when I do an audit. I think the SEO should be willing to do a quick follow up review to see everything has been done correctly OR at least answer a few questions the dev might have. You're right, most developers aren't going to understand everything as in depth, so that's why SEOs and Devs need to work together to get things done! So I'd ask the SEO if they'd be able to help see it's done correctly. I would expect of course to pay for that short amount of time if it wasn't agreed upon before -Dan

http://www.electric-heatingcompany.co.uk/ I would probably recommend a new domain.

If your ASP code is used primarily for dynamically generating HTML (at or before page load), and the HTML isn't changing, and your URLs are staying the same, I can't see how SEO would be affected or why you'd run into any problems. If the upgrade includes code modifications that change the way the pages load, however, it could affect SEO depending on how that's handled.

Article length should not matter. Just make it attractive and readable to the user. There are many sites that provide good lengthy content but break it up into readable chunks. I particularly like this example on the Verge site whereby a lengthy piece is broken up into neat segments and there is a useful 'jump to' feature on the left hand side which acts almost as a teaser to the content.

Hi Baldea, Thank you very much for your answer! The categories have the most important value to our visitors. They have villas, hotels and cottages, which we want they will book. I just set them nonindex as they are duplicate of the posts which are set to indexed. We are using wordpress and yoast seo.

Thanks so much William for your quick reply. I really appreciate it.

Thank you so much Peter. This is excellent advice and has dot fallen on deaf ears! As we move forward, not only with trying to make the current site better but also to redesign a site on a new platform that is easier for our customers to use, your advice is going to come in very handy. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment and advise! Dana

Hi there, Why are you looking to migrate the subdomains to subdirectories? In general, the most "natural" URL structure for a city organization would be: yourdomain.com/city/category/ since you will be able to consolidate all the popularity that you can attract to the different cities to your main domain structure and on the other hand, optimize (as you should be already doing with your subdomains) every landing page targeting each city. Nonetheless, if you're already ranking with these subdomains for your keywords related to these cities the effort and substancial benefit that you might look to get might not compensate the effort -only if you see that you're not ranking with this structure and look to consolidate popularity-. What is definitely fundamental that you do whether you decide to keep the subdomains or migrate to the subdirectories is that each city page (and its subpages) should feature unique, relevant content optimize for them. This shouldn't be necessarily difficult to achieve if you organize and optimize your structure to show: The name of each city in the titles, meta descriptions, headings. Add your specific office address in each city. Add your telephone number in each city. Enable and promote user generated content, like reviews, comments, ratings targeting each city. Create different offers or promotions for each city. Like this, despite the fact that these city landing pages might feature similar offering (which is normal since they're the same business at the end) the content will be unique for each one of them. I hope this helps. If you still have any doubts, please let me know. Aleyda

I would think it would be difficult to rank locally if you do not have a physical office; however, depending on the competition, you may be able to do so if your page is really optimized and you get some decent backlinks pointing to it. Now... for clarification, I am not talking about a localized SERP where it has local businesses and addresses, but a search where someone is including the location in the query and Google returns a regular 10 item SERP. (if that makes sense) And cracking those top positions can be difficult. You just have to keep at it. Create a better website, create better content, create a better following than your competitors - you may not get into positions 1 or 2; however, if a prospect clicks through 1 and 2, then gets to your site, it will be a no-brainer for them to choose you if your site and content are better. Don't fixate on ranking, worry about building your brand Good luck. Mike

Thank you so much, you're an absolute star! I know this probably seemed a very obvious question, I just wanted to make sure I had it straight in my head before going down a path.

Thank you Philipp. Your answer is a great help.

Dear Darcy, If I detected that you do not have a friend with this problem and maybe it's you? Just player and comment I do not want to lose all of the authority? I don't blame you I would not want to lose rank and authority for anything. However WordPress is a better platform for search engines way it is designed is easier for the Google bot crawl and if you build the site the correct way with static links via a CDN maybe take a look at zippykid.com they build in a true enterprise level content delivery network not one but two CDN's with Enterprise DynECT  DNS for only $25 a month and 100,000 page views they are spectacular. At $25 a month total a lot of stuff for such little money on a enterprise level firewall load balanced private cloud. I would have a look at them. Your site will be much faster  With WordPress  if you host it correctly and if you use a plug-in like WordPress Seo by Yoast On with the CDM to make every blink 100% static and what Google bought craves. Please do heed this warning do not use a free theme it is not a wise idea and 99.99% of the time. I would suggest going to WordPress.org then going to commercial some of my personal suggestions studio press number one Woo themes is a great platform and there are many many more like thesis or hybrid. Color  labs project is also pretty awesome but with Genesis / studio press you can never go wrong. I challenge you to do this. Take your existing website and running on pingdom  run it through all three servers and if your site speed is averaged over 3 Seconds on any one of your chosen servers get rid of your platform you can make it in WordPress and have your cake and eat it too. All you have to do is speak to one of the people that run the hosting companies I have spoken about or just going to WordPress and explain your situation or better yet stay here and keep asking us questions because you can do what you have set out to do and you will be okay. However WordPress is simply a better tool in my humble opinion and a much faster one that people are writing a lot more code for and look Accelerating much more rapidly then it's competitors so If your pinngdom  speed is over three seconds switch everything over to WordPress You can move your site to a different framework and retain your current rankings. I'm not going to lie to you and say that you will not have a small bit of lag before the search. But it will pay off strongly and if you're going to start messing with your Website you might as well to it the right way. Respectfully, Thomas PS if you have any questions about what I've said please do not hesitate to ask I would be happy to answer

Rich, Because responsive design inherently only uses one html file, what you're describing isn't so simple. Obviously, you only want to include 1 GA tracking code, but you COULD include some logic that fires a different one on page load depending on detected screen width. I think your best bet is to just use the standard GA code in your HTML, then include some JS that detects which of the layouts are displayed on load, and sends it in a custom variable. Alternatively, GA, by default, will capture screen size as a data point, so, as long as your responsiveness is working properly, you can just create segments in GA based on those and view site behavior accordingly. Mike