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As this website is brand spanking new..should I just allow the homepage to follow the subsequent pages (each service's page) but on all of the services' actually pages "nofollow" each internal link? The way I am thinking is...this will allow Google to crawl the 4-5 service pages from the homepage, but it will save me a little bit of link juice (when I start building) and allow the homepage to be more highly ranked.

You're right, the codes are unique.  They are so small (4 characters) I did not recognize them as unique IDs. Thanks for the info on the hostname filter as well. Best, Christopher

Don't take chances.  Put any text that you want search engines to see out there where visitors will see it - in text.

Thanks Guys! I know I've been really slack with my link building on this new site. I am going to focus a couple hours a day on MY site for a while. Thank you both very much!

I have never read any evidence that would support a blacklisted mail server to influence rankings. Many websites also share an ip address, and to penalize one would penalize all. However, banning sites based on a shared ip address does occur. So in short, I would say you shouldn't do it to be safe. Good read: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-penguin-update-how-google-identifies-spam

Hi Stacey What plugins do you have running - any caching plugins such the W3 Total Cache plugin? Are you able to access your servers error logs to see if you can see anything there?

Hello Zach, Thanks for responding to my question! This is precisely the answer I was hoping to hear from the Moz community. We do plan to merge these feature specific pages into one all-inclusive page, so I was planning on 301'ing them as you stated. And I've been tracking our external links to these pages using OSE, so contacting those webmasters will be my first step once we launch the new site. Thanks again Zach, you rock!

Oleg could be correct. Also, the twitter counts towards likes for the specific page (In this case, just the homepage) instead of the entire website. More information on the specific site would be useful. If you don't wish to publicly share this information, you can email help@seomoz.org and we'd be happy to answer once we have the detailed information.

I think JWPlayer can help you just have to configure it correctly for mobile/desktop versions

For me it is important that it doesn't hurt my rankings - I don't believe that I can boost my ranking by adding H1 twice on the page, that was not my intention. Good to know that I'll be on the safe side - still Thanks people.

First thing I would say, Morris, is that, in my opinion, if it's an ecommerce site that you depend on for income, it absolutely should NOT be on shared hosting. It needs to be on at least a VPS (Virtual Private Server) so that you can ensure your site won't be negatively affected by other sites sharing/abusing server resources. All you need is one outage or slowdown due to shared hosting problems to cost you far more than the increased cost of a VPS. Not to mention a VPS can be tuned much more specifically for your particular website's needs. It can also easily add resources (CPU and memory) as needed when your site gets busier, or during peak traffic season. That said, your current server definitely has a problem. Its time-to-first-byte is almost 5 seconds. It should be in the range of about .5 to 1 second. Since your overall load time is abut 8 seconds, it means your server is wasting over 60% of its time waiting to process the page. As far as recommendations for a host, I've been using Site5 for some time now and have been very pleased. They offer fully-managed VPS for around $55-$80 per month (depending on your site's resource needs) including excellent off-site backups. There are other good VPS providers out there, I just have personal experience with Site5. Note that you will want a fully-managed VPS unless you are already experienced in server administration, which most of us aren't Happy to help if you have further questions. Paul P.S. The configuration of the site can have an major impact on the speed, regardless of hosting. Yours seems pretty well configured, but there are still some tweaks available that would speed it up some more.

Arvixe is an amazing (and amazingly cheap) hosting company. I have implemented a site with them and have been very pleased with their customer support. http://www.arvixe.com/managed_dedicated_servers

Thats odd. If there are no such URLs they should not longer index automatically. You can go into WMT - Webmaster Tools and Optimization>Remove URLs. Also resubmit your sitemap if it doesn't get done automatically.

This in no way endorses or not any one cdn but I will share what has happened to me over the last few months. My hosting company gave me the option of using a well known cdn free with my hosting package. Now as my site is hosted in the US and most of my visitors are from the UK I thought that would be a good idea. So end of August I enable the cdn for my site. From mid sept the time it took googlebot to crawl an individual page on my site went up from average 150ms to over 4000ms.  The number of pages crawled per day remain the same. However looking at the index status the number of pages not selected has increase by some 30% when I have not been adding any content to the site. At end of Sept for most of my page my ranking fell by about 950 places.  There were no messages in WMT and a reconderation request came back saying no manual penalty. At the end of Oct I disable the CDN and immeadiately the time googlebot took on each page fell back down to the 150ms mark.  Rankings are yet to improve so I am not saying this was the only cause of the drop in rankings. I am now getting a lot of 404 not found appearing in my wmt crawl errors for pages that have never exisited on my site but have no mention of the cdn in them either. I am talking with the cdn provider at the moment so have not named them here.

Hi Ade, Just thought I would chip in here. Our website took a huge hit during the Penguin update for this (to the point where we now are moving the domain to a different one). The reason for this was that every website we made had footer text going to our website and they were all hosted on the same server, with the same blocks. We removed nearly all of them and it seemed that the initial damage was too much to recover from. All of our websites were spam free and we only linked via branded keywords, so I think the IP issue is really important here. We have made it standard practice from now on to set up all new sites on dedicated IP addresses. Hope this is of some use. Matt.

Dear Ruslan, thanks for your input. It is insightful. I meant, though, what is the ideal wireframe layout for seo of a webpage. So how does the ideal structure of a webpage for seo should look like? Thanks again for your input!

thanks Dana, some very interesting info in the slide deck. Brett

Hi Dean, First you have redirect to all old urls to new urls ( 301 redirect ). If your website has good backlink profile then don't go for MVC friendly URL. Because even if you do 301 redirection Google will not pass whole link juice to new URL.