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I seriously doubt links opening in a new tab would affect your rankings or cause any kind of Google penalty. Not something I think you need to worry about : )

Sorry that I missed this response! You want to find a server header checker tool (doing a Google search on those keywords will get you several such tools) and then put your 404 page into that tool. That will tell you if that page is truly serving up a 404.

I have hosting on Bluehost, Hostmonster and Justhost.  Have had them for years, and have had no major issues with them.  I am pretty sure they are sister companies. On the other side of the coin, stay away from GoDaddy.  It is junk and they charge you for every little thing.

What is the main reason for this usually? I don't think that there is really a main reason for this....   a couple things play in concert.. As with many sites that produce great content  my bet is that... Lots of people have grabbed your stuff and are using it.  They are using your titles and your brand and your words and your images to enrich a site that is monetized with ads or affiliate programs.   Some of these people are really smart about optimization.  Some of them have created sites that have become moderately powerful. Perhaps this has not been theft.  Perhaps you gave your content away and now you are paying the price for creating duplicate content that is being used against you by smart people. And, google says that they are "good at recognizing relevant content to return  to the searcher"... but they have not decided to put the resources into returning the original version - even after we tell them which version it is with rel=author as they requested.  They have simply not decided to put the resources into this- even though I am sure that some of them would like it to work that way. There you have it.

From a designers point of view the amount of time and effort that will go into creating and presenting an alternative site for google bots and browsers would be the same as just creating a new functional website that is Search engine Friendly. I would rather create a new website using XHTML with CSS which gets picked up in search engines really well as the content and styling code are handled on separate pages. Its important to keep the styling and coding separate as bots read the contents and styling codes that are on the page just act as a barrier. don't forget to use H1 tags for your targeted keywords and if you decide to use a flash movie - you can add additional css to bring up an still image for browsers that don't support flash.

Hi Justin I have now resolved the duplicate page title as mentioned. However I am still getting lots of "duplicate page content" errors on all my wordpress tags pages. Any idea's why and how to resolve this? Thanks Pete

Thank you for your recommandtions, but I need something more easier to work with. Reading Adrew Bleakley's review, I will try the trial version of: Americommerce CoreCommerce Pinnacle Cart and Ashop The cart has to be Multilanguage and very SEO frendly. Thank you, BigBlaze

Thanks for the note. I had read that post. I think the distinction here is that we're now seeing it in the wild vs speculating on how Google might handle them and what they recommend.  We are going to test going back to distinct H1s to see if it corrects the issue. If so then we finally will know that Google is still a bit confused when handling multiple H1s (as many as we have at least) as per HTML advanced specs. Bing is confused in similar but slightly different way.Indexing the wrong pages also. Thank You.

No, Google will spider just fine. You can just look at the source code from the browsers tool bar anyway if you know anything about computers.. It probably does cut down on dumb people from saving images or content on your site a bit, but it's annoying IMO.

Look at Magento Commerce. I built this one in Magento: http://www.shipoverseas.com/ Go to the right and select "Spanish". This is multi lingual. QUESTIONS: What will be the SEO impact if I'm moving Furnace Filters Canada to a new platform? (there shouldn't be any "if" you're doing it the right way. Do you have suggestions in finding the perfect multilanguage e-Commerce platform? MAGENTO COMMERCE http://www.magentocommerce.com/download > release archieves > ver 1.6.2.0 Andrew Bleakley suggest Ashop. Anybody using Ashop? WHO? How about a eCommerce platform that can manage my 2 stores at the same time. MAGENTO

Guess I should stick with AndyMisiu then. Since it's my username on most of my forums already and available across most accounts.

1. Google does not use GA data for rankings. They only use data they have access to "outside" of your analytics, such as possibly; Click through rate bounce rate/time on site +1's "Block this site" (sometimes it shows up in the SERPs when you return) Google Toolbar activity like bookmarking 2. So following from question 1, it would not help for SEO to do this. It might help you however in gaining some more insight as to how logged in users use your site. 3. Its thought sub-domains do not pass much link juice across sub-domains, but for a subdomain to be on a private part of the site, this may not matter quite so much. If you've always done it that way, it may be better to just keep it the same. In these cases I always do what makes the most sense to the user. Eliminate confusion. Have a short but description word for the subdomain. 4. Compete's official documentation is here - and Rand did an interview with them back in 2008 here Hope that all helps!! -Dan

Hi! Little late to the party here - thanks Geoff for helping out!! While certainly creating excerpts on for the tag pages would be great - I'd suggest doing a crawl of your own site with something like Screaming Frog SEO Spider I just did a crawl, and see a bunch of issues needing attention: Just about all of your meta descriptions are exactly the same Your H1s are all the same Bunch of duplicate titles (because for example, all the author archive subpages are being given the same title) I don't see any meta robots or canonical tags in use at all, which would be good to help control what pages you want indexed or counted for value. You have tons of meta keywords, mostly all duplicates, and the meta keywords tag should not be used anymore. You've got some additional issues to work out besides just the tags thing. Check webmaster tools to confirm this as well, Google webmaster tools will show you everything you need to fix! -Dan

Since the adult site will most likely wind up getting links from other adult sites and similar shady places, you'll be asking for trouble even if it's a brand new site you're setting up eventually it will naturally gather links even if you do not actively seek them out - so I would not associate your non adult site with your adult site.

Excellent article covering everything that should be taken into consideration when launching a replacement website / website migration. Definitely recommended for the member asking the original question to work through each points contained within the article. Great resource Keri.

Keyword Research - Making Sure the right keywords are being targeted. Identification of Top10/50/100 Keywords, Current Rankings, Competition Identification, Analysis and Comparison. Site Index-ability, Keyword Targeting, Content Quality & any architecture level issues. Domain Link Profile, Strength, Social & other business initiativesand assets that can drive domain authority. Dividing the above 3 points into On-Page (1st 2 Items) and (3rd Item) I hope this helps.

People ask all kinds of website and marketing related questions here, it's not restricted to strictly SEO. The accounting/inventory software question we saw come in today was a tad off topic though. There are a fair number of people here who do ecommerce, but if you don't get enough feedback, you might try a forum more strictly related to that.

Thanks David, that was my instinct - but I saw this post and freaked out a bit! And I love that terminology... more than one property in the same vertical - might make me sound like I half a clue what I'm talking about! Sorry I didn't make it clear - I don't need the second site to be  asp.net... i have used osCommerce and osCmax before and found both quite easy..