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I would recommend using either Vimeo Pro or Wistia. Both are excellent out of the box solutions that work for link building. Of these, Vimeo pro is the cheapest, but Wistia is probably better. With wistia's  "superembeds" embed code generator, it allows you to quickly build out your video player style to include social buttons and embed boxes which will help to encourage people to share the content, while ensuring everything is secure and indexable by Google.

Hi Rick, I'm going through older questions that are unanswered. Did you get this one figured out, or are you still needing a hand? Thanks! Keri

Thanks so much for your kind words about the site. I'm aware of the duplicate content issue with the page numbers, and am in the process of correcting it. My main goal right now however is coming up with some good categories, and organizing all existing and future content into them. Did you have any feedback relating to that by chance?

Not all links are created equally. This includes many factors, but one of them would be links that are contained within the site template, such as global navigation elements, whether in the header, sidebar or footer. It has been my experience that a link in the navigation does send the message that the page is important, but may not necessarily trump an in-content link with good anchor text. So to answer your question, no I wouldn't say the in-page links are "pointless". But I would say you can use some more in-content links (as opposed to relying on the catalog and navigation links to pass anchor text), and that your below-the-fold content seems very over-optimized to me. Rather than listing out links like on this page, you might try to weave them into some content: http://www.coolpooltables.com/categories/Darts/ Also, I would focus less on this kind of stuff and more on getting some useful intro copy on all category pages. I see that you have it for most of the top level categories, but I'd expand that strategy to the next level, such as http://www.coolpooltables.com/categories/foosball/foosball-tables/shelti-foosball-tables.html or http://www.coolpooltables.com/brands/InStroke.html . Good luck!

I agree with Ryan.  You need to setup 301 redirects in IIS for all the old pages. Never use a 302.

The 301 cancellation itself is immediate. It may take time for search engines to crawl your site and notice the change on any given page.

That's really useful (and interesting) Erica - thanks so much

That's interesting behavior. Are you able to tell us those sites at all? Are they related in any way? How new are they? Any more information about them can help us answer you a bit better. Thanks!

I use to have a footer like you mentioned, but took it away to reduce the total number of links on the page.  I only left the links that weren't already in the header. Is my strategy bad?  I guess that question answer's itself if SEOmoz does it.

This seems like some good info on hgroup http://html5doctor.com/the-hgroup-element/

Interesting, not sure. Did you ever check out the theme? -Brent

Spec work is terrible and undervalues the industry. I say you get what you pay for. http://www.no-spec.com/

Hi Marcelo, Providing you've marked up the page appropriately - see http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/right-to-left.html - the bots shouldn't have any issues with understanding your content You can see an example in the wild from Wikipedia here - http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/علم_المعلومات I hope this helps Hannah

I guess there's a risk Google may flag spammy close-repeat page titles in the future too? ** actually you can change as many times as you want as long as it makes sense with the content on the page. How often is it safe to change page titles too, without upsetting Google? I've heard of people experiencing problems because Google can flag regular changes (or perhaps this is simply an urban myth of some kind ;-)) ** It won't get upset but ranking will change - better or worse. You can only upset it if the title tags will read one thing and the content will be on a totally different subject - that can be interpreted as manipulative but it won't ever get you into real trouble like a penalization (actually as long as you don't do it on a large scale - thousands or more pages like this as that can trigger a manual penalization).

Thanks! I understand what you're saying and I agree...this is exactly the method that our CMS generates these pages. The crawlable, additional pages are unique and should be crawled. This being said, from a search engine's perspective, the obvious "canonicalized" page should be the main category. I believe the robots, no index/follow is the best option for me - though I'm not exactly sure how to implement it with our CMS system.. Thanks.

Can you clarify what you mean by "Also with the necessity to include text in the beginning of the website, is difficulty to found something really good."? Are you looking for code that has the content first then the navigation? If so, that's not nearly the big deal that it once was.