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Another popular solution to investigate would be Drupal CMS running Ubercart

Hi Marc. I would recommend contacting the help desk help@seomoz.org. The help desk personnel don't normally read the Q&A so your response should be much faster by e-mailing them. If you need even faster results you can give them a call as well.

You need a bit of technical know-how to do this. You could post a question like this on freelance.com or something similar. Fetching data and making a site around that data isn't hard. But adding 100k unique content items is hard, manual labor. Best thing you can probably do is make pages around neighbourhoods or cities. The listings constantly change, but the cities and towns will always stay there. So tell something about that and link to the listings from those pages.

Our site is a social network of restaurants, so page optimization is very important for us. We have the menus of the restaurants and you can add each dish to order online. All the dishes contain the add button. My webmaster account on google on the keywords it is ranking this first: | Icon, add, btn, detalles | All this are buttons that appear on menu of restaurants. Its important the SEO on page because what we hope in future our traffic will come from organic searches. "Mr. Hot dog king Menu" Do you think its affecting us? Thanks Dan! |

If I understand you correctly, you are putting navigation links to 80k products? That sounds excessive. Look at how they do it at newegg.com and that is a good example of how to implement navigation for a large ecommerce site. Something to keep in mind here. Internal links mean almost nothing compared to external inbound links. You want to make sure your content is all crawlable and accessible. After that, don't worry about nofollow and silly things about internal links. NEVER nofollow an internal link. Think about what nofollow is, what it means, and why it exists. You are telling Google a page on your site is not trusted. Bad signal. Worry more about the inbound links to your site than the navigation links. Make sure you have a sitemap and ensure your content is all crawlable and accessible. If that's the case, don't worry yourself over nofollow or other minute navigation optimization.

Totally Agree and Yoast have recently updated this plugin. shiv

I was really looking for examples but thanks for the response anyway.

The idea behind cannibalization is you do not want multiple pages on your site discussing the exact same topic. If the same topic needs to be discussed, then some slant on the topic should be established so search engines and users can differentiate between the two pages. Instead of making a second "Wedding Invitations" page you could focus on "2012 Wedding Invitations" or "10 Best Wedding Invitations". This is where I pause for a moment and confess my ignorance. I have no idea what a "cupcake invitation" is, and my mother and sister aren't available to help. I google'd it and still am not quite clear on the concept. What's missing is the wikipedia page, which is a GREAT opportunity for you! Go to wikipedia, create a quality "cupcake invitation page" and include 2 links to your site, but try to include links to other high quality sites which discuss the topic as well. If you don't already have such a page on your site, you may want to make a "Man's Guide to Invitations". It can be a simple, one page article to help those who are not familiar with the terms and etiquette get by. Alternatively a glossary page could be offered. Make sure the page you link to from wikipedia is a very high quality page, preferable without ads and a "buy now" focus. For this reply please allow me to replace the "cupcake invitation" with "wedding invitation". Using that category, you have some products such as "pink-plaid". For your first question, it is up to you how to combine the category and product. The normal URL presentation would be category first followed by product such as /wedding-invitations/pink-plaid. That type of setup is generally easy to implement and well understood by users. You can create alterations but they often don't scale so well to other categories. For your second question, I would suggest including the category name in the H1 tag. A "pink plaid" page in and of itself does not hold a lot of meaning. I presume you could have wedding invitations, baby announcements and other categories with a "pink plaid" page. You need to differentiate them by adding the category name such as "Pink Plaid Wedding Invitations".

Thanks! 301's it is then

Use this link http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/tutorials.html Learn directly from Google and master the basics Then start looking at the forum. If this helped then please mark this answered Thumbs Up

I went away on holiday and came back today to find a confusion with our IT Department and external Web Developers. They stopped transferring a website because they couldn't find the setting in the 1&1 control panel. The IT Department mentioned the USA doing things differently so instead of going with my gut reaction I thought I would post here and see if there is a difference. I know that to get hosting on a US server you need a US billing address so thought there might have been a regulation with nameservers too. All sorted, cheers guys.

Yes, I we have a extensive robot txt file but I agree a canonical tag would be best. Pointing to one page and adding content down the road would be my best bet.

Cufon is a font sifr used to emulate non-web safe fonts on the web. All of these classes and span wrapped around the H1 are being added on page load. If you actually review the source code you can see that is not what the search engines would see when crawling the page. In regards to stuffing content into the H1, i wouldn't stress over it to much. As long as your targeted keywords show up in the title/meta and a few times on the page you will be all set. Cater your site to the user not the search engines. Good luck!

I made a demo store a few months ago and it seemed to have the right levels of functionality that I needed. I will take a closer look again soon.

ryan, thank you for the help!

Hmm. Let me research, but that seems like a legitimate reasoning. The only crux of that answer is that why would a typical searcher (someone like my parents) give a poo about what Google has selected as relevant? Especially when in some cases it's as innocuous as ALT text behind an image? If it wanted to utilize that feature to show the searcher where on the page was the most relevant to what they searched for, so that maybe they would know where to look when they arrived on the page, it's doing a very poor job. I think we're viewing a feature that doesn't have the quirks worked out yet because there doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason.

Hi, We have 4 foreign language sites, one in spanish and just remove the special characters in all and rank very highly, so there is no harm in doing this, it actually makes it harder. I would stick with all lower cases or at least have the same logic in the URL - as long as it is consistent, then no biggie. No matter what you do, make sure if you make changes to any of this that you 301 all of the old pages to their new version otherwise you will be starting from scratch! Hope this helps.