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Hey Stephen, THanks - I have heard of Xenu many times before. I'll try that out. I appreciate the input!

I'd guess that your bounce rates have gone up? Are any of these visitors using your site for what it's intended? Is there really a value in such traffic? Perhaps you can sell more adverts...

Hi Kyle. Magento takes up a lot of resources and seems best suited for sites selling many products. I believe the software supports thousands of items. The specific need here is for a lite cart. There are only 2 products being sold. There is also a requirement that users only have to log in once at the site. Logging in once to the site and then another time to the shopping cart is undesirable. Therefore only a shopping cart with an established Joomla bridge would be workable. Thank you for the suggestion but they are not options in this case.

@neil pursey It actually showed all H1 tags from each slide All page elements / attributes are grouped accordingly From top to bottom: It showed the meta's the parent pages the child pages H-tags from each slide in top down order : ) Links tabs footer links The nice thing that I noticed is that all anchor links are clickable, taking you to the relevant page, thus rendering it as it would be displayed to the crawler. Simple and straight forward - Thx Theo van der Zee

Essentially, keep your site design around the "user experience" as this is a post-panda world. Don't overload it with blocks of advertising, breaking up the page, content, layout and user experience. The Keep It Simple (KIS) strategy usually works best for me when it comes to running ads on sites, within the user interface/design. NEVER use more than 1 block on a site's page as I looks "spammy" and cluttered.. As a user myself, I immoderately click back or out of a site that I find is running more than 1 block of ads. The page just looks terrible. You might also want to consider A/B split testing of different landing or home pages. This will allow you to rey different layouts to get the best results on both, where the ads perform, and as well as the user conversion model for the sites content and lead generation. Another note to keep in mind is to reduce the blocks of ads running relevant to the content of the market/site you are working in. Don't run open Adwords capaigns on sites for just "anything" to generate clicks. If your running a bike store website, keep the AD's targeted people in the "bike" industry. Keep the ads filtered and related on your site's side to the market content you are optimizing for. Remember, in post-Panda, it's the user experience that the quality teams are looking to improve.

Thanks. What are your thoughts on ZenCart?

yes, you could preserve and possibly increase your rankings. First, Index your valuable resources ( content, urls, metadata,  keyword rankings, etc) that have to be preserved. If you use  Joomla content management system & sh404SEF, you may rewrite URLs and keep them the same as on the current site. Here is an example of site recently migrated without losing its rankings: http://www.alaskaflyfishinggoods.com/new-flies-for-2011/view-all-products.html http://www.alaskaflyfishinggoods.com/

We program our cart in house and we need the SKU numbers to be passed. I looked at a lot of ecommerce sites and they all have their skus somehow int he URL in one way or another.

I agree. I have seen posts on SEOmoz and elsewhere throughout the SEO community that others are noticing drops in PR with no impact on traffic. I am not seeing a noticeable drop in traffic so the PR isn't concerning me too much but I am curious. Have you noticed anything like this post Panda and do you think the panda update has any impact on the PR directly (I see how it would with poor content --> harder link building)? Again, I appreciate the feedback!

If the content in the subdomains is directly related to the main domain's content, then yes the folder approach would be best. You would consolidate all your links and domain authority into one strong domain. With the subdomain approach your DA is divided. If you proceed with this change, be sure to properly 301 redirect the URLs and update all links within your site along with any other links you have control over in other locations.

I appologize.  I never got the meeting??  I did talk to someone from your firm, but no one set the meeting to me and would love to hear what you guys have to say and what you can do.  Sending you a pm with my number

I'd say to start with an excel spreadsheet and then copy them all over in one big batch. You're probably going to need some coffee. At the very least, you should keep the redirects there for 6 months. If you drop the 301's then you also lose the inbound links, so it's best to keep them there as long as possible.

Thanks Chris! I did get the NSM Better Meta plugin installed and I really like it. So, I have a new sitemap with Google created. I love Wordpress as well, I just felt that all of my competitors were using it and I needed to stand out from everyone else Plus I wanted complete control over where and how my content is presented . It has been trickier even with good designers and developers, but I'm hoping in the end it will pay off. I was just pretty surprised at how fast Google broke up with me. I guess it's time for me to go back and wine and dine again for some G Love. Next time this situation occurs I will focus more on 301'ing each url before the switch. Thanks for the reply Chris!

I think having a dash is no longer a negative thing. Matt Cutts has made many open public statements about using dashes in the URL. We currently have a domain in an extremely competitive keyword "keyword1--keyword2.com". it's performing extremely well after about three months. It's also a brand new domain. If you do end up going with the newer domain, make sure you use a permanent redirect (301) from your aged domain to your new one. This will pass most, if not all, of your link juice to your new domain. Google also tends to give new domains a quick boost in SERPs. This usually doesn't last too long, but could be a welcome surprise if your website of high quality. Cheers! Dmac

Thanks again Bevelwise...you've been extremely helpful. We just signed up for PRO account and it's totally worth it! Awesome resource.