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The site I have seen the most for WP templates is: http://themeforest.net/ I have no personal experience with the site so I cannot comment further. There are plenty of sites which offer designs if you are unhappy with that site. They seem expensive to me, but they have a ton of designs and several look exceptionally nice.

Typically slider content and partially hidden content isn't an issue, just try to use layers in a clever way instead of moving the content way off the page left or right. As Steven mentions: TEST TEST TEST.  You'll want to look at this from both a user experience angle and how well the page does in Google post change.

Thank you John. The solution you offered works if a site is geared for one particular language. The site I am working with has language dedicated forums covering more then a dozen languages. The end solution will need to adjust for all of them. I will speak to the forum software about your idea and hopefully we can build something off your suggestion. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience.

It sounds like you are referring to this mozinar: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/conversion-optimization-for-local-businesses

It sounds like the scenario you're describing isn't an issue of the URLs changing, but more so content shuffling within given URLs.  This is VERY common.  Google even promotes this with the Website Optimizer as they understand that a users experience with a website can vary from user to user, and having the flexibility to change to meet a specific user's needs is a good thing not bad. Unless the shuffling is dramatically affecting your own search traffic goals, I wouldn't be too concerned with it. Mostly I'd recommend strong categories for your pages that target your key search demographics and the archival of pages that have come and gone in their voting cycle.  That way you'll have plenty of static content to work with as well.

Image maps present links in a very standardized way that the search engines definitely index so it's more of a question of how you want your information presented in results. If I'm presenting a cluster of results for a barbershop search in a local area with an image map, I wouldn't want that broken up until it got to the individual page for a specific location, as one example. As for the alternate text tag, it's the same "alt" so it'll be read the same way.  A good practice for usability, regardless.

Hi Evgin, Sorry for the slight delay in response, I was writing a blog post. I would recommend the following: Product name: Audi A6 Rear Lamp Set Seems fine but not keyword focused on what people are searching for. Short Description: A Short & Sweet Description I am presuming this is a CMS field that will be displayed in the category page of your ecommerce site, before someone clicks to find out more on this particular product. So yes something short and sweet. Long Description: A Long Boring Description -  The long description, shouldn’t be boring but yes it can be boring to write. I would expect this to appear on your product page providing confidence and specific details about the product. Meta Title:  Same as product name Yes this should be the same as the product name, maybe include some additional variants on the most popular keyword. For example "Popular keyword - Second most popular keyword". Meta Keywords: What more can be said about an A6 Rear Lamp Set??? Meta keywords are ignored by almost all search engines these days, so I wouldn’t worry about these and possibly remove them. Unless they are used within your websites internal search facility. Meta Description: Same as long and boring description Meta Description should be no longer than 156 Characters (Including Spaces). So maybe the short description could be placed here with any discount, sales or delivery pricing message your site may have. It seems to me that you need more support that these Q&A's can provide, this is one problem but you will find many more, it's hard to get it all correct. By going through this Q&A process it will take you a long time to find all the answers you need. Just a friendly bit of advice to try and save you time which ultimately costs money. If you make the wrong choices, you may find that you miss opportunities which could drive more traffic to your site.

maybe the best solution is to sort pages with high bounce rate and modify the link structure of those pages

email frank@orchidbox.com and ask about his optimised seo template and cms

While you can get all pages indexed via a sitemap, the general rule of thumb is that if Google has to use your sitemap to find the page, it will probably never rank for anything. Good internal link architecture will be your best friend here. What we generally recommend is to "link early, link often". On every product page, plan on linking to several other products before you get to the footer of the page. Some common methods of this are... Top Products Related Products Recently Added Products People who bought this also bought... Recently Sold Products Featured Products Recently Visited Products etc... Any excuse to get more links to more pages. For example, let's say you sell 10,000 products and your goal is to have no product page be more than 3 clicks away from the homepage... Click 1: The homepage links to 50 product pages (Top 20 Products, 10 Latest Added, 10 Featured, 10 Recent Purchases) Click 2: These product pages each link to another 30 (10 Latest Added,  10 Also Bought, 10 Recent Purchases) (remember, Google will spider the site asynchronously so when it comes back the latest, featured and recent should have changed) Click 3: These product pages also link to another 30 (10 Latest Added,  10 Also Bought, 10 Recent Purchases). If this were perfectly random, you could potentially have links to 45,000 products. However, assuming there is some crossover (ie: google visits a products page and you havent added any new ones since the last page they visited), it is reasonable to believe that Google will find at least 1 link to all 10,000. Note: use the "featured" listing to get things indexed. Feature products that havent been spidered yet by google.

Well you can, theoretically, but it can get very technical or be a bit imprecise. You are correct that you can't really guarantee a set number of leads (what if everybody's plumbing is working perfectly in London this month) but you should be able to track your contributions. If you use a second phone number on Google Local and the meta description, then anybody coming through that is a SEO lead. Also, while a bit wishy washy, you should be able to see in your analytics what percentage of people are coming through on unbranded search and then attribute a percentage of web completions to that. You get more precise by setting up a tracking system, but it'd be a very bespoke set up.

I just noticed that some of your pages are indexed under www.dentistinlittlerock.com and some with out the www's at dentistinlittlerock.com. This could be why you are not seeing them all indexed in your webmaster tools.  Webmaster tools see these as two different sites. You should set up a 301 redirect to have them all go to one domain(either www.dentistinlittlerock.com or dentistinlittlerock.com).  This should fix it.

The key issue you wrote about, titles that are too long, relates to how well a page matches the topical focus within the title. Too many words in a title can cause topical dilution if they're all keyword phrases. In my experience, have the most important / most relevant content at the front of the title relative to the page topic.  So from that regard you're doing it properly. Generally speaking, I teach clients to keep the individual page title to 70 characters.  Not to prevent dilution specifically, but to ensure the entire title shows up in the Google search results although Google sometimes overrides your given title for one of their own if they think your title doesn't truly match the page focus. When a title goes beyond 70 characters, if the extra text is brand focused, it's not a terrible thing.  Google will still process the entire title, it's just the whole thing won't show up in the results pages. Having all the titles appended after the unique forum topic with your forum brand is not 100% ideal in regard to matching the individual page topic, however it's perfectly acceptable from an overall branding perspective. As for MagentoWebDeveloper and his concern with repetition, there is truth to that, to a certain degree, however it's not as major an impact because you do have each title prepended with the individual page's topical focus. And the more you do to focus on across-the-board SEO, the less concern that becomes.

The link limit is 100 suggested by matt cutts. No it's not The 100 link limit suggestion was removed a while ago, though it's is indeed best not to go wild with it. But the more pages that you link from your home page and back to your home pge the better the home page will rank. This isn't really true either. If that were the case I could just make a site with 1,000,000 pages all linking back to the homepage and expect to rank. Whereas actually the only way I'll get value to flow back up to the homepage is to attract links to these 1,000,000 pages from external sites.

I think it depends on what the redesign consists in. For example a competitor of one of my clients has just redesigned their site but the difference is the old site had more relevancy to a specific keyword where as now the redesign is a general page that doesn't have as much relevancy to the specific keyword. The result was a drop in rankings. So if you're a simple site with little content or poor structure it's a good thing to redesign... if it's the other way around where you focus more on design and not on content (SEO) i think you will have a drop in rankings

Okay Damon, email sent. I would maybe edit your message above, to remove your email. I know seomoz is more secured against spam bots than most forums due to being a subscription based membership, but even so it may be safer for you anti-spam wise, to not leave it in plain text, but obviously your choice there "Freebies are good . . ." - Well, when you spend so promoting websites for money, it is nice to sometimes help just for the sake of helping, and publishing your release won't cost me any money, or much time - so glad to help out. I like seomoz Q & A forums, it has a much stronger atmosphere of collaboration than most other webmaster or seo forums I have been on over the years, so I am happy to try to 'do my bit' as I know in the future, I will undoubtedlybe asking, and receivingadvice from others! - what goes around, comes around... Cheers Damon!

Beyond Daniel's suggestion, I'd support that with a press release and social campaign to promote the change.  This will provide immediate / short-term off-site signals promoting the new domain right away. From there, long term, I'd work on link reclamation - seeing what existing inbound links you can get changed to point to the new domain - those existing links will have more value when you do that, since it's pretty much agreed that 301 redirects leak a bit of their value. And of course, establish a long term plan for new link building to the new domain as well.

Joomla can be very slow for large sites and drupal requires programmers. I would also recommend looking at the yoast wordpress seo plugin. I use it for all my sites and he has alot of info on how to optimise wordpress. I am a regular reader of dawn, Good to see they are finally upgrading