Something about something not so important!

[tdsnet]

Hey thanks for the tip

[tdsnet]

All good now

[AlanMosley]

You have many broken hyperlinks, 851 one of themYou have a lot of un-necessary redirects, are you using WordPress?
There are over 1,000 of these each one leaking link juice, add them all to the nroken hyperlinks you are losing a lot of rank.

here Are a few examples, not the difference in the trailing slash "/"The link to "http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog/".The link to "http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog/index.php/author/trustdeed123/" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog".you have canonicals pointing to pages that dont existThe page 'http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog/index.php/page/2/' links to a canonical URL 'http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog/page/2/' that returned the status code '404'.You also have more then one cannonical tags in your pagesThere are many others also. These are common errors i find in Wordpress sitesError 3 'Warning 15 
http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog/index.php/fsa-calls-uk-banks-transparent/" />http://www.trustdeedscotland.net/blog/index.php/fsa-calls-uk-banks-transparent/" />

[tdsnet]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the analysis.

Did you see anything in the index or main structure that caused any issues do you think?

Regards

[AlanMosley]

The biigest concern is the un-necessary redirects and broken links, in such high numbers you are thouing away a lot of rank, each 301 loses you link juice.

By un-necessary I mean that the link is internal, it can be pointed directly at the correct page, there is no need to 301.

Matt cutts has confinmed that 301's leak,

They have to otherwise you would get internal loops.

going by the Goolge Algorithm realsed years ago, it seem that they leak 15%

And of case the broken links would leak 100%

fixing them has got to give you a boost.

There is also invalid markup, and many other violations in lower numbers.

[tdsnet]

Great thanks,

With Wordpress it seems to come up over and over again anytime you research Wordpress - people seme to run into problems with it.

[AlanMosley]

Yes thats what i believe.

I find ASP.MVC is the best for SEO, both clean code and seo friendly urls.

but if its not possible, what i advise is to create your landing pages with clean code and use the CMS where you need it.

[tdsnet]

Update on Blog situation:

Thanks

[AlanMosley]

i use the Bing SEO Toolkit.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-interview-the-bing-team

You need a microsoft webserver to set it up

i would not exclued them in robots, as you will still be leaking PR thought the broken links, you need to find and fix them

[tdsnet]

Yes will look at the Bing Webmaster tools and work of that finding broken links. Thanks again.

[AlanMosley]

Bing SEO Toolkit, is not BWMT

email me, and ill will find them all and send you a list tomorrow

mosley@thatsit.net.au