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Hi INU, I always like avoid using things like 503s as a general rule. There is almost certainly a better way to do it. What about just using Google webmaster tools and Bing webmaster tools? Regarding HREFs it depends how much you rely on that tool. If you don't use it, then I'd more more likely to just block that bot in robots.txt and make sure Google and Bing are controlled using the appropriate tools in the respective webmaster tools. To answer your specific point about whether or not 503 can hurt rankings. In general no as long as they are only short-term. A 503 like 404s or any other response code is a natural part of the web, however, Google has said in the past that repetitive 503s can be treated as permanent rather than temporary and in some cases can result in the pages being removed from the index. I hope this helps, Craig

Thanks for this Travis, I took your advice and tracked the appropriate pages in Crazy Egg. The results confirmed my thinking, a very small number of visitors use the social links. Around 1%. Regardless however, i've decided to keep them in the header for that 1%. Best,

Thanks for the tip StreamlineMetrics... Curious though, how are you able to get keyword data, etc. to pass through when Google strips it out. Do we not run the risk of violating some other Google policy?

I would not purchase a domain just to immediately redirect it, no. If it was me, I would set up a highly focused landing page on the domain, or a mini-site full of information related to the domain that then links out to your main site. Just buying up domains hoping someone will type it in and be redirected will not work. As a stand-alone redirected domain there is little value UNLESS it was a high-ranking high authority domain before you redirected it, at which point there can be some SEO value. If you choose to go the landing page route, here is a pretty nice guide. Super awesome link

Hi Carlos, did you see Keri's response to your question? Let us know, thanks! Christy

I was referring more about the content. You can write a great linkbait-worthy content about a new method to wax your car, but if you're selling diaper covers, it's not going to help you. Extreme example, but I'm trying to say to make sure that you write content that your target audience wants to read, not necessarily look just at content that will get links.

After going through free trials on over a dozen SEO/SEM tools we've settled on the following: Moz: Backlinks, Keyword Tracking Swydo:Client PPC Reporting SEM Rush: Keyword Keywordtool.io: Google Auto-Complete keyword data (and it's Free!) And we're tempted by SpyFu premium, but rely on the free version right

Shameless plug, but I did an interview with Rand Fishkin from Moz about SEO relating to ecommerce sites, it was published last week. You might find some tips here, http://www.prestashop.com/blog/en/seo-expert-series-rand-fishkin-of-moz/

I didn't realise that there was other Htaccess folder in the /en and /fr... But thank alot for the help and I will chek Regexr.com !

Thanks for getting back on that Abe. So OSE only ever displays the metrics for that page? IE. If I enter the root domain: http://test.com, OSE is only going to give me the link metrics for the home page itself, and not the domain? Thanks again for the clarification!

i would love to see an analysis of the relationship between bounce rate and this new pogo rate:)

You can submit them separately. One for video, one for images, one for URL's. This may be a more effective approach at getting things indexed, as it separates them into their own category. If you are already having a high load time, wouldn't hurt to try. To answer your original question: "Sitemaps should be no larger than 10MB (10,485,760 bytes) and can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. These limits help to ensure that your web server does not get bogged down serving very large files." But wait, there's more! http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021559.html "Google has changed the number of Sitemaps you can reference in a Sitemap index file. The number use to be 1,000 sitemaps can be referenced in a Sitemap index file, now the number is 50,000 Sitemaps. This is a huge increase in capacity. Still, each Sitemap file can contain up to 50,000 URLs, so technically 50,000 multiplied by 50,000 is 2,500,000,000 or 2.5 billion URLs can be submitted to Google via Sitemaps."

I think you're possibly trying to solve a problem that you don't have! As long as you've got a good information architecture and submitting a dynamically updated sitemap then I don't think you need to worry about this. If you're got a blog, then sharing those on Google+ can be a good way to get them quickly indexed.

Yair, See the infographic on this page regarding rel nofollow tags in links, and when you may want to consider using them. Specifically, see the part about User Generated Content: http://searchengineland.com/infographic-nofollow-tag-172157 However, Google can decide to crawl whatever they want to crawl, whether it is a nofollowed link, links on a page with a nofollow meta tag, or javascript links. If you really want to keep Google out of those portions of the site you should use the robots.txt disallow statement, as I mentioned in your other thread, or use the X-Robots-Tag as described here.

Were the 300 listing pages ever receiving traffic?  If the answer to this question is no or if a significant number of them weren't ever receiving any traffic it might change what I would think you should do.  Poor title tags will hurt your visibility in lots of ways.  I would not personally tie the title tag strategy to Panda.  Panda is a content algo.  It seems to look for duplicate, near duplicate, thin content, poor quality content and then make sure that sites with those criteria are not ranking.  If you think more broadly about it you might ask why Google would want to take the whole site down in the rankings for thin content on a few or many pages with potentially low or no traffic.  I think the reason they are penalizing the whole site is because they don't want webmasters producing this type of content.  If they can get content creators to think twice before creating another 20 urls about x topic then over the long haul their job will become much easier.  They can fight off spam more easily because it won't work.  I was very angry when Panda 4 rolled out and some sites I own got hit.  However, I feel empowered now to correct the issue.  My suggestion for you is to compare the urls with their links and traffic.  There should be some clear cut low quality stuff that you can noindex.  On the pages that drive traffic I would make sure you are providing deep, helpful content.  Hard to discuss all the things you may need to do over email but I think you are probably getting the idea.  PM me if you want to chat more.

Why is there a 'Re-Grade Page' button if it does absolutely nothing?

I assume you mean Search > Crawl Diagnostics > Issues overview There is a note telling you that you have a canonical tag which is fine (a black tag) this is more informational and shouldn't worry about it. When to worry - If you have duplicate content. edit also assuming this in Moz reports

Thank you Ruben. I was a little leery of bzzagent because I learned that initially, they told their agents not to reveal that they had received merchandise for free.  Even though they have changed this policy to one of disclosure, the corporate mindset is something I'm not comfortable with. So, yes, I agree with you, why take a chance. To answer your question, yes, I am looking into getting reviews on products that don't rely on free merchandise, and if they do, there must be not only full disclosure, but preferably no backlinks - and if there are any backlinks, the nofollow attribute be used. Best, Gary