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Hey There - I too am not very familiar with "under the hood" of Maganto. Sounds like you may need to do individual redirects / URL re-writes. I'm not sure if there is a way to do it automatically. Here are a few reousrces that might help; http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/294348/ http://blog.maximusbusiness.com/2012/10/magento-url-rewriting-regex-and-301-redirects-tips/ If you can't find it there, please circle back so I can send the question to another Moz Associate who might have more of a working knowledge with Magento Thanks! -Dan

OK.  There's no known Penguin update that happened in January.  Although links are a possibility, there could be something else.  Panda is certainly a possibility and also it's possible that there is some sort of technical issue that is affecting the site. It sounds like you probably need someone with knowledge of Google penalty and algo changes to have a good look at the site and dig into your analytics.  I am not personally able to take on new audit work right now but I can put you in touch with someone whom I know is good at this kind of stuff.  You can find my contact info via my profile. There are also some very knowledgable people here in the Moz forums that would probably be available for hire for an hour or two to have a good look.  You can search for similar questions and find people who have good reputation and have given good answers and pm them to ask for consulting.

This is a strange thing for an SEO company to say, because it's still widely accepted that good links pass PageRank / authority and add to the likelihood that a site will rank well for its chosen keywords. "Link building" itself might not be a term that fills Google with joy, but it's still a valuable way to improve a site's rankings and Google knows it. The truth lies somewhere in the middle if you want to stay white-hat: you need links, but you should acquire them in a way that does not constitute buying or being manipulative (again, if you want to stay to the letter of Google's law). The activities they mention are fairly standard "link building" tactics though, and something like "social bookmarking" was a type of link building that lost popularity due to being ineffective nearly 10 years ago. I would have doubts about their SEO chops if they cite both link building as being out of bounds, and social bookmarking as being a good tactic!

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Hi, If possible, you can definitely 301 redirect these domains. There does not need to be active websites on the domains to do this - a redirect will tell Google that the site's content has moved to the new location, and to assign the majority of the authority from the old site / domain to the new location. It would be beneficial if you were putting something relevant to the supplementary sites' content on the new / hub site so that it's truly a case of content having moved - Google will often dull the benefit of a 301 if there is no sign that real content has moved from one location to another. This is partially to stop people from buying expired domains and redirecting them for the SEO benefit alone. If you're unable to do this however, it's still a good move to redirect the closed sites so that any SEO benefit and any type-in traffic is directed to the best location. Redirection also means that the closed sites will drop out of Google's index quickly and any relevant rankings they had that could belong to the existing site should change to the existing site quickly as well.

I think that some grouping is good. It's likely to make the Hummingbird happy, and it minimizes duplicate content issues. But the keywords in the group need to synonyms, or nearly so. I recently combined two separate pages that used to be focused on "clothes drying rack" and on "laundry drying rack". To the customer, these words were interchangeable.  Afterwards the new combined page read better to the visitor and it made the site navigation more logical. Still waiting to see what it does for the ranking... But I wouldn't combine "soccer ball" and "volley ball" - even though they look the same and kids may use them interchangeably. People interested in one are not interested in the other...

Hi there, I think it's definitely important to first determine which keywords / searches / niches you think the site should be getting visits from, rather than wondering why the initial number is so low. You will need to consider what people could be searching for that the site could potentially rank well for. If the primary purpose of the website is to source work or speaking gigs, what do people looking for Ellen's services search for? Is there significant search interest around her work from people simply looking to read? If so, what do they search for in the linguistics / grammar niches that the site should show up for but doesn't? With 25 linking root domains as shown by Open Site Explorer, is this much lower than the sites currently ranking for her primary search terms, or is it about right? Do those links go just to the home page, or to pages that should feasibly rank for the terms key to her audience? I hope this gives you somewhere to start from - I would say that 65 organic search visits per day is fine for some blogs, but is low if there is significant search engine users interest in a topic. Start with the Google Adwords keyword research tool to look into the volumes around Ellen's subjects and see if you can pick out a good list that she should rank for. Then take a look at how the site could be better optimised, or how your off-page / PR / link building work could be better to drive traffic / rankings to those pages.

Hi  vmotuz, Typically folks here are already working. Calls out like this may not be the best way to offer a legitimate job opportunity, especially when noting that recommended firms here are not what you're looking for. I suggest just posting your issues here and get the help of the community for free! Give you a fish, eat for a day. Teach you to fish and eat for life. Something like that. Be happy to point you in the right direction for your key words and landing pages.

Hi Armin Saberzadeh, I think it is quite fine to have the French translations in URLs like www.abc.com/fr/livre. Though it is also fine to leave it www.abc.com/fr/book If you have only English & French content and it isn't hard to implement, I would advice using www.abc.com/fr/livre The second point. I do not think it is fine to have the same page in different languages about different topics like books and pencils just from user's point of view. However you can create your pages the way you want and using tags you can tell search engines that www.abc.com/fr/crayon is the French version of the www.abc.com/book page. You can learn more about the hreflang tags on here. Regards,

Hi Phillip, Try using the On Page Optimization tool under "Search" in your Moz Analytics account to grade each page for the term. It could be that the internal page is better-targeted for the term, even though it's only loosely related. It's also possible that the subpage has received a high number of links from third parties, although this is fairly rare. There is no chance that the home page is under any sort of filter or penalty from backlink activity (e.g. too many anchors with the target term used as anchor text, pointing at the home page?). Although also not terribly common, Google has been known to penalise pages but not entire websites, based upon the page's backlinks. You can also try linking to the home page from the subpage and including the target term in the link, but not linking to the subpage from the home page.

The bags are produced from different materials and colors. So we have: Non-woven bags: color color color color color Laminated bags: color color color color color Separate pages are done based on colors, because we found that colors are what makes people convert. So they see bags in different colors on the category pages and then open up the color that they're interested the most. On the separate pages were we're also listing all different about sizes, etc. So we don't have separate pages for sizes, but we do have for colors. And they all have more or less the same text.

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Ah, that's about what I suspected. Tagging back to our FB page was the ONLY thing we did differently in that particular post. I just ran another post with similar content and also tagging our page, but the reach on that one was about what we expected. It's nice when you occasionally find yourself on the right side of the algorithm.

There is no guarantee Google will do this. The advice is work on Brand, but you can't guarantee they will change anything. -Andy

Hi, My campaign has been updated on last night. I just needed to be patient. Thanks. Sébastien