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Hi Bob, I'd highly recommend building out your profile on LinkedIn (if you haven't already) and then maybe even opting for the upgraded membership for a month or two. Lots and lots of SEO jobs there. Speaking from experience, the jobs posted on LinkedIn are far more "real" than jobs you'll find other places (like TheLadders). If there's a company you're particularly interested in, call them directly. I cold called the company that I currently work for, they hadn't even advertised for an SEO, and guess what? They created a position for me Nifty huh? One final suggestion, you're getting into a realm where working for an hourly wage is not really the best approach, IMHO (feel free to disagree). But, I think that if you are looking for a steady SEO job working for the same company or agency, you need to come up with your expected salary and benefits. Keep those close to your vest and don't put them on your resume. The right company will make the right offer Best of luck to you! Dana

Oh well, as you mentioned "rebrand" I guessed you were able to also merge the two, by using one site to cover all, like most manufacturers do (apple, samsung, sony, etc). Anyway, in this case, I would suggest you build different content for both sites. In the manufacturer site, you can have technical specifications, let's say it builds computers, then in the manufacturer page you list technical aspects of the chips, motherboards, manufacturing process, etc. While in the sales front you "SELL" the end product, show how it works, you can probably add videos of the product in action, etc. By following that process you will end up with "similar" pages, but sites that actually read totally different; and you won't need to nofollow or noindex anything...

ah yes ! i was looking for a delete button within the campaign dash itself, thanks Peter

Thanks Jeff!

Had that on one of our pages, we then crashed completely, lost ranking on a number of other keywords, currently looking for the cause, but i believe google is doing some sort of gradual update.

Hi Bossandy. I don't want to list off names here publicly but happy to recommend a couple of the copywriters that we frequently hire for client work if you'd like to PM me.

SHTML is an old-school way to use SSI (server side includes) in what is otherwise a static HTML page. Stack Overflow talks about this in more detail here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/519619/what-is-shtml Web servers know that if the page is .shtml, then it's okay to run inline php code, for example. My guess is that your .shtml files are older remnants of SSI files. I'm not a big fan of changing URLs just to clean up things, because if you change links you will need to use a 301 redirect, and that will keep about 85% of the SEO value of the original link. If you do want to use inline php code on .html pages, I agree with Travis, above. You can modify your .htaccess file with: addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .htm addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .html (This will allow you to run php in static HTML files, without having to change the file extension to .php) Hope this helps! Jeff

It looks like the site has been penalized pretty heavily. I wouldn't want to be there if I were you. Pop it into http://www.semrush.com/ and witness the horror.

For a personal project, I implemented a CDN to my site (MaxCDN). The CDN now delivers every image via a subdomain and the CDN has sped my site's load speed. My goal from the start was speed, and in fact I got obsessed with load speed as I wanted to score over 90 in Google's PageSpeed and GTMetrix. There was another element at play and it was the most crucial one - the customer. I'm impatient when it comes to web browsing and I know I'm not alone. We know what we want when we click links, and we expect it to load fast. I am my own customer so speed was important. I name my image files with SEO in mind, using dashes, key phrases relavant to the image and alt tags, but I also know images aren't the sole driver for link backs and leads. Your site is an ecommerce site, if you have up to 21 images per page, speed is the importance here. Your customers are more likely to link/share to your product page not images The goal for you is an ecommerce conversion. Users who share your images might fall into 2 groups, users who share images for the aesthetic value and users who share the image for a purchase. Those sharing for purchase will more likely share the page URL and that's the audience you want. This ties into how users will find your images, search engines will offer the ability to see the image (aesthetic audience) and visit the page (potential purchaser). Getting the right alt tag, image file name will help rank your image higher in the search result for images Hosting your images in a subdomain should be fine as your site is an ecommerce one, it isn't deviantArt where they want every link to the core domain You already are using the correct file names and alt tags. Images are just one element of an optimisation strategy. To conclude, I would put yourself in your customer's shoes and ask, what do I want when I visit your ecommerce site. Will a slow site frustrate/make you leave? Will speed change your experience with the site and thus make you browse more? How are you showing such large images? Is the user experience fluid?

Thanks Dan !

Hi Kevin, In my experience the answer to this question depends on a few things: Where the links come from The website owner's relationships with the websites that link to them The amount of effort that can be put into moving all of those links Of course all pages should be 301'd just in case, but the problem with this is that the value of links passing through a 301 reduces over time. So all the value of all the hard work you've put into SEO in the past will decrease. What has worked for me in the past is running a report through Open Site Explorer, looking at the domains linking to the site, and seeing whether you and your client can contact any of them to get the link changed after go-live. If someone can dedicate time to this and the people linking to you are amenable to changing then it's a really good way of getting the maximum value for those old links. And perhaps rekindling old relationships while you do so, getting more links and more revenue