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Hi, I'v been using disqus for a while now. Haven't seen any negative results from that. So the question fb comments vs. disqus would be reach. Facebook is the most used platform but you might loose some feedback because of reach. Disqus is compitabel with all major sosial sites.

Hi Christopher, It is perfectly fine to use the keyword Chevy on multiple pages because it is creating variations of the keyword phrase. For example if your home page focuses on the keyword phrase "Miami Chevy" and you also have a page that focuses on  "Miami Chevy Learning Center", that would count as different keyword phrases. Google will serve a different set of results if you type in "Miami Chevy" or "Miami Chevy Learning Center" so you will not be cannibalizing your search traffic significantly by using these different variations. SEOMoz uses "SEO Software" on their homepage and "SEO Tools" on a different page. It is a best practice to focus on different variations of your top keyword phrases on different pages, but it is usually a bad idea to have two pages that both focus on the exact same phrase like "Miami Chevy Learning Center".

I know there are many opinions on how to handle paginated pages. My opinion is to just use a noindex, follow meta tag on all the paginated pages. The thinking is that these pages don't have any intrinsic value of being in the index themselves, but you still want the engines to be able to crawl to all your products from your internal links. I would only use the next and previous tags on paginated articles or galleries. The canonical tag is meant for duplicate pages and doesn't really make sense to use for paginated pages.

thank you for that, i will concentrate on the main site instead of buying urls

Hi Paul, Great answers from Ryan and EGOL. The other thing to keep in mind is that traffic doesn't automatically equal business. While it may seem attractive to be "free from Google" and other search engines, there is an important consideration that must not be forgotten. If the Lion's share of your traffic is perhaps from RSS subscribers or referrals from more general sites, how many of those visits are actually delivering you people who need a lawyer? When I need a lawyer for myself or a family member (when my need is immediate and I am ready to contact the one that seems best able to help me), what am I going to do? Will I: Look for a blog to subscribe to? Surf around and read other websites looking for links to lawyers that might help me? Go to my favorite search engine and search on a term that will take me straight to a list of local law firms in that practice area? While diversity of traffic sources is important, the reality is that if they were not the most useful means of finding what you want on the web, search engines would not still hold the place they do. I have a number of clients who are lawyers and would agree that the approach Ryan has described for you is the best way to go. In addition to that I would say that the key in developing content for them has always been remembering the mindset of the client. A person who needs a lawyer is a person who needs help. The practice area and seriousness of the situation will dictate what type of help. Hope that helps, Sha

Why dont you look to hire an in-house SEO? May not be as cheap as option 'A' but if they are good will be cheaper than option 'B' plus they can add value in a wider sense - a good SEO will help improve wider inbound marketing efforts.

Ah, I see. That has happened, but only to a very small extent - when I look at analytics, I can attribute  70%+ of the dropoff to a two-word phrase with 3 variants. It was their primary phrase by a good margin, and the traffic has tanked, even though they maintain rankings for it. It's very confusing. I did notice on insights that in 2010 and 2009 there were a few months of each year where insights went from very high interest to 0 interest. It's happening in 2011, too, and we're currently in one of those periods. The start of that 0 period in insights coincides roughly with the traffic dropoff. That said, I'm wary of deciding that that's the reason. There -were- changes to the title tags and content at that time, and it's hard to believe that it's just bad luck . The primary traffic source for this phrase was Yahoo, not Google. The traffic drop has occurred in Google, but to a much lesser extent (Yahoo dropped about 50%. Google only dropped about 20%). Another reason for me to not want to give too much credence to the insights info.

This is sth that has been happening for a long time, so I would like someone to take a look to the source code of www.hotelelgreco.gr and tell me what's wrong.

Make sure you do the url to url wherever possible. If you don't, you won't know in a couple of weeks based on my experience. (One of the best pieces of SEO advice ever came about that very issue. When we went back in and changed each url to 301 within days we saw DA and PA go up!).  I look forward to hearing your progress. Robert

Hi David, First, my preference would always be to use 301 redirect to send pages that no longer exist to a new URL. Using a 301 passes link juice and signals search engines that the old page should be de-indexed and the new page indexed in its place. Barring some issue with your rel=canonical tags, which would be the first place to look, I would check other things that can send signals to the search engines about freshness: meta refresh tags update frequency reported in your sitemap custom crawl rate setting in Webmaster Tools Then of course, there is an analysis of the differences between your old design and the new...have you made a significant change to your menu(s) and/or internal linking structure which has made it harder for crawlers to follow links to all pages in your site? Hope that helps, Sha

Thanks for the quick responses. Currently, visiting a page on my site using the old permalink structure redirects one to the same page on the new setup, so I'm guessing there is a redirect in place, all be it a 302? (all I did was change the structure in the permalinks tab on WP, nothing else). Should I still do what you suggest with the htaccess file?

The idea I have on this topic, which I would like to test, is to provide links to the same page with different anchor points. mysite.com/vitamins mysite.com/vitamins#vitamin-a mysite.com/vitamins#vitamin-b Using the above example, vitamin-a and vitamin-b would be anchor links to a specific part of the page. We know Google supports this method and will index the various links to a page. The results are common in SERPs, but the official notice from Google can be seen here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/using-named-anchors-to-identify.html What I would like to see if more test results to measure if PR flows differently to anchor links as opposed to regular secondary links to a page. Some testing can be seen here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-anchor-links-to-make-google-ignore-the-first-link.

Hi Adam, If you are just wanting to rank your keyword terms according to the number of searches per month, you can use any of a wide selection of free or paid keyword research tools. Probably the most well known and commonly used is the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. In order to get the estimated number of searches per month for the exact keyword terms you are seeking, type the list into the Word or phrase input field at the top (one term per line). Check the box underneath the input field that says O****nly show ideas closely related to my search terms. When you click "Search" you will see two separate lists. The first one will show you the exact terms you entered. You will now also see an option on the left of the screen to change from the default broad match to exact match or phrase match (I would normally be looking for exact match and local searches - USA by default). You can sort the list numerically by clicking on the column heading. To download just your list of terms, check the box to select them, then click "download" and choose "selected" from the menu that opens. This will allow you to save the list in a number of formats, including csv for Excel. The second list you see is a selection of "keyword ideas" which Google thinks may be closely related to the terms you entered. If you want to add some of these to the list you are downloading, just check the boxes before downloading "selected". If you want to change location (you are not in the USA), or just look at search numbers for mobile traffic etc, click the Advanced Options and Filters link underneath the word and phase input field. You should always keep in mind with any tool of this nature, that search numbers can never be exact, but it will certainly give you an indicative feel for the popularity of your terms. There will always be variations in search traffic from month to month, there are seasonal influences etc etc. As Ryan indicated, there are a number of other factors to take into account when assessing the keywords you are going to target and the Whiteboard Friday video he suggested is a great place to start. I would normally suggest that you also use the SEOmoz Keyword Difficulty Tool to help refine your list according to how competitive your terms are, but I believe there is an issue with that tool at the moment. The SEOmoz team are working on that, and you could make use of it once the issue is resolved. Hope that helps, Sha

I agree with Stephan's comment regarding making sure that it's pet specific. If you ever get into PPC, you're going to need to do a lot of negative keywords to make sure you're not showing up and paying for people looking for how to keep grandma fit.

Hey Sha Menz, Thanks for the link, I am a big fan of WBF, I just haven't seen this one, definitely helped. I am just curious as to what other people have to say about this. Hanson

Are there specific keywords you were ranking on that drove traffic to this page. I don't see that this page has many direct links, and it's not optimized for any popular terms, so I'm surprised that login form was getting much direct traffic. Is it possible your internal link architecture changed? Maybe you're pulling a ton of search traffic to the home-page, but it's not getting pulled through to the deeper page now? I'm also a bit confused, because Rediff.com is an outside site service. If you can explain what you were ranking for and dig into the specifics, that would certainly help. It also appears that you had some pretty strong social signals to that page. It's possible that those gave you a strong short-term rankings boost, but that it faded over time. The social signals aren't as long-lasting as permanent links.

I'm sorry but this is absolute nonsense. Google indexes those absolutely fine. Want proof? Check my site. A search for [wordpress plugins] reliably brings up my meta description. Of course, if you don't have the keyword someone searches for in the meta description, the chance of the meta description showing up is close to zero, and even when you do it doesn't always show. But don't blame the single quote. I mean, he's single already. Have some pity.

It's great to have a link to your site from a national newspaper, what an exposure! It is expected for the newspaper to mark your link no follow as they cannot vouch for your content however there is much value in the link being present. It is still a backlink which is counted and surely has a value somewhere in Google's complex algorithms. It is also a great 'natural' link to your site. As more weight is given to link profiles it would seem quite unnatural to have no nofollow links. In all, it's a great link to have - well done!