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just tweeting and ping services are my best bet. what about updating site maps?

could you please look at my site http://vervo.lv/ the mooz page grade says i have 72 keywords in page but i see just 9. So where is other keywords. Keyword is "Kravu pārvadājumi" or "starptautiskie kravu pārvadājumi" i yet did not decided which one use for first page. I thought the problem is using many targeted menu links but when i disable them nothing chages.

That's one where you do want a 404 returned! That should be fine, and kudos to you for having made a custom page.

When link building, try to create an even and natural distribution of anchor texts.  Supplement your distribution strategy with anchors that use you domain name and brand as these types of links are most commonly allowed by webmasters and appear natural.

Hmm, okay. I need to ask myself the question if the .no domain ending is worth it. Because the site is for Norway, and we now have .org as you can see. How much value do Google lay on that?

Not affiliated with these guys in any way, and haven't worked with them either, but I did once have a conversation with Nick from Killer Infographics (http://www.submitinfographics.com/KillerPortfolio.pdf). I haven't had a need for an infographic yet but they seemed like an interesting option. Please don't take this as an endorsement as I haven't tried them. I know they do concept to completion but I don't think they promote them, but isn't the idea of an infographic that they're fairly easy to promote anyway? Viral content and all that

Hello! I am seeing a lot of my clients using a 301 when the page doesn't exists redirecting to a well designed 404 page. But, essentially, the server have to output a 404 HTTP Code and show that fancy 404 page to the user. After all, the HTTPs codes exists to be used, and this is a important one! Hope it helps! =]

Google Analytics will not track anything after the # in the URL. I suggest using Google's tracking tags and coming up with an internal naming system. Since your affiliates are paid, I wouldn't worry too much about them not copy tracking tags as long as you're very clear that they have to link with the very specific URL.

Doing this could help you in the short-run, but the old domains will lose all their links eventually, so I wouldn't count on it as a long-term strategy.

Hey! Here's a useful list of ecommerce tips like you requestedTips to Optimize Your Ecommerce Efforts•Choose the Right Platform :  one that or allows you to implement SEO features•Unique Product Descriptions : Don’t take product descriptions straight from the manufacturer, avoid duplicate content penalties•User Interaction : encourage user activity through reviews and comments•Duplicate Contents:  use canonical tags” and pagination tags to let search engines know how to deal with the pages with similar products/ contents•SEO Friendly URLs : if it is easily understood by users, it will also be understood by search engines•Rich Product Snippets : give search engines context about your content to improve click-through-rates in search results•Trust Seals: such as MasterCard, Better Business Bureau, and VeriSign Trust•Get Social: using social platforms and share buttons will only increase the chances of users ending up on your websiteIf you are interested in more details there's a full blog posting at: eyeflow.com/tips-for-optimizing-on-page-elements

Thanks, John.  Information right from the mouth of Google.  Much appreciated. -Aviva B

Hi Nick, Do the clients already have an existing phone number?  Is it well-indexed by Google?  If it is not well-indexed, the client should first establish a permanent phone number and that number should be well-indexed before going ahead with this service. In general, dynamic javascript insertion works fine, as long as the existing phone number remains on the page in HTML somewhere, preferably in close proximity to business name and address (the footer is a good place for this). Make sure they are NOT sending tracking numbers anywhere outside of this client's website. Period.  No matter what they tell you about how their system is implemented.

I am not too sure about the impact of having the image referenced on multiple sites, however, I do know that the number of links to the page with the image on and the anchor text of those links can have a positive impact on iimage seo.

I don't have experience redirecting entire sites to other sites, but when it comes to 301 redirects you want to avoid redirect chains (abc.com redirects to def.com redirects to ghi.com, etc.). This is a pattern too common among malicious sites, so search engines will tend to see it as a negative signal. Avoid this while still passing as much link juice as possible by editing the redirect on abc.com to send traffic directly to ghi.com.

The rel canonical tag shouldn't remove the duplicate versions from the index. It would suggest to Google which version is the main version. If you want to remove the duplicate version from the index, maybe you could add a meta robots no index, follow tag. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

You want to have less than 100 links on a page, that includes internal and external links. using a tool like seoquake or even an seomoz tool may exist to check this kind of on page info. generally you want to have a constant link building profile, do you think facebook and twitter getting incredible volumes of links would get penalized?! no of course not. natural just means regular and normal looking. if you can build 100 links in a day and then spend 10 days not building links you are much better off building 10 links a day for the 10 days. really you shouldn't be in charge of your incoming links, your quality and value bring in links by having people like your content and share it. hope this helps

It seems like canonicalizing the URLs is still a good idea.  For one, there are other search engines that respect the tag, so you want them to do the right things.  However, it does sound like for Google that this could replace the need for canonicalization tags due to URL parameters.  If you have duplicate content that's not caused by URL parameters, you'd still need the canonical tag. Just to be safe, I'm still doing both. When I logged into my webmaster tools, all of the parameters Google had found were there already.  I went through and edited them and added the new information.