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Hello again A voice from the past.  I've finally managed to install the company WordPress Theme and have a play with the style sheet(s) - The ‘style.css’ and the ‘editor-style.css’ have the correct code.  But the bold and italics, although displayed in the editor, disappear in the browser.  It doesn’t matter what browser I use. Any ideas? Thanks Catherine

I'll definately nofollow the affiliate link right away. I'd not though about absolute position, that sounds like a great work around! Do you think thats the best way to do it?

Hello! I think this is a good site structure. Here on this site for example is not a very good structure for CEO: https://www.azartlist.com

Thanks EGOL, Kevin and Alan - that last mention from EGOL is along the lines of what I am worried could happen because of the motivations behind the posts, which is to cite each other. Their authority on the subjects where they intersect is legitimate - but these articles would be generated because of those intersections. If I didn't have a blue widget client then the red widget client would have little impetus to write a blog post that extols blue widgets. Even though there's nothing in the posts that isn't true and all clients are qualified authorities to be cited as described. It's just that the posts would be written because the SEO guy (me) sat down and said "how can these clients cite each other legitimately?" rather than red widget guy writing an article on blue widgets and then being lucky enough to have someone (me) who can put them in touch with a blue widget company to cite and be cited by. They're all on different IP's so that should be okay. I think I'm going to go ahead with this but I'll tread lightly as recommended. Thanks again, thumbs up for all!

I am still using it on all of my sites... getting hundreds of actions per day.  Works great - but I have very few canonical problems.

Thanks, Alan, you captured the dilemma perfectly. UI is important and SEO is important, so how does one quantify the pros and cons of each in the planning stages of a site. It's really kind of an educated guess. I tend to lean towards your assessment for all of the reasons you cite. I'm in a competitive keyword space. So while I put a lot of weight on UI issues, I'm not inclined to ignore SEO opportunities for just minimal UI gains.

I'm in the same boat as Steve, Google's got it locked down in the UK and in my experience clients aren't willing to pay for anything other than Google optimisation. However, as you say Steve, good ranking on Yahoo / Bing usually follows success on Google. One thing I am looking into though is the Yahoo's Shopping search (Product Submit). It seems to be a largely untouched space in the UK and I'd be interested to hear if anyone's seen success with it. From my investigations so far it seems that you have to submit your feed in $s which is obviously a problem for UK merchants, however I see listings in £s. Do we have any UK experts in this field?

We do that all the time in our web development. Like Alan pointed out, it all depends on intent. If you were trying to hide some keyword stuffing or anchor text links in an display:none div, well that could get you in trouble, but what you are doing is a normal and common use of display:none on the web. You have nothing to worry about.

If you won't noindex your category pages, my best suggestion is to add unique content to the home page - split out the content so it shows the X most recent article titles & snippets, and separately (to the side of it or above or below it) have unique home page only content - a good couple paragraphs of it should help.

If you must have a seperate page for each product rather than the 16G/32G options then you may be able to describe them differently rather than cut an past the text. There are many ways to talk about the features of a given product. Alternatly, are you able to use an opening page to to talk about the specific features of the iPhone and branch to the version the customer wants to purchase?

What works for my clients when I help them transition is to do all that's been suggested so far (even considering splitting out the work into phases if at all possible).  But also, it's doing a press release right away, getting social buzz about the new site, and working on adding / building up the content around the core phrases, then link to that new content from the home page. Then focus on link building efforts to reinforce the new URLs.  And see if you can get any existing link sources to change the URLs in those to the new version links - sending much stronger signals than just 301 redirected links. If you do the work properly, you should eventually have both the home page and the inner pages show up for your most important phrases.

Yes, do it. It'll get you more links.

This is also a good linkbuilding resource. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-101-the-almost-complete-link-guide

Great information from all of you.  Thank you!

Hi Keri, No luck with any other tools, unfortunately. It's still something on the to-do list. Ryan's comment is helpful but still a lot of manual work involved unfortunately. Victor