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You should try DYNO Mapper. It is a visual sitemap genreator that is good for mapping websites that are up to 25,000 pages. It is a paid tool, but their rates are pretty affordable. It generates sitemaps that include Google Analytics integration, content audit tools, and collaboration tools. 110649952

As far as I know link sculpting is obsolete. Personally I've stop using it since Matt C anounce the no follow new count back in the days. Using iframes and javascripts or even flash is not, in my opinion, a viable solution.

I think you are right.  If there's any benefit for being a secure site, the search engines should be able to pick up on that from the search results.  Both Verisign and Mcafee do indicate a secure site in the search results.  I'm just now switching from Mcafee to Verisign, and I guess there's no reason to pass link juice to them.  Thanks for answering my question.

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One thing to try is to buy the domain (if it's only a few bucks), put up some Lorem Ipsum text, then ask any friends with computers that have family filters to see if they can see the site. You'd at least know if it's being banned via the URL in that case. The URL for my site is strikemodels.com, and at least one Air Force base firewall doesn't like having "models" in the URL, but I haven't heard of any other problems with it. My content is about model warships, not any types of human models that might set of filters in that respect.

I have heard that a low PR page on a high PR site will gain PR quicly when linked to, and since only the first link is going to point to your site and you have 2 links to play with, why not.

Yes its ethical...and highly effective. you just need to use punctuation at the end of line 1 description. look at your example...there is a period (.) at the end of the long headline.

Hi Janice, We're working on adding more and more documentation to our Help Desk. So you should definitely check that out! http://seomoz.zendesk.com/home Enjoy!

No problem, Jessica! Glad you found the information helpful. One last point. Depending on your site design, you may have an opportunity to pass some of your home page's ranking power to your most important landing pages by linking to them from the home page. For example, we have persistent links on our home page to our top 10 games, games that convert new visitors very well, and game genres. While part of this is user experience oriented, a lot of it is also to pass on the home page's ranking power to those pages we want to rank well on the SERPs. The links on your home page shouldn't be random. Think strategically about what you link to from your home page.

Hi Eyepaq, SEOmoz using a CDN to host all of our images, though we set up a DNS change so they can be hosting on a third party server but listed at cdn.seomoz.org.  Doing what you are talking about shouldn't effect any of your "juice" if you are just using it to display your images using the img tag or via css.  You pdfs might be affected since you are using a <a href="">tag which tells Google you are linking to that file.  In the long run you will be much better off than anything you might lose by doing something like this.</a> <a href="">Casey</a>

We run one site with all https and there is no problem at all - we link build as usual and see no bad impacts, in fact we are doing very well. It's not usual practice but for SEO as long as you are playing by the rules it will have no impact whatsoever.

I'll second that. I've been using x-cart for 4 years and I don't know of any other mod for x-cart that works as well. Think of the $139 as an investment, not an expense. Of course you still have to have solid SEO research to get the results.

Thanks Nemek and Alan, I actually have some issues with between the mobile version of our site and the absolute links, so yes Alfredo is right about being the best practice, but there is a big technical issue for our dev department.

I find it annoying. There's one site that has the prompt asking if you if you want to chat show up in the middle of the page (and need to be dismissed) on every page on the site. I avoid using that site if at all possible. As a user, it's nice to have the option to chat now, but prefer that it not be in my face. I don't have any experience with conversion data, however. The searches I did on the web return data from vendors offering the service, so it's biased, but it may provide some insight for you.

First of all you must have the text of the page you want to rank in the right language. If you've got a spanish page you'll have a hard time ranking in English versions of Google's search engine, etc. The trick to use after you have the language sorted correctly is to get links to that page from the countries you want that page (or subfolder) to rank in. By getting links from Argentina you'll help the page rank in Google.ar. Get links from Chile and you'll rank in Google.cl. By getting a mix of links from different countries you can get the same page to rank in multiple local versions of Google. Hope it helps. Cheers

Meta Descriptions are not used for rankings, so you would be fine by just changing out the state. However, I feel it's a great strategy and best practice to handwrite every meta description to insure the best conversion rate and CTR possible.