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Makes sense, I absolutely don't want to chance with the menu and have it mistaken for cloaking. We will now look at other solutions for a more traditional menu with better internal linking and less links.

Thank you for your input!

It is visible in Google.SE

site:beyondthedeal.com

Hello,

I just like to ask for best practice when it comes to reduce number of internal links on a site with a mega menu.

Since the mega menu lists all categories and all their subcategories it creates a problem when all categories are linking to all categories directly..

Would the method below reduce the number of links and preventing the link juice flowing directly from category to category?

[(link built with JavaScript and the html5 "data-" attribute)

Thinking of using these links to categories in the menu not directly below the parent category.](#)

Hello,

I don't understand why you redirected your index page to the "about us" page, Don't you want your home page to start at www.towerhousetraining.co.uk? Like having a short intro there and where people can read more by then clicking "about us".

Canonical urls are used on pages with very similar content. You basically tell the search engines what page you wishes to rank (of the similar ones).

Hello,

No I don't think the "image block" is why you don't get much search traffic (unless you used to get a lot of traffic from image search).

Have a look at Google Analytics and see when your site started dropping in traffic. Compare your stats with google panda and penguin updates and see if you can find any relation between any update and the drop.

This plugin for Chrome can help you overlay Google's updates on your analytics charts:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chartelligence/njhdcfdiifemfnfddhfjmfbkajajceag

Hello,

Do you get traffic from more than one country? If so, are you checking your rankings in each Google? Are you searching depersonalized?

The last thing, the number of searches does vary, it could just be that there are less searches for your keywords at the moment. Check with google trends.

Hello!

As seomoz suggests, the title is the most important place to identify keywords. If you try to rank for "ladies wear", your title should have that phrase in it.

So my suggestion for your page title is:

"Ladies wear - Shoes dress shirt Fashion | fashion online"

I suggest (as seomoz) to keep the keywords as the first words of the title. I have seen many cases where it improves the ranking.

Another factor of having the keywords in the title is that they will be highlighted in bold on the search results page.

We had similar issues with too many indexed pages (about 100,000 pages) for a site with about 3500 pages.

By setting a canonical url on each page and also preventing google from indexing and crawling some of the urls (robots.txt and meta noindex) we are now down to 3500 urls, The benefit is (besides less duplicate content), much faster indexing of new pages.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Hello,

Well to me it makes sense to use "oak flooring" in the product titles since that is what it is. Unless you know a better alternative way of describing the product I wouldn't change it.

Sometimes with e-commerce you end up with a lot of products with almost identical names. In those cases I try to add dimensions, colors, etc to the product titles.

I have a theory that Google is smart enough to figure out it is an e-commerce site and that a lot of products with almost identical names might be on the same page.

One thing you could try to rank a little bit better is to the change a couple of product titles (not all) so the title begin with "Oak Flooring".

Hello!

I would just check in Google what pages Google has indexed. Then do redirects from those urls to the new ones. Also check what urls other sites link to and make sure those are redirected to their new urls.

For your overview pages I would redirect the empty page and and the overview page. Just in case you get traffic on both.

Non important pages (like your thank you page) I wouldn't redirect.

This is not an issue, it is quite common today with responsive designs. If hiding elements is not for tricking the crawlers then you should be safe.

My guess is a couple of sentences (especially if it's the title or meta description).

Since it is so easy to find "borrowed" content, I would assume Google knows if the content is unique. Not having unique content is a common seo-mistake in ecommerce where many just reuse suppliers information.

Looks like a "parked" domain with ads on it.

Some web hosting companies put up search pages with ads hoping to make some cash on not used domains.

Hello,

You can use the hreflang attribute to specify alternative language and url.

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://en-us.example.com/page.html" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.example.com/page.html" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://de.example.com/seite.html" />

To learn more about this http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

Hi David!

Yes they will leak "SEO juice" <- don't like the phrase either!

To be safe from Google I would make sure these banner ads had rel="nofollow".

Since google has changed the rules to prevent PR sculpting the banner ads will still leak link juice (just not to the site linked to).

Works great! This last week is the first time in 6 months I ever had a problem (with the ranking).

Hello,

The robots directive will only prevent google from crawling the pages. In order t remove the pages from index you need to add "meta noindex" to the pages you want to have removed.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710

It is because you have many ALT-tags in your source code. I can count 92; however, not all of them have any description.

IIS loves 302s... Ask your developer to change the 302 to a 301 instead.

The indexed page will then be  "/nl/nl/SomeOtherPage.cms" and the "link juice" will flow to it.

Also stick with lowercase in the urls.

The .cms extension is not an issue imo.

Hello,

I don't know if you coded your site, but I would suggest a "no javascript" version with regular url varialbes the crawlers can follow. In your site maps you then list "no javascript" urls.