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Hi,

A quick search on Google for site:namebadgesinternational.co.nz shows other pages are being indexed.

I can see a few other issues too, for instance the canonicalization of your domain and homepage, your homepage can be accessed via www, non-www, index.php and though root /

It may be a good idea to log into your Google Webmaster tools account (assuming you have one) and check Diagnostics for crawl errors and similar.

Also our robots blocks /cgi-bin but leaves 404 and login pages open to indexation (i would personally block these as i don't want my visitors landing on them).

Check out http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization for more info on canonicals.

best of luck...

Aran

I've always had the habit of logging into a proxy and checking my main SERPs.

1. Arrive at office
2. Grab a coffee
3. Check SERPs
4. Check Email
5. Check Analytics

People per hour worked for me. Also, i have found them on twitter.

One piece of advice, quality check the work prior to publishing any of it. I recently had a few hundred articles written and discovered about 25% were duplicated as the guy sub contracted the work to another 'cheaper' writer.

I agree with everything inhouseseo says above. Sound advice.

I've recently been looking at the wedding niche with a view to finding guest post opportunities, one thing that came to light is there's a ton of blogs out there that love publishing series of photos from weddings.

I'm not sure where you stand with ownership of the photos and whether you have the right to publish without the consent of the 'models'. Theres a great opportunity to assemble 10-15 shots write some commentary and then create a series of posts using 6/7 different shots from the collection and differing comments and post them around various wedding.

Myblogguest.com is great place to start. I think this could be the cheapest/quickest way to get the links your looking for.

Best of luck and I sincerely hope you get your old positions back.

Regards

Aran

Ps.(oh and in the mean time you might wanna hit facebook/twitter/pinterest and post some photos, connect with your target audience, it could drive some valuable traffic in! and it just might help you rank)

I'm all out of ideas then!

set up the 301 and see what happens

Sorry I couldn't be of more help!

I see your point... cant find reference to /feed/ however i also cannot find your sitemap.xml to confirm their are no references in there are their an external links pointing to kontakt/feed?

I'd consider adding a 301 rule into the htaccess to redirect traffic from the offending 404 pages, just in case.

could you share the url?

By default I think most wordpress blogs have a feed accessible via the urls you describe (http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/)

I'm pretty sure there specified somewhere link in sitemaps or even in meta.

Have you disabled your feeds?

Seeing your URL would help.

Get Yoast SEO for Wordpress plugin. It solved all of my duplicate page issues.

The issue stems from the category/Tags/Authors links which all host the same article, however the URL differs depending on how you access sit (i.e. via clicking though on a tagged keyword, through the authors link or through the categories links).

best of luck!

I personally use Tumblr quite heavily to promote my photography aransphotography.tumblr.com, not so much for link building but there is a huge amount of traffic flowing through that site and its great to divert some of that traffic to my flickr or my own website.

Also, if people chose to re-blog my stuff then I get some free links as a bonus, link juice or not!

In short my tumblr is part of my social outreach and inbound marketing strategy rather than my link development plans.

I do not use wordpress, blogger or Weebly personally, but I do have links on other peoples blogs from there that do me no harm!

Completely agree with Cesar.

I also feel the need to explain the context in which they could be harmful. Some spammy article sites would use tool tip type functionality to display adverts when a user hovers over particular keywords. In the past I've found this really annoying, but what your suggesting sounds like a helpful resource. However I would be very careful with the implementation and ensure it does turn out to be a helpful gadget and not a hindrance.

Best of luck with it.

Aran

Hi Rob,

I don't think the keyword spamming i the footer is helping your cause. Also, your link profile is extremely heavily weighted towards "Hen Night Accessories".

You have over 1k links on that anchor text, though only from a few domains.

There are also canonical issues at play too. (your site is available under www and non www).

Thats my 2 minute analysis, but these could be core issues that need resolving.

Best of luck...

Aran

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I agree completely with Zach and would like to add one little thing. I prefer to rewrite my URLS to remove the extension altogether. (so does SEOmoz, take this page for example http://www.seomoz.org/q/are-htm-files-stronger-than-aspx-files)

this makes it slightly more user friendly as its one less piece of info the the user to remember/type in and makes for a slightly cleaner looking URI.

Thanks Matt.

I think the key to pinterest for ecommerce is to mix up our own product images and graphical creations along with other products that could compliment your range. Obviously having great product photography helps massively.

(ooh I can feel a youmoz post coming on!)...

I've found Pinterest to be really useful as A social networking site, a link building tool and a resource to gain targeted traffic.

I think your header links will look spammy.

Also, your sharing out our Page Rank to your duplicate sites! I would either remove the links or no follow (are the links of value to your visitors? if not get rid!).

Hi Nicola,

Try and Install Yoast SEO for wordpress. You can he take control of your title tags and stop wordpress being naughty!

Good luck.

Aran

Hi,

Always love your post intros!

Hola from Overcast and humid 19 degrees C  Blackpool UK

Hows about using Google Alerts on particular keywords?

No problem, best of luck and let us know how you get on!

you can certainly use the canonical, however you probably wont rank from domains 2 and 3 as your telling Google not to attribute the content to those domains.

I'm still missing the bit where having thee regionalized sites is beneficial to your visitors, why not make one general site with the products and then do some geo-targeted pages?(thats what I would do, makes for a much simpler task).

best of luck with which ever way you go, but come back and let us know what happens