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Ok, great.  Thanks for the advice.  Will get to work on those changes, make perfect sense to me.

About the speed stuff, where are you testing from?  I just ran the pingdom report and it loaded in under 2 seconds.

I just upgraded my hosting, before that it was slow at about 9 seconds.  We've got it cached to the gills, pretty static content, so it shouldn't take too long.

Thanks Jeremy.  A couple follow up thoughts.

-Do you think it'd best just to have one category per career/job?  Or several?

-Also, will adding tags to these interviews cause duplicate content?  And should the tags be different from the words in the Title tags?

Thanks again for the help!

Just looking for some advice on this topic.  I know it's much debated but it seems the consensus is that having some broad categories and more defined tags is optimal.

The issue with my site is that it is very broad in nature.  We're profiling and interviewing all types of careers.  The site is www.jobshadow.com for reference.

Up until now I haven't used Wordpress Tags at all.  I've just been using categories(i.e. 9-5 type jobs, salaried jobs, hourly jobs, jobs in medicine, etc).

I've probably got way too many categories.  They are being counted as links on every post page which pushes me way overboard on links per page.

-Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on best practices for my site.

-Also, none of the categories themselves are really pulling in any SEO traffic so switching those wouldn't be a big deal.  Just looking for the best way to help users browse the site and the growing number of content.

And rom what I hear Tags can pull in some random/long tail traffic pretty easily if done right.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Thanks for the help!

Thanks, and yes people don't always make it that far down.  I'm definitely going to add the terms of service and privacy policy on the bottom.  Good points.  Thanks again

Thanks Andrew, good stuff.  Glad to know it's not of the spammy variety.  The last update almost made it sound like any footer was a bad footer.  Working on internal links now.

Just curious what people think of my footer.  I think it provides some value.

Not that many people click on it but it doesn't look that bad in my opinion.

Curious what others think.  If getting rid of it would help SEO I'd look into it.  I outsource all my coding though so don't want to spend money tweaking what doesn't need to be done.

www.jobshadow.com

Thanks for the help!

Just curious if anyone knew of some good ones out there.  Looking to try a couple out.  Thanks!

Thanks, looked that over.  Not sure if that's what happened or not.  Pretty wild though, like a roller coaster right now.

Just curious if anyone noticed a drop in traffic last friday.

I got hammered with about a 20% drop overall.  Didn't know if there was an update or what.

Thanks in advance!

Awesome, thanks.  I implemented several new plugins and a new design, and then immediately the errors started happening.

I'll see if my developer who made all the changes can do some research to figure it out.  Thanks again for the help!

Awesome, thanks!   So for someone who doesn't code PHP should I just point a developer to that article and see if they can figure out how to fix it?

I don't have a clue where to look to fix those errors unfortunately.  Willing to learn but outside of the current skill set.

Also, do you think these errors would affect SEO?  I guess I'll find out when I fix them, just curious what your opinion is.  Thanks!

Hi guys, new here.  Did a little search here and didn't see anything exactly like it.  My bad if it's been discussed.

I've read most of the FAQ's and haven't seen this exact problem addressed.My site is **http://tinyurl.com/89aury5**I recently installed a new design and since then have been having lots of 404 errors.You can see the screenshot here http://awesomescreenshot.com/0b92z1615There has been a perfect correlation between loss in traffic and the rise in errors as well.  **Most of the errors I have are /function.opendir after what would be a normal URL.  **Most of these appear on the 2nd and 3rd page of the crawl report which you can't see on the screenshot.Anyway, I don't have any broken links on the site(that I can find), and certainly not any of these that google is crawling.  I've read it might be a PHP error but no one seems to be able to find it.  Pretty bizarre.Looking for any help.   Thanks!