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This is a nice problem to have.

Think of the blog page as a landing page and as Robert suggested, link to the product so they can buy.

I'm curious how the keywords differ for each page. Whatever is being done on the blog pages successfully - can you do similar things to product pages that are not being blogged?

Yes.

Your categories are very broad/general so have some good long tail keywords in your products to convert.

Considering the amount of categories you've got, you have plenty of room to move all those categories up to the top nav.

I don't see a need to push them down to two clicks when you can reach them in one.

As the amount of content grows you'll need to re-evaluate but right now you've got plenty of room to grow.

If he's got a clause like that in his contract, it may be indicative of broader issues looming. You may want to reconsider developers.

Here's an oh-by-the-way.

One of our manufacturer's came out with a product via slow roll literally within the last 5 days.  They have not announced the release of it to the retailers.  I happened to stumble on it visiting their site while updating products.

I did a search of the term and found I wasn't the only one unaware of it so I scrambled to add the product to the site, promote it and submit it to the index late Tuesday.

It's Thursday and its showing in SERPs.

Would it have appeared that quickly if I didn't submit it via fetch?  I don't know for sure but I'm inclined to think not. Call me superstitious.

Someone debunk the myth if you can. One less thing for me to do.

I submit every product and category I add.

Do I have to? No. Is it necessary? No - we have an xml sitemap generator. Google is like Big Brother - he will find you. Fetch is a tool that you can use or not use.

Will Google find it faster and will you show up more quickly in search results if you submit it? I don't know.

I think GWT explains it very well.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/158587?hl=en

I typically use it to submit new pages to the index although its probably not necessary if you have an xml sitemap. Not certain on that one.

More tech savvy folks probably use it to also check the crawlability and "health" of pages.

Thanks Sarah. Good luck!

Dennis is giving you a good one and I can make a recommendation for your SEO services if you wanna pm me.

You may be in need of a second opinion.

Interesting. So you were ranking well on a hosted platform.

Also, is your developer and SEO the same?

Just curious if you were getting input from both angles or the same direction.

Were you ranking well prior to the move?

Do you believe your site requires complete access to the template?

Why are they giving you that suggestion?  What is their reasoning?

If you're trying to keep your business alive, Magento may be pricey for you.

Have you looked at 3dCart?

The avatars are getting caught in the cloud.

Some platforms have a built-in 301 tool and all you have to do is upload the xml file with the proper redirects like so:

/source-category.htm/target-category.htm

Hi Sarah,

It depends. Can you purchase each product from that one page?

How do the keywords differ from the summary page vs the "would be" product pages?

The usability and common sense of it may depend on the answers to the above questions.

It may make the best sense to land on a branded summary page and link to individual products. Or not.

Hi Rahul,

If your slider if 800px wide and 400px tall for example, make your images and art the exact same size.

Downsizing a 1000px wide image to 800px wide will maintain crispness.

Upsizing a 600px wide image to 800px wide will blur it.

If your images and art are typically smaller than your slider, reduce the size of your slider to accommodate your content.