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Thats pretty broad. In what respect?

It is an automated process. Google uses rich snippets to collect this data. The review site need to use rich snippets to transfer.

If you are looking for sites to get reviews on, check your competitors and see where their reviews are coming from.

Encourage your customers to use the same review sites. Also, give your customers options on where to review you. If someone already is active in Google reviews it doesnt make sense for them to review you in Yelp, especially since yelp will probably filter their result if they sign up for an account to write one review and never come back.

If it is your review site, there is a submission process. Here is some info on rich snippets and the submission process to Google.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets.html

If it isn't competitive, you may still display in a larger geo. You may consider multiple listings in areas which are so far away that you arent displaying in. This suggestion will probably get a lot of flack as it can be considered to be map spam.

I have done this in very limited situations. It involves getting an address in a new locality to verify your listing. I think google has gotten better and combatting this although I have had a client do it with very good success. They still get a lot of call on these listing.

Do not go overboard (a few extras at most)! also don't list anywhere if you really cant compete there. It's an option but a controversial one.

Yeah that makes sense. Unfortunately this site is built in ProStores, which gives me no control over the URL structure. It makes me hesitant to make category changes that are going to recreate the URL structure.

ProStores is a nightmare.

Thats a tough call. Would you redirect the old pages? If so where would you redirect them to? Redirecting to the home page is not a good idea. I would be cautious getting rid of content that has links to it without having somewhere to redirect thos pages.

It seems almost impossible to analyze all of the implications. Have you thought about removing older content in smaller batches? Maybe get rid of the least visited 5000 pages first to see how that impacts the site overall.

I am not sure I would be comfortable dumping that much content willy nilly without doing some testing.

Another option would be to make sure to redirect the old content to the category page so you don't just lose that link juice all together. I would highly recommend figuring out a redirect plan for that content. Losing the links is a bad idea!

I'm working on an e-commerce site that currently has about 50 root categories and growing, with no sub-categories. They are all linked from the sidebar of every page and all the products are pretty related. They could probably be sub-categorized in to 5 root categories.

At want point does categorization become too flat?

Interesting point. The old URL structure isn't entirely clear to me is though, so it would take some real digging to apply all the old urls.

I guess its worth a shot.

Whats up with the new having to remember to thumbs up your own posts by the way????

Hmm, that is an interesting thought. It is automatically added by X-Cart, but I will do some spot checking to make sure.

I have started working with a client who did an upgrade on their e-commerce sive in May of last year. It totally changed the URL structure and they didn't redirect old URLs or do any of the things they should have. Not unexpectedly they they went from about 300 visitors a day to 0 for then rose up to maybe 50 and have remained there ever since.

There were some major onsite issues including about 15000 internal links that 302 back to the site. In any case I have fixed most of the onsite problems and worked on a little better categorization + content optimization, etc.

We have only been working on this for about 30 days and organic traffic is up and they are ranking for much better keywords, but I expected a little quicker rise.

Here is a screenshot out of GA of their descent. Its pretty rapid.

I dont think it makes sense to redirect their old URLs at this point since most of them have been deindexed for 10+ months. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get back to their previous level. The domain actually has decent authority and link profile, etc.

Is this just going to be a slow climb back? Any thoughts?

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Yeah I just feel like if SEO people put half the effort they put into tricking Google, into doing SEO the right way and creating value that they could have one hell of an SEO product.

What you are essentially looking to do is create web spam.

It seems like a lot of effort for something that may work for a whille but will almost surely be figured out eventually and doesn't bring any value to your clients.

You should put that in a new question and I'll bet it would get more eyes on it.

I've seen it done a lot but not sure as to how effective it is. I would think its pretty easy for google to figure out. Especially if they are all new domains registered to you and hosted on one c block or even the same IP address.

I think to do it where it wouldnt raise obvious flags would be expensive and you are still just getting links from new sites with little/no authority so not sure its worth it.

My guess is Google would figure it out anyway.

In my opinion you should claim both listings so you can at least control them until it gets resolved. The problem you with with deactivating either one of them is potentially losing any authority from the deactivated listing. Thats why I recommend contacting Google to merge them. But a good short term fix is to claim both listings and update them to have same/similar info, but you are still potentially splitting citation authority over 2 listings potentially.

Not a chance its worth 50-100.

Your employees need to have linked in profiles and need to list your company as their current employer. It is based off members self identifying as your employees.

Your employees need to have linked in profiles and need to list your company as their current employer. It is based off members self identifying as your employees.

Hi Mike,

First of all, you left out the : in your link so it is broken.

I am curious, does this page get much traffic? Not from an SEO standpoint or even as an entrance page on your site. I mean does it get visits through out the regular navigation of your site compared to other pages on the site? Do people click on it while looking at other content in your site?

Personally am not a fan of testimonials pages being a page on their own, or at least only existing as a page on their own. I don't think people navigate to them or read them when they do. I guess it doesn't hurt to keep them up but I find they are much more effective when used on other pages, especially pages designed to convert.

Check out unbounce.com they do a very good job at templating killer landing pages that use testimonials. Here is a good example. http://unbounce.com/landing-page-templates/#click-through

I would work on adding more call to action language to your free trial page and include some of your better and shorter testimonials on that page. Thats the page you really want to get action on after all. Also I would only offer 1 option for the free trial. 3 is confusing.

Sorry if I didnt really answer your question or kind of went off topic but it all ties in... I think...

Open a ticket.

http://seomoz.zendesk.com/home

They are pretty good and should get back to you in a day or 2.

try spyfu.com as well. It is more for PPC intel IMO but it has organic info too.

I am inclined to think you must be linking to it somewhere if it is showing up in a crawl. Export your crawl to a csv and search for it and check the referring page.

Well there is no way to know every keyword/phrase your website ranks for. You probably even rank for some key terms that have never been searched before and the total number of possibilities are pretty endless and really not that meaningful.

Keywords that generate traffic are more important. You can see what keywords are generating traffic by looking in you google analytics. Additionally Google Webmaster tools will tell you keywords are generating impressions. Many of these likely havent generated much traffic because you could be ranked poorly (after page1) but at least you know you are ranking for them. To get your position you can either manually search them, use a tool like rank tracker, or SEOmoz rank tracker tool works great and updates automatically once a week.