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I have had great success just keeping the gallery all on the page as the article. Just let the thumbnails open in a lightbox. Title and Alt the images appropriately (since you have a gallery here they dont all have to be exact match, be vauge). You dont need a image on its own page. This will be good enough for image SEO and better user experience.
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Chris,
You can focus on developing unique content around each product. You can provide "staff reviews" for each one, and encourage users to leave reviews to keep updating the page with new content. Also re-visit the content when any news about the CD comes up (say an artist wins a grammy for that CD) you can use that to build new content. If you provide great content like this people will share it and link to it.
You mentioned you are building links, are you building links to these products also?
Hi Mark,
This will not hurt your SEO at all, here is a video from Matt Cutts explaining the issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_A1iRY6XTM
Hope that helps!
Hi Rachel,
This is a touchy subject because it all depends on the site, content & consistency.
Think of a site like SEOmoz, they get a lot of links coming in everyday - day after day. Mainly because they provide high quality content on a daily basis. If they stopped writing blog posts the # of incoming links would drop highly.
That being said, if you are going out getting thousands of links in the next month, make sure you do that month after month after month. And keep providing fresh content so you can provide different content sources to link to.
If you plan on just going out and getting a ton of links now and then your done, your going to raise red flags because its not consistent.
Hope it helps!
Assuming your talking about generating links from it, It all depends on the topic and quality of the white paper.
Personally I would rather use the whitepaper as a way to get people to subscribe to a email list.
Interested in other peoples comments though!
Hi Pedro,
Open Site Explorer does not show your links instantly. The index gets updated roughly every month, and your links can sometimes take up to 2 update cycles to be shown in the linkscape index.
You can check out the update schedule at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
Hi James,
Couple of questions which might help us..
What does your backlink profile look like?
You mentioned you havent updated your website. When was the last website update? And how often do you add new content?
Perhaps you can add more information on the companies location? You could include the Street of the location, side of town (north, east, west, south), Phone Number of the location. If each location has a specific branch name, include that also.
Hi Gareth,
There are a couple of ways I see you can fix this. From first glance all three pages look to provide the same info and are obviously competing with each other.
Those are my thoughts on how to fix the problem.
Good luck!
Hi Pedro,
Shane is correct. A subdomain is treated as a different website than your main website, same with an independent domain obviously.
Your going to want all of your good content on your domain in a subfolder. A couple reasons being:
We have never had any negative SEO effects from this. Just make sure you handle it the correct way - its a bit more than just uploading a ttf file. Use either Google fonts or a create your own "kit" with font squirrel which converts your font to all of the necessary files and gives you the sample css and html codes to implement it correctly.
Here are a few resources:
@font-face generator: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
Google Fonts: http://www.google.com/webfonts
There was a whiteboard a few months ago (sorry I couldn't find the link) where Rand was talking about this. I believe they figured out that you will not be rewarded or hurt, but Google will simple ignore these links because of the fact that anyone could get anyone banned through tactics like this.
BUT, the fact that this is in a hidden div may alter this theory, so I'll let someone answer that for sure.
Hi Marc,
This is not a good idea, and is absolutely duplicate content. Nothing good will come of it for any of those sites even if you link back to you as the author.
Just concentrate on your guest posting opportunity, really take your time and create an awesome post that provides value to the community. Be sure to include your link back to your site.
Posting the same blog to 4 different sites wont do you any good.
Hi Bob,
A friend of mine once described it to me like this...
Say your selling your house, where your house is your domain authority, your rooms are your page authority.
You have a great big nice house. Every room is in great condition, freshly remodeled, etc.... EXCEPT the kitchen! Your house is still great, but the value has certainty dropped because of your bad kitchen. In fact, some buyers are even turned off because of your bad kitchen.
Same goes for the other way around... If you have a broken down house in the ghetto but you have a killer master bedroom no one wants to buy your house.
If that didn't make sense, you want to get that ideal house with great rooms.
I guess the answer to your question is DA is important and to ideally find link opportunities with good DA and PA.
Its not going to hurt you, but its not going to benefit you as much just targeting PA
The answer is yes, you always need to properly 301 redirect the old URL's to the new URL's when changing making such a change. This will not only tell Google that the page has moved and pass on any link juice, but it will also prevent users from seeing old pages incase anyone has bookmarked your content.
Dont forget to update your sitemap also 
Hi Carl,
This is always tough for a ecommerce site. I have heard some people say dont worry about it, others say you should always be around 100. But if we use amazon.com as an example they have about 300+ links on any given page, yes they are Amazon and a content giant but it tells you too many links on a page isnt the end of the world.
If I was you I would concentrate more on great product descriptions/content than keeping the links down.
I am counting 175 links on your homepage.
If you really want to get that number down a bit, here are some observations I noticed at first glance:
You have 17 links in your footer - all of which seem to be useless, start by getting rid of those.
It looks like there are multiple items in the dropdown menu also what could be duplicates (you have maternity under dresses, but you also have dresses under maternity). See if you cant combine some links and shorten up your dropdown menus also.
I think you can easily trim your links down you just have to be creative, but those should give you a starting point.
I would say absolutely stagger them out. If you have 40 or so blog posts ready to go, that is awesome!
Google loves a freshly updated blog, In fact it might look spammy to Google if you dump 40 blog posts to your site in one day, then dont post anything else for a month or so..
I would push a new post out once every 1-3 days. Between postings really focus on re-editing the content to make it really stand out. Make sure it has relevant pictures, videos, links and is laid out in a easy to read format.
Is there a reason comments are closed on your blog btw? This is a great way to keep your content updated without doing any work.
The best thing to do would be to update those pages with new & fresh content. But if you have already made new pages which are out ranking and competing with your old pages you can do a 301 redirect from the old pages to the new pages. This way you wont be wasting any content, and any authority the old pages had will be passed along to the new pages.
Since your using WordPress you can use Simple 301 Redirects Plugin to make it easier.