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thank you for this. i will have a read of your link now. can you let me know where you would recommend to put an intro paragraph. do you feel i should move the below from where they are now and try and put them under my menu

Welcome to In2town Lifestyle Magazine

Our Lifestyle Magazine is a fresh, innovative and vibrant online magazine offering you the best in health,fitness and life & style features, as well as modern lifestyle, beauty, fashion, personal finance and entertainment. Over the years In2town Lifestyle Magazine has established a reputation for quality articles and informed lifestyle and health features thanks to our experienced team of editorial professionals.

By reading our online Lifestyle Magazine, you will be able to enjoy the interesting mix of entertainment features, health and lifestyle news as well as finding out what is happening in the celebrity world.

We are always happy to hear from our readers, if you have lifestyle news or a story that you feel our readers would be interested in then please do contact us.

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i was taught to get the intro to the site near to the top as possible so google sees it within the first 200 words, not sure if this is still the case or not and if so then if i put the intro on the footer would this be bad for seo or do you feel it would be great here as i would have more room.

also what words do you think i should put in the titlemany thanks for this

Hi, i am having major problems in optimizing this page as it is a magazine site. On normal sites i have no problem in optimizing the page to get the correct keywords to come up in the search engines but since the upgrade and also because it is a magazine site, i am having problems on how i should do this.

my site is www.in2town.co.uk and i am trying to optimize the page for the following keywords

lifestyle magazine

online magazine

lifestyle news

Life and Style articles

healthy lifestyle

i am trying to make sure that google knows what the magazine is about, as i know have dropped down the rankings since the upgrade and for lifestyle magazine we were number one in google for such a long time but now we are on page 9 and this is our home page. we are seeing sites that have hardly any content ranking above us for this keyword

i have a small intro which i have just put in the past few days at the top and we have a welcome in the middle which is here.

Welcome to In2town Lifestyle Magazine

Our Lifestyle Magazine is a fresh, innovative and vibrant online magazine offering you the best in health,fitness and life & style features, as well as modern lifestyle, beauty, fashion, personal finance and entertainment. Over the years In2town Lifestyle Magazine has established a reputation for quality articles and informed lifestyle and health features thanks to our experienced team of editorial professionals.

By reading our online Lifestyle Magazine, you will be able to enjoy the interesting mix of entertainment features, health and lifestyle news as well as finding out what is happening in the celebrity world.

We are always happy to hear from our readers, if you have lifestyle news or a story that you feel our readers would be interested in then please do contact us.

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but i would like to get rid of that section as i am going to put the latest articles there. any advice on how to sort this mess out would be great

hi, i have just got a reply from my hosting company

To use the If-Modified-Since HTTP header, you need to have both mod_expires and mod_headers enabled as Apache modules on your server. I have just checked that for you and I can confirm that both of the modules are enabled and you will be able to use If-Modified-Since HTTP headers.

Gyi, how would i know use these if the hosting company does offer the service

our home was number one in google for a long time and then dropped to around number four, since the upgrade we are on page nine, same as the term gastric band hypnotherapy, showbiz gossip and so on.

not sure if we should be doing more to optimize the main pages so google understand what the pages are about.

i do know our traffic has dropped by 70% since the upgrade and we need the get the traffic back. the site was updated around two months ago.

before the update, if we had a story on our site which we had just put on then within hours it would be in google but now it is taking days to show up which is causing us problems

thank for this.

I have a site map in my webmaster tools and i update my content each day, we add lots of content but concerned that the home page only has links and a small intro and wondering if i should show the first two paragraphs of a new story on the home page to get google to crawl the home page more often.

i am working on the site speed at the moment, not sure if you think about our site speed at present. before we had the site updated we finally got it to load in about 1,1 sec and under but not managed that at the moment.

can you explain what this means please as i have never come across it

Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header.

you said about making sure all pages are reachable from a link, we have around two thousand pages so not sure this is possible

many thanks for the great help.

so does that mean that all i have to do is to add an author name and do nothing else for it to work. do you also know how long it takes for a picture to appear in the search engines as i have not seen anything as yet

Hi, i am having serious problems since i upgraded my website from joomla 1.5 to 3.0

We have dropped down the rankings from page one for the word lifestyle magazine, and we have dropped down in rankings for other very important words including gastric band hypnotherapy and i am starting to regret having the site upgraded.

i am finding the google is taking its time visiting my site, i know this for two reasons, one i have checked the cache and it is showing the 2nd july and i have checked articles that we have written and they are still not showing.

example if i put this article name in word for word it does not come up,

Carnival Divert Ships In The Caribbean Due To bad Weather

this was an article that was done yesterday. in the old days before the upgrade that would have been in google now.

these problems are costing us the loss of a great deal of traffic, we are losing around 70% of our traffic since the upgrade and would be grateful if people could give me advice on how to turn things around.

we add articles all the time. each day we add a number of articles, i was considering changing the front page in the middle and having a few paragraphs of the latest story to get google to visit more often. i know this would look messy but i am running out of ideas.

any help would be great

cheers chris, i will focus on that.

That was a very interesting article, i am just checking to make sure that my links are natural.

we get people linking to our sites because they like an article or the site but we have read about bad links which is used by people who want to drop your site rankings, i am not sure how to find these though.

What would be the best way to get google to visit your site more. would i be wasting my time by having an article on my home page which would change all the time to show fresh content on my home page, or is it enough that i am always adding new content to the site.

Hi thanks for this. I have contacted google to find out if we have been penalized and they said no but i will read the info, many thanks

Hi, our site is www.in2town.co.uk and i am thinking of putting an article on my home page in the middle under where it says lifestyle news, and getting rid of the middle column and instead have the latest news there to try and get google to visit more.

I would like to know if you think this would look messy and not user friendly and if you think if i did do it would it get google to visit the site more often.

all day we are always adding articles but on the home page it only shows a few lines of the article so i am concerned that these few lines are not getting google interested in visiting our site more often.

we were on page one with our site but now since the upgrade we are on page eight so we are trying to combat this

The article would change each time we put a new article on the site. so the article could be on there for ten mins before a new one is there

any thoughts on this would be great

we have done well in both but recently after we had our site updated to a new site, we have done much better in Bing than in google as well as yahoo.

thanks for that

Hi. Before we had our site www.in2town.co.uk upgraded, we had this section on the first page of google and even though it does not badly with other search engines, with google we are not in the top fifty.

the page is http://www.in2town.co.uk/gastric-band-hypnotherapy

i would be so grateful for advice on how to get this section back into google

i am also concerned that i have a category called gastric band hypnotherapy, what i mean is,

http://www.in2town.co.uk/gastric-band-hypnotherapy/crash-diets-can-damage-your-health-says-gastric-band-hypnosis-expert

as you can see from above, we have the category name which is gastric band hypnotherapy and then the article name, just wondering if this is damaging us.

any help to sort our ranking issue our would be amazing

Hi, i am using google authorship on my site but when i use the testing tool it is not working.

before the upgrade we had it working fine but now it does not seem to work.

we have our google plus account pointing to the site and the writer we are trying to add is not coming up on the tool

here is the code we are putting on the page

Google+

and the page in question is here http://www.in2town.co.uk/emmerdale/emmerdale-laurel-is-determined-to-take-action

when i check the tool i get the following

Authorship Testing ResultAuthorship is not working for this webpage.andAuthorship rel=author MarkupCannot verify that rel=author markup has established authorship for this webpage.the tool i am using to check is http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippetsany help to solve this problem would be great. i am using joomla

thank you for this, i will try this now, what a great idea.

hi sri, what is the reason why you think i should use text only ads

i would love to learn how to do all that and i have been thinking about going on courses but for the time being i am stuck with joomla

i have counted 104 links not including the moving screen, but the tool i have used says there is still 155 links, so i am missing somewhere 51 links

I am based in the UK and i am always being told to use a UK hosting company as it will be better for the site, seo and speed, but the problem i have is finding a good company in the UK that can do everything that a company in the USA are doing.

If you can find a good hosting company near to your home then i would go for it.