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Hi,

Making facebook apps for iframe is really simple, just like creating any webpage however you just have to take into account the width limitations of the iframe. You essentially host the page on your site and point the iframe to the approriate page.

Check out this resource: http://bit.ly/jFpqVX

This should get your started.

Good luck, and I'd love to see it when its done!

Cheers

Aran

As EGOl and iNet state, using flash for a homepage isn't a great idea.

You will need links outside of the flash to ensure crawlers find deeper pages.

If you do optimise sub level pages over the homepage, then fancy homepage flash become inert as most visitors are going to land on sub pages, by passing the homepage.

Include Flash by all means, but make it a page element, not the entire page.

Jquery on the other hand is awesome and if done correctly will not hinder your SEO.

You need to utilise some regex, though I'm unsure of the actual regex code to match ">

In future offer a service to embed a link, then bloggers etc will always get the right url and also you can control anchor text.

Hi,

I think its unlikely that you will get a penalty for using display none in this way. Also, Google will index the content from the product description. If you have the Web Dev Toolbar in Firefox, try turning CSS off and look at the page for a basic Googlebot view of the page. You can see that all the 'tabbed' content that is normally hidden is shown. This may also highlight some other issues on the page (hint hint)...

Cheers

Aran

You are probably experiencing this error because of the "> in the URL you are trying to redirect.

Looks like the crawl has highlighted the as an error as it may have found a malformed link linking to the Paper Airplane Flight page. It looks as though you have a link that may look as follows ">paper airplane flight    Notice the extra "> after the link URL.

You need to find the offending link on the site and fix it. That will solve the error.

If you cannot find duplicate content anywhere, then it sounds like great content. Allow the comment.

If you cannot find duplicate content anywhere, then it sounds like great content. Allow the comment.

I notice the page speed of your equity site was 60/100, a super quick fix for this is Gzip compression in HT Access (if on linux, not so quick on Windows). A little more complex would be caching rules, both will have a great beneficial effect on page speed, and hopefully SERPs too.

Best of luck, just noticed your in Lancaster! just down the road from me in Chorley!

Speeding the page load time will not do any harm, but for small drops in serps I generally look at carrying out a competitive analysis on the top 5 or top 10 competitors.

Agreed, very questionable. Maybe hes saving on hosting fees!

In the current scenario any inbound links to your friends site will be building the Domain Authority etc of the FunktionalDesignStudios domain. Thus, yes he is boosting his own domain. Though technically speaking it will also be boosting your friends site whilst it is served from a sub directory of the funktionaldesign domain.

1. Try to avoid spamming keywords into your titles. Keep them Short(ish), informative and helpful.

Maybe a title of "Why is my back sore? asked in Back & Neck Pain". This assumes your categories questions, so the "Back & Neck Pain" bit is your category title.

2. Having a keyword in thousands of page title is not going to be of any significant benefit to your site and it rankings.

3. I would gauge the success by simply applying your new found titling technique to the next few questions you process, follow their success and compare to previous questions.

Keep in mind that your existing 1700 pages may be getting ranked well for phrases which are well optimised in your current titling system. perhaps only apply the new technique to new questions only.

Good luck

Hi Mike,

It appears your not on a shared IP, which is good (checked with http://www.axandra.com/free-online-seo-tool/shared-hosting-check.php).

Page Speed shows you could improve the overall speed fairly easily with Gzip or similar and some caching rules, which may be beneficial to the UX and SERPs.

I see your at 3rd position for "Equity release" today, not 7-8. Maybe the drop was a short term fluctuation?

I'd recommend doing some competitive analysis on the competition and identify what they are doing, this allows you to be preventitive with your seo.

Cheers

Aran

As gmellak says, you may want to try the scrape approach. However, Its a dirty approach and if you submit too many requests you will get Captchas.

Agreed, I wonder why your target audience appears to be Indian, however your content is written in English?

not sure if thats the correct tinyurl you have posted in! lol.

http://tinyurl.com/5s2ks2

I'm just saying its frown upon, not down right illegal. As i said, there are ways around it.

I happen to know the RankTracker does use the Google API, after a few uses it requires manual input for passing the prove your human captcha.

As for SEOmoz, its a good question, I have no idea how SEOmoz track SERPs, probably a trade secret though!

Never used Marketwire, however I use PR Web regularly for syndicating clients press release. I like the service, I get a good spread of sites publishing articles and a decent amount of links (embedded in the article through PR Webs online editor).

If Google was removing the page from its index, you would have not SERP for the page.

Its more likely a issue with the site structure, urls, redirects or similar...Can you give us the url in question so we can look at it further?

Hi Mark,

Google doesn't take kindly to automated tools querying SERPs. You may find that if you make a tool for querying serps, it will only work for a number of times before you get the "Prove your human" captcha.

In Google's TOS it says: You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers).

There are ways around it such as masking IPs and using several differing API keys_, however you would be breaking TOS._

Personally, I'm in the business of keeping Google happy, so I'd steer clear.

Cheers

Aran

Some great answers here, I'd add that there are numerous websites around the web to advertise your competition, some offer paid advertising, others free. Most offer a follow link. There are quite a lot of low quality sites, which I'd avoid, check their mozTrust etc prior to submitting your competition.

I've found twitter a great medium for promoting competitions in the past. Choose a unique, related hashtags and tweet about it regularly.