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I'd also add that if you using Google's Affiliate program, the links are their own which then redirect to your site.

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Hey Luanne,

Could you clarify your questions? What reports are you looking at that are giving you problems? Do have screenshots?

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Erica

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Anytime, you can get your keywords in the URL of your image, the better it will do for rankings. But do realize that subdomains do not boost your main domain's rankings like a sub-folder would. But I suppose this all depends on what the end goal of having your images rank is.

That does seem a little odd. I tried finding info on how many links Google claims to have indexed, but couldn't find a reliable source. We indexed 38 billion domains and 387 billion links in our last Linkscape update.

That said, with how our crawlers work, if you're getting backlinks on domains with loads of other links on the page (which often happens if you're buying links), our crawlers will not grab every link on the page and that would definitely lower your backlinks profile with OSE.

I assume to stop webmaster tools from crawling those pages, you've changed your robots.txt file? Our SEOmoz crawlers will obey the rules in the robots.txt file, and when your site's recrawled, those errors should drop away for the pages you've said not to crawl.

There's not much you can do to really control what Google's Auto-Suggest suggests. You can, however, spend some time at least optimizing a page for the plural version of your brand. (I wish Google understood plurals better than it does.)

Check our what some of our community members suggest to do to influence Google Instant. They're very creative.

OSE's data comes from our own crawlers. The simple fact is that our crawlers do not reach the same amount of data that Google's do. We're working on it and continually improving this. We use our own crawlers because we believe in the quality of getting the data for ourselves.

Hope this helps!

The most effective thing is to go out and find bloggers, who do reviews, in your client's niche. A lot of amazing content can be created with reviews. Make sure to tell the bloggers that you want honest reviews and that they need to put in a disclaimer that they received the product in exchange for a review. If you're in the US, the FCC requires the disclaimer and has shut down blogs and penalized companies who don't.

Are you looking for people who have separated B2B and B2C on public websites?

The only example I can think of is ExOfficio (used to work for them), but their public sites always been B2C and they've had different 3rd party solutions for B2B orders.

I highly suggest reading our URL best practices. I've particularly found the URL cheat sheet really helpful when deciding my URL structure.

When I worked in an e-commerce shop (selling clothing), we built our URL as: http://www.mysite.com/category/subcategory/productname or http://www.mysite.com/mens/shirts/bob-vines-long-sleeve-shirt

Categories in URLs are really helpful for association with groupings of products in search. (I wouldn't go more than 2 levels here.) You also want to put relevant details to the product in the product name that the customer might be searching. Things you want to think of: what will a customer call this product, special parameters, year made, color, brand (if you sell more than one brand), etc.

I'm surprised it's pulling anything after the ?. Usually those parameters are saved for things that aren't a real page. In your example, it's GA's tracking code for your RSS feed.

So I went into my own Wordpress sites in my SEOmoz account, and I'm not getting the same warning for the overly dynamic URLs. (In fact, I'm running 3 Wordpress blogs on my domain.) This to me says there's something up with your Wordpress.

Do you have the latest version up and running? Do you have a plug-in that's causing problems? Is there something not on the correct setting in your robots.txt?

I'd definitely check out how much bandwidth you're using with your hosting company and if you need to expand it to compensate for the increase in traffic.

I would start with your client's most valuable pages and make sure those are optimized. Then I would work on the other categories/product pages that your client's long-term vision for the company is reflected in. For example, when I sold outdoor clothing, the company was expanding into outerwear long-term, so I made sure to optimize my outerwear categories and product pages, especially to get into keywords that we weren't known for or even ranking for.

Hi Mark,

You can control URL writing in the Settings > Permalinks part of WordPress. There you can set what directories (if any) you want to list in the URL.

As for meta descriptions, All-in-One SEO has a section to add a meta description. And as far as tags and categories go, you can set them in those sections on Wordpress.

Hope this helps!

Have you checked the sitemaps? Are they getting updated as she posts fresh content?

If the site's getting scraped a lot, does she employ canonical tags to claim her stuff?

So a basic LinkedIn account is free. A paid account can do things like promote job openings, filled out more in a company page profile, see certain contact info, and see who's visiting your personal profile. But most people are just happy with the basic.

Here are so reasons why people have LinkedIn / ways people use LinkedIn:

• You have a whole bunch of business contacts that want to connect on social media, but you want your Facebook only for family/friends.
• As a business owner, you want to advertise for jobs on another network.
• You're a B2B business.
• You want to be seen as an expert in your business field. LinkedIn has lots of groups and q&a which help build that type of reputation.
• Even if you're not B2B, you target people in a certain business field.
• You want to promote your company's growth business wise to a professional environment on a page.

Of course, there are many more reasons. Hope this helps!

The increased visits could be slowing down your site. Did the 30% increase happen at the same time as the errors started?

The increased visits could be slowing down your site. Did the 30% increase happen at the same time as the errors started?