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Hey Highland. Thanks for taking the time to answer. I use Magento all the time. I remember how slow it was in 2008 when I 1st started using it.

I value your comment "The key to our simplicity is copious documentation (inside and outside the code)." I think this is the main problem we had run into before and my fear is that the current programmer is the only one who understands his own work. We trust the guy with all the information, but he's so slow at getting things done that I sometimes want to get him some assistance. But that new person may have to decipher everything.

I have taken some courses in PHP, but I don't code because I'm the one bringing in all the money to the company via internet. I don't have the time to code, although I would love to do it myself.

"Life is too short for Java." LOL

Hey Jack, thanks for that link and your answer. I was already looking into CodeIgniter. One of the coders I use prefers CodeIgniter.

The system is going to have people's SSN, Passport information, and things like that. So I have to be careful who I select to do the project.

Also, I see you're new to SEOmoz. Welcome!

I don't see why we shouldn't. The last program we had was in PHP. It worked, but the code could only be understood by the developer. It was so customized and there were patches everywhere to make things work. When I wanted somethings done, these tasks were too hard too implement or were going to take too long.

I want to use a framework to be able to scale our backoffice. I am bringing in more qualified traffic to the company every month and they will need to hire more people. I personally don't want the company to hire more people. I want them to invest in a system that can make their process more efficient and save the money by not hiring people.

Yes!

Go to Campaign > Click on "Link Analysis" > Hover your cursor to the left of "Domain Authority" and click the little down arrow. You will see a small popup "History". Wallah!

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Hey ya'll! We are looking to re-build our backoffice website. It's a dynamically generated site that pulls information from a DB. The DB is populated by the quote form. The DB contains the customers' info, shipping, email templates, and everything to process orders. The backoffice website is custom made in JAVA, but the owner is not happy with the programmer. I told the owner we may want to go to a PHP Framework.

My question is which PHP framework would you recommend and why?

Zend

CakePHP

Symfony

CodeIgniter

I always ignore GWT info from GA. I think it's pretty weak. I only use GWT to check the health and other things directly related to the site, not rankings. GWT is all over the place. Even Rand mentioned this long ago at MozCon.

If you are looking for real search engine custom reports, go to Avinash's website kaushik.net. He is VERY well know in the GA world. I'm a graduate of his program.

I use iframes all the time (FB, TW, G+, Youtube).

If you are using wordpress, you can use a widget that shows the last 3 post on the home page or whatever page you want the blog posts on. I use Advanced Recent Posts Widget. Check it out in WP plugins.

I use it right on my homepage, No iframe!

I would rel canonical it too.

I never really do link exchanges unless they are part of a blog post. Also, I don't link to sub-par websites or unrelated websites. It's okay to link to another site and they link to you. One example is I have my BBB Membership page point to my site and I point many links from my site to that single BBB Page.

Look at the site you are going to link to and ask yourself, "Can this potentially cause a problem in the future? What's the risk?" I have turned down MANY sites wanting to link exchange, but if they are willing to write a high quality guest blog post, then I'm fine with it whether I get a back link from their site or not.

Then I wouldn't mess with a .co unless you wanted to buy up all the TLDs for you brand name. For instance, if I were HP, then I would get HP.co for trademark reasons.

My brother ranks in Yelp in #1 position. He has several bad reviews, but he still gets business. He responds with rebuttals for the reviews are always fresh.

Read this: http://searchengineland.com/bad-merchant-google-may-drop-your-rankings-151028

Matt Cutts is going to start hammering sites that have bad merchant reviews. Hopefully Matt Cutts doesn't wipe out my brother.

Exact match Domains aren't as effective as they were 1 year ago. Matt Cutts made a Youtube video about this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAWFv43qubI This one is a little older.

Also, it depends on how much effort you have to put into marketing this domain. The only time when I think I would use an exact match domain would be if my site was ranking so high for all the keywords that I wanted to hog up the SERPS by taking slots #2 and #3.

If it's not a robots.txt or htaccess issue, then check GWT for malware.

If you are getting de-indexed, maybe your browser is remembering (cache) you queries. You sure you didn't write the .htacess the wrong way?

Contact Ryan Kent if you believe you need some link penalty removals.

Manually add the URLs into GWT. You can do about 500, I think.

I think this is a great perspective. In addition, I think there is great potential with G+ reviews if you can get them.

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i partially agree with Chris. However, links need to be distributed to different landing pages. For god sakes, if the only page a website can build links to is the home page, then none of the other pages deserve to rank.

The only time I think a ccTLD is worth it is if it's for marketing to a specific country. I don't think I have ever seen a .co. I have seen many .co.uk though. What country are you in and what countries are you marketing to?

**"Lancing sites please do not refer me." **

I'm not a lancing site. Maybe you should rewrite your sentence to "Please don't refer me to lancing sites".