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Congratulations Irving!

Hi Neil, try this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Default.aspx$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^About-Us/$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pagename=About-Us$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  http://www.domain.co.uk/About-Us/ [R=301,L]

Hope this helps!

Hello Debora,

Make sure you keep copies of your .htaccess files before you make changes and, if you can, use a test site to test your changes first before you make changes on your live website.

I'm not sure how your website is set up so I don't know if combining the two files will accomplish what you are looking for.

Whatever you do, make sure you have backups.

I've never worked with ColdFusion, but from what I can see Mura CMS seems to be close to the top and it's open source. Take some time to peruse their support forum to see if it's right for you.

Speaking from experience, go with a CMS. New content can be created faster and easier. Old content can be updated faster and easier. And, depending on the CMS, site updates can be completed faster and easier (install a new theme, update the CSS, add a new plugin).

Next, a lot of sites perform well by using a slide-show above the fold. I would focus on what makes a better user experience. If users can make decisions more quickly (and then convert), I say do it.

Finally, I think that as long as you make it apparent that your navigation menus are for navigation, search engines don't care which side your navigation on. Crawlers look at your site with a totally different perspective so it's no longer about "which side", but about whether your navigation can be easily identified as navigation.

I also suggest looking around the SEOmoz beginner's guide for more information. Start here.

Mat's got your answer. Try it out and you should be in business.

I could be wrong, but it looks like you may have been hit by Penguin. You have tons of exact match keyword phrases in your anchor text throughout your site. When did your drop in rankings happen? It wasn't as far back as April was it?

Here is some reading you can do to find out more.

Try here. Maybe that will help.

Edit: Pretty sure it's your root directory .htaccess file that is causing the looping. I'd start with that.

I'm going to thumbs up Irving's response on this. I will add that my preference would be to use this URL structure if you only have one type of training per vendor:

/courses/togaf-foundation-training

/courses/microsoft-msce-training

And if you have multiple training courses per vendor, I would use the following:

/courses/togaf/foundation-training

/courses/microsoft/msce-training

Hope this helps!

I see a lot of this for phone numbers too.

In reading your question though, I had to ask myself this question, "Are these sites ranking because there are no better alternatives?" If everyone in the space is using duplicate content/content spamming, they will all be in the results because no one is creating a site with better information.

I would view your research as opportunity. If you feel you need to connect with customers based on zip code, build  better pages and become the best result for your users.

Hi Luis,

Here are some tools to find out what keywords a site is using: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/5-free-tools-for-competitor-keyword-research/28015/. If you know your competitors, plug their URLs into those tools to learn what keywords they are targeting.

Also, if you think it would be useful, Adgooroo has a product that will find out what keywords your competitors use for their ad spend. This will give you insight into what keywords are important enough to your competitors that they are actually buying advertising on them. It can also give you insight on which keywords may be worth spending on yourself if the organic competition is too high.

Hope this helps!

You said you verified the site. Which method did you use? It seems like something went wrong with the verification process.

Also, if you are not wanting your domain name known, you will want to update your attachment. The domain name is listed in the error message on your attachment.

I would wait for an SEOmoz team member to respond to be sure, but it sounds like the mozbot was having trouble crawling your site.

Take a look at this other related thread:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/4xx-client-error-3

Hi James, you should check this previous question out.

Basically, you can include your infographic as you've described in the iframe, but add your link after the iframe code but still as part of your embed code.

Here's an example:

<iframe src="http://www.tbd.com/embed/golf"></iframe>

<- anchor text here ->

Hope this helps!

You can add the following to the header section of your home page and choose the image you would like Facebook to use from your home page:

property="og:image" content="http://www.yourdomain.com/yourimage.jpg" />

You can learn more about the Facebook Open Graph markup here.

You may also want to populate the alt attributes of your image tags to make your site more accessible. Right now they are empty.

Edit: This week's White Board Friday is actually all about this, you should check it out.

It won't hurt rankings, but I think this is a great opportunity for you to turn those broken links into good links. You should find all of your broken links, contact the site owners, and let them know they can fix that link with a new link to a different page on your site that is still relevant.

Here is a guide for this:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/broken-link-building-guide-from-noob-to-novice

Hope this helps!

I think you should continue looking at doing a 301 redirect instead.

You can use the canonical tag, but you should do so in cases where you intend to have different URLs for one main page (e.g. www.example.com/blue-widget.html, www.example.com/widgets/blue-widget.html). Here is a another question regarding canonicals where Ryan Kent provides a good explanation for this.

You can learn more about 301 redirecting here. Yoast also provides some information for how to do it here.

Try out Brent's solution in your dashboard and let us know how it goes :).

What CMS? I might be able to help out once I know that.

The reason your URL is redirecting to bing.com is you haven't changed the URL from the snippet you found to the URL you actually want to use as your 404 Error Page.

You can create a 404 Error Page and place it on your server. If you have already done this you need to change the URL (http://www.bing.com) in the snippet below to the URL you want to use (e.g. http://www.[yourdomainname].com/404.html).

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .

RewriteRule .* http://www.bing.com? [L,R]

That should look more like this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .

RewriteRule .* http://www.[yourdomainname].com/404.html [L,R=301]