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We have an e-commerce website.

We would like to feature content from our blog on the site's homepage (both on same domain).

The content we want to feature is latest posts titles (say 5) plus the few first lines from each post.

We want search engines to be able to read this content.

Is there a SEO friendly way to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

That's right, I think that as long as you use 1-3 core, related keywords, it can't be considered stuffing...

"If you are not confident about working on this site then I see a few possible routes... there are probably more

1) give the client a refund and confess that you are uncomfortable with this job"

It's not that we're uncomfortable, it's that we want to know what the community think.

"2) explain title tags to the client and how reaching for additional keywords could result in a rankings loss for the primary term but a possible rankings gain for the secondary term, then let the decision up to him

3) attack the new keywords with new pages

4) optimize the homepage with off-page methods"

Great advice. Thanks.

"None of your replies mentions the strength of your competitors.  Are they soundly beaten or are the threatening in their strength?"

Good question. They are really strong.

Thanks for your quick reply.

"Yes they may well do, you dont want to look like you are keyword stuffing. Also I believe that a titile has a set amount of power, and have having many keywords dilutes the power of the title tag. Dont expect each keyword to get the same benifit as you would with one keyword."

We don't plan to keyword stuff, the idea is to use 3 related core keywords in the title. At the moment there's several keywords in the title, and the site is ranking #1 for one of them.

"As for the fact that it has been the same for 210 years does not matter, you can change and if it does not work out for you you can simply change it back."

Our client is getting over 20k visitors a day for that keyword, hence the worries about changing the title. We cannot risk to experiment, even losing a few positions would equal great loss in sales.

What do you think?

Howdy everyone! Wish you the best for 2012!

We have a client who is ranked #1 for keyword "blue widgets". Their site's homepage title has the keyword "blue widgets" in it and has been the same for 10yrs+.

Recently they have added other types of widgets to their offering.

Is it safe to change their title by adding more keywords to it? For example: "blue widgets | green widgets | brand x widgets".

May our client lose their ranking if we change their title?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I have compared 3 sites in open site explorer. The total # of links in the subdomain metrics report for one of the urls is 46,787. Where is that number coming from? There's 125 total external followed links and 132 total external links. I cannot see the number for internal links, but I'm sure it isn't 40000+. So 46,787 is the result of the addition of what? Thanks a lot for your help, and sorry for this newbie question