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No easy way, but through time and effort, things do look up as you get more proficient in obtaining links. Social Media might be a quicker way if you very social and well received.

It is one tag, but not one instance of the tag. The canonical must be on each param page referring back to the product page. It would he part of your head that you dynamically generate.

Read my post here:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-there-any-seo-benefit-for-links-shared-in-facebook-feeds-or-wall-posts

Good point.

I like the referrals and SE traffic, but I would ask what is the direct traffic? Seems to be quite of lot that have you memorized or bookmarked. If there is a good reason, such as this is a new site, then great. However, if this is a online retailer, my next step would be to look at those people who already know my URL and what are they doing, and is that what I want then to do, and if not why.

I might also look into the V dip to see what I did, or if this was just a Google hiccup spanning just a day or so in reporting.

I would also check the referrals to see what they are doing and if the referring link is not doing what I intended, then why. What were they looking for from the referring site that they did not find on this site? Was the bounce rate high or did they look over several pages and spend a good amount of time on the site.

There are a few other questions that could be extrapolated from this, but a broader look at what this graph was reporting on would be needed.

I hope that helps.

Danny also posted on this http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-do-tweets-influence-search-rankings-an-experiment-for-a-cause

The idea is that the more people are talking about something, the more popular it is and the more important. This is a life lesson and SEs are catching up to the social scene on the web.

People love to share ideas and information, but not everyone blogs. Some times we just link to other content, or share links that link to other content.

Good practice is to have a Like button on your site, each blog post, each product page, etc. And to have a Share This on each as well.

This is the Facebook Like button. I am posting because it is a bit hard to find : )

I hope this helps

Exact domain names do get ranked well in SEs and are a good choice when relevant like yours. They will get punished if what is on the site does not match the domain, or inbound links seem spammy.

If your site is about Personalized Birthday Gifts, then I see no reason why not to use the domain. I would not use exact anchor text when building manual links as most sites will list your URL as the anchor so that is covered. I would build links like this (presuming you have done your keyword research)

• Birthday Gifts
• Gifts for Birthdays
• Birthday Gift Ideas
• Personalized Gifts

The cons with exact domains is that you are boxed in as many see it. You can not easily sell wedding supplies. This comes into play with GEO TLDs such as using a location in your TLD such as San Diego or California. If you expand out of this area, then you boxed yourself in without great marketing.

Just Cabinets sells furniture, so they have marketed themselves out of selling just cabinets, but you can see the amount of effort it would take.

If you are going to sell nothing but birthday gifts, then I see no reason not to use the exact match TLD.

I hope that answered your question.

I am all for clean code, so yes, if you have the time, remove them. With that said, this is last against all other SEO work.

Nice Internet Marketing

Did I totally miss the question, or did you reword it?

Inbound links should grow over time and in general 20 or so per month is good.

Great question. I tend to just map it out by hand categories / sub categories / products/services but I can see how that can get quite daunting on very large sites.

Link age is not a factor.

Strength of domain/page the link is coming from is a factor. (would you want a day old link from the front page of SEOmoz, or a two year old link from your buddies blog?)

The only reason link age is thought to be a factor is that the older the link, the older the page the link is coming from, and the older the page the more time it has had to build more authority, thus pass more juice.

Great idea on getting those links manually changed!!!

Thanks Sameer, I'll have to check these out

Sure, the most obvious is the use of a keyword, but don't go more than 3 deep. domain.com/category1/category2/product.html

None that I can think of.

If you have categories, it not only allows the use of another keyword, but you get to make a landing page for that keyword. domain.com/category/index.php would be used for keywords and also redirecting link juice once a product was deleted as explained here: (scroll to the bottom)

http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-do-you-do-about-links-to-constantly-moving-pages

When you link build, you can use these landing pages to point links to. Also good for link baiting.

There are several reasons to have these types of pages. It would depend on what your site is composed of, but you can add videos, how-tos, related blog post, etc.

All of which get a user in a direction, attract links, and help get link juice to deeper pages.

If Susan does not get you some backlinks, nothing will

I believe the recently posted new ranking factors says that it is not a negative impact (although I just read it through once quickly). Presuming you are not stuffing links. The footer should not be your XML file copied, but key site categories and pages of interest.

Landing page for each location is great! You also need to pint inbound links to those pages, and try to get those links from local sources. I believe you can have multiple Google Places pages for each physical location also.

You need to treat each landing page as their own site regarding link building, social networking, blogging, etc.