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Analysing the competition in Open Site Explorer, as you all know the results come back with the following detail:

Facebook Shares

Facebook Likes

Tweets

Google +1

There is no link through to the pages that have liked, followed or tweeted the URL.

I want to understand what the competition is doing in moire detail.

How are these numbers actually defined?

Is their any way (or whats the best way) to identify the individual pages that the numbers refer to?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

more like this:

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/giant-gummy-bear-on-a-stick.cfm

Anyone know of any software for this...

I need a simple way to create SEO friendly Image Swap Functionality on multiple product pages of a static site.

The idea is that customers can see different images within the product screen by clicking on thumbnails.  For SEO purposes it is essential that:

• The rollover does not create a new URL when the product images are cycled
• The image needs to have an alt attribute (a different attribute set by the client for each product)

As per: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tips-and-musthaves-for-your-ecommerce-platform

Thanks in advance.

Justin

In the process of redesigning a clients site.

The text and the design need to change to focus the site on conversions more than it is at present.

The client is not happy with the current host, they want to change, my feeling is to either change a while before the site redesign is launched or a while after.

Anyone got any opinions, experiences to share.

Justin

Have you checked Google Webmaster Tools, they now report penalisation I believe.

One of my clients sites has almost OK URL's, set up something like the following:

keyword2_keyword3_keyword1

Ideally the URL's would be more like this:

keyword1-keyword2-keyword3

My question is is there any point in changing them and 301 redirecting them over just to get the target keywords in a better order and change the _ to a - ?

Has anyone tried this and its worked or not worked, I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Justin

Thanks for taking the time to answer guys...

"take the time out to highlight the slightly different features of each product and put each of them on a different page."

I would if I could the differences are minor, sometimes only about the product size.

I am more concerned about user experience, adding them on different pages will overwhelm the site with very similar products.

Each page typically has 4 product variations I know its not ideal but is there any reason why I cannot pick one of the variations and leave the other 3 out?

My client has a site with products a lot of which are so similar in function that for usability reasons we have combined some products on the same pages.

We want to get into Google Shopping, but on the face of it the Google feed seems to want unique urls per product.

I guess we could have products on the same page then have single pages as well, though that could generate duplicate content.

We could also try pointing several products to 1 URL, does anyone know if this would work?

Or can anyone suggest any work arounds?

Justin

Thanks Ryan I will check it out...

How did you add it to addthis Ryan thru the developer account?

Aside from your blog would anyonme here think about adding the Google Plus 1 Button to their website?

No not going to do that don't worry.

Thanks Steve,

Thats an interesting link.

Unfortunately its too limited for my needs (in that you have to select from certain sites), am trying to query all of the SERPS and/or specific sites as defined by the user without annoying Google.

I don't want to scrape a ‘normal’ search and as far as I can see even if I get a normal search to open automatically in a browser this still seems to be against Google's T&C's.

Any ideas?

Justin

As you may know Google has API’s http://code.google.com/more/ I can see ones for Blogs, News etc. but not for general search am I being dense?

If someone can point me in the right direction that would be great.

Justin