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JMarch Not sure which provider you are using, but I just pulled up a client site and with four buttons (Twit. FB like, FB share,Plus one) we are pulling 112.8 after gzip. Before gzip we get 354.5kb. If you could provide a bit more info, we will try to assist. Best

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Hi Justin, I am pretty sure the numbers are extracted directly from FB/Twitter/Google+ APIs. You can, for example, get the raw number for SEOmoz.org FB shares here: graph.facebook.com/http://www.seomoz.org If you want better data about your competitors, you want to go to Topsy. You can see details about SEOmoz here: analytics.topsy.com/?q=seomoz.org Thomas

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

I am working with a client on the same type of change. The only difference in the case of my client, is I made the recommendation of a URL change as well. His current URL was of the pattern www.brand-Canada.ca. I have recommend the new URL as www.BrandCanada.com. (The actual brand.com site is already taken). His current site is left in tact on the old URL and old server. His new site will launch later this month on the new URL. While working with the site, I noticed some issues with his current host so I recommended a new one. When the new site launches, it will be a new URL and host. While his old domain has been around for several years, it has relatively few backlinks. The plan is to establish the new site and maintain the old one as well for now. The old site is HTML/CSS/Zen Cart setup, where the new site is a Joomla/ZenCart solution. The look and feel of the site is completely different. I am sharing this experience to suggest you may wish to run both sites for a time. Not all sites offer that opportunity, but many do.

The first thing I would ask to myself is: are these URLs over-optimized? If the URLs looks like: www.domain.com/category/sub-category/keyword-keyword-keyword and keyword can be a three words query... then probably that url is over optimized and can be more a danger than a competitive factor. Good practice tells us that is better to have the primary keyword in the url, better if matching, and not used like a digest of all the keywords we want to rank for in a page. Apart that, you have to consider also these other two factors when it comes to urls: Usability: too long urls are very hard to remember, therefore you are loosing the opportunity to receive direct traffic from users typing the url directly in the browser (for instance, as many of us do typing directly: www.seomoz.org/q to enter the SEOmoz Q&A Too long urls tend to not be used as a way of creating natural linking citation, as when you cite - for instance - a post using its url and not creating a classic link with anchor text. Therefore I would not use any of your alternatives, but this: www.domain.com/keyword1 and 301 the old urls. Finally, about on page optimization, I suggest you to read this old but still valid post by Rand Fishkin: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

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?

Thanks Ryan I will check it out...

No not going to do that don't worry.

Yes, they give the content area the most weight in regard to individual page topical focus, however search engines do evaluate  every word on a page, including content within the source view that visitors don't see.  This is why having too much content in header, sidebar and footer areas, or too much code at the source view level causes topical confusion / topical dilution and is considered during the duplicate content evaluation process as well. The best I can offer in regard to how often a phrase should appear on a page is "does this feel like I repeat this phrase too much?"  If you've got the same phrase repeated fifteen times just in the content area, there should be a valid reason other than just SEO reasoning for that.  And a LOT of text around those.

I want to check a specific word, Google translate doesn't seem to do much apart from guess no matter what you put in. Anyone got any ideas?

I'm seeing what rand says to be true in other areas like blogs and articles. Sorry I don't have a specific answer for you.