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My answer is only relevant for internal links of course, otherwise Nikolas is on point

Use breadcrumbs, in that way all of your content will be reached through internal links. I know that it sound easy and it really is.

With breadcrumbs you will get a link back to the previous page and from there the other pages, important to notice is that it's important that you have your content organized in a relevant way so that the breadcrumbs actually goes back to a relevant page for the topic.

See fictional example below where you are on a landning page with little content

Car dealer startpage  -> Used cars -> Model-> car

Car dealer startpage -> New cars -> model -> car

The breadcrumbs will make sense and also improve the usability of the site.

/ G

Search engines may still use it for discovery. Meaning simply answering the question: what should the page potentially rank for?

best, G

I usually say that if Google does it the others are doing it as well.

So:

The meta keywords tag is not in use for SEO with regard to Google and Yahoo.

I'm pretty sure Bing doesn't either.

Best, G

Yes you are correct.

You need to have a summary title on them that indicates that this is page 1 or 2 and so on.

It's a good idea to use rel="next" and rel="previous" .

See more info from google about this:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

Best, G

Here's Googles post about it:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Hope this was what you were looking for.

Best, G

A 301 should work fine.

You should in theory gain some linkjuice and rankings from the domain.

However the effects wont be as good as regular do follow links to your site.

But as Marcin says it's still an efficient way...

The timestamp is totally up to you if you think your URL:s will look better without them.

However Google tends to give pages with clear indications of when the information was published a little boosts. And they do mention that freshness is key for content.

So the timestamp is important but I'm guessing that you'll have a timestamp in the article with the standard WP config anyhow so it's really not that essential in the URL.  But If you have many articles it can be good to have a time indicator in them, if only for your own use.

To give yo a better example of how the permalink settings could look in WP:

/%category%/%postname%/

If you do it this way you won't have a timestamp in the URL.

* Remember that WP will use only one category in the permalinks so I reccomend you to only have one category for the URL.

Both way works, just choose one and remember that you need to stick to the one you choose so that the inbound links don't loose effect.

best, G

That's correct

• otherwise it would be seen as duplicated content.

But that doesn't create any problems for you.

Just set the structure to:

Maincategory/subcategory/nichecategory/timestamp/article

EG:

For Xbox:

Reviews/xbox-360/timestamp/game-review-name

FOr PS3:

Reviews/Ps3/timestamp/game-review-name

This should work fine

Best, G

Quick tip:

Usually you can just contact your Hosting company and ask them to do the 301 redirect for you if you feel uneasy tampering with code on the server.

/ G

BTW, my answer is for a Apache server.... This means don't use it if its Microsoft...

Hi again!

Here we go:

Just input following to .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

(replace example withyour site )

This should do the trick for the whole site.

/ Gustav

Nice thread!

As Marcus mentioned, it's good to have cross platform category, there is however another way

You could:

Instead of using cross platform as a category, simply use rel canonical.

In WP this is simple you just choose the categories eg:  Xbox360, PS3 and Wii and then choose which one that you want as a main indexed article with a rel canonical tag.

Best

Nice work on the site!

Hi there!

Use An 301 redirect you can do this in hte .htaccess file.

Submit xml sitemap to Google webmaster tools with the correct adress(with www)

You will soon be rid of the duplicated pages if you do this.

Best

/ Gustav

Ok Forget keyword density, it only affect the site in a non user friendly way.

This is what you should focus on(in my opinion), I call this the three simple keyword rule.

Here we go:

1. The title must have the keyword in it. eg: title: Rules for Friends with Benefits
2. The heading shall reflect the title but in a more focused and detailed way, eg: These are the rules for friends with benefits.
3. The content delivers the answer to the heading. eg: You will naturally include the keyword in the text content since you structured the article around the heading. Make sure that you start with a summary that reflect the title.

Let's break this down in a descriptive way:

• The title describes the heading and content in a summary way with no more than 65 characters. this keeps it focused and relevant.
• The heading explains the title in a more detailed way.
• The content reflects the title and heading in a descriptive and informative way that has a summary that reflect the title and the full length article reflects the heading.

There we are, now try to follow these rules and you don't need to wonder about the keyword density and you'll automatically create good content that is visible and often better than the competition in the SERP.

Best,

Gustav

Summary:

Loadingtimes - matters so make it snappy.

Indexed pages - matters(you need to be as visible as possible)

Check the site from googles cache and choose only text to see if the menus are working properly.

Start by measuring the loading time for the site.

Is it slow?

Is it fast?

Then check your pages on google:

Are all my pages indexed?

My view.

If the sites fast and all your pages are indexed it means your good to go

If your site is slow to load and some pages are missing in Googles index you need to remove the JS scripts in the menu.

When it comes to google translate try to give the possibility for translation instead of autotranslate.

Better to build new content in the language your translating to.

Best

Gustav

The same H1 rule goes for all other headers.

Headers are headers, mixing them in with the text content isn't very helpful in a user perspective.

A quick tip is to try to add questions to the h2 to keep the text SEO and user friendly.

So let's rephrase this into a h2 question:

Interested in commercial landscaping design?

We're the ones to call!

Call us at 1-866-236-7263 or contact us by email.

Hope I could help

Best,

Gustav

Spammy mails with info about how to take your site to the top is just what it sounds like, spam...

Usually there's no quick fix, well sometimes there are but...

Companies that send out these mails are probably not what you would want.

A good metaphore: Would you hire a total stranger that promises to fix and upgrade your house for just a penny. Would you believe someone that offer you this?

List of things that could guide you toward a serious Paid SEO partner:

• Full transparancy - what are we doing and why
• Ranking follow up - ranking reports on a regular basis
• Analytics follow up - to find key metrics for your site and business
• Linkbuilding - list of the links and an approval from you as a client before any links are being pointed toward your site.
• A technical go to person that can help you with questions you might have.
• No quirky conracts.

If a company can offer you this, they are most likely serious and can help you.

Hope I could be of some help

No probs glad to help!

Best of luck!

The tool you used to find these pages seems to work fine ;).

It's simply a crawl so use the seomoz data as it's a crawl of your site

Set a 301 redirect with the complete list of duplicated content, you don't need to delete the pages(it's not deleted anyway since it's dynamically created pages)

/ G