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Hiya hfranz...did this advice help at all? If it did could you please close and mark this answered

This is what I would like to do, as we do not currently sell online. We were not getting a lot lot of traffic from them. So you think it is safe to do 1 redirect from the old domain?

The only question I have then, is if I use they canonical link to our headquarters, wont the other sites not rank well in there given country?

RDK is right on. I would add some sites go a step further and compress their html code. This step improves the page loading speed a tiny bit as it saves the browser from having to do this work. Reading the html code becomes much more difficult when all the spaces are removed.

Hi, I would recommend reading the recent blog post from Kate Morris eCommerce Syndicated Content: How to Win I know the feeling of being faced with a couple of thousand product descriptions with this problem (and unfortunately it gives me no joy to think "I told you so"), but all you can really do is take it one product at a time 

Just an example....  tell people how to use your products for maximum enjoyment... For example if you sell mountain bikes articles about.... how to select mountain bike tires.... how to change a mountain bike tire in under 60 seconds... recommended tools for off-road biking... how to true a bike wheel (rear)... how to true a bike wheel (front).... how to clean the mountain bike chain.... geeezz...  I could go on forever... So... give everything that you need to make your customers experts at  buying... owning... riding... maintaining... racing their mountain bikes... and make your staff look like expert mountain bikers and all-round good guys. PS... I am not talking about light weight trivial pedestrian articles... these would be substantive, complete and detailed articles with lots of big juicy photos.  And you need a video of me changing the mountain bike tire in 42 seconds.

NEGATIVE keywords! Most ignored area in PPC management, and does so much for improving your performance. Continually mining for negative keywords and adding them to your campaigns/groups will save you money on wasted clicks, non-qualified leads, increasing your relevance. It will also indirectly affect your QS with a higher historical CTR. And an improved QS ends up saving you more on your CPC.

Any Ideas on how to to receive more LIkes and Shares. First, make content that everybody everywhere will want to "like" and "share" with all of their friends. Next, make it very easy for them to like or share your content buy using addthis.com buttons or other social sharing tools.

Thanks. What are your thoughts on ZenCart?

I'm not good with writing htaccess code, but just thought I would mention that if you don't get an answer, another solution would be to use a rel-canonical tag in the header, pointing to the domain you want indexed.  This would tell the search engines that the non-parked domain is the proper one to index.  The other one should drop out of the index after you do this.

Wordpress does have a number of ecommerce avenues to take.  If you are not selling products, but wish to style your site to look like an online store, you may wish to consider using  Wordpress  "Builder".  It offers a lot of functionality and customization options.........

Not, if an "Add on" domain resolves that typing the added-on domain, you finally are redirected to your primary domain, and if that redirection is 301 (permanent). If the domains you want to redirect are totally new, that means that probably they do not have any history and therefore any backlink and link juice to gift to your primary one. In this case, also a 302 redirection (a not permanent) is not SEO harmful.

The placement of these tags within the head doesn't matter - Google and the other search engines will find them - but Wordpress sometimes seems to put a lot in the headers which isn't great and less code is always preferable for SEO.  There is a good article on meta tags here by Kate Morris: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-wonderful-world-of-seo-metatags where she says: _"Think about it like this, your page code is like a set of step by step directions to get somewhere, but for a browser, extraneous meta tags are the annoying 200 feet line items in directions that tell you to stay on the same road you were on!". _ So strip out anything not needed if you can and just have the core tags that you need. She also answers your question regarding keywords - that is, they're not necessary and there's no point spending time optimising them.  If anything, they're a negative because they tell your competitors what keywords you're targetting! Hope that helps, Jen

If it is built into the framework - Genesis from StudioPress for example - it should turn itself off when it detects a dedicated SEO plugin - for other SEO plugins I would deactivate them first to prevent conflicts. Yoast's plugin will manage everything you need including a great sitemap generator - which works well where others fail (in heavily modified wordpress installs such as Appthemes Classipress for example.)

Unfortunately, I can't speak for the plug in part of your question. However, I can offer up from a user experience perspective that this is a good case for testing out your site. You can test different messages, different abilities, different pricing and see what the consumer response is. Google Website Optimizer can help you set up an A B test so you can see what your costumers respond more favorably to. I suppose your ability to do that depends on your flexibility with the shopping cart and, unfortunately, I am no expert on that. I would only suggest that you ask these questions when you are talking to your developer. I hope that helps!  Best of luck.

You don't want the content to be the same, it's still dupe even if in different countries (even if in different languages from what I've read on here once) and whatever you do... don't have a pop up that asks people to choose a country when the page/portal first loads up. Lot's of sites seem to be doing that now with some CMS plug-in, not realising that it makes it difficult for the site to be crawled (Googlebot can't choose and click, etc...). Maybe have a call to action for people to choose location, but don't force it on page load. I would keep them on their current servers, if you move one to be hosted with the other it will likely affect the rankings for that countries serps. Don't forget to 301 EVERYTHING!!! So when you change any addresses with the new page URL's you don't lose link juice, etc...

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I would say this is something that's extremely low on the ranking factors totem pole. Ref new 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors (love this report!!) - http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#overview However, something that is high is the number of shares you get, likes you get, interactions with your facebook page that you get, so whichever method agrees more with the browsers your visitors are using, the software you are using to run your site, etc - would be my recommendation.

I am very much a novice and have had some success with cms systems.  I have found they offer a variety of options and are very intuitive.  Some even talk about trade offs regarding different styles and formatting issues.  There are a lot of great cms platforms out there for you to use, I am sure you will find one which will work great for you.   Dave