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Thank you David for the clear explanation!

Thank you Kevin! The article did clear things up for me.

Thank you Anthony for your response! If its not too much trouble can you give me an example of a tiny category name and a good/recommended category name for SEO purposes.

Servers <- this is obviously tiny

Dell Servers <- is this a tiny or an ok one?

Dell Rack Servers <- is this optimal or it can be improved for example "Dell Rack PowerEdge G11 Servers"?

And what is the recommended depth of sub categories, would 3 be ok?

Dell Rack Servers > PowerEdge R710 > Products

Also for the sub category, should I put the word server after PowerEdge R710 or is that automatically implied by the top category?

Also is there a limit or recommended number of top/root categories to have on the homepage?

Thanks again!

Hello fellow SEOmozers!

I'm rebuilding out e-commerce site and have a question about categories. We sell branded  servers, workstations, storage and related parts/upgrades. I know that nesting categories too deep is not recommended (and slows down the shopping cart), however if were to create more main categories then I'm affraid of keyword stuffing or spamming, do you think this would be ok or what would you recommend I do in my situation?

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| Dell Rack Servers |
| Dell Tower Servers |
| Dell Blade Servers |
| Dell Storage |
| HP Rack Servers |
| HP Tower Servers |
| HP Blade Servers |
| HP Storage |
| IBM Rack Servers |
| IBM Tower Servers |
| IBM Blade Servers |
| IBM Storage |
| Dell Workstations |
| HP Workstations |
| IBM Workstations |
| Dell Hard Drives |
| HP Hard Drives |
| IBM Hard Drives |
| Dell RAM | Memory |
| HP RAM | Memory |
| IBM RAM | Memory |

Thanks for all your input, opinions, and comments!

Hello fellow SEOmozers!

I'm trying to register a domain name that contains keywords for my business, however the .com is obviously taken (however its just a parked domain without a site) so I have an option to get either .co .us or .net

I wanted to know if the domain extension makes any difference for the search engine or does having .com gives you an advantage over having .co .us or .net?

Thanks for your input!!!

Hoping its not true, as I am investing a ton of time and money to learn SEO...

Hello Rufus,

Thanks for taking your time to help me out. However I'm still not 100$ clear on how I should proceed.

For question 1: Would it be ok to combine keywords/phrases in the title tag like this "IBM, DELL, HP. Servers, Workstations, Storage" (would the search engine use the best combination of any of the following or would it rate it differently if I were to use something like this:

"IBM Servers, DELL Servers, HP Servers, IBM Workstations, etc..." ?

For Question 2: Do you recommend to use a combination of CMS & Ecommerce for a single site, would that be of any benefit?

For Question 3: You recommend to create a seperate page for each keyword phrase and write some good content using the targeted keyword(s) and then have a link on the home page to that page, correct?

So for the homepage would you recommend using keywords that target our brand OR a few of the product keywords that we think would bring the most traffic in from search engines?

Just to confirm, the home page (index.html) wouldn't necessarily have a higher ranking vs let's say (dell-servers.html) just based on its hierarchy or being the home page. (obviously excluding the SEO work)?

Thanks again!

Hello Everyone!

I have a few simple questions about picking/using the best keywords for my website. Just to give a little background on the company, we sell branded servers (IBM, HP, DELL) workstations, storage, and related hardware and software (memory, processors, hard drives, operating systems, management software, etc...) I'm trying to pick the keywords to use on the home page but have these questions:

1. This question is a little hard for me to explain, but we would like to show up in the search results whether a user types in: Dell server(s) or IBM server(s) or HP Workstation so for the title tag can we use: DELL, IBM, HP Servers, Workstations, Storage or we need to use DELL Servers, IBM Servers, Dell Workstations, IBM Workstations, etc... Basically what I'm asking is can we combine keywords in the title tag or we need to write them out (hope this make sense) if not let me know and I'll try provide a little more detail and few more examples.

2. This question might not fall under this category of topics and might have to start a new thread but here it goes. We are re-designing our site on a new eCommerce platform using x-cart shopping cart, its a very configurable and inexpensive shopping cart however one of the drawbacks is its speed. Most users of the x-cart shopping cart software report on average of 2-4 seconds page loads, which is kind of slow. even with some heavy optimization you get about 1.5 - 2.5 seconds page load. I've heard that if you want to be higher in Google's search results speed is a big plus, being in the 0.5 second range is a huge plus. I was thinking of creating a static html home page that would include some company info, content with relevant keywords, some links to main categories... (basically kind of copy the google.com page but with a little more text) Would that be a good idea to implement? Hope this question makes sense as well or stick with the default shopping cart home page and try to optimize it as best as possible?

3. We probably have about 10 - 15 short keyword phrases that we want to concentrate on, again they would be:
DELL Servers, HP Servers, IBM, Servers
DELL Workstations, HP Workstations, IBM Workstations,
DELL Memory, HP Memory, IBM Memory
DELL Hard Drives, HP Hard Drives, IBM Hard Drives

What is the maximum or recommended quantity of keyword phrases to try to include on the home page? Is it also recommended to maybe create a separate page for each keyword phrase? Does a home page get better ranking then another page on the server just because its a home page?

Hope my questions aren't too dumb and make sense. I appreciate everyone who takes their time to read through and answer my questions or guide me in the right path.

Thank you,
Igor Pinchevskiy