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Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it.

If I were strictly trying to understand how Google, for example, sees my IP address, do they see it as a Canadian IP address even though it "Resolves" to Dallas, TX?

We are a US based ecommerce company that recently switched hosting to a Canadian owned company.  I was told we would have a US based IP address but noticed yesterday that the MOZ bar is listing my website, 1800doorbell.com as a Canadian company.

I've researched this online and what's typically stated is that your IP location needs to be in the Geo area you serve.   When I brought his up to my host they stated:

"The location being reported by many of these tools will be the one from the WHOIS. Since our corporation is registered in Canada, it will return a matching result. You can verify the location of the address by issuing a traceroute and examining the location codes at the end of the traceroute. For example, on: 96.125.180.207"

So now I am really confused.  What matters to me is how the search engines see my IP address.  Will/do they see it as a US IP address?

Below is the output from DNSstuff and thanks for any help:

This is what I received back from DNSstuff:

| ASN | 12179 |
| Name | INTERNAP-2BLK |
| Description | - Internap Network Services Corporation |
| # Peers | 11 |
| # IPv4 Origin Ranges | 32 |
| # IPv6 Origin Ranges | 2 |
| Registrar | ARIN |
| Allocation date | Apr 13, 1999 |
| Country Code | US |

|   |
| Reverse | unknown.static.dal01.cologlobal.com. |
| Reverse-verified | No |
| Origin AS | - Internap Network S... |
| Country Code | CA |
| Country | Canada |
| Region | North America |
| Population | 31592805 |
| Top-level Domain | CA |
| IPv4 Ranges | 5944 |
| IPv6 Ranges | 336 |
| Currency | Canadian Dollar |
| Currency Code | CAD |
| IP Range - Start | 96.125.176.0 |
| IP Range - End | 96.125.191.255 |
| Registrar | ARIN |
| Allocation date | May 10, 2011 |

Thanks Everyone who responded.  I got two PM's and two companies to get it touch with.

Thanks again.

Thanks Jesse.

Hey, I accept that my approach in how I am communicating could be way off.  Maybe people could respond and let me know that a company as small as mine just isn't worth the response but I am surprised.

I have written emails to approximately 10 different recommended companies, whether through a direct PM or through the contact us page on their website and have gotten ZERO responses over the last 4 days.--sounds like I am in the wrong business!

Hi John and thank you for the response.  I was not very clear in my post but my frustration stemmed from querying companies on the recommended page.

I've debated on whether I should ask this on the Q&A forum.  Many times I have started to write it, then changed my mind.  So today, after sending another round of emails out to potential SEM and SEO consultants and getting zero response, I said what the heck and decided to post it.

I will point the finger at myself and say I must be doing something wrong in my approach and the way I am seeking out consultants or maybe what I am not saying.  However, I cannot seem to get SEO companies to return my phone calls or emails.  Is my company too small? Are most of the companies recommended here too busy with other  work to worry about following up?  Is my company and brand not sexy enough to deal with?  Am I coming across wrong in my emails and phone calls?

With that being said, I decided to write a post here and clearly state some basic and general requirements in hope someone interested will respond.  I would be more than happy to answer and specific questions about my company, budget, etc. in a PM.

I am looking for an SEO firm or consultants who:

1. Will deal with small businesses with revenue under $2M. I have budgeted for this and am ready to start a project immediately.

2. Have experience and a successful track record working with eCommerce sites who sell a large number of products.

3. Interested in a long term relationship that will produce long lasting, durable results.

4. Try to understand my business and what it will take to make grow my ONLINE profitability.

I look forward to speaking to anyone interested.

Jake

Phil,

Excellent.  Thank you for the response.

Hi Phil,

Great comment.  If you don't mind me asking, what are the reasons not to host the video on Youtube vs. a different platform?

Hi Ollan,

Thanks,  I guess I had a round about way of asking my question and you confirmed what I thought.  I am using the canonical tag on these pages:

http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=1
http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=21
http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=31
http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=41

Thanks again,

Jake

Wayne,

I am a small business owner.  I have done my own SEO, hired consultants, and worked with SEO firms - the whole gamut.  I have a lot of personal experience in this area and bottom line it just isn't worth the resources involved, mainly the money, in my opinion.

I can guess who this company is based on what you said at the end...sort of rings a bell.

Any gains that are made will be short term and typically won't last.  Google WILL eventually sniff these sites out.  No matter how crafty they are, not matter what they tell you, Google will find it and a) deindex the site or 2) devalue the link from the site.  The footprint and/or quality and content will get you.  In your examples, almost all these sites are set up the exact same way.  Google can smell that a mile away.

I have done this myself as well as paid different companies to do it for me.  I have gone through hurdles (and I guarantee you more than they company they are paying will do) to ensure I have virtually zero footprint and to keep good content.  I have over 70 now and very few are worthwhile.

At the end of the day, to continue to be worthwhile these sites will need QUALITY content.  The amount of content and effort it will take for these sites to provide any sort of SEO boost for them would be better served on their own site's content, viral marketing, social signals, etc.

I am not trying to be pessimistic or paint too broad of a brush stroke but think of it this way.  In the above example there are 7 network sites.  The cost will really start piling up.  Registration fees, hosting, the content (and it won't be quality all the time) and the ongoing cost to maintain these sites get big. So your client has piled all this money into a short term solution that can literally be snatched away overnight.

Spend the money on substance, quality of quantity.  I am sitting on 70 worthless sites that I have spend thousands on.

Thanks Ollan.  So I would want these filter pages (like this: http://www.1800doorbell.com/wireless-plug-in-door-chimes.htm?option=71) both noindex and nofollow right?

I have gone over this so many times and I just can't seem to get it straight and hope someone can help me out with a couple of questions:

Right now, on my dynamically created pages created by filters (located on the category pages) I am using rel""canonical" to point them to their respective category page.

1. Should I also use the robots meta tag as well?

Similarly, each product I have on my site has a review form on it and thus is getting indexed by Google.  I have placed the same canonical tag on them as well pointing them to the page with the review form on it.

2. In the past I used robots.txt to block google from the review pages but this didn't really do much.  Should I be using the robots meta tag on these pages as well?

If I used the robots meta tag should I noindex,nofollow?

Thanks in advance,

Jake

Gotcha ya.  I just threw that out there b/c this was the situation with my site.  I just did a couple of quick looks and here's the first example that shows this page was cached by Google on March 15:

https://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallerydirect.com%2Fart%2Fproduct%2Fst-john%2Fdallas%3Fsubstrate_id%3D1%26product_style_id%3D1%26frame_id%3D%26size%3D18x24&oq=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallerydirect.com%2Fart%2Fproduct%2Fst-john%2Fdallas%3Fsubstrate_id%3D1%26product_style_id%3D1%26frame_id%3D%26size%3D18x24&gs_l=hp.3..0l2j0i10j0.1105.3433.0.3601.6.6.0.0.0.0.109.453.4j1.5.0...0.1...1c.1.9.psy-ab.7RchJ2GxIQg&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45368065,d.dmQ&fp=d36fb92d0c1de289&biw=1309&bih=762

I had a similar situation and it just took time.  When did Google last crawl your site?  Have they crawled your site since you have implemented rich snippets?

Hi Irving,

First, thanks for your comments.  No, I am using a custom, in house CMS, not Magento.

My terminology was mistaken.  I was calling these outbound links but SEOMoz is basically labeling them in a warning label:

"  Issue: Too Many On-Page Links" and that I need to limit them to 100 or less.

-I do have canonical tags setup for each of these filter pages but are you saying I also need to handle that inside WMTs also?

-Although these links are hyperlinks to internal pages, in the sense they are outbound relative to the specific page but point to Dynamically created pages one the same site, should I not worry about them?    I just cannot think of "above the board" way to show these to the user but not have them hurt me from the big G's perspective.

I have a quick capture attached:

Thanks,
Jason

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I have an ecommerce site and SEOmoz "Crawl Diagnostics Summary"  points out that I have too many hyperlinks on most of my pages.

The most recent thing I've done that could  the culprit is the creation of number product filters.  Each filter I put on the page is creating a hyperlink off that page.  As an example, there's a filter available for manufacturers.  Under that, there are 8 new filter links, thus new hyperlinks.  On one category there are 60 new links created because of filters.

I feel like these filters have made the user experience on the site better BUT has dramatically increased the number of outbound links off the page.  I know keeping it to under 100 is a rule-of-thumb but at the same time there must be some validity to trying to limit them.

Do you have any recommendation on how I can "have my cake and eat it too?"

Thanks for any help!

I have some of my best sellers located on the homepage of my websites.  These same products may also appear on the category page as well.  On the home page and the category page, the product title, short description, thumbnail, etc. are exact duplicates and I am afraid this is hurting me.

I would appreciate any advice you may have on how to deal with this issue.  These are some of my best sellers and most often, the homepage will outrank the category page for the product.

Thanks in advance,

lordhenry

1.  What type of site are you promoting?  An eCommerce site?  A Brand?  A consultant? An informational site.

For me, the ultimate decision would come down to what I want the "face of the company" or website to be.

For example, I may have two or three websites and am trying to build "Me" as a consultant or an expert in a particular subject matter.  In that case I would definitely use "author."  However, I own an eCommerce site where I want to build a brand...the people who write the content may come and go and I don't want to the article ownership (in Google's eyes) to leave with that person.  I would use "publisher" in that case.

I have seen sites that successfully mix it up too.  They would use "publisher" on the catalog pages and use "author" on blog type pages.

3.  I would apply this to every page with unique content.

4.  To me, same as question 1.  If I were a consumer, I would want to see the website brand for products or catalog data but for opinions, industry expertise, consulting, etc., I would want to see a face with the content.

My 2 cents