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Hi Matt,

Pondering how to rephrase into bullet points the key factors to engage with him about. Simple straight forward layman's English to why bullet points are needed.

So far :-

Enhances ability for search engines to crawl the site.

Potential for Breadcrumb to appear in SERPs thus enhancing your listing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmOjX5DlN2A

Usability - users tend to attempt using a breadcrumb for navigation

Usability - users find it easier to understand how the site is built and how the navigation

What do you think ?....

Not all pages indexed in google with breadcrumbs show the breadcrumb in the results. How does google decide which sites to show breadcrumbs on and which not to.

Is the site lightly to not perform as well in search engines without breadcrumbs? The client does not seem to be thinking about usability - he is more concerned that he thinks it looks good....

I found myself in a weird position today having to defend the use of breadcrumbs.... This is what I wrote....

From an SEO point of view it is best practice to have breadcrumbs as they are high up in the code and help the search engines crawling the site. Do you need a breadcrumb for SEO – Yes – as well as from a usability point of you view users can navigate a breadcrumb instead of hitting the back button.

What would you have said?

Have you tried any? Which ones did you target and if not why didn't you?

In Joeant already. whats UBL?

It's a UK based business so don't think BBB is the right directory. I'm still going through the list to weed out the crap. Have you tried any? Any noticeable returns?

I might try one of the general ones..... Have you tried any and had any luck from them?

We all know paid links are bad.... so it begs the question.... why does the SEOMoz directory list have so many directories that only submit businesses for a fee.... i.e. a paid link. Are they worth paying for or not?

Interested to hear peoples thoughts and experiences with some of the directories listed on the SEOMoz directory list....

Interesting.... So now I'm just up against the userability argument. Looks like it's do-able then with no negative SEO side-effects.

I have a client that wants to add a front page to a website so that when a user visitors the site for the first time a full page advert/message/page appears before they enter the site. The client wants this to be cookie controlled so they only see this on the first visit to the website.

I am concerned that even if I put links to a sitemap or xml sitemap on this page that it will affect how well the site performs in search engines. Any ideas/suggestions or experiences?

I found an interesting page on Quora about using pop ups.... Anyone who comments can you link to some good research and a clear simple explanation I can use to explain to the client why this is a bad idea..... https://www.quora.com/Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO/How-would-a-pop-up-ad-on-a-websites-home-page-affect-SEO

And for the record I tried the usability argument....

Sorry in advance.... I've used search on the SEOMoz site and Google but not found an exact answer to my question.

I am looking at starting PPC campaign - do I need all variations of these keywords or is google clever enough to work on dashes etc... I want the keyword phrase to come up with loads of different locations. Do I need to input them all separately like I have below?

1. Keyword Sample Phrase

2. Keyword-Sample Phrase

3. KeywordSample Phrase

4. Keyword Sample Phrases

5. Keyword Sample Phrase Location

6. Keyword-Sample Phrase Location

7. KeywordSample Phrase Location

8. Keyword Sample Phrases Location

Thanks in advance....

Spam.... lol Delete!

Yeah it doesn't look very SEO specialist.... Any others people can think of?

See that's what I thought... It's not the worlds biggest job to remove the keywords but just wondered on pro's and con's of doing it...

Whats AFAIK? (Sorry not down with the lingo!)

I have the same problem with so of the sites I manage. Luckily the search engines have never found or indexed the duplicate url i.e. domain.com/secondsite. Have the search engines indexed it for you? If not is it really a problem? I have considered a 301 or robots.txt but due to it never being found/indexed I did not see the point.

I was just going over a site I manage and noticed it had a load of meta keywords on it. Probably 10-15 keywords per page... Do you think this is harming the site? Is it worth removing them?

Totally agree - sometimes you want a second opinion and don't want the client to know things.... I would be interested in a private service too.... Anyone know of any or what the plan is for one

How come?