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Hi John, I had the same experience and it will not get better I'm afraid. Best FB will say is that you post a post on the page that will stop with a link to the remaining page. Good luck! Tymen

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I'd tend to agree. It won't harm you to go over, but since no one's going to see it, what's the point, generally. Now, if you feel thinks are being cut off arbitrarily (like the name of a product) and those keywords should be included somehow, fine - go over the limit. You can potentially rank for those terms and they may show up in other places. Some directories, social networks, etc. read the title tags, too. If it's just ego, though, like a long brand name, I'd suggest letting it go. Unless you're a really big brand, it's not going to matter that much, and you're likely to rank for your brand anyway. If the brand is getting cut off, then name recognition won't help your CTR anyway. Usability research definitely shows that people pay much more attention to the front of a headline, and even just the first two words, so even if a longer title "makes sense", people may not care or even see it. So, sometimes, I think we obsess over getting something just right that may not end up mattering that much, practically. Personally, I'd pick a different battle with the client, and maybe just keep a few long that are critically important.

Great Answer! So for your larger sites - what structure do you use for your XML sitemaps? Focus on loc, priority and changefreq? Also is there a risk if a lastmod date is left to be 12-18 months old the search engines may start penalising the site as they deem its out of date or am I assuming they will do this by analysing the cached copies and seeing there have been no changes? Does lastmod only really benefit sites that update frequently (even daily) and for sites with static content it should be left off? I do have a further question about large ecommerce sites - is it best practice to have a one XML sitemap for the main pages and top level categories and then a separate XML sitemap for the products (I'm thinking for a site with 500 products.

I would: 1. Create separate Google+ (business) pages for both entities. You can have one personal account be a manger of both. Get authorship established and linking to the sites. 2. Create separate Google+ business places for each. Even if they are in the same building, see if they have different suite numbers, etc so that you can get both verified. 3. Schema can be added to all pages. Most likely wont make a difference. Also if one of your subpages has the local info on it, it may help them to rank for that specific service. 4. Yes, make the pages distinctive. Don't copy, paste then swap out a few words to make them different. 5. Set up Yelp, Google Places, Merchant Circle, Mojopages, YP, Thumbtack, Foursquare (requires phone and address confirmation. If you do not have a separate phone for each business, set up a cheap tracking line through Tossible Digits) Yellowbook, CityGrid, Axiom (database - will require tax id letter), Localeze, Manta, Kudzu, Facebook, etc citation profiles for each business separately. 6. Make sure all citation profiles have the listing as complete as possible, and treat them with respect. When you write the description for the businesses, treat it like you were writing the opening paragraph for the homepage. Make sure to include who, what and WHERE. That should help quite a bit with your local rankings. Local is pretty easy, as long as you know what to do Again: Yelp Angies List Google Places Yellowbook Superpages Axiom YP Mojopages Localeze Kudzu Manta CityGrid Foursquare Facebook

Hi Freshfireone, I would recommend that you identify the client's business model on this post and then look at the suggestions for how that business model can best proceed: http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide If you have more questions after you take a gander at that, please ask away!

Just ensure you update robots.txt with the new address.  Re-submit the new sitemap to the search engines. Should be as simple as that.  Your URLs have not changed. Your sitemap does not determine the indexing of all URLs but gives the search engines a good idea what to crawl, on top of being able to crawl from URL to URL on the site.  It mainly is to help you see what has been indexed in comparison to what you have submitted.  Unfortunately Webmaster Tools is not fully to speed anyway so may not show the same results as site:some-domain.com.

First off you should go to webmaster tools and make sure that you have verified that you are the owner of both the www and non-www version. After this you can tell Google your preferred version of the page under the site settings within webmaster tools. This by itself will tell Google that it should index the preferred version. Furthermore you said that the non-www redirects to the www version now. Google will pick this up in time and will start indexing the www version. Your question about why only one got indexed is hard to answer like this. If it's not the robots.txt than it could be a link rel="canonical" pointing towards the non-www version?

Check this out http://www.tumblings.net/post/46092144327/addblogtowebmastertools

Totally agree - amazing reply - I was think about doing bullet points for each section - i.e. a short paragraph/sentence or two and then bullet points of do's and don't for blogs, twitter and other social platforms. Will think about them tonight and try and post tomorrow.

we doubled her traffic and were just waiting for the off site seo to start to have an effect but she said it was taking too long and went somewhere else. Hey... if bolding the keywords was a kickass method you would be seeing it EVERYWHERE! I don't do that on my site because it gives the site a bad odor. Don't worry so much about why she left.  Start thinking about how to handle it when she returns. These guys could build a ton of junk links for you. If you have copies of the files when you stopped work, you will not have to search the entire site to remove the code that these people have added.

It can take Google a long long long time to remove old pages from its index. I'd highly recommend manually submitting the relevant URLs via Google Webmaster Tools' URL removal tool and do them a bit at a time. We have done this quite successfully. Otherwise, I think you're doing the right things. Hope that helps!

1 Yes, Bing have stated that they will ignore the sitemap if it is not accurate 2. no 3, no 4 yes 5 no, use priorities for that 6  looks ok I would look into using the Google and Bing sitemap generators, problem solved (if you have access to the server) http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2013/05/23/bing-sitemap-plugin-1-0-launch.aspx http://googlesitemapgenerator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/gsg-installation.html

OK here are the issues, stop using hyphens (-) and stop using pipes (|) these is seen as an attempt to stuff words in just for search engines. Google thinks that this will not be a good read for its users and will rename them. Also please keep in mid that Google does change title tags based on the search query sometimes to give you a better click through rate. They are testing things all the time. Also make sure your meta tags are the correct lengths for best results, some you have are very short and just one word not great for SEO and others are too long.

Hi, CleverPhD has some interesting ideas with robots.txt and Google Webmaster Tools, but simply password protecting all dev pages should keep pages out of Google's index. There's no best practice here, since a password wall will keep Googlebot out on its own. To be doubly safe, you can also include a meta noindex tag on dev pages. Keep in mind that once a page is in Google's index, it's going to take awhile for it to leave (unless you use CleverPhD's method). But, having a blank page in Google's index really isn't all that bad. It's there, but it won't rank for much. Hope this helps, Kristina

Why is the domain only in one part? Is there a best practise way to do this - I was going to watch the webinar about the transfer from seomoz to moz... So would I create an htaccess file and put it in the subdomain folder blog.domain.com to redirect to domain.com/blog - also how would I create a wildcard redirect for pages I might miss i.e. blog.domain.com/page - to domain.com/blog and these redone pages should I 301 to the blog home or just a 404 page?

I think this is a great approach. Use your web analytics software to record the internal site search for your website. This is easy to set up in GA admin. Adobe Analytics (sitecatalyst/omniture) has this feature too.

For SEO reasons I would strongly recommend that you don't show a splash page to visitors because this is going to cause crawling issues for the search engine bots. I would load a popup (like you mentioned) and then when the user accepts the warning it stores their response on a cookie.

Social Sharing will not hurt you, it will be great.  You don't need to create the extra channels for sharing, but using the social media that you already have and sharing and liking and tweeting (oh my...) will help with visibility, mainly socially, a long time for organically. You should also encourage your followers/people who like you to like the article on the page so that it will show up in multiple news feeds thereby hopefully garnering more traffic to your website. In terms of SEO, congratulations on the PR links. Hope that helps.

as EGOL says approach them, and also let them find you. Also be selective