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This is baffling me. This is what I have in my htaccess http://screencast.com/t/zB6UME7aCT  This is my httpd.conf for port:80 http://screencast.com/t/DXoDU5Fnt  and for port 443 http://screencast.com/t/KtB5NKvkYP  Also this is what I have in my dns file in CPanel, http://screencast.com/t/8atFbpKdM   The CNAME is still there, because when it is removed since it redirects to www first, the site breaks.

I cannot tell if something is wrong with my domain redirect or if it is some default behavior by Chrome. I made a short video, I used Moz first since they are using an SSL certificate too. But the gist is immediately when I type in the address it flashes www, then redirects to the non www. domain. Because of how its happening so quick I cannot tell if this is just default Chrome behavior or if I have the DNS set up incorrectly. Here is the video. http://screencast.com/t/UDHmdTCbQv

I personally would say and a pretty major one. The issue is that your site is going down more than likely when it is crawled.

As far as what the hosting company that is more than likely the case, but that does not make it acceptable. I would either move hosting companies, host your name services somewhere else, or have them move you to a different cluster.

When look in GWT at site map stats there are always pages that are not indexed. Is there a tool that takes your site map and compares it against a site:yoursite.com search and shows you which pages are not indexed?

You are actually in luck. It looks like the site is hosted at AWS. You can send a DMCA notice to AWS and let them know someone has copied your whole site and is hosting it with them. They should take it down immediately. The link you need is here, https://aws.amazon.com/forms/report-abuse

Jon,

I have never done it with a robots.txt, one easy why that I think you could do it would be on the page level. You could add a noindex nofollow to the page itself.

You can generate it automatically too and have it fired depending on the url by using a substring search on the url as well. That will get them all for sure.

It is either or really. Its not hard to tell that a site is running wordpress, it is pretty hard to hide. At the same time the admin directory does not have any public facing files for non-logged in users as well. I just use a good Wordpress security plugin, good server practices and leave it at that.

I think the sauce is women's products. Ever client that I have ever had that does strictly women's products seems to be able to drive things with social media. Men on the other hand it does nothing from what I have seen.

I have been torn lately on the issue. I have a couple of clients that do absolutely nothing in regards to SEO. (they are e-commerce sites) By nothing I mean no SEO firm, most pages don't have meta descriptions, the title tags are just the auto generated tags, no content what so ever. If someone were to give them an on site audit they would be basically have a field day with them in terms of SEO. But social media powers their sales, it powers it hard too. They might have a pinterest post generate 1000-2000 orders in a day.

So that really has me torn to be honest. I have always seen the value in social, don't get me wrong, but I don't guess I have seen it drive a whole marketing strategy before.

I wanted to ask something, which do you put more value in organic SEO or social sharing?

Do you know what kind of account your client has? Is it a shared / vps / or ededicated machine they are using? Also, is their site primarily static? Or does it update constantly or have interactive updating features like an e-commerce site.

All great points. I guess where I was going with the automatic content writing is that it seems to me more people are headline readers these days, or at least short article readers. From the different content I have on my site and using things like GA and Crazy Egg, I can see that only a dwindling percentage reach the bottom of the page.

Oh, about the software that you posted, I think that could work, but at the same time I can see it being easily blocked by Google as well. I don't personally think that would increase a site in the SERP's, but it would help with auto-complete for discovering new sites. At the same time using all of the VPN's and distributed computers that the service would use I imagine it would wreck your baseline stats too.You would be essentially being flying blind for however long you used it.

I have a client in this market, I can give you tips that they use. Let me ask one thing, is it e-commerce with prices listed on the site? Or is it show room only purchases?

This is just the application I have been looking for to push my site up through the ranks. I am totally joking. I think it appeals to people looking for an easy way to rank. There are always going to people that want the easy way out of things that is why the "1 trick doctors hate" type advertising is so popular.

I think software like this does start a good discussion though. What is your opinion of the death of the content writer? Do you think machines generating content will eventually take over the SERPS? From what I am understanding talking to different people in the journalism industry it is already happening. There are apparently programs that you can feed "lesser" news into in and from a paragraph or two it can spin a few paragraphs on the story using Google, internal algorithms and other sources. While now they are not helpful to the average SEO person, they look promising to a media outlet that pays $60k a year for someone to rewrite AP or Reuters news articles.

Also I saw you recommend Hemingway App a while back, I have been using it to rewrite some of my content, I absolutely love it. Thanks for pointing it out.

Did you recently update your site? It seems like a lot of the pages it is pulling were once on your server.

One thing I would recommend off the bat is enabling rich snippets for recipes and maybe a rating system too. https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/recipes

Can you share a link to the page so we can see if anything is marked up incorrectly. That would more than likely be the cause.

I either missed the link or you added it. I looked at both your main page and a listing page. The main page is suing a H2 correctly. The listing I saw did not have one. Is the main page the page with the error on it?

If I were doing the site the way I would more than likely do it is have your main bolded categories as actual categories. The for the sub categories that you have listed I would use a filtered navigation that is not indexed for them. One thing that would determine if I did that would be how many products are in the bolded categories as well. How many should be in the bolded categories? (when I say bolded I am talking about the ones you have in bold in your post)

Using attributes and combinations is a lot easier and cheaper than not using them. If you create 20 different pages they will all fight each other to rank. You would also need content for 20 different pages as well. Which in itself would be a task if done correctly. I would suggest just having one strong page with good content as opposed to lots of pages with only ok content.

Is this not spam? It has contextual links that have nothing to do with the topic. We get these all the time on the forum I help manage.