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Ryan totally nailed it!

Here is right principles will remain the same. No matter how big or small the size of your website is, you have to avoid duplicate content, include unique title tag, Meta descriptions, robots.txt site maps and more.

When you talk about building a strategy to win the online industry, now this can always be different and also changing on continuous basis depending on the dynamics change within the industry. Try to build a strategy that suites your condition instead of going for industry trends and common factors.

Obviously, building links is a principle which will remain the same but where to build link is very much based on your strategy.

I will second Cyrus webinar as it contains pretty much everything you are asking for!
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Don’t really want to add anything more, the one word answer to your question is “Screaming Frog”!

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Three quick things you should do and I am sure the indexing ratio will go high!

1. Index your website to Google Webmaster tool. If you are already there submit your xml sitemap to GWT and make sure it’s approved from there.
2. Make sure the internal linking is done correctly. Don’t overdo it but atleast to some extent so that bots can move to other relevant pages on the website.
3. The URLs are not indexing consider pushing them via social (twitter tweets would be ideal)

Bonus: If you can get quality links back to those pages that are not indexed would be mindblowing as this way the indexing will guaranteed.

Also check your robots.txt file to make sure no URL is blocked from Google index.

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Personally I never worked on this CMS before and if you have an investment to change the CMS system my advice would be to go for Wordpress as it’s simple, easy to use and have support available world-wide.

Anyways, after reading your question, I did a bit of a research and found this post that discusses SEO for Weebly in detail. According to this the option of setting up 301 is available within the system. I believe you should check this out!

http://justforwebsites.com/weebly-search-engine-optimization-seo/

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This is what I get from the details you have provided. The competitor of your client is getting lot of traffic from an article that is ranking number one for one of the money making keyword. Your client is getting traffic but not as much as the one that is ranking number one on that article.

If this is the case, here is how you should deal with it.

1. You talk to the blog owner or the author of that blog and see if there is any possibility of you writing another blog or change ranking that they mentioned. As you said they are the tech crunch of your client’s market, this I am sure isn’t really an option you can go for because this can hurt you as well.
2. Another thing you can do is to find relevant blog within the industry that have a similar authority as the blog that is ranking and reach out to them and see if you can create some valuable pieces for them that target the same keyword.

If all goes well, the next thing you should do is to build some links on to that blog post and get it rank number one for that particular keyword.

Why not my own website? As you said the industry is competitive it will be very difficult to beat the blog that have a much higher authority as yours.

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Here is what I think about this!

If people actually search for specific size then my idea is to go with 210 different products as it will be easier for one to rank in search engine for specific size.

If people search for products name in that case going with 7 different products and offer different sizes on the product page.

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As far as my information goes, it’s more or less a monthly thing. They usually update their index on monthly basis and this is the time when DA got updated.

But, the best idea is to email support@moz.com and you will get the exact information.

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I don’t think there is a way to move the dates but if the problem is still there it should be appearing in the issues section. If not that most probably means the problem has been resolved.

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The idea is not to get confused and dive a little deeper in to your analytic data.

Get in to day by day traffic and see where do you see the big falls in traffic and compare those days with the dates on which Google updates in penguin and panda algo (you can find this on moz.com)

If it matches the dates as given in the Google algo update chart then you are defiantly hit by a penguin or panda update and you should check WMT for the confirmation.

Sometimes you don’t receive the email but if the dates match you should plan your backup.

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I agree with Matt, in order to get the advice particular for your situation you need a real pro that look in to your website and backlink profile but here is a general advice.

If there is no manual action on your website, it’s a good part in my opinion and you have time to fix things up before Google actually put the manual penalty on it. My advice is to look in to your link profile and see how many bad links you have and separate bad links from the good one and ideally you should disavow all bad links to tell Google that these links have nothing to do with you and you are not looking for a link juice from all the bad websites.

The next step is to see what good links you have and get as many relevant and authority links as you can and you will see that the rankings will go up with increase in DA as well.

Again, this is a general advice for anything in particular you need to share your URL here!

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Ok, my advice would be a little different from Joey!

No matter what the domain is if the link profile is heavy it’s always more powerful as compare to the new domain but as far as my research goes in multiple niches mostly new TLDs are not ranking above .com and other general TLDs and that is why from the business perspective I will go with general TLDs as compare to new TLDs.

Again, I see Google give less and less value to on keyword so if the new TLD is more valuable to the business I will go with that too so its always depends upon the situation.

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I think we are totally done with this debate… everyone want their name to be out there and no one want to speak out loud J

I believe the link Danna shared contain what it takes.

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Just to be clear, here we are talking about URLs and not the domain name because when it comes to domain name my personal advice is not to go fir hyphens as this is not a common practice plus its usually a practice of spammers to use shady domain names.

As far as URLs are concern it’s a wonderful idea as Lina said they are better than underscores.

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as in the m. version for mobile users only? i would say its not a bad idea but you have to be very smart when redirecting URLs based on the device.

If you ask me what i would have done if i was facing the similar scenario, i will go for a responsive website as its a one solution for all devices and different size screens.

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The best part about EGOL sir is that he is very knowledgeable and at the same time have amazing way of explaining that always stops me from saying anything mostly because everything I ideally wanted to say was out in his answer.

Today is no different!

My only point was to go for a hosting that care for you and wanted you to grow instead of offering unlimited services that might cause a down time. You ideally don’t need a down time as this will hurt your traffic and branding to an extent.

My only advice when it comes to hosting is to choose the best instead of choosing the one that offer the best rates.

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Whatever I am about to discuss is purely hypothetical and if anyone have a better understanding of it I would love to hear this answer from them but this is what I believe how this should work.

The whole idea of “did you mean” feature is to provide better search experience to user and give them the right options when they mistakenly write the wrong word. When it comes to spellings it should be easy to guess that they are getting the right spellings from dictionary but when it comes to the correct spelling of the brand they in my opinion are guessing the user behavior.

I search my own brand on Google with a wrong ccTLD “setalks.co.uk” and it says “did you mean: setalks.com” (the correct version of my domain) and I don’t see any other reason but because I have different quality and relevant website linking back to me with my domain name, brand name and mentions.

Again, I am not sure but if you get link or even mention from authority and relevant sources to your website with the anchor text of your URL or brand name probably Google will learn better about your domain name.

I know the PA and DA of your domain is better but still getting more quality links will only help. Also, social media can also help so try and share your products on social media as well and see if this solves your problem.

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I totally agree with Dana, Google consider this mobile friendly website as part of their ranking algorithm. If you would asked me few months before I would have said its important to have a mobile friendly website as it will serve your users better but from the ranking standpoint, its ok to live with the current version of the website but now after the Google official announcement its must to go either responsive or a separate mobile version of the website.

Whatever you choice but if you don’t have a mobile website it will hurt your rankings no matter what.

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I agree with sir here as most people consider these URLs are spammed but yeah normally good shorten URLs are 302 so there is no impact of it on the original URL you want your audience to land on!

Just a quick participation!

my ultimate answer would be the same

I am actually happy that you are not one of those who believe that the importance of website is nothing but a company display! When you are redesigning your website this time you probably should consider the following things in-mind regardless of what CMS systems you use and what kind of design you have.

-          It should not take 3 to 5 seconds for your website to display its first page to your target audience.

-          Design and navigation should be easy enough for a visitor to continue their journey on the website instead of bouncing right after landing on the website.

-          Clear call to action so that he can easily convert in to lead and customer if he wants.

There are more ideas as well. Here is the checklist from hubspot that you should consider important when redesigning your website. http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/53/file-13220778-pdf/docs/ebooks/10-step-checklist-website-redesign.pdf

If you managed to create your website using this checklist not only your search engine visibility gets better but it will also help you increase your conversion rate as well as your website will be much more user friendly as it is at the moment.

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