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Clever!!

Strategy:

• Add value to visitors from those specific cities. It's the only way to do it right.

Ideas:

• Provide a resource for "where to buy" within those cities. CityGrid/CitySearch, Yelp, Foursquare will provide the locations through their API's. More here..
• City knowledge graph, demographics, what's trending, what's hot, authority social profiles. Help define your market, with transparency.
• Price comparisons between physical stores & online store. Pricebot? hmm..

PRweb & if money isn't really the issue, go with BusinessWire. The PRweb.com link itself will probably be the most valuable from a PRWeb release though, unless you get picked up outside of the typical syndication network. BusinessWire works the same way, but has a better professional image.

If you have the money and do not have newsworthy announcements, look into facilitating an outreach campaign or buying some friendships of authoritative sites within your industry. Donating to relevant foundations, sponsoring local events (with websites) and work harder to get known online, digitally within your industry online.

There are tools & strategies that will help you identify the resource-related authority sites within your industry too.

It's beyond editing template files.. did you vote for it, here:

http://vbseo.uservoice.com/forums/25627-vbseo-plugin/suggestions/2296381-pagination-with-rel-next-and-rel-prev-

Argh, don't make me pull up archive.org!

I see they are bogus, but have they always been bogus? Did you recently update the descriptions? When was Googlebot last on these pages?

There are several other issues with the site & URL structure I would address before fretting about meta descriptions.

The /ezine dir is still working for me. If I can access it, surely Google still can.

Here are your options:

1. Robots.txt - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93708 - easy option.
2. Noindex tags - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-noindex-behavior/
3. Removal request - https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59819

1. finish blog posts.

2. get links.

3. if your items are unique to you, funky and in-demand, I suggest looking at sharing (social) at the product-listing level.

4. get up some pinterest boards. Apparel is HOT right now.

5. listen to the rest of the responses specific to on-site. Long-tail is a good strategy, especially now when you have no domain authority. Get tracking, spend wisely and watch & learn on your campaigns successes and failures.

Work on links now, get some fresh links coming in & then focus on the rest. Nobody will link to you just because you have a PRweb release, have competitive pricing, decent product & a beautiful site. It does happen occasionally, but the reality is (for the majority) it is all about gaining momentum, building your digital footprint and networking.

First question, it's personal preference. Just be sure you decide early on what you want to do, then stick with it. Changing it after the fact is where you're going to lose out a  bit.

Second part, if you're using web publisher, look at the long-term strategy for URL structure before making the switch. ID's will probably still be necessary/recommended, but that's not to say you can't spruce them up with article titles and page numbers as well.

I guess I need to brush up on my Danish

It came up as something completely different in the English translation.

https://dandomain.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Title-tag/132397-15889

Translation sucks a bit, but I think it's saying it can be set at the page level in the CMS dashboard.

Are both pages serving the same purpose?

I would NOT 404 it. I'm a firm believer in not deleting pages. If anything, it sounds like a job for the canonical tag to me.

Rankings will ultimately suffer as the increased distribution decreases the flow of juice. It's not really an issue I seem to not be something you can work through if it is necessary to navigation.  However, if you're seeing redundancy between pages, generating individual pages focused on each keyword variation, it will most likely be an issue.

How many links are we talking about?

You may get no traffic from ranking #4 these days, especially on queries with a competitive paid portion of the SERP.

What I would do is stop assessing the "what if" scenario's and start focusing all your energy towards acquiring those editorial type links grasshopper was talking about.. right now! You'll get that ranking and secure it for long-term traffic.

Agreed. I've run into a small group of bloggers who are all members of a community.. writers associations, blogger groups, pr groups, etc. Even when they have similiar link profiles to their actual domains, you don't really see problems unless it's aggressive interlinking between the sites. Very aggressive, with only one purpose in mind.

To me, the true clue would be whether or not the URL ranked well previously.

If it has not.. you need more links. It is probably a page authority issue.

If it has.. you may have over-optimized on the anchor text, sitewide links will do this. You may rank well for awhile, then you'll find yourself on page five shaking your fist at Google.

Is the URL no longer in Google's index at all?

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It's nice to think you will have a plan/strategy you can just stumble into. However, that's far from reality. You can't. Each industry, each business, each person is different. You need to do what you are best at & what works best for your specific business or client. It may be curating content for social audiences, it may be forums, perhaps content network advertising is your thing, or, it's good ol' fashioned SEO.

Good luck!

It's probably a process to jump through Twitter's hoops. Seriously, just using the logo properly now has to be scoped out by a team of attorneys.

The Certified Products page would be one heckuva good backlink

Ditto.

haha, with your quality standard,  calling it both agency & in-house is probably something the community would let slide