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Thanks Doug.  I did mod the theme, but with genesis it isn't so easy.

Maybe if you are using WP for a blog at makes sense for the H1 tag, but I am using it as a CMS, so maybe that is not what he intemded.

So I was working on a Genesis theme website where they have the H1 Tag as the Logo on the homepage.  I wanted this changed because I always use my H1 tag to include a keyword I want to rank for.  I was told by the Genesis Forum Manager that Yoast said the Logo should be the H1 tag on the homepage.  (Yoast has a WP SEO Plugin that is very popular)

That makes no sense to me, so I was looking for Opinions.

Thanks,

I have noticed many of my sites took a beating this month on Bing and Yahoo, while Google stayed pretty flat.

I like your creative reply.  I guess it doesn't matter what we think.  Is there any way to tell if footer links are actually hurting your site?

I have a site that has about 20 footer links.  A main Category and 4-5 links under each.

The site is very large, so I feel they do have some value for navigation, and they don't blend in with the background at all.

I know penguin was cracking down on footer links, but I don't feel theses are "spammy" links.

Will it hurt long-term to leave these links, or should we pull them?

Now that google merged local into Google+, should we be changing the way we do the reviews on our sites to be out of 3?

I had one out of 5 and it showed up in the SERPS, but since the change now nothing shows.

Yes, that is what I am looking for.

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the response, but I had already turned on web friendly URLs.  All that did was removed the index.php from the URL.  Both URL's stlll exist.

Before web friendly URL's it was like this:

mysite.com.index.php/etc/etc

after

mysite.com/etc/etc

Since both URL's exist, I just want to 301 redirect any index.php URL to the URL without it.

I have not found any plugin to do what I am looking to do.

Hi Guys,

I need some help on this htaccess issue in Magneto.

So here is what I am trying to do:

I wanted to change mysite.com/index.php/etc to mysite.com/etc

so I turned on the web friend URLS.

That did that, BUT there are still two versions of every page on the site.

www.mysite.com/etc and mysite.com/index.php/etc

So that isn't good for SEO.

So then I applied a 301 matching redirect, RedirectMatch 301 /index.php/(.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1

That solved that problem.

But now I am not able to log into the admin.

It is mysite.com/index.php/pg45admin.  It should redirect to mysite.com/pg45admin but the page just hangs.... It goes into a continuous loop.

I tired using the custom URL and then the site crashed and I had to redo it.

So what do I need to do for this to work?

So I advised him to remove it asap and wait until google has recrawled the site without that on there.

What is the next step?  call Google and ask to review the site to see if there was a penalty?

I have a friend whose client is giving away something for free if you leave a Google Review for his site.  I recall that being not well liked by Google and could potentially end up in a Penalty.  The site is ranking really poorly in Google but well in Yahoo/Bing so I am wondering if that is what happened.

What are you opinions?