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Thanks. I'm using the Yoast plug in which does make an image site map. So I should be good there.

On this post it says that it won't harm you if you select that option http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success but it sounds like if googlebot won't index the image, that's hurting you.

Also when I look at google webmaster tools it shows my image sitemap and it appears the majority of my images are being indexed. Also if I search for images they show up on google image search.

But could be understanding what's happening incorrectly.

Are you sure the images won't get indexed with that option turned on?

One of the main reasons I selected that option was because of all the posts I've read online about how each image has a url and you don't want those urls to appear in the search engines.

Thoughts?

I'm using Yoast's wordpress seo plug in and a few months ago I enabled the feature that redirects all images to the parent post. This month I noticed a huge drop in my organic search results for images.

I just did a crawl of my site and it looks like every image does indeed have a 301 redirect on it. I'm curious what the though is on this. Should I unselect that option? I was under the impression it wouldn't make a difference with traffic and actually thought it would help since it brought people to the post instead of just the image page for that picture.

Thoughts?

Thanks. The host I'm using is really good, so I'm not sure switching hosts would be that different.

In regard to number of posts on home page, how many would you suggest?

I was wondering if someone had a few minutes to talk a look at our site and see how to speed it up. I've ran some of the speed tests and I get different results, so I'm not sure if my site would be considered "slow" or not.

Also if there any other things that jump out at you (usability, side bar, things I should change / add / take away to make a users experience better, etc.) please let me know. Any feedback is good feedback to me.

I'm using WP Super Cache as well.

Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback, that's sort of what I was thinking as well.

Yelp, go with the 301 redirect.

I've heard different thoughts on this and wanted to see what you the seomoz group thought. I have been leaving my "brand" out of my titles so I could create longer titles (without my "brand" taking up precious space.) I've also read that adding your brand can take away from the words you want to optimize for in the title / post.

I've read other places that you want your brand in every page title to "strengthen" your brand.

Long story short, I'm trying to figure out if I should add my brand to the my page / post titiles, or leave them as is.

Feel free to check out my site and current title template if you'd like.

Thanks!

I 1 up that article that Donnie linked to. It's great, and Dan did a great job on it.

Hi, you may want to send this in as a feature request to the seoMOZ team (if you are hoping to have this as an seomoz tool that is.)

I know they read the forums, but if you send it in directly via the contact from as a feature request, it'll go directly to the team that looks through those requests.

You may have already done that, but I just wanted to share.

I think it depends on the site, design, content, etc. If you are careful with your ad placement and your users can EASILY find the difference between your content and your ads, I think you'll be ok.

Good isn't anti-ads like some articles you read would lead you to believe. In fact, Google even has material showing a user where they suggest placing ads on a page. Be sure to check out that link, especially sense you were asking about adsense.

I also know some bloggers that have ads set to display a set time after a post goes live, for instance 2 weeks after, that way your regular readers aren't having to look at ads, mainly organic traffic. However, if ads are done correctly (used sparingly, they take a back seat to content, etc) they can actually blend in nicely on a page.

Again, think like a user. If you were visiting a site what would you want to see? You probably wouldn't mind a few ads, placed in areas where you would expect to find ads, ads that are well done (if I use adsnese I ONLY use the graphic / media rich ads), and ones that are contextual to the site you are reading. (I've actually found adsense to pretty good at showing ads that are contextual on the page.)

Please let us know if you have any more questions.

Ok, thanks. I was reading an article by Google about how pages with thin content can actually hurt your site (even if the rest of your site has good content.) The article said if you have thin pages with little or no content on your site, that can cause harm to the entire site.

You don't hink this would apply in this situation?  Thanks for the feedback by the way, I'm learning.

Thanks!

Thanks!

I've been contacted by several sites (a few in other countries) who would like to repost some of our articles on their site. A few of these are in other countries and they would like to translate them in their language. (we have a site about raising a child with Down syndrome so they are wanting to use our info to help people...not "beat us" in rankings, or anything like that.)

I didn't know what the best practice on this was. I don't want to get dinged for duplicate content or have someone rank higher than me for my own article, etc. Just curious what the best way to go about this was.

I'm also assuming the articles that are translated wouldn't be an issue at all since the content will be in another language. Is this right?

Thanks!

I share a lot of images via twitter and over the last year I've used several different tools to do this; mainly twitpic, and now instagram. Last year I wanted to try to find a way to host those images on my site so I could get the viewers of the picture back to my site instead a 3rd party (twitpic, etc.)

I found a few plugins that worked "sort of" well, and so I used that for a while. (I have since stopped doing that in favor of using instagram.)

But my question is do all of these image posts hurt my site you think? I had all of these images under a category called "twitter" but have since moved them to an uncategorized category until I figure out what I want to do with them.

I wanted to see if anyone could chime in and give me some advice. Since the posts are just images with no content (other than the image) and the title isn't really "optimized" for anything do these posts do me more harm than good. Do I delete them all? Leave them as is? Or do something else?

Also in hindsight I'm assuming this was a bad idea since the bounce rate for people clicking on a link just to see an image was probably very high, and may have caused the opposite result of what I was looking for.

If I knew than what I know now I would have tracked the bounce rate of those links, how many people who viewed one of those images actually went to another page on the site, etc. But hindsight's 20/20.

No worries.

My real question is still why the redirect is showing up as a 404 when the site is crawled. I'd still be interested in figuring that out if you have any thoughts.

Thanks.

Ryan,

Thanks for your feedback. Wordpress automatically redirects to the non http version.

Regarding https sites I dont know many personal sites that pay for a https cert (or even why there would be a need.) Also I don't link to anything with https. It doesn't seem really seem necessary (unless I"m missing something.)

Heck, I just tried to go to https://seomoz.com and their site doesn't even go there.

Yah, but my site is http://noahsdad.com/ - should I expect https to also work?

Yelp, the crawl just happened today.

Also you'll have to excuse my ignorance but I'm not sure what you mean by the last half of your comment. "my site does not handle https protocol well?"

Can you explain that to me. (I'm still learning.)

Thanks for taking the time to help by the way.

Thanks Ryan! Have a great 4th of July!

Ahh, got ya. That's a great question, I'll look forward to reading the replies. I personally don't mess with the home page title tag, but have tweaked some of the blog post title tags. I normally just wait and see if I notice a chance 30 days after I change the title, but nothing real scientific.