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Thank you, trung.ngo! I appreciate your thoughts. Yes, we have transcriptions and are submitting site maps.

Hi there, I think it's definitely important to first determine which keywords / searches / niches you think the site should be getting visits from, rather than wondering why the initial number is so low. You will need to consider what people could be searching for that the site could potentially rank well for. If the primary purpose of the website is to source work or speaking gigs, what do people looking for Ellen's services search for? Is there significant search interest around her work from people simply looking to read? If so, what do they search for in the linguistics / grammar niches that the site should show up for but doesn't? With 25 linking root domains as shown by Open Site Explorer, is this much lower than the sites currently ranking for her primary search terms, or is it about right? Do those links go just to the home page, or to pages that should feasibly rank for the terms key to her audience? I hope this gives you somewhere to start from - I would say that 65 organic search visits per day is fine for some blogs, but is low if there is significant search engine users interest in a topic. Start with the Google Adwords keyword research tool to look into the volumes around Ellen's subjects and see if you can pick out a good list that she should rank for. Then take a look at how the site could be better optimised, or how your off-page / PR / link building work could be better to drive traffic / rankings to those pages.

Thanks, Federico.

Okay, thanks.

Matt, Our web designer just made a change within Expression Engine, our CMS, and it worked! Here's the code: {if segment_2 == "" && segment_3 == ""}{redirect="sub1/sub2/sub3"}{/if}He put the code at the very top of the main /sub1/ template. It means "if segments 2 and 3 are empty, forward to /sub1/sub2/sub3."Thanks again for your help!

Thank you, Matt!

Thank you!

Matt Cutts says those are symbols and that they are looked at as spaces.

Thank you, Nitin.

Thank you, Nakul!

Thank you, Nakul!

Thank you, Nakul. Great advice!

Thanks, Jeroen.

Thank you, Martijn!

Thank you for your advice and the link to the great article!

No prob good luck

Howdy nyc-seo, This is a really good question with lots of implications. Although there's no single "right" answer, there are a few things you might want to consider: Subfolders are good for organizational purposes and as such can help structure your content. For example, SEOmoz puts all the blog content under seomoz.org/blog Subfolders can contain keywords that help with CTR and possibly with rankings. This may be good in certain situations, like in ecommerce. i.e. example.com/bird-feeders/hummingbirds That said, shorter domains tend to perform better in search results, and you want to avoid keyword stuffing in your URLs. Also, too many subfolders and you can run into some crawling issues. In these cases, it's best to keep your site architecture as "flat" as possible, without too many additional layers of sub-directories. Some additional resources that may help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites http://www.seomoz.org/blog/site-architecture-for-seo Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

Thank you, Mat!

Thank you, Craig!