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You can block the SEOmoz spider via robots.txt on the subdomain

<code>User-agent: rogerbot 
Disallow: /</code> 

Just don't approve porn, illegal, and spam filled website urls. If a company's website is deemed acceptable to be placed on your website, I see nothing wrong with giving them dofollow links.

Matt Cutts just released a video that addresses this exact question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HX_8BAhB4

If you have entirely new URLs and set up 301 redirects properly, it usually takes about 2 weeks for the rankings to bounce back.

Also, its hard to tell if you did anything wrong during the transfer since we cannot see your old site.

If you focus on getting links from high quality, relevant directories, that will not hurt you.

If the directory accepts every link that is submitted to them, that's when you are going to start running into trouble.

In a super helpful mood today

I would either incorporate nofollows to pages that arent as important or moving them lower down the page. Sitewide quick links would give it more juice than the "popular cities & town" box on hp.

This is also a great time to examine your analytics heatmap and see how users interact with the site. Use it to help determine what people are looking for/what they are clicking on and make it easier to them to get there. This will help you remove duds and promote high value pages (like the east long accomodation page)

Good reads on internal linking:

Link placement v power http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2185977/Anatomy-of-an-Internal-Link

Link juice distribution http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2179376/Internal-Linking-to-Promote-Keyword-Clusters

Multi-city specific
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/internal-linking-strategies-for-2012-and-beyond 

Cheers,

Oleg

Should only have 1 H1 per page... ideally containing the target keyword. If this were a blog post, your H1 would be your article title.

H2 would be used more for subheadings, i.e. if you split your article up into sections with subheadings, each should be an H2

H3-H6 are just sub-sub headings, etc.

Overall, I believe H1 (and perhaps to an even lesser extent H2) has any SEO value - even though it is very minute since it's easily gamed.

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I would message all your aff's and ask them to nofollow, make the new default URL you give to aff's nofollow and keep your 301 redirect thing. In your next RR (if you need it) mention all those steps you took.

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Check out the Alexa ranks for the top sites you are considering submitting to and see what kind of an effect Penguin had on their rankings & traffic.

In general, if people are using the website (not just bots/spammers), then it is fine to submit to. Bonus points if it is relevant to your website.

Note: This is not meant to be a complete link building strategy. If the only links you are building come from "web design review" sites, you're gonna have a bad time ranking.

Longer with more keyword for sure.

Title is important for rankings so definitely include keywords describing the product with search terms.

edit: to defend my point, look at the titles of the largest ecommerce sites like amazon, walmart, overstock - they have the product title which contains many relevant terms.

Change the way your ecommerce site paginates so that it shows ?page=x

Then add tags to the headers

If i had to guess... Your site forces https while OSE only looks up http (as represented by the 301 code in the "HTTP Status" column).

I wouldn't worry about it.

There are many factors involves and I would really need to see the site/categories to give a specific answer. However:

1. Changing urls will result in loss of rankings. If you 301 redirect from old to new, you will be able to recover most of the rankings but there is ~2 week period where you will drop out of serps.

2. For duplicate content, assuming all pages have been crawled by G, compare you actual # of pages to # results returned by site:domain.com. Also see if there are duplicate title tags (usually results in duplicate content)

3. Tough to say. If G is ranking you well and has been for a while - don't fix what ain't broke. There are many examples of people taking a long time to recover from mistaken 301 redirects or improper canonical tags which tanked their rankings - you're looking to do this on purpose.

that being said, you will probably need a either canonical tags and/or 301 redirects to maximize the site's SEO potential.

Alt text should be a description of the image. So I would include the product title as well as the keywords. e.g. By the Sea - Blue Sea Glass Necklace

Don't add paginated pages to sitemap.

You should not canonical page to page one... canonical to each of the paginated urls (just strip sessions ids and such)

rel="next" and rel="previous" on the one hand and rel="canonical" on the other constitute independent concepts. Both declarations can be included in the same page. For example, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2&sessionid=123 may contain:

You're good. Few more thing's I'd do:

• Add the rel=next/prev tag for your pagination.
• Configure URL parameters in GWT

Everything you need to know in video form from Matt Cutt's himself

Recap: underscores combine the two words (apple_pie.htm = applepie) and dashes indicate a separator (apple-pie.htm = apple pie). So stick to dashes but it really doesn't affect seo.

Use your own domain and start building authority to it.

Reasons:

1 - Its your site. If you decide to leave remax and create your own dedicated RE website, you would be off to a great start

2 - Much prettier/professional URL for marketing in both online/offline marketing initiatives

3 - If the old domain 301 redirects to the new domain, all that authority will pass over

That's what the rel="next/prev" does. It tells G that these pages are part of the same list and just the items change.