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G Docs is probably better. For all they know, you could be linking them to a virus file in DB.

Overlay pop up would be the way to go. Keeps users on the page and is just much cleaner. There is no problem with Javacript overlays for SEO (unless you are trying to rank for "select your country")

My suggestion is to just capture the visitors country via IP and auto-select the country for them. Then you can have a drop-down or "click to change country" icon somewhere on your site that would let users fix any erroneous autoselections.

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-Oleg

1. It's treated more like a link from the same domain - because it was being gamed. Here is a video where Matt says subfolders and subdomains are pretty much equivalent. Google has special rules for .wordpress.com, .blogspot.com, etc

2. Yes, but make sure you match up the 301 redirects on the page level, not just a mass redirect to the homepage of the new domain

Nope, won't cause any problems. The xml sitemap is what you will submit to G and search engines while the HTML one is for your site visitors who want to see all your pages (although it will be crawled and indexed as well).

Few things you can do.

1. As long as Google can index the text, it will appear in the SERPs. So making it read only is fine.

2. If you just show the title to Google, that's all that will be indexed. You'll probably be missing out on a bunch of long tail keywords and quality content from the conversations.

3. Make the content viewable to googlebot but not viewers. That way you get your privacy and let Google know about the conversations going on within.

Note: Non-members can still view the content via Google's cached version of the page but most people don't know about that feature. They also wouldn't be able to post from the cached copy.

Cheers,
Oleg

Only thing I can think of is doing it via pushstate/hashbang. It's for AJAX but maybe you can adapt it to Java?

Did some more research... those aren't valid name values - see this.

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DC.title = <title>your title here</title>

author =

language =

copyright - no longer valid, just place it into your footer as regular text

reply-to - not sure what this does

cache - must be set via htaccess/server side. and http-equiv is no longer valid

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I like it. Has a bunch of the KPI metrics a ecommerce owner would want to see on one page. I would put up a feedback form somewhere there are well to see what your users think of the design and any changes they would like to see.

Yeah, that tool simplifies schema.org examples. Just enter the info into it, see how the HTML should look, then copy/paste/edit it to match your websites HTML.

302 = temporary redirect. When the crawler landed on your page, it was redirected to another URL.

[NO STATUS] / [NO DATA] - try running it again? If it still shows up, you may be blocking crawlers, try fetching your site as G - also check your robots.txt, htaccess and meta tags to make sure you aren't blocking it from there.

Should we use the preferred url structure starting NOW or stick with the old one?

Stick with the current URL's. They are pretty much just as SEO friendly and there is a greater rick to lose traffic if you change/redirect all of the URLs.

Long as you have the 301 redirects set up properly, you should be good.

Bing webmaster tools has it's own "Site Move" feature but I'm not sure you need to use it.

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Traffic dropped totally on April 20 to onwards.

That's penguin alright. October was a penguin refresh so you might have gotten hit again.

For everything you need to know about Penguin, read part 1 and part 2 of Steve Webb's awesome coverage.

Looks fine to me - http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2F54.86.51.30%2Fsearch-space-for-rent%2FHouston%23top

Great layout btw

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0083hrd674

I think it's automatically chosen by Google. You can only tell Google which pages you'd prefer not to be sitelinks.

Yep, no need. Won't hurt if you do (will probably get crawled twice or one will be ignored) but for the sake of keeping GWT sitemap data clean (pages submitted/indexed), don't duplicate the links.

Cheers,
Oleg

Faster load time is questionable - its only faster cause it take less code to load but it would take a looooot to switching from table to div in order to see a significant difference in load time. Removing any image would probably save more load time.

UX-wise... you should test your website in several browsers and devices, in addition to fetching/rendering as google. If everything looks good and is easy to navigate, wouldn't worry about it.

With that in mind, especially since you wouldn't expect to see organic fluctuations, is it worth investing in recoding a whole website from tables to divs? There are probably many better ways to spend that budget.

I would keep the site in tables until you are ready for a website redesign.. at which point you should make sure it uses divs.

You pretty much nailed it.

Google would say its bad, but results say otherwise.

I'd be willing to bet that manually writing up unique content that is more relevant to the target keywords would bring better results. When you consider cost vs ranking results though, having a template where you mix and match keywords is a smart move for lots of websites.

The reason is that the instant search is looking up "duorol blinds" and not just "duorol". You can see the query box adds in the gray text "blinds" which means it is including that keyword in the query.

Likewise, if you compare the instant search results to the results for "duorol blinds", you'll see they are identical.

I believe the the standalone keyword "duorol" is not popular enough to be a suggested search and the instant search automatically adds "blinds" as this is more commonly searched.

Cheers,
Oleg

• Make sure you don't have canonicals to old urls
• Redirects are 301
• Make sure you use the Change of Address tool in GSC