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Don't think there is a difference SEO-wise, just styling wise (inner tag style would override the outer tags style).

I would like some second opinions though.

Best way: manually going to the sites and finding contact info (name, email, contact form, skim the about me)

Scaled method: this is a really neat free tool and you can also check out buzzstream (which also gives social links so you can outreach through there first, then email for a better response rate)

Cheers,

Oleg

You can post the link here for everyone to see. Or you can shoot me a PM and I'll take a quick look.

Just test on a demo server before going live and back everything up. There shouldn't be much of a difference between transferring homepage v other pages (although without knowing a specific CMS, I can't give any specific tips).

Make sure canonical urls are correct and run a crawler to test for broken links.

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copyright - no longer valid, just place it into your footer as regular text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 and http-equiv is no longer valid

Cheers

What error is given? Those are still valid HTML5 tags - see this.

Only difference I see is self-close in your code.

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 notes,

• They have the term "marriage counseling" in their URL which improves their rankings
• They have more content on their website (each of their services has a lengthy, unique page of content)
• Your content is very similar to each other (8/10/12/14 week marriage counseling content has a lot of overlap)

I would try to create more unique content pages for your site and see if they improves your rankings. Aside from that, keep building strong backlinks. Check out their profile and see which links you want and can get - then do it!

Cheers,
Oleg

Follow & Connect

Excellent analysis! #6 and #7 are the big ones. Make sure your site is seen as relevant and get links from other relevant sites.

In GWT > Optimization > Content Keywords - this table will give you a gist of the kind of keywords on your site. If its not what you were expecting to see, you need to change your content.

If the current site is getting a lot of traffic and the new site would be a drastic change from the current site, I would look into hiring a coder to fix the hardcoded urls issue.

Everything you mentioned is plausible if not probable including negative SEO impact, loss of domain authority/ranking and issues with branding.

If the new site is going to be on different pages, make sure you 301 redirect the old pages to the new subdomain/domain. Aside from that, can't really do much =/

Good luck,
Oleg

Follow & Connect

You lose some juice with a 301 and there is usually a 2 week period where you drop out of SERPs for that page. However, the rankings usually come back strong after that.

A note about rewriting pages in general: I've rewritten old pages and seen improvements in SERPs. The risk would lie in how big of a content change occurs - if you have a page about dogs and rewrite for cats, you won't be rankings as well for dog terms. The benefit of rewriting over creating a new page is that it already has ranking power and can rank more easily for new terms.

Since #2 is the one that is getting shared/linked to frequently now (and I'm assuming a better domain name), I would slowly redirect the pages from #1 to #2. Try it for a few pages and see what kind of results you get. Just give G 2 weeks to update your rankings.

Cheers,
Oleg

Follow & Connect

Pretty important - read https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409437

"Googlebot couldn’t access your site because the request timed out or because your site is blocking Google. As a result, Googlebot was forced to abandon the request."

If G can't access your site, it's not going to end well.

I see you on page 4 on google.ca for the term - http://www.google.ca/#q=human+resource+books&start=30

Not in top 100 for .com

Sooooo. the .ca domain is definitely helping you rank in G.ca so you are appearing in their SERPs. For the .com results, you will see that the competition isn't very easy. Many books.google, amazon and publisher results means that you need to build plenty of high authority links before you can expect to see any rankings.

The .ca domain is also hurting your changes of ranking high on the .com (international) search results.

That would be redundant. If anything, maybe offer the option to hide the transcript (for people who don't want to read it and it gets in the way). Otherwise, just make sure you mark it up with all the proper mark up.

Text in hidden divs is indexed and included in SERPs. The content is still on the page just in video form - I don't see a problem with adding the transcript for SE to "read" the video. I would recommend also offering the option to view the transcript via click for visitors - some people may not have access to sound or prefer reading.

Also be sure to use Schema markup for VideoObject - there is an attribute for transcript that you should apply.

Check out their official guide and link up your G+ profile via option 1 or 2.

You can then check to see if you did it successfully via GWT or the Structured Data Testing Tool - should see your profile pic show up.

Download Screaming Frog spider and crawl your website. That should help you find if/where you reference 404 pages.

Cheers

That is the most likely case. It could also be that she has author markup on the contact page which takes preference over the homepage if she is connected via G+.

But if you can't replicate it and incognito shows the homepage, I wouldn't really worry about it.

I've run into the same problem a few times. Change link structure > update all link references EVERYWHERE > double check to make sure no old link references exist > remove the 404 errors from GWT > they come back a week later citing the link on pages that DO NOT have the link =/ Very frustrating since I like seeing a nice 0 in the errors section.

The only way to fix it (from my experience) is to set up 301 redirects from the old pages to the new ones.That way there is no 404 code and G will pick up that the old 404 page is actually a new, existing page.

Good luck!

Do you mean preventing your account from being hijacked? - Have a strong password. Maybe enable geolocation (in case account gets hijacked, can use it as evidence).

Not sure how else phishing/spamming fits in with twitter.