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I agree. Squarespace is a great tool and EASY to use for those that are starting out. However, if you are truly looking to be a competitor in Search, IMO, you will need to stay away from these types of platforms as they tend to be problematic and not offer the flexibility needed to properly optimize the site. As MoosaHemani said, use WordPress or similar. If your site will be eCommerce, just install Woo Commerce and call it a day. This will give you all the flexibility needed. Good Luck!

Thanks guys for your help, i appreciate it.

Hello Peter Recenty Rand wrote a White board Friday on moz blog(actually a video)   It cleaned up some questions in our minds about Not provided data, if you havent watched it. here is the link for it http://moz.com/blog/100-percent-keyword-not-provided-whiteboard-tuesday   seems like in all cases getting information is costly and information is not gonna be that available or accurate soon (already percentage went up:(. Frutiko Team

Thank you both, I appreciate it.

They could identify if there is a higher than average number of anchor text links with specific keyword phrases. If your distribution of anchor text is very different than the average site in that niche it would be detectable.

site.com and site.com/index.html are both loading index.html  So open Index.html, add the canonical tag back to your preferred version and you're done. If you're saying that you want the link to be something different, that depends on how the site is setup, whether you can change the "home" button or whatnot. In Wordpress's new menus this is simple. In other themes, not so much. In other CMS, I don't know because "it depends."

So, if I'm correct this means that if you have a your logo in say the header of every page. Then, it is internally linking back to the home page. Would that be right?

I guess not, at least they shouldn't. But they were caught doing pretty ugly stuff They could still use your IP to personalize search, there's nothing wrong there.

Great! So glad to be of help.

Okay thank you so much Miriam!

Thanks for the response Keri, I appreciate it.

Linking to external sites from a footer is not harmful, unless the sites you are linking to are low quality sites. What can be harmful is receiving a lot of sitewide footer links with exact keyword anchor text. This can be seen as spammy by Google. Footer links & sitewide links in general also don't carry as much weight as in-context links.

Okay thanks for all your help.

Hi Neil There is no problem with supplying an extra answer especially one as detailed as you have given

Hey Peter, Looking at OSE the site in question has "2,781" anchor text links for Zen Cart Skins, but the majority of those are sitewide. There are only 17 unique root domains contributing to that particular anchor text. They are also pointing to http://www.zen-cart-skins.com/ which is 301 redirecting to MCC. What i'd look at and try to reverse engineer is the 78 linking root domains for "computer repair" - the majority of which are blog spam and low quality. With some high quality link building you should be able to overtake him eventually.

Thanks for your response Irving, I appreciate it.

Yes it is possible. I will start with a saying in this business. SEO Organic rankings will largely depend on how organic friendly your content is. I have never seen a website that had very share-able, power, dynamic content that not rank. The power is in what you offer. If you what you offer is not very powerful in word-of-mouth; chances are you are in very a emotional roller-coaster ride. A large part of what many webmasters miss is that your product, service, information, website/blog has to be very useful. What will become of a very useful website, product, and or service is the link profile for your website and very high rankings. People ask me, "So how does SEO play into such a powerhouse?" Or why do I need SEO if my product, service, website is so raw! SEO is more than just manipulating links and content. Keyword research will help you silo your website by targeting long-tail-keywords like you mention earlier. Keyword research helps you ensure you setup a series of implicit and explicit conversation with your user, which will develop into many landing pages with a targeted conversion. That conversion could be to filter into a semantic-powerhouse email program (designed to generate revenue), coupon offer, instant discount on some product to checkout, a phone call, a lead, something. The Keyword Research will evolve into marketing persona project that will help you understand how to direct users throughout your website to an end result. After the Keyword Research, Persona Map and Content Conversation-Conversion Map,you'll need to silo (Google it tons of blog post our there on what this is and how to do it) your website and come up with a schema that interconnects your website for site-usability and crawl-ability is critical to ensure that you can rank for just about any keyword relative to your niche without having to resort into blackhat/grayhat linking. You can just do high-quality press releases, directories, and community advertising to promote your content. *This is pretty much the only strategy that can ensure enough natural organic links develop to your root page on your server and any other inner directory or page in your site. Hopefully this is a little clearer.

No problem!

It took me about 2-3 weeks each time.  I have a large list of Wordpress ping services and I manually pinged everything I could so it's possible it could take longer. Make sure you have a sitemap in WMT and it should speed you along as well.  If you just made the change, I'd suggest resubmitting a map so they recrawl fresh.