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Hi Paul

I can fully identify with your frustrations - been there!

A simple question may help you.  Did you have a web developer, and are you still in relationship with him/her.   If so, get them to do a 301 redirect from the www.simodal.com/index.htm to your chosen version.  Most seem to do www.simodal.com/  - but with a trailing forward slash at the end.  Someone else might like to comment on that.

Also as Aaron says also do it for the version without the www's  ie: http://simodal.com/  and do a 301 to exactly the same URL as the above.

If you haven't got a developer there is some info around telling you exactly how to do it.

Hope this helps

Hi Dan

Thank you - that is the final piece of information I needed to get so I could have an overall feel as to the way I should look at this. in a holistic way.

Best wishes

PH

Hi EGOL

Thank you for your reply - very good suggestions, especially for some other products - however, this one is about a certain element of manufacturing - so sexy titles don't quite work in this market (and my client may have a fit).

Having said all that, we have had a better response than we expected and it does create great leads.

I will speak with the developer to see what can be done though.

Thanks again

Hi EGOL

Thank you for your reply - very good suggestions, especially for some other products - however, this one is about a certain element of manufacturing - so sexy titles don't quite work in this market (and my client may have a fit).

Having said all that, we have had a better response than we expected and it does create great leads.

I will speak with the developer to see what can be done though.

Thanks again

Hi Byrce

Thank you for your helpful  reply - there are different products and this allows for tracking and ultimately collating the product against the applicants details whch are then forwarded to the sales guys.

HI Dan

Thank you for your reply - I may end up going down your route as the subject matter is manufacturing issues - so not rivetting facebook content, that's for sure.It is amazing how three different answers all contribute another perspective - all helpful as well.

My other challenge is battling with the developer!!

I would love an answer to the query tucked in the middle of my question - does having 25 identical page titles effect the way Google view the whole site?

Many thanks again

Hi

We have 25 pages with a download form on it. People arrive at the page through a ink with optimised anchor text which sits on the information pages.

As there is no information on these pages we do not need them to be optimised so the developer has given all the download pages exactly the same page title.

Although the pages in themselves are not significant would this effect the way Google viewed the whole site, and would it pay to make each one unique or doesn't it really matter.

Alternatively, is there a better way to handle this?  and if so would that ligate the benefit of the anchor text.

Thanks

Hi Richard

Thank you for coming back - no I didn't reword my original message, I just clarified it in a second message - my original query wasn't crystal clear.

You confirmed my concerns - however, I did go onto to ask - when a site has a a couple of hundred links or more can that increase that number as the 20 new links would become a far smaller percentage of the total sum than when you start out. (I hope that makes sense to you)

Thanks again

PH

Hi Theo

Thank you for replying -and sorry I wasn't clear

I was referring to inbound links  - are we talking about 10 or less, or 50 or less (for example) - or is it a matter of percentages so at first it might only be 10 or 20 a days but once you have a few hundred links it being no more than 20% for example

What do you suggest?

Thank you again

Hi

If you plan to add new links to a site which currently has very few inbound links what is the maximum amount you could add in any one day before it is deemed by Google to be suspicious and unatural. I am referring ot manually added links, not robotic.

Thank you

Hi Keri

Thank you for your succinct and very helpful answer - no wonder I couldn't find it, but did find out a lot on how to prune Wysteria!!

Best wishes

Hi - If I remember rightly someone from the SeoMoz team has mentioned a video submission site called Wisteria?  Is this right?  If so what is the URL and what are the benfits over TubeMogul from an SEO perspective / ease of use etc ?

Thanks

Hi

My tip would be to optimise the alt tag on your 'Simple ID' logo and file directory name (no more than two hyphens to be on the safe side)

and the same for your flash image = turn into a slide show and optimise the alt tags & directory names.  Keep them natural.

and compare you and your competitiors inbound links.