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It should just be the one inside the standard public_html folder as this is what is referenced in the PHP error (/home2/damian/public_html/index.php on line 17).

Hope this helps! Let us know how you get on.

Hi Iris,

It's hard to debug the problem without being able to see the issue, but it sounds like it's an incorrect file path. Open up your index.php file and find the following:

require('./wp-blog-header.php'); change it to this:

require('wp-blog-header.php');

Hopefully that will help fix your issue!

Lewis

Like Alejandro has explained, the header.phpxxx isn't actually being used. .phpxxx is not a valid php extension, so they've added the xxx in so it isn't used in the wordpress theme.

Looking at the code in header.php, your title tag is here:

<title><?php if( is_home() || is_front_page() ) bloginfo('name'); else wp_title(); ?></title>

This basically means:

If you're on the homepage or on the front page of the website, show the blog name (which is pulled from your wordpress settings). If not, show the wordpress title (this will be pulled from the name of the page which the user is on).

If you wanted to make it so the order of the title page is different, for example, if you wanted your title tag to show 'Page Title Here | Site Name', you could go into your wordpress settings and should be able to change the order in which this is done... Alternatively, download a plugin such as Yoast's SEO plugin and you'll be able to customise everything there!

I think that sounds absolutely fine on the basis the backlinks pointing to the URLs are ok and like Gary said, check you haven't received any penalties on the URLs. If you've done any blackhat link building on the URLs and you're planning on 301 redirecting them, you're potentially opening yourself up for trouble.

That being said, why do you want to 301 redirect them? Do the sites have regular traffic coming to them? Or have you done some particularly good form of link building on them?

If there's no real value in redirecting them, you may as well just leave them and cut your loses early...

Personally, I would agree with you an opt for the following option:
clone.com/Apartments/New-York?price=30&size=100

I don't think it matters whether that section of the URL is readable to everyone. I would actually say that anyone who has a technical background would find the URL above easier to change than the other one, as having /'s in the URL almost symbolised different directories rather than a parameter (that's how I would generally interpret it anyway).

I think in the grand scheme of things, It's going to make little different as you don't want the additional sections to actually be indexed in the search engines. Like Gary correctly pointed out, you can setup 'URL Parameters' in GWT and I think that's your best option. There's more information about that here - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/improved-handling-of-urls-with.html

You could also use robots.txt to block the parameters in the URL but this depends on whether the search engine crawling your website chooses to use it.

Hope this helps!
Lewis

Hi Daniel,

Yeah - I was kind of expecting that kind of a response.

It's pretty frustrating really, more because I know I haven't tried to bribe anyone. That being said, if they won't shift, then I'll have to move on. Like you say, I just need to avoid letting it get under my skin.

Plenty of other good backlinks out there! It'd just be nice to think I could clear the air with the DMOZ crew!

Many thanks,
Lewis

Hi everyone,

Before I start, I want to point out that I realise DMOZ is not everything. If I can't get a link, then I'll accept it, but I'd like to try damn hard to get a link in there if possible as I honestly believe we are a reputable company that deserves to be in there with other companies in our region.

So, lets go back to the start:

A few years ago, when I was young and foolish, I posted a request on rentacoder (now vworker) asking for someone to submit us to DMOZ for $xxx. If I remember correctly, we accepted someone for the job and they submitted our site. Since then, we've never been accepted.

I tried submitting the site a couple of years ago and realised it still hadn't been submitted around a year ago. I thought this was a bit strange, so I did a bit of digging. I ended up talking to someone who was a DMOZ editor. They looked at my listing on DMOZ and basically said that I'd be rejected for 'bribing an editor' - something that I still maintain I didn't do.

Never at any point have I said to someone that I would pay them to guarantee us a listing. At the time, I thought there was a 'certain way' to write a submission, but now that I've grown up a bit, I've realised it's fairly easy to get a listing if you write a well written description and are honest - I've done this for many clients sites which are now accepted.

Unfortunately, this does mean that It looks like I won't be able to get our agency on DMOZ, but I just wanted to give one last push and see if anyone on SEOMoz knows of any one I could speak to in order to lift this ban?

I realise now that it was probably a stupid thing to do, and in hindsight, I should have just waited like everyone else. I hold my hands up to that and I've worked over the last few years to grow our agency into something special for our clients.

As I say, I realise dmoz isn't everything, but it is a directory that still holds value and I would like to be linked off there if possible.

Any tips on how I may be able to beg for my ban to be lifted would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Lewis

PS: I applied to become an editor at one point, this was when I realised something wasn't right - http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52658

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the reply.

I've contacted LinguaLinx and received a response to say that they'll be in touch as they're on holiday at the moment. We'll see what the price comes back with. I've also posted out a job offer for people who can speak multiple languages to do content writing. I'll have to weigh up which seems more cost effective but Ideally I want native speakers to work with.

If anyone else has any suggestions on companies who can help me achieve this, that would be great!

Thanks,

Lewis

Thank you for the recommendation guys.

SEO5 - I was considering putting this on oDesk, but I didn't want to run the risk of people taking on the job and then just putting it into Google Translate and sending it back. I'll need someone to proof-read the work for me and make sure it's all ok, and need to ensure this really is top quality content.

Daniel - I'll get in touch with LinguaLinx shortly and see if it's something they can help me out with. I've been in touch with another couple of companies already and had some quotes through, but I would prefer a recommendation as I can then have someone vouch to say they're doing good work and it's not just scraped off the internet and then translated using an auto translator.

Anymore suggestions anyone has would be great!

Many thanks,
Lewis.

Hi All,

I'm currently doing a lot of work for a UK client who has multiple sites outside the UK (all part of the same business). We're currently discussing the option of us handling all of his SEO for his German, French, Spanish and Italian sites too, but we only have access to one person in the office who can speak French and Spanish.

They're currently booked up on other jobs that we can't really move them off, so I'm looking for options of outsourcing some of the content writing.

My question is, does anyone know of any high quality content writing services that have writers available to write for the countries languages above?

We're going to focus initially on their on-site strategy and building up their high quality content. At the moment, they don't have much relevant content on their website, so we're going to initially look at this. Moving forward, we'll be looking at their off-site strategy and trying to find areas to submit high quality articles, look at guest blogging and PR opportunities.

Any tips anyone has on this side (in terms of outsourcing to native speakers) would be quite useful too!

Many thanks,
Lewis