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There are not any very effective free solutions that I'm aware of, and hopefully someone can add one here so I do become aware.

However, if you're interested in controlling your affiliate program, than Hasoffers is a great product with a low entry cost. You can also look into the popular affiliate networks, such as Neverblue advertising and Commission Junction.

Also, look at your competitors affiliate programs and see what they are using.

Are you using a WordPress theme or a custom site theme?

Let's use this flow as an example:

User comes to your site and views a product

User submits a review to the product

Manager approves the reviews through the CMS

The review shows up on the product page

When the review shows up on the product page, your site probably generates that once the review is approved by a manager. The site generates some HTML and sticks in the review. That HTML generated should include the schema markup for the review.

Same with your products, if you push a new product into the site it generates a product page. Within that page's template should be the markup auto-generated (if it is built into the theme).

Does that help? You can PM me your site and I will take a look to be more specific.

Make sure you have GWT set to the www version.

Make the www version the canonical (and 301 redirect) for the http:// version

Allow the http://dev version to canonical to itself. I also suggest no-indexing your development environment so Google doesn't index it, competitors won't as easily see it, and your customers do not stumble upon it.

Design for what is important to your company, first. Are you getting a large portion of traffic through a new device? That may warrant putting resources into the design for that specific device.

If not, then do not worry about it so much. Monitor the performance and traffic from those devices and adjust as necessary.

If you want to position yourself as proactive, rather than reactive, then begin to consider a truly responsive design (fluid). This way your working towards a site that looks good at all device dimensions. Even still, when a specific device takes priority (largest portion of traffic), there should be resources put into the UI/UX for that specific device.

Your numbers do not need to be manually updated, but they do need to be wrapped in the correct schema in order to be read and updated by Google.

Your site's theme should include the schema markup and whenever a new review is entered the theme would take care of the code behind the scenes.

If you're adding markup manually now, then your theme probably doesn't have the markup built into its code/functionality. In that case, you'd need to adjust your site's theme to include the markup automatically or add a plugin to do so. You can also use Google Webmaster Tools' Data Highlighter to try and have it update automatically (works well if your site is clearly structured).

It's true that it wouldn't matter to the user, such as 'above the fold' real estate. But, to the bots do pay attention to the parts invisible to the user and should be optimized too.

Yeah, maybe not. But, 'above the fold' is understood to be better real estate on a web page - why not higher up on a document too?

Does the location of the title tag, meta tags, and any structured data have any influence with respect to SEO and search engines? Put another way, could we benefit from moving the title tag up to the top?

Yes, location does matter.

Let's consider this extreme scenario: A competitor and you are competing for the same term and have the following...

• The term being targeted is exactly the same
• Both you and your competitors' domain have the same authority
• You both have the same inbound links and internal link structure
• Both properties' content is optimized

Basically, you and your competitor have the same internal/external optimizations - so all other factors are equal aside from the <title>location.</p> <p>Pages are rendered from top to bottom. Crawlers read pages from top to bottom. Your competitors' <title> tag is higher on the page than yours. When Google crawls the site, they understand this (the location of the title tag in relation to the page). How will they decide between your page and your competitors' page? Your competitor puts the title tag up higher on the page than you do, it must be more important.</p> <p>Now, this is a very extreme scenario that is super difficult to replicate (you'd need to control both sites to do it properly). But, using this extreme can show why location of the <title> tag is important. It may be a very slight difference, but sometimes that is all that is needed.</p></title>

The sidebar widget will help the page rank, but it is at a disadvantage. Google's understanding of the sidebar makes the content in a sidebar less effective (my opinion, please do your due diligence).

Most sidebars include links, content around advertisements, and generic information. This has resulted in the understanding that content in the sidebar should carry less weight for rankings.

I suggest building up a strong intralinking website architecture. Build those landing pages with unique content, link back to the home page for your parent keyword phrases. Make the slideshow as HTML friendly as possible (can it be done completely in HTML/CSS?) and fill in your alt texts.

Ideally, your home page would have content to help its rank. Can you show content through tabs, modals, or other interaction methods? This way the content is not a focus to the user, but does exist on page for those who want it.

Send me a private message with some questions you have and I'd be happy to provide a clear, honest answer.

Next steps:

• Identify the keywords you'd like to improve your ranking for

• Identify the pages you'd like to rank for those keywords

• Go into the Moz grade page tool and grade each page for the assigned keywords

• Optimize the pages for an 'A' rating

• Make sure to add the keywords to the Moz tracker to see how your SERPs change over time

I'd run a test campaign then - if the ROAS is right for your business, then spend!

I have direct experience with Adroll.

I've used Adroll for retargeting campaigns and they generally were successful campaigns. I don't like their revenue attribution and reporting too much, and preferred to track through Google Analytics for the most accurate data.

Unless you've saturated your Adwords market, I suggest maximizing it before moving into the Adroll network.

If you sell any nutritional type of products you may get put into their 'less quality' network, watch out for that.

I agree to avoid a domain such as:

domain.com/kidney-dialysis-ckd-dialysis/article

Your article URL will probably include a similar keyword and it does start to get too long/stuffy.

I also agree that you want to setup an internal structure as described: Category > Article Name

Where I differ is by including the category in the URL, I believe it is not needed. Instead, allow the URL to be the article name. Then, structure your website so that you have a strong category page for your main keyword phrase and include links to these articles (and vice-versa) as appropriate.

Your internal link structure will tell Google just how important the main category page is for the main term and your supporting articles will be organized into categories through your UI & navigation structure.

Setting it up this way will inform google how each piece of content is related and still allow for the article to be the main term in the URL structure.

However, this is just a preference. You can include the category in the main URL structure and it may even be a big benefit to your site. I prefer the more direct URLs and enforcing the structure through UI & internal link design - I think it allows for more flexibility and attention on the article's terms.

I'd suggest dropping the /articles from the URL and just go with a friendly URL that is http://www.domain.com/name-of-article

You could include the categories, such as /kidney-dialysis, but I suggest keeping the URL train short and focusing the article title as the main portion of the URL.

Create efficient category pages for your main terms and try to get them to rank as well.

http://www.weddingrings.com/www.yoy-search.com

This is probably due to to a relative URL being used in the site code. When relative URLs are used improperly, you usually see the url added to the end of the correct http url. Make sure to use http in your anchor tag.

i.e. and not

You'll definitely want to use rel=canonical to the main URL.

I would also setup your URL parameter settings in Google Webmaster Tools and make sure to not crawl any unnecessary URLs.

What do you mean exactly by 'generate schema' ?

You would want to build the schema code into your template to integrate it properly. As long as it is in your site template then it will be added to your product pages accordingly.

The best way to do that is by adding and validating it manually. However, it wouldn't adding it manually to every single product since building it into your site's template would do just that.

Correct, thanks for that correction. I do not think this would be considered blackhat.

Let me see if I understand this correctly...

Your team developed .swf games and distributed them to flash game sites. In the .swf file you included a link back to your original website. Now, you're wondering if those links will be considered spam? No, I do not think so.

In fact, this sounds like a good way to build backlinks. If you're the original developer and legit websites want to distribute your game, let them and be happy about the link juice.

I suggest ensuring that you can track the links back to each game, watch to see which games are distributed most, and which games generate the most clicks back to your site. Then develop similar games and reap the rewards!

Unless someone else int he community has direct experience with this being black-hat, but I do think it is.