hehe yeah well 2-3 developers working full time on a project for 5 months will do that to a project

Honestly it doesn't sound like you'll find something that can do everything your looking for. I would advice getting hold of a developer and have him mod an open source system like wordpress or joomla to match your needs. But since we are talking .net those two won't work and it's very unlikely that you will find anything that matches your need. Honestly for a project of the size your talking about you need a professional developer who knows what he is doing.

Your project is simply to big and complex for a standard out of the box CMS. Even for a front end developer like me it would take me quite allot of time to get an idea what you would need. You should have a developer make system requirement spec. Armed with this you could go around looking for the right person/company to do the job.

We are currently working on a custom system witch sounds like it's roughly of the same size as the one your talking about and we are charging 115 000 $. from what you mention above it's quite a big system your looking for and very custom.

Google does not support html sitemaps and will only crawl them as any other webpage. But you can submit more xml sitemaps both in bing and google. I personally use a program called sitemap generator.

As far as I know there have been no official statement released on this topic from google. But yes google will sometimes change both title and meta description if it "feels" it's more accurate. Why? probably some spam fighting thing. But your guess is almost as good as mine to when it does this. But if you find someone who have some well documented data on the subject do keep me updated

A quick google search revealed this document, http://www.otterball.com/NET191.tut_flash.pdf and this one: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=72746

But I would think again about the flash thing atleast make an alternative option, why? because more and more traffic is moving to tablets, phones etc. And since iPhones and iPads don't understand flash, because apple are frigging idiots (very biased and angry statement i know   you wouldn't want to lose potential clients. I recommend going for a javascript/HTML5 + flash solution. Provide a flsh site for old desktop/laptop computers with old browsers and a HTML5/javascript solution for the iPhones and iPads.

Simply put:

• If HTML5 support redirect to HTML5/Javascript site
• If no HTML5 support redirect to flash site.

Hope it helped. To end my rant here a clip from googles faq:

Q: What are the current technical limitations of Google's ability to index Flash?
There are three main limitations at present, and we are already working on resolving them:

1. Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
3. While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.

We're already making progress on these issues, so stay tuned!

Your very welcome ennovation.And yes you do have a tendency to stare yourself blind on a design one did oneself, I know that all to well

Just a final thought, since your also targeting an elder audience you should bare in mind that old peops have a nasty tendency to have old mashines with outdated browsers, so you should make sure that your final version supports IE6.

Best of luck

good point about the older audience Stephen.. actualy you should make all buttons using text and css. That way they can use (no clue what those programs are called in english but the once that read a web page out loud to someone. :)..

And you should make sure it can pass a AAA standard. meaning should use a fluid grid design (since you are targeting an older audience) that way they can scale (hence read) the page and the layout will remain the same. For an example on fluid grid design check this link: http://www.designinfluences.com/fluid960gs/

Hi there

not so quick as you might think. I would run it through the following firefox plugins and follow their advice:

• ySlow
• Google Page Speed
• avoid links width anchor texts like view "more", "read more" or "view all" and so on.
• several links (that are images) are missing title tags
• several images are missing alt text since you made them using css sprites witch is good, but doesn't help google allot.
• Several of your image buttons could easily be swapped for text with a background image, this would help google crawl your site as well.

Regarding design:

• the top menu disappears in the gradient background
• the lower part of the page is a bit messy (text wise.)
• Too many font sizes used
• Too many font colours used

Hope that you don't take my critics personal, but the above where my immediate thoughts when I saw it

technically your host won't be abel to help since your cannot forward the TLD to the subdomian, but you can fix it easily in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

301redirect

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cyklopuniverse.dk/$1 [L,R=301]

Google have written allot about this subject and cuffs debated it one of his vids, here is a few links:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPiALaxDr6E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets7nHOV1Yo

Hi there

a quick reply from me

1: if I were you I would make my links in text and not in images. If you do have to add images avoid names such as read more. There are Java Script tricks you could use if you must have images. Such as replacing text with an image on "dom ready" there is no reason to show google an image if it's only a "read more" button anyhow.

2: If I make a list of links, make it a list, don't do divs if a list makes more sence eg:

• link 1

• link 2

• link 3

3: Since speed matters: If you can avoid images do it. If not; Use CSS sprites and the background property. If You must use img tags, always add a height and a width, that way the browser won't have to read the image size and the page will render quicker.

hmm without more info it's hard, like hip-shooting on one hand, blindfolded. But maybe you could check the bounce rate ex. in Analytics to see if your visitors also find the content good. (If they feel like browsing on after they read the landing page.)

Just because you find it high quality doesn't mean that your users or google agrees

have your checked for duplicate content on site and off site or if the page is getting indexed with 2 different url's?
The second page could also be poor quality content meaning, almost no text ex..

But it is kinda hard to point you in the right direction without more info

Hi there

Actualy your website host should be abel to handle this for you, if not you have a seriusly shitty surplier

What you need to have them set up is more commonly known as a "domain alias" so you set up the webhotel with the primary domain and then have them set the other domains up to be aliases to that domain.

Or you could use the geeky way out. Set up all the domains to point to the server on where your site is hosted. Have your host setup your server to accept the in coming domains. and then setup the .htaccess (on appache platform) to 301 all other (including subdomains www) to the primary domain.

But the easier way out is clearly to have your hosting company set it up for you.

There could be quite a few reasons, there is no short answer for that.

could you show us 2 examples? 1 page that has been penalized and one that haven't?

I do believe that the common consensus is that the panda affects the entire domain if it penalizes pages then some of that penalty will rub off on the rest of the domain.

My advice take the penalised pages down while you rework them. That should solve your problem.

don't forget search engine land

I have actually seen this before. And since this was my own testing server I'm quite sure that it's bad server management. (since i'm no wizkid at servers.) so maybe one should test it. But as to what exactly is causing it? I'm clueless sorry.

I just read your other question and I think the answer to all your problems are relatively simple: Since the server is going down for maintenance (usually a geeky way of saying we need to fix something, but without admitting that anything is broke) chance are that it won't be going down again any time soon. So the solution is straight forward.

1: Clone your site to another server.
2: Change the TTL to something like 3600 (an hour)
3: Setup your zone file on the new server to accept the domains and subdomains.
4: Change the IP of all the A-records relating to your site, to point to the new server

When the server guys are done fooling around.

1: Change the IP back to the old server
2: Change the TTL to something like 43200 (12 hours)

Problem solved and Google won't hate you

Since you sound like, you know your nerd speach. I'll go tecno

A domains TTL has an impact on your SEO efforts. Low TTL's makes it possible to cheat Google's clients, hence Google doesn't like this. (since you can change where the client is sent every few seconds.) How much it effects your efforts, I must admit I have never tested.

Just in case you do not know what a TTL is (I suspect that you do though): TTL stands for Time To Live and tells the Name servers how often they should revisit the domain host and retrieve a zone file for the domain. In  other words TTL determins how often the name server checks to see if a DNS record has changed.

What was your question from last night? could you link me? I won't promise anything, but one never knows I might know the answer for that one

*edit: type'o corrected..