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I think with most platforms if you get the right people to develop them it will do the job.

Magento seems to be the most popular at the moment and because of that has a of support / developments available. However as mentioned above if you don't pay for a quality developer you could end up with a very slow site.

There is a company is the UK that offer a tool that does this. Not sure if this is the right link but the tool is part of Experian.

http://www.experian.co.uk/integrated-marketing/web-analytics.html

They call me a month or so ago to demo it. It had amazing data but was extremely expensive (circa £10-50k per year if I remember correctly).

Just a personal thing but for me you have tried to target too many keywords on the page therefore your title has gone over the 'limit' which could effect your CTR.

I would target your main keyword on the home page 'independent mortgage advice' then target the local stuff on individual pages. One page to target Ipswich, one page to target Suffolk etc and make the content really bespoke to the area (local client testimonials etc).

Hi Jason,

It looks like you are doing your on page stuff fairly well.

The next stage, which relates to your question on domain and page authority is to do with link building. As you have said you only have 19 external links (followed) to your site, this would suggest why your authority ranks are low.

Try having a read of this to understand the importance of links and some link building strategies - http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Just had a look at Power Mapper Sitesort and seems good. Would be interested to see what people think of this?

A one off cost of £239 look good value for unlimited usage...

I  have a client with a similar problem with over 6k individual products on an e-commerce site using manufacturers descriptions.

I think we have decided to 'bit the bullet' and get a resource to start writing unique content on these pages, starting with the most popular and working that way. The initial work will be to add a 'Our View' or 'Our Description' to each product to go above the manufacturers spec.

We also implemented customer reviews for individual products which build up unique and related content.

Do you have a link to that vid?

Just to be clear - your partner an affiliate that runs Adwords campaigns,  these clicks go through a Commission Junction URL and then to your site? If so, yes this is trackable.

The short answer is yes, it could have an SEO benefit but I would think carefully about the impact on the affiliate campaign.

The major advantage of being on a major affiliate network is the access to thousands of affiliates, some very large ones. If you took this is house you would need to put a lot of resources into recruiting new affiliates and even then you might not find the quality of affiliate you would get on a major network.

If you took it in house there is of course the tracking, admin and payment side of the affiliate setup to consider, implement and apply resource too as well.

If you (or your client) is serious about the affiliate campaign then I doubt you would improve it by taking it in house.

Personally I think the service fee as a percentage (in the UK the average is 10%) is the best way to go because it usually accounts for the extra work a larger account (in terms of budget) requires.

I have always used UK but have often wondered why the two options are on here too.

The difference between UK and GB 'in real life' is that the UK includes North Ireland while GB does not, I would assume this would be the same here?

As Susanna suggests hootsuit is great. Tweekdeck is also a good similar tool.

Any more detail on exact what it was?

Its a great idea. It would also essentially build up a knowledge base within the Q&A for people to get instant answers from too.

I have never used Spring Metrics but as it has a free 14 day trial would it not be best to trial it? Would be even better if you could let us know your thoughts on it too once trailed!

Obviously link building is important but I am always of the belief that if you have the opportunity to fix the on site issues (from an SEO, design and conversion perspective) first your efforts would be better concentrated there to start with.

This is because without the technical and on page corrections needed the efforts of your link building will be diluted and if your site does not convert well then your new traffic will not bring you the results it should.

I think the most important thing is that the most relevant page for the keyword is shown. In most cases this is a deeper page than the home page and will usually have a better chance of converting.

I believe the easiest way would be to add or remove the trailing slash in your .htaccess file in the root directory.

Make sure you backup your .htaccess file before you edit it!

The below may work for you but I would guess someone more experience in this area could help more with the coding:

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Use this code to your .htaccess file to remove trailing slashes:

#get rid of trailing slashes
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?turbocelica.lv$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http:/www.example.org/$1 [R=301,L]

or use this code to ADD trailing slash to the end of each URL:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)([^/])$ http://www.example.org/$1$2/ [R=301,L]

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Sure is a way:

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Hello Gal,

I was going to type out a response for you but realised this post answers your question in greater detail http://www.seomoz.org/blog/complete-guide-to-rel-canonical-how-to-and-why-not

Hope this helps