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Hamping, no, I am not saying to enter 2800 lines in your .htaccess

I was suggesting that you should create one general redirect rule. If only the permalink structure changed, it is possible. Could you give me an example of a URL that now returns 404, and it's new permalink?

As for the 500 errors: sometimes, when configured improperly, some .htaccess rules may cause conflicts, redirect loops and more.

You need to analyze the redirect rules you have in .htaccess.

Another approach (but it will not be a great user experience and many don't recommend it) is to 301 redirect all your 404's to your homepage. It is just an option I am not recommend it either.

Hi there,

I think everyone has some sort of error reports in Webmaster tools.

However, after analyzing your .cvs files:

1. Your 404 error reports are just a note that those pages are not there anymore. It is something normal.

You should of permanent 301 redirect all those link to their new locations. It is not late, you can still do that. After you finish, check if everything works properly, rebuild your sitemap and resubmit it, tick all those boxes an fixed.

5. Your 500 server error notifications:

You have some miss-configured lines in your .htaccess. These errors are usual caused by multiple redirects which neither the server or search engines can handle. E.g. You have a URL like:

domain.com/component/content/online-marketing-community/online-marketing-community/index.php/services/social-marketing

there are two URLs in this URL.

Hello Matthew,

In OSE you can check out how root domains are linking to that competitor. 25k links, without using some sitewide ads (banners, text links - which should be nofollowed) are not that easy to get.

When you see someone having 50k links from 50 domains, that means that he gets like 1k links from each of those root domains, which is not that good.

As I can tell by analyzing your attachment, they have 25602 links originating from only (!!!) 30 root domains. That is approximately 850 links from a domain.

However, if you take a look at that green circle which is representing the ratio between the dofollow/nofollow links, you can see that 60ish% of their links are nofollowed.

In OSE you can group all their links by domain, you should have like 30 results so you'll know who's linking to them.

The opinions about the usage of internal nofollow links are mixed, but since Google changed how they treat nofollowed links using nofollow for internal links is not such a good idea.

Basically you are loosing link juice.

Now, what you can do, is to have (if possible) targeted links in the footer (if you are using WP you can accomplish that by using conditional tags).

The idea is to let PR flow naturally. This is the conclusion of my readings.

Spare 2 minutes and check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4SAPUx4Beh8

Bastiaan,

The domain was new, right? I mean it wasn't dropped/expired etc.

Try to get a dofollow link from a relevant website that has some traffic (Google tends to index very fast such websites and outgoing resources).

Also, make sure you have a sitemap and try including a line in robots.txt:

Sitemap: http://www.wikiboedel.nl/sitemap.xml

Submit the sitemap in Google's Webmaster Tools.

If you do all these, it is impossible bot to get indexed in a few days.

Anyway, fingers crossed.

I experienced this issue with sandboxed websites.

Market your products and in a few months every page should be in Google's index.

Cheers.

Hi Bestiaan,

If it was recently (1-2 weeks) created and if you used robots.txt to block search engines (when I create a website, I use to block search engines from robots.txt, until everything is working fine and only afterwards I modify the permissions) than it's normal.

Verify the website in Google's Webmaster Tools and go to the robots.txt section. You should see if that is the reason.

I see your robots.txt file is fine, you have no NOINDEX meta tag or so.

To "stimulate" the indexation process you could make some use of social media. Share a post and wait 1-2 days. Or, some relevant direct link to one of the posts.

I hope this helps.

Nikhil,

from the screenshot I can see that you have no errors. So, it might be a temporarily glitch.

Use their tool to debug:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

If you see your image there, it means it's a temporary problem. If not, it will tell you what to do.

OK, now you don't want some very aggressive call to action sentence. I'd try to avoid words like "best", "leading" etc.

Try to describe what your website offers in a sentence.

Yep, diversify you anchor and pray for the best.

No, Google don't treat very similar keywords the same.

Put it this way: manchester magician is 3 letter shorter than magician in manchester, and we all know that the search volume dilutes as keywords get longer. So it's up to you... why don't you go for both keywords on different pages?

Keyword stuffing your homepage isn't the best decision. I'd keep my homepage something like:

Company Ltd.: Web development solutions (anyway, something that best describes your entire site, company)

The landing page(s) could have a title like:

****Company Ltd.: Web design services

or

Web design services | Company Ltd.

Good luck.

Getting backlinks from sponsoring templates/themes is not the right way of doing it. People pay theme creators to include a link to their website. Other people use those themes, so you'll end up with thousands of backlinks with the same anchor text.

A good link is a link from one single page, preferably on the same niche.

What you can do at this point, is to remove all those "sponsored by", "created by" links.

Use Opensiteexplorer to analyze your website and check out who's linking to you using site wide links.

Eg.:

This theme is brought to you by Corporate Team Building Events, Fixed rate bonds rates on: http://vanzandtnews.com/

Hi there,

We could talk about this subject endlessly and we still won't get to a point.

The fact is that for a "one person managed website" is just overwhelming to take care of all aspects (SEO, design, content, updates, copy-writing, marketing, customer support, etc). I'm saying this because I've spent a few years like that and it's just impossible. You can't stay in front of your PC 16 hours a day.

That being said, I'm in doubt when it comes to this "link building job". Okay, yeah, everyone say that we should do it, that is very important and so on, but the majority loose the main point of view: quality content.

You could do some research in your niche, create some comparison tools/data, come up with something new, interview someone and post all that on your website. Sooner or later, someone will be impressed by what you did and will eventually mention you in a comment, on a forum or even of his own website. Those are the links that counts.

If you really have time, you can use DigitalPoint forums, Yahoo Answers, SeoMoz forums, search for the latest news in your niche and participate constructively in some debates etc. But soon you'll realize that it doesn't worth the time.

Cheers.