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I haven't found a way to export from the keywords management section, so I follow the same path as Manischa and export to Excel from the Rankings tab.

You touched on a good point here "We set  up our site to utilize a index redirect for all of our sub directories as well, so with this method you simply name your sub directories to match the url path that you desire. Each sub directory has it's own index which you redirect with a variation of the above code. By doing this you can have nice clean url paths like http://www.semclix.com/design/ecommerce/ - and mitigate the duplicate content issue. We hope that this helps."

Too often I see sites where they get the home page right but miss the re-write on the directories.

It certainly would improve the trust of your site visitors.  I have seen conversion increases of over 50% when clear ownership and contact information has been added prominently on a site.

Improving your Google trust is important.  Improving your potential customer's trust is critical.  Don't every forget it is as important to get more conversions from the visitors you have as it is to get more visitors.

I would be very careful about using the display: none route. Hidden text is considered a no no.  If you can't convince the client of the importance of link text then go with the alt tag.  I would also name the image files to reflect the anchor text I would like to use.

It doesn't appear from your original post that people are finding what they want and then living as you state your average time on site is around 20 secs.  I would tend to lean toward Keri's and Egol's comments in looking to address the problem.

I Agree with Richard you are cannibalizing your keyword. Use  a variation of the keyword or phrase in the second link.

I like you critical thinking Alan.  Too many times people react without thinking through the consequences of those actions.

Don't forget about the geo searches for people who are not in your area but are looking for information on it.  I am in Florida but will be doing searches to find out what is going on in Seattle during MOZcon at the end of July.  That includes car rental, restaurant, tourist traps (my wife is coming too), maybe even your overnight multi-day pet-sitting service if we bring the dogs as well are heading to Maui for a week to absorb everything the experts can teach me.

By the way. What is that place in Seattle that sells utility kilts?  Think I will Google it.

Yes the keyword rankings tool tracks any URL within your domain for rankings on those keywords all under the same campaign.

I agree Matt While we know most terms we want to target keyword research is an important part of our job. I regular go back and re-research keywords for clients I have worked with for years. I would be doing them a disservice if I did not.

Quality over quantity always wins in the end.  Make what you have the best you can, then add more quality content on related topics.

I would not want to be generating all those 404 errors.  My recommendation would be to 301 them to the top of the category and dynamically provide a error message that the classified they are looking for has expired, but here are lots of other ads in that category that might help them find what they are looking for.

You want to provide a good user experience and this would certainly be better for the user than simply a page not found error message.

You might take a look at SpyFu.com.  They can give you a fairly good idea.  For instance they said that npgeekery.com ranks like this.

| 12 | take aways | |
| 25 | brand monitoring | |
| 29 | non profit strategy | |
| 32 | takeaways | |
| 37 | aways |

Is there a way to attach a transcript to a video so that it is searchable without cluttering up the page with the full text?  Occasionally you have a video where visitors are entertained and don't need or want a transcript, but it would still be useful to have it indexed as it is an accurate representation of the video.

You have done exactly what you should do. The 301 will let the search engines know that page is no longer there and has been replaced by the new one.  Your new page should begin to show soon and the old page should drop out.

What you are looking at has to do with off site metrics.  You need to take into account you on page optimization as well.

Try running the SEOmoz On Page Report Card on your page.  http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

I would recommend www.mywebsite.com/hotdogs/.

That's and interesting issue.  If you do a site search that page has the title you specify in your title tag (see screen shot).  You do have the phrase "Animal Business Card Holders" on your page.  Google will create their own title tags for your page if you don't have one (you do), or if they think the title isn't appropriate for the page. Duplicate pages will sometimes create a situation where Google creates their own title.

The addition of Kyle Designs to the title is interesting. I have no idea on that one, but I am looking forward to other responses on it.

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Take a close look at your analytics and investigate where visitors are going from your home page.  If they are following diverse paths deep into your sub categories and individual product pages then leave it alone.  If they are predominately going to just the sub categories then you might want to re-think your navigation system.

While SEO is import to drive traffic, remember the main goal is to convert visitors to buyers.

I wouldn't use the <h>tag in navigation.  The <h>tag is for headings.  Just like an outline you did for a paper in school.</h></h>

You would be better off thinking about your anchor text in your navigation. I don't mean stuffing them with keywords, but make them more unique to your content when appropriate.

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