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So it doesn't appear to have any direct impact on Google's algorithm, right?

Hello everybody!

I want to know if Schema.org has any impact on ranking?

Thanks!

Hello everybody!

I'm in doubt with which one is the best:

To have a Twitter profile name with:

1)the company's name.
Of course it's good for branding, but it's a B2B, industrial market.

2)a relevant keyword.
Will it bring traffic, considering that is a B2B, that works different.

The question is: does Google gives relevance to username with keyword in it? If yes, have it a great value, or should I use the company name?

Thanks!  =]

Hello!

Search Engines don't care about Meta Descriptions! It's NOT a Ranking factor.

Although, it's very important because is that text that that appears below the TItle and the URL in the results.

But, 170 characters are the maximum that is showed there. So, this is the recommended maximum number, as you can predict what your potencial customers are going to see.

And it's another chance to write something catchy and get their attention!

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Hope it helps!

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That way it's ok!

You see, Google doesn't like who buys or make some blackhat and unnatural growth.

So, if you can make this growth in a organic look, it's everything gonna be fine!

It's answered now?

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Hello Matt!

I see two situations here.

1. If they are linking to different URLs, like different articles and things, there will be no problem at all.

2. If they link only to your homepage, you should be more carefull, and get those links in a bigger time.

Resuming and being more pragmatical : In the first situation, maybe in two weeks it's a good time for it, but try to spread the linking on the more days you can. For the second, maybe a month, and spreading the days of linking you.

Helped you?

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You're welcome!

I understand your problem, and the canonical cannot solve it. It only works for internal duplicate content.

I saw something about a external canonical, but it looks like you're going to pass your relevance to another site, and you don't want that!  ; )

Do you and your competitors have too many duplicated content?

I would suggest you to write your own content in the cases of external duplicate content, and this way go ahead of your competitors!

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Hello Garth,

When working with e-commerce sites, they have some unique needs.

In this case, you have some pages that shows some similar products, but with different colors, shapes. But in the end, you have to use the same content for usability, to let the user with some standardized layout.

So, the Search Engines understands this need and in this case we should use the rel="canonical" attribute, to tell them that the targeted page is the most important one.

The canonical should be inserted in the HEAD of all your products directing to it's category page, like this:

In a page of a specific Conference Table, you should use the category page in the tag below:

Read this to learn more: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

Hope it helps!

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Hello Alan!

DON'T use the 301 redirect in this case, because you will certainly create a loop, and then nobody will access the filtered page.

I am optimizing a e-commerce site, that has some duplicated content too.

We are trying just now to use some canonical, and it looks it's going well.

I think that this time your client should pay for, it will surely worth it.

You could also use some meta robots in this case. It can be complementary just with the canonicals. 

Here is a good and quick explanation: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html 

Hope it helps!

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Hello Jake!

In your title is good that you use the keyword the same form that people search in the SE's.

So, you should use <title></em>Dog Leashes .... <em></title> , and as you may know, the more to the left is better.

Otherwise, in your URL, it's recommended that, if a keyword has two separated words, you use "-".

Ex: www.site.com/dog-leashes

Hope it helps!

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Hello Mihaly!

Talking about more operating stuff, I think you should study:

1. Faceted Navigation - considering almost e-commerce uses this

2)Canonical - to show to the Search Engine where is the most important products

3)Meta Robots - to avoid Content and Title Duplication.

With that in mind, you can think better how you are going to optimize your site.

I think that this three topics is a good start for e-commerce

Hope it helps! =]

Hello!

I am seeing a lot of my clients using a 301 when the page doesn't exists redirecting to a well designed 404 page.

But, essentially, the server have to output a 404 HTTP Code and show that fancy 404 page to the user.

After all, the HTTPs codes exists to be used, and this is a important one!

Hope it helps! =]

Hello,

could you say what the name of that plugin?

Hello Paul!

Because the URL is different, the crawlers look them as different pages, but as you know, they're not! It's just two ways to get there!

To solve this, you have to redirect the /index page to the non-/index, using the 301 redirection code.

Tutorial here: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm

Got it?

Hope it helps! =]

I putted a Heat Map down there. I should you know it.

So, as you can see, the navigation bar don't even shows any color. So i would recommend you to use the links just in the navigation, and use the left column spot to put other thing, some very attractive link, like best selling products maybe.

You should use some Breadcrumbs below the navigation bar as the user gets deeper in the site. This is more for usability.

I would suggest you to put in the Main Bar just a major category, like Door Articles. And then in it the user can choose between then, if he wants door handles, door hinges, door locks...

It helped this way?

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Hello!

1. The best URL would it be if you just put the door-handles straight from the home, less deeper. Like this:

http://doorhandle.ie/door-handles
http://doorhandle.ie/door-hinges
http://doorhandle.ie/door-locks
....

2. To optimize your Home, you have to put the minimum links you can. Put just one link for DOOR HANDLES, or for DOOR LOCKS. But you choose where to put, at the left column or the top bar. Now you have to think about your users.

When you create a www, you have to use one as the main one. So redirect this actual one to the www version using 301 redirecting.

I would recommend you also put some keywords in H1 (just one tag of these in each page), about what the page is.

And use some rel=nofollow on the links that is not strictly of your business, like support, privacy policy or about us.

Hope it helps! =]

Hello Benjamin!

Let's start from here:

When a site have a good combination of some things like Page Rank, Authority and Trustfulness, Google looks to this site as a relevant one on the Web.

So, imagine if this site links to yours using the rel="nofollow" (the link needs this attribute to make the "juice" flow  http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_a_rel.asp), the Search Engine thinks: "Well, if it's a good site sending to another, this second one must have some relevance too!".

Now, your site is going to be seen from a better perspective by the Search Engines. The "juice" is like the relevance, and so to "link juice" is when you kind of share it to another one.

And this can be done using yours site internal links too! Linking your Homepage to another for example. But, of course it's not to be going so great as another site linking to you...you can imagine, if you talk about what you are is good, but what do other people talk about is much better. Google thinks also that way!

But in the end, link juice can be talked as when a site passes relevance to your by linking you with nofollow.

Hope it helps!  =]

Hello!

As I undesrtand your question, I don't know if DNS redirection has something about it. Maybe I didn't get your question right...

But, the best way to redirect something is using 301, as it is permanent, and the search engines will crawl it just fine.

Maybe, another way is creating a subdomain for the specific country, like:

www.yoursite.com

uk.yoursite.com

Hope it helps! =]

Hello Eddie,

I would recommend these things:

1. Check the HTML structure: if <title>are corresponding to what the specific page is about, and if contain keywords; if has just one <h1> per page, and talking about the subject of the page. You could use some <h2> or even <h3>'s if the pages needs so.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">2) Input a good descriptive text at the Homepage about the business with some keywords in it. You can use two, three or even four repetitions of each one, if the text is big, but use the good sense. You don't want to look like stuffing.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">3) Check if the site has a sitemap.xml. If not, create one for free here: <a href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/">http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/</a></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">4) Create a SEO friendly URL, like:  http://www.yoursite.com/category/sub-category</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">5) Use some rel="nofollow" on those links that are not strictly necessary for your business.  </span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">6) Input some descriptive text in <p>, and this one is for every page or product. You must judge where you need them. Maybe one per category, or per product.</span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">7) Now going to Linkbuilding: Use the marvelous SEOMoz Open Site Explorer, and check where your competitors have the more important links, and try to get some of them. It's an easy and fast way to have some potential links.</span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">So, some structural changes, and run for some competitors links (they always have something to teach you!).</span></p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">Just making these basic SEO technics can help a lot your clients. At least they can see a lot of job being done, and sometimes this is necessary for them to check that they are not paying for nothing.</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;">Hope it helps!  =]</p> <p style="color: #5e5e5e;"> </p></title>