Welcome to the Q&A Forum

It is not a simple text I suggested, but a hcard,and i did not suggest it for users, but for SEO and local search. It carries local value: http://smallbusinessshift.com/articles/microformats-for-local-seo/ I suggested links as well. A footer area in my opinion should hold definately more than two links. These links do carry useful value, as after finishing reading all the content on a page you get to the footer and you can scroll up till the main menu or you can find something useful you can clcik in the bottom. I think it is a great way to lead visitors through your site. I think a carefully designed sites should give some attention to this factor. If you do doubt that users click footer links just look at your analytics and draw the conclusions yourself.

As I see your proble goes further than redirection issue. When I first clicked http://www.theprinterdepo.com/catalog/product_compare/add/product/100/uenc/aHR0cDovL3d3dy50aGVwcmludGVyZGVwby5jb20vcHJpbnRlci1wYXJ0cy5odG1sP3A9NA,,/ it took me to http://goo.gl/XMaZg but when I clicked it for the second time it added the product to the comparison list:

So when I was first redirected that was due to the page uses cookies and it supposed that cookies are not enabled on my computer so it redirected me to http://goo.gl/XMaZg to tell me to turn cookies on. But it got it wrong as for the second time I could add the product to the list without doing any setting with cookies so there must be some sort of trouble with this feature and this causes the redirection.to http://goo.gl/XMaZg. Should the program get it right is cookies are turned on, or should you use session ids besides cookies, redirections would not be present anymore.

Hello,

It is definately a bad idea. It is simply because google can not detect that your page is not present due to your supply shortage, it yust sees that page is present sometimes and sometimes it is gone. Now ask yourslef: would you refer somebody to your friend who sometimes does the work that he is asked to do and sometimes he just quites in the middle. I think you should rather refer one who is always there and can be trusted. The same with webpages. No matter how good your page is is it unavailable for shorter and longer periods on a regular basis than it is not trustworthy. You should rather simply wite to the product that it is out of stock. Not to mention that it is much easier to solve this in your cms.

I don't know what exactly this is, but you can implement useful snippets of information, like price, rating, reviwe counter with schema.org. I personally haven't got any long time experience with it but it is said to lift CT. This should be true as users searching for items with reviews for example can find clues that here they will find some.

I think there is one thing that overcomes freshness of content: regularly updated content. So it is not enough just to write a single page about a topoic and publish it and wait for google to index. It is considered to be fresh but it is not updated and probably will not be able to make it to the top. Look at newsportals on the other hand: they are always publishing and publishing and getting indexed several times a day.

So the consequence is that it is not enough to have fresh content once a year, but you need to have regular fresh content - the more the better. This way you are getting indexed frequently, so you don't need to worry about google finding fresh material, and your rankings will improve as well as google sees your site is up to date, it always contains the latest news (you would not like to learn form a 10 year old seo book neither).

Two things you can do besides regular writing to get indexed more often is to implement google site search as your search engine inside your site and to keep your pages as light as possible. Google always spends a planned amount os time on your site. It can make a big difference if google can index 5 or 10 pages in that given amount of time.

It is legit as carries user benefit. I'm pretty sure that is forwards link benfits as well.

I think this is not real SEO itself, but rather cross-marketing or brandring issue, however owner of all brands is the same I suppose.

Hello Daniel,

I would not represent 404 as that indicates a broken url to the search engine and it won't know why.

i would not use noindex as the page should still forward pagerank however it has no content.

I think when there are not any reviews I would simply add some more text to "There aren't any" like "There are not any reviews yet, you can look XY business details here, or you may check back at a later time. If you have your opinion feel free to add the first review yourself".

"Xy business details" can be a link to business detail page, so there is some anchor value carried. The page still has the ability to rank in google an to be found if you search xy business reviews. From engine perspective this is bettter than redirecting or 404, and still makes sense from user perspective as you offer them opporunities to get engaged with your page. Maybe I would do it that way.

What is a proper way to redirect any url containing a give word (anywhere in the url) to another sepcified url? Is it like this?

RedirectMatch 301 ^thisword$ http://domain.com/newlocation

Google says maximum once every hour (just imagine if news sites, like NY Times were indexed weekly). So don't worry about submitting every two days.

I think these are two pretty good articles on link building you can get some ideas or use them for brainstorming:

http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-from-a-to-z

But you can find a couple more in semoz blog:

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=link+building

I would definatley stop. There are a handful of directories worth paying only like yahoo. Have your mind rather around natural link baits. Few articles for brainstorming: http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=link+building

Maybe I can't get it right, but here a shot:

When you are redirecting the old site, every incoming link it has will loose about 10% link juice. If you can contact with the sites linking to you and change the links than go ahead and do thatas soon as you can, just be sure to do the 301 so google will see that the new domain got so many links so quick as it is a redirected old site.

It is for sure that the second link's value taht you get from a certain blog is slightly less than the first links value. First of all blogs are on a different subdomain. Subdomains are treated different than if you have links from more folders. Secondly, google owns the best engineers on Earth, i think they are quite are aware of the situation that a lot of blogs sit on the same root domain, however they have different owners. I personally did not do any tests according to this subject but this really has never been a question to me that these are treated as individual sites.

It is usually better to use 301 both from user and SE perpective.If you use 404 page you lost all your current rankings för those pages in google and all the linkj juice coming through those pages. Do not use 404 if you want to keep theye values. Here's an article that gives further points for your consideration: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo

The redirection of your old domain to the new one should clearlc indicate google that the site is actually the same, you have only changed the domain name. Google should handle this.

Agreeing with Simon about all sitelink info mentioned, however these are not real sitelinks. If google finds a querry is specific enough for one page than it displays site hierarchy for easier navigation. if you serach for your own domain you will probably find some links there as well. Although these are not sitelinks, as you cannot find them in webmaster tools under sitelinks. Real sitelinks are those that are shown when you enter a querry that is not specific only to your site but to a lot more even, and links are still displayed. Besides great construction, a site needs to be several years old to have sitelinks.

You should decide which pages you want indexed. You should ask someone who uses Magento about additional practcal tips, I haven't used it so far. As i see parameters appear when you filter results according to price or some other technical parameter. The problem is not just the parameter in the url, but also that the title of the page reamins the same although both content and url is changed.This way you are generating duplicate titles as well.

One solution might be to place canonical link elements when results are filtered as those are not specific to your search term. The link should tell google that the canonical page for filtered results is the category page itself. So for https://www.theprinterdepo.com/printer-bundles/refurbished-laser-printer-bundles.html?price=3%2C100 the canonical page would be https://www.theprinterdepo.com/printer-bundles/refurbished-laser-printer-bundles.html. Be aware with simply removing attributes because if those pages are already displayed in SERPs than you might lose traffic. Canonical would be the best solution I think.

I never use user generated content on its own. I always try to put some description besides like if it is a product than I give a brief about the product, where I can use it's name in the title, in the headings and maybe with a picture. The length depends on how much research would you like to do. Than in the end II alwas encourage people to share their opinion. I do it this way. I think that simply user generated content should be enough if you are targeting something so new, that nobody or really few people know exact things, everybody is rather just guessing about what is might exactly be or how should it work. In this case nobody will have long content with much keywords te beat you with.

The canonical code is ok, but the with robots noindex it won't work. You cannot redirect something that is not indexed. Move robots tag and you shall be fine.

I have a domain with no keywords on it

What does that exactly meen? you don't have the keywords in the domain itself or the content of the page does not reflect your desired KWs?

bought another domain with the keyword on it

I suppose that KW is included in the domain than. How many KWs do you have? 100? 50? or just one? If you have multiple keywords (which I suppose) and your original domain has many inlinks than you can take into consideration working with your original domain. If you have multiple keywords and one is good with the exact match domain but you lost 10% of inkoming link juice with the redirection, than I am not sure that it woths. That domian won't be necessarily good for the rest of the keywords.

Take these into consideration before redirecting. For the redirection part canonicals and 301 redirect are both good, in both cases you loose 10% linkjuice, however canonical is often suggested by more webmasters.