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That is why the Yelp pages are all done statically, the text is in their database and shown on their pages, not done through a JavaScript add-in.Imagine if FB decided to close tomorrow and all the Yelp comments were stored on FB? Good-bye business.

Do you have a specific situation you are looking for input on?

In regards to SEO I completely agree with EGOL, however there is something else you can do to continually get traffic to pages, and that is to use twitter and retweet your posts. If your posts are not specifically date based, and you can provide valuable information to people, it can work in your favor.

An example of someone doing this is @jeffbullas ,he uses SocialOomph to send out a tweet with an interesting title and link every 15 minutes. Some of them are a year old, but still have interesting, if not valuable, information.

Here's the problem with that, the comments are done through Javascript, and since that is not available when crawling, only to a persons browser, the search engines can't see it. Hence, no real value.

However, from a social aspect of getting more traffic it works. You have to find out in your specific situation which is more valuable, having a higher SERP listing for a blog post, or having more possible user traffic from social.

Rank Tracker has it's own built in 'Find free proxies' just like most other software that I have tried with mixed results. I treat everything as a business, so if it costs me money to save time, or headaches, that's what I do.

I do have the whole suite, but tend not to use the other items, but that is solely a personal thing and you should not base your decision on that. Download the trials.

I have Rank Tracker set to fire off every morning around 4 to do my bidding, er checking. It works great if you use paid proxies, but using my own IP it just asks me to fill out captchas. I imagine I could set it to run slower to avoid that. I do have the whole suite, but only found that Rank Tracker was the only tool I had a use for.

Updates seem to be fairly regular, about every 2 weeks. As for pricing, the amount of time it saves me on a weekly basis had it paid for itself in about six weeks.

The IP address issue is more of an Apache issue as you have already mentioned, but the IP won't play into this issue.

There are 2 ways to help this fix itself:

1. Add Canonicals to all your pages,
2. Use an htaccess file with this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[0-9]+(.[0-9]+){3} [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bradyid.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bradyid.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This will fix a few things, 1 removing anything that is linked to the IP address to be forwarded to the domain version, move anything that is linked to the mis-configured Apache to resolve properly.

This shouldn't work: http://12.69.60.161/ but it does.

Where's the xml sitemap? add that to your to-do list

Ok the first one, or both, you can easily get away with doing:

RedirectMatch /blogs/fleet-management-and-tracking(.*)the-easy-way/ http://www.newplace.com/here-it-is/

Can you post examples of the url, and what you have in your htaccess? This would make it much easier to diagnose.

I think I understand what your doing about hiding part of the text. I also agree with EGOL about, if that is what people are looking for just give it to them.

Will it hurt your SEO efforts? I would say, no it will not. You are not intentionally hiding text for the sake of cheating the systems, you are doing it to help the user experience, something that I have heard Google employees speak of many times. What's good for the user is good for SEO.

I would test this in one of the many ways possible, heatmaps, clicktracking, etc. to see what the percentage of people reveling the hidden text is, if it's more than say 40% I would show more, simply because the other 60% might be interested, but are not willing to got the extra effort and may be going somewhere else.

Hello Sophy.

A comments.

1. Use the rel='canonical' on all your pages (more on this below),
2. create a robots.txt file
3. I'm seeing a lot of keywords in your Meta Keywords, (which does nothing) but you are missing the Meta Description, which is important.

In regards to the canonical, even if they come in with an affiliate link this will reduce or eliminate your duplicate page issue. If you have any way for a page to have duplicate content, use a canonical, if you have a page that is generated dynamically, figure out the best url for it and create a canonical for it.

If your having a high bounce rate, I'd look at the site, and see what people are doing. I would point more towards a

• 'Not so clear idea what to do', or
• 'doesn't offer the information we expected'

Consider using heatmaps, or using on of the survey sites that will send 30+ people to your site and fill out a form stating what they likes, didn't like, couldn't figure out, etc.

As a web developer myself I would have, and have, coded a blog system myself. However, about a year ago I started working with WordPress and find that it is much easier to use, and I don't have to code, or design, 98% of the things I want it to do.

I can also install and configure WordPress in under 5 minutes, I certainly can't code it that fast. And all the little nuances, like text formatting, special characters, security, etc. are already built in.

Save your time coding and use WordPress, then use all the spare time creating a great blog people want to visit.

It sounds like you are referring to this mozinar:

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/conversion-optimization-for-local-businesses

I just went through it pretty quick and noticed that:

1. you don't have an xml sitemap, usually named sitemap.xml

2. You are using javascript for your drop down menu items,

The 2 above factors will keep all engines from being able to crawl your site fully.

What I would do is just create a sitemap in the footer so that there is a physical link to each page that is not javascript based.

The cache will still show the page (mostly) formatted properly when viewed in a browser because it is just giving you back the full HTML, instead use one of the GoogleBot Spoofers such as: http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/googlebot-spoofer/index.htm

I would however strongly urge against using javascript to display the main content of your page, user notifications and such is fine.

If your referring to doing a full AJAX site, that is a slightly different discussion.

Personally I would do a clean start on the new domain, and 301 or canonical the current pages. If you have a new version why even bother seeing if there are problems with it. One thing I have noticed is that when setting up a new domain, the first time Google Indexes a page it 'seems' to keep that page longer, so the older page would remain in the index when you have a new revised page. If you just go live with the new version, block the search engines with a robot.txt, check it, test it, check it again, then remove the block and forward you could be up and running faster, in my own experience.

There are a handful of other ways, one of them being software packages. I know there are others out there but the only one I can comment on is 'Link Assistant'. It is part of the SEO Power Suite, written in Java, can find possible link partners, etc. and fairly easy to use. I don't want to sound like I'm selling it because I really don't use it, just have it installed and played with it a few times.

Aside from that you could write, or have someone else write a database application so it would be stored somewhere else except your desktop, and automate some of the tasks, like link checking, PR & PA checking, etc.

If it doesn't work like you need let me know, you might need to do it in scripting.