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In my opinion, go with Magento or BigCommerce. Pick one and stick with it as migrating to either a custom or another cart will be extremely expensive and time consuming. Your cost for migration depending on how big your store is can cost the same as the custom cart itself! In terms of SEO your best options are those two. Shopify and carts like Volusion are not that great at SEO. I really believe you can suffice on platforms like Magento and BigCommerce mainly because this is what they do. In terms of all in one carts like BigCommerce, you don't have to worry about backend problems and always have some sort of support. Magento while extremely customizable you will probably run into problems and need to pay for support or customization. If you have the budget go with Magento since you can customize everything and it will look similar to what you consider a custom cart. Sometimes these custom carts end up being more costly and troublesome than you would like.

Hello Aditya, I want to recap your question to make sure I understand it correctly. You're asking for a tool that suggest domain names based off of keywords, but you also are worried about selecting a keyword based domain because you are going to compete with other industry domains. If this is correct.. I'm not sure of a tool that does this specifically that, but you could use a combination of tools to get the results. First I would use Google's Keyword Suggestion Tool (it is a tool in Adwords) to find industry keywords, and then use a web hosting services signup page like BlueHost.com  type in a domain and let it suggest available domains. That being said, Google has devalued some of the benefits of keyword named domains (EMD, PMD) we have a good post about that here on Seomoz.org about the recent Exact Match, and Partial Match domains. The last part of your question was about how you deal with similar companies with the same name, I would suggest going unique by using a unique brand name, or brand name and a keyword like examples... Brand Zuppys.com Partial Match ZuppysFood.com I hope that helps

_As long as the domains are somewhat related and as long as you are not redirecting hundreds and thousands of them, you are safe. It is quite common practice. For say, if you have a domain like this – http://www.example.com , you can always buy the following domains - http://www.example.org , http://www.example.net , http://www.example.me etc. However, if you are buying domains which are thinly related to your website and then getting then redirected after building tons of links to then, it could be a trouble for your website in the long run. _

That depends on what you define as a problem. If you use relative URLs in hyperlinks in your website and Google enters at an https page then it will assume that other pages crawled to are also https. Thus https pages will be indexed instead of http. This can cause problems in the long run. I would set links in https pages as http absolute links e.g. in the sign in page.

Hi Aditya, I actually went in and did a quick crawl of your site and it only found these 5 pages: http://www.practo.com/ http://www.practo.com/ https://www.practo.com/health/signup https://www.practo.com/health/search?searchfor=doctor https://www.practo.com/health/search Obviously we've gotten past those 5 pages if we've found 23, but the way the site is set up may be taking us longer than normal. I'd say give it one more week, then perhaps you may want to also look at other crawling tools to see if they're able to get to your pages. If it's a consensus that they're having a hard time, you may want to add some paths from the home page to get into deeper content. Hope this helps! Jen

Your next route would be to set up a Google Places for your location so that you return in the local searches for where you are based. So when the search term 'Dental Clinic Bangalore' is searched for your website will appear. After that for specific regions, have different pages on your site such as www.practo.com/health/dental-clinic-jayangar. This means that the page name is dental-clinic-jayangar as opposed to www.practo.com/health/dental/clinic/jayangar where the site structure leads to a page name of just jayangar. If the page name is the search term, you stand in a lot better for ranking in the SERP.

Great - in our case we need open page content generation and cannot put wordpress in the root folder and start out of it. So I need to put it in the sub directory and then begin writing content. I could of course change the name of that directory from blog to something else. That reminds me have you also optimized the site above for some keywords in google? If I would want to check how these sites are ranking etc? Would help me in the forthcoming wordpress site too. Thanks

Sure so I did read that and somewhere microsites popped up - which left me wondering that for new product launch microsites are also good enough. So I wanted to clarify that . On the other hand for all our open page content we are planning to use wordpress itself. - would this be the best way to go about it? In my GA - I was very enthusiastic to know for a particular content landing page through what keywords did users land there? Is that possible if yes - then probably I don't know where to find it - I am looking under Content> Landing Pages Thanks

I didn’t see any problem with the idea. But long tail or short tail keywords are not defied on basis of its competition but because of the length of the keyword. I will consider ‘dermatology’ as a short tail keyword with low or medium competition. Keywords like ‘Laser Skin treatment drawbacks’ can be considered as a long tail keyword. Adding the keyword in the title and still works (may be not as effective as it use to be) but I still prefer people using it as it tells more about what the page is all about.

This is the strategy we have used for keyword research for the following article https://bookmerilab.com/blog/dr-lal-path-lab-rate-list/ 1. Check the area where we can get brand relevant traffic 2. See the keywords people are searching for while access whole articles 3. Use Moz keyword explorer to find the long-tail keywords with traffic potential. I hope this help.

Hi, If you connect your analytics to your webmaster tools, you can indeed see some (rough) estimates on Search Engine CTR (and more). This you will find under 'traffic sources'=>search engine optimization. For comparing current traffic with earlier time periods you can click the checkbox 'compare to previous period' in the date range selection menu. The report will then also show % changes in traffic etc. On the point of what keywords to use, look around the SEOmoz website for 'keyword research' topics. That topic is far too broad to be answered in this thread. A good starting point might be the keyword research section of the SEO Guide. Best of luck!

Hi there, We always recommend our clients place their blog on a sub-folder, rather than sub-domain - so practo.com/blog rather than blog.practo.com. This way any links gained to your blog posts pass more power to your domain. In terms of the URL it's up to you whether or not to include the category, but we generally don't on ours and client blogs. Practo.com/blog/article-name would be a good way to go (assuming you're talking about blog posts). If you're using Wordpress, change your permalink structure to %postname% and that will do it for you. To do that write a new post and hit 'edit' next to the URL under the title in Wordpress, then select 'custom permalinks' and enter it in there. I'd also recommend installing the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin, which will really help you nail down the SEO elements of your blog posts and attack long-tail keyphrases. For tracking and comparing month on month / year on year Google Analytics is excellent (and free). For getting your content indexed, make sure you have a sitemap (a segmented XML sitemap will work well) and submit to GWT. Try and build some links to your content - or better yet, produce good content and promote it via social media and the links will come naturally, which will help with indexation. You could also consider submitting your site to Google News if the content is good enough and your site meets their requirements. Hope that helps! : )

I started to put in a response - but then noticed, you are trying to optimize the content going on your sites static section which I then have to agree with Francisco here. It for sure is going to be very difficult to explain the A-Z best practice for static OPTIMIZED content. But if this is any help to you - here I go. When I am writing content for blog/audience purposes there are a few things I have been doing that set the tone for OPTIMIZED content. AUTHENTIC - of course First link is now a  LONG tail keyterm pointing to another article/sub-page to your site (internal link) - but now post penguin, don't use a keyterm you are trying to rank for. 2nd link is an authoritative link relevant to the topic and the site could be a potential partner to link back to you at some point. Secret recipe number 4, private message me and I will share it but it truly has set my clients site on fire and has given them a 50-65% faster increase in rankings - WHITE hat too.

I am on with google adwords to find good users for our saas based products in developing countries. The product is mainly for doctors which we have on the cloud. The tools I am using are adwords,google analytics and Seomoz. Anything else which might help me during this process.

So then I wish to know how do I compete with my other websites. Lots of them are not that meaningful still they show up before us. What should we do in order to rank high than our competitors? Adwords? Better content? What exactly