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There is always a risk your site might be hacked, but that risk is present for both open source and in-house software. For Wordpress in particular, it is best to make sure your installation is up-to-date with the latest release each time they provide an update. In fact, Google itself will provide a message in your Google Webmaster Tools if it notices your site is behind on releases. Are your designers/host in-house? If the risk is too great for them, perhaps they can serve your blog content from a different server. If your designers/host are not in-house, they may be telling you this because of their own limitations whatever they may be. My suggestion would be to ask for more information. Why is the risk high for your website? Can the blog content be hosted on a separate server to alleviate the concern?

Hi, "As you are working on an ecommerce site, it would probably be a better idea to have an internal feed relevant to you website and its latest additions like content and new products, discount.  The internal feed icon and link may be placed at a visible location across all the webpages of your ecommerce website."

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Depending on the plan you have, the spider crawlers 10k - 20k pages per campaign

start by using the moz campaign tool.  follow the directions, enter your keywords and keyword phrases that you are trying to rank.  Then let it crawl your site.  Wait for the report, then carefully complete the task one by one.  It's is a very time consuming, daunting task that takes hard work.  In the end, all you are doing is building a better site for the search engines to crawl and rank you. Just go step by step.  Take the long road, no short cuts.  If someone tells you they can fix it in a day- they are full of crap. Building a online business is harder than running a brick & mortar any day of the week. start with the basics- read a lot and listen to people that sound reasonable- don't listen to snake oil salesmen.... Email me anytime charris@thegardengates.com- we are a real business doing this all in-house after going down the consultant road( trying to take short cuts) we spend a lot of time on this- 7 days a week. Chad

Hello Ben! Yes still indexed, Ive never really ranked very well but I had alot of Long tail searches that came up, but most of it was on the DUP content pages. With thousands of pages how can I Noindex duplicate content? Thank you

Hi Marcus! I sent you a PM Thanks!!

I would think that those numbers could greatly vary.  Sometimes a pile of links in WMT can come from weird sources like askives.com.  If someone does a websearch on askives and your site is related to their search then all of a sudden there can be 100 new links that appear to your site and they can be gone with the next Google crawl. You really can't analyze a traffic drop properly until you've got a good amount of data...like more than a day.  

I just came across this and I wanted to let say it is a great answer and thank you

It is actually good content, Im not sure if they own the blog or not? There links are in the side bar, so its carried through the entire blog, could they me paid?  Will owners of a successful blog put a link on their blog in exchange for money?

If you are commenting on a blog for links, you're commenting on a blog for the wrong reason. If it's not held in moderation by software, usually a good admin will spot it and remove it -- and if it's not removed, it's likely that the link isn't very worthwhile in the first place (such as an abandoned blog on an .edu domain that has 8000 comments with link drops). If you are commenting on a blog to be part of the conversation, you would want to either subscribe to comments by email or bookmark the comment so you can come back and be part of the community.

Well, technically you could. But to me it would be more important to optimize these pages to rank, rather then use the strength to link to other pages. So it's your choice ;). I would rather milk the cow here.... Keep in mind that these pages are probably already linking to your other pages as well via the common header, footer and other navigation links.

From my personal experience, link building is never done. That said, if you reached #1 / #2 then you can probably ease back shifting focus to other aspects, but never stop. My thinking is it is very easy to follow the leader. Take a few extra steps now you're in front. If you stop.. catching up to you is that much easier.

acutally what I was using is the SEO moz plug in to show a non pers. search.  Although I am not #1 I found it odd that I was ranking above a HUGE website. Thanks for all the help!!

OSE sometimes take a while to show links. But at the end of the day it is just a text on a screen. Go to Google and search and see if your listing is found, if it is found, and the link the followed, you are getting juice from them...which is all that matters. Usually takes 1-2 updates for them to show up but I've heard longer. I just don't think people should be too worried if it is not on OSE. It is usually just to gauge where you are.

Hello! Approx 150, when I use the SEO  page optimizer, it gives me an A Total 22 and that seems to be the only issue. It is a big ecommerce site, & at the bottom of the pages I have "HOT EVENTS" that follow through the site, just to help with navigation near the footer. Do you think this is a bad idea? Its been this way for a few months now and rankings are pretty good, I just want to be safe. Thanks!!

The rules for who may register a country-level domain are set by each country's domain registration authority, not by the individual companies that sell domain name registrations, LBM In Canada, CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) makes the rules for who can buy a .ca domain, and after consultation with Canadians, decided that "the dot-ca domain space should be developed as a key public resource for the social and economic development of all Canadians. Individuals or organizations that wish to register a dot-ca domain name must meet CIRAs Canadian Presence Requirements." So it's not Register.com that's denying you, it's the fact that you don't meet the requirements set out by Canadian policy. These kinds of limitations are in place for many ccTLDs (country-level domains) including the UK as you've discovered. Note that, in Canada at least, in addition to citizens, Permanent Residents. and registered Canadian businesses, you can also register the domain if it is directly part of a trademark that is registered in Canada. So if you really want to protect it in Canada (I assume also holds in other countries) you can trademark the name here and then you'll be able to register the domain name in .ca. Paul

Sorry to bug you again, Is there a specific reason that you use naked urls is it just to avoid getting hit by google? If so using naked urls in press releases would not serve any seo purpose at all? Only using the traffic the PR generates itself to direct your traffic? Thanks so much for your help today!

almost 300 and in the form of blog responses? How can this happen?