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If there is the same page with the urls domain.com/seo & domain.com/seo.htm for this is what can be considered as duplicate content. With or without (better without) there should only be one version of the URL, to not split the link juice passing through. Hope this helps, Vahe

W3C is an indicator of how well you have built your website but not for SEO as it use to be. I would suggest you focus on the sites speed, as it would typically deal with the issues you are facing with plugins and code. Hope this helps, Vahe

You can pretty much use any rank checking tool, but my preferred ones are Advanced Web Ranking and Sheerseo.

Just be careful that the tool you use for your large keyword set does not conflict with your ISP settings, make sure you use multi proxy  server to prevent search engines blocking your IP.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Hey Marissa, Try this http://www.seomoz.org/directories and this http://www.linkbuilderstoolkit.com/ . Removing all the dead and irrelevant sites I think you can get atleast 400 various sites. Should be a good start. In addition to OSE and Majestic (moreso for competitor backlinks), I would also suggest for you to: 1. Export linking domains list from your clients from their Google & Webmaster Tools Account. You would then need to filter it out. 2. Most importantly using advanced search queries and finding quality sites in search try http://tools.buzzstream.com/link-building-query-generator or citation labs ( a link scraper). Trust me it's never easy, but once you build your database, u'll be sweet. Hope this helps, Vahe

As Marcin said this plugin is the most crucial one as it will deal with the sites duplication and cannonicalisation issues. Also contains XML image and website sitemap.

You can also find other relevant extensions by searching here - http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/catalogsearch/result/?id=&s=1&pl=1&te=0&q=seo&pr=0:1180&t=0&p=1

Regards,

Vahe

"page rank" updates can be a cause - http://www.seroundtable.com/google-pagerank-update-14684.html

I wouldn't stress too much importance on PR.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Gary clients should also be the sole owner of their accounts. You should be included on the account as an administrator so that you implement and not manage these profiles.

It's about making sure they remain accountable for their owned assets.

Thanks,

Vahe

Here are a few examples of linkbuilding companies - http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended#link-building

There are only  quite a few high quality SEO teams who specialise  in linkbuilding and these guys definently charge a premium.

Alec the best advice I can give you is to actually develop a specialist inhouse or hire an external freelancer that will take on a bulk of the work. Specifically having a specialist inhouse brings many benefits which include:

• Over the long term you are reducing costs to the business.
• They will actually care more about the work they are doing and find relevant links. Plus they have more understanding of the client.
• They can work along with other SEO's in the team - economies of scale.
• They will work to build a quality database source of referring domains (applicable to each industry), which can be used again and again. You are essentially building this database as a USP for your clients. This will give you leverage to charge more for your work.

To do all this you will need to automate alot of the research  related processes when finding links. Scaling linkbuilding inhouse or externally also requires a great project management software where you can effectively track each task.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

If its urgent however email the team help@seomoz.org. I'm sure they can help out.

Hey Rasmus,

The menu, widgets e.t.c all count as part of content as they are page elements, so ofcourse they would be considered.

This situation is abit tricky, however if you think you can merge them do so, maybe add slightly more content to each page; otherwise do nothing.

Just make sure and see whether both pages are ranking for the appropriate keywords.

Thanks,

Vahe

To be honest there is no "singe reliable" source of keyword tool data. I would suggest you use other tools i.e. wordtracker in conjunction with GKT and make the best possible decision.

As acitvity super said GKT uses 12 month average. If there is a fluctuation you can find out more about it by using Google Insights.

Hi Mike,

You can use the magento partners program page to find developers, or better off conduct location specific searches on Google i.e. magento developer australia. Don't be to specific as to my experience it is slightly challenging to find a quality magento partner.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Hi Shara,

I think this would be more of a site optimisation issue rather than a drupal issue.

Anyways you should optimise your page with keywords showing up in:

• Title
• Meta Description
• H1 Heading tag
• Content - This includes text and images
• Navigation - Internal links, breadcrumb, URL
• Footer

Keywords tag is ignored by Google, whilst Bing use it as a spam indicator to detect any fishy  activity on a site. It's a preference thing in this instance, however personally I wouldn't want my competitors to find out my target keywords for a page by looking at my meta keywords tag.

Resources

Rand's posted a great article here - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

Here is a more recent (updated) video here - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/advanced-onpage-optimization-whiteboard-friday

Hope this helps,

Vahe

I don't see the benefit of creating multiple accounts. They won't be penalised but the likeliehood of having atleast one of them appear in search, when searching your brand will dramatically reduce.

Think about consolidating your efforts.

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Can you clarify where you saw this?

Hi Kaylie,

For any migration you need to develop a plan for SEO. There are a lot of tips out there i.e. https://seogadget.co.uk/surviving-seo-site-migration/,  however you must make sure you correctly map out all URLs and redirect them if needed,

The one major tip I can give you when working with Magento and all ecommerce sites, is that you make sure to fix all duplication and canonical issues. Increasing the quality of the site will reflect well in the sites user experience and visibility (in terms of how it is indexed) in search.

Great guide from Joost - http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/

I would also strongly suggest and purchase this extension - http://www.mageworx.com/seo-suite-ultimate-magento-extension.html. They will install this on your site for you. This should also deal with  alot of the duplication issues.

Other quick tips to increase your sites visibility using magento (depending on the size of your site):

• Segment your XML sitemaps. Also create an image sitemap to generate additional traffic to the site.
• Make sure you have your product rss feeds accessible for both search engines and users.
• Reduce the number of internal links per page as possible.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

I think what would be a good start is by first checking your clients site.  This would also probably be the most cost efficient method in finding out, however take longer. You could potentially check  (depending on availability):

• keyword traffic for users entering domain.com vs not domain.com phrases. Use a data range over 3-6 months and compare that to the same period last year.
• If your clients have email and social tracking enable on their site compare this keyword traffic for the above phrases.

Otherwise you would probably have to approach research analyst or competitive intelligence companies i.e. Hitwise or Citi Investment Research and Analysis. Read a post on SEL today here's the link -http://searchengineland.com/google-still-1-traffic-source-for-most-of-top-30-websites-report-110410

If they can get this type of data, I don't see why they cannot get other types of consumer behaviour data.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Waqid if you are doing this on behalf of the florist approach them first via email, wait for a couple of days and if they have not replied back to you then give them a call. In the email cc the florist to mention that you are contacting them on their behalf.

The thing is if you first give them a call, they will more than likely be defensive and refuse your request. However if you take the approach of genuinely trying to help the florist, then reporters will more than likely respond to you. Reporters are busy people, so make your email credible and to the point.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Google wouldn't waste budget. It just means they will have to consider crawling more internal links for a page.