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Kathy,

You will actually be doing your site a favour should you decide to change your URLs. Having static instead of dynamic URLs will not only make it easier for search engines to crawl and index the URL in SERPs, but make it easier for users to also link to the site. This should negate some of the loss of linking URLs that you will encounter. Also as you said keywords in the URLs are a major plus.

Before you make any URL changes, it is crucial for you  to take the following steps for minimising the impact for your sites traffic:

• List where the old URLs are being linked within the site (your internal URLs)
• List where the old URLs are being linked from externally (people linking to your pages).
• Create a separate sitemap XML file for the new site URL structure
• Implement your 301 redirects using regex on your htacess file
• Make sure you exactly match your old pages to the relevant new pages when 301 redirecting. Most people would get lazy and redirect to the home or category level pages.
• Check for any pages not properly 301 redirected internally by  looking at the number of 404s and broken links applicable to your site.

Once you do change over the URLs start updating the old urls linking between your sites pages. Over the long term you would then need to contact the websites which have used the old URLs and ask them to update to the new version. Leave your old XML sitemap file applicable in both Bing and Google Webmaster Tools until you see them both indexing most (if not all) your new URL pages from your newly created sitemap.

Tools that I would use for the following steps could be XENU or screaming frog (my favorite).

Hope this helps

There's nothing wrong. The wordpress SEO pack is actually doing the right thing to ensure search engines like Google see only one version (and the right version) of your website, this being with the www.  with the /.

If your site didn't do what you had mentioned above, search engines would have indexed (listed) what they thought was the right version. There are also other several disadvantages to this:

(1) The page rank (domain authority) would be split between the www and non www versions of the site. Some would go even further and say that it would cause site duplication, which is not favoured by search engines.

(2) People linking to your site would not link to one URL version. Again this would cause spreading the link juice.

Since there are the proper 301 redirects on your site, no matter which version people link to, it will go back to the www version with the /. Just make sure that in Bing and Google Webmaster tools you also change your preferred domain settings to the www version.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Hi Nightwing,

Since you are not using the "JavaScript" detection and redirection method but instead using the subfolder method, Google considers them as additional pages on the desktop version of the site.

One good reason for creating a mobile sitemap. - They will allow search engines to better serve search requests from mobile devices and lead them to your relevant mobile pages.

To improve the likelihood for search engine serving your mobile content on mobile search results it would also be recommended to include the specific mobile crawlers in your robots.txt file.

You also don't have a link of the mobile version of your site on the desktop site. It would be important to include this on your site header for the same reason above.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

You can only submit one version of the product. This is under Google's guidelines - Duplicate and Borrowed Section http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188484

My suggestion is that you be proactive with them as possible. Here are a few tips:

• First of all start by getting their media plan. That way you can align your SEO initiatives and plan ahead for content before going live.
• Creating the process - Make it clear to the client that before making  Media Release go live, that you would need to "tweak" it, to maximise search visibility. The most important thing would be to tweak some of the keywords used, the "about us" author section and link placement. Once you have optimised it, send it to both the client and PR team ready for syndication, unless the onus remains with you. Then ask the PR team to send you the sites which they have submitted the PR so that you can monitor the link status i.e whether or not it is live.

From my experience clients would love you if they know you are trying to maximise there branding initiatives online. Like I said its about creating the process that works with you and the PR agency,  Don't forget to request site inclusion in Google News for gaining additional traffic for your PR's

Hope this helps,

Vahe

From looking at Google Webmaster Tools forums, they have said you can have a maximum of 50,000 URLs which I am assuming applies when you create a video sitemap.

There are software/tools which you can use to create specific video sitemaps online. Here's a page I found to create video sitempas using A1 sitemap generator - http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/video-xml-sitemaps/

Make sure that you review the thumbnails and meta data used as it is important for how it appears in SERPs and the nature of users click through.

Other resources

• Creating sitemaps using externally hosted videos - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube a cool one from one of the Mozzers
• Here was a previous QA post on video sitempas - http://www.seomoz.org/q/video-sitemaps

Hope this helps,

Vahe

As a general rule of thumb the more higher your content is placed in the page source, the more accessible it is for search engines. This ensure they correctly pull the right page info and meta data.

Taking a quick glance of your source code, I definantly think your externalise all JS in a single file to remove the amount of bloated code which currently exists.

Also two more things:

(1) Further optimise your page. More people would search for multi color function printer than a refurbished printer. Make sure you conduct keyword research for all product pages.

(2) Even though  this is not as important, none the less reduce the number of h2 & h3 heading tags you are using, particularly the links with the headings in the "supplies and accessories" section as it is not necessary.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

The main benefit of RSS feeds is to keep users updated with your latest content should they not access your site directly.

From an SEO point, if you have activated the "pingback" feature, this will ensure that every site update will be notified to search engines & browser bots and specific blog/content submission sites. RSS feeds also provides additional internal links to a page hence providing more link juice and page authority. Make sure you don't have too many internal links on a page.

It is therefore important to be smart about RSS feed placement and making it compatible to access and read fpr all types of sites mentioned above.

This is why you'll notice people using Google's Feedburner, whereby you can  have more control optimising the meta data per RSS feedback and automatically connecting social media accounts i.e. twitter or digg for automating content promotion.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Seanuk check out this page - http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/469068-an-overview-of-your-pro-membership

Tons of videos and how to blog posts for using SEOMoz Pro Tools.

If you also have specific questions, make sure you post it in the help section.

Thanks,

Vahe

Pete,

To be honest I don't have specific example. You can look at specific CSS, HTML  or Wordpress (PSD) Theme galleries. You can also search for these galleries by conducting specific queries i.e. "submit theme".

One thing I would check before you submit your themes, is to ensure these sites have strict submission guidelines, particularly submitting original themes/contents. You should also track these links on a regular basis.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

Ryan I agree with you, however unless you have creative commons for your infographic, this will be scraped on most sites with no link pointing back to the website.

It all comes back to whether your site is authoritative enough to be considered as the original source by search engines. Both methods are voluntarily link placements from the website owner. It's about how you manage those relationships.

Pete,

If other people are using it, it means they are crediting your work. Just make sure to promote your themes on authority design sites rather than distributing to dozens of lower quality sites.

Same things goes for infographics and a link building strategy.

Thanks,

Vahe

Hi,

You can easily find these lists by going searching social bookmarking sites list on Google. To be honest you shouldn't be worrying to much about a do follow list, as most of these sites i.e. stumbleupon, digg are changing their sites design by using their iframe built tool bars to encourage users to bookmark pages. This means there a few do follow sites left.

My advice - Target a few sites, but focus on regularly engaging (like you would here in SEOmoz) as they have communities themselves. Engage by bookmarking on a 1:5 ratio. That means everytime you post your site, look to post five other related sites people would be interested to find.

Finally  make these profiles credible by adding your true information and by regularly bookmarking.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

This page is a very good place to start - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012. Even though it does focus on blogging, just make sure to not create great content, but making it accessible for users to find and share. Finally get yourself out there by engaging with others with the community and bringing your unique thoughts to SEO. In the end your dedication will pay off as you learn from your mistakes and improve your skills.

Ryan,

htaccess is the best way to go. The truth is it could potentially slow down your site due to the many server requests applicable. 250 is not too bad. However there are alternatives you can consider for speeding up your site.

(1) If your site has other aspects which are slowing down the site, why not improve on those elemtn

(2) Host your sites assets on a CDN, makes your site alot faster.

(3) If your old pages have very low authority use regex and redirect them to the relevant category page, rather than mapping them to the alternative new page. I wouldn't recommend this unless you really have time restrictions.

Make sure you however update the broken links for the old page to the relevant new page for both internal linking & external linking purposes.

Hope this helps.