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I think the best option would be to move all the content to a better URL structure and make sure to set up 301 redirects from the old URL's to the new URL's.

Writing unique and deep content about the subject.

For example, If you are targeting the long tail keyword: 'cool buildings found in new york city' and 'the best subway stations in the world.' you should write really good content about the two subjects. Make sure to try to grab multiple long-tail keywords around a certain topic and make sure the content is valuable to your visitors. Not just content created purely for ranking on certain keywords.

Thank you for the answer and video Christine!

Hello fellow mozzers,

I've seen a lot of discussion and confusion about whether you should use subfolders or subdomains when you have a website, a blog and a webshop.
Of course with subfolders the PageRank will be more effective since it's all in one domain.

On the other hand subdomains will be a better user experience since you can focus on just the webshop or just the blog.

Was wondering how you guys/girls think what would be the best way to handle this.

There should be a blue icon on the right top of your browser like in the image i included. This is the same blue icon as the favicon for Moz.com. (The blue squery with white M.
Click on here and you should see a window where you can click on a link which should say: 'Show Mozbar'.

Hope my answer was helpful.

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I agree with Dennis about the changes on Pinterest. They are truely great for webshops.

I do have a little warning though. Ebay and Amazon are really big and authoritive websites which will rank above your own website for those products. There could be duplicate content issues for this and from what i've heard you would get punished for your own descriptions because Amazon and Ebay are so authoritive that you would get the penalty yourself.

So be careful about selling on Amazon and Ebay.

Hope my answer was helpful.

Tough batch of competitors which you're naming right there.

I've taken a look at your website and i've noticed a couple of things.

1. The content is good so keep that one up.

2. When i first saw your website and landed on the home page i was a little bit confused because everything was so full of articles yet they didn't seem to be categorized by subject. In my opinion you should categorize the home page by categories and not just by what's new.

3. Every single article which i saw had 0 tweets, 0 likes and 0 +1's. Are you participating on social media platforms?

Let me know what you think about it and whether you are active on Social Media

As long as the affiliate links are 'nofollow' there won't be any problems for you.

Optimizing the page with geographic long tail keywords is still best practice.
Google does display local search results based on IP adress when they have access to the location data of the given person.

I would still recommend using the location based keywords as long as you don't keyword stuff your texts.

Hope i answered your question

I don't see anything wrong with the site. You have good titles and meta descriptions as far as i can see.
You have the Open Graph meta tags and i don't see any problems.

You said your impressions are going down. Maybe you should broaden your audience?
Google+ Communities is a good place if you're not active in one or several communities. I'm pretty sure there are some good communities on 3D subjects.

I didn't find a link to your Pinterest account on the site. Pinterest might seed your needs because i see a lot of cool images and videos in your articles. You might find a better audience there.

Hope i gave some valuable advise which you can work with.

Didn't get anything, weird earlier today someone tried sending me a PM too and that one also didn't come through.

I would like try and identify the problem. Send me the link and i'll see if i can do anything for you:)

Something must have gone wrong because my inbox is empty.
Perhaps you can resend it?

Root domains i suppose. Where exactly do you see RDs?

Demetrios, on the newspage i see the link: demotrios soumaidis on google+. As you said this link works fine.
When i go to an article on the website i see the following: Posted on June 5, 2013 by Demetrios Sourmaidis • 0 Comments

Your name here doesn't have rel=author. It does have class=author though.
If you add the rel=author tag here all should be fine.

Hope i answered your question

I'm too busy to actually work for you at the moment but if you have any problems or questions about a specific site i would love to scan it and give you some advise on factors which could improve your ranking.

Let me know the website in question if you are interested.

You should edit your .htaccess file as is described here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6738896/excluding-testing-subdomain-from-being-crawled-by-search-engines-w-svn-reposit

I hope i answered your question

Links from your website: http://domain.com to a different website: http://otherdomain.com

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I know that it sounds weird to no-index the author page. In some ways i agree with that.
But it's very normal to no-index archive pages because that is obvious duplicate content.

An author page is nothing more than an archive page filtered to just one author.

I hope this makes you see my solution in a different way. I still think that no-indexing is the best way you thing you can do.

What i gather from your question is that if you say you are the author of a piece of content. Your CMS will create to pages. One for the category where your blog post resides and one on the author page.

If this is what you mean then you should make sure the search engines don't index your author page. You can do that by placing the following piece of code in the HTML head section of your website: <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"  =""></meta name="robots">

In order to be associated as the author to the search engines you should use the rel=author in your hyperlink.
For example: rel="author">My domain

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