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I agree with CharlotteWorks, it really is useless as in generating traffic and buzz unless it is news worthy.

Case studies, product releases would be some good reasons to use PR, if those categories are attractive.

But I do believe it is possible that PR sites can help with link building, but might just be an expensive link. I've looked at places like PRweb(have not used any PR places yet), and they offer PR and submission to NYtimes and AP, for about like $400.

Now I am not sure if these links from NYtimes and Associated Press are actual 100% guaranteed but if they are, it might be worth it just in a link building perspective.

Sorry for the late response, still getting use to the Q&A and didn't know how to view the questions I had answered.

I would suggest anchor texts that are natural but nothing too unrelative. Links like www.example.com as the anchor text will still be better than "click here".

As long as its not being spammed too much, it would be fine to request a certain anchor text, but nothing obsessive, try to keep it even.

I am not sure if this is doable but one of my clients have their website's SERP with sitelinks extension.

In example.

www.example.com

-example1 -example2 -example3 -example 4

Anyway to modify the sitelinks on the SERP?

What are the pages ranking to? Your root domain or the link of the neighborhood?

If its your 1st ranking on Google is the neighborhood link, it should be no problem.

Put it as a subfolder, like www.thesite.com/blog. That is if you want to build domain authority, subdomains are looked as different entities majority of the time.

I believe you can keep the links the same. Since its a simple friendly url like bronxpad/throggsNeck, just make sure your site URLs are the same and if they are different use redirects.

From what I understand you will have one page like bronxpad/all-locations, and on that page will have the list of all the neighborhoods, and each neighborhood will maintain their neighborhood link like throggsNeck, if that is so, there won't be much impact.

Yes very true. Volusion is just extremely limited, and even FTP access is not really FTP access. The software seems to be outdated compared to some other carts, and their "SEO" is just meta data.

Open source carts are probably the way to go but will cost more initially.

Congrats on starting your link building strategy. It seems great and you should keep in mind not to create to many same anchor texts or not natural type of anchor texts or links. We can see that this seems to be a problem in a larger scale with penguin updates.

Maybe keep all micro sites and just point them to one domain from there on out.

Hi all,

I'm still in my dilema after taking over this ecommerce site. Currently running Volusion(please for your own sake never use them, 7$ for each GB over), I plan on taking the site to a dedicated server running on Magento.

Should we worry too much since majority of our links are to the root domain while a small portion is to actual products? I think there should be more emphasis on the categories and root domain rather than actual product pages. I mean this is e-commerce and not a content site.

Thanks!

Referring to this?

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/my-presentation-creation-process

I would do the image tag and meta description, and also have it in the description. I think with those terms in there and the URL, not having it exactly in your product's name "cool shirt" but have description "cool long-sleeve shirt" will suffice.

I don't believe this will negatively impact your rankings.

Are you using the articles as a subdomain/subfolder? Or within the ecommerce platform?

For me, each category has their own dedicated description 200-300 words.

So recently purchased an ecommerce site to work on with lots of potential. The site was effected by Penguin update and now I am trying to fix up some issues.

One of the problems I think may be the articles that he had written within the site. The site is an ecommerce site but has lots of articles like how to's and tips.

A lot of these articles are not very fluent but seems to be written for SEO. Should I just remove them entirely or should I just stuff them in the back somewhere.