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It's nothing to be alarmed about in this case. It's just letting you know that it found a 301 redirect. It happens quite often.

In your case the 301 is set up so if people use http://timelink.com without the 'www' it redirects it to that address.
There are two addresses for most websites if not set up properly by the hosting company, a www version and a non-www version. It's just a matter of preference of which to use, but it's important to have one redirect to the other or search engines could potentially find two versions of the site. Since you've been building links to your site, you want to ensure that there is one, and only one that the search engines are finding.

That's a long bit of background on the why. But again the short answer is that in this case it's not a big deal.
There may be other cases though, where you find a 301 that was not intentional.

This looks like this is the backend of some CMS (content management system). Are you using a service or website builder?

The HTML Text would more than likely be the text that you want in the body area of your webpage. If your webpage is about a certain product, you would write descriptive information about your product. If it's about a service, then describe your service.

How long it is really depends. If it's a huge topic it could be a few thousand words. There are really no hard and fast rules, it will all boil down to if you want to rank for something and how much information you need to put on the page for both ranking, as well as providing good information to the reader.

The purpose would be to provide your website visitors information about what you are offering or writing about on your website.

Hi Mike,

I know you asked this a few weeks ago, and you may have already found your answer.

But to answer this, no. Tumbler essentially is just redirecting your A-Record domain to a sub-domain and giving it a nice url.

So what happens is the url website2.com (from your example above) is staring from zero. It also means that if you develop some quality trust and authority on that particular domain, you won't be able to take it with you if you want to use that domain for a site.

The url is essentially invisible, so whatever links you're sending isn't really to  website2.com, but to tumbler.website2.com.

Unless Tumbler offers a 301 redirect option when you want your domain back, the domain website2.com will have no value to it.

I hope that answers your question.

Short answer: Highly doubt it.

Long answer: I haven't seen anything from any of the ranking factors Moz, or anyone else produces, that would indicate so.
And under normal linking I can't imagine a situation that would cause a User based issue (like increased bounces because you got launched in another window), unless it's really excessive.
For example, I deal with professional photographers sites, and they sometimes have a portfolio site, and a blog, and sometimes they are two different systems with two different experiences and often times open the other in a new window. That is very annoying and a can kill a user's experience and they end up with high bounce rates.

I think if you're just sending links to other useful sites, target="_blank" is perfectly fine to use. I do it on my site all the time.

Oh, gotcha. Glad I could help.

Hi Ryan,

Yes, I just did a search for the text I found in the Lightbox description for the Coco & Max logo. Right there. I've attached a couple images to show what I found.

Is this underneath a Javascript?  I'd be interested to learn about the differences between different scripts as I see myself building sites that I would like to use the most SEO beneficial one.

coco-max-lightbox.png coco-max-html.png

Thanks Marie,

I will shoot you an email. Most of my clients are photographers (I do custom website design as well as SEO), so if this is something that's happening more and more, it'd be good to have a solution for them.

Well, there's a ton of ways you can do that.

In fact your whole site could be WordPress, and then you wouldn't have to use Dreamweaver to create and edit your site in the future. (Juts a thought).

But yes, you can have either multiple WordPress blogs, or you can have one blog, and only show certain categories for the pages you want... There are about 5 different ways to get what you would want done.

The site that you reference just looks like 1 WordPress website. So you may just need a WordPress expert to show you what WordPress does and can do for you.

That would be just one thing that I would look at. There are a number of other considerations I would have first though. 1. The phrase "Web Design" has got to be one of the most competitive searches out there (guessing). So that is a biggy. 2. If you are gonna take on trying to rank for it, do you optimize for it on your site. Does it appear verbatim in your header in the first position, throughout your site, etc. You can run the on-site tool to see if you are optimized correctly. 3. What is the Anchor Text in the footer links say? Is it your company name or is it specifically "Web Design by..." 4.cBlocks will be a factor, but what are the others? If you run the Keyword Difficulty tool and look at the top 10 results what kind of link metrics are showing up? How does your MozTrust compare to theirs? If you have 55,000 links, do they have 10x that? Look at where you're deficient. It's good that you're looking at things like cblock (especially when you end up with clients on your server, it's to be expected). But what are the other factors you are missing? You can easily look at the top 300 results of each metric and see where you are with each one, and make a game plan based off of where you are weak. Hope that helps.

And... as it turns out, I was part of the problem. I had a DoFollow directory on my site that people could use for a little Blog Love action.
There was also a thread on a photography group that has been going on since 2009, that I encouraged people to use over the years.

I've written a blog post here http://flauntyoursite.com/jig-is-up/ denouncing the practice. I have a bit of clout in the photography communities, so hopefully this spreads out there.

Marie, if you wouldn't mind reading this and letting me know if there's anything you think should be added, I'd appreciate it.

I let people down big time. I hope the word can get out there and fix this thing.

I'd have to see the site in question, and see what you'll be adding to the site.

You would use a "Table" for content, but you would use a DIV floated to the right to make a sidebar.

If you don't have any content on your site currently, some will help. But it sounds like you have a foundational problem with your website already. Having a well crawlable and technically sound website is the first step in putting together a good SEO campaign.

Looking at WordPress.org will give you a very small taste of what can be done with WordPress, but if you look at sites that have been built with it, it will give you a better understanding of what's capable.
At it's core, all WordPress is doing is managing the content and displaying it how you've told it to do.

OK. Well, those landing pages can just be regular Pages in WordPress. You could have a drop down menu saying something like areas served or something.

You can even add in the images that you have already done. I'd consider getting rid of all the text as images and make that stuff actual text though. There is good content in your specials that would be good to crawl.

BTW, I love the SLO/Central Coast area. I like to drive up through there from San Diego every once in a while.

Well, looking at your site, I'd say that you have a decent amount of content. But it's lacking a good foundation.

Will going to WordPress improve what your site... Well, it depends on how you create the pages, plus you'll have to make sure that all the urls are matching your old ones, and a whole slew of considerations you'd be faced with when migrating.

Based on where you're at, there is quite a bit of work either way you  look at it. If you look at the SEO Pyramid http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-seo-fundamentals-pyramid You'll see that there are certain things you're missing from that first foundation step on your site.
I would spend some time here: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo and see hat you're missing on your site.

From there you can look a little more into whether you want to switch to WordPress or something else.

I do think that since you have a fair amount of content, simply dropping that into a WordPress site that you slowly build and get used to on a test site (hidden from robots) would be a big help for you to move to that. Using Dreamweaver is pretty outdated for a lot of things (I'm sure there are some advanced users still using it), but WordPress and other CMS's are so much easier to use.