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Hi Rob,

I do not recommend the second option (using htaccess)   it's a worse abuse of Apache than described above as it would have to do that for every file request (gif|html|js|css|etc)

So my solution for you is to httpd.conf and RewriteMap either by using prg: map or txt: map.

my recommendation will of course be prg: map where you can query your database

For your help http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html

Cheers!

your best bet is to go and sit on a google hangout done by John Mueller where you can take your case and explain it to him .

here is the info

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts

he will be posting about it on monday and fridays. its a public hangout fyi

Yes for both questions.

Maintining the N.A.P(Name, Phone, Address) with your google places page and your website and with all local directories and basically all web properties are crucial for ranking, as it shown here  by David Mihm.

Having your NAP on other web properties are called "Citations" and these are considered like links to your actual website. so the more you have uniformed NAP citations accross multiple web properties will increase rankings.

Tyler,

I would do 2 things

• Check page header and double check if its giving a 200 OK
• i would go to GWT to check of this url and i would go to Labs and "Fetch As googlebot"

please inform us with the results

Verify blog.gallerydirect.com in your Google Webmaster tools and go ahead submit the sitemaps.

did you test it by 404ing the page and move content and internal linking to a new URL? or not feasible?

here is a piece of information collected by David Mihm That lets you understand that when submitting to a few other might "take" or aggregate the new info

Local Ecosystem: http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/seo-industry/local-search-ecosystem-2012

lol ok

• http://web-sniffer.net/ go here, input http://www.flowerpetal.com/index.jsp?info=13

when you click submit un Header Response you should get:

| Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK |

• Login to your Google Webmaster tools, I assume you added your site and verified

Go to your site dashboard, under "Diagnostics" go to "crawl errors" just double check if google is receiving crawling errors while fetching ur page.

• in your GWT dashboard go under  Diagnostics" and choose "fetch as googlebot, Enter ur URL and click fetch.

what s going to happen is googlebot will fetch that page and show you what it sees.

All Problems you mentioned are opportunities that you can make you blog "better" but there is no "critical must fix" that is preventing google from indexing and rankings your website.

but what i see in the serps that you are syndicating your blog through blogger and wordpress and it seems that google is discovering the content on blogger and wordpress before your site(your site cache is on 21st the wordpress/blogger it shows may 20th).

what i will do is try to disable that syndication and try to submit your rss feed to google under sitemaps (http://www.ductvacnw.com/blog/latest.atom)

I checked with semrush and search metrics to see certain changes that matches known updates happened here and couldn't find any.

What type of changes you did to the page?

Google my reset what it thinks of a documents if "enough" changes has been done to it .. which it reevaluate all the signals and show a more stable rankings for that document

I would add meta "noindex, follow" to author, categories , archives and date archives, tags.

and i think Wordpress SEO by Yoast is one of the best so far. and of course All in One SEO plugin

Tyler,

GWT is google webmaster tools. sorry i didnt clarify.

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Great Keith,

I just want you to take what i said and go a lil broader.

ie. Google is not quickly indexing  or knowing about your content when you hit publish. which indicate:

• Low authority
• Crawlers is not used to / not trained to come to your website regularly to check for updates.
• Trust Issues

fixing these 3 bullets points will help your problems that you are facing

Sincerely,

if you check the exact people doing a search for :champagne champagne: its only 1600  searches worldwide.

sorry i didnt make it clear

if the product have a relevant substitute then you can utilize the the 301. but if the product don't have a relevant substitute then 404/410 is the right of doing it.

i might rethink intelligently if the product have too much inbound links to it ... but this is case by case situation.

you can take a look to at :

• http://rss.icerocket.com/
• http://www.ponyfish.com/

Free accounts that you can create RSS feeds for any site

I understand from where you are coming from,

did you try to run the website on screaming frog or Moz Crawler? did u see certain anomalies ?

Definetly Not,

i would rather invest my time searching for potential niches that have exact searches of more than 6000 per month.

cheers

Dejan

how about the twitter profile feed?

lets say your profile feed and using a wordpress plugin for example that imports that feeds and displays it in your blog/company website... most of the plugin dont add nofollow on your links in your twitter feed. ( did not mention about twitter directories thats adds a big portion of your feed )

make sense?

google recommends to have a .xml file extension ...

They provide another recommendation where if you have just html urls you can include them in a .txt file and thats it

ref: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en#2

please go to here https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/74288?hl=en for other requirements for G News Sitemap