Agree with Vahe. Also, warnings are not necessarily errors but meant to raise flags for you to check the site to see if everything is meant to be there.

An incorrect rollout of canonicals (e.g. if every page on your site has the home page as the canonical) can result in a lot of pages being removed out of the index.

Regarding the 301s, check all pages for links to other internal pages & look at any links that have a trailing slash at the end and change to remove the trailing slash, e.g. these are 2 different URLs:

• http://www.musicliveuk.com/category/planning-events
• http://www.musicliveuk.com/category/planning-events/

Yet "/category/planning-events/" 301s to "/category/planning-events"

The non www version 301s to the www version too.. so check if there are any internal links to:

• musicliveuk.com

and change to:

• www.musicliveuk.com

The "&" character is typically reserved for the querystring portion of the URL

I'd avoid using "and" or "&" in url's except for in the TLD if it's critical for the brand

Also, another tip.. if you use "and", make sure it doesn't get confused with the surrounding words, e.g.

• camelandhorse.com may be read as "came land horse" or "camel and horse"

(sorry, no real-word example came mind lol - except for the old expertsexchange.com URL)

I wouldn't.. private link networks are becoming more public by the day as Google improves their algo...

Rethink your strategy & look at social media & other types of link building (e.g. create some compelling content)

I would be curious to see some answers on optimising for baidu (apart from needing to learn Chinese!)

I assume most of the principles would be the same:

• Unique <title>per page</span></li> <li><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">Unique <meta description> per page</span></li> <li><span style="color: #5e5e5e;">Maybe some of the category pages need a better description: <a href="http://www.cn-sen.com/category-18.html">http://www.cn-sen.com/category-18.html</a></span></li> <li>Optimise the URLs to have keywords (maybe Baidu has smarts where it can translate English to Chinese)</li> </ul> <p>Hope that helps a little...</p></title>

There should be a unique heading on each page to give crawlers a good start on determining the topical relevancy of the page.

Heading tags should only be used as headings (think about how you would layout a document or thesis.. you would structure the text ordered with

s then

s etc

In this case, it looks like there is a unique

tag on each of the category & product pages - I wouldn't worry about it too much

As a traffic source there has been some recent news suggesting that it has contributed to an increase in sales in the retail sector - if you're in the retail category then I think it's definitely worth including in your overall online strategy (particularly if you're based in the US)

Here are some related articles:

• http://mashable.com/2012/02/01/pinterest-traffic-study/
• http://mashable.com/2012/01/29/pinterest-retail-infographic/

Hope that helps!

Great answer

I see you have canonicals in place Gotta love Magento

Very nicely put

I'd suggest to rebuild the site using HTML5 & some JS for effects & font rendering - currently there is only 1 URL for the entire site but there is a whole lot of content that could be created into pages (separate page per model with bio & links to their Google+ accounts etc).

Following on from Andy's ideas around social - you really need to leverage from social media sharing buttons on each model page.. I'm sure you'll be able to get their mums & wives liking the pages

Everyone needs a bridge hehe

Is it possible, at all, to install Wordpress on the server at all under a subfolder, e.g.: mysite.com/blog ?

I've taken over a site before that had CMSMS running and Word Press - the main site was running at the root level & wordpress was installed to run under the sub folder.. there are ways to make the 2 systems (and others) talk to each other

The sub folder approach would ensure that all domain equity is preserved and the developer should be able to incorporate a "widget" on the home page that displays a few links to the most recent headlines.. if not then maybe they should learn how to code

Agree with the music user experience too (at least offer an option to turn the sound off - as is offered inside the site) - I recently got married & that Christina Perri song was part of the ceremony so it didn't bother me as much but it could be a potential reason for some bounces, as Ryan mentioned.

Expansion on Facebook & other social channels could be very good & low cost mediums for you to gain an audience. Start with your existing clients and leverage from their friends & family. Tag the models too (they can always be removed if unwanted)

And yes... stunning photos - you're very talented!

Meta keywords are being phased out - it was a good way to keyword stuff and influence the prehistoric search engines but these days Google, Bing, Yahoo, Blekko etc are quite savvy & ignore these often-manipulated tags.

Could be due to a number of reasons - just a couple of quick ones:

On page/Tech:

1. Poor (lack of unique) URL structure
2. Home page missing h1
3. Lots of short page titles
4. Site-wide duplicate meta descriptions

Off page:

1. Not many links (according to OSE - http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=joeyvalyphotography.com )
2. It's moderately competetive (http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty/results.html?commit=Run+Report&date=2012-01-19&engine_id=96&keywords=Orlando+Wedding+Photographer&utf8=%E2%9C%93) - the comp has links

Have a look at what's in the Google index by searching:

site:joeyvalyphotography.com

Hope that helps!

Yes, that would be best

Link your main site with the G+ business pages & then link your personal G+ with your author page

I actually changed a slide in one of my decks with this correction hehe

Keep all the love in one spot.. also, will lower maintenance costs

That's right - and then they will send you a postcard containing a PIN number to verify. Once you enter the PIN in Places, you will be able to take control.

Good times