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This may be of use: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/determining-whether-a-page-site-passes-link-juice

Yes

Something similar to what is on your G+ profile.. are you linking it to a personal or business one?

I'd be inclined to remove the decimal point.. reduces the URL by 1 character Use the title & meta tags for this

If you're taking that approach, I'd make the h1 and opening paragraph as close to the opening body tag as possible (even move the free delivery van near the nav & position everything absolutely via the CSS), reduce the amount of javascript calls, use div tags instead of tables... I've built sites this way and have noticed some improvements. The main thing is to clean up the code as much as possible by removing inline CSS calls, comments, externalising all javascript etc to make the site load faster.

Some other things to consider:

• site has 229 links on the home page - consider reducing to under 100 (the footer contains excessive links)
• center the design.. looks strange on a big monitor

In short, it won't pass link juice but will still get crawled

1. http://www.ultraseo.com/author/seo-team/ - seems to be the more relevant one.. in fact it would be best to create a new page all together, e.g. http://www.ultraseo.com/author/atul-sharma/ with some profile info rather than a list of articles
2. Under the "About" tab > in the right hand column click "Contributor to" and add the blog there (make sure it's set to public)

Here is some more info/further reading from Google: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

Go subfolders over subdomains if they are your options...

Have a look at apple.com - e.g.

• http://www.apple.com/pt/
• http://www.apple.com/jp/
• http://www.apple.com/au/

e.g.

<iframe src="widget.htm"></iframe>
provided by Babyhuddle

Can you get to it using a proxy service like proxify.com?

Good responses

Having a look at your site.. another option you could look at is to create a "food-truck-franchise" landing page, i.e.: http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise (with content targetted to food truck fanchises & links to each different franchise type)

And have all the franchise pages site in a folder beneath:

• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/american
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/chillipeppers
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/deli-cuisine

From that "parent" page you could create a whole heap of knowledge base articles:

• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/how-to-create
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/costs
• http://gourmetstreets.com/food-truck-franchise/locations etc etc

I'm guessing the paths used to reference the images & css files are relative to the the results.php file.. now that there are "/"s the best thing to do is to change the template to either hard code an absolute path or use forward slash at the start to always start at the root.. eg

Old code:

New code

or

No worries Look forward to seeing the site with the new URLs in place - a lot of great photos on that site that need to be shared with everyone

There are 2 issues here:

1. Need to fix the URLs for better user experience & search engines and can do so by using rewrite rules in htaccess

   The one suggested by the support forum (I've modified to better match your site but it's untested):

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^photographer/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+).php$ results.php?category=$2 The URLs would then be:
   http://www.bartramgallery.com/photographer/charles-cramer/10.php (not ideal with "/10.php" at the end but may be best given the limitations of the cart)
   rewrites to: http://www.bartramgallery.com/results.php?category=10

2. Clean up the Google index (remove old URLs & add new ones)
   Since both URLs will render the same content we can fix by adding a
   tag - attributing 1 source to the duplicate content - check if you can do this dynamically in the templates but be very careful not to canonical everything to the homepage or all your pages will be wiped out the index except the home page!)

Also, have your traffic levels increased noticeably? Could be a server/hosting issue maybe

As Autobytel mentioned, specifying the canonical would be the way to go.. considering you also have www & non www versions:

• http://thegorillafirm.com/bikes/
• http://thegorillafirm.com/bikes/index.asp
• http://www.thegorillafirm.com/bikes/
• http://www.thegorillafirm.com/bikes/index.asp

Agree

Think about it from the user's point of view. What would work best for them? Maybe even get some feedback from some site users if possible

Will the site categories/products grow? If so, then the slash could be used to organise the structure & prepare for the future

In the example, you presented:

1. www.example.com/accounts-titanium
2. www.example.com**/**accounts/titanium

These are the same length & make no real difference

When we compare these 2, however:

1. www.example.com/open-demo-account
2. www.example.com/accounts/open-demo-account

You can see that #1 is shorter, doesn't repeat keyword (even though they are plural) & would be more likely clicked in the SERPs

Does that help some more?

Thanks