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hi, i am about to reknew my sub with a sitemap host. they offer prices based on how many urls you have.

does anyone know where i can count how many my site has and it be accurate?

thanks

I might as well as we bank with them for business!

I thought that but as Dan Price mentions some sites are suspect on there.

Ah yeah. How have they done that?

Hi, I have entered a competitiors website www.my-wardrobe.com into Open Site to see who they get links from and to my surprise they have a load from Barclays Business Banking.

When I visit the page I can not see the links. But if I search the pages source code for my-wardrobe, there I have it, a link to my-wardrobe.com.

How have they done this? Surely Barclays haven't sold them it? And more so, why are they receiving link juice when you cant even see the link on the Barclays page in question - http://www.barclays.co.uk/BusinessBanking/P1242557952664

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examplecasino.co.nz? You get your brand and keyword in one??

I would say it depends on where the text is found.

If you have 108 highly relevant, high ranking websites displaying that text you'd be fine. But if 100 of them come from spammy sites, blog comments and directories I'd be wary.

Same with all things, if its genuine backlinking you'll be ok but if there is 108 backlinks created in 1-2 days, then you'll look spammy.

Spread it out and try get those links on relevant websites.

More experienced SEO'ers may advise better though.

I would say it doesn't matter unless of course you are having a domain like www.this-is-my-colourful-nice-seo-friendly-website.com.

We use ours to say -online.com just to seperate it out. However our new domain doesn't have one in and we have two words together.

As long as you have something people can search on or recognise I think it will be ok.

I have noticed majority of my keywords have not been tracked and I need to wait until next update. However some keywords have.

I was tracking about 40-50 keywords yet only 18 are currently showing as tracked.??

Thanks.

We are in the process of getting a new site and new domains so that will fix it.

Thanks. Unfortunately the website does not have the capability to select colours. So we need to list each product as a separate one.

H1, I highlight the top line in the product description and set it to Heading 1. That top line usually mimics the Item Title.

Any ideas?

Hi,

What I want to know is, if listing multiple items of the same product, but they are available in different colours, should I name them the same but just change the colour at the end eg Lyle & Scott Polo Shirt White, Lyle & Scott Polo Shirt Blue

Or should I vary it, to get the different page titles that cover different terms?

eg Lyle & Scott Polo Shirt White and then Lyle & Scott Polo Blue and then Lyle & Scott Long Sleeve Polo Red?

And finally,

If my page has a item Title which is a clickable link in the store, then a Short Description which is also a clickable link on the store, so each give out some sort of keyword internal anchor text line? Then should I base my SEO Title and H1 title on the Item Title name exactly? Or mix it up again?

Thanks

The google+ image that you click to +1 something is a recommendation of your website not your Google+ account. So having that +1 image to click is better in my eyes.

Your +1 profile you handle like a facebook account. Sharing stories, posting links etc...

Image its facebook. You want your LIKE button on your website for people to Like and also maybe a link in footers for direct links to your profile.

So in other words have both, but make the +1 image or Like buttons more visible for people to click and recommend the page they are placed on.

I would say it would be pretty important to include that word London on the page content. It will help regionalise your page with Google, more SEO'ers might be able to say if this is true.

But I would defo have your targeted jeyword phrase within the page info, why wouldn't you want to?

2. Are you talking about your own blog or using different peoples blogs?

If you mean your own blog, link value will get worse the more links you put on it, but I use my own blog to give my customers something interesting to read, something they will share with others and the links on page are used to navigate to my website, rather than gain some juice from them.

If you mean other peoples blogs, then all depends on the content and their domain value. Sure 2 blogs a week is great but you'd be better getting 1 blog a month on a high ranking, content relative blog than getting 2 blogs a week on low ranking, totally irrelevant content blog.

So my advice would be to do 3 things.

1. Put London in your page content.
2. Create your own blog
3. Use other, relevant, high ranking blogs to gain backlinks from, using unique content on every blog, with maybe no more than 1-2 links within a blog piece.

There is more to SEO than blog articles in my eyes. Social media is taking over the world, Twitter and Facebook provide huge audience potential for very little effort. Maximise that social gateway first is my view. What do others think?

Sounds good mate. Thanks.

Thanks for your replies.

We need a new website first and foremost. Current one too old, not good enough etc...

Then we are changing our business name to fit in with new stores etc...

We want to move away from our current brand name, hence the new name. The current URL structure is poor, so a short, more SEO friendly one is being devised into the new site.

I think the 301 is best option, as we need to get away from our current site, current name and current website provider.

The company we are using are e-commerce experts so no doubt they have best solution but was just looking to see what options are out there.

Thanks

Hi,

We are in the process of having a new website developed by a web agency. New domain, new business name etc...

What is the best process to transfer from old domain to the new one?

What happens to all my ranked URLs?

What can re-directs do to help me?

Will I loose all my link juice on highly ranked keyword domains? I ranked 1st for a brand now, wil lthis go?

Any advice, help or hints would be great.

Thanks

Will

I run e-commerce site. You shouldn't worry as all e-commerce the same. Just be careful not to have spammy links and only have links that are relevant to your website.

The second link for me shows over 200 items correct? Each items I can see 3 links attacted. 1 on the image, 1 on the View button and 1 on the item Title. So there is close if not over 600 links in iteself. Then factor in your head and footer links, plus your filter links. You close to 700.

I have been using it the past 2 days without any problems.

Hi,

Our competitors are bigger and have more money than us. Not to mention the site before I joined was just left to rot, so its well behind.

I have built up a strong social network and I am currently trying to increase the number of back links we have. Was around 9 root domains when I joined, now up to 55. But our competitors have something silly for there numbers.

So I feel if I can use these links to at least get us something, then it must help a bit. I am being picky and I am using other means of getting links such as twitter, facebook, blog articles published and writing my own unique content.

Really just need to get more links pointing to us, the more from relevant fields the better.

Is there anything within SEOMoz Tools that can look for blogs in your industry (ie. Designer Menswear?) or is that a case of looking, looking and looking some more?

Cheers