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Alberto, have you considered a Jquery Dialog box. While technically it is a popup, you need an an event to trigger it. If you don't have something like an ONLOAD event and more of a click to learn more then the dialog is much better than a traditional popup. It is less likely to frustrate people.

Example..http://jsfiddle.net/umkbsms3/1/

Good luck with whichever route you go with!

Don

Hi Bob,

You can "suggest" a crawl rate to Google by logging into your webmasters tools on Google and adjusting it there.

As for indexing pages.. I looked at your robots and site. It really looks like you need to employ some No Follow on some of your internal linking, specifically on the product page filters, that alone could reduce the total number of URLS that the crawlers even attempts to look at.

Additionally your sitemap http://premium-hookahs.nl/sitemap.xml shows a change frequency of daily, and probably should be broken out between Pages / Images so you end up using two sitemaps one for images and one for pages. You may also want to review what is in there. Using ScreamingFrog (free) the sitemap I made (link) only shows about 100 urls.

Hope it helps,

Don

Hi uSwSEO,

shiftins is correct, synonyms are picked up by search engines to some degree.

Here is Matt Cutts (lots of good links here to) on how Google deals with Synonyms

You should pick one the keyword that sounds the most natural for the page / site and your dialect. To insure the search engines pick up on the fact you mean either or, I would try to fit both keywords into the Title, then try to use the secondary keyword 2 or 3 times on page or put it in the alt tag or image names.

The goal is should be to primary target one keyword but show a relationship between it and the second keyword, without going crazy on the second keyword.

Hope that makes sense, and helps.

Hi,

Something is generating those links, and that is what I would want to fix. It sounds like a module or add-on is incorrectly coded, or installed improperly. As p=1_1 is usually a form of pagination and / or sort order.

You could of course easily fix it by putting a canonical tag on the root page to itself or work out a mod rewrite rule, but that isn't actually fixing the problem. As soon as you add another category you may have to revisit the fix again.

Here is an example of using mod re-write on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14666140/htaccess-rewriting-php-pagination

I hope that helps,

Don

Hi Bob,

About the nofollow vs blocked. In the end I suppose you have the same results, but in practice it works a little differently. When you nofollow a link it tells the crawler as soon as it encounters the link not to request or follow that link path. When you block it via robots the crawler still attempts to access the url only to find it not accessible.

Imagine if I said go to the parking lot and collect all the loose change in all the unlocked cars. Now imagine how much easier that task would be if all the locked cars had a sign in the window that said "Locked", you could easily ignore the locked cars and go directly to the unlocked ones. Without the sign you would have to physically go check each car to see if it will open.

About link juice, if you have a link, juice will be passed regardless of the type of link. (You used to be able to use nofollow to preserve link juice but no longer). This is bit unfortunate for sites that use search filters because they are such a valuable tool for the users.

Don

HI Angelos,

Excel has a Protected View feature which prevents files from the internet from being opened in full view mode. All the Keyword Analysis I have ever downloaded simply required me to "Enable Editing" to manipulate the document. This is usually a ribbon across the top of Excel.

You can disable this by going to FILE -> OPTIONS, 1st Pop Up click TRUST CENTER, then Trust Center Settings (button), 2cnd PopUp click Protected View and disable "Enable Protected View for files origination from the Internet".

*Note this may effect all Office programs like Word / Access etc..

The only other things I can think causing password protection would be you don't have SEOmoz credits, or there is some security features that an admin has enabled.

Alternatively, you can download it as an .CSV file and open it with something else besides Excel.

Hope that helps,

Don

Hi Neil,

What you could do is have your host set the unused domain (.com) as a parked domain, or just park it yourself in the domain management if your host has one. Then just do a redirect from the unused to the used. Then you won't have to worry about the root folder. As a parked domain you won't be creating a "coming soon page" nor would you want to, since its redirected to the actual domain you'll be using.

As for other considerations, at this stage I would just say be sure you want to launch with .co.uk over .com. The co.uk is better for UK specific sites, and .com is better for a worldwide audience. However, it sounds like you already know this.

Hope this helps,

Don

Ben,

I doubt that crawlers are going to access the robots.txt file for each request, but they still have to validate any url they find against the list of the blocked ones.

Glad to help,

Don

Yes, this is another option.

Hello,

Yes, multiple sitemaps are okay, and sometimes even advised!

You can read Google's official response here."..it's fine for multiple Sitemaps to live in the same directory (as many as you want!)..."

And you can see a case study showing how multiple sitemaps has helped traffic here on Moz.

Hope this helps,

Don

Linking to pages in the footer generates more links which dilutes link juice passed to all pages that are linked to. Usually the footer is where non-important SEO pages are located but important pages for customer experience like, accounts / support / contact / privacy / terms of service / legal.

You should always side with the USER EXPERIENCE it should not be frustrating for your users to find what they are looking for. Taking that into consideration you should also keep the links to less important SEO pages sitewide to a minimum and not duplicate your navigation unless it makes sense from a usability standpoint. Other-words don't do it to fill up space.

It is okay to do so, but before you do here is some advice.

Make sure you have strong "Luxury Homes" content not only on your home page but in the site as well. The reason you may have ranked well for "wooden houses" maybe that your site had a lot of content about them as well as related content.

I speak from experience about a year ago we made the same decision and one of the keywords we ranked very well for on our homepage we decided to just try and rank for on our landing page. By removing the content from our homepage and redoing our landing page we never got the same rank.

What I learned was the way search engines view the site in a whole, what you say on your home page has a very strong impact on the way you are viewed by the search engines.

For example lets say you run a Motorcycle shop. You do mostly custom bikes but also offer other services. On your home page you talk about custom bikes and link to a custom bikes show case, as well as other things like fabrication processes, design process, engineering tips etc.. If you suddenly say well we not only do custom bikes but we also do service repairs then change your homepage content to reflect this, you may find you lose rank for custom bikes because well that is what search engines thought your site in a whole was about.

Re-branding can be tricky, just make sure if you re-brand you don't just do it one page deep. Think it through, think about related content and make pages for the related content. Don't put your hope all on a landing page to pick up the slack for "wooden homes" make sure that content gets updated and becomes stronger so you don't lose that traffic. It may also help to leave a meaningful amount of "wooden home" content on the homepage while you re-brand.

I hope this makes sense and helps,

Don

Hi Wolf,

I can add to this.

Wordpress is very well noted for creating duplicate content. It does this in other ways not just categories using archives and tags. It has been awhile since I played around with my Wordpress sites but there plugins that claim to fix this by using just what Dirk suggested, or by using the noindex no follow tag.
Duplicate Content Cure
Yoast SEO

I can not vouch for any plugin as I don't use Wordpress regularly, what you have is a common issue that these plugins claim to address.

I hope this helps,

Don

Hello Julien,

The term "therapy toy" and "therapy smart toy" are two different keywords. Each will generate different results in search engines. While the second keyword does incorporate the main keywords, the results will still vary.

When selecting which keyword to target I highly suggest you use Google Ad Words Keyword Planner to find what terms are the most popular thus bringing you the most potential.

For example on a U.S national level the term "Therapy Toy" receives 20 searches a month, while "Therapy Smart Toy" receives 0. While the broader keyword "therapy toys" (with an s) receives 480 searches per month.

Hope this helps,

Don

Glad to help Julien,

With only 1 option for you, it may make more sense to target the brand, or model than just the item type.

For example if I only had a 2010 Ford Taurus, I would target that, not the word car.

I'm only going off the basic information I can derive from the previous post so I hope this gives you some direction,

Don