http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/ User submitted comments to Practical Ecommerce's article entitled SEO Report Card: Discountflies.com en-us Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:27:43 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/rss/ Practical Ecommerce v2.0.1 Ecommerce kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com bgetting@practicalecommerce.com 60 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3934 Stephan, keep up the good work. I've learned a ton from you, and if people would just take these articles in the spirit in which they are written... to help with SEO, they would see them as wonderful resources not to just help discountflies.com but their own web sites Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:27:43 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3934 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3708 I too am reading these with great interest. But I do feel like I've walked into a foreign restaurant and I'm really hungry but I can only see the photos on the menu and can't read the menu. :P My site is getting first page displays in Google Search, Only if I type in the manufacturer's name along with the Product name. Not with the product name though and thats what really counts. My PageRank shows nothing! My store opened 1 month ago and only had 2 sales, Ouch! Great articles though! Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:20:40 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3708 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3705 Brendan has a good point: sometimes the 'Report Card' here just takes a site to task without offering how to actually fix problems. I too have one or two 301 redirect errors but don't know how to fix 'em. Also, the issue about underscores in URL's. In a recent Site Review, we were told (by a different reviewer?) that Google now does accept the underscore character just as a hyphen. Underscores are no longer punished. But I usually find nuggets of help in these reviews. I, too, am stuck at a lowly PR of 3... Yep, I gotta get some more inbound links... fun. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:59:45 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3705 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3707 To redirect your domain from domain.com to www.domain.com you will need to use a 301 redirect in an .htaccess file (assuming you're on an Apache server). A quick Google search for "301 redirect" will turn up lots of tutorials for you. The key with linking to the homepage is not necessarily that you must link to '/', but that you don't want to link to www.domain.com/index.html as this is seen by search engines as a separate page from www.domain.com. If you're currently linking to www.domain.com, that should be fine. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:59:15 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3707 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3702 Someone buy this poor fellow a drink! That was rough, but hopefully helpful in getting better ranking. I see two of the recommendations here quite often in the Report Cards, but don't know how to fix them as they are just breezed over: First: The often mentioned 301 redirect of mysite.com to www.mysite.com. Where would I do something like that? I get the concept, just not how/where in my store software that function may exist. Second: Changing the logo link from wwww.mysite.com to / Do you actually mean changing the link code to read '/' ? I've tried that in DW and it didn't seem to work. The Report Card is generally an interesting read, but if you glaze over the meat of how to fix this stuff, it's kinda just "So who got their a_s handed to them this week?" Thanks Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:57:37 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/140/SEO-Report-Card-Discountfliescom/#comment3702