Link age is not a factor.

Strength of domain/page the link is coming from is a factor. (would you want a day old link from the front page of SEOmoz, or a two year old link from your buddies blog?)

The only reason link age is thought to be a factor is that the older the link, the older the page the link is coming from, and the older the page the more time it has had to build more authority, thus pass more juice.

Great idea on getting those links manually changed!!!

I agree with Donnie, remove it and do a redirect. Caution as some servers don't like this type of redirect as it sees it as circular so test it.

if your rankings are improving, then good move!

Why do you need Google to reach inside your img folder? Images display on the page and are indexed then. Sure, if you are selling images, then I can see the need for this, but to just crawl the img folder??

If it is not huge, I do not see it penalizing you. I would make sure all images are named using keywords as crawling pic001.jpg, pic002.jpg, product01.jpg, logo.gif will not do you any good anyway.

Also I find bad linking coming from Google image searches. No one searches to purchase a coffee cup and looks in Google images to do so. Conversely, if someone is searching images of coffee cups to use in whatever, having them click over to your site is a waste of time. They are just going to grab the image and go leaving your metrics a mess.

I hope that helps.

Most assuredly use different CC-TLDs! I would also point to each from each as you have seen on many global sites. This will allow you to use different keywords also as Europe and the US have different spellings for the same words. So make sure your shopping cart software allows this if you are using the same across all domains.

This will help in link building also as it would be harder to get a spanish website linking to an english website even with sub domains.

If the site is to simply keep competitors from obtaining them, I would just register the domain and leave it parked. I would not run domains just for misspelled combinations. You start to have too many domains that you have to get to rank which could dilute your efforts for the real site.

How much traffic do you get for the misspelled version, and where does your main site rank for those misspellings? I might try PPC for those misspelled versions and just park those domains. To get them to rank you will have to build content and links. Lots of work for what may be little return. With PPC you can target just the misspelling.

If anything, I would 301 the misspelling to the main site and hope that it will bring the maine site up in the SERPs for the misspelling.

I hope that helps

WOW! Let me just say that again, WOW!

Yes, I would suggest a Drupal person or perhaps a better template. This one seems out of date as it still uses inline CSS. As Mary Anne mentioned, there are other issues as well.

Before you try and re-write everything for the H2s, I would look at some other code issues such as the alt tags.

Personally, I would look for another template after talking to someone who knows Drupal.

All the best

On the LT3G page, you have these elements that should be headers.

• ComLink LT^3G
• ^{MEDICARE APPROVED}
• ^{ComLink LT^3G - Product Overview}
• ^{With the ComLink LT^3G, you can:}

But they are manipulated by in-line CSS. Even though there are H2s with appropriate text for the header?

Then you have this

## Products-LT3G Main Image

Which would go above your image LT3G-Rtg-Rot-Web.png

So you are saying you do not need the text atop the image for esthetics. Which is understandable.

Therefore, why do you not have that H2 tag classed to swap the text for the image? Or can you not manipulate your CMS this way?

On the Company page I am not sure why the H2 is below the text.

## Analytics Code

And what is the analytics code? : )

First, and for other reasons than the H2, this CMS is not very good. I feel as though you will continue to have many issues moving forward. Such as page titles. For the company page you have | FRS Custom Solutions which indicates that there should be something before the pipe (|).

I do not see yet a clear way out of this as the H2s are used for headers in some cases and then for nothing in others such as the analytics code.

Am I following this correctly, or totally missing the boat here?

the first question would be why have it at all if you do not want to show it. I presume you have no control over it showing?

Then I would ask; in that space, what is showing now and why could you not swap for an image?

It might be better for you to post the URL of the site so I can see what you are trying to accomplish.

Sketchy as it adds no value to the visitor. It just depends on how often SEs look at CSS as to if/when you will get penalized. They might not look at the CSS unless they see other indicators.

What you are doing I would consider keyword manipulation, and that is sketchy.

Always look at the value of what you do with respect to visitors. If it adds no value, don't do it.

I hope that helps

I have not been here long enough to have any 'hidden' secrets except SEOmoz

However, I do find that backlinks with great anchors really, really works well.

I agree with Barry, but watch out for that last snippet. I've got caught when hosting companies redirect on their side. So test before walking away for more coffee : )

micro formats are recommended. Top of site if possible. I like to place full add in the contact us Title : )

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard

Great question. I tend to just map it out by hand categories / sub categories / products/services but I can see how that can get quite daunting on very large sites.

Thanks Sameer, I'll have to check these out

Exact domain names do get ranked well in SEs and are a good choice when relevant like yours. They will get punished if what is on the site does not match the domain, or inbound links seem spammy.

If your site is about Personalized Birthday Gifts, then I see no reason why not to use the domain. I would not use exact anchor text when building manual links as most sites will list your URL as the anchor so that is covered. I would build links like this (presuming you have done your keyword research)

• Birthday Gifts
• Gifts for Birthdays
• Birthday Gift Ideas
• Personalized Gifts

The cons with exact domains is that you are boxed in as many see it. You can not easily sell wedding supplies. This comes into play with GEO TLDs such as using a location in your TLD such as San Diego or California. If you expand out of this area, then you boxed yourself in without great marketing.

Just Cabinets sells furniture, so they have marketed themselves out of selling just cabinets, but you can see the amount of effort it would take.

If you are going to sell nothing but birthday gifts, then I see no reason not to use the exact match TLD.

I hope that answered your question.

Link age is not a factor.

Strength of domain/page the link is coming from is a factor. (would you want a day old link from the front page of SEOmoz, or a two year old link from your buddies blog?)

The only reason link age is thought to be a factor is that the older the link, the older the page the link is coming from, and the older the page the more time it has had to build more authority, thus pass more juice.

Great idea on getting those links manually changed!!!

Yup, that will do the job of relocation, but it does not 301 the link and therefore you will not transfer link juice.

Name of blog is not as important as the title as SEs look from left to right regarding importance. Put name at the end IF need be. I would tend to omit the name of the site on blogs, unless the site is all a blog with no other content.

I agree with Donnie, remove it and do a redirect. Caution as some servers don't like this type of redirect as it sees it as circular so test it.