just because it may or maynot help with search rankigns doesn't mean those links and comments won't drive traffic. if you add a valuable comment to the blog then people are likely to click through from that site to your own, its not just about rankings

it's not free but yoast SEO have this awesome WP plugin, adds microformats etc - see benefits  @ http://yoast.com/wordpress/video-seo/

used it for a client, well worth it- adds something competition don't have for the most part

It's all been said but here are a few more tips to get your going with the perfect page titles

http://seoandy.com/optimisation/perfect-webpage-title/#sthash.lcH9PSFM.dpbs

Tom's point is spot on.

Syndication is a great traffic driver, no doubt - but it also means that the content usually worth a little less. Also implementing the canonical tag can be away around this but it will mean that the "copy" of the content will never get a chance to rank, though it will still drive some traffic.

The answer is always original content across the board - if you must repost on your own website use the canonical to point to the other site - show the love.

off topic: i was once asked "if i add a picture of a cute cat to any post would it become unique content?" ... answers on a post card to "sill questions here"

further to this you could look at having the image above some text and the text describes the image -- using z-index to layer them - hope that makes a little sense... if not google z-index

what CMS are you using, usually there are plugins to help you do this. Another alternative is to change the URL back to the old URL but the name stays as the new one - this is a common thing that can happen. But it all depends on your CMS - search its name and 301 redirect, you will get there

Whilst some of it is better than it was, the way it deals with pages is still flawed.

For example most pages are using the url format .au/#!chauffeur-hire-perth/c1ay9

#! is a "hashbang" it means it's being dealt / served through javascript and as such isn't readable via search engines - in addition to this all pages have a canonical of the homepage and so would never rank anyhow...

As much as it may not be what you want to hear, its never likely to rank well - i certainly don't forsee it ever ranking in the top 3... sorry

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Being transparent: I have never been one to support the likes of WIX or others of a similar nature. The templates they use are built to cover so many bases that it will never really please anyone completely. Also the way in particular WIX deals with pages is concerning in particular - others do it too i should add.

sorry to be the messenger of bad news.

would be good to get .com/category/name if possible

obviously if you do that becareful about using canonical urls as things may appear in more than one cat

screaming frog is your best bet

in terms of categories, they are more reference points than definite areas, that is why you can actually input anything you want into there. so yes taxi is a go-er

the difference between the two is that one dictates you saying "we serve within 5 miles radius" it includes every city and town in that area... the second says we only serve this town or city ... (state country etc). the radius is more for local businesses and locations for companies who have multiple offices or shops.

Tom's point is spot on.

Syndication is a great traffic driver, no doubt - but it also means that the content usually worth a little less. Also implementing the canonical tag can be away around this but it will mean that the "copy" of the content will never get a chance to rank, though it will still drive some traffic.

The answer is always original content across the board - if you must repost on your own website use the canonical to point to the other site - show the love.

off topic: i was once asked "if i add a picture of a cute cat to any post would it become unique content?" ... answers on a post card to "sill questions here"

Whilst some of it is better than it was, the way it deals with pages is still flawed.

For example most pages are using the url format .au/#!chauffeur-hire-perth/c1ay9

#! is a "hashbang" it means it's being dealt / served through javascript and as such isn't readable via search engines - in addition to this all pages have a canonical of the homepage and so would never rank anyhow...

As much as it may not be what you want to hear, its never likely to rank well - i certainly don't forsee it ever ranking in the top 3... sorry

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Being transparent: I have never been one to support the likes of WIX or others of a similar nature. The templates they use are built to cover so many bases that it will never really please anyone completely. Also the way in particular WIX deals with pages is concerning in particular - others do it too i should add.

sorry to be the messenger of bad news.

Comments from William and Darin show the two different types of blog commenting. Let me expand:

Type 1:

Commenting on any blog you can get your hands on linking back to your site (those that will let you): This is the kind of blog commenting that you should avoid like the plague. It will do you no good and will simply be a waste of time these days.

Type 2:

Commenting on blogs that mean something in your industry and commenting with content people want to read: Like with any kind of content, if it is content people want to read it can be valuable. If you are selling running shoes and you build your authority on an athletics blog and your comment is contributing to a conversation and a link to your site is relevant and valuable to the users then by all means this is the kind of blog commenting you want to involve yourself in and can be very beneficial in the long run.

Hope that helps.

pointing a folder would involve some DNS changes (to the CNAME record) - i think.

You would be best asking BC - it would be a similar process to pointing a subdomain to BC.

If you host a solution you are not always stuck in time, for example I use things like WooCommerce which is always being updated with new features and gives you great controls.

And just to clarify I am not saying that you cannot do the things YOU may want to do, but there are things that unless you've controls within the server you can't do - like implement GZIP for instance which can be a big deal on big sites.

Ok generally < so not to miss any questions

The links you describe to some extent could be considered manipulated, unless they were sites previously and have since been redirected - which is perfectly valid. However, if they have always been redirects then they are unlikely to have gained anything from those links - In my experience if someone links to a page which is redirected since existence (and google generally knows this thanks to its vast database) then it is unlikely to pass juice - but as i said if it was say a blog post on another site but the site has since moved it will carry some juice.

If you want to investigate that further nip to http://archive.org/web/web.php and enter the url which is being redirected - go back into its history (across the top) and see if a page exists there or not.

So to your main question, are commentluv links worth it. Basically it's hard to tell whether they or any other comment system offering a similar function are worth it. As with many website comments in general the links maybe set to no-follow and so not worth anything to search engines, but thats not to mean they are totally worthless - people still see and click them.

And finally, my advice is never to just look for one type of link (such as one from commentluv comments) - it's the same with any kind of link, if you manipulate a search engine by biasing towards something hugely their worth to you will diminish and your time wasted.

always look at the bigger picture.

in terms of categories, they are more reference points than definite areas, that is why you can actually input anything you want into there. so yes taxi is a go-er

the difference between the two is that one dictates you saying "we serve within 5 miles radius" it includes every city and town in that area... the second says we only serve this town or city ... (state country etc). the radius is more for local businesses and locations for companies who have multiple offices or shops.

just because it may or maynot help with search rankigns doesn't mean those links and comments won't drive traffic. if you add a valuable comment to the blog then people are likely to click through from that site to your own, its not just about rankings

would be good to get .com/category/name if possible

obviously if you do that becareful about using canonical urls as things may appear in more than one cat

I think what EGOL means is that switching the domain to your hosting provider means you loose control of certain things within that domain which can be very important to seo. What could be a good compromise here is that you look at putting the shopping cart within a folder on the domain (not a subdomain as this would be a bad move), this means the work you've done on the domain would continue to effect the static info on there and the shop within the folder.

it may not be possible, it depends on your shopping cart provider - if it can't be done then move the domain across and ensure you have redirects in place from old domain links to new ones (eg your about pages redirect).

Hope that helps clear things up

Also something to consider is that you don't need to re-submit the sitemap ever whilst your sitemap is in the same location and has the same title it always did. Google will on a regular basis fetch that sitemap without resubmitting.

I would say update the sitemap if you've a new page or deleted it - but its not a huge issue really if you are out by a day or 14 - unless your site is very busy with lots of visitors it's not that important to google, also I find they prefer natural crawling and finding than being told there is one new page - this said a whole section change is definitely worth updating it.