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    Does my blog help my SEO?

    If you could create links to your external blog as part of your site's layout this would be ideal. In cases like yours you want to integrate the external blog at least somewhere into the natural layout of your ecommerce site (via a button/link). If it's purpose is supporting your product...
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    Google - Disavow Tool

    Possibly a game changing SEO tool. Like the force there is probably a good and dark side! You'll need to use this carefully, in a calculated manner and not make rash emotional "rage quit" choices with this tool. I'm not going to seriously engage with this tool until I've seen a lot of test data.
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    Does my blog help my SEO?

    Are you hosting both the blog and your e-commerce store on the same server? Do you also have them registered under the same public whois details? If the answer is yes to either of these questions then it's possible that the strength of the links will be devalued (although not completely...
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    does google penalise small fonts?

    Perhaps there is some truth to this, but I've never seen any evidence for it. As far as I'm aware search engines are starting to progress towards looking for semantic markup signals. This is done in simple terms by analysing the text to figure out the importance of certain terms/sections by...
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    How does location of homepage affect search engine rankings?

    If you're using a permanent 301 redirect then it does not matter where you redirect your home page (root domain) to. Any page rank and SEO value will be mostly carried over to the final destination.
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    does google penalise small fonts?

    As said above unless you are deliberately using font size to mask keyword stuffing and manipulate the on page SEO I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just as a point of interest, never try and "hide" keywords on a page it's bad practice and has long since been penalised and no longer works...
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    Weekly SEO

    Some more things you could add to your routine (just a quick couple of pointers): Manual social bookmarking of your blog articles. Ping your guest posts Make sure your sitemap.xml is up to date Track your google webaster tools for any notices / changes Check google analytics to see which...
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    Moving to a new domain

    I think now that you have analysed your backlinks and know that most are pointed to your deep pages we have a solvable problem. IMO your decision depends on whether you NEED to rebuild this site quickly or if you can afford to wait. For example if this is the site for a brick and mortar...
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    World Record Holders!

    This is actually a pretty cool achievement. Congrats!
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    own website v ebay

    Just for others information this is not advisable. You are not allowed to place a link to your website in eBay's listings. You are however allowed to list an email address that you can be contacted on. Therefore creating an ebay at yourdomain email address will let people know the address of...
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    own website v ebay

    Most people try and "wean" their customers off of ebay and onto their own site over time. A good way to do this is to include a 5% off discount code voucher for your own site with every ebay order (printed vouchers packed with goods not sent by email). The beauty of this is you have given the...
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    Moving to a new domain

    Also a note on this point. Disavow will not take away existing penalties for old links. But it is likely that if you report bad links within days of creation BEFORE you have been hit with a penalty google will ignore them and spare you.
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    Moving to a new domain

    Yeah it actually does play a part in sites rankings. It's a case of volume though, so you're correct that 1 bad site is unlikely to bring down a bunch of good sites. As for most sites being on shared hosting this is true, but the shared part is usually only the A/B part of the IP address, the...
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    Link building to a site that hasn't been published yet

    Yeah it should be okay as long as there is some form of content there. Linking to a domain that leads to a complete blank won't do you any good.
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    Why isnt there one simple SEO method....

    Haha sorry I'm new here and excited to get contributing!
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