When you do discuss “- a reminder of a good .htaccess practice, possibly with some thoughts on WordPress caching,” could you include some thoughts on the use of h1 versus h2 tags? (Or perhaps in a separate post)

Specifically, some SEO advice I have seen recommends using h1 for titles vs the default h2 that most WordPress themes use. Is this really good guidance, and if so, can it be carried too far? For example, one theme that I recently used actually assigned an h1 to category pages, and now I have visitors landing on a category site when their search phrase should have taken them directly to an article I had written on the search phrase. (Example, several visitors searching for “customizing smartphone start menu” are now landing on my smartphone category page instead of on a specific article that I have written on the subject. At one time, searchers using this phrase landed on the right page, but now they don’t … no doubt I lose readers because of it.

I think relatively new bloggers like myself can be confused and even misled by some of the SEO guidance floating around in cyberspace. None of us really wants to start out on the wrong foot.

By the way, I switched to the same theme style you are using, at least for now, to get away from the one that was assigning h1 to “everything.”

I thought you’d shut him down a few weeks ago but to see him continue to rank #1 for make money online and to flaunt it by now going after other terms publicly disturbs me. This guy is influencing thousands of other bloggers who emulate him. It’s sad to see Google powerless or unwilling to stop him despite his schemes which so obviously manipulate your systems.

I was in the group of the sites recently penalized. Everything is fixed. Can you push that button on your computer that lets me back in?

Your issue is that Google’s drawing your DMOZ description (which will probably piss off 95% of people that post here because DMOZ won’t even list their sites, so you’ve got a huge edge):

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=Cichosz%2C+Piotr

So Google’s not the one creating that impersonal feeling: DMOZ is!

You can fix this yourself though with:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noodp”>

Source: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-supports-meta-noodp-tag/

Give it a few days though to take effect.

But it does not address this issue. We have a web site and decided to open a second location on ebay -same content. The intent was the same with as with a brick and mortar store “increase sales through different channels. What precaution if any can we take to avoid the possibility of being penalized for our ebay? We would like to open a Yahoo! store too for the same reason. Is there a legitimate method of letting Google and everyone else that we have different sales channels (total and complete transparency)? Perhaps posting links from our main site to the other sites. We would do so on the other site, but ebay, Yahoo!, etc.., prohibits same for obvious reasons –I would too if I were in their shoes.

Welcome back!

OnlyMe

Is Google starting listing people in SERPs?
Have you got idea how am I feeling rigth now? Yea you right like a book in bookstore .

Hope you can explain that .
greets,
Peter

“- five things you don’t know about me”

Let me bring some “qualified” guess to the equation

1- Your real name is not Matt Cutts but Matt Gonzalez

2- Jeremy Zawodny is your brother-in-law

3- Once a month you exchange cats with Vanessa Fox. On the 15th of each month Vanessa brings you Charlie and Randy and fetch Emmy and Oz to stay with her until the end of the month..etc.

4- You are a secret member of the board of directors of amazon.com

5- You will run for governor of Kentucky in 2008