My quest has taken a turn for the worse...
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Hello and Welcome Moz Friends!
Thank you for taking the time to review this post. The nature of my problem is that I have optimized the site www.AmericanScooterStore.com for the keyword Mobility Scooters however my quest for page 1 has turned into trying to get any page on my website to show up for that keyword. I checked every page with the SEOMoz optimization checker and they all received A's. I there something I perhaps overlooked, or should I continue to wait and pray Google rewards me? As I said, thank you for your help Champions!
Justin Smith
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Thank you champion!
:PS the Lion is Epic
Justin Smith
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Hi Justin...
Perfect keywords, good technical infrastructure and great content all set a solid foundation, but your key challenge is the same as all sites experience...
Not very many domains linking to the site...
A great simple place to start is...
http://www.seomoz.org/dp/seo-directory
...whilst you research some unique linking opportunities...
Hope that helps...
KP
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Your "two cents" is 2 steps closer to a dollar champion, thank you!
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Thank You Champion!
I've seen your many answers EGOL and they are always great advice, I truly appreciate this.
Justin Smith
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You also have a duplicate content problem...
Rewrite original and much more substantive product descriptions.
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Your title tag is a keyword dump...
Mobility Scooter | Scooters | Scooter | Power Scooter | American Scooter | Mobility
Pick one or two keywords that are very important to you and write a title tag that will elicit clicks.
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What are all of those links at the bottom of your page? Google will not be smiling when they see a load of footer links going out to trashy sites on every page of your website.
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I would yank them down right away.
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Your site has a great look and provides lots of scooter options for customers. However, I generally feel a page should have some supporting content for each page.
To me it seems you may benefit from generating some page content.
Also, I noticed one of your pages has no content..... "Take it From Us" you may wish to check it out.
Just my two cents!
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A perfectly optimized page is surely a ggod start , however you should also make a linkbuilding strategy and a social signal strategy to leverage user community. Hope this help !
best regards,
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