Any 'quick wins'!?
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Dear all,
My domain authority (www.landedhouses.co.uk) is about half that of my competitors (groupaccommodation and thebigdomain - both.com). Other than blogging/social media and trying to drum up back-links, is there much more I can do?
Many thanks!
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There are a lot of free SEO tools out there that can give you recomendations on improving your site, you mention of page SEO in your question but dont neglect the on page elements. SEOMoz has a great on page optiomisation tool and there are others such as Screaming Frog that are invaluable.
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Hi Edmund,
I'll let the more experienced members of this forum answer your question in more detail. One thing I've learnt over the last 8 months though is that there seldom are any quick wins
One 'quick win' that we're implementing here though is Google authorship tags. You can use these to link your content (in this case a blog?) to a Google + account. When setup, this means that rich snippets such as your photo appear in the SERPs which can increase CTR and your visibility on the page. It is also possible that Google has / will implement this into their algorithm to assess the overall authority of your page via an 'author rank'.
I'm not sure you'd see any difference in your SEOMoz Domain Authority, but it is a quick easy win that is becoming fairly standard these days
Go to http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986 to learn more.
Thanks,
John
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