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I think the best way to handle this would be to use excerpts on the home page.
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this allows someone to visit your site, read the enticing excerpt and click the link to the blogs page.
nice, that answers a lot. You've been a huge help.
Ok, about .html
is that something I just add manually to the permalink? or should I use some type of plugin? I use wordpress.
I like the idea of 1999-season.
The site is named Pittsburgh Steelers Roster (maybe a mistake but that's ok)
My page titles are "2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster"
So the page title tags look like
"2011 Pittsburgh Steelers Roster | Pittsburgh Steelers Roster"
This is going to be perceived as keyword stuffing, correct?
So, I should come up with a more creative page title, correct?
Ok, I did make most of the changes you've suggested.
I changed /history/ to:
/roster-history/
only because the site is going to have a lot of historic content about the decades, years, teams, and players.
I have a question about this URL:
http://pittsburghsteelersroster.com/roster-history/1990-1999/1999-pittsburgh-steelers-roster/
Would Google penalize me for having repeated the keywords in the URL? why does it makes sense to shorten this URL?
Could you take a look at my site and help me optimize it.
I would probably do both options.
Are you including the cities in your page titles and page descriptions? Do you mention the cities in your content body?
Page Title: Company | adjective product servicing city A & city B
maybe a sub-page for city A and a sub-page for city B
anchor text and links to the main page which will carry some juice to the sub-pages.
Link building strategy county-wide to the main page, link building city specific to the sub-pages.
I'm not super experienced so take my advice cautiously.
Do you have a physical location in both City A and City B? do you have google place pages for each location?
Will it rank as well as .com or .net? when people Google "who is Andrew Solomon"? will it appear?
as a side note, I know an SEO who purchased www.whois(his name).com
Yea, I read an article about personal branding that said to use your name when available. Issue is that my name is so common it's not available anywhere.
I'm still early in the branding stages but need to make a decision soon.
Are you including the cities in your page titles and page descriptions? Do you mention the cities in your content body?
Page Title: Company | adjective product servicing city A & city B
maybe a sub-page for city A and a sub-page for city B
anchor text and links to the main page which will carry some juice to the sub-pages.
Link building strategy county-wide to the main page, link building city specific to the sub-pages.
I'm not super experienced so take my advice cautiously.
I will just quote the guys from SEOmoz:
The more popular and important a site is, the more links from that site matter to the search engines. Getting lots of local, topic-specific links is great, too, but to earn trust and authority with the engines, you'll need the help of some powerful link partners.
The concept of "local" popularity (first pioneered by the Teoma search engine) suggests that links from sites within a topic-specific community matters more than links from general or off-topic sites.
Most certainly SEOmoz can help you. Start by creating a campaign with your site on SEOmoz and tackle the issues. Watch video's, read the blogs and start using SEO tactics to improve your sites rankings.
I was more speaking of the sidebar advert.
on the page where your placing the call to action... make sure to explain why someone would want to join the guestlist, then ask them to join it.
I noticed that a lot of the information was listed below the form.
I would maybe just add some quick bullet points above the form
Gain access to exclusive clubs!
Party in the same venues as celebrities!
ect....
Just some idea's from a guy who hasn't been to a club in years... so take it for what it's worth 
You can use your keyword on multiple pages within your site. Lets take a look at Mountain Biking.
If your site is named Maryland Mountain Biking, you would only optimize your home page for Maryland Mountain Biking. You would optimize each individual page for a different phrase using Mountain Biking.
Mountain Biking is your keyword... but your optimizing for the specific phrases within your site on each page.
So.....
Maryland Mountain Biking Trails
Maryland Mountain Biking Races
etc...
So using the primary keyword on each page isn't an issue unless your only optimizing for the primary keyword (mountain biking). If your optimizing each page individually for the specific phrases, you don't have an issue.
Search this site for "Keyword Cannibalization"
I'm pretty new to the SEO world, but have been in Marketing for an long time. To me CONTENT is king.
60% Content
20% Social Media
15% Link Building
5% On-Site
I think you should have excellent and useful content that provides an awesome user experience on your website. If you do that, the link building and Social Media aspects of your marketing will take a life on of there own. I would spend most of my time creating the best possible product, service and content to provide to the public. The public will be happy to share your pages with everyone without you needing to manipulate the system.
I think Social Media has been and will continue to increase in popularity as "votes" for your pages. Plus, SEO aside... it's one of the best ways to reach new customers. Link building has it's place for sure.. it's huge.. but the engines are on a continual effort to make SEO about real user interactions. The engines want to rank sites that are naturally being shared and "voted" upon by real engaged users. On site SEO? is pretty simple and shouldn't take much time, just making sure your targeting good keywords and having those keywords crawled correctly.
Hope my little bit of knowledge was of some help.
This is probably going to be an unpopular answer among current SEO's, but it's a part of competitive business. You should get some proposals from SEO's in your local competing area and see what they are doing and what they are offering. It unfortunately creates some work for the competing company, however... it does shed some light on the situation and allows you to be competitive.
Do you have a physical location in both City A and City B? do you have google place pages for each location?
Thank you very much for the reply! guess it's going to take more than 1 tool and a decent amount of research to determine if a keyword is worth competing against.
I would think the key is to utilize SEOmoz to create a site that will become it's own DA & PA powerhouse.
Via Wikipedia:
"Anchor text is weighted (ranked) highly in search engine algorithms, because the linked text is usually relevant to the landing page. The objective of search engines is to provide highly relevant search results; this is where anchor text helps, as the tendency was, more often than not, to hyperlink words relevant to the landing page."
So, you'll want to use text links (Anchor Links) as your source for linking.