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Thank you sir for the pointing me in the direction of this material.

Cheers!

I have a website which has been up and running for around 7 years.   It contains relevant content, receives somewhat timely content updates and has not been involved in any poor marketing activities.

http://www.aleutianadventures.com/

That said, it has a very low domain authority and bounces around quite a lot in search results.

Any  thoughts on how to improve the sites current state.

Thanks a bunch!

Thank you, I have not been keeping up with things, so, nice to hear I am somewhat in the right track

So, I am using Wordpress and the seo by yoast.....  I have heard that meta keywords and descriptions are no longer recognized or used by search engines with respect to page rankings in the serps.  Is this true?  If so, why do people still recommend using these?  I thought content is  king these days?

Good point.  I did not know that.  I will look into it.  Thanks again!

Good point.  I did not know that.  I will look into it.  Thanks again!

Thank you for your insight.  This does happen to be a WordPress site and does run a little slow at times.  As I mentioned I have just come to know this site; I will keep and eye on it.

Thanks again!

Is it possible to have to many 301 redirects.  I am currently looking at 156 of them.

Does this create any quality issues with regard to site performance or any other issues.

Thank you for your consideration!

OK.

Got it!

Thank you!

Is is neccessary to use

in order to have pages crawled and indexed.

Thank you

Hi Carlos,

I tend to pay close attention to where my money goes.  When I first began visiting and using this resource I came to ask myself this same question.  I thought to myself, as you do, I can get this stuff from other places.  I did spend a little time in this deliberation and found that it can be done, but I did not find it to be easy and most importantly nearly as good a quality.   I like getting this type and volume of content in one place.  Its easy to use and there seems to be new tools and information constantly coming available.   Honestly, the cost of this service never crosses my mind.

This may help.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/h1-tags

Thank you sir for the pointing me in the direction of this material.

Cheers!

No, I have not seen this happen to any pages as of yet.  I will however keep an eye out.  Congratulations on your semi recovery,  I am sure there are many out there who would like to be in your shoes right now!!

Cheers

If this is the case, at this point the updates are good for the sites I have looked at so far.  Hopefully your sites settle into good google graces.  Its a bummer to have to live in in update fear.

To me it seems like the requirements of google have sort of become more really basic rather than technical.

The SEO industry seems to be a target of  Google these days.

I have tried to peel back the layers of all the sites I work with to the most basic.  That has resulted in most all sites increasing in the SERPS................ atleast for now.

Good Luck!

I second the comment from Ross.  I had a similar issue in the recent past.  I found it best and easiest to try and forget about the bad back links and move forward with building  quality ones....... just my two cents.

"Except changing up the robots.txt, adding meta descriptions to everything and more...."

Seems like there could be a correlation to your changes and how your site is ranked to me..........  Not knowing exactly what changes were made its tough to say.

Can you provide more info or a link to your site?

I agree, the site does not give the feel that you are a  company looking to provide consult or services.  The site does not clearly give a directive to the viewer that you are there to help in their Marketing. You do however have some articles about the topic and lots of ads........  It might be a layout and content issue.... hard to say with out spending a bit of time checking it out.

I would tend to use a keyword tool which identifies traffic.  Determine which will yield the most fruit and go that direction.  I would alos suggest using website pages and content to support........ so, have individual pages for each apple type, then you could use the apple types for your page titles.  Just my thoughts.........

Hi, Harry

Have you use the tools within Google Analytics?

I have found that simply using google analytics and the keyword tool(s) offered there provide more that enough insight into this for me.

Good luck!