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Let me start out by saying the answer below is PERSONAL PREFERENCE:

I would keep everything in one site and separate by menu items and sub menu items.  I assume that the content won't change as much unless the law changes.  This will make your seo pushes more efficient and make your domain more of an authority as well as the potential to have several niche categories connect to you (contextual).

However, this would be a long term strategy that would not yield immediate results, so you have to question whether or not you need immediate results/is your website currently bring business, or are you willing to wait for the website to start converting.

I hope that helps somewhat with the decision making process.

What I have noticed with clients and others is that traditionalists tend to have a harder time to move over towards digital, where as digitalists have an easier time adapting to changing environments.  However, this is also dependent on the person themselves.  If the traditionalist has a drive to explore the digital side, and they will need to have one otherwise your digital efforts will go to waste, then go ahead and hire that person.  If they do not, i would recommend you hire a traditional SEO and push them along as most traditional SEO's have to deal with change everytime Google does an update (about 500 times a year). Those are my two cents.  I hope that helps.

What Franck says is correct, it creates user engagement and can help with the SEO.  And David has also mentioned outsourcing to elance and Odesk as well as not using the dates.  Also a good start.

Another thing you should do is just write a bunch of content before hand and just keep them as drafts, that way the writing won't hold you up except for maybe once a month.  In addition, you have other sites like fiverr.com which is hit or miss on how good the content is but only costs 5 dollars.

But if you want a writing service that is backed by actual people and don't want to be worried about whether they speak actual english or whatever language you are looking for, there is also professionalwritingservices.biz/ and I think they cost like $10.

However, back to your original question.  It can't hurt you to start a blog.  It promotes engagement and makes your site dynamic, instead of static.  With the addition of a blog to your site you are providing your customers an insight into your business and an opportunity for them to engage you.

If you choose to go ahead with the blog, make sure that they are socially enabled, meaning people can like it on facebook, share it on twitter, and post it on Google + (good for SEO) so that you are getting the maximum outreach with each post.  I hope this helps.

Hello All,

I have been given the opportunity to go to several conferences.  But like most SEO guys, I have a tone of work, and need to use my time sparingly.  The one conference that has peaked my interest is SMX.

I was wondering if anyone has been to SMX before and if they recommend it.

Also if anyone has any other conferences they would recommend, preferrably on the east coast, that would be interesting please let me know.

Any answers are appreciated.  Thank you.

If you have an account on ahrefs.com you will be able to see which links you lost by clicking the tab of new/lost links to view what was lost.

In answer to your first question, it is common that links will get lost, over half, not entirely sure, unless all the links came from one place or one page on a website.  If that website discontinued that page or just deleted then it could be a plausible reason for why you lost half your links.  That is why most people push link diversity.

I hope that helps.

To start out you might want to read the learn seo section of the seomoz board here:

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

also, here is a video that might help:

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.ca/2012/06/seo-essentials-for-startups-in-under-10.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GDBcode+(Google+Developers+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Google also has a webmaster series that could be of help to you if you don't feel like reading.  here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp

watch?feature=player_embedded&v=El3IZFGERbM

socialbro is good and is free, you can create your list in twitter, upload it to social bro and do it from there.  If you use google chrome you can download it as an application for chrome.  Hope that helps.

P.S. I am sure there are others, this is the best free one I have tried, and it tries to limit you on how many people a day you can follow, you can chose to ignore.  If it doesn't display the second page, just hit page 1 again, useful workaround.

just to clarify, are you talking about having a wordpress site as in "mysite.wordrpess.com" or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?

If you are doing a lot of videos that direct to your site then to protect yourself i would just link build to those urls which in turn will keep your site safe and still pass along linkjuice.  Because most video directories have a high PR like youtube and vimeo you should be safe.  However, if you still want to linkbuild directly to your site and use a service.  Do your research and find out what they say about their process.  If their description sounds spammy it most likely is.  Hope that helps.

When I asked this question a while ago the overall consensus was to go to Mozcon, I also hear good things about SES and SMX and was told to go to them as well, but highest priority was Mozcon.  Hope that helps.

If this new line of business is going to be a separate entity of the business, then get a new site.  However, if it is related to your current business model, do not do a subdomain.  Add your business to your main menu and then create it as such (ex: locksity.co.uk/newbusiness/newcontent)

Doing a subdomain is archaic and not really looked upon favorably, you will end up splitting your link juice.  By doing it this way, you will be adding more content to your site overall and increase the backlinks (if linked correctly) of your website.  This is how I would recommend you do it.  I hope that helps.

I use constant contact and occasionally mail chimp.  Constant contact, in my experience, is the most complete.  It gives you analytics and all the data you could possibly want.  In addition it gives you video tutorials on how to use constant contact and what you get in return, as well as click throughs and things like that.

If you want to do it yourself however, what you do is set up conversion codes within your google analytics or whatever analytics tool you are using that redirects to the specific page within your site and track the click throughs that way as it will appear as part of your conversion code in your analytics.  I don't have much experience with this method as I prefer to use constant contact because of all the functionality that it provides.  I hope this helps with your answer.

Unfortunately i had the same job a couple of months ago to find people to write about new website design we did for a hotel.  The truth of the matter is, in my experience mind you, there are very few news sites talking about web design except for those design galleries that will write about something submitted to them, and even then they won't always do it.  However, if you did do a web design for an industry you might want to get writers from that industry to write about the new website rather than just the web design community.  That was the way I went about it because I couldn't find exactly what you are looking for.  Hope that helps.

That person will have to like the brand page in order to increase the likes on your brand page.  The secondary like will only happen for the post and might only appear on that shared persons wall.  But it will affect your analytics under the "viral" section of the facebook analaytics.

The sercice I have been most impressed with is this: http://www.removeem.com

However, there was a recent moz post about this exact issue: http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool

I hope that helps.

Hey, here is what I would do:

1. Install a donate app onto your facebook fan page

a. Make sure that the charity has an account that the donations can go to (most use paypal)

2. Use your friend base and the friend base of your friends to promote your page by asking them to like it and sharing it. (Trying to make it viral)

3. Monitor the Facebook page for interactions and peoples comments so you can interact with them as the page.

4. have the Celebrities endorse your fan page by asking them to share it on their walls

5. Post content regularly so people get updated about the charity

Those are just some steps I would take in order to promote the charity.

Yes that is correct.  Also, when you remove it, don't forget to update the file, simple but people tend to forget.

Have you considered consolidating the pages? What I mean by that, is if each product has its own wp post then how about sorting it by color, so yellow shirt and blue shirt don't have separate post but one posts with a variation tool within to delineate the colors. Then 301 redirect those old permalinks to the new one?  Also, it might be time for a migration like irving weiss said, in which case I would recommend Magento as your eCommerce platform.

Google doesn't mind affiliate marketing as long as it is not spam and provides the answer to a search query.  The only way I can see that this will hurt you is if you end up with spam linking to the specific pages that you will be doing your affiliate marketing for.

If you want to associate your affiliate marketing with your website then add landing pages within the site for your affiliate programs.

If you want to limit your exposure then I recommend you do these affiliate programs on different URLs and build them up from scratch while still maintaining your brand within the website.

But please understand, the affiliate marketing will not hurt you unless you spam yourself with SEO practices while doing affiliate marketing.  I hope that answers your question.

If your tool is beneficial to the average user, most people will not have a problem signing up for it at the cost of a like, tweet, or plus.  Also, in terms of SEO, there should be no negative impact. The only thing that might end up being negative is the initial sign up which might spike your rankings, mainly because google might think you to be relevant to what is currently being discussed, and then a sharp decline.  But that would be the only downside I could think of.

I hope this helps.

Highlight the portion of the footer you want to remove, right click the highlighted portion and "inspect elements". This will tell you exactly what the code for that snippet is.  Hope that helps.

Appreciated, I thought along the same lines but wanted to make sure I was correct.  Thanks for the answer

I agree with EGOL.

I don't see anything odd.  To me it looks to be located in the footer file.  Go appeance/editor/footer.php look for that snippet of code and delete.  It also looks to me to be the only bit of html in the footer.  Don't forget to update your file afterwards.

I have to seo several sites like these and normally what i do is I make sure that the one page is fully optimized and then I add a blog section to the site which allows me to add more keywords naturally.  This I have found to be an effective way while still maintaining the site integrity and design.  It also allows you to provide fresh content to the site which makes the site not stale, which Google loves.  Just remember to have a schedule of adding fresh content to the site, make sure the content is over 400 words and just keep plugging away at it and you will increase the amount of keywords you are ranking for as long as you are keeping your back linking strategy and not only doing onsite optimization.  Hope that helps.

Hey Jason,

Great Name :-). Your PR rank is lower and than the root url of ukpaintball.co.uk. You are a PR 1 and they are a PR 4.  Also, the domain looks to be older than yours and thereby has more authority.  I hope that helps, this was just after a cursory glance and what you were asking.

Jimmy, private message me with a screen grab of your footer.php file so i can see if i can find it.

Currently your site has a pagerank of 0, although it is over 2 years old.  However, if this is a new keyword that you just started ranking for then sometimes you do what I refer to as the "Serp dance" where it will take about 2 to 3 weeks to stabilize.  The only recommendation is keep doing your back linking for that keyword until the rankings stabilize. However, it might be slow because of your page rank, unless there is little competition for the keyword.

Also, be aware that because "emergency power" is a broad keyword there could be a tremendous amount of competition that have that keyword and variations of it of which you are competing with.  I hope this helps.

Yes, images do help in the search engine results and often get displayed as part of an image search, where Google gives you the options of images as your search.  However, do make sure that the alt tags are done correctly, and that your link points to something you want to. If you want to fully optimize it add a description and a caption, it never hurts.

The thing to be aware of though, most of the time the images will rank as opposed to the page the image is on. So there is the other half of the coin. Images can always help. Just be careful of where you link it to.  Hope this helps!

Thanks for that.  What you are experiencing by the way could be because the server does not have a reverse dns entry.  A lot of servers do not come with those and that could also be affecting your ability to send out email.  Also be sure that your spf records are setup correctly so that they are viewed as credible.  I had a similar issue a while ago, and it had very little to do with my ip and very much to do with a lack of a reverse dns.  Also, you should run a blacklist check on the mail ip to ensure that it is not listed on 1 of the 150 spam lists.  I use mxtoolbox to check that.  Hope that helps.