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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.

I am currently in the process of migrating a site, the domain will stay the same, it will go from example.com to example.com.  The only thing that is changing is the IP address and the host.  The server's will still be in America.

I have done research on this question and have gotten varied answers, some saying that the ip change will affect the SEO rankings depending on where country is, and some saying that Google only looks at the URL not the ip address in terms of rankings.  Does anyone have an answer so I can be prepared and mitigate as much damage as possible?

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.

So yesterday google webmaster tools has over 5,000 links linking to my site.  I get in this morniing and now i have 16 links linking to my site and no rankings minus brand terms.  I do not believe that I have been penalized but I might have been.

After digging further into this it seems that my www.domain.com and domain.com are separated and webmaster tools is tracking www.domain.com and majority of links are to domain.com.  Is this possible or am I wishing to see something that is not there.

Any help and recommendations would be absolutely appreciated.

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

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.

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.

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

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"?

Hey Sorina,

I had a similar problem a while back and just rebuilt my sitemap, that seemed to take care of the problem for me.  However, if that doesn't work for you, Google offers support via its "help articles".  Here is something to look at: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35738.

I hope that helps.

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.

It is not bad, just not best practices because Google will still index the URL's if they are mentioned on other pages.  Just to quote them:

"While Google won't crawl or index the content of pages blocked by robots.txt, we may still index the URLs if we find them on other pages on the web. As a result, the URL of the page and, potentially, other publicly available information..."

What I would do instead is either use rel="canonical" or 301 redirects.  I hope that helps.

I have included a Video on how to do just that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1aCmHYkIsI&feature=youtu.be

I have not seen any better tools for Traffic segmentation mainly because most people use Google Analytics because it is Free. However, be aware that Advance Traffic Segmentation will give you the results you are looking for if the rest of your analytics is set up correctly.  Meaning, if you have an ecommerce site that is not being tracked correctly the Traffic Segmentation won't give you the results you are looking for because the information it is pulling from wasn't set up correctly.

I hope that helps.

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.

From what I have noticed, and this is not carved in stone, Google defaults a url with a "/" on the end.  Meaning, example.com/page and example.com/page/ are considered the same URL. And if you type example.com/page in Chrome, it will give you the example.com/page/ URL in address bar.  However, in Bing, this is not considered the same.  In Bing, example.com/page and example.com/page/ or two separate URLs.  I 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.

Social Sharing will not hurt you, it will be great.  You don't need to create the extra channels for sharing, but using the social media that you already have and sharing and liking and tweeting (oh my...) will help with visibility, mainly socially, a long time for organically.

You should also encourage your followers/people who like you to like the article on the page so that it will show up in multiple news feeds thereby hopefully garnering more traffic to your website. In terms of SEO, congratulations on the PR links.

Hope that helps.

Yes there is. Go to:

http://www.google.com/business/placesforbusiness/

type in the account you used in order to create your google places. and it will tell you the amount of impressions per keyword. This will give you a general idea of your rankings in places.

Then check your SEOMoz rankings because it delineates whether your ranking a places or a link in the SERP.

Hope that helps.

Agreed with everything Takeshi just said, but only left out one thing.  Once you combine pages, make sure to 301 redirect the old pages to the new url.  If you don't want to combine remember to use rel=canonical to delineate which type of permalink has the authority.

Hope that helps.

Just a guess here but it could have something to do with age of domain as well as age of links.

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.

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 johnny said is correct.  The reason why Facebook offers promoted posts is that typically your posts will only appear to 6-10% of your "Like" following. By promoting your post, you increase the percentage of people who will see it and whose news feed it will show up in.

Promoted Posts however are not all that helpful in terms of primary clicking of likes.  What I mean by this is that if you promote the post you are targeting the people who already "like" you. If that "Like" person shares your post, it will end up targeting their friends, hopefully gaining you a secondary "like", not a primary "like."

With Facebook advertising you are targeting people who have not had interaction with your brand and therefore have a higher likelihood to have higher returns on a primary "like" simply because of the the psycho-graphic that you choose.

I hope I explained this well.

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.

Ahrefs in my opinion would be the way to go, however, in order to have the full functionality you would need to pay for it.  For something like finding out what the linking root domains are you would use this as well.  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.

Thank you all for the kind responses,  I will definitely see what I can do.

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 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.

Answer to your first question.  Yes plural and singular count as two different keywords.  However, if you implement the plural form of the keyword you will also be using the singular form of the keyword, as normally the plural of a keywords just means to add an "S" (i.e. Best Developer and Best Developers are considered two different keywords but the plural of the keyword still exists within the phrase so it can end up counting as two different keywords).

In answer to your second question, these different keywords may have the same global monthly search but the priority in search ranking will go to the one that matches the search query the closest.  So if you have "photo booth props" and "props for a photo booth" but someone is searching for "props with photo booth", the person who has that exact match will normally rank higher than the previous two keywords associated with your site.  However, there are exceptions, such as a site that has major authority on photo booths might rank for the keywords solely based on authority.

I hope this 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.

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.

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.

Site was indexed for 3 months and ranking fairly well, and then privacy settings happened, lost all the rankings.  Oh well.  So keep on trucking.  Thanks for the answer.

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

I have a client of which we put up an extensive responsive landing page with a blog in the backend, this was done with Worpress.

Over the new years, our web developer pushed the new site live without telling me, and left the privacy settings on (meaning: please ask search engines not to index this site).

The robots.txt I had set up was set up so that the site would be crawled weekly.  The site had privacy settings on for 9 days (more than a week, ugh!). Thereby, taking away all the SEO work I had done prior and basically starting with a brand new slate.

My question: Do I need to start over with all the seo, or do I need to continue pushing forward and waiting for them to come back up?  Either way, still need to do work, but I want to really know if my prior work has become moot.  Thanks for your replies.

there is a thing called microworkers where you pay like 1 cent per view or something low like that.  However, these microworkers are real people with real interests and you never know who is on it, so it could have generated some actual business.  That would be the only way I could think of if it generated business.  However, that is very spammy, i would tell your clients to not engage and let them do the free work while not paying for it.  Otherwise "buyer beware"

No worries, glad I could help.

I agree with EGOL.

I posted this in a previous question asked, so I hope this helps:

Traffic travis, but it is a software and i would recommend you get an ip switcher if you use it so that you don't get your ip banned.

Raven Tools and Ahrefs are discontinuing their rank checkers at the request of google last i heard.

SEM Rush is another tool that can track what keywords for your website as well.

Hope that helps.

Traffic travis, but it is a software and i would recommend you get an ip switcher if you use it so that you don't get your ip banned.

Raven Tools and Ahrefs are discontinuing their rank checkers at the request of google last i heard.

SEM Rush is another tool that can track what keywords for your website as well.

Hope that helps.

Agreed

Just a hypothesis here, it could be based on the platform you are using.  Some ecommerce platforms rank better in google, an example of this is that the ecommerce platform "magento" is seo friendlier than other ecommerce platforms.  That could be a reason that it is ranking better with "worse" statistics.

Another hypothesis is that their onsite is better with less errors and less duplicate content and therefore being penalized less.

Hope that Helps

Agreed.

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.

Google has actually stated that they primarily prefer responsive sites over mobile sites mainly because it provides a better user experience, and they don't have to index the sites separately.  In terms of ranking, not sure, but where I work, we have gone with responsive design. Even though it takes longer to code, the functionality of the site remains the same.

I hope that helps, and I have included where google talks about its preference for responsive design:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/06/recommendations-for-building-smartphone.html

Forgot to mention that point, thank you Jarno

I was using it and didn't really appreciate the functionality.  I switched over to using dublin core meta data plugin, i think that is also what the plugin is called.  Once configured you are able to put in whatever you want as metadata and I find it easier to do.  Hope that helps.