Hi Thomas,

As always the Most Intelligent and Compassionate Answers!

I purchased the Avada theme from Theme Forest because I was a sheep and followed the heard of people who have bought it.

I wanted a mobile responsive theme, and it worked.

Yet...

When I started looking at forum posts and such, it seems like good code is very important. So it started to make me wonder, "What if my theme is not coded for seo and google?"

I am on the edge to jump on board with genesis.

But I did read the the hooks are tough for newbies like me.

Even though some themes, companies, etc have support staff, but it may take days to get help if you get any at all. So this makes me worry.

But on a good note, I found that Synthesis - a Copyblogger company I think, includes Genesis with the monthly price. So they make sure everything is setup correctly, So I like that for sure.

I mean I still need to design it, but at least the setup will be right,

Anyways thank you again Thomas. You are as always amazing!

Hi, So I am curious if there is a tool to see if a site is coed properly for Google?

I am running Avada, a standalone theme, yet I am also using a cache plugin.

But when I search my code, its all like on one huge line.

So I am curious if there is a way to verify or check if a theme is coded correctly?

Thank you

Hi I am curious if adding a embedded Google map to a footer helps for Local seo?

Thank you

Thank you for your valuable insights.

I have a lot to learn

Hello

So with reading a blog post by Bruce Clay - http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/seo-friendly-web-design/

It reads that it Is best for seo to use text links instead of drop down menus.

So I just wanted to ask you opinion.

HI,rategy.

So I spoke to a local Colorado seo company and they suggested to find whatever keywords is the most searched under my GWT's and put .com behind it and build other sites for other keywords.

I was curious about this type of strategy.

Does this work? This seo guy said I could just get a DBA bank account and such for each domain name etc.

I am not wanting to mislead anyone, but I am curious if for the sake of promoting other services, if creating other websites with partial and EMD's are worthwhile?

Another issue I worry about is if I put my companies phone number, then next thing you know there is 3 or 4 sites that use that same phone number. To me this does not build trust with Google.

But being I am learning, maybe this is a common strategy, or doomed from the start.

Just curious what you think. Would you build other sites to try and rank for other services? Or keep one sites and maximize it?

Thank you for your thoughts. I just do not want to pay $3000 per site if it will hurt not help.

Hello,

So I may have a simple question- do citations such as yp and manta for an example count as backlinks?

So if they do, would this be a natural link so good for seo? or a citation where it may be a backlink, but not very helpful for seo backlink profile?

Thank you to all

I used white spark, and I found some great directories that were related to my site, so I felt that it was good resource to have.

So last question I promise

As a rule of thumb, although .com is king, would you shy away from a .org? or .net?

Or basically its .com or nothing type of thing?

Great read, thank you for the suggestion

ok thank you.

On a weird note if I may ask.

I live in Colorado. many times people use the words CO to represent a city, like Colorado Springs, CO

Would a domain like example.co be worth it if the search engine look at CO possibly as a abbreviation for Colorado?

Or is this just stupid to think that way?

Thank you