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I have a website that I don't use much anymore but it ranks on the first page for one of my main keywords.  I am using another few websites in different niches right now that are doing better and are more functional.  It may cost around 1,300 or so to get the website that I don't use anymore, to look and function in the new ways of the internet.  Would you suggest that I: Do a site redesign (which is more difficult because to make the site do what I want it needs to be out of a wordpress theme) or 301 redirect the site to another one of my sites? Would it make sense to do a 301? The domain is 5 years old but doesn't bring in any leads anymore because it would take a redesign for that to happen.  How can I still benefit from the SEO that I have done on that site? Thanks and sorry if this message is hard to follow.  If I need to clear anything up please let me know.

I am in a smaller town and sell real estate.  I have seen a lot of the competitors links and some of them are just blog commenting spam and things like that (although they are ranking well for certain terms and their links are coming from sites that have nothing to do with real estate.) I guess what I am trying to say is should I start going after links from other towns/cities in my state or should I go outside of my state and start looking for other links in other cities and states? I have bought my townstate.com from someone recently and it ranks highly for town,state.  I am trying to find different ways to get to number one for my "town, state real estate". What would you do?  Would you continue to add content once a week or so as well as build links? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, I was doing a little Google Trends research on Real Estate and narrowed it down to my state.  I have found that on Trends it is showing a two or three towns above the one I am living in showing that it gets a lot of search volume.  They will put the top one as a 1 and then the others below it as like .87 or .675 etc.  I am taking that as 87% of the top one or 67.5% of the top city in search volume. I checked these numbers against the Google Keyword Tool and found that my town still gets more exact visits  (4 times the amount of the one Google Trends ranks #1)  I can't see the actual search volume on Google Trends but was wondering....Which one do you trust? I have done some testing on it and realized that for the most part, the numbers in the keyword tool RARELY change.  Do they maybe update it once per year? FYI: As you know I trended real estate so what I did on the Keyword tool is "Town State Real Estate" and looked at both Broad and Exact searches. I would appreciate any guidance you guys can give on how I should be paying attention to this data. Thanks!

Hi Guys and Girls, I have been studying SEO for a few years now.  I have learned quite a bit along the way.  One thing that I have had BEAT in my head is "Create Quality Content".  When I used to ask "What Should I do to get more visits?" I was told, "Create QUALITY CONTENT".  That was great advice, and I have done that.  I have created over 600 pages since then.  I went from 200 visits per month to now just over 5,000.  Even more importantly, I have increased my lead conversions. I say all of this because, about two years ago I told a competitor basically how you rise up in the search engines.  He turned around and bought a domain that was 3 years older than mine and had a main keyword in the domain.  He then just started building links with a bunch of blog comments and forum posts (The blog comments have like 2,000 comments on them).  In other words, he did what I would NOT do yet he is #5 for this keyword and I am #9.  (Although, I turned around and built another site and now I am at #13 for that and it has been up for a year now. I say all this, not to bore you but to tell ask you, DOES IT WORK IF YOU DO BLOG COMMENTING, FORUM POSTING, LINK WHEELS, ETC.  Do you obtain higher rankings? Should I be doing a bit of video marketing? I know a lot of people will say, "Why would you spend your time on things that may slightly impact your rankings, but obviously it did something for this guy.  Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Ok so I am writing different pages and the first heading is an H3 just because I wanted to it be a certain size.  Then as you see the content, I have an H1 tag. Example page: http://www.oxfordmshomes.net/condos/acadia-court-Oxford-MS you can see that "Acadia First" is the first thing you see on the page and it uses an H3 element. Long story short, my hierarchy is wrong.  Does this have any negative effect on my SEO efforts?

Hi Everyone, I ran into a problem I didn't know I had (Thanks to the seomoz tool) regarding duplicate content. my site is oxford ms homes.net and when I built the site, the web developer used php to build it.  After he was done I saw that the URL's looking like this "/blake_listings.php?page=0" and I wanted them like this "/blakes-listings" He changed them with no problem and he did the same with all 300 pages or so that I have on the site.  I just found using the crawl diagnostics tool that I have like 3,000 duplicate content issues. Is there an easy fix to this at all or does he have to go in and 301 Redirect EVERY SINGLE URL? Thanks for any help you can give.