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Well the more specific the search term (longer tail) the less likely it is that there is any data on that term. You cant be confident that a specific long tail keywords will produce anything if there is no search data on it.

IMO I find the idea of "targeting" specific long tail keywords kind of funny. By targeting head match keywords and generating content around those keywords you will naturally rank for long tail (high converting) keywords. But to think that I can anticipate the actual long tail terms seems unrealistic to me, unless it is something like a product specific "branded" search.

Does that make sense? Am I way off base here?

As I understand it nofollow still dilutes your link juice even though it does not pass PR (theoretically).

Google made this announcement to combat PR sculpting in 2009. Here is a post from Rand about it.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-says-yes-you-can-still-sculpt-pagerank-no-you-cant-do-it-with-nofollow

Unlsee something has changed that I am not aware of you could link in an iFrame and Google will not see it, nor will it dilute your PR passed out.

NEVER!

The only downside is the $9.95 you pay to keep the registration. The downside to turning it off are many. You lose the PR that is is passing, even if there is no traffic coming from that old domain it still passes PR! Keep it forever!

Nothing is free and you get what you pay for. If they think that $6/month is going to do anything for their SEO they are kidding themselves.

This is purely an upsell for GoDaddy. They are understandably trying to increase their average invoice by attaching other services, but this one won't add any value.

The data is there but not presented as nicely and requires some manual sorting.

Traffic Sources --> Search Engines --> Add Metric "Landing Page" or "Keyword"

There may be duplicates you need to account for if multiple search engines are sending traffic via the same keyword or to the same landing page.

If you only want to see it for a specific search engine and therefore not have to remove the duplicates do this.

Traffic Sources --> Search Engines --> Pick Search Engine --> Change Main Metric to "Landing Page" or "Keyword"

Hope that help. I really like the way they format it though. It is a nice report. I wish they allowed for more custom reporting on those metrics though like adding custom dates and export to PDF, etc.

I hold VERY little faith that the numbers in Google's keyword tool are accurate. I think it is a good indicator of traffic levels, especially if you compare it against other sources, like WordTracker, but I try to normalize the numbers and look at them as relative values. I dont believe the actual search volumes.

The SEOmoz tool used to be difficult to use but I find it to be much improved. It is a good snapshot of what types of site/pages are ranking for a keyword and saves me a lot of legwork.

I really like Rands post here. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-steps-to-advanced-keyword-research

The process is pretty labor intensive, but I think well worth it if your client is willing to pay for it.

If you can get a really good relevant domain then go with that, but a hyphenated domain is not really good. I personally have found that I would rather go with short and easy, given the absence of good keyword domains.

SEO can't be my only strategy, especially for a new site, so being able to tell people about my site verbally and them find it easily is more important to me.

DO NOT add nofollow to your navigation! It still dilutes the link juice you pass out, it just doesn't actually pass the juice. It is like drilling a hole in your boat. Totally wasted link juice, for internal pages that should be getting link juice. The wasted PR doesnt go anywhere when you do that, it's just wasted.

Well thats a pretty easy experiment. And the results appear to be that a proxy is not necessary.

I searched for SEO firm on google.co.uk from my office in San Diego and from a UK proxy @ http://goproxing.biz

Here are screen shots of both SERPS. While not an extensive test it appears that US based IPs can get UK results when searching google.co.uk

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I noticed that too. Kinda sucks. SEOmoz doesnt want to comp too many memberships i guess. Kinda lame, good thing SEOmoz is awesome, willing to overlook it.

BTW it's funny that you noticed that, yet neglected to thumbs up your own post on a question about the very subject.

1. It's no guarantee but it's a good place to start. I would reccomend it as a best practice.

2. You could either change the name and 301 redirect the old page to the new one and 9x% of the link juice will pass. The other option is to leave both versions up and add a rel canonical tag to both pages. You would want to have the same tag on both pages referencing your preferred version. If you dont mind having 2 versions I would go with canonical, but you will have to remember to update content of multiple pages which could be problematic on a large scale if not using a content management system. Either solution is acceptable though.

Update - Also remember to update any internal/nav links you may have and any external links that you have any control over.

Citations are the "link" equivalent for local search. If you go to your places page, there is a section that says "more about this place" That is info google has scraped from other local sources that mention your businesses. They may or may not contain a link.

Looking at your citations and your competitors is a good area to work on improving your listing in Google Places.

Heres an image of a citation section.

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It is an automated process. Google uses rich snippets to collect this data. The review site need to use rich snippets to transfer.

If you are looking for sites to get reviews on, check your competitors and see where their reviews are coming from.

Encourage your customers to use the same review sites. Also, give your customers options on where to review you. If someone already is active in Google reviews it doesnt make sense for them to review you in Yelp, especially since yelp will probably filter their result if they sign up for an account to write one review and never come back.

If it is your review site, there is a submission process. Here is some info on rich snippets and the submission process to Google.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets.html

Your employees need to have linked in profiles and need to list your company as their current employer. It is based off members self identifying as your employees.

| has my vote! More for readability than anything.

Eric,

Let me add that the keyword difficulty tool doesn't necessaraly apply to local search. A LOT of other stuff is looked at as far as local SEO.

You should check out David Mihm's bolg. It is one of the BEST resources available in local search.

http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/

There is no search operator, but you can access the cached version in the search results. Just search "url:websiteurl.com" then click the arrow > and it will open up options for the page. There is a link to view the cached version. See the pic below.

The site: search operator works just like it does in Google on Bing!

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Yeah I just feel like if SEO people put half the effort they put into tricking Google, into doing SEO the right way and creating value that they could have one hell of an SEO product.

What you are essentially looking to do is create web spam.

It seems like a lot of effort for something that may work for a whille but will almost surely be figured out eventually and doesn't bring any value to your clients.

I swear I read in a recent post that Google frowns on large redirect to your homepage... Am I crazy??? I tried to find where I read this but can't remember. Anyone? Bueler?

I don't know if you saw this. Its very good timing that Rand wrote a blog post about this very subject!

Check it out, as always its a worthwhile read.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-citations-5-tactics-to-earn-links-for-your-local-business

There isn't really a canonical error in the crawl report. There is a "notice" which is really just the number of pages in your crawl that had the canonical tag on them. It doesn't mean there is a problem. Are you referring to the blue notices section in your crawl report on the campaign view?

Found it! http://www.seomoz.org/blog/301-redirect-or-relcanonical-which-one-should-you-use Check out the section "Redirecting all pages in one go to a single URL" "Although the intention may not be manipulative, there have been cases of people doing this to try and consolidate all the link juice from loads of pages into one page, to make that page stronger. This can sometimes put up a flag to Google who may come and take a closer look at whats going on." This post does also come with a Matt Cutts video discussing this. Hope that helps!

If it isn't competitive, you may still display in a larger geo. You may consider multiple listings in areas which are so far away that you arent displaying in. This suggestion will probably get a lot of flack as it can be considered to be map spam.

I have done this in very limited situations. It involves getting an address in a new locality to verify your listing. I think google has gotten better and combatting this although I have had a client do it with very good success. They still get a lot of call on these listing.

Do not go overboard (a few extras at most)! also don't list anywhere if you really cant compete there. It's an option but a controversial one.

Do you really need one? If so WP Super Cache is pretty great. I don't think most sites need it though.

What do you think is the best solution for preventing duplicate content issues on printable versions of product pages?  The printable versions are identical in content.

Disallow in Robots.txt?

Meta Robots No Index, Follow?

Meta Robots No Index No Follow?

Rel Canonical?

It depends how strong your citations are. If your new or ave a weak listing I'd pay more attention to competition?

I am inclined to think you must be linking to it somewhere if it is showing up in a crawl. Export your crawl to a csv and search for it and check the referring page.

Reviews, price and fresh data play a huge role.

This article is from 2009 but still very relevant IMHO.

http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/7062/google-base-shopping-results

Good question!! I have looked at that before and second Aaron's concern.

Has anyone else purchased these? I'd love to hear your feedback?

SEOmoz, are these still up to date-ish?

Thats a tough call. Would you redirect the old pages? If so where would you redirect them to? Redirecting to the home page is not a good idea. I would be cautious getting rid of content that has links to it without having somewhere to redirect thos pages.

It seems almost impossible to analyze all of the implications. Have you thought about removing older content in smaller batches? Maybe get rid of the least visited 5000 pages first to see how that impacts the site overall.

I am not sure I would be comfortable dumping that much content willy nilly without doing some testing.

Another option would be to make sure to redirect the old content to the category page so you don't just lose that link juice all together. I would highly recommend figuring out a redirect plan for that content. Losing the links is a bad idea!

Thats a good tip. Beware of rewording products titles though. Especially for titles where people are searching for a specific branded product or will be searching for exactly the same title.

Have you submitted a news sitemap? It should only include links to your news articles.

http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=74288

Also it looks like they want to know more about your editorial review process. Here is the standard message from google about being included in News results.

We typically include sites in Google News that:

• have news content reporting on recent events - please note that we don't
  include informational and how-to articles, classified ads, job postings,
  fictitious content, event announcements, advice columns or adult content;
• have content that is original to the site;
• are written and maintained by a clear organization, one that has
  multiple writers and editors with accessible contact information;
• don't solely promote their own activities or products;
• don't violate Google's quality guidelines available at
  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#3.