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That tells me a lot of what I need to know...depth and inbound links is a place to start.  I just wrote a bid and that process alone told me a ton about what kinds of depth that I need.   (Inbound links are links to this site from other sites, correcct?)

I appreciate your time!  It was very helpful!!

Thanks a bunch for spending the time.  Your input is certainly helpful!!!

I didn't know that *.us would affect rankings.  Thanks for the info.  Not much I can do about that now but I will work on building the back links.  Thanks for the info.

Regarding the site itself, I am a little surprised.  It seems clear to me that we are offering  a school management system/student information system.  I also think it is professional and contemporary in its design and organization. No?

Other feedback on this would be much appreciated.

What about my question re: videos?

I have been working hard for over two months on my sites in seomoz and have seen some nice results in some (www.etraxc.com/ and www-my-etraxc.com  for instance.  Still I am really frustrated by www.classroomconnection.us/.  I cant even get on the first page with the search term "classroom connection."  i would love some help on this one.

On a related note, does it help to have links to YouTube videos about the content?  If so, how do I ensure that this piece is working well for me?

Thanks a ton!

I have a site that I use to time fitness events and I like to post the results using query strings.  I create a link to each event's results/gallery/etc.  I don't need these pages crawled and I don't want them to hurt my seo.  Can I put a "do not crawl" meta on them or will that hurt my overall positioning?  What are my other options?

Wow!  I had no idea that things like live chat and toll-free numbers are important.  I believe I have optimized my tags (I think), I do have social and industry badges.  Not sure how to answer the content piece but I believe it is most of those things to my target audience.  I will look at the offsite SEO.

Thanks for the assistance.

What is the best way to improve this in reference to my competition?  My site(s) are formatted well, returning no errors or warnings.  I have removed my keyword meta-tag and tested my sites against the keywords that we want to appear under.  Now I need to close the gap on the competition.

it is on a pdf with a link on it.  The error message says:

<dt>Title</dt>

<dd>406 : Error</dd>

<dt>Meta Description</dt>

<dd>Traceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/downpour/init.py", line 378, in _error failure.raiseException() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/python/failure.py", line 370, in raiseException raise self.type, self.value, self.tb Error: 406 Not Acceptable</dd>

<dt>Meta Robots</dt>

<dd>Not present/empty</dd>

<dt>Meta Refresh</dt>

<dd>Not present/empty</dd>

How much will 5 of these errors hurt my search engine ranking for the site itself (ie: the domain) if these 5 pages have this error.

How big of an seo issue is this.  I provide downloadable results for fitness events and after I pull the data I "redirect" it to a plain text file that is actually created on the fly.  Is this a problem and, if so, is there a modification that I can implement to avoid having my site suffer for this?

Thanks~

My SEOMoz trial is drawing to a close and I have spent the month doing a ton of cleanup on my sites to remove errors and warning and otherwise comply with the basics of what I need to do to help position them.  What I need to do now is take the next step and move them "up the ladder."

SEOMoz looks good and I don't want this to sound like an ultimatum but I am also getting better at Google Analytics and their Webmaster tools.  The question is, "Should I pay the money to SEOMoz or just work with google?"  I am a very small shop with a very limited budget.  Also, time is of the essence...I am prepared to continue my subscription if I can get an answer to the question:  "What do I do next and how can SEOMoz help me where just knowing Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools can not?"

Thanks a ton in advance!

Ok after my first SEO report from seomoz I re-structured one of my sites.  I basically split it into two different sites.  I did this way before it was re-crawled on 5/1 and the results still show pages that no longer exist on that domain.  What is causing this (user error I am sure but I just need to know what I can do to fix it).

Ok I know that this would be a huge over-simplification but I am wondering if there is (at least a bird's eye view) a checklist of SEO do's and dont's?  I checked to see if something like this existed but could not find one.  Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks~

Yeah that is what I meant...but I eliminated all references to "default.asp" so hopefully that will help.

I can see real applications for this in query string based pages.  is there an advantage if I put that tag in my default page if I have removed any references to it throughout the site?

I keep getting duplicate page title errors on www.etraxc.com/ and www.etraxc.com/default.asp, which are both pointing to the same page.  How do i resolve this and how bad is it hurting my SEO.