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Hi Ben,

Is that 110,000 EXACT matches or are you using BROAD matches when searching for this data?

Much in the same vein as Monopoly - you can have a special themed Scrabble board.

There's 1000s of Monopoly ones out there - I'm sure you could come up with tonnes of unique/(stupid) ideas!

Hi Joshua,

When were these links created? It can take a couple of crawls to be picked up, especially from smaller sites/pages.

Some links take up to 60 days to appear in OSE data.

Cheers

You say "Basically I see all the time the main navigation repeated in the footer, sometimes as almost something to just fill the footer up." - you have to remember that only the first link on the page to a specific URL is counted. So if a link is repeated in the footer, it's worthless (from a SEO point of view, it may be beneficial for user experience/navigation).

The days of linking key terms in the footer are numbered, don't think SEO, think user experience.

I would definitely include free shipping on all your items and promote this heavily on your homepage (along with the price).

Here's two articles (old data I know) I found from one of my favourite ecommerce blogs:

• http://www.getelastic.com/free-shipping-vs-discount/
• http://www.getelastic.com/promote-free-shipping/

Bottom line is this is something you should really test and do significant research on, but I think most people would agree that you should go down this path.

Cheers

Hi Mark,

If the newsletters aren't adding to your site in any beneficial way (long term, after they have been sent), you could always choose to have them not indexed in Google.

However, having had a quick look at your newsletters and Share Point Community as a whole, these links won't affect your site. They are based around online marketing, tools etc. I wouldn't worry too much about it. You're only linking to trusted resources not dodgy sites.

Cheers

Hi,

Does your site sell 1 product or a lot of different products? Just trying to understand your site better in order to answer your questions.

If it's only 1 product, you could strongly consider adding the price to your homepage, but again that would be on a case-by-case basis.

If it sells a lot of products I'd ALWAYS make it very clear to the customer exactly how much the final cost will be. It's hard to tell exactly what would work better for your site, a set price plus shipping or a slightly higher set price with free shipping. This would be a great thing to test on your site!

Anyway, a little more info and I'm happy to help:)

Hi,

There's a few things you can do straight away. I'll assume you're trying to rank for' Windshield Repair' for your homepage and 'Windshield Repair Austin' and other keywords for each of the 'Service Area' pages.

1. Add keywords to your alt image tags. Currently the main image is 'crack auto glass' which isn't great from a SEO or usability point of view. Make sure they are not just plugged full of keywords, but actually describe your site and the image.
2. Rename the main image as 'windshield-repair-austin.png' or something similar (depending on page). Ensure the other images have a good naming structure too.
3. Use the keywords on each page you're trying to target. E.g. for http://www.autoglassrescue.com/service-areas/austin-tx you'll probably need to use a play on words so to speak. Something like "We offer the best windshield repair Austin has to offer". That way the keyword 'Windshield Repair Austin' is in the exact order of wording (you currently don't have it at all on that page).
4. Better use of H2 tags - be more descriptive and think of sub headings that describe your site a little better
5. Avoid cannibalization - don't target  'Windshield Repair Austin' on both the homepage and inner page. Focus on 1 page for each keyword (i.e change page titles etc so homepage focuses on generic terms and inner pages on location specific terms).
6. Get more links! http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autoglassrescue.com%2F You've got very few linking domains.

Hope this helps!

Good advice from EGOL and Ryan. Once you have thought about your intended use, try a site like Text Broker.

I've found plenty of good writers on Text Broker. My advice - start with a few small projects and hire a number of writers. Then see who is the best and use those for the larger projects.

I would look at similar sites. Not sure where you are located, but here in Australia we have a great site called Taste (Taste.com.au).

There's got to be tonnes of great recipe sites like that - I'd just copy elements of what they are doing. Or at least use it as a starting point to do some significant research.

Thumbs up for Ben. I agree wholeheartedly.

These forums are a fantastic place to learn SEO, I think I've learnt the most from interacting on here. Keep asking questions, respond to others and learn, learn, learn.

As for books, I would start with these if you haven't already:

1. http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO-Secrets/dp/0470554185/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1339725028&sr=8-7
2. http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-SEO-Eric-Enge/dp/1449304214/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1339725028&sr=8-11

Subscribe to all the best blogs/sites out there and read constantly. Some of my favourites include:

1. http://www.seomoz.org/blog
2. http://www.distilled.net/blog/
3. http://www.rosshudgens.com/
4. http://searchengineland.com/
5. http://mashable.com/follow/topics/SEO/
6. http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog

Also, if you don't already, get active on G+. Like Ben said, the best SEOs respond to queries, and I find that G+ is the best place to interact with the higher level SEOs.

Thanks,

Brad

As long as the targeted phrase is included in the page title and close to the beginning of the title, that's fine.

I would lean towards the 2nd page title, but that particular title looks a bit spammy/unreadable (remember, your page title isn't just for SEO, it's to influence people in the SERPs and get higher click throughs). Try something like:

Buy Silver Bullion & Silver Bars Securely | Company Name

Hi,

Overall the design of your site looks quite nice, so well done there. My tips would be:

1. Upon looking at your link profile at http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.babskibaby.com you have very few links coming in and from only 15 domains. A few of these look like spammy comment type links so I'd concentrate first and foremost on gaining links from reputable sources. Try mum type forums, blogs and sites. Perhaps donate some of your products to a reputable mummy blogger in exchange for an honest review and a few links? We do this in the cookware niche and it works wonders.
2. I notice you have FB, Twitter and Pinterest pages so that's good. I'd also add a Google Plus page. Spend less than an hour on it and you have yourself a nice looking page with some links back to your site. Add the icon next to other social media icons in your header.
3. Your blog seems to be focused all around your site. The aim of it should be to give hints and tips in your niche. Try blogging about other topics that mums/dads would relate to. Write great content that deserves to be shared and the links will come.
4. Your page titles look way too spammy and long. E.g. for the Baby Sheepskin Boots page the page title is "Baby Sheepskin Boots, Sheepskin Baby Boots, Baby Sheepskin Booties | Merrry Berries, Inch Blue, Skibz, Beauty And The Bib". It should be less than 70 characters and focus on just 1-2 key terms. Also, your content is pretty light on. You only have 2 lines of text on that page, and you can tell it's written for Google and not the user. Add more useful content.

Hope that helps!

I would agree with everything that danatanseo stated regarding H2 and H3 tags. However, I would never use multiple H1 tags.

As stated in SEOmoz's own on page optimisation reports:

"Best practices for both SEO and accessibility require only a single H1 tag. The H1 is meant to be the page's headline, and thus, multiple H1s are confusing. Consider employing H2, H3 or CSS styles to achieve the same results with text visualization."

Hope this helps!

Debal this is a very broad question. I suggest you start with a little reading if you haven't done so already:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-guide-to-seo-version-two

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links (overview in link building, in other words the primary offpage technique for improving rankings)

Remember, off page and on page have to go hand in hand. You should aim to do both, not just offpage.

Good luck!

Randy those two sites are VERY well known brands - they can get away with less content to a certain extent (they're going to get a lot of natural links easily). I agree with EGOL, text is very important. Add some content about what your site is about, deep links to some key pages on your site, blog excerpts etc. Remember, getting visitors to your site and then off your homepage to other areas of your site is the key, not some fancy banner that takes up half the page and 'looks nice'.

Hi Rupert,

Just having a quick glance - if you go a Google search for 'rental properties perth' for your site (enter "rental properties perth site:rent.com.au" in Google) - your top ranking page for that term is http://www.rent.com.au/rent/properties-in-north+perth-wa-6006. I assume you'd want to rank for a page like this, however: http://www.rent.com.au/rental/wa/perth

Is that the case?

The URL http://www.rent.com.au/rental/wa/perth rates as only a 'B" in SEOmoz's on page report card tool. The keyword is only mentioned only 3 times on the page, only once on the body.

There's obviously some issues with that - plus your internal linking structure. You need to direct all 'Perth' type pages to a central Perth location.

Hope this helps,

Brad (also from Perth :P)

Hi Chandana,

This article explains it all: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/242/How+do+I+redirect+my+site+using+a+.htaccess+file%3F. It shows how to create and name the file and what code to use.

You would want to do this:

Redirect /index.html http://example.com/

I would also recommend redirecting non-www to www (or vice versa) if you haven't done so already - http://dense13.com/blog/2008/02/27/redirecting-non-www-to-www-with-htaccess/.

If you get stuck there's also a free htaccess generator located here: http://www.htaccessredirect.net/index.php

Let me know if you have any problems!

Hi Mark,

You should do a combination of:

1. Make sure the individual landing pages are highly optimised for relevant local-type searches
2. Good internal linking strategy to the individual landing pages with optimised anchor text
3. Link building externally to these new individual landing pages
4. 'De-optimising' the existing larger landing page so that it's not optimised for smaller, local-type searches but rather just large/generic searches. I.e not optimised for suburbs, but perhaps for a region

Thanks,

Brad

In my view it still has a large influence (although Google has stated this is diminishing).

Short term strategy - go for the second domain.

Long term strategy - go for the first. You'll create a better/more memorable 'brand name' and eventually Google's algorithm changes will reduce the importance of keywords in the domain name. You'll be able to get good SEO results, it will just take a little longer.