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Hi Dan,

I know this is an old question but I wanted to ask if using MultiSite and Domain Mapping had any negative impact on search rankings? Or do the search engines treat the mapped domain as a completely unique domain?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

With WordPress MultiSite, does Domain Mapping negatively impact search rankings? I am wondering if the search engines can tell if the Domain is part of a MultiSite Network. Or does it just see the site as a regular website? I understand the issue of IP Address and C Blocks but I'm wondering if the search engines will treat a Mapped Domain Name as it would any other website that is on a shared hosting account.

Thanks

you don't believe it increases the chance a person will fill in the contact page? I'm trying to increase my conversion rates.

It's a basic site.

I am looking to add a contact form onto my home page and I was wondering if it made sense to change my index.html to an index.php.

If i do make this change,  would it have any impact on my search rankings?

No problem, Thanks again for your help. It is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your response. What is the ideal home page structure for a local Real Estate Site?

Do you know of any realtors that are doing their on page seo correctly?

Thank you for your reply. I am trying to find a balance between Words, Pictures and Video. Obviously the search engines like worded content, but Pictures Speak a thousand words and Video is even better in some aspects. Do you know of any sites that are in the service industry like Real Estate that strike a good balance?

What is the minimum amount of content  a page should have to be seo friendly?

What is the maximum amount of content a page should have to be seo friendly?

What are the most important things that should be found in the Head Section of a Website?

Is there  difference of what should be in the head section for a local site and a national or international site?

The point is that for seo value ezines and squidio and hubpages aren't as valueble as they used to be. If done perfectly and not spammy you can get some small value out of it but I wouldn't make it the foundation of your seo work. What I would do is maybe write 1-2 articles for each that have solid content and promote them on various social networks so that people can see you have published writing in different sites and that can have multiple benefits. If you write only for your site then people will assume no one wants your work, if you write for multiple sites even the web 2.0 sites people will believe you offer something valuable. That being said I would focus on Guest Blogging on sites that are similar to yours. This will accomplish most of your goals. I hope this helps. Good luck.

I would advise on focusing on Google Plus for your local seo and all 4 major social media sites for your larger demographic sites. Google plus is highly used by google of course to personalize an individuals search. This means that you have a greater chance of ranking well when a person +1 your site. On another note Bing takes into consideration Twitter and Facebook. So I suggest you work all 4 with an emphasis on Google+.

From my experience I see that every site no matter how big or small is vulnerable. I'm a Realtor and my focus is to get that coveted top spot on page 1. Currently I'm in the number 7 spot for one of my main keywords and for other keywords I'm high on page 1 or on page 2.

Now who is on top? the national brands. But even they get impacted because they compete against each other and for some terms I beat them in the SERPS. I use Long Tail Keywords in order to do this.

Now, Google is fine tuning their search bots and there will of course be movement up and down for some sites. The thing to remember is to make sure you focus on the long term.

1. Great Content
2. Blog
3. Social Media
4. Ease of use for your web visitor
5. On Page SEO
6. Natural Link building
7. Infographics
8. Video
9. Off Line Marketing
10. SEO Continuing Education

My advice is to have a like button and a link to your Facebook page. Most major brands do this. Reason is that the search engines, especially bing take into consideration your social media efforts, also having a bunch of legit likes are like votes from users and show new visitors that your site is respected.

That being said you do want to engage with your visitors on Facebook so having a link to your fb page is recommended.

This way you get the best of both worlds.

Here is a link to a great like and buttons for your site.

http://sharethis.com/

Straight from SEOMOZ

Where does your tool get its search volume data from?
For this tool, we get our search volume data from Google's AdWords API.

http://www.seomoz.org/help/keyword-analysis

I hope this helps.

You did the right move by doing the 301 redirect and by submitting a new sitemap. Another thing you should consider doing if possible is identifying the links you previously had for those two sites, contact the site owners or webmasters and politely ask them to change the old link for your new URL. You should also make sure you are promoting your new site on all social media and you might consider a small PPC campaign. Also analyze the keywords you had on both sites and see how they compare to your new site. Keyword density may not be as powerful as before but still relevent. Hope this helps.

Hello Brian,

I'm a Realtor also. Yes, the school of thought is to optimize a page for one keyword phrase. But in our business that is not necessarily the case. Me personally I have about 4 keywords that my site is optimized for. Reason for this is that most people will link to your main page, so the link juice will be for that. I would use this order

1. Dallas Real Estate

2. Dallas Homes for Sale

3. Dallas Condos

These tend to be the most competitive phrases in our industry. what you want to do is make sure your title has the phrases based on value. The order above should be the order. meaning your page title should have

Dallas Real Estate / Dallas Homes for Sale / Dallas Condos

Then natural mix in those phrases into your content but make sure it is visitor friendly content and not just keyword stuffing.

Also think about internal linking and your external link profile with these various anchor terms.

Note: keep it all natural and legit. The only short cut in SEO is to the Penalty Box.

The rule of thumb is that the no follow attribute doesn't pass any link juice but in my humble opinion I have personally seen sites that would not get discovered otherwise with no other links pointing to it and on page seo not so great get discovered and started to rank well relatively quick because a link does exist. Also it has been mentioned in the past that a good link profile should incorporate both followed and no followed links.

Your clients opposition might have a healthy mix of followed and no followed links. Also Domain age plays a factor as well. Were they ranking higher than you from the beginning or did they all of a sudden shout up in the serps?

First I would audit the site using the tools here on seomoz. Check out the back links and see if there is anything out of the ordinary, then check your rankings for your main keywords and see how they've been impacted. Also you will want to see how long your site takes to load, visitors don't like waiting more than 10-15 seconds for a page to load. Also make sure your site hasn't been deindexed by google. did you receive a message from google saying there was an issue?

I spoke with Yahoo, apparently they only offer the 301 redirect for the higher cost hosting plans that run about $40. Any ideas?