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Thank you for your reply Rob May.

I am going to run a cleaning website and customer base is only in Singapore.

So do you think .com.sg will rank better than .sg domain in terms of SEO as it
it more difficult to register a .com.sg domain?

Hi all,

Is .com.sg or .sg a better option?
And also which can have a better advantage in terms of SEO ranking?

My website that is ranking well has errors too:

Result: 59 Errors, 4 warning(s)

So far the site is still ranking well so i am not very worried.
But i know my friend who engaged in an India SEO company to solve his problem.

Thanks for sharing Geoff Andrews!

Noted with thanks Davinia.
Appreciate your advice!

Thanks for sharing.

Can creating fresh sitemap and submitting to Google webmaster improve SEO?

Thank you for your reply.
I will look into your link.
Thanks again!

Hi,

We are a local cleaning company in Singapore specialising in all types of home and office cleaning service.

My question is after the Google Penguin, does high PR but paid directory still working?
Or it will be considered a toxic links.

It is getting harder to do backlinking now so we really need to be very careful here.

The problem is currently my old account has quite a number of inactive account and also spammed account which i need to trim it off.

I agree that great tweets and sharing great info is a great way to get followers naturally.

Thank you for sharing! Great tool!

Hi,

Is there any tools in the market that can mass unfollow twitter's unfollower?

Thanks!

Hi all,
Does anyone know of any good wordpress SEO designer?

I am looking to build some sites on:
Aircon Services
Laundry Services
Carpet Cleaning etc

The wordpress must be able to easily add articles from time to time like this HTML site:
http://www.airconservices.com.sg/articles.html

Appreciate you help!

Thank you so much for your tips!

I will surely be doing that Brad!

Hi all,
Last year, we have engaged a SEO company who promised to bring us to the first page on Google. But after 4 months, we actually found out that he might be using doing non quality mass link building tactic and this caused our ranking for all 3 sites we given to him to drop in ranking overnight on 22nd May 2012 after the Google Penguin 2.0 rolled out.

Is there anything we can do to recover?

Google penguin 2.0 rolled out today!
I saw many some changes on Google.

Great reply!

Appreciate your help!

Super reply Miriam,

1. Do you have 2 totally distinct business names for the business? In other words, is one business called Laundry To You and the other called Rosita's Dry Cleaning, or are the business names similar, like Rosita's Laundry Service and Rosita's Dry Cleaning?

They are the same company with 2 different website with related services.

2. Are there 2 different physical entrances to the building? In other words, do dry cleaning clients go through door 1 and laundry clients go through door 2? Or, are they both entering through the same door?

They can enter by the same door.

3. Have you always had 2 different local phone numbers for the 2 services or do they share a phone number?

They have 2 different numbers.

4. Please thoroughly describe what the 2 services do as separate entities. How are the services different?

To be honest, both business laundry and dry cleaning are closely related but the websites are different and it would be great to get them both listed on Google listing.

This 2 websites has loads of information on laundry and dry cleaning but it is certainly unfair to get 2 listing in Google place for our competitors but we always believed that whoever can deliver the best service and also content should be listed on top

I appreciate your help on this Miriam

Hi,

We are running 2 types of service in our company.

1.) Dry Cleaning

2.) Laundry Services

The problem is we have 2 website but only 1 office address.
It is not recommended to put same address for the both websites
both doing laundry & dry cleaning services.

Is there any tip on how we can get listed on Google place without using the same address for both website?

Thank you for your advice Kevin. We are doing this and will continue to do it for a long long time

That is the reason why i am always sticking around at seomoz to always learn new things.

Learning is fun

Great guide, i am reading it now

Hi,

We are the leading home cleaning and maintenance company in Singapore.

We are trying our best to go online to expand our business.

The thing is we are weak in internet marketing and we need to get some traffic to our website.

Can expert advice us on how we can improve on our Google ranking?

Our site:
http://www.absolutesolutions.com.sg

You have an eagle eye.

Thanks for pointing that out

Thank you for your feedback John!

Got it thank you!

Thanks for the tips.

Thank you. I have removed the meta keywords on my website.
I guess Google doesnt give alot of weight to meta keywords.

Hi,

I understand that meta title and descriptions are very important for websites.

I would like to know if meta keywords are important?

I have seen people talking about meta keywords are useless and it should be removed from the website to prevent competitors from knowing your keywords.

Anyone has anything to share?

I really thank you for your help.

I have changed many things on my website.

I will think go study and do research on what is GWT.

You are very helpful. Thank you!

I got it on the rates images.

The reason why i am using images for the rates instead of table is because if that is a table, i will be copied by competitor sooner or later and i will be hit by Google panda because duplicate content.

I will add more words above the image.

Thanks for your help!

I thank you for your advice Rob!

Thank you Mossa!

Thanks, do you have any recommendation on how i can build link in a whitehat way?

I am posting it on social media such as Facebook and twitter now.

Hi all,

I have tried all white hat ways to make my local business website rank well in Google.

We have done:

1.) Good quality content for our site on regular basis
2.) Submit to Google sitemap
3.) Link in an ethical way
4.) Post on social media sites

No Google Panda content farming
No Google Penguin unnatural linking

In fact, we have more quality articles to share compared to other laundry dry cleaning websites in Singapore.

Can anyone advice me on why my site is my ranking well?

Site:
http://www.drycleaning.com.sg

Thank you so much for your help Sandip.

God bless you!

Hi Sandip,

We have sent reconsider mail to Google but they replied:

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.rollerblinds.com.sg/,
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www.rollerblinds.com.sg/ for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

We reviewed your site and found no manual actions by the webspam team that might affect your site's ranking in Google. There's no need to file a reconsideration request for your site, because any ranking issues you may be experiencing are not related to a manual action taken by the webspam team.
Of course, there may be other issues with your site that affect your site's ranking. Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms. We make hundreds of changes to our search algorithms each year, and we employ more than 200 different signals when ranking pages. As our algorithms change and as the web (including your site) changes, some fluctuation in ranking can happen as we make updates to present the best results to our users.
If you've experienced a change in ranking which you suspect may be more than a simple algorithm change, there are other things you may want to investigate as possible causes, such as a major change to your site's content, content management system, or server architecture. For example, a site may not rank well if your server stops serving pages to Googlebot, or if you've changed the URLs for a large portion of your site's pages. This article has a list of other potential reasons your site may not be doing well in search.
If you're still unable to resolve your issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.
Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team

My ranking dropped since 6th Oct 2012.
I have emailed my SEO consultant and request to stop the service.

Anyone has got good ethical SEO company to recommend?

Yes, i believed so.
I am just afraid i would be wasting my time adding fresh new articles on that website.

I am still paying him every month.

Can anyone advice what i could do next?

Hi, Can someone tell me what my SEO consultant is doing? I have engaged a SEO company in Singapore for my site: Http://www.rollerblinds.com.sg The thing is for the 1st 2 months, it is ranking well but for the next 4 months it is out of google. I noticed my links are on some strange article site. Is he doing blackhat tactic, I have been paying monthly for many months now with no result. Shall I continue to pay and how can I recover?

I choose this one:
http://www.howtogomo.com/en/d/get-started/build-your-site/

It is very easy to use and also look professional!
I really thank you for sharing this!

You are superb vironc!

Hi,

I think more people are using mobile for searches now and it is wise to have a mobile version of our website.

Anyone has got any good recommendation?

I came across Dudamobile and i am just wondering anyone using it?
Any reviews?
It cost about $9 monthly paid plans to create a website
Premium Plan

$9/Month

Click-to-call
    Text your business
    Mobile Map with directions
    Ads Free & Customizable Footer
    Your Own Mobile URL (m.yourcompany.com)
    Email support
    Bandwidth: unlimited
    Page limit: unlimited
    Mobile Site Analytics

Anyone?

Hi,

We have a privacy policy page but it can be found at Copyscape and might affect Google Panda content farming.

My questions is, should i Noindex my private policy page?:

Hi,

Anyone know where i can get freelance worker that writes
about 500 to 600 words original article that is free from Copyscape?

And also how much does it cost in general?

Hi,

Anyone care to share what are your 3 best ways to rank well on Google?

As for me i think:

1.) Link building & Social Media

2.) Onsite optimization

3.) Quality Content

What about you?

The reason some people dont want to have shared IP is because they are afraid of linking to bad neighbors hosting porn or casino?

That is the reason why they want a static ip?