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If you could hypothetically spend $1000/month for 12 months and start from scratch, today. What would you do and why?

Thank you! Check out the additional question I just added below and let me know what you think.

Thanks for your response. I'm going to add to this question..

Is there any advantage to not using all the sub-folders in your URL? For example, if I go with this link structure:

http://website.com/city/neighborhood/property-name

would it make any sense to potentially use this URL instead:

http://website.com/property-name

Quick question - Have a real estate site focused on "apartments", but apartments in not part of my company name. That being said, should which of the following URL structures should I use?

http://website.com/city/neighborhood/property-name

OR

http://website.com/city-apartments/neighborhood/property-name

Thank you Donnie. I'll be in touch.

Thank you, Tom. Will be in touch today.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've already tried Odesk and was pretty surprised. I've found great contractors on Odesk for a number of different projects, but not this time around. The only SEO that applied to my job (that I felt comfortable with) wanted to charge $1000 - $1500/month. Maybe I need to re-post the job.

"I can make some recommendations of people that can help you out for a smaller budget." - Do you have any personal references, or were you referring to Odesk?

I've looked under the "recommended companies" tab of seomoz, but all of the SEO Agencies listed seem to be geared towards big businesses. Most of their contact pages have starting budgets that are way out of my league.

I do my own web-development and on-site SEO, but due to the demands of my job, I do not have the time needed to focus on link-building, and any other kind of content marketing (other than occasional guest blogging).

Can anyone recommend an individual or agency that can start with a $500 - $600 monthly budget and move up from there? My search terms are local to my city, and not all that competitive, just looking for someone who can help.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations.

Well I've been wanting to redesign my main blog page anyways - make it slightly different from the category and archive pages, so if it'll help I'll do it.

Just to clarify, how does your blog homepage differ from the category pages? No excerpts on the homepage?

Thanks for your quick response. So are you saying I should only have the excerpts on category pages? Right now I have them on the main blog page and category pages. On your main blog do you just have title links/pictures?

And I'm glad to finally hear that category pages should remain indexed from someone.

I've read a few different opinions on this, but I'm still unclear as to the best practice. I use my categories more like tags. Let's say I write a post about  about seo, local marketing, and indexing. I would use the categories "seo"+"marketing"+"indexing".  Therefore, that same post will show up in all three category pages. If these category pages are all set to be indexed, what impact does that have on my post being indexed? Should I noindex all of the categories except for the main ones to avoid too much duplicate content? Or do you recommend noindexing all of the categories? I know some seo plugins make this easy to do (I'm using Yoast).

The only reason I'm hesitant to noindex all categories is because some of them rank well for their subject. I also already tried noindexing about a month ago and lost a lot of blog traffic, so I reversed it. Now some of my category pages have overtaken my post  rankings, which makes it harder for the reader to find the content, but my overall blog traffic is back up.

With my situation, what is the best thing to do long term? I just started using my blog a lot more so I want to know that I have it setup correctly. Thanks in advance!

Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial for moving a blogger.com (blogspot) blog that's currently hosted on a subdomain (i.e. blog.mysite.com) to a subdirectory (i.e. mysite.com/blog) with the current version of blogger?

I'm working on transferring my blogger blogs over to wordpress, and to do so without losing link juice or traffic, this is one of the steps I have to take. There's plenty of tutorials that address moving from blogspot.mysite.com to wordpress and I've even found a few that address moving from blog.mysite.com (hosted on blogger) to a root domain mysite.com. However, I need to move from blog.mysite.com (blogger) to mysite.com/blog/ - subdirectory (wordpress).

Anyone who knows how to do this or can point me in the right direction?? Thanks.

If anyone has successfully switched a blogger blog from blog.site.com to site.com/blog, please let me know or point me in the direction of a good tutorial. I want to make sure I'm doing this correctly.

Would also like to know if blogger redirects those old urls to the new site.

Thanks.

Thanks for your response. I figured that's how it was treated - I definitely need to change the structure.

I'm starting to use my blog more and wanted to ask about an issue I've read about on SEOmoz in the past. I use blogger instead of wordpress. It's quick and simple - I have no interest in switching to wordpress for this particular blog.

My blog is currently setup as blog.site.com.

Is it still important (for seo reasons) to switch from blog.site.com to site.com/blog? If so, is there a way to do this in blogger? And if I do this, will my past posts lose their authority if their redirected to the new url structure?

Rand mentions in this article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls "never use multiple subdomains" - This is an old article, but I've seen this mentioned several times. Does this still hold true? Am I losing out on links to my blog?

Thanks in advance.