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I launched a dental website a couple of months ago and within a month, we had incredible keyword rankings ahead of many of the competitors in the same town. We had a brand new url, brand new content and everything. So in this case, we seemed to rank well in a short amount of time. Our content was nothing special, but unique of course. I am still scratching my head to figure this one out!

I have heard many people say "Never pay for a link". I only pay for those directories if it gets me a backlink. My rule is that if it's under 10 bucks, I'll do it. My dentists pay me good money every month and a $10 one time fee isn't going to break the bank especially if it gets you a lifetime backlink.

I just don't think it's enough of a signal for Google just to put that in your title tag. Seems to be working ok in Yahoo and Bing search . If you search for "SHOPIOUS DIRECTORY" you do show up.

Most of the time, your Brand name will go at the end of your title tag. So now you have a conflict. Seems like you have an identity crisis. What is the true name of your business? Shopious, Shopious Indonesia, Shopious Directory

A couple of FYI's

You have multiple H1 tags on your home page. Probably not the greatest idea. If you are doing this to size text, probably better to do it with css.

You have registered your domain through GoDaddy and it looks like you have used your personal residence. If you did, you might want to purchase domain privacy to hide this.

The only time I would do this is if each business entity had it's own group of people dedicated to the business and you had plenty of content to support the site. Lawyers will sometimes break up Family Law, Business Law, Maritime Law etc into different microsites. It's a ton of work though to keep each site updated and current.

-Bob

Since I work with clients in the law and medical fields, I guess I have to be real careful. I guess it make sense to only comment in your niche but I could see that there could be some grey areas.

If I'm a dentist and comment on a forum about an event I'm helping to sponsor is that bad?

If I have a link on a little league website cause I sponsor them, is that bad... it's not my niche.

Now poker sites and websites with .ru and other country urls, yea I can see that and I have run into clients who have a ton of those backlinks.  Think I'll go the route of niche websites first.

Just for kicks, I decided to pay 5 bucks for an SEO Report on a website I was working on for a client. Yea FIVERR.

The report was actually not too bad and I was able to clean up a bunch of stuff. Here is a link to other sites on the internet who use this tool. I would like to use it for myself so I'm trying to figure out the source of the report. Here are a few urls to the reports. Remove the two stars in the URL. I don't want to give them a backlink.

http://rapid**purple.com/services/free-seo-analysis/
http://www.doc**stoc.com/docs/93426462/SEO-Plan

Has anybody used these or know the source?

-Bob

I've been working with dentists for a about 6 months but there is something that I feel I need to nail down.

When looking at directory listings and trying to standardize a dental practice NAP, many dentists have their company name in many different formats. Here is what I have seen so far.

Advanced Dental Care of Chicago
Advanced Dental Care of Chicago - Angela Davidson DDS
Advanced Dental Care of Chicago Drs Davidson, Richardson & Smith
Angela Davidson DDS
Davidson, Richardson & Smith - Advanced Dental Care of Chicago

What happens here is that with dentistry, the doctors name is as important as the practice name. Many people hear about a doctor and Google by the doctors name. Others Google the practice name.

It almost makes sense to put both the practice name and the doctors name in the Business name but as you can see, the practice name can get real long especially if they have 5 other doctors working there.

On top of that, some doctors don't stick around the practice that long so you end up with business listings containing old dental partners.

Trying to come to a consensus on the best way to list a dental practice.