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Thanks Alice, great advice

Dan

We're going to refresh our homepage by putting more content on it and a slightly different design.

Given that it's our highest authority page, I don't want to screw it up.

We're going to keep the titles / meta / copy the same during the transition, is there anything else I should bear in mind to avoid it plummeting down the rankings?

I ask as we have a 2nd smaller site and when I changed 1 word in the title of the homepage it lost 40 places on half its keywords. Lesson learned...

Thanks in advance for any tips

Dan

Hi, i've had this a couple of times. I disconnected from GA then re-connected and it seemed to work.

I love the keyword tracker tool on SEO Moz.

However I can't work out how to see search volumes for each keyword.

So while I know how I am ranking for each keyword.....I have to open a separate spreadsheet to see the local Google Monthly search volumes and then cross-refer the two, which is clumsy and time-consuming.

Is there a way to amalgamate the two? It seems like such a major flaw that i'm sure its there, I can't work it out.

Thanks all,

Dan

Hi there, I wonder if you can help.

Google's keyword tool lists each of these keywords separately with its own Local Monthly Volume count:

• flats to rent in London
• flats to rent London
• flats for rent in London
• flats for rent London
• flat to rent in London
• flat to rent London
• flat for rent in London
• flat for rent London

I'd rather not create 8 separate pages for this, which I think will be poor for the user and limit the range of keywords i can target.

So my main question is: what should I do?

a) How important is 'in'? Will a page written for 'flats to rent in London' do well against the 'flats to rent London'?

b) The same for plurals: if I'm writing 'flats to rent' will it rank against 'flat to rent'?

c) The same for 'to' and 'for': If i'm writing 'flats to rent in London' will it rank against 'flats for rent in London?'

Thanks in advance

dan

Thanks both of you, that definitely helps me. Dan.

I'm a novice...I've just run my crawl diagnostics and I wonder how important is it to a) Have meta-descriptions on every page, b) Have all titles less than 70 characters?

Thanks in advance. Dan.