If you ping the links you've built, generally see SERP movement within a week or two.

Generally after I change a site structure or do a redesign, some URL's are broken and not working. In those situations, you need to do the following:

-301 the broken URLs to new URLs
-Take an accurate snapshot of where your link building efforts are pointing
-Make sure you don't mess up a page that has tons of highly authoritative links

After you do that and change your structure, it's a great idea to build links to your NEW structure to build back any lost authority and start ramping up those ranking efforts.

Does that make sense?

I just built a brand new website (brand new domain), built it, SEO'd it, and built links and it;s ranking page 1 / page 2 for a medical term that gets 40,000+ exact searches a month. Only been 8 weeks. If that gives you any indication.

I'd say give it 3-4 weeks, then start building links and/or looking at your SEO strategy.

When choosing a term to rank for, in my experience, choosing a term that has low competition means finding sites that rank top 10 that do not have high domain/page authority scores, relatively low moztrust/rank, and of course really low backlinks. If a site has 10 backlinks, as long as they're from sites that are under 50 DA, they're easy to rank for.

The reason you get different results from KW Difficulty Tool using quotation marks is because that tool pulls the top 10 google results for whatever term you put in. Generally, the top results are different when using quotations. I recommend you NOT use quotation marks when using the KW difficult tool.

I would do your own research and optimization and stay away from using someone elses work/data, to me, it seems prone for errors and miscalculations which lead to loss of money, time, and other potential fallout.

We built an internal tool to do it for us, but basically you can do this manually.

Go to google, type in "site:YOURURLHERE" without the quotes. You can check a certain page, a site, a subdomain, etc... of course if you have thousands of URLs this method is not ideal, but it can be done.

Personally, I like to fit in the site name or business name whenever I can. What I recommend doing is disabling any kind of auto-tagging for the site name and enter it in manually only when it fits and if it's relevant.

For example, All in One SEO Plugin for Wordpress by default appends your site title to the end of all title tags, no matter what. I disable this and do it manually so I know I have 100% control over my title tags.

It helps for branding purposes!

All I could really say is the higher up the better. However, it depends upon the context of the website.

If you are trying to run a local directory site, it's ideal if you have the location/info/image and relevant information as high as possible.

If it's a website and you have footer information with your business address, that is perfectly fine.

What GeoTarget tool are you using?

The actual extensions don't matter. In fact, you should be using mod_rewrite to remove extensions on all your pages! All it does is add clutter and unnecessary junk to your URL strings. HTML is HTML, it doesn't matter if it's static, created using PHP, or created using ASP!

It's a pretty well known fact that non-US versions of Google are not using the same algorithm and therefore are "behind". This could be the case where you are employing methods that a couple years ago were effective and are working well for .CA but on .COM not as well.

The biggest thing you can do is work on high quality content and build links. Remember, linking is somewhere around 70% of the algorithm alone. Work on getting more .COM authoritative links from sites like NYT, USAToday, etc...

Also, if a good portion of your links are from .CA, that very well could affect it too!

There is no difference. ASP is just a web programming language that can output HTML code the same way a straight HTML page is HTML or PHP can output HTML. No difference.

If you mean having the actual extension in your URL, there is no difference.

We built an internal tool to do it for us, but basically you can do this manually.

Go to google, type in "site:YOURURLHERE" without the quotes. You can check a certain page, a site, a subdomain, etc... of course if you have thousands of URLs this method is not ideal, but it can be done.

It's a pretty well known fact that non-US versions of Google are not using the same algorithm and therefore are "behind". This could be the case where you are employing methods that a couple years ago were effective and are working well for .CA but on .COM not as well.

The biggest thing you can do is work on high quality content and build links. Remember, linking is somewhere around 70% of the algorithm alone. Work on getting more .COM authoritative links from sites like NYT, USAToday, etc...

Also, if a good portion of your links are from .CA, that very well could affect it too!

Personally, I like to fit in the site name or business name whenever I can. What I recommend doing is disabling any kind of auto-tagging for the site name and enter it in manually only when it fits and if it's relevant.

For example, All in One SEO Plugin for Wordpress by default appends your site title to the end of all title tags, no matter what. I disable this and do it manually so I know I have 100% control over my title tags.

It helps for branding purposes!

You load links into it, it then creates an RSS feed on their end that gets pinged. You can load any kind of link into it and it'll ping them.

Generally after I change a site structure or do a redesign, some URL's are broken and not working. In those situations, you need to do the following:

-301 the broken URLs to new URLs
-Take an accurate snapshot of where your link building efforts are pointing
-Make sure you don't mess up a page that has tons of highly authoritative links

After you do that and change your structure, it's a great idea to build links to your NEW structure to build back any lost authority and start ramping up those ranking efforts.

Does that make sense?