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Completely agree with Ryan, 100% focus on on-page optimisation. Utilise the on-page analysis tool here at SEOMoz and get the site right before commencing your link building campaign

Definitely agree with Adam, the 2nd title structure is much more professional and will facilitate a better customer response.

Personally I use piped separation for my title tags but that's just personal preference.

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The ROI for this is a lot lower than general Search traffic (I've had 3 conversions from this), however, I would say that for the little work it took to do, 1 conversion would have made it worthwhile.

My example was:

Filename: fireworks-display.jpg

Alt Text: Fireworks Display Night Extravaganza

Also, the page content was heavily weighted towards "fireworks + display". Over the New Year period, when traffic on this site averages approx 20k, I had 200k impressions of this image via Google Image, it was short lived as once New Year passed, so did the search volume but it certainly opened my eyes to the possibilities.

Pidoco is a smart collaborative wireframe / GUI design tool. Could be worth a look. Alternatively if you're looking for free, Gliffy is good.

As Steve says it won't affect you for Dup Content. One thing to bear in mind when naming images is that optimising the filename along with the alt text etc.. can yield some surprising results via Google Image Search, I had an image ranking for the term "fireworks" delivering a substantial amount of traffic

I still use "static" sitemaps with my clients. These can be especially welcomed by users if you have a large site with many categories/sub-categories. Of course from a usability standpoint, your site navigation should pose no problem to your customers finding what they are looking for

The domain authority of all these featured sites is very high, I would think that may have something to do with it as it can't be down to content feature as the guardian post reads more like a tweet. Anyone else have any luck gaining this kind of exposure?

This tool lets you compare 2 domains to identify if they are on the same c-class, may be of help

You could try a reverse DNS lookup on each unique domain

Have you tried getting on the blogroll for BBC Ouch ?

BBC, USA Today not much in terms of traffic but good for DA

I agree that it would serve little or no positive gain in terms of SEO, however, for usability and customer friendliness it should be a win-win.

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You're very welcome. If you do decide to use the service, perhaps you can let us know how it works for you.

The site at position 1 has a DA of 64 and PA of 56 with 807 Root Domains linking to the site, you should attempt to build up your unique linking domain count from authority domains in order to compete with this.

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See this article re merging Facebook Page and Places

Ok so you are distributing your blog posts with relevant anchor text - I would try and ensure that you have more links tracking back from related domains than that of unrelated - try finding relevant blogs using something like soloseo link finder

What kind of link building are you doing?

If I was approached to provide a link to an unrelated property, I would have to pass (unless it offered something of value to my visitors). Be careful of blogrolls etc.. form unrelated sites as it does not necessarily need to be Google who picks them up in order for you to be penalized.

You may have 1000's of links pointing to your root domain, however, if you are trying to rank a sub-page for a specific term, you may want to find unique domains that can provide direct links to the target page (anchor and generic), thereby increasing your overall linking domain count for both your domain and sub-page

I'd definitely recommend a Facebook Business Page, not only can it provide a Social Buzz platform but if done correctly, can provide traffic that converts (either via direct traffic or Facebook Storefront)

Why don't you 301 to either the main bio entry page or create a page for deleted empoyees (kinda like a custom 404) and update your sitemap. That way no benefit is lost and anyone landing on the page from say an external link, will not get frustrated.

It's definitely an area of concern for me, all traffic is organic, I do not apply any paid search for this client so you are right in saying that there is a definite potential to be severely impacted with algo updates - it can be dfifficult trying to convince a client who is reaping the benefits of search traffic to branch out into alternative means as a contingency.

Have you thought about possibly using Eric Wards URLwire service. Then you can be assured that the information is being distributed to relevant newsworthy contacts with very authorative domains should they link back. (http://www.urlwire.com/)

I have a client site in the Travel sector.

Primary means of promotion is SEO with a mix of Social for Brand Awareness. Most work has been on-page optimisation with a small link building campaign.

Results have been a 30% YOY increase in traffic with a split of

• Direct 10%
• Referring 5%
• Search 85%

Most search traffic started as variable keyword input, however due to the work carried out in the Social sphere, most Search traffic is now Brand-related. Focus now is on diversifying referral-based traffic through associated micro-sites and blogs

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I've never heard of a 30%+ conversion rate certainly never experienced anything like that on any site I have ever worked on. What are people signing up for?

If you can get links from Facebook Fan pages and Businesses then they are easily indexable and will show up in G Webmaster Tools

You may want to look at increasing the amount of unique domains linking in, at present you only have 4

Try finding some authorative resources, invest in building links from these and analyse the results.

It will take time.