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I don't think you would find a better company than Sonassi: https://www.sonassi.com/

What evidence is that based on John?

• Nobody uses my iPad and I haven't changed any preferences
• I never really look at the bbc sport page that it suggests, if I do look at the bbc site it will be the football section and my search would be for "bbc football"
• Many of the sites that I visit regularly never get suggested

I don't seem to be able to find out much information on this one. Safari often shows a suggested website as you start typing a query into the browser.

I've uploaded a screenshot to help show what I mean.

safari-suggested-site.png

Sounds like you have a list of issues to fix either way

I have noticed this problem over the past few days too. If I search in Chrome there are no author pics, but if I perform the same search in Firefox they appear. I'm not going to change anything, I don't think this is anything which requires a fix.

Go old skool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?hl=en_uk&pli=1

Sorry if this wasn't clear.. there is a different version of the header which is pulled in for the mobile version. The structure and contents of the desktop header was too complicated to use on a mobile, the client didn't want to amend the design of the desktop site. Only the header section is different, everything else is the same code.

We have recently made a website I work on responsive. This involved taking their original desktop site and then making it work on mobiles/tablets. Due to the nature of their existing header we are serving a different version to mobiles/tablets.

Do the schema tags which are on the desktop header need to be added to the mobile version or are they just needed on the desktop code?

What content is picked up when you use the testing tool?

I am trying to understand how I can use SEOMOZ to ascertain the volume of visitors a competitor will achieve either daily, weekly or monthly.

I would say it's like most things, if you can do it yourself then in the long term that might work best.. but then if you don't have time then it can pay to get some help.

Depending on how competetive your sector is, you may be able to pick up some good rankings with good quality content and strong on-page optimisation.

For your initial link building you should start by trying to identify the main sites in your area.. there will likely be some niche directory sites that you can submit to, and that should give you a kick start

One think to be wary of with link building is the types of sites where the links are built and also what happens if you cease working with the company - will these links that have been built stay in place or will they be removed?

It sounds like you have set up your CDN slightly wrong.

After setting up a few like you have I realised that I was actually making a complete duplicate of the site rather than just the images or assets

I imagine you have your origin directory for the CDN in the public html folder.

Create a subdomain, set that as the origin.

Eg.. I'm working on this site at the moment: http://looksfishy.co.uk/

I have a subdomain called assets: http://assets.looksfishy.co.uk/

The cdn content: http://cdn.looksfishy.co.uk/

Files uploaded here:

http://assets.looksfishy.co.uk/species/holder/pike.jpg

Displayed here:

http://cdn.looksfishy.co.uk/species/holder/pike.jpg

Check the ip address on them.

It does make uploading images by ftp a bit of a faff, but does make your site better

It would be possible to have the text at the beginning of the html document but then display it further down using CSS, not java script.

I don't think there is a massive need to do something like this. In the past Google may not have indexed all of the content from a page, especially if the document size was very large. This position trick would ensure that the important SEO focused content would be indexed.. if you build your site properly and take into account the size, page load speed, make sure the code is clean etc then there should be no need to move the content around.

There are quite a lot of posts about this.. OSE doesn't crawl every single page on the internet, so some links may not be listed/discovered. Even Google may not discover all of the links to your site.

Take the figures with a pinch of salt, try not to be so specific, but make sure that both figures are generally always increasing.

I've got a range of sites that have them either in the content or outside, say fixed position so that they are always visible.

I havent noticed a big difference between the two, but I would say that I am often quite suprised by how few people actually use them. Most SEO you speak to will emphasise how important they are, but if you ask an average user, eg my Mum, she wouldn't know what half of them are or how to use them.

Much of the decision about where they should go will often be led be the design. Thats generally my approach, if they fit in and look visible then they go in the content, but if not they end up on the side. I do quite like the sideways approach as they are very clear, you can use other things to make them more visible, on a recent site I used a small gif to draw attention: http://thedoubleglazingfund.co.uk/

Yeah. pretty much. It will also cause problems potentially with accessibility and how easy  it will be to make your site responsive so it can be viewed on different devices.

Each image will be an http request.. depending on the rest of your site these can add up and make your site slow

It will also cause problems in the future if you want to add/remove/update things

I think to get a better understanding you will need to provide more information.

Although you have a lot of pages that look the same, most websites use the same templates/layout across sections or areas. How unique is the content on these pages?

Has anything else on the site changed?

If you are going to go down the paid directory route then just check that you read all of the submission guidelines first.. each directory may have different rules on what they do/don't like.

I'm not a big fan of directory links and it's not something that I put a great deal of effort into.. there are lots of other ways to build links or encourage social sharing.

There are quite a few things on your site to look at.. I would work though all of the issues on here: http://gtmetrix.com/

I don't think you would find a better company than Sonassi: https://www.sonassi.com/

I looked at the site for a couple of minutes, but there are a few more on page tweaks that could be done, have a look here: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.musicliveuk.com/WbGhsMXk

Also, your site is hosted in Germany, it would help if it was hosted in the UK.