Did the new cart generate product pages that were differently optimized than the old cart?  (if cart-generated product pages were used)

Allows high ranking sites to show users who the provider is, potentially creating a new client, and a followed incoming link on anchor text you can choose.

My answer on this has nothing to do with SEO.

It has to do with where I believe the role of a service provider is supposed to begin and end.

I personally think that SEOs linking back to their own sites from a client site is low form.  The SEO is supposed to be helping the client not siphoning his power.   You could accomplish that visibility by simply having your name on the site in unlinked text.  Adding a link is unnecessary and greedy.

When I see those links on other sites, I do find it to be useful information.  I know who I would not hire.

Honestly, if an SEO or designer or hosting provider wanted to put a link on my site I would tell him "no" nicely.  If they  argued or pressed for it my consideration of his company would be concluded.  The link is not necessary for attribution.

If an SEO or hosting company wanted to have their name at the bottom of my site without the link I would tell them how much it would cost to advertise there.  The value of that advertising would probably exceed the value of the service that they provided.

If you go to a big brand site such as CNN, WSJ, Today, ESPN, you don't see links to SEOs, hosting or designers.  They are not being billboards for their service providers.

My displeasure on this is extremely strong against SEOs  and hosting providers.   For designers I can understand why they ask.  For a designer, if I am exceedingly pleased with what they have done I might list them on the "about us" page, where I mention a few people who have contributed to the content of the site.  Why the designer?  Because they improved what people see and that includes matching the design to my content or complimenting it.

I have different views when it comes to photographs, graphics, videos.  I always name the creator of those content assets and often link to their website in the caption.   Why?  Because they are a content source and my visitors might want to see more of their work.  It is similar to a reference link on a Wikipedia article.  Those links are useful to the visitors.   Even if I paid them a license fee, I  mention them and usually link to them (the only exception is with a thumbnail, but that thumbnail always links to an article where their photo is prominent and with attribution and usually a link).   I give them attribution because I want to help them.  They usually have sites that are less visible than mine.  And I want them to feel that the got back more than they gave.

My site is not about SEO or about hosting or design.  So a link to those sites is not useful to my visitor, so it really should not be there.

The Q&A questions that I like the best is when a relatively new member asks....

Hey, I was gonna hire an SEO guy to promote my site and he was going to do ( list of low quality trash )... but I am doubting that this is going to be effective because of this white board friday post or this video by matt cutts.   What do you think?

If you are going to hire someone, it is a good idea to have enough knowledge to understand what services are going to be performed, if they have a chance at being successful, and if they have a chance of getting you in trouble with google.

The worst thing that you can do is to be a blind noob who hires on the basis of price and baloney.

Visit Q&A and read some of the questions posted by others that have titles like .... "Wah!  My traffic dropped".   You will find out what is tanking websites and what to stay away from.

It's just like anything else.  If you wanna buy horses, you better know something about them.  Otherwise the money you spend will be tuition.

Learn from Moz, then bet on yourself.

If the websites had identical content and they were linked together that could have been the problem.  Google has been killing identical websites that are linked for about ten years.  One site gets killed... almost completely.

Sometimes when you are excluding something and then open it up the search engines can take a while to forget the exclusion.

I would hit it with a link from the root homepage.  With your site that should put some spiders into it.

I don't know if this would cause a problem, but I think that this site might hold the world record for the size of a hidden input string.... about 30,000 characters.

The SEO of the site is probably fine.  The problem with the site is that it takes one page of content and smears it across dozens of thin content, duplicate content, cookie cutter pages.  The SEO is lipstick on a pig.

I agree.  It is on a very thin line.  I believe that Google's Panda algo will eventually hit it.  I look at lots of site that people say lost traffic.  This one has a similar design and content Style.

This site has lots of duplicate content from page to page and lots of thin content on a repeating template.   It will be hit by Panda.

The problem that you face is that you are trying to make a website with millions of pages for which you do not have adequate content.  You are trying to take shortcuts by using a cookiecutter instead of doing the work to make a worthy and unique website.

If you continue with your current business plan, I believe that Google will not treat your site very well.  These sites used to work in Google over ten years ago and at that time they were ingenious.  Today they are spam.

Most of the time, contacting them is a waste of time.  Being a weasel is their business model.  Weasels usually have hidden domain registration data so finding their contact information is really hard.

If they have republished my content on blogspot, youtube, facebook or other community sites, I simply file a DMCA and the content is usually taken down quickly.

I don't want duplicates of my content on the web, especially not on powerful sites.  Powerful sites are generally more responsible than Joe Schmoe working in his basement.  Often just an email to them with "copyright infringement on yourdamndomain.com will get your content taken down.  I've called people on the phone to tell them that they have my stuff on their site and that is faster than filling out forms.  Be nice, not threatening and they usually comply if you get them on the phone.

I don't ask for links because I don't want weasels linking to me.

You hired the guy.  He wasn't what you expected.

His articles were crap, his followers were bogus, you had to push him.  You should have cancelled his services the first day you saw this stuff  -  even if you made a three month contract with him.

You owe him $500.  Pay him.  Clean up the mess.

This is really good tuition.  Your smoking wallet will remind you to check the people you hire better next time, make a very short contract and keep them on a short leash.

The definition of words like "parked" can vary in the FAQ documents of one hosting company to another.  When I have moved domains I have "parked" them on my hosting and then 301 redirected specific old URLs on the old domain to specific URLs on the new domain.

There are a lot of really competent people out there, but sometimes webdevelpers have a "mechanical knowledge" of how things work but for search engines to treat your domain perfectly something else is required.

If this was my site I would have a technical SEO look at it.  I've done this stuff for myself but always paid someone else to review my plan and check to see if it is workin' properly.

Awesome information, Matt.

Thank you.

When 16 is winnin' it means really easy SERPs and when 58 is loosin' it means they done sneaky stuff and got in trouble.

I would like to give that to you but it is on a site that I don't share in forums.  Sorry.

I assigned rel=canonical to my PDFs using htaccess.

Then, if anyone links to the PDFs the linkvalue gets passed to the webpage.

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I have people wanting to send me free stuff to write a review for them.

They must think that I have nothing on the schedule here.  Most bloggers who have any audience at all have a lot more interesting stuff to write about instead of your product.  The things that I write about instead of your product are probably going to make me a lot more money.  They are the topics that my readers want to hear about.

The largest group are people who want to send me a cheap product, expect me to try it and then shill it to the people who visit my site and subscribe to my feed.  I am not going to be your mule.   Honestly,  if I filled my feed with a bunch of product reviews all of my visitors will stop visiting and all of my subscribers will unsubscribe.

Shilling your product is dangerous to my success.

So, I am not going to write about your product.  If you want to reach my readers just buy adsense that is site targeted at my domain or ask about how much it costs to have the rectangle ad on the right side of all of my articles.  It is going to cost a lot more than the product sample that you thought you would send me.

Any blogger who has a worthwhile audience is not going to write an article for your product sample.  He isn't.  The economics are not there. He is going to spend his time writing about the stuff that brings visitors to his site.  Blathering about your product is not going to go down well with his visitors.  He would be burning their patience.

Most bloggers with a worthwhile audience are just going to tell you....  Here are our advertising rates.  You can have the rectangle on the right side of all of our article pages for $15,000 per month.

Have that client come in here and see how many people are cryin' because their site dropped into oblivion.

Now they are stuck with $4,000,000 of inventory in a $12,000 / month warehouse and a dozen employees to fire.

To pull themselves out they gotta pay big money for a link cleaning job and then they have a site that ranks deeper than is useful.... and $4,000,000 of inventory in a $12,000 / month warehouse and no sales coming in.

I have stopped thinking about singular and plural.  Stopped a couple years ago.

Now I just word my title tags like the average person talks, trying to say something that makes 'em click...  and then deliver the best content possible when they land.

Title tags are still really important but google, I believe, will favor natural language and good content way over keyword stuffin' and optimizin'.

Here is a question?

Who sees if these Q&A questions are answered or not?  Does anybody see it?   Is anybody lookiin'?

I don't think that anybody is lookin'.

On a good day, in "Latest Question Format" a question will drop off the bottom of the page in a few hours.  On a bad day it might languish until tomorrow.  Then it drops off and nobody sees it.

Members are not going to mark a question as "answered" for a number of reasons.  Maybe they don't like the answers.  Maybe they just don't think of marking them "answered".  I might not mark my questions as answered.  I just don't think of it.

So, I would not spend one minute thinking....  "Hey, I answered that guy and he didn't mark it."     But, when I see five people give generous replies to a question and the poster never replies or even returns to cuss me.     Then I know that I wasted my time.

I've seen Ryan Kent type wonderful answers that must have taken him at least an hour and a half to compose and then the original poster didn't even return to argue.  I have seen that several times and thought... "Wow.. that person doesn't realize the valuable free gift that they got."

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I am still making pitches for "active" view as default.

I am asking Mozzers to open two browser windows, one with "latest" view and one with "active".  Which one looks like an impressive place, where you question will be considered and engaged?   "Active" markets Q&A a lot more strongly than "latest".

And, this thread we are posting in now.  Do you think that very many more people will join the discussion since it has dropped down... at the moment... to the middle of page two?   If Mozzers think that this thread might be useful would you not want fresh minds in it?  The deeper it drops the less likely that will happen - even if the few of us are talkin' here til Christmas.

I think that members would be like you and want to see more contributors, more action on their question.  And, if they reply it will go back to the top of the list and might pick up more participants.  Some people on other forums value that so much that they will risk wrath and bump the thread.  So, I think that it is a good bet that people who ask questions will participate more if their participation increases the visibility of the discussion that they have started.

I read a few different SEO forums and see lots of people have a problem with their website then run around posting the same question in 20 different forums to see what advice they can get without payin'.  Then they never reply to any threads anywhere.

A few weeks later they are back at all 20 forums, this time registering under a Joe Schmoe, askin' same question.  Just query Google with a copy/paste of their question and you will see it posted everywhere.

I know quite a few SEO forum posters, sometimes including me, who often don't answer questions posted by noobs.  I'll gladly spend time answering a question for someone who replies even a couple times.  So, often when a noob asks a question, I ask for more details or poke at them, then if I get a reply I'll spend time to compose an answer.  Some answers can take 30 minutes or more to compose and I don't want to give that to a Joe Schmoe who ain't readin'.

Something that lots of other forums have that I think is handy is a link to see a member's recent questions and replies.  A quick look there can tell if this person is a mooch or if they participate in the threads that they start.  I am not doing that because I want to be stingy with my time, but 10 seconds to check saves me 30 minutes trying to help a phantom.

Barry Schwartz said there looked to be a Panda update starting to roll out about the 14th.  These can take a few days to roll out.  Lots of comments in the thread from webmasters complaining.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-soft-update-18408.html

April 28th post on this at Search Engine Round Table

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-link-unlimited-18468.html

I agree.  A few things that a person should do before reaching out are:

1)  determine if the target people have websites that actually do link out to other sites in their topic niche.  If they don't then your chances of changing their MO is really small and they are going to ban your email address from their inbox.

2. be certain that you have content that they will consider to be kickass, because if you don't have it then your email address is going to be permanently banned from their inbox.

3. have realistic expectations.. unless you are the Pope or some other really important person, they are not going to be  writing an article about you... so don't go asking for something ridiculous because they will permanently ban you from their inbox.

Have fantastic stuff on your site and know enough about who you are askin' before you send them email #1... because if you shoot too high they ain't gonna be readin' email #2 from you.

Go into webmaster tools, click on your site, click on "search traffic", click on "search queries", click on a keyword.... there you should be able to see position in search results, impressions, clicks and CTR for a period of time.  You can download that table for future comparisons.

I have great curiosity about the same questions as you.  However, the amount of time that could be spent on this is enormous.  Also, this data is distorted because rankings for you might be different than rankings for me, and all of your pages could be pulling traffic for a wide range of keywords.

So, for millions of visitors per month I am not watching any of this.  Instead, my measure of content value is simply the number of visitors who enter the site through a specific content page.  And, for a few of those I have adsense channels or trails to retail confirmation pages to get some dollar value of production.

I rarely look at these once that it is confirmed that conversions are happening - maybe a couple times per year to see where the money is coming from and making plans for new content development.   Otherwise, I am off onto making more content.

**I  think your suggestion about making "active" the default view is a good one. **

Let's use this question as a case-in-point.  If Q&A is in "latest" view only a few people will participate.  But if it would be in "active" view then this question would remain visible, have a lot more participation and be more valuable.

If Q&A is changed to "active" view then the number of questions display per page should be 2X or 3X as many - because people will scan them looking for recurring topics.  Actually, increasing the number of questions displayed per page might increase participation in both "latest" and "active" views.

I see your point.

I usually don't pay any attention to the "answered" label.......

I think that a lot of members mark a question as "answered" when they get a response that they "like" instead of the response that they "need".

I also think that the best answer sometimes gets thumbed down because it requires work. 

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Side comment:  I have been posting in SEO forums for about ten years and the threads where I have learned the most and enjoyed the most were huge discussions, often arguments, that raged on for a couple of days.

When a question is posted in the Moz Q&A format, if you don't see it before it drops off of the first page you probably are not going to see it.  In other formats, when a question gets a response it goes back to the top of the list, and that allows the most active (often the most interesting) threads to remain visible as long as people are engaging them.

Moz does offer an "Active" button at the top of the Q&A list... but by default people only see the "Latest" questions posted.  I am willing to bet that most people who look at Q&A don't know about  the "Active" view.

I believe that making "Active" the default view would dramatically kick up the activity and quality of Moz Q&A.

Making "latest" the default view gives fast "draw and shoot" answers to questions.  Is that the goal?

Making "active" the default view will put more pairs of eyes on the most engaged questions and that will change "draw and shoot" answers into "reviewed and debated".

Which would you rather have?

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Getting to your original question....   In SEO, I think that very few things are "answered" and a lot of "answers" will become wrong given time.  And, since we are often responding to questions without even seeing the site... or just taking the five minute look... there is an awful lot of things that could be missed.  So, I think that things that are "answered" could still benefit from "debate and refinement", and that is another argument for my suggestion of switching to "active" as default.

Philosophical:  I have spend most of every day for nearly the past ten years working on a single website.  I can't tell you how many times I have torn it apart because I had (or thought that I had) a better idea.   I don't have any "answers" about that site yet... because there is always a way to make it better... and lots of stuff changes over time.

Questions on Q&A are only "answered" until a smarter person or a person who knows one small detail, or has a simpler idea arrives.   So, I would not mark anything as "answered".

Would you still recommend traditional link building, or do you think that this is now redundant?

Over the past seven years I have spent a total of about two hours on linkbuilding.  I have not hired anyone to do it and my employees have done none.

Instead, that time and that money goes straight into content.  That gives me more content to appear in the SERPs.

I do use share, bookmark, email, etc buttons and lots of my visitors use them.  My goal is to have good enough content that my visitors do the promotion for me.

I believe that doing some linkbuilding would move my rankings faster.. but I don't like asking people to do things for me.

Oh.... this is a great question.   I like it.   I'd really like to hear what the Mozzers have to say.

I think that you are going to get a bunch of opinions.

Honestly, I don't think that Google really knows what kind of guest posting is allowed because they have a hard time measuring "quality" and they have a harder time determining "intent".

I think that a lot of guest posting is done for links and links only.  People generate a bunch of crappy articles or even some pedestrian-quality articles and give them away with links in them.  I think that those could get you penalized if Google:

A) sees them on lots of websites,

B) the links are followed and have money keywords as anchor text,

C) the websites that host these articles have lots of obviously low quality articles on them (I know that it is hard for google to detect article quality but if they have lots of misspelled words, have very little formatting, no images then they are probably manipulative crap or crap that they don't want in their SERPs)

D) the websites that the links are pointing to have signs of manipulation (the smell of crap drifts downwind).

I don't think that YouMoz is any of those.   If you look at YouMoz, the post that appear there are generally quite good and the people who wrote them spent a lot of time.  I also think that Moz is not afraid to tell people.... "This ain't good enough!" or..... "Hey! This ain't a link farm".... in a cheerful kind of way, of course.

So, since you gotta work your butt off and have something that people should hear to get a post published on Moz, I don't think that Google is going to have a problem with it.

.... but, that's just an opinion.

Would you rather attack the US Navy with a battle ship or ten potato guns?

Your original question mentioned using it as a source of linkbuilding several times.  It sounds like a place to "guest blog" and Matt Cutts is on the warpath against guest blogs these days.

I think that such a blog would be fine if all of the outlinks were nofollowed and the posts were placed there to drive a little traffic and to get some brand mentions.  I think that traffic and brand mentions are valuable.

But, if it were my company, we would not be using our valuable content creation time producing content for a satellite site.  The only way that satellite site will have valuable links is if there are links given to it from outside websites - and if I can produce content to attract that kind of link it would be better placed on my own website.  That way any link that hits it will directly power my own domain and deliver traffic to my own domain.   Traffic and links going to an outhouse only have fractional value.

If you have a couple of colleagues who can help you diversify your content do an article exchange.  They write a nice one for your site and you write one for their site.  There is only one link on the page going to their site and it is a nofollowed link in their bio space.  That way both of your primary sites get a blog post and both of your sites get brand mentions and a bit of traffic exchange.  No link manipulation.   This is superior to posting your content on a satellite site because any links that are given to the articles benefit your main site instead of the satellite.  Makes it look like you have colleagues in the industry.

That's how I would do it.

Please don't rip into me for this being a blackhat or unnatural tactic as it will be fully moderated by our team and will only publish high quality, industry-relevant content.

OK... I will not say anything.

** Would you utilize an industry blog you own in linkbuilding and outreach activities for the same industry?**

My answer to this question is no.

Link earning and blogger outreach are parts of the same process.

Think of "link earning" as building assets for your website that will attract visitors.  These assets could be interesting articles, valuable databases, useful tools, active forums, informative news.    Keep in mind that articles, databases, tools, forums and news will not be link-earning assets unless they have those adjectives of  interesting, valuable, useful, active, informative.  Just because you have something on your site does not make it a link earner.

The outreach part is contacting bloggers who will value some of your assets and like them enough to say something about them.

Popular bloggers get contacted a lot.  Lots of weasels, idiots and moochers are trying to get them to do something.  If you have interesting, valuable, useful, active, informative assets your chances of getting them to help you are small.... but if your assets don't have those adjectives then you are just another weasel, idiot or moocher.

I am not doing any work on Google+

I am building on pages that I control.  Pages that I can monetize.

Next week somebody at google could wake up cranky and that whole place will be gone.

I have been watching how google treats subdomains for a long time.

My conclusion is that Google can not make up their mind how to treat them.  Sometimes their power is united with the site.  Sometimes they are isolated.   When they are isolated all of the assets that you have placed on them have little value towards the success of your website.

So, if you want your web assets to consistently receive favorable treatment and pull in concert for your domain then they should all be placed in folders on the primary domain.

It is easy to be fooled by observing "how subdomains are being treated today" because google will likely change their mind tomorrow.

Trying to give you an honest reply here.

This website has the potential to be an important source of business to your company.

There is nothing wrong with trying to learn what is needed to fix it yourself and moving forward slowly.

However, in my opinion, this website has a lot of problems and the effort that you are putting into blogging on it right now is a waste of time.

You can choose between these:

A) to continue slowly and waste a lot of time

B) hire a pro to get the site up and running quickly and put your time spent blogging to better use.

Option A is the more expensive of the two, because the lost time could have been spent making money.

Two people gave you a huge amount of information here...

http://moz.com/community/q/seo-frustration-is-my-website-too-busy

You never replied.

After having 100's of bad ones from a 2011 seo, I have cleaned them up to about 10.

You could be penalized for those ten... or just one if you had a ton of crappy links... or the 50 that you can't see with the tool that you are using.

Most of the time when people come here pointing at a crap site above them... it is their site or their knowledge that is deficient.  Google thinks your site deserves to rank lower.  Understand that question before you ask what the sites above you are doing.

Carla, I understand what you are saying.  It is hard to decide how much to charge.

I think that how much to charge is also determined in part by who is paying you.

You have probably seen lots of people here at Moz or on other forums looking to buy 500 word articles for $10.  They are simply looking for filler.

When I have hired writers they are usually paid about $500 for an article of about 2000 words.  That is not a standard rate, it is just what is agreed after discussion.

Some higher profile websites might pay a few thousand dollars for an article and include a travel budget with that.  Some of the original exclusive articles on a site like National Geographic might costs many thousands of dollars.

So, you can see some people buying filler for 2 cents per word, me buying expert content at 25 cents, and top content buyers paying over $1.00 per word.

Where does your topic level expertise and salary requirement best match the buyer's expectations?

People who write for me usually have a at least a bachelors degree in an industry-related field and experience as an industry professional.  Most have a reputation for being an expert for the topics that they write about and a lot of previously published work that I can look at to see if I might be happy with their product.  We talk about the article, what will be covered, what photos or art are needed (which will be done here or we pay them extra to provide).  Then I tell them what I can pay for it and they decide if they can do it for the price.

The amount that I can offer depends upon my perceived value of the content for pulling in search traffic, pulling in social traffic, and getting views from people already on the site.  The value of the advertising that might appear on that page is also considered.  It is a calculation of estimated pageviews multiplied by an ad rate.   I gotta make back the money that I pay them, pay for publishing costs here and still make a profit.

What the publisher is able to do with the content is a big factor in determining what they can pay - at least for editorial content for public consumption.

Rates and expectations are different for retail product descriptions, blog posts for low-traffic corporate sites and other types of writing.

I write a lot every day.  Have been doing that for a long time.

I write for sites that get lots of expert traffic where the visitors will immediately smell a noob author and complain about it.  Those articles need to be tightly worded and to do that you have to do a lot of research even if you already know a lot about the topic.

I also write for a hobbyist site where the demands are a lot less.   I can produce 1000 words for the hobbyist site in an afternoon and have one of the best articles for the subject.  But, on the site with the expert traffic I can spend several full days on an article of same length.

Writing for the hobbyist site does not require a lot of background education.  Writing for the site with the expert visitor can be a challenge for a person with a PhD and decades in the industry.

Just saying, I would not want to be paid by the word if I am writing certain types of content.

Good writing should not be purchased and sold like it is a commodity.

Do you think these are good services to start consulting with?

Any service that can produce measurable positive value for your client is a good one to start consulting with.

The question is...  Are your skills and expertise strong enough to produce value?  Can you point to at least a few items of content that are at the top of the search engines for valuable queries or that have pulled in massive traffic that resulted in conversions?  Have you taken small businesses from invisible on the web to the top of local search in a moderately competitive market?

Anybody can say... "I can do blogging".    When it comes down to numbers most of those blog posts pull in less than a dozen visitors per month.

So, if you have numbers that would make a client smile and deliver them at a price that works for you then you are ready to offer the service.

Would buying some additional domains with the keywords they wish to rank for help? Or will this look dodgy to google?

I hope that all of my competitors do this.   I am going to email them to offer juicy domains that I have been sitting on for a long time.   I will get beer money for selling them the domains cheap and put a pile of worthless work on their plates.

I used to have lots of satellite sites... a long time ago... based upon that experience I have found that the only time that you should start working on another domain in the same niche is after you already hold all of the dominant positions.  Because if you don't hold all of the dominant positions then you are wasting you time trying to make ten cents from another site when all you needed to do is add one good page to your existing site to make $500/month.

Even if you rank at #5 for your KW, building another site instead of another page on a kickass site is not going to produce the same return.  The only time that I would say that isn't true is when your good site already has tons of pages covering all of the money keywords.

I can put a new page on my stronger site and be taking sales from my competitor the following day.

All the practices we used to "know" now seem obsolete.

If you have used these on your site they may have generated a reduction in your SERPs.

If you want to rank for "Louisville Homes".   The very first step is to have a page on your website that has razor optimization for that query.  You want it in the title tag, you want it in the

, and you want it on the page.  Not a lot.  Once each and maybe twice on the page.

You currently have two pages about Louisville.  Their title tags are shotgunning... here is one of them.

<title></span><span>Louisville neighborhoods cities nearby counties | Shop for a Louisville house | find Louisville homes | city information on Louisville Ky homes | Louisville Ky house prices | Louisville Kentucky house | homes Louisville Kentucky | Louisville Ky houses for sale | Louisville Ky homes for sale | Homes for sale Louisville real estate |downtown Louisville condos | Highlands | Lake Forest | Polo Fields | Prospect Ky | Oldham County | Hurstbourne | Springhurst | Waterfront Park Place | Anchorage | Middletown | St Matthews| Florence Ky | New Albany Indiana homes for sale | Jeffersonville Indiana homes for sale | Ft Mitchell homes for sale | Fort Thomas homes for sale | Floyds Knobs homes for sale</span><span class="webkit-html-tag"></title>

Let's make that page a finely crafted arrow with a title tag something like..

<title>Louisville Homes from River Valley Group</title> or something similar.

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I would also decide if I need two websites.  Here is another one... http://www.rivervalleyrealtygroup.com/

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There is a lot of duplicate content on the site.  Could be causing a panda problem.  See here.

This is common on real estate sites but it does cause problems.  Google sees lots of duplicates out there and refuses to show all of them in the search results.

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You could have an unnatural links or a Penguin problem.   The southernindianahomes.wordpress.com site is a platform that has tons of links pointing back at your main site.   Looks manipulative.  On the heidi site the left navigation, a huge one, is nothing more than links pointing back at your main site.

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The site has waaaayyy too many pages.  Google suggests 139,000 pages.  These might be a lot of old listings with a lot of them being duplicated from many other websites.  You might need a way to keep them out of the index and focus on original content for the properties that you control.

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Because this site has a lot of opportunities for improvement, my suggestion is to hire an SEO who can do a review of SEO basics.  But who also knows all about panda, penguin, unnatural links, duplicate content problems... and clean up the main site and the satellite sites so that you are not doing things that will cause problems with google.  Google could be holding this site back for numerous reasons.

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I only work on my own sites.  Just letting you know that I am not recommending hiring someone because I am looking for work.  The site has problems from basic basic level on up.  What I saw above is just from a really quick look.  Digging deeper will probably find a lot more.

A person with a four year degree in anything and good grades will be able to apply their general education credits to any other degree at most universities in the United States.  Picking up a second bachelors might take two years.

There are a few Master's and MBA degrees in internet marketing.  The question might be, do you need start school now or even get a degree?  Each degree program is different.  Some have undergraduate courses that are prerequisites but you might not need a relevant undergraduate degree.  The prerequisites, if any, can often be taken before or while you are competing graduate courses.  More information is posted on the program websites.

If you live in or near a major city he might be able to land a job with a local company and enroll in school part time.  That will get him experience that will make the education relevant and education that will increase his competence at work.

If he has a keen interest in this, he should be in here reading, watching webinars and asking questions. You can learn alot here for free.

Write all new content for the site that does not have organic rankings.

Lots of people come here and say.... "I added millions of pages to my site and my traffic dropped."

The answer is usually.... the millions of pages were thin content, duplicate content, cookie cutter content or rubbish content and now google sees the site as low quality.