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I think that's just a business decision that the owner took that has nothing to do with SEO.  He wants to business under 2 different names and build two brands, which makes sense on the business side because he can have one brand  to target public A and another brand to target public B.

There are many cases where competitors company are own by the same group or person, for example, Walt-Mart and Sam's Club. There is nothing wrong on trying to dominate the whole market that's how capitalism works.

In my opinion, you were hired to build the second brand SEO and is not your job to judge his business decisions or complain because the other brand that he owns already have good links.

Did your site ever rank well on Google? If you don't see anything on GWT most like you don't have a penalty. Ranking on bing and Yahoo is usually much easier than ranking on Google.

You can use the "compare" button on opensiteexplorer to see how your link metrics are different from the websites ranking higher. Here is a step by step:

1. Go to opensiteexplorer.org
2. Put your site URL there and click on "Compare up to five sites".
3. Include in the list websites ranking in the top 10 for your keyword

ps: Make sure you compare not only the home page, but the pages targeting the keywords you are going after for example:

• mysite.com/targetkeyword
• competitor1/com/targetkeyword

You can also use the on page grander to compare  and fix your on page optimization.

I hope it helps.

No. Display url are just for "display".

Google adwords will calculate your quality score based on your destination URL.  Therefor if you destination URL is a 404 page you quality score will be affect.

Your quality score has a direct effect in how much you per click. (check this image http://www.wordstream.com/images/quality-score-cpc-savings.jpg)

You can check your current quality score by:

1. Click the Campaigns tab at the top.
2. Select the Keywords tab.
3. Look for the **Qual. score **column in the statistics table. If you don't see this column in your table, you can add this column by doing the following:

• Click the Columns drop-down menu in the toolbar above the statistics table.
• Select Customize columns.
• Select Attributes.
• Click Add next to Qual. score.
• Click Save.

I hope it helps.

I just did a similar migration Oscommerce to Magento, because the site was so big took a while for Google indexed all the new URLs even with the 301. We lost a little bit of traffic in the first 3 weeks but in the forth week we recovered the same traffic we had before the new site went up and in the following weeks we just kept growing.  Right now we have 20% more traffic.

The drop in ranking it's normal right after a big migration, when Seomoz became Moz they also saw a few weeks of drop in the organic traffic. I wouldn't worry too much about it yet. Just make sure your on page optimizations are well done in the new website and wait for big G complete your new website index.

Hey Mike

"Example Location" would be my choice.

You could still rank for "Example Location" with the title "Example is the best in location" but on my experience exact match is a best option...

Another thing to keep in mind is how competitive "Example Location" is,  maybe "Example location" is too competitive than you might want optimize for a long tail keyword and keep building links so eventually you might rank for the most competitive keyword too.

I want create a video gallery in my site. Does anyone know about any video CMS or wordpress video plugin optimized for SEO?

Yes I'm sure is organic... I did check GWT  together with GA, the traffic is really coming from organic and I'm ranking for the keywords. You can google for example: "hacker insidetshirts or "I know html tshirt"

A few tips:

1 - Use the Moz Tools + Google ad words to Make a Keyword research and Competition analyses to make sure you're not going after keywords that are impossible for you to rank or do not have impressions. (Try pick keywords with difficult below  45% and above 100 impressions)

2 - Use the On Page Grander on your Moz Dashboard to make sure all your pages are well optimized especially for the  keywords you can compete.

3 - Check your competitors back links using open site explorer and see if you can get a link in any of the sites where they already have links.

If you pick the right keywords and your niche is not very competitive, you should be able to start seeing results doing just those 3 things.

Did Google run any update Monday or recently?

My site www.shirts4geek.com, strangely had a 1000% organic traffic increase from day to night.  I didn't do anything in this site for long a time... but Monday I had a lot traffic coming from organic and every other day this week the site is doing extremely well on traffic and sales.

I'm ranking first page for many keywords relate to my products.

I wish I could figure out what happens so I can replicate it.  The site has very links and the On Page Optimization is kind of basic.

Does any have any idea how it could be possible? Have any one seen something similar lately?

Hi Tim,

I think you should do the migration all at once.

Make sure you 301 every page or at least the most important ones.

This video might help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

Magento is great platform, but if not well implement it became very slow. If you 301 your old pages for a much slower page or a page with very different content you might have problems. As long you make sure you content is aligned and your mageto site is fast you'll be fine.

I agree with everything Daniel said. I would like to add that a brilliant developer knows that they are great and they know they can pick for who they work for, so when they see a job description like yours; 1 - Sounds super comic. 2 - They will run because sounds like you want to abuse them. (i am not saying you want I am just telling you what a developer will think).

If You want find an amazing developer you need to find a developer that;1 - Blog about his stuff, 2 Have an active github account with great projects, 3 - It's involve with open source.

When you find this developer you have to understand that money is "out of table" for them. They are already making very good money.  Enough to them not worry about money anymore that's why when they leave their work they keep "working" for "free" in open source projects because coding is what they love....    You have to offer them more than high salary, they want a great work environment, they want to feel they will be building something that will "change the world"... they DO NOT want to be micro manage and yes they expect to be very well paid too.

Your content can be about things that your target public would like to read about.  For example who reads about "cleaning marble floors" mostly like would like to read about "home improvements".

About outsourcing your blog content creation scripted.com is a good provider.

Hey Mike

"Example Location" would be my choice.

You could still rank for "Example Location" with the title "Example is the best in location" but on my experience exact match is a best option...

Another thing to keep in mind is how competitive "Example Location" is,  maybe "Example location" is too competitive than you might want optimize for a long tail keyword and keep building links so eventually you might rank for the most competitive keyword too.

HI Bob,

• I wouldn't replace the H1 and H2 for  strong.
• I think is good idea to use exactly matching in the Title.
• You can check the "perfectly Opimized page" in this image by Rand: http://dc8hdnsmzapvm.cloudfront.net/rand/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/perfectly-optimized-page3.gif

I like http://prweb.com/ -> good price decent service.

Keep mind that the Search Volume displayed, is only for bing! You can use Google ad words tool to get an estimate from Google.

Did your site ever rank well on Google? If you don't see anything on GWT most like you don't have a penalty. Ranking on bing and Yahoo is usually much easier than ranking on Google.

You can use the "compare" button on opensiteexplorer to see how your link metrics are different from the websites ranking higher. Here is a step by step:

1. Go to opensiteexplorer.org
2. Put your site URL there and click on "Compare up to five sites".
3. Include in the list websites ranking in the top 10 for your keyword

ps: Make sure you compare not only the home page, but the pages targeting the keywords you are going after for example:

• mysite.com/targetkeyword
• competitor1/com/targetkeyword

You can also use the on page grander to compare  and fix your on page optimization.

I hope it helps.

Unfortunately Google created a easy way for competitors or people with bad intention, destroy other people business. If website "Y" is being outrank by website "Z". Website Y instead of improve their link profile, have the option to buy bad links for the competitor.  Also if you offend someone and this person has nothing to do with your industry  the person can still drop your ranks paying less than $100 dollars.

Matt Cuts said that a simple disavow would work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znOqJu3le2g

But from what you  and many others are saying is not working.

When the  upgrade was released  Google knew those problems would happens yet, they didn't do anything to avoid the issue. In my humble opinion Google just want sale more PPC.

I think the only way to build a solid web business is having your traffic coming from  many sources  or  you create a single point of failure. This is complex task if you think how big is Google Market share, but as web Marketers we have to figure out a way to do so.

Robert,

Have you tried Authentic Jobs?

Felipe

Visual.ly is pretty good site with a lot of visitors http://www.similarweb.com/website/visual.lyI dont think is unsafe to link them with your Google Analytics.

About getting "easy-to-undertand" report I recommend you use some ready-made dashboards here is a link with a few samples: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/62828-10-useful-google-analytics-custom-dashboards

You can find other online and see which one will adapt better for your needs.