I tried sending you an email and this is what I got:  "This user is currently not accepting private messages"

Okay, well I can create a google doc and however wants to contribute can be an editor.  After we finish the directory list, we can submit it to Rand and he can update the post.

They are signing up for a quote.  International Car Shipping We ship cars overseas from USA to other counrties. My adwords campaign is 50% exact match.

Woot Woot! I don't see eHow above me anymore!

I think a new list of the top 10 or 20 would suffice for the time being while the rest are being deteremined viable or not.

thanks Petra, JoeAnt charges a onetime fee of $39.99 USD. I would rather pay the fee.

I need to pay for some directories, but I don't know if BOTW, Business.com, Joe Ant and others are still worth it.  Anybody know if this is still viable?

http://www.seomoz.org/directories

All Mozzers, can you please give me a 'thumbs up' so I can get more MozPoints?

To optimze a webpage for my number one converting keyword in Google Adwords instead of purely going off Google Keyword Tool.

The answers above are all good.  I don't know if there is a right answer though.  I think my approach would be something like what http://www.gap.com did.  They have 5 different sites combined into one.  Look at the URLs. Looks like they are using subdomains to use the same shopping cart between all sites.  But I don't think you would need to do subdomains. I would shoot for long term SEO strategy.

I have a client I landed about 1 1/2 months ago. The only traffic coming to the site is from Google Adwords.  The goal page is the "Get A Quote" page and the closing ratio is 32.4%.  So about 1 in 3 visits fill out the quote form.  I usually do eCommerce and I am used to seeing 2-3% goal conversions. But 32.4%???? Is that normal for a regular static site (non-ecommerce).  It's been like that for a whole week! Should I toot my own horn here?

Here is where the traffic comes from.

• 60% of the quotes come from people in the United States

• 40% of the quotes come from people in their own country, not usa.

It sounds as 'if' I GEO target url.com to US (this has the rankings), my international keywords will disappear because I am telling google that url.com is only in the US. 40% of my traffic would go away by geo targeting URL.com to the US.  I see that you said URL.com/us, but then I would have duplicate content.  Url.com would equal url.com/us, unless I rewrote everything.  I think url.com will go as unlisted. "If" I create url.com/us with original content, then I will be competing for the same keywords.

I have a client who already has rankings in the US & internationally.

The site is broken down like this:

• url.com (main site with USA & International Rankings)
• url.com/de
• url.com/de-english
• url.com/ng
• url.com/au
• url.com/ch
• url.com/ch-french
• url.com/etc

Each folder has it's own sitmap & relative content for it's respective country.

I am reading in google webmaster tools > site config > settings, the option under 'Learn More': "If you don't want your site associated with any location, select Unlisted."

1. If I want to keep my client's international rankings the way it currently is on url.com, do NOT geo target to United States?
2. So I select unlisted, right?
3. Would I use geo targeting on the url.com/de, url.com/de-english, url.com/ng, url.com/au and so on?