This is my landing page's rel canonical.

| rel="canonical" href="http://www.shipoverseas.com/us/ship-car/africa/shipping-car-to-nigeria.html"/> |
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I don't point it to a category page.

The adult industry is something else. It's something you should have stated in your original post. It's like the gambling industry.

I'm not sure if SEOmoz is the place for you. I know it's definitely not the place for black hat or even grey hat SEO.

I wish you the best in your company!

Use my site as an example. www.shipoverseas.com

The homepage is about "international car shipping".

All the landing pages are about "shipping cars to xyz country".

When I 1st started this site, I didn't know that my home page was going to be about "international car shipping". I thought I was going to try to have it rank for "ship car to Europe", "ship car to au", "ship car to africa". Instead I made categories + landing pages.

I hope that helps you organize your site.

Tim, my marketing strategy is based off what people are looking for, not what I think is best. Look into your GA to find these clues.

I use the home page as a representation of all the landing pages.

regarding your Exact Match vs Brand domain, Matt Cutts already announced that he was going to lower the weight of Exact Match domains. I guess it all depends on what you are looking for. I'm in it for the long term so I always opt to get a memorable domain (brandable).

This is the approach I use: brandname.com/abc123/

@JML, partial truths? Look at my site here Ship Overseas. Facebook Likes & Comments.

I'm not joking about having Nigerians use my services. There is a market I uncovered that I didn't know about.

Well, let's see what you have. Post "your" kick ass content and I'll run OSE on it. I wasn't trying to confuse anyone or "obfuscate" the poster.

Then what you do is use your SEOMOZ tools like Followerwonk to make friends on Twitter. Twitter is full of people like me who link to others in related industries.

Does "how to ship a car to Nigeria" sound like there's a readership? At 1st, hell NO there's no readership there. But wait.... these Nigerians are buying cars in USA over the internet and shipping them to Nigeria. Some of them are dealerships. REPEAT BUSINESS!

My point is that maybe there is a catch 22 "if" you can't find out what your audience is looking for.

Hi Matthew,

if you haven't heard of the Penguin update, you HAVE to learn about it. It was an algorithm change on April 24 2012 that hit sites like squidoo. Many people have abuse article marketing (spinning) to try and get more rankings.

What I would recommend is to make some friends in your industry be using Followerwonk. Post on YOUR site and perhaps they can link to you. There are many blog posts on how to do this.

Also i recommend you read chapter 7 http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

I have ALWAYS been able to rank on Yahoo and Bing faster than Google. Google takes time (at least for me). While you may be getting indexed, try submitting a sitemap to see if you can get even more pages indexed.

Hi wcsinc, increasing page and domain authority takes time. The best way to get there is writing kick ass content that your users will love AND that web developers/bloggers will "want" to link to.

I recommend reading chapter 7 http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.

It refers to onsite SEO and offsite SEO. (just trying to make it a little clearer).

But what I'm wondering is would it make more sense to build an authoritative blog with a unique url, gain subscribers and flow traffic through the blog to the website?

/ index

/blog

That's the way I would go. Your statement above basically says "I want to get people from my blog to buy on my website". Build an authority blog on your main domain. I wouldn't do it any other way unless I planned on selling the blog.