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I am getting 403 errors on almost all the pages on www.suretybond.com/store/  this would be a good place to start looking at the pages to make sure internal links are correct.

The next thing I would do is check the backlinks to the page in Google Webmaster tools, Opensite explorer and Bing Tools. Are they of low quality? Lots of spam? Do you only have anchor links pointing to the website?  I suspect that one of these are the case if everything else is well.

I think you have a good list already. A couple that can help as well would be Screaming Frog, it is a webcrawler, you could see page title issues, etc. from this.  Just judging from your list it looks like you have more than enough tools that you are using. The bigger is setting up a process and using it.

Here are a couple blog posts about Website audits that might help you out.

This post goes into detail of the steps, tools,etc that you would want to do a proper website audit. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-do-a-site-audit

This post is good if you are trying to just do a really short quick audit of a website. http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/how-to-do-a-5-step-site-audit/

Best of luck with getting a process in place.Gettings solids  Processes in place for all work that you do will help you with doing any client work.

You can get sentiment information from a variety of sources. Hootsuite is one source that provides sentiment data across social media platforms Another option that I have used and like for Free is Social Mention. A paid tool that I don't use but know many use is SM2 or radian6.

Here is a list that I haven't gone thru but have had bookmarked for a bit of time as well. Best of luck and have fun! they scan for negative words, context, etc. Each has a different algorithm and results can be varied but at least it would be applied equally between companies/brands.

The write would be able to link up the profile via a Rel=Author Tag. You can learn more about Rel Author tags here.

Here is a good article about Rel Authorship from Search Engineland

If your homepage is not penalized an idea that could help you out would be change the urls of the penalized pages and start over on trying to put quality content on those pages, and getting natural quality links to them. Do not run any redirects from the old pages as those will carry your penalty with you.

If your homepage is no longer appearing, you could try to clean up as many of the links as you can. It will be time consuming process but can work. I would only follow a re-consideration notice after trying to clean up all the poor quality links first.

Best of luck and stay away from using low quality spammers!

Did you greatly change the page's content, headers, titles etc . when you made the switch to the new domain? Did you keep a lot of the same internal linking as well? All of these are things that I would check into for the page.  Also, make sure that the page is craw-able by a Google bot. These would all be first things that I would look at.

If everything is on the page correctly, give it some time to add this data to the SERP. You can learn more and notify google of this addition here http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1093493#enoughtime

You can exclude those by placing them in a robot.txt file. They crawler will obey that and not follow. Learn about Crawl Diagnostics here.

Best of luck in your work!

Brandon

Thanks! I will have to check it out. I am hoping that they move away from it as client has staff members more familiar with WordPress already.

I recently was asked by a potential client to work with them on Joomla based website. I very rarely come across people with Joomla based websites and am struggling to find good resources outside of Joomla's own community site.

At this point, I am not very comfortable working with them on Joomla. Any tips or advice?

A couple other options that you could use are Quantcast and Google Adplanner. Google Adplanner will allow you to choose by Country so could be most helpful for you.

Good luck with your research!

Forum links typically do not carry follow links or a lot SEO value. Therefore, I think previous poster got it right on.

I think everyone hit this on the head but I had one quick point to drop. It might be good to search over the sites as well to look at the most valued sites that are linking to you with 404 errors. I would try to then reach out to them personally and ask if they could update the link. You often can get a specific anchor text or a link to a page deeper within your website.

Good luck with it!

It appears that you have the Facebook like button setup for the URL. This will help as a social signal for search engines. HEre is a good related Q&A Post about setting up Facebook likes for a page vs a URL.

The H1 title for a specific product page. A Product page would most likely have the product name as that is very relevant to the page. I think you misread the previous reply.

The H1 title for a specific product page. A Product page would most likely have the product name as that is very relevant to the page. I think you misread the previous reply.

Sorry about that http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Before setting up naming structure, have you done keyword research, mapped out the content to what pages you want rank for what key words? Implement this, add content and deal with on-page issues as a first pass. After making these changes, and seeing what difference this makes if any in rankings.

I would move to consider changing Urls and URL structure. etc. Here is a good post from seomoz  to learn about Redirections and URL Structure.

I hope this helps you out.

I think that if done in a large scale these could provide a bit of value for a website if you could do it to a scale as GoDaddy recently has. Otherwise it is generally not going to add much value.

What was the greeting? Did the just add the holiday greeting or did the add the greeting and delete other content?

Hi,

In regards to the keyword difficulty report. The colors are green and red. Green represent the page level metrics with the darker the color the higher the authority. The red represent the domain level metrics with deeper color representing higher authority.

In terms of questions 2. I would have to try it out again as I haven't used the Term extractor in a bit. If you send me a note or message with domain I might be able to help you out.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, I will have to try it out as well.

Besides watermarking I would upload the photo's to TInyEye. This will help you at least find out if people are using your images elsewhere plus helps show your ownership rights to the photos.

I think Ryan hit it on the head. One place commonly forgot about but important is the Better Business Bureau. It is a paid listing that does provide tremendous benefit in ranking for Brand and giving clients comfort for your service.

Local listing sites would also be great places to look to make sure to take ownership of your property.

Thanks for the quick reply. Any idea on what the different factors are as my rankings in Google and Bing are strong on many keywords but declining in Yahoo?

Agree are you talking about a specific keyword ? It could make sense that an internal page would be ranking higher than a homepage on a keyword due to on-page content of the page.

I was under the impression that Bing powers yahoo search. However, I am recieving a large difference in ranking on some keywords in the two engines.

Can anyone ask what or why this is happening?

Thanks,

Brandon