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seo for google places is done by building citations and organic local seo is done by building your brand in your local community, and earning links to your website. google ranks google places and the local organic section on local links and citations. You should be able to rank for both
As suggested in the above comment you can get to your htaccess file in yoast or you can also get to it manually on your server.
IMO The best way to earn links is by building quality content on your own site and get industry related people to link to it. I would look for the best social media outlets for your niche. You can also look for industry related blogs, interact and win.
If you no follow the link you should be fine. Googles looks at too many internal follow links on a page as an overoptimization (manipulation) attempt.
If you download the app and follow the instructions in that article you should be just fine, don't be intimated and if you have any more questions while you are setting up your Yoast account ask them here and someone will help you out 
There are several tools available to in wordpress. I use Yoast, it is a great tool. Here is a good aticle that will help you set up the tool and understand how wordpress works: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success
Sorry about that I miss read the question completely 
perhaps you can do some A/B testing on the Food Container for Dogs page**.**
The other pages that are converting well, do they look similar? do the offer anything different?
I would test the page to see if the traffic that is coming in is finding what they are looking for.
If you do take down a page you can do a 301 redirect and transfer link juice.
Hi Haviv,
If you want to find the keyword volume for a term you can use Google Adwords Keyword tool to find the volume of searches for your keyword phrases. Be sure to check the box on the left to exact.
Hope this helps.
There is no timeline, it takes time for your site to become trustworthy. Depending on the competition level and how you develop your site and market your brand will determine these results.
Hope this helps.
I would use google's keyword tool to find searches that have volume. Be sure to check the exact box on the left.
Once you have the terms use seomoz on page report card tool to target 1-2 keywords per page.
In order to rank for all of your keywords you need to earn branded links to your site. There are tons of articles in the seomoz blog which will help you achieve results.
Use Hyphens, people are already accustomed to using them for URLs.
I'm a bit skeptical of using bit.ly. When someone does a 301 redirect some of the link juice gets lost, not ,much but some. Using a shortner will 301 the user. As Alan stated bit.ly is great for tracking and keeping your tweets within character limit.
Please don't quote me on this but Google has their own shortner goo.gl, perhaps Google's shortner will pass all the juice...
According to most tools it is best to place your keywords closer to the beginning of your title. I always use keyword | Brand. It will display nicely on the SERP, and users like that.
Hi Cary,
You must clean up your anchor text, looks like you have tons of links anchoring in as "
| <a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">limo buses san diego"</a> | 176 | ** 320** |
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.aallinlimos.com
A recommended link ratio is 7:3. 7 being Branded 3 being diverse, exact, and long tail.
It would probably be best to contact all these sites and ask them to change the anchor to your brand name. That is if the site is not spaming/overoptimizing and has a clean link profile. Make sure to keep track of your work.
If the above does not help, or you cannot get these anchors/links removed.
After a few weeks (IMO 12 weeks) send Google everything you have done in a reconsideration request.
During this time you can still build good branded links.
Hope this helps.
Hi Chanel,
Yes, many tips : )
If you are working on getting local listings on Google places you will need to build citations.
A citation is your Name Address and phone number. Every citation must match the info you placed on your Google local page.
I would recommend starting off by listing your site in good directories that have relevant categories and then earning citations from local web sites(http://searchengineland.com/where-to-get-citations-for-local-seo-105667). This will require off line work such as sponsoring something locally and getting a citation on the site.
here is a good webinar on the topic http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/you-probably-think-this-citation-source-is-about-you-dont-you
Hope this helps.
HI mGordon,
I would use the Company name which happens to be exact. During a recent update many sites were affected by what Google called a Exact Match Domain Devaluation, however I recall reading something from Dr.Pete (seomoz staff guru) that this was not the case, and more sites that had Part Match Domains were hit by the algo change. I know of a site that fell with a domain that had Company[Exact Keyword].
As long as your company name and your keyword are exact I don't think Google will not punish your site. Also if you focus primarily on earning relevant links with your contents you will indicate to Google that your site has trustworthy documents in its index.
Hi Shay, If the content on both pages are vary similar it might get picked up as duplicate content. You can add a conical tag to one of the pages letting the spiders know that these pages are all similar. The other option is to no index the page. Good luck.
Hi Damien,
It might be you robot.txt file
If so this will help:http://www.seomoz.org/q/robots-txt-is-blocking-wordpress-pages-from-googlebot
Is the video on your site or on an external like youtube?
If the video is on youtube then SEOmoz will not relate it to your URL.
Also, the videos might be pulling from Google's Video SERP(http://www.google.com/videohp?hl=en), if this is the case, I don't think SEOmoz is crawling these pages and it will not show up.
Oh yes he is correct, good call Neil, I had no idea that the robot.txt would be publicly accessible. I actually never seen a site have their robot txt visible.. I guess it's the "open source"...
Hi Keri, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/anchor-text-distribution-avoiding-over-optimization the author Geoff Kenyon says that he would recommend a 7:3 ratio branded vs. exact..
Do you think this Ratio is good?
<imo>the algorithms are not going to "always" rank a site with a 7:3 ratio over a site with a 6:4 ratio they are not "only" looking at the quality of links and the anchor ratios to rank a site, they are also looking at social media indicators. </imo>
I did read an article on seomoz about Wikipedia pages which outrank many sites and have mostly exact links.. However, Wikipedia's root domain has mucho trust and authority so this would not be a good enough indicator
Using http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization, you can check individual pages, in the keyword field I put the helper and in the URL I put http://www.dmoz.org/public/profile?editor=thehelper... So it seems like it does get indexed : )
To keep a link profile clean the recommended natural looking anchor text are as follows:
50-75% Branded inbound links and URL links.
25-50% Exact and diverse inbound links.
Hi Pedro,
I used http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ and it worked great.
If you are using WordPress you might want to look into setting up yoast and follow these guidelines: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success
IMO this question is very difficult to answer. There are many different tools that may help one niche and not another. Also, there are many opinions on each tool.
Here is a great link for tools/articles that are rated by real people: http://inbound.org/tools
The campaign keyword tool is set to auto run on a specific date. Unfortunately you cannot update this data manually. I would advise just using a browser to check. I would also advise clearing your catch, saved searches and logging off any google account.
Hi,
You can use opensiteexplorer.com, Majestic, your Google webmaster tools and Bing webmaster tools to collect all this data. Unfortunately there is no software that gives you every single link picked up... If you use all the mentioned methods above you should have most of the data.
Hope this helps.
You can post on forums but most forum links are no follow. Anyways just make sure the forums are relevant and do not to link exact text anchors. Just put you URL or Brand name.
HI loevgaard,
Solar panels are green and creating content should not be too challenging. The challenge is finding the right social media outlets or industry leading editors to help get your content visibility. IMO if your content will educate, entertain, or guide a user it is not enough.
I would use followerwonk to find real people that are in this niche, talking about it and getting social interaction. Network with them, earn their trust by reading and innovating. Once you network with the industry gurus you will be able to create the content they will want to share, or better yet link to off of your blog 
Hope this helps.
If the page is indexed I would remove it. This should help: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59819
Hi Steven
Razorservers site is very good as far as on site optimization. They have a blog with fresh content and plenty of news. (Fresh content)
Also,
This site is ranking #1 because of articles like:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/15-sites-amazing-html5/
If you look at the article it has a great amount of shares. The link to rozorservers.com is in the author bio and it's a branded link.
Sites don't rank only on page rank, search engines are looking at social media interactions and authors that are building their brand.
Hope this helps.
Hi Timi,
If you did a 301 redirect from rxmagaizne.mx to rxmagazine.co. then it can take a while for Google and SEOmoz to index the links. If you did not do a 301 redirect the links will not transfer. You can allways add the 301 now to transfer the links from rxmagaizne.mx to rxmagazine.co. properly.
Hope this helps.
I believe Google + is a great social media outlet to learn marketing.. Here a link to David Amerlands G+ Profile https://plus.google.com/u/0/115620878851836664537/about he is an author for marketing, social media, and seo books.
For authorship and markup you might want to check out (circle) AJ Kohns Google + profile.
Following the latest SEO news from authoritative people will help stay up to date and it will help you create great ideas.
Hope this helps.
Hi Cecil,
DMOZ as Kane mentions is trustworthy and valuble. Many directories scrape it, earning more directory links. I've read a great article on getting accepted into DMOZ here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/want-to-get-listed-in-dmoz-become-an-editor
Hope this helps.
HI Chris,
This is a good question, the first thing I would do is check how competitive these terms are. If the terms are really competitive it would be better to build individual pages with unique content on each. It is best to target one-two words max per page. (esp. if the terms are competitive)
As far as anchor text (link building), I would read up on a clean link profile (Natural linking).
Hope this helps.
Local as in city or state, earn links from the areas you want to rank in.
If they are attached to specific strings ( String: After the URL it looks like this: /?alwer.ei.we ) you can block the string(s) in your robot.txt file.
Lets say there are 100 duplicates that start with"/?osifos.sdjvnksdj" block out the "?osifos" in your robot txt.
Link your blog author to a Google + account. Find people in niche related fields to network with. Interact with them. Google + is full of greatness for SEO.
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Hi Gregory,
If the goal is to focus on one brand I would 301 the site. However are these sites relevant to each other? Aare the existing links from the transferred site going to help the users?
If these are "yes" then I would do a 301.
Keep in mind having two relevant sites is spreading you ink equity in 2. This is also spreading your credibility/authority on the web in 2.
Also, if one site has a bad link profile I would clean it up before transferring it.
Hope this helps.
Hi Joel,
Have you considered earning local links?
If you're trying to rank for something in Google places all you need is a ton of relevant citations, from good directories.
If you're trying to rank for local organic results you need local organic links. You can look up local sites (that have local IP's and get them to link to you. You can also do a charity in your office and invite other Companies to join. After the event, write a press release about it. Then ask these companies if they want to leave a quote about the event (this works great). Lastly syndicate the PR to your site and ask them to share it with their audiences, or link to it from their site.
This is just one example of gaining links. Good luck.
Hope this helps.
There is more then one way to verify..
To verify that you own a site, you have a number of options. You can:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35179
Hi John,
Why cant you add Google webmaster tools? if you do you may be able to use the disavow tools for these back linking pages that do not exists anymore. Here's a good read on the disavow tool and when/how to use it: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-disavow-tool-take-a-deep-breath
Hope this helps.
Hi Vikas,
Article submissions can be done but they require some strategy. If you are guest blogging you can use a site like myblogguest.com to find relevant niche related blogs that you can offer your articles to. This site is not free but can work in some niches.
You can post to squidoo.com ezines and other article sites but they don't hold the same value they used to. Read more.
Here is an effective method. Look for niche related blogs that are active and network within the niche. Once you can show a good amount of value by studying and innovating content, you will be able to post and earn real links.
Lastly my favorite method is to network**^** but place the articles on your own site. Gain bookmarks, Social media mentions, and the indexed content on your own domain.
Hope this helps.
Should we use 'disavow' if we dramatically dropped serps after Oct 5th, but did not receive a warning?
Not necessarily, here is a good read on who should use this tool: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-disavow-tool-take-a-deep-breath
HI Ian,
The page www.short-hairstyles.com/~wwwshor exists and is a duplicated page. You can no index the page in you robot.txt file or you can add a canonical tag to www.short-hairstyles.com. Last option is to do a 301 redirect.
If the content that exists on the page is identical then yes, it is duplicate content and may negatively impact your site. You can set up a canonical tag to one page and let the search engines know that the content is pulling from one place.
However, if you are optimizing these pages and building links to them the canonical will not be a good solution. If these pages are targeting keywords you will need to build unique content for each page.
From my understanding the onsite work is only 30% of the pie. To ensure that your onsite is good you can use the SEOmoz on page report card.
If the On page data is good all that's left is who is linking to you, how relevant are they, and how authoratative are they?
The onpage content that you were ranking for may have built natural links. People may have referenced it which helped you get results.
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Hi Punit,
It all depends:
Does this site have a clean link profile?
Is the site providing good content?
Do they give any value?
Will the users of this site find your site helpful?
If yes then do it. If not don't.
Why?
Google wants to rank sites that earn their keep
Google wants to show value
Google wants you to find results efficiently
I hope this helps : )