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why wouldn't you be using internal pages as well only have to build 1 page authority unless you have 100 people that can each work with an individual domain and get it authoritative

I just google search the term I want to rank for than see who comes up than through them into places like ose and see what they are doing & if I can beat them

if you do have over 100 links off the homepage you might want to consider deep linking some of the non important pages.

its not the worst thing to have pr3s on the second lvl but i have had 2nd lvl pages rank at the same lvl as the index

Generally Yes... But starting off on the right foot would be to blog about helpful ideas in your niche or questions about your project that will go farther than just onpage seo

It's too bad you just don't do the seo yourself. There is a very easy way to get traffic and high rankings for cell phone related stuff

Eli

the crawl is done by servers you can shut down your pc i think it emails u when done

The First Page of the Checkout is sometimes the one that most users drop from.  I would not make any changes till you figure out the problem.  Try setting up analytic event on every button in the checkout process and see where people are dropping off.

Also you may want to make your header smaller up top so that people don't need to scroll in the checkout process.

If I am not mistaken it really depends on what users are searching

if they are only searching lawyers names than just find a structure that looks pretty and has the lawyer name in it.

But if there is any traffic data that points that people search the city or phone number along with the lawyer name than it might be wise to have that in the url structure

also ever thought of using subdomains? havent seen that in a lawyer directory yet but some of the major article sites switched to subdomains

170k visitors in a month = $140 with only 1 banner ad on the whole site you might get better results with more banners

I have done it both ways I really have not seen that one way is better then the other.  Just personal experience...

Think about whats best for users if its something they should read put up a news page.  It wont hurt

You really should redirect every page to a page thats similar that way you dont lose any existing rankings

I would 301 the domains to pages that match the keywords on the main domain then just continue 1 domain seo

There are very few directories that are worth much anymore because they have so many external links the links are devalued I think you still might get some benefit from the few super popular directories like yahoo & dmoz.

Stick to paid.. or human verified

I think if you have very thin content and the source code is the bulk of the content lets say 80% source code 20% unique google may not look favorably on that....  Google has algorithms that put cookie cutter sites in a lower position than custom sites so it is important to have your code somewhat unique.

But only have 2 of the sites the same probably is not "the" problem it mainly to penalize people who buy these money making sites for $500 that look the same as 200 other sites except for the content

onpage / offpage

Patch.com is a good start (even commenting on related posts)

Its better to have it inside the same domain www.totaldrivewaysne.co.uk/Patios/  that way any seo work can be applied to the domain authority otherwise you are doing 3x the seo work.

webmaster tools you have to block all other urls till the right ones show

Though I would say the main reason why you have a bad bounce rate is the source of the traffic if they were coming through a targeted keyword from google you would have a better bounce rate. So you have to put something at the top to get a visitors interest.  but if your traffic is anyone like me (don't drink) they just bounce because of the topic.

just update the page I have done it quite a few times in google places also try to update most of the main citations you have on the web

Search Engines do not use meta-keywords for ranking.................

I would never use all the keywords you are targeting in that meta it makes less work for you competition to outrank you

I would not suggest  reciprocating links to start get your google local listings in order and submit to every local placement site. Go for citations more than links at this point try to work on social media.  Don't be in a rush to build links it could hurt you.

Just about every site when you search google that offers backlinks for money you should avoid.......  Try local news sites and sites like Patch

Get some more content on the home page about emv cards than run some campaigns for backlinks like infographics or press releases you shoudl be able to get in the top 3

It will pass link juice.  But a sub-domain acts as its own domain so think of it as another domain.

Try to rewrite them if its content that is attracting people on your site it may attract people from the search engines too....  Should be worth the effort

If you have the man power to post quality content to the blogs it can only help I would not stop your blogger/wordpress blogs just to have it on your own domain

nofollow is not a good idea if you have a good pagerank I wouldn't worry about it.  But remove duplicates first..

go buy them.... jk

Work on good content... And other strategies depend on what type of website if you have a community take advantage of it.

that jk was just kidding don't do that

If you can get on it its worth it.....I think all the admins died and went to hell nobody will update my listing with the correct business name FML