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PR5  for home page and PR3 for http://www.yourcityoffice.com/office-space.php using PageRank Status Seo Chrome tool bar.

I use the MOZ bar for PA DA

Get some local citations such as getting your google + local page verified, and maybe start listing in some local business directories. You can try using http://www.whitespark.ca/ for this if you don't know where to start (there is a Moz perk for this as well)

Hope this gets you started.

Ciao

Oh sh*t...

Thanks for your response Robert. Unfortunately the old site was hosted and managed by Segafredo Italy. We never had access to it. I think i will pull out my best Italian and call them. Starting from scratch would not be ideal...

I'll let you know how we get on.

Thanks so much,

Ciao. Manny.

Hi Gary, i had a look at your site seems fine to me.

When i checked http://www.yourcityoffice.com/serviced-office-united-kingdom.php i get a PA27 and DA46 
I get 55 and 46 on your home page.

Maybe try reinstalling the tool bar? I find the one in Firefox works best, Chrome is slow to load at time.

Ciao,

Manny.

Hi Carlo, PDF's get indexed as well. Unless you outline the text in your design that is. Sites like Slide Share can be useful for submitting them if you intend for people discover to share your content. Make sure to optimise your PDF with urls to gain some traffic to your site.

I don't know if urls in PDF's count as a backlink? Maybe someone else can shed some light on that.

Ciao,

Immanuel.

Hi Robert, the website was hosted there. We only had/have access to the domain itself of which the name servers have been changed to connect the new site.

I think getting access to the old site on the Italian host is going to be the hardest part (they don't like us accessing it for some reason)

Is there a way i can find every url that needs to be redirected so i can send this link to them in order to get the redirections we need?

Even though search engines don't see the the "for" (correct me if I'm wrong) keep in mind you're ultimate target is humans. So being grammatically correct might affect how they perceive you.

Ciao,

Immanuel.

One of our competitors (who are ranking top spot ) have this trend of building backlinks from websites build for the sole purpose of seo. (see example) When you see the website it's just a submission of articles from different companies trying to rank for a certain keyword most of the time poorly written.

Our competitor seems to be doing this a lot...
What do you guys think, is it just a matter of time before Google cracks down on them or is this technique actually working for them? (even though it's rather grey hat) Or... could it be someone trying to build "poor" backlinks to them in an attempt to push them of the Google throne