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It is advisable to link out to high quality related sites where possible.

Also link out to websites within the content as said about it can be more effective than linking out via a blogroll.

Hope this helps.

No problem, my advice further to this is also to try and get your site included into Google news as this is going to be one of your best traffic sources for local news.

To be honest I would put a fixed description on the page even if it changes 5 times a day.

You can have a description which is targeted to the news page and also a title which is targeted to the news page, rather than a random news story from that day.

In my eyes having a fixed description is a better strategy.

Another thing you can look at doing is if your site is added via Google news you can obtain Google news site links for the latest news, this is more of an advanced strategy, more information here:

http://jamesnorquay.com/google-news-additional-site-links-feed/

(only a limited number of sites have this)

My advice is just to use the current code from your analytics account, if you add a new analytics tracking code you will not have the legacy data.

Tips here how to get the code from your current account - http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55603

Make sure that you use the current code across all pages after the update too.

I have seen a problem recently where a client had one analytic code on one section of the site and one analytic code on another section from two various accounts, so a lot of the data was not been tracked.

No problem happy to help, but do you have Google webmaster tools, check out the GEO targeting on that too. If you use a .br domain it should automatically select it to Brazil.

But yes try and target local content and local links, if you build all your link profile in .co.uk you can run into some problems.

Good luck with the site

I think the key with having a quick running site is more a usability one, if the site runs slow especially e-commerce users will bounce to other websites and competitors.

Site speed has been noted as a small factor to ranking yet their are 100s of ranking factors.

Godaddy servers are not the best at all from my experience, I have tested a few servers their a while ago, depends on what type of server you are after too - dedicated server, shared host ect.

Also up time of the server is another important factor, geo location of the sever i.e is it close to your main user base is also important with e-commerce.

A good post on how to get site links for your website can be found over here: [http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/sitelinks.shtml

T](http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/sitelinks.shtml)he competitor may be using some of the above factors.

Usually from my experience it is hard to rank for non brands generic terms, even geo centric terms unless your site has the exact match domain and is a real power house in the niche/authority.

A few important things:

1. Make sure you have the TLD for that country.

2. Make sure you have local content in that laungage for the country.

3. Make sure in webmaster tools you target that country.

4. Make you have links from that country, i.e geo specific.

From my experience hosting will not be a huge rank factor for GEO targeting, I have many websites hosting in the US yet they rank well in GEO areas, yet if it is an ecommerce site I would advise for local hosting.

A good post on making Facebook comments on your site indexable is here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/make-facebook-comments-box-indexable-by-search-engines

But yeah as far as making comments into a dedicated URL I don't think you can do it.

I hope this helps,

Regards,

James Norquay

If you are referring to the title of the website it could be better to use lines "|" instead of commas, for example:

Heating and Air Conditioning | Jones Plumbing

Also it is advisable to keep the brand term at the end of the title and also the keep the title under 65 character including spaces.

I own a few generic .me domains, they do not have the same level of authority that a .com domain holds but it also depends what type of business you are running. If it is a social site a .me domain may work for example.. look at formspring.me a huge social site or about.me...

Some times Google does a shift in rank, a poor site can come up in the ranks and then instantly go back down. If the same site is still their in a week re investigate.

Hi Mate,

You can do it via image sites too, a great one is FlickR to tag the images and then have it rank for image terms,

Pinterest also works well in this space, another thing if you have time and access to blogs you can have 10 authority blogs all post the image of the brand and have it rank for 10 different blogs.

You can also do it on PR news websites same way.

Quora may work but the other methods will be better.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I think you answer your own question, some times people fall short and only limit forum traffic to forum keywords.

You need to be smart and have sections on your forum like:

• News section

• Blog section.

So rather than just targeting the forum traffic you can target multiple sections in your forum article section, have guest posts from other Bears fans and do soo many more things in this area.

Also make sure you use exact match search for your keyword research.

Kind Regards.

James.

You could implement the canonical tag onto the HTTP version of the website.

Another problem when having a quick look at this website is that all your title tags are the same with the brand term at the front, this is not advisable at all you want to put the brand term at the end of the title and your generic terms first.

I would look at getting an SEO audit done to fix the issues with the website.

Hi,

I have seen numerous similar problems like this with the CMS, ideally you need to implement the canonical tag onto the home page and then you should 301 all the other URLS which have links to the main url been: http://www.crosscountryallied.com

This includes the non www version of the website.

Yeah their is a good chance they will, ideally you need to make different content which is local market.

I.e use different content on your US and GB website, many people make the mistake where they copy the whole site and then wonder why the US site out ranks the GB site.

The best case scenario is where you have local content writers making content for each market.

Alexa is not the best way to track a website, it only looks at people who use the alexa tool bar, it is evident that many indian webmasters are using it.

I would look at OSE data for the domain, PR, how many pages and most importantly check out other articles on the site too see the pages it is going on...

Thanks for sharing this post Unlucky it never made it to the main blog..

Kind Regards.

James Norquay

Not possible I am pretty sure, you can only split up data from - Mobile sources and desktop devices currently.

Google needs to develop some type of analytic offering showing an overall view for places accounts, it is very limited what you can do if you manage an account with say 800 locations in places.

Well to be honest aged domains can show more trust with search engines, but you really need to thing more about the overall quality of a site and the links which are coming in and also the social elements to the site.

Look at a site like Mashable - 2005 age (huge links, social, content ect)

Look at older sites made 1997 from example, less links, less social, less content - Mashable will out rank them.

I think with Age of sites it really works on a case by case example and many other factors also come into play,

Sure if you have a very new site i.e 3 months old v.s a 10 year old domain I will pick the 10 year old domain.

Another important factor is (Indexed age of the domain vs non indexed age of a domain) indexed domains are far better than domains which have never been indexed just registered on a specific date.

I hope this helps.

I agree the ofifcial Google course content is good for Brginners yet if you want to take it up a notch another good example is Market Motive PPC training example here:

http://www.marketmotive.com/internet-marketing-training-and-certification-signup?top=home&topic=PPC

You do not want to build a link profile with 100% do-follow links you can also include some no-follow to make the profile look natural.

Also Delicious has a great amount of traffic.

In the end of the day the best thing you can do is make unique articles on your blog, if you want to showcase content only of another site what you can do is take an image of the content then write a paragraph below the content about the image which you have from the other site (an idea)

But the method I usually use is to make unique content on most of my blogs, and not copy it accross sites.

Ideally you dont want to have your privacy policy page ranking for terms.

But if you are having indexing problems it could be due to the fact of some link building been done not in line with Google's guidelines?

But yeah if you use the same anchor too much it can be classes as spam you need to split anchor texts up and also bring brand terms into the mix

Hi,

Using Autoblogs or low quality blogs to spam links is not the best quality link building tactic. The links are also all coming off a sub domain not a main site too.

This is not really going to do a whole lot for the client.

The specific website you have used also is not currently working.

Don't worry too much about Yahoo and Dmoz,

Forum on building links from the following sources:

• Looking at Open Site Explore to see what competitors are doing.

• Social bookmarking - Digg/ Reddit ect

• Manual Directory submissions with link.

• Guest posts on other blogs in your niche with links.

• PR Releases with links.

• Forum posting in related sites with a quality user.

These are some top level ideas.

Most things you have correct,

For the main header you want to link to terms which are keyword rich and site wide too, "celebrity gossip" is a good one.

Linking to other page is good but make sure you link within the content where possible too.

I would do some keyword research to find out keywords for the home page menu.

You can also link via the footer on the website so pick the most important pages/ keywords for the footer but do not go over board.

Further more when you finish working on internal linking I would also focus on external linking factors as they are important.

Hi Mate,

Nice work, I was actually thinking about doing something like this some one was talking about long term insights for search data.

Thank you for putting this togehter but, if you have time you should make a post in the YouMoz blog with this information as it would be better suited to the whole SEO community.

Kind Regards,

James.

To be honest it would be better to have unique content on the whole page, but if that is not possible just place the unique content near the top of the page so it is crawled first then have the other content after that.

To be honest the main blog would out rank the blogger content and the content on blogger would never be indexed to the same quality due to the fact that Google saw the content on the main site first.

If you make a blog make sure you have unique content on both sites, it is well worth spending the money or time to make unique content believe me.

Kind Regards,

James.

With DMOZ it is one of those sites where you submit your listing and simply check back in 6 months. But yes I probably have had about 20 sites accepted into different sections, I have also purchased a few sites already with listings in DMOZ.

As it is a free directory you can not really expect speedy acceptance as Ryan said with some niches things do live far quicker.

But to be honest DMOZ does not have the authority and weight it once did say 7 years ago.

You have two versions of your website www and non www.

What you need to do is pick your most linked to version, and then use that as the main URL.

Personally a lot of websites are dropping the www these days.

Then do a domain level 301 redirect from the www to the non www for example.

You can do it in .htaccess here is some further information:

http://www.scriptalicious.com/blog/2009/04/redirecting-www-to-non-www-using-htaccess/

To be honest it will work better if you buy the exact match domain and then build a small site on it and have it rank for the keyword.

Just buying an exact match domain will not mean you will get it ranked if it is a 301 re direct, the only traffic it will yield will be direct type in traffic for the domain and this is only small.

If you want to build links yourself you may need say 5 hours a week to do the work.

If you want to outsource link building ask the businesses to provide real examples from your target market, you need to be wary of link builders who are not from your local market, for example in Australia you want to build .com.au I have seen so many link building companies build links in .co.uk for example.

Examples of where you can build easy links:

• High Quality directories.

• Social Bookmarking websites.

• Related websites in your niche.

• Make articles for article directories.

• Contact partners and suppliers and ask if you can do guest posts on blogs.

Stagger the posts, if you put every thing on at once you are not going to create buzz.

Another thing you can do to get re turn visitors is to have say:

Part 1 of a post to Part 5 then you get re turn visitors and people coming back to your blog for all the parts of the posts.

Make the new page for 2012 and then link it from the 2011 page.

Believe me I am all for adding year values on websites, you would be surprised how many people search with the year value it is a crucial element.

I would start the social buzz, articles, blogging, link building for the page as valentines day is soon.

Google has been crawling websites for a very long time, SEO moz has been crawling sites for only a few years.

The thing is Google also has access to all websites online, where as SEO moz's index whilst been great it is not complete.

My advice is if you are reporting link data to a client is to show SEO moz link data as a fresh index and Google Web master tools as a more complete index.

Thing is some times Google has blocks on specific sites, I have noticed this with sports betting and gaming sites in the past. Sites may be accepted a few years ago.

Also from my experience you need very high quality content and you need to be producing content at a fast rate.

A good post from the SEOmoz blog can be found here, about getting into Google news:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-seomoz-gained-1000s-of-visits-from-google-news

You could utilise the canonical tags on these pages and point them to rich content related pages, or if you do not want to you could just no index the files in robots.txt.

Hi you can do it easily,

You just need to do the file in two different languages, and split the uploads in different uploads..

Some tips from Google include the following:

• Each file should contain all of your listings in that language.
• For all files except your initial file, you should select 'This file adds to my current locations.'
• Make sure when you upload that you change the language selector in the upper-right hand corner of your Places account.
• Each listing (even if same business in another language) should have a unique storecode; that is, the same location should have different storecodes for each country's listing.

http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=180605

My advice is to not target directory links too much, becuase they yield little benefit only if it is highly relevant.

Target links from:

• Guest posts on related sites

• Articles writing on online PR websites

• Related site comment marketing, sharing advice.

• Social media websites promtions ect.

Ideally only target the home page to 10%, focus more on the category level pages.

A few good tools to look at link analysis on this post:

http://www.smartinsights.com/search-engine-optimisation-seo/link-building/best-link-analysis-tools-for-seo-and-online-pr/

In the paid version of Majestic you can see top pages.

The best way would be to implement canonical tags on these pages,

Example from Google:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Look for some one with a proven track history of success.

The problem with some offerings of link building are that they will offer a very low quality link building, usually an indication of a low cost provider.

Banner ads will only help if they direct link to your site.

Usually banner links add all CID tracking codes and drive through re directs so it will not usually help SEO.

You can look at other things like contacting these sites and asking if you can do "guest posting" of content for free on their site to build links?

Block the pages/folders you do not wish to be indexed with robots.txt file:

www.website.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /folder1/
Disallow: /folder2/

OR you can add canonical tags to the other pages which are creating duplicate content.

Usually .no will be favoured by local search engines.

Some things you can do:

• build more links from .no websites.

• Make sure you are geo targeting the site with norway in webmaster tools, that is if you only want to target that market.

• Make sure your content is targeting the local language, and not English too.

Yeah my advice is to target mostly .com.au sites where possible.

You are only going to run into problems if you build your whole link profile on .co.uk for a .com.au website, I have seen this happen in the past.

You can still add articles to .com PR websites, it will still assist with overall SEO.

Hi Stephan

If you scan mentions of the brand using Google, you see far more montions than 220.

If these numbers are coming from OSE it can be the case that the numbers are not that high in some cases. I would also use a histroic view on Majestic too.