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Hey thanks for the response opt - you mentioned the on page seo has been done fairly well are there any obvious things you think that I have missed out on.

I'll start to read through the beginners guide this afternoon thanks for the link.

Jason

Hi everyone

First off for local seraches I rank very well pretty much all on first page and high up too. I am also attempting to rank well for the search term 'independent mortgage advice'

I currently rank third on page 2 for the above search term. I am happy with this progress as the site is only 3 months old.

I am UK based, have a .co.uk domain and although my site server is located in Germany (1and1) I have changed the geographical location in webmaster tools.

My competitive domain analysis gives me the follwing results:

• Domain Authority: 14
• Domain MozRank: 2.44
• Total Links: 110
• Ext. Followed Links: 19
• Linking root Domains: 13
• Followed Linking Root Domains:9
• Linking C-Blocks: 8

Compared to my competitors around me these figures are terrible so why am I doing relatively well and how can I increase some of these figures such as Domain Authority & Domain Mozrank?

The page I'm referring to is http://www.keystonemortgages.co.uk

I am a novice so please don't mind calling me a numpty if it appears obvious to you

Jason

PS is it frowned upon to post links with title keywords here?

Thanks for the responses guys - Robert is the yahoo directory woth the $299 a year? I have registered with Dmoz already

all of the directories that are listed seem to be based in the US for US companies - am I missing something?

By the way my target audience is solely based in the UK,

Thanks,

Jason

Thanks guys for the really in depth responses.

As a novice the feedback is very much appreciated. I've been concentrating on getting what I consider to be high quality links from relevant sites to my business and I think it has had a big impact but am keen to learn other ways I can increase my ranking from on page seo -

The term I'm targeting in the UK is independent mortgage advice and my site is at www.keystonemortgages.co.uk

If anyone has time to have a quick glance and inform me of any glaring mistakes I'd be eternally grateful!

Thanks again

Jay

Hey thanks for the fast repay Ross

Would I place that in the head section of the index page like this -

Thanks again

Jay

I'm looking to see what sites my competitors are linked from via the open site explorer and all I see are web directories and when I visit these sites it seems they want you to part with $20 in exchange for a link.

It obviously works as the sites I am researching are on page one for the keyword I am targeting.

For example

Site 1

• Has 18,222 followed links and 1,089 no followed links
• Has 243 linking root domains and 17 NoFollowed linking root domains

Site 2 & 3 are very similar

My site is only 2 months old and has 85 followed, 10 NoFollowed and 4 linking root domains and 3 NoFollowed.

My domain Authority is 15 my 3 competitors I'm tracking are between 30 and 45.

In spite of this huge gulf I still rank half way up page two!

I'd be really grateful if someone could explain to me what the followed links, NoFollewed links etc all means and also the opinion on getting links from web directories.

Thanks for your time - Jay

On my site www.millsheating.co.uk I have the error message as per the question title.

The conflict is coming from these two pages which are effectively the same page:

www.millsheating.co.uk

www.millsheating.co.uk/index

I have added a htaccess file to the root folder as I thought (hoped) it would fix the problem but I doesn't appear to have done so.

this is the content of the htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^millsheating.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.millsheating.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/  
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.millsheating.co.uk/ [R=301,L]

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Thanks Sha - It looks like its been updated whilst I was sleeping

Same /\

I only have about 7 or 8 links to my site (new site) but OSE says there is only 1

It says last updated 19/08 and is updated every Friday but nothing has changed.

Cheers Anthony.

I know I have back links to my site from about 5 or 6 websites and most of them even show in my Google webmaster account but according to OSE I only have 1 inbound link. Is it normal for the OSE stats to be wrong?

I really want to use it but am worried the info isn't going to be accurate.

yes it really does help thanks and I will definately try your suggestion regarding the list title.

btw shared your page on twitter

Thanks for the feedback Erica I'm very conscious of creating content that does actually add value hence not littering my site with sales spiel and false promises.

However having a site with rich content is no use to me if no one ever comes to the party so I'm trying to balance seo with good content. I'll take another look at the home page to see if I can tone down the keywords a little - I've noticed the chat thing intruding on the content as well. I think it will have to go.

Ok Is this overkill?

http://www.keystonemortgages.co.uk

Thanks for the reply - I read it on the seo cheat sheet on this site that using these tags on your keywords help your rankings. I agree though that it could look spammy if over done.

I've read that these 2 tags both carry equal weight for seo purposes but in my opinion it looks a little spammy when you see keywords in bold type face scattered over your site. So will they still carry the same weight for seo if I applied a class to them that turned them back to normal?

Thanks Daniel!!!!

Looks like I'll be spending some time in the ol Q&A section

This is what I have added does it look OK?

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^keystonemortgages.co.uk

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.keystonemortgages.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks Alex I'll sit back and wait to see! fingers crossed it has a positive effect

Hi quick update:

Just this mean I won't need a canonical tag in my header? Do they do similar things?

I've created the htaccess file and dropped it into my root folder at 1and1 so I guess now I sit back for a re crawl to see if it works?

One more thing. Is this likely to effect rankings?

Hey thanks Daniel cheers for the welcome

That sounds simple but I ain't got a clue how to do this so I'll start searching and let you know my results

Thanks for the lead,

Jason

First of all Hi - My name is Jason and I've just joined - How you all doing?

My 1st question then:

When I view where these errors are occurring it says www mydomain co uk and www mydomain co uk/index.html

Isn't this the same page? I have looked into my root folder and only index.html exists.