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Some of the sites ranking on the first page are exact match or close to exact match domains which you can't ignore.

I also noticed that your site has a good amount of links but a lot are from the same domains while some of your competitors have a much more varied backlink profile. I'd open up open site explorer and compare your site to the competition, pay special attention to the links/linking root domains. I'd try to build a more diverse backlink profile.

You have a lot of likes, I'd add a google plus button as well, it can't hurt.

Good luck!

Yeah, I remembered reading something on their blog.

"More domain diversity. [launch codename "Horde", project codename "Domain Crowding"] Sometimes search returns too many results from the same domain. This change helps surface content from a more diverse set of domains."

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlights-53-changes.html

I would stick to one blog for most purposes. If everything is contained on one blog you'll build your domain authority. It will also attract people who may be interested in your other products.  As William also said, the fresh content will help a lot as-well. I would also always try to put some guest posts out there to build some links.

Good luck!

Not knowing to much about the client I would probably just scrap it and start over for a few reasons.

1. If I'm understanding correctly the website is like dentist32432.com which feels a little spammy for me if I saw it in the SERP.  I think that something with his name or another more unique identifier may be more helpful.  In my SERP page I get a few results for urls like www.'townnamesmiles'.com and stuff like that. Try to get a domain that is creative and brand building.

2. The links probably aren't quality and not giving much advantage plus, who knows when google will roll out the link disavower and how it will work.  It may just hurt more in the long run. If he has any links from local organizations it probably won't be to hard to get them change them.

3.  I think a lot of people will just type 'dentist' in which case you get the big block of local results. I would try to optimize for that by trying to get some reviews, having a little social media thing going, etc...

This is all assuming the the current domain isn't ranking well and not driving business. However if it is and it's a competitive market I would take my chances with it.

Hope that helps.

I use Chrome and it's usually on the bottom download bar when it's done. If it isn't there it is in the downloads folder in the finder, however that is on a Mac.

Regardless, usually there is some kind of indicator on where the file will be when you click download, either a box will pop up or it will be in the download folder. I would try searching your local system with something like 'Analysis' or 'On Page'. It should pop up somewhere sometimes browsers save to a temp file which will make it harder to find.

I've see this as well. It seems like google wants more diversity.

I'm not sure if the different domain strategy would work best for you. Perhaps having one .com and having subdomains on it such as site.com/en for english and site.com/it for italian would be a better way for you to preserve the link juice and authority the TLD has.

I don't have much international experiance so hopefully someone else more knowledgeable will help you with you approach. In the meantime, check this out.

http://tinyurl.com/7fzro33

I definitely recommend using google +1 on your website.  I think it will just be more and more important as your business grows especially for local search. I think as more and more people use it we will see a bigger impact in the organic rankings for those who have a lot of +'s.

Certain markets may be more apt to certain social sites. I think google plus has a larger user base in the computer/techie community verses your average person although they are pushing it on a lot of their gmail users.

I'd say put it all out there and see what works best.

You're welcome.

I also forgot to mention that your site has a very clean layout with a clear call to action. While you may have a hard time being #1 for some of those terms you can never forget the importance of usability and having your customers feel comfortable entering their personal information.  Compared to your competition I would feel much better using your site than theirs.

Hi there,

Your best bet is to set the URL structure like this www.site.com/page-name rather than pagename.site.com. The first method is SEO best practice, the second way makes it seem like each subdomain is its own site.

Good luck.

Generally when I link build I try to make it as natural a link profile as possible. I have never found that images have been a great source of links for most websites except real estate.

I try to vary my anchor text so its not all 'widget 1', you need to have some variety including just regular www.widget.com links and stuff like 'this site'.

About the anchor text being what you want to rank for, the answer is yes. However I usually try to only rank for one main word a page and whatever else happens is a bonus. I find it looks a little spammy if I try to do more.

Check this out.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/anchor-text-distribution-avoiding-over-optimization

I think that a site can look good with no images if it's a little blog or a personal website however when it is something like HVAC or an industrial service type company images should be used to convey the message of what they do. Otherwise, a user may be confused about what the websites is about or it would make the site look like it was built on a hosts 'site builder'.

Search engines generally treat subdomains more like a separate site then if it was in a subfolder. The downside to the subdomain is that your link juice from the main domain may not transfer to the subdomain and vice-versa. Here's a good article from Rand, a little old but still a lot of info.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites

No followed links are links that don't carry any 'link juice'. A lot of websites like twitter and facebook as well as comments on websites have no follow links because they don't want people spamming them to get easy links.

Root domains are like www.seomoz.org or www.cnn.com. So if you have 300 links and 30 linking root domains that means that 30 different sites are linking to you.

This is From The SEO Moz SEO Guide. (It's under chapter 4)

" Rel="nofollow" can be used with the following syntax:

Lousy Punks!

Links can have lots of attributes applied to them, but the engines ignore nearly all of these, with the important exception of the rel="nofollow" tag. In the example above, by adding the rel=nofollow attribute to the link tag, we've told the search engines that we, the site owners, do not want this link to be interpreted as the normal, "editorial vote."

Nofollow, taken literally, instructs search engines to not follow a link (although some do.) The nofollow tag came about as a method to help stop automated blog comment, guest book, and link injection spam (read more about the launch here), but has morphed over time into a way of telling the engines to discount any link value that would ordinarily be passed. Links tagged with nofollow are interpreted slightly differently by each of the engines, but it is clear they do not passas much weight as normal "followed" links

Are nofollow Links Bad?

Although they don't pass as much value as their followed cousins, nofollowed links are a natural part of a diverse link profile. A website with lots of inbound links will accumulate many nofollowed links, and this isn't a bad thing. In fact, SEOmoz's Ranking Factors showed that high ranking sites tended to have a higher percentage of inbound nofollowed links than lower ranking sites."

As far as how to fix it, when you have no followed links that generally because that is the way the website has the structure setup and there isn't anything that you can do about it. If you have a lot of links and not many linking root domains, you just have to try to diversify your links through link building.