You may be looking at different data centres, or it could be on your pc/laptop you could have web history enabled, it wont be one set of ranking per device

Well if your site is worthy of a link you will get the links, if its just a run of the mill site then your correct no one will link to you unless you have something of worth for them, and that could be excellent content

High PR wont do anything for you at this stage so why the urgency ?

Have you thought about sponsoring a site, taking advertising out on some selected sites, even guest blog if your content is up for it.

Hi craig

There is loads you can do, first off get some text on the home page, image only pages do not tend to rank very well

Change titles, you do not need to have your domain name in the title if you are looking to be found lets say the example you gave then a tiltle like

<title><span>Edinburgh Kitchen Fitters, Designers Of </span>Q</span><span><span>uality Kitchens Scotland</span></span><span></title> (each page must be different to rank for its contents)

you need to add a description

As your using word press download the SEO all in Plugin this will help add these Meta Titles, descriptions and help with some other On page SEO elements for you

Just by doing the above there is no reason you wont make page 1 in your local area the competition is fairly low.

Also use the Blog and get some content written regularly, and publish that and article here and there on your own site could do well, or utilise the blog as a diary of current installations, i know a bathroom company that does that and they got all their links from people following and publishing his before and after images and that was enough for them to dominate their local area and booking work out for 6-8 weeks in advance

Good luck the site looks nice but needs content

I quite like the new look,

its the first time i viewed the site and the colours look great

you have the email down the right hand side i cannot read it , you need to change the colours, it also looks like you have Google analytics installed twice

I also see many links with the same anchor pointing to different pages, just search hypertension why send the same keyword to different pages, could explain some ranking drops as Google wont know what page to favour for those links, and there are better ways to distribute the sites internal linking

Do you really need 3 forms on one page for a newsletter sign up ?

Other than that great job

And Good luck for the future

Its a myth, as what would stop anyone posting spam comments on a blog to help it rank, just search the web 1000's of sites with 1000's of comments

However im going back to the original answer i gave , if you have a very well written content that people are visiting and commenting on then yes Google and the other search engines will follow this and see all the activity which would be a good thing which could increase your authority and then hopefully your rankings, then you hope someone shares your post (which will attract a few links)

Do it right and then the rewards will follow, any tricks are short lived and will catch up with you in time

I dont think there is a right or wrong answer, except don't do the spam

Some of the best links i ever had i got from a 1 man band and cost me $400 for around 100 links, there were some great gems in there, I have also paid a well established company 10X that fee and got not much more than spam.

• Personally I would go with a bit of a mixture, try some guest blogging, really don't have to be actual blogs but you could approach company's for a link in return for some great content
• You could hire a virtual assistant for $400 per month but do vet anything they will do for you before they do it
• You could submit some great articles or content to your own site and hope they will get linked to

Again all depends on your niche and is such a hard question to ask, if your in the insurance market then 4-5k per month if your a local business then no more than 1k even less

Guys

I really have an issue that i know have but cannot see if that makes sense.

Basically 3 months ago i did a site wide 301 from economyleasinguk.co.uk to www.economy-car-leasing.co.uk

Every thing looks good get all the correct header responses , all canonicals work perfectly , Google webmaster tools is updated fetch as google bot shows the old site is 301

I tried the seomoz crawl test today on the old domain and got this message

Oh no! Looks like the page you were trying to access is temporarily down

which at first thought ok because the site was not there it wont do it on an old 301 domain, however i tried it on a domain i know has just been 301'd and i got this message

The URL http://www.site1.com/ redirects to http://site2.com/. Do you want to crawl http://site2.com/ instead?
Would you like to:
Continue with www.site1.com
Continue with site2.com

I really do not know what to do, its either the redirect script is missing something however its doing what it should or the server is a problem but again its doing what it should so why would SEOMOZ not be able to crawl the old URL like it example site above.

Now the strange thing is Open Site Explorer does see the 301 and asks if i want to check the new URL instead

Ps the redirect is done using PHP redirect which i am asking him to change to a htaccess as its now on a apache server and was wondering if this could be an issue, all pages go to correct pages as requested

Thanks in Advance

Agree with Zakaria, hang in there, My niche was exactly the same, i tried to compete doing as the bad guys were and got penalised. thankfully im back on track, not where i was but traffic is steady.

If its any consolation I see the the spammy sites come and go, however the white hat sites are still there or about's .

Keep things real and don't cut corners you will get your rewards.

One thing i have noticed as that some sites can get away with a mixed bag of links, but my advice is don't gamble, do it right and reap the rewards

Good Luck