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Yes, we have a full selection of negative keywords but the issue is whether it should be
+wedding +photographer
as it says on their website
or
+wedding+photographer
as the Google rep told my client, who I'm sure by now thinks I'm a confused fool costing him money.
I know this is paid search but since Moz had a section for it, I thought it would be ok to ask. 
According to: http://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2497836?hl=en
Broad match modifier
+tennis +shoes
Ads may show on searches for
tennis shoes
buy tennis shoes
best shoes for tennis
Ads won't show on searches for
running shoes
tennis sneakers
I'm using (for a client) +wedding +photographer. It should show on
wedding photographer
hire a wedding photographer
best wedding photographer in dallas
It should not show on
photographer in Dallas
become a photographer
dallas pictures
But it is. Why would this happen? Isn't that exactly what it says it won't show up on?
Also, Google writes:
Don't leave space between the plus sign (+) prefix and the word you're modifying!
•Correct: +leather +shoes
•Incorrect: + leather + shoes
•Incorrect: +leather+shoes
Yet the client was told by Google the opposite. "I spoke with Google and they confirmed that the space after the plus and before wedding (“+ wedding”) would notrequire “wedding” to show up." How on Earth does this reconcile or make ANY sense?
ETA: This is fairly clear to me:
Be sure there are no spaces between the + and modified words, but do leave spaces between words. The right way to do it: +formal +shoes. The wrong way to do it: +formal+shoes.
Open your Analytics.
Open Audience > Demographics > Language
Do you have any worthwhile languages to target after US and UK? maybe a generic EN, maybe FR or de-de, possibly ES?
If you want to use a hreflang on .eu, I would suggest the generic EN. That's what Google suggests here, as well:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2620865
In my opinion, you want the juice for each article to stay with each article. I wouldn't redirect all your article juice back to the main /blog page. For me, each unique page (and article) gets its own canonical link and one line = one set of information. Article about oranges, article about apples, both canonical links. You should only get juice from same or similar pages, such as
But not
It shouldn't hurt you if it doesn't need it but assuming you have www and non-www, wouldn't that part of the canonical always help anyways? By default, you would have
http://www.yoursite.com/notagneeded
http://yoursite.com/notagneeded
and if you're on most common CMSs,
http://www.yoursite.com/notagneeded/index.php or index.html or index.asp
It would actually be pretty rare to have a page with absolutely no use for rel=canonical but I don't see why it would hurt at all.
You may need to dig but they do exist. For instance, I just ran an OpenSIteExplorer on vip pleasure girls - #2 local result.
They have a link from
I'm not suggesting YOU blog spam but this is also helping them rank:
I don't want to do all the work for you but run an OSE search for erotic city life's domain (D on local). They have a LOT of directory listings, www.yourescortguide.co.uk/, www.cherrygirls.co.uk/london_escort_agencies.html and a bunch of others.
Finally, you may need to do a bit more building. Build some micosites, get some basic links into those, forward along the juice. It's not necessarily white hat but your industry isn't necessarily going to lend itself to pure white hat SEO the way many of us can do it for our clients. I don't usually advocate anything other than white hat SEO but realistically you have unclothed women and theoretically "paying for a woman" to advertise. It may not be a typical scenario.
Regarding paid directories: if you're talking about stuff with 73 PA, 81 DA, it's probably not that site that is hurting you. They rank very highly. Google returns "relevant" results - if you're on a related site, that's one thing. Being on "every" directory that will accept you is another.
This is going to sound like a silly thing to refer you to but I think the problem is (essentially) the same:
How would you do SEO for Anonymous?
Their issue - real news sites won't cover them because of their industry and what they do. Sounds very similar so much of the advice will also work for you.
One of the best answers involved a Moz post and I'd start there:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/92-ways-to-get-and-maximize-press-coverage
Can you work in easier to link to content such as health topics, etc? It doesn't matter what industry you are in, there are leaders in it, related niches that can and will help you, and authority sites despite the industry .
Also, you should look into GFY (google: GFY webmaster). Also search adult backlinks warriorforum and adult backlinks blackhatworld - both return some good results, though nothing I want to link to here.
Finally, do some competitor research. For NYC escorts, icon companion is a top site. They have a few great backlinks you could take from (open adult directory, etc.) Once you do a competitor search, you will definitely see some places to get good backlinks and you'll start to see the patterns, as well.
Hope that helps!
You're not considering a lot of factors that go into SEO:
Page speed could be better on #1.
Over optimization on page 2 - with many links with anchor text that includes "editing"
"editing" appears 80 times on page 1, 66 times on page 2, despite page 2 having more text. I'm not saying this is a case of keyword density/spamming it, but maybe they're on the line and #2 is under it.
Better overall inbound link authority to #2 possibly.
Page 2 has repetition of both keywords in the title. Google already punishes this if you don't have noODP by replacing your title with a more suitable one. They aren't big fans of duplication but even so, #2 has a much different title.
Co-citation. Even with a better DA and PA, the related inbound links may be more relevant to essay editing on page 1. Also, more domains may point directly at the subpage essay-editing.html than they do the absolute page at /essay-editing/index.php
Analytics matter. If #2 bounce rate is double #1, and the time on site for #1 is 4 minutes longer per visitor and they get more traffic through an email list that actually stays on site, they'd have a natural boost in the "analytics" department, as well.
There are always a million reasons why one site could or may outrank another. All you can realistically do is improve your site as much as possible, create relevant links back, get citations that all match, engage on social and have a site that responds well when people click it.