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Hi Peter,

That's great thank you - I hadn't realized about the gear icon to make a custom expression. Thank you for all your help.

Hello,

A client has asked us to track the journey each separate referral traffic visitor takes through out the website. I have had a look through analytics and am not sure how to ensure I can do this for all referral traffic visitors?

Can anyone help? Thank you.

That's great thank you for your response.

I thought that might be the case, the websites that I was on this morning were raving about it and I thought I would check before I looked into it further.

Thanks again.

Hello,

I have been doing some research this morning and have come across Scrapebox, does anybody use them? What do people think of the comment poster?

Thank you.

Hello,

A couple of competitors that I keep an eye on over the last couple of months have been really going for the Google + links and according to Opensite explorer they have over 200 social page metrics for Google +.

I was just wondering if there has been an update that I have missed that gives follow links for Google + or does Google + affect Domain authority?

And if so can I just use my own Google + account to create these social page metrics or does it depend on someone else sharing my posts?

Many thanks

Hello, a client has asked us today to quote for how much it would cost them to get a micro site built. A Google employee has told them that because their current URL doesn't include .co.uk or.com it is simply: brandname.word that it will be harder for them to get their website to rank.

My understanding is that micro sites aren't a good solution for any problem as Google doesn't like them. Would it be better for them to buy a .co.uk (they are a UK company) url and then redirect the url to their current website or is there a better solution?

Many thanks

Thank you so much everyone - that's great! I will look into all your suggestions I really appreciate it.

Hello, Is there anyway of finding out all the keywords that Google is currently ranking our website for so that we can then build on those keyword positions?

Many thanks,

Hello,

Thank you to you both for your answers I really appreciate it.

Thank you

Hello,

I have just been checking my link profile and according to webmaster tools a competitor is linking to my website. Is there anyway of finding this link besides looking at every page within their website?

Many thanks

Hi Matthew

I wouldn't have thought it would cause any problems as long as it was true.

If you can truthfully claim to be the 'best' or 'No1' in your business market its worth double checking that there are keywords based around this for your brand/business before changing your title tag.

Hope that helps.

Hi Juan

From what I have read most directory sites, outside the likes of Yahoo, are actually link farms in disguise. Google is targeting these websites and you will receive no benefit from the transfer of link juice. You are far better off spending time creating strong links with relevant sites and share-able content that will provide great information for your visitors.

Rhea has created a great webinar on the subject of link building that would be worth watching http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/link-smarter-not-harder

Hi Hayley

I'm not sure if this is of any help:

http://nagranowrimo.tumblr.com/post/44185866832/day27webcomichosting

or this one

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/image-hosting-websites

Have you thought about putting it into a Powerpoint and hosting it through Slideshare?

Hope you are able to find the right place for the comic - it sounds like a really interesting idea!

Hello,

It doesn't matter what keyword I put into Google (when I'm not signed in and have cleaned down my browsing history) the contact us page ranks higher than the home page.

I'm not sure why this is, the home page has a higher page authority, more links and more social media shares, the website is an established one. When I have checked Google Analytics my home page gets more people landing on it than the contact us page. It looks like people are ignoring the contact us page and scrolling down until they find the home page.

I'd appreciate any help or advice you might have.

Thank you.

Hi

SEO MOZ have a great explanation of what Anchor Text is http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/anchor-text

They also have a great explanation for keywords http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research

In short it is best to use your keywords within your anchor text rather than generic words such as click here. The search engines will see your keywords within your anchor text and will understand more about the areas your business is targeting. e.g using your example of black German shoes, if you had this phrase in your anchor text search engines would understand that you were a company selling shoes. Simply having 'click here' wouldn't tell the search engines anything about what your business was selling.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

I have been doing some research this morning and have come across Scrapebox, does anybody use them? What do people think of the comment poster?

Thank you.

If it is purely from an SEO point of view then I think that I would avoid doing the micro sites, I think that you would get penalized from search engines.

I agree with Tom if you are putting all that work in that they are suggesting then why not just put that amount of work into your main website/blog/social media? That way you are unlikely to suffer any negative affects and will receive long term benefit in terms of content production, traffic and social media shares?

Hope that it all works out well for you.

Have a great weekend.

Hi

Hope that you are well.

Single words are really hard to win especially ones as highly competitive as these.

By creating really great content within these pages that contain your keywords and writing your keywords within your title's/urls/alt tags you will be strengthening these pages. By having other pages within your website that contain links to these pages that have content relevant to seo and web design you will further strengthen these pages.

SEO MOZ have this great blog post as well that should help you http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

You will have to be careful to ensure that your site isn't overly optimized and you have a strong link profile attached to your website. Try Rhea Drysdale's webinar - I found it really useful. http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/link-smarter-not-harder

Hope that is of some help.

Hi

I was reading this article the other day http://moz.com/blog/tips-to-use-google-for-seo which talks about how Google + can help SEO. I have also read in another blog post that if you place a link to your website within a status update and then your post is reposted by someone else on Google + that this is counted as a link by Google and can affect your Page Rank.

It might be that the majority of the page rank that the website did have was from using these kind of tips and from links from within their Google + status updates being re-tweeted and when their Google + Account was suspended then all of the page rank stopped being passed to their website?

Hope that helps.

Hi

I have just been reading this article:

http://www.google.com/ads/innovations/ratings.html

within the page it says this:

If your online store is rated in Google Product Search, you have four or more stars, and you have at least 30 reviews, you'll automatically get seller ratings with your ads.

It might be that the reason why the rest of your review are not showing is because they are less than four stars?

Hope that helps