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Hi there Rafael!
It seems that JoelHit is referring to making sure that you have uniquely written content on your home page if that is what you want to improve in rank, provided that you're already working on the backlink issue.
I'd strongly recommend going through OSE to review your competition's highest backlinks for DA/PA and working to get some for yourself.
Best of luck!
Hi there Jacky_C, I'm a bit confused on your question here.
Would you please clarify if your 23 domain names are active/live and whether they are 301'd from the original root domain or are these 5 domains leading into the 23 domain names?
Also the 4 subdomains are individual sites, correct? If not, then your 4 subdomains should be "furcouncil.furisgreen.com", "furfrashions.furisgreen.com", etc.
I'll touch base later and good luck!
No problem!
Glad to see Cyrus' response!
Hi there Mark!
We used to have the same issue using Joomla here. It turns out that Google will reduce their crawling if your site has too many errors, broken links, and so on.
We used GWT to look into the 404's then redirected the broken links. Afterwards, we resubmitted the site to be reindexed. A few weeks later -VOILA- all is back to normal and our page freshness stays where it should.
I'd recommend looking at your GWT first, and fixing broken links followed by resubmission to SE's...
Good Luck!
Hi there Christoph.
I'm not too familiar with Hotel Finder, but being that most smartphones default to Google, yes, update your Places account with AS MUCH information relelvant as possible.
Hours, Location, Services, Local Attractions, Benefits, ETC
You can never have too much information on your Places Account. Remember to give the SE's a few hours to update and then test as much as possible to ensure that all info is correct and updated.
Cheers!
Hi there Maria Jesus.
I would strongly encourage building juice to your home page. Establishing your brand or specific primary service by posting and building links back to your home website shows the broad view and not a specific topic to the persons visiting.
After some time and verifying that your link building program is taking off, then you can focus on the supplemental pages targeting niche websites with trackback keywords SPECIFIC to each page.
As for how they appear in the SERPs, well, if you do well enough you may not just rank once, but if you've done the relevant work, you may even be 2nd as well! The SE's may indent the result, but you're still relevant to the query.
Yes. Always follow if you want your information to be found. NoFollows are best left for folders that you need to keep away from prying eyes/spiders....
Best of luck!
Hi there Gemma.
I'm sure that if you decide to go dynamic, then your website is changing daily with plenty of fresh new content. Be sure that if you go with this option, to ensure that your sitemap uploaded to GWT reflects the frequency of updates to each page; otherwise you completely lose the SE's and any effort done.
On the flip side, if you choose to go with static (which I would probably strongly recommend), then you won't have to worry about any new links automatically generated to be broken (as may and will happen in a dynamic environment), plus you get to take full control of what you wan to name the page (content-related obviously).
These are just my two cents since we also play with them from time to time. I like the dynamic, but it can be time-consuming even if you do streamline it to less than 100 pages, but static lets you know you're ranking well if you're constantly targeting site specific keywords...
Best of luck and Happy Turkey Day!
Great question, but Ryan and de4e pretty much covered it.
Also keep in mind that the ampersand symbol can also be interpreted as & and that may hurt you. It may be that focusing JUST on Holiday Inn versus the others will no doubt provide the best return.
Always remember that you are writing to the general public and most of them or us 
tend to use short layman terms so that renders the "and Suites" somewhat obsolete.
Cheers!
I've not had any problems here in Texas.
Are you having problems with running an on-page optimization report? How about OSE?
Cheers!
Based on what we've seen you DO get a quick boost initially for your new URL.
As for opensiteexplorer, that will take some time...
It's really all touch and go...
best of luck!
I would definitely recommend each one having their own especially if the URL's are different!
good luck!
Wow Ryan. I was just lurking here and what you just explained is awesome!
We are all looking for those C block IP addresses, but Google wasn't born yesterday. Funny, up until I read this I had no idea that this was even a possibility.
Thanks so much. Now back to do some SEO sleuthing!
Cheers!
Hi there Diane.
How much content was in that paragraph that you changed? If you had , , _or _tags embedded, did you replace them elsewhere? What about the targeted keyword for that page which went from an A to an F? Was it replaced exactly as you were tracking it or did you use a similar phrase/word?__
****__The grader goes into great detail as to what best practices should be incorporated. If you follow it step by step, you'll re-attain that "A" that you're looking for and DESERVE !!!!
Best of luck!__****
Hey there Jon.
It seems that it was last indexed almost a month ago on Oct. 21, 2011. I would suggest that you follow Simon's advice on the NoFollow tag.
Additionally, check your GWT to ensure that it is not indexed...If it is, then try to resubmit it to get indexed (I know, I know, it doesn't make sense), but it will send out a message to crawl it. NoFollow, NoIndex tells the spider NOT HERE....Anywho, good luck with that and let us know how it turned out!
Cheers!
P.S. At least it's not indexed in Bing
I know that it may be on the gray hat SEO side, but utilizing blog posts with signatures targeting each of those keywords in a staggered format (i.e. johnnie widgets {a href=www.yoursite.com"} for one post and johnnie fidgets {a href=www.yoursite.com"} with the alt text) may be one way to start building importance for those keywords, especially on a national search scale.
The only downside (yes, as always there is one) 
it'll take some time to get them indexed, but you can keep a weekly track of them in GWT and OSE to see if they are follow or nofollow. That'll help guide you in a way, but I digress, you may also want to write unique articles and have them posted on a blog (or blogs!).
Finally, have you asked for a link exchange? I know it may be tough, but some people are kind enough and you may only get 1 out of 10, but hey, that's 1 more! Just be sure that their DA or PR is higher than yours!
Good luck Bob!
Down here, we use RSSeo since it's almost an all-inclusive plugin for Joomla!
Now, initially I thought it would pre-populate the meta description with unique content as well as change the titles to pick up some relevant page info, but no dice there.
After tweaking with it, it turns out that it will completely create a separate index (hence the index.php prefix when using K2 and RSSeo) which could possibly pull some link juice away.
However, it seems that all that needed to be done there was just utilize the RSSeo redirects (also included under the Extend option) and all duplicated pages in the K2 index were 301'd over to the index.php portion.
RSSeo gives much more manageability (IMHO) because you can uniquely attribute appropriate meta titles, description and even add keywords (not really big on that, but hey, I'm old-fashioned).
Whatever your choice is make sure that before you install your SEO plugin, be sure that your page was already indexed (if you are not familiar with the plugin so that you won't be penalized by the SE's in case you make a mistake) or if you are familiar with it, plug it in and wait for the clicks to roll on through!
CHEERS!
I agree with Alan here.
Paul, we use Joomla! CMS at our agency and we use a simple plugin (RSSeo) that automatically updates and is in XML format. Just like Alan's site shows the importance and frequency adjustments, I'm quite sure you can find a WP plugin...or you can write it all manually (just be ready for a few hours if you've got a large site)!
Hope this helps!
I would probably recommend doing both the .com (since it's more universally accepted, esp. here in the USA) as well as the .ca (since you could probably script it with French, English and so forth for local people who know your realtor).
Additonally, having reciprocal backlinks will ease the transition for those who are local or snowbirds who like the sunniness of AZ.
Best of luck Chris!
I have to agree with Todd here. After you've made the switch be sure to login to GWT to make sure that they know about it.
It wouldn't hurt either to submit the new URL to the SE's as well!
Cheers!
Try to run opensiteexplorer here on seomoz.
This will expose your backlinks. Additionally, you may also want to try virante.com.
We just found out that we had some bad IP's on a shared server, so we decided to pay the difference for a brand spankin' new dedicated server.
Hope this helps and good luck Ferray!
Hey there Alex. There really is no EASY (per se) way to do this.
It's going to have to be done by linking in to high mT domains. Of course, you can always ask for a link exchange or have your sales team pitch to the big boys, like universities, colleges and the like.
As a matter of fact, there are a few articles here on SEOmoz that can point you in the right direction.
Hope this helps!
So, my dilemma is this. Even though we are delving into more advanced SEO rather than the standard splash pages, I believe that our results are good, but they can be better. I've researched ALOT from WIEP.net, but I'm not so sure that I am grasping the concept of building links externally....
So this question is primarily discussing what you may have experienced and how IT started to make sense....
Not asking for all the right things or places to go, just NOT what to do or where to go...
ok ok, if you CAN or would like to discuss the right places, I'd be much obliged and thanks beforehand!
What are your thoughts?
I'd have to say that when we went through our domain change, we forgot to initialize the 301 redirect so we got penalized for 6 weeks until we caught it; however, it's not like we had some big stuff between newglobalventures.com and www.newglobalventures.com.
Just out of curiousity which is the site that you're experiencing loss on?
-Adrian