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Thanks for the info!

I'll do my best to focus on phrases and quality of content.

For instance, if the keyword I'm targeting on a specific page is "New Orleans", the Keyword is everywhere it's supposed to be, title, meta, content, internal links, etc, ....

So when I check my most relative key words with different tools, it always breaks the word up like:

new - 12 times 2.3%

orleans - 12 times 2.3%

Should I try to fix this? or is this normal? and does google view this as 1 keyword when evaluating my site?

Thanks for your response.

This is a rails site, and I'm working with my developer to fix that issue.

Thanks for the reply Ruslan,

If I 301 redirect, should I canonical the privacy page to my home page too?

And regarding your second suggestion, should I add more text to my home page so that the text/html ratio on my home page reflects or is better than my privacy page?

I'm using OSE to try and get some clues as to why my privacy page would rank higher than my home page. Could anyone help me figure out which metrics to review to rectify the issue?

My key word is: Mardi Gras Parade Tickets

The url that is ranking is <cite>www.mardigrasparadetickets.com/pages/privacy</cite>

I'm happy to be ranking in the top 3 for the keyword, but I'd rather hoped it wouldn't be my privacy page.

Any help would be awesome,

Cy

Thanks for the reply Ian,

I'm about to schema the shit out of this site ... use it as a ginney pig and see what happens.

I have a website that has a contact us page... of course and on that page I have schema info pointing out the address and a few other points of data.

I also have the address to the business location in the footer on every page.

Would it be wiser to point to the schema address data on the footer instead of the contact page? And are there any best practices when it comes down to how many times you can point to the same data, and on which pages?

So should I have schema address on the contact us page and the footer of that page, that would be twice, which could seem spammy.

Haven't been able to find much best practices info on schema out there.

Thanks, Cy

If I can manage to tell crawlers what I do and don't want them to crawl for my whole site via my robots.txt file, do I still need meta robots instructions?

Why not organize by phone type?

So domain.com/htc/wallpaper/1243/file.html

When you optimize for humans, the keywords and url structures makes more sense.

If I were to search for an iphone wallpaper it would be just that iphone > wallpaper, not wallpaper iphone. Or maybe walpaper for iphone, but let's not get technical.. hehe.

And depeding on site structure you could use the /file.hmtl page as the canonical of the download page.

I wouldn't go the route of subdomains.

Good luck, Cyril

go to google and type this in the search box

site:reliabledegree.com

You will see that it says google has indexed 167 pages. Because you see results means google has indexed pages on your site. Some times the amount of pages varies from whats in your site map. But there are indexed pages within google.

What has you concerned to think your site's haven't been crawled?

Craig,

From what I hear, each page should have 1 goal. So if you optimize each page for those one or two key terms then you should be good.

I would definitely include a "location" term within your keywords. Try different ways to mix it up...

"Web design Edinburgh" - "Edinburh Web designer" - "Web design in Edinburgh"

The difficulty comes when writing out your page copy without repeating yourself or saying "Web design Edinburgh" without it looking spammy.

Best of luck,

Cy

go to google and type this in the search box

site:reliabledegree.com

You will see that it says google has indexed 167 pages. Because you see results means google has indexed pages on your site. Some times the amount of pages varies from whats in your site map. But there are indexed pages within google.

What has you concerned to think your site's haven't been crawled?

The company I work for is in the process of rebuilding our entire website profile.

Our biggest site, FrenchQuarter.com ranks pretty well for our main term "French Quarter Hotels" And we use that to drive business directly to our hotel businesses. The site is very old and one I inherited, rebuilding it won't be a priority for another 9 months or so. This site act's as a bit of a directory for the city. There are links everywhere and it's probably passing link juice to a lot of businesses scott free.

In the mean time would it benefit or hurt us if I went through and no-followed most of the links? Would nofollowing links help frenchquarter.com to rank any better than it does? And could I then direct some of that link juice directly at our hotel websites to boost those as well?

My goal is to get our hotel websites to rank 1st page, we get exposure in the locations pack, for 2 of our 5 hotels, but placing below that is impossible with all the competition from the OTA's (expecia, bookit.com, etc) Seems near impossible no matter what my backlink profile looks like.

Thanks for any feedback,

Cyril

Hey Nathan,

I've used this one in the past <cite>www.xml-sitemaps.com/ </cite>

It works pretty decently for me, but you have to make sure you edit it after its created. Look for pages that no longer exist or are redirected somewhere else. Also make sure you aren't listing any pages with search query's in them, (www.url.com/index.php**?xxxx**) if you use search query's that way.

Updating is just what it is, every time you create a new page on your site, you need to update the site map.

Thanks for the info!

I'll do my best to focus on phrases and quality of content.