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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?

You could also just spell out Knowledge Management instead of using KM. I'm sure google doesn't know what that is. You're also using the KM in a lot of your anchor text, It may benefit you more If you spell it out so google know's that you are pointing at something relevant.

And like Irving said, use some schema to point to different things, like the book at the bottom of the page.

http://schema.org/Book

Good luck

Hey Bristolweb,

One other thing I would do in addition to Mark's reply is to redirect to the www version of your site. You can preserve a little link juice that way.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Awesome site tho, makes me want to hit the water!

Peace

Vizergy,

Thanks for your input. I am definitely aware of the way our on page SEO sucks at the moment. Like I said in opening I inherited this beast about 6 months ago. Our rankings didn't suffer at all through panda and penguin, so I've left it alone, we actually got a boost from it.

This site is a total cluster f**k at the moment, and like I said we are scheduled to over haul it in about 9 months. It's built on a make-shift cms that's integrated with travelocity in some twisted way. It generates some affiliate revenue for us, but the focus is on our brick and mortar businesses. With the summer being a slow time for our industry in this area. I was contemplating a few ways to boost our physical businesses by leveraging this site.

I'm going to take your advice and do a bit of on-page clean up for our hotels section.

Thanks

Hey Chenzo thanks for the reply as well,

In the grand scheme of things I would just like to leverage what we already have from sites we own. If I can squeeze out a bit more link juice by no following competitors, I think that makes sense.

Thanks for the response EGOL,

I notice our hotels get a lot of backlinks from tripadvisor, of course they are all no follow links. Is tripadvisor communicating that to google as well? A major brand with healthy PA telling google, "we know these guys are who they say they are, but we don't trust them with our brand name"?

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

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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 response,

I have checked out their backlink profile and it is strong. They do act as a hub for similar businesses in my area, they also have a strong .edu and .org profile. They build sites for other businesses in my area and have those sites link back to this 'hub' site. So all the links are relevant.

They have also been featured on sites like the huffingtonpost.com which isn't really related to my industry but the huff-post's link profile is massive.

I'm current'y working on content and building links. So it seems only logical to try to join forces with them. I've spoken to this agency and they seem eager to help, but we haven't spoken about at what cost yet.

I think it will be a good investment, hoping to get a little more encouragement from the boards tho.

Cy

Greetings mozers,

One of my competitors and I both rank on the first page for our main keyword. They have 37k+ links, me only like 300 or so. My company actually has a business location though. This other site is just a listing of locations and they build sites for most of my competitors.

If I were able to get listed on their site, would that make me a stronger competitior with them?

And we would probably only get a brand term link from them but not a main keyword anchor text.

Will it be as effective to get the link from them if it's only for my brand name?

Thanks, Cy

Thanks for your response Rafael,

I assumed as much.

I'll try to wait it out. If I directly loose dollars, can I send google a bill?

Or should I shut up and be happy Google doesn't send me one for all their free services?

Peace

Hey Nathan,

I have submitted the little form via google places ... however.

The main reason I had to claim again was because my location got hi-jacked by some other jerk. Which I didn't think was possible. I've had this location owned and verified for years, but not until google+ went hyper local places on me did the change occur. See Links...

http://cl.ly/02431a1x1J131E471d2a

http://cl.ly/2l2K2u0P0A1B2Y3i2q3E

So in trying to claim my listings again, I've gotten the verification pin in the mail, added it, but still no confirmation that I own the location

Is anyone else dealing with issues claiming a business location on Google places?

After already going through the process of claiming our business locations and verifying ownership. It seems that we have to do it again for google+ places.

I don't want to create a duplicate of the business, and i'm not sure If I should delete it from my places account, before trying to claim it again on google places.

Have you dealt with this issue, or is it new to you as well?

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

A hotel brand dominating serps?

Seems near impossible with all the clout OTA's have.

How do you guys pull it off?

Sweet! Glad to know I can eliminate an option.

I'll ask you the same thing I asked Thomas, will the query'd urls eventually drop off once google decides which version is best?

Thanks Saijo

Thanks for the info Thomas,

I only added the canonical tag about a month ago, do you think over time those query links will eventually die off?

Greetings,

The Hotel company where I'm employed uses query strings in it's url's to track customers.

The query strings are integrated into our property management system, and they help identify who we need to pay commissions to, so they aren't going anywhere.

While I understand that session variables could have been a better solution,  I sort of inherited this problem.

The issue I'm running into is that my Webmaster tools picks up these query strings as actual url's.

So for instance: www.url.com/index.php?P_SOURCE=WBFQ

Seems like a duplicate page of my root, and like wise for all my other pages that use our booking widget.

So, Is there a canonical solution to this issue? or would 301/302's be the only solution.

Also, we may have 10 different but specific query strings to put into our urls. Would the 301/302 approach cause any server issues for say 10 pages? So 10 pages x 10 access codes = a lot of redirects.

Thanks in advance,

Cyril