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I think everyone needs a social presence regardless of the the niche your in. I have worked with a number of orthodontists who have and understand the importance of social media. For example being there to remind followers about the importance of appointments, the best way to brush, what food to eat etc and the beauty of this is it can be done at a local level and find people who are within there catchment area.

Hi Kieran,

Thank you so much for your answer. The issue is I don't have access to the site admin and can only suggest changes.

Ill suggest what you have put above, and push ahead with the link building and see what happens. Told the client its a competitive niche especially this time of year, my boiler always seems to pack in before winter, does seem to have a settled around page 6, so you may be right.

Just didn't want to rule out if this was a possible penalization from Google.

Kind Regards

Neil

Hi Wayne,

Although quite grey hat the technique of 'profile linking' proves this to be true. I have seen my client sites climbing the rankings linking to sites of page rank 3,4,5 sites yet the actual page the links is on has pr 0.

Obviously we all want that home page link but I feel inner pages have just as much as value as root domains. Obviously look at the page your linking from in terms of relevance, number of links etc, but I would recommend you go for it.

Kind Regards

Neil

Hi Guys,

Searched the web in an answer to the importance of crawl errors in Webmaster tools but keep coming up with different answers.

I have been working on a clients site for the last two months and (just completed one months of link bulding), however seems I have inherited issues I wasn't aware of from the previous guy that did the site.

The site is currently at page 6 for the keyphrase 'boiler spares' with a keyword rich domain and a good onpage plan. Over the last couple of weeks he has been as high as page 4, only to be pushed back to page 8 and now settled at page 6.

The only issue I can seem to find with the site in webmaster tools is crawl errors here are the stats:-

In sitemaps : 123

Not Found : 2,079

Restricted by robots.txt  1

Unreachable: 2

I have read that ecommerce sites can often give off false negatives in terms of crawl errors from Google, however, these not found crawl errors are being linked from pages within the site.

How have others solved the issue of crawl errors on ecommerce sites? could this be the reason for the bouncing round in the rankings or is it just a competitive niche and I need to be patient?

Kind Regards

Neil