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This works and is quick/cheap to do.

The much better options is a well written page on each area.

This way each page is 100% optimised for the keyword and contains useful, local, relevant information.

Start with the largest areas (on search volume) and add a few more pages each week/month.

If you have a list of areas as large as this then use slightly larger areas and target the big town for the page but also make references to the smaller villages within that page. Means the higher volume is well optimised and the lower volume pages are semi-optimised on a relevant page.

Interlink each of these pages to 2-3 of the others to create low OBL, relevant, varied, internal linking - rather than a single page like above with links to all of the pages.

Has anyone seen their competitive link analysis update in the last 2 weeks?

My campaign summary says the last linkscape update was on the 21st Dec but the data is still showing from November.

Looking in the full analysis section especially the timeline confirms that it is only going up to November.

OSE also seems to show the old data.

I am currently in the process of building an in house system for managing our clients SEO campaigns.

One of the features that we will be including is a customer login where clients can view their reports and site progress.

We plan on providing rankings and traffic stats within this which we will collect on a weekly basis to store historical changes.

While I could integrate into analytics for traffic and create my own web crawler for rankings, this seems a waste since I already have that data in one central location.

Looking through the moz API details it seems to have lots of functions for links but nothing relating to the campaigns.

Is there any way or are there any plans to open up campaign data to an API?

If I could do this I would certainly upgrade to allow each client to have their own campaign.

The first text element in the site is the alt tag of an image of "logo".

This explains where it is coming from, as to why slightly stranger.

Look through your source I see no real paragraphed block of text. All of the text seems to be quite short, fragmented sentences.

When google has to create a description by itself it normally tries to find a suitable paragraph containing the keyword. Since I can't even see your keyword within the page, this may explain why google fails on making a relevant description and simply uses the first sentence (single word) it finds.

Solution 1) Add some well written text containing your keyword.

Solution 2) Add a description meta tag.

100% disagree.

Most of the biggest websites in the world use DNS load balancing which will change the IP address of the server every request.

301 redirects lose a small amount of juice but IP changes don't.

Hosting changes don't (assuming no errors or outages).

Who-is changes do, but that is not relevant here.

I would defiantly agree that results can fluctuate between different times and computers.

One site I have been monitoring carefully recently has been bouncing around a lot between the 1-6 spots.

One minute its up, the next down - and different machines at the same time show different results.

One trick I have found is to put &pws=0&gl=xx on the end of the URL.

pws=0 turns off personalised search while gl=xx simply breaks geolocation.

I often find that when gl=uk shows results I don't know wheteher to belive, gl=xx shows the more stable result.

Just noticed one other thing.... Your home page was actually linking to the "create your own stationary." page rather than the page you are hoping to target

Not that you should obsess over page rank but the home page is 5, page the homepage links to is 3 and the page you are trying to target is 0.

Try and sort out your internal and you might succeed, but don't do it at the expense of your page 1 ranking!

You still have the word "Wedding Stationary" on the homepage which is probably why the homepage is still ranking.

Also the page you are trying to rank is a subdomain so is not directly linked.

I would expect that if you go overboard on trying to swap the rankings you will lose the home page and stay 3rd page for the product page - don't do this!

Instead simply continue to build links and optimise the product page and work at getting them BOTH on page 1.

Since google changed their rules I have many serps with both the homepage and the targeted page sitting next to each other on the front page. Twice the links gives twice the opportunity for clicks. And longterm aim for the 1 and 2!

The recently leaked google doc seems to have the answer.

#9 here explains it (partly) - still frustrating though that black hat redirects are working!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/16-insights-into-googles-rating-guidelines

When I googled the differences Northern Ireland was the answer that came up.

But.... AFAIK there is no option to search google just for Great Britain.

So does google have an option to avoid NI results and if not - what does SEOMoz do differently (if anything) between the 2?

The thing is that this site isn't even indexed since it doesn't have a single page - only a 301 redirect.

They only SERPS they appear in are a few places spots, 2 of which I have found that the search phrase doesn't have any locational elements in.

I had been of the understanding that places results only appeared when you have a place in your search phrase but this seems to dispel that theory.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&q=coach+hire&pws=0&gl=GB

The link above takes you to a SERP for a general phrase with no hint of locations involved (Coach Hire).

However oddly enough there is a single google places listing that has pooped up at #4.

Liverpool Minibus Coach hire

<cite>www.localcoachhireuk.co.uk/</cite>

Now if this was "Coach Hire London" I would expect places, and indeed there is a list of places.

But how do you get a places listing ranking for a phrase without a place name?

Also of interest is the fact that this website doesn't even exist! It is a 301 redirect to another site.

Google seems to be picking up the 301 since it shows the redirected site in the page snapshot and has no pages indexed for this domain.

So an un-indexed site with a 301 redirect is #4 for the top phrase in this industry. I have no doubt that this will only be a temporary thing but it would be interesting to know how it was possible.

When selecting which search engines to monitor for a campaign both Google and Yahoo offer 2 very similar options.

"Great Britain" and "United Kingdom"

Bing only offers "United Kingdom"

From a technical point of view, what is the difference between these options and which is the better to use?