Well........ if you are ranking well, they are going to try to use what you are using. Again, they are lazy and they are certainly not smart so kudos to EGOL.

Pete,

This is likely due to whatever CMS you are using and/or a given plug in for that. If you have an SEO plugin that automatically constructs the title tags for example, there could be something being done that is causing it to pull from the same data over and over. Before I had someone redo the title tags, I would first take a look at the CMS. Also, given they went in and changed tags and then they reoccurred, I would get clear as to precisely how they changed them and who all had access to the admin side of the CMS.

Hope that helps, 
Robert

Manny,

Just so you know. It has to be there given the old url is showing. So the site was hosted there and now you are hosting it, correct?

I have to believe you can get it all. If not LMK, and I will try and assist.

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Dr. Pete,

While I agree with what you have here, I am disappointed that you are unwilling to set up a single variable study of some type focusing on the aftereffects of putting the wrong keyword meta tags in to trap the lazy, unrepentant, claimers of SEOdom, etc.

I would love to see how many cosmetic surgery sites that do liposuction would end up ranked for Saw2 barbequed ribs! as a long tail keyword!!!

If anyone can do it, you can do it. We believe in you!

Best to you and the team!

Michelleh

I find your question quite interesting. My thought would be (as I have never done keyword research based on images) that you would still rely on the Adwords Keyword tool. I took aspirin and searched on it plus picture, pictures, image, images and aspirins with same. Aspirin picture was most searched upon.

I searched without personalization in Google images and then did same in Google search. The same image came up first. I don't know that allows for any conclusions as to keywords for the images, but it would appear on a minute test that one would use the same keywords for images as for regular and then the same keyword tools.

Not sure if it helps, but I would love to know what brought this up and to see other answers.
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Moz.com is the best forum I have been a part of. There is a local forum I really like but spend less time on (we have staff who live on it.) I am interested in a forum where everyone is agency related. Does anyone know of a good one? If not, would anyone have an interest?

OK, Miriam, you have got to stop this! I only have so many thumbs!

Excellent,  super excellent info. I absolutely did not know this. I owe you a bottle of wine, glass of beer, diet soda, coffee any or all. I hope Robert-o has seen it as it is great.

I am wearing my Miriam rocks t-shirt today!

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Thanks Who Wudda Thunk

I agree Webmasterworld is a great forum, it is open to all so is not strictly an agency related forum. I was wanting to do something or find something along the lines of a Vistage but online. I was a Vistage/TEC member for several years and then a member of another CEO forum. Both were very helpful in that you are talking with other business owners and learning from them. Along with that you are teaching them things you know. Home builders have an organization where builders from different cities are in a group (so they are not competing with one another in the same market) and share information, assistance that I have seen be very beneficial to their members. I would love to find something like that for agencies.

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Bozzie311

They are tld's with no more or less "weight" than any other. Yes, they are used by professionals to some degree, but they won't outrank a .com of Dr. Jones or vice versa on the tld alone. 
There are currently over 100K registered .pro domains. Most (about half) in US - all from Wikipedia.

As with any of the tld's, it will or won't rank based on other factors.

We handle various professional practices and we have zero .pro domains simply because most had a domain prior to engagement.

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