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Its not okay. instead of having two sites you should have one site in responsive design, that should take care of duplicate content. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details

If however you require to have a separate mobile site, the content should differ.

Does your website have a blog? If yes, you can start posting good and interesting content. Use an email list and social media to network it and get some links. Gradually DA and PA will increase. Additionally, add you business to local listing sites especially those mentioned on listed.org. Make sure the NAP is consistent. That should get you some authority.

Perhaps you should add product schemas

Sorry for the very late response, I was traveling and busy in office once I got back, thanks to penguins, pandas and the rest of the zoo.

To answer the second part of your question the keywords need to be revised accordingly. I would focus on NLP therapy, NLP Practitioner, NLP life coaching as primary seed keywords. For MS related keywords it would be best to focus on lifestyle for MS keywords.

And yes, the title goes well with your service, though its longer than 65 characters.

Hi Bob,

I would not go with anyone of these keywords. You need people looking for treatment to come you your website. That way they will convert better. So even if the search numbers are few, your primary keyword should be

MS Treatment Boise

multiple sclerosis treatment Boise

MS treatment center Boise

multiple sclerosis treatment center Boise

MS therapy Boise

Multiple sclerosis therapy Boise

We have tried this and with good results; if you do not append the city name you can add geo metatags for the best local results.

However your website is more geared towards NLP. There are almost nil searches for NLP and MS together.

A bit tricky.

International SEO would mean targeting the audience via the domain extensions and hosting the domain in the target country. It would mean using the language metatag and more.

Rel=canonical is now available across domains so you can use that tag to attribute content to the original site. That way there is no risk to be penalized.

You can go through this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

This one is good too" http://searchengineland.com/11-considerations-for-international-seo-117798

Hi Samuel,

You've got most of the things right.

A .com domain works fine along with US hosting.

Just make sure you get links to your city pages from local US sites. Contribute to the local communities and get them talking about you online and Google will pick up the signal.

As for checking rankings, you can use Bright Local to set up your campaign. Its fairly accurate.

https://tools.brightlocal.com/seo-tools/local-search-rank-checker/tool

To check rankings manually, on the bottom right of your Google.co.uk screen you will see Google.com. Click that and the .com version opens. You can set your custom location in the left side panel.

Marie, thanks for responding. No we did not get any warnings. I had no idea that a site could be "Penguinzed" so late after an update.

Greg and Maximize suggested altering the site wide link status. We had control over two of our sister websites. We corrected that and hey within an hour we were back!

Seems like magic!

Thanks Maximise. I will try and rectify the link pattern. Most of the links are old and will be very difficult to moderate.

Hi webfeat,

The website is gmrtranscription.com(I am avoiding linking) and the keyword we are having trouble with is 'transcription services'.

Its usually smooth but it was not running okay for me yesterday and is flaky today.

The rankings for our transcription site (gmr transcription) fell around Jul 19. Its been an uphill task to get the rankings back particularly for the keyword 'transcription services'. As per our opinion except for one competitor the rankings of the other top 4 makes no sense to us.

We have tested our site and there seems to be no reason for it to be penalized.

After a month of trial I am reaching out to the community for advise.

Hi Klarke,

What was the time gap between submitting the reconsideration request to Google and the "manual spam action - revoked" message received from Google.

We did have that kind of experience. While all of your links are low end, we had a major problem because some of their links were good.

So we came up with a 6 week strategy. Simultaneously we started a content campaign and vertical business partnerships with links to the site.

After two weeks the client company gave a month's notice period to his old SEO company.

Once the period was over we did fall in ranks gradually for a fortnight (that was panicky) but we also started ranking for some alternative keywords (hence the client's business did not dry out).

We regained most of the rankings after 6 -8 weeks.

The downs of this strategy was the client had to pay two companies for 6 weeks, Their businesses went down for three months; but close to a year they have made up for the cost.

My tips would be to 1)mentally prepare the client for the loss; you can add the ROI sheet to your proposal. 2) include some other keywords in your campaign so that you can gain rankings immediately and the client's business does not dry out.

Hi Marty,

I can say that we have done that. There is a single line of code that you can add to the main website. It detects the browser and opens the mobile version of the website if accessed via mobile.Unfortunately, it does it for iPads too as it treats them as mobile devices; apart from that there are no negative implications.

I have no idea about #4 but it makes marketing sense to mention your mobile website, if any on your home page.

Why should a client fire you if you set the right expectations? There are several ways to do SEO and get traffic to your site, local and mobile SEO is just one of them. Local search if done well can get lots of links, gradually followed by regional links. Clients are happy as along as they have targeted leads coming through their website.  Most clients understand that SEO is long term; try sending them referral traffic while you are working at link building.

As Alan Mosley mentioned, having a technically good website is the best way to begin.

Great content is always appreciated. Its tough for a new website but there is no need to resort to other methods.

Thanks..

Thanks Joao. Are you saying blogs on joomla platform do not have this problem?

Do you think it would work. What are the negative aspects of using a redirect?

I did see this page but I was unsure of how to guide my developer on putting canonical links. Can you help?

Thanks a lot @ParagonDigital. This issue was detected after the SEOMoz crawl of the website and they are listing all these pages as duplicate pages.

We installed a WP blog on a website and the below result is just an example. All of them lead to the same content. What's the best way to resolve it?

http://www.calmu.edu/blog/
http://www.calmu.edu/blog/calmu-business-spotlight-veev/
http://www.calmu.edu/blog/category/business-buzz/

Social media  and SEO are inseparable. For SEO done the old school way it is now very difficult to bring a keyword to #1 and retain it especially if it is competitive. You may achieve rankings for long tailed keywords with minimal social media but it matters in the long run. Your SEO program should include different levels of social media programs based on pricing.

For future get your site verified by adding a verification code via Google webmaster. This helps identify the site problems if any.

I did a search for 'salt lake city dentist' you are #1on Google maps!?

Vijay, here are some of the questions our company asks itself to analyze the bounce rate.

1. is the bounce rate from organic, direct or referral traffic?

2. if it is from organic what keywords have the highest bounce rate? Are the visitors finding the correct page for the keyword? If yes, use multivariate testing via Google optimizer.

3. If it is from a referral site you need to analyze your referral strategy. Is the reference relevant for your business? If it is would it be suitable to send them to a more specific page or should you redo the page.

From our experience we have found that relevancy and loading time are the two mantras to reduce bounce rate. Even an badly designed website that has relevant content can hold visitors. Conversion is a different issue though.

Have you tried adding product videos and building links via those videos. These videos especially if they are done in a fun way are more likely to be shared on the social media. Just be share to get the video tags and description right!

Currently, probably the sites linking back to you are low in value and hence there is no positive movement for the keywords.

We have used press release sites particularly PRWeb with the social media option for quite a clients. It works good for ecommerce sites as we have noticed online sales going up after each press release. For the others it does not make much of a difference except increase the site traffic by 4-7%.

We use both HARO and paid PR sites for press releases. They both target different audiences.