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Richard,

Thank you now if I could only find out where the PM's go.

Chris

Hello community,

I have spent the last 16 months spending lots of money on our USA Based SEO company and on content.  For some reason.  The powers who may be at Google are not giving us any love.  I am beginning to become very dissapointed after all of our efforts.  We did have a link penalty a year ago however that has long ago been removed.  We have been doing everything our SEO company has asked us but the needle is not moving.  Any ideas for us?

http://tinyurl.com/n2yoeyn

Thank you in advance.

Chris

Thanks for the input guys.  It is much appreciated.

So if I am understanding you correctly.  You are saying it is not beneficial to link out to the manufacturers website?

Thank you

Good afternoon SEOmoz community.

I was looking for a specific answer or advice or opinion about linking out to other sites.

My Site www.tacticalbootstore.com has been undergoing a complete content rewrite.  In the process we have been told and read where it can be good to link out to other authoritive sites.

One of the pages we have rewritten is here.

http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/belleville-boots-sizing-chart-a-97.html

We have not added the graphics yet as they are being built now.

This is just an informational page about sizing of a particular manufacturers boots.  Once you get to the bottom of the text we have added a link to the actual manufacturers page.

Is this helpful for us in the SERPS or not?

Thank you for your time.

Chris

Egol,

Kind of the manufacturer pages was to create a virtual silo for that particular set of keywords.

I love the idea of the bigger pictures and we will implement this.

I also love the idea of the product pages linking out to "How To pages" as you state.

Now I just need to think of some How To's for Boots.

Thank you again for your comments they are very informative and much appreciated.

Michael you have made a great point that I will not forget.

I know I think of content as the text only.  Thanks for reminding me that it is also the pictures, videos etc....

Egol,

Thank you also for taking a look at this.

Can you make any other recommendations that you see that we could implement?

Thank you for your time.

Chris

Michael,

Again thank you for your time in answering our question and providing us with additional info.

Chris

Michael,

Thank you for taking the time to look at this.  We will definitely work on your suggestions

The content is all fresh completely re-written to our site and is unique.  It is not the standard manufacturer description. The new content was all written in house in the examples I showed.  We should be done loading it all onto the site this week ending. Do you think it is enough?

We were looking at shooting our own videos and getting them to look like this Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmaoAzoIUa8

We were going to add a voice over though to point out the features of the boots.  I apologize for not knowing when you say embed.  Is it OK to take our own video post it to you tube and then embed it in our site?

Taking our own pictures we never thought of doing this but is definitely something we have the abilities to do and will work on it.

Any other ideas or suggestions or constructive criticism we are open to.

Any other creative minds out there see anything they could suggest to us?

Hello SEO’ers.

This is my second post here on SEOmoz and I have a question / look it over type of deal.

I have been reading through the information I have found here on SEOmoz from the community and it has been very informative and helpful.

My question deals with my site http://www.tacticalbootstore.com

One of the things we have learned is we needed better content as what we had was too thin.

We have completely rewritten all of the manufacturer pages and are uploading them now 10/14 complete.  This content I believe is about as unique as it will get.

New Example here:  http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/belleville-boots-m-74.html

Old Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/altama-boots-m-86.html

From these Manufacturer pages we have also written 3 other pages that are linked to from the manufacturer page

Buyers Guide Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/belleville-boots-buying-guide-a-98.html

FAQ Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/frequently-asked-questions-about-bellville-boots-a-96.html

Sizing Information Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/belleville-boots-sizing-chart-a-97.html

I believe this creates a virtual silo?

We are in the process of rewriting all of the item product descriptions as well as that content was too thin.

New Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/blackhawk-83bt02de-mens-desert-ops-boot-p-3916.html

Old Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/altama-mens-inch-exo-boots-p-4086.html

Please take note we have only uploaded the 1 new item description the rest of them still have thin content.  We hope to have all of the products written and posted by week’s end.

Would you guys mind checking what I have submitted here and tell me if we are on the correct path or not?

Do you have any other ideas we could implement?

I really appreciate your time in looking at this for me.  I hope one day to be able to contribute to the community as well with the knowledge I will learn here.

Thank you,

Chris

Hello SEO’ers.

This is my second post here on SEOmoz and I have a question / look it over type of deal.

I have been reading through the information I have found here on SEOmoz from the community and it has been very informative and helpful.

My question deals with my site http://www.tacticalbootstore.com

One of the things we have learned is we needed better content as what we had was too thin.

We have completely rewritten all of the manufacturer pages and are uploading them now 10/14 complete.  This content I believe is about as unique as it will get.

New Example here:  http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/belleville-boots-m-74.html

Old Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/altama-boots-m-86.html

From these Manufacturer pages we have also written 3 other pages that are linked to from the manufacturer page

Buyers Guide Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/belleville-boots-buying-guide-a-98.html

FAQ Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/frequently-asked-questions-about-bellville-boots-a-96.html

Sizing Information Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/belleville-boots-sizing-chart-a-97.html

I believe this creates a virtual silo?

We are in the process of rewriting all of the item product descriptions as well as that content was too thin.

New Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/blackhawk-83bt02de-mens-desert-ops-boot-p-3916.html

Old Example here: http://www.tacticalbootstore.com/altama-mens-inch-exo-boots-p-4086.html

Please take note we have only uploaded the 1 new item description the rest of them still have thin content.  We hope to have all of the products written and posted by week’s end.

Would you guys mind checking what I have submitted here and tell me if we are on the correct path or not?

Do you have any other ideas we could implement?

I really appreciate your time in looking at this for me.  I hope one day to be able to contribute to the community as well with the knowledge I will learn here.

Thank you,

Chris