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Thank you to everyone for their input. I appreciate your feedback. I'm going to research more about link building and where to start that process. I will advise against the multi-site approach and focus efforts elsewhere.

SEO Campaign and Best Practices

Hello, I have dabbled with MOZ before and I’m coming back with a project that is going to be a marathon. I have a very general question for some of you SEO professionals. I would like to lay out a scenario and I would appreciate any feedback that you can offer.

Let’s say I have a client which is an office cleaning company that just services the local Chicago area, let’s call them ABC123 Commercial Cleaners. They have a website that is Example: abc123commercialcleaners.com. On the website it explains all about their services with several different pages. If we want to start a site on another URL, let’s say officecleaningchicago.com will this hurt our online reputation? Or will it make us stronger?

Our plan on paper is to target the different localities around Chicago

Example:
napervillecommercialcleaners.com
officecleaningchicago.com
evanstonofficecleaning.com

I just wanted to get opinions on whether this is a good or bad idea. If it will strengthen or weaken our brand.

I hope I have explained a very general scenario (which is completely fictitious)  I would appreciate any feedback that you can offer.

I have looked in the Google Webmaster Tools and there are no errors or flags. I did check the backlinks with my site as well as some competitors and I noticed my Domain Authority is pretty low (27). I have viewed the video about Domain Authority and I have also read some blog post. It does not sound like anything I do will have an overnight effect on my domain.

1. Is there any factor within the scope of increasing Domain Authority that I should focus on more so than any other?

2. How much weight does an outbound link carry?

3. I'm under the impression that an inbound link will have more of an effect on my SERP than an outbound link, is this true?

Thank you for your input!

Hello, I have a website design operation in Akron, Ohio. I have been ranking on the first page for the last year or so. Just recently (within the last 5 -6 weeks) I have fell back to page 2 on google. I have changed up my content a little bit on my home page, adding more references to the "Web Design Akron Ohio" keyword. I have looked at the sites ahead of me and I noticed that most of the highest ranking sites are using Meta-Keywords, which moz suggest not to. I added Meta-Keywords about 10 days ago just testing if there would be any ranking change and so far no change at all.

Would someone be kind enough to look at my site and throw out some suggestions of what I might do to get back to the first page?

I'm trying to rank for "web design akron ohio" and my URL is http://www.uswebproducts.com

Any help would be appreciated.

SEO Campaign and Best Practices

Hello, I have dabbled with MOZ before and I’m coming back with a project that is going to be a marathon. I have a very general question for some of you SEO professionals. I would like to lay out a scenario and I would appreciate any feedback that you can offer.

Let’s say I have a client which is an office cleaning company that just services the local Chicago area, let’s call them ABC123 Commercial Cleaners. They have a website that is Example: abc123commercialcleaners.com. On the website it explains all about their services with several different pages. If we want to start a site on another URL, let’s say officecleaningchicago.com will this hurt our online reputation? Or will it make us stronger?

Our plan on paper is to target the different localities around Chicago

Example:
napervillecommercialcleaners.com
officecleaningchicago.com
evanstonofficecleaning.com

I just wanted to get opinions on whether this is a good or bad idea. If it will strengthen or weaken our brand.

I hope I have explained a very general scenario (which is completely fictitious)  I would appreciate any feedback that you can offer.

Thank you to everyone for their input. I appreciate your feedback. I'm going to research more about link building and where to start that process. I will advise against the multi-site approach and focus efforts elsewhere.