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When communicating with clients about progress I avoid talking about their PR/DA directly but talk in terms of improving (or not) in relationship to their competitors.  They really don't care about the NY Times, but about the sites that are directly competing against them.  If I can tell them that we closed the gap between their site and their competitors that is all they want to know. If a new index throws us a curve ball, we soften the blow by following up the bad news with a trend line showing that we are moving in the right direction even though there is an aberration in this indexes numbers..

Chris

Thanks Slava

I had to learn a few words of Russian to figure out how it works, but it is a very interesting product.  While I don't think we will ever know exactly whats in the main vs the supplemental I think these results are close to what I thought, based on all the other methods I have tried.

Chris

Since site:mysite.com *** -sljktf stopped working to find pages in the supplemental index several years ago has anyone found another way to identify content that has been regulated to the supplemental index?

Just checking to see if this project has moved forward enough to give us an estimated time frame for rolling this out?

There are a number of tools you can use.  SEOmoz offers a rank tracking tool. Spyfu does also.  You can try the Free Firefox add-in Rank Checker. For bulk checking I use Advanced Web Ranking, <cite>www.advancedwebranking.com/</cite>

It's always better to target a page with a single phrase.  However it doesn't mean you can't use your alternate phrases at all.  Just don't try to make it compete with your primary phrases.

"So remember Tom's Painting next time you need a Texas Painter."

I'm going to resist any urge to refer to Tom's Texas sized paint brush"

What you are seeing are Google Sitelinks.  Google makes the decision as to what to show, if anything, based on the structure of your site.  If they feel it will help users find information they are looking for it will show.

You can't add them yourself, but if they put up something that you don't think is helpful you can request that it be demoted from within your webmaster tools account.

Hope this helps.

That's correct.  It is a verified website in my Google Webmaster Tools account.

However It doesn't allow me, an Admin, to submit through the Custom Search account.

Just 301 the /index to / Robin and go back to the bat cave and wait.

I am an admin on a google custom site search account.  I am also the owner of a verified webmaster tools account for the same site.

The Custom Search control panel will not let me add URL's or a Site map for on demand indexing, but says "you must submit a sitemap of your own verified sites".

Has anyone else has this issue?  Does the Owner of the custom search account have to be the owner of the webmaster account, or can the logged in admin be?

Thanks

Are you running them as campaigns rather than as individual accounts under your MCC?

add in another domain as www.nipca(dot)com.   You will have to verify ownership just like you did for nipca(dot).com.

Once you are verified you can go back to nipca(dot)com and go Site Configuration > Settings and selected your preferred domain.

Your done.

Remove them as an admin from your MCC account.  Add them in under the specific client account you want them to have access to.

If you looking for good, rather than cheap,  I would recommend Rackspace.  Went though a whole bunch of providers before them, and I haven't looked back.

While I agree with everything Robert has said, my advice still stands.  Start with building local links for ranking in local search.  I don't see you in Google places at all, but I see 2 different locations for your competitor.  Links for places like Google places are very easy and would be the best place for you to start while you build your skill.

Is there a local dental association? Can you get a link from them.  What about the newspapers,  local expat organizations, your customers, your suppliers?

Since the particular keyword you referred to is location specific, I suspect that if they are the cause it would be simply due to the fact they those directories are reinforcing his location.

Look for reputable local sites where you can get listings to boost your local search rankings.

I am not sure what you are asking Nevil.

The heavy weight is applied when friends in the searchers circle have Plus one the page.  Not when friends of the site owner have.

Good question Alan.   I believe we will see that it will as Google is looking at how far down content renders, not just where it is in the code.

Let us know if you see any significant change. I will do the same

Cost is based on the competitive market for the keyword, not necessarily on the search volume, so don't let low search volume mislead you as to CPC.

Where are you getting your Cost per Click figures?  Google often suggests a much high bid than is required.  Also as you drop down in position you can see a significant drop in CPC.  Position 1 might be $20. per click, while position 3 might only be $1.25 per click.

Sometimes you do run across a keyword where you can't justify the cost.  Just keep looking, there are plenty of other keywords you can consider.

Eliminate option 3.

Either of your first two options should work.  You should be able to re-write your URL's and eliminate the category but still use the category variable to alter your color scheme.

I haven't found a way to export from the keywords management section, so I follow the same path as Manischa and export to Excel from the Rankings tab.

You touched on a good point here "We set  up our site to utilize a index redirect for all of our sub directories as well, so with this method you simply name your sub directories to match the url path that you desire. Each sub directory has it's own index which you redirect with a variation of the above code. By doing this you can have nice clean url paths like http://www.semclix.com/design/ecommerce/ - and mitigate the duplicate content issue. We hope that this helps."

Too often I see sites where they get the home page right but miss the re-write on the directories.

It certainly would improve the trust of your site visitors.  I have seen conversion increases of over 50% when clear ownership and contact information has been added prominently on a site.

Improving your Google trust is important.  Improving your potential customer's trust is critical.  Don't every forget it is as important to get more conversions from the visitors you have as it is to get more visitors.

I would be very careful about using the display: none route. Hidden text is considered a no no.  If you can't convince the client of the importance of link text then go with the alt tag.  I would also name the image files to reflect the anchor text I would like to use.

It doesn't appear from your original post that people are finding what they want and then living as you state your average time on site is around 20 secs.  I would tend to lean toward Keri's and Egol's comments in looking to address the problem.

I Agree with Richard you are cannibalizing your keyword. Use  a variation of the keyword or phrase in the second link.

You can do this quite easily with event tracking.   If you're not familiar with using event tracking you can read up on the GA help site.   http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html

It is not surprising that attendance is growing.  Last year was my first year attending but I can't imagine the circumstances that would keep me from missing one in the future.

I have attended dozens and dozens of conventions, seminars, training sessions, conferences, etc. over the years, but MozCon 2010 was by far the best event of its kind.

I will be sitting as close to the front as I can. Stop by and say hello.

I like you critical thinking Alan.  Too many times people react without thinking through the consequences of those actions.

Don't forget about the geo searches for people who are not in your area but are looking for information on it.  I am in Florida but will be doing searches to find out what is going on in Seattle during MOZcon at the end of July.  That includes car rental, restaurant, tourist traps (my wife is coming too), maybe even your overnight multi-day pet-sitting service if we bring the dogs as well are heading to Maui for a week to absorb everything the experts can teach me.

By the way. What is that place in Seattle that sells utility kilts?  Think I will Google it.

Yes the keyword rankings tool tracks any URL within your domain for rankings on those keywords all under the same campaign.

I agree Matt While we know most terms we want to target keyword research is an important part of our job. I regular go back and re-research keywords for clients I have worked with for years. I would be doing them a disservice if I did not.

Quality over quantity always wins in the end.  Make what you have the best you can, then add more quality content on related topics.

I would not want to be generating all those 404 errors.  My recommendation would be to 301 them to the top of the category and dynamically provide a error message that the classified they are looking for has expired, but here are lots of other ads in that category that might help them find what they are looking for.

You want to provide a good user experience and this would certainly be better for the user than simply a page not found error message.

You might take a look at SpyFu.com.  They can give you a fairly good idea.  For instance they said that npgeekery.com ranks like this.

| 12 | take aways | |
| 25 | brand monitoring | |
| 29 | non profit strategy | |
| 32 | takeaways | |
| 37 | aways |

Is there a way to attach a transcript to a video so that it is searchable without cluttering up the page with the full text?  Occasionally you have a video where visitors are entertained and don't need or want a transcript, but it would still be useful to have it indexed as it is an accurate representation of the video.

You have done exactly what you should do. The 301 will let the search engines know that page is no longer there and has been replaced by the new one.  Your new page should begin to show soon and the old page should drop out.

What you are looking at has to do with off site metrics.  You need to take into account you on page optimization as well.

Try running the SEOmoz On Page Report Card on your page.  http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

I would recommend www.mywebsite.com/hotdogs/.

That's and interesting issue.  If you do a site search that page has the title you specify in your title tag (see screen shot).  You do have the phrase "Animal Business Card Holders" on your page.  Google will create their own title tags for your page if you don't have one (you do), or if they think the title isn't appropriate for the page. Duplicate pages will sometimes create a situation where Google creates their own title.

The addition of Kyle Designs to the title is interesting. I have no idea on that one, but I am looking forward to other responses on it.

KyleDesigns.png

Take a close look at your analytics and investigate where visitors are going from your home page.  If they are following diverse paths deep into your sub categories and individual product pages then leave it alone.  If they are predominately going to just the sub categories then you might want to re-think your navigation system.

While SEO is import to drive traffic, remember the main goal is to convert visitors to buyers.

I wouldn't use the <h>tag in navigation.  The <h>tag is for headings.  Just like an outline you did for a paper in school.</h></h>

You would be better off thinking about your anchor text in your navigation. I don't mean stuffing them with keywords, but make them more unique to your content when appropriate.

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