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Hi JP,

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Cheers,

Wikipedia's resource on creating a page is quite detailed . Link Below

Starting an Article

Be sure to add lots of independent references/sources for the content that you post on the page.

Hi Rand,

I'd like to add amateur video testimonials to the list. Dove started the trend offline by getting actual customers to review the product in their ads and the same concept seems to work quite well online. One of our clients mailed out disposable cameras to their clients and had them record testimonials which were then used in a variety of campaigns including landing pages, email marketing and on their site. Led to an increased engagement as the clients themselves shared the website link where their testimonial was hosted with their friends/acquaintances. Not sure if this qualifies in the "very few people know of" category however i thought I'd still share it.

Cheers,

Hi Mozzers,

Any suggestions on link building for charity/non profit sites. Any lists specific to charities would be super useful.

Cheers,

SEO5

You could also think about setting up these domains as independent sites (not linked with one another) and create separate entities for them. This strategy works well from a risk diversification standpoint so that your entire business is not focused on one domain alone. The key here is to set up these domains as stand alone content rich sites and generate their own ROI. Based on quality content, you might have all these domains ranking high after a while.

Hi Fabrico,

There are a lot of factors that go into determining the actual CPC. These include:

• Click- through rate
• Relevance of the ad copy
• Destination Page Load Time
• Destination Page Quality
• On Site Conversion data

You might have an ad on the top spot paying a lower CPC then the 2nd position or lower.

Hi Colin,

You can check out the recommended companies in the link below provided by SEOMOZ.

SEO Companies

Cheers,

SEO5

Hi Samuel,

Jason wrote an excellent article covering this topic on SEOMOZ. Even though your facebook likes might not directly influence your rankings, they can definitely impact it through a lower bounce rate and a higher average time on site metrics. There is also the advantage of getting backlinks for content that you share through your social profiles.The link to the full article is provided below:

Guide to Social Signals

Cheers,

SEO5

Tried all of them. Did not isolate the effectiveness of each directory however did lead to a positive result overall.

Hi,

2 really good links below discussing this topic:

How to do SEO for different countries

International SEO - Whiteboard Session

Cheers,

I'd suggest sticking with the quality paid directories like UBL, Yahoo , Joant and ,BBB.

Hi,

We were using them in the past especially for their organic rank checker. Even though it's not accurate , it gives you an idea for what keywords a site is ranking for. (You can use other tools to check the accurate ranks for those keywords)

The cancellation was pretty straight forward. We just sent an email and stopped getting billed the next month. We have since signed back with them. Did you try reaching out to them at this # on the link below?

http://www.semrush.com/support/contact.html

Hi Joel,

You might find the below posts helpful .

Post 1

Post 2

Post 3

Hi Joel,

I'd like to add some more to the list:

• Keyword Eye
• Keyword Spy
• SEM Rush

They have free and paid versions for the tools above however the free versions also provide good data.

We use network solutions and have had a good experience with them overall. Very good customer support.

Hi Joel,

This question has been addressed at length in one of the Google Product forums. Here's the link. Points 1 , 2 and 3 relate to your question.

Hope this helps.

Hi Gordon,

Looking at the source , you have the following tag on the page. Try removing it altogether and that might help.

name="<a class="attribute-value">keywords</a>" content="" /><meta

Hi Nikolas,

Sent you a PM. Would like to get more info on your project.

Cheers,

SEO 5

They certainly do. Google personalizes searches based on past search activity of the user.

You can read more about it here.

Hi Carolina,

A quick glance in the whois records for their own domain reveals the following info:

Registrant
Great Value Domains LLC
Michael Newton
Email:sales@antiplastics.com
1620 East 16th Street
93500 LA
United States
Tel: +1.307123456

The phone # is wrong. Does not inspire a lot of confidence. The email is associated with another domain and not the domain  "active domain resale"

More research on the direct premium domains.com reveals this info:

Riverside Domain Brokers
Edward Clark
Email:riversidedomainbrokers@gmail.com
2710 Thomes Ave
82001 Cheyenne Wy
United States
Tel: +1.3074591955

Riverside has a lot of reviews on the net . Links below. I'd be very wary of sending any money to them.

Domains.com Review

DNForum.com

Hi Kibin,

I'm getting the following results:

1. Gradesaver.com

2. Essayediting.us

3.<cite>www.scribendi.com</cite>

4. <cite>www.papercheck.com</cite>

5. <cite>www.essayedge.com</cite>

Ivyeyesediting is ranked 13 if you use the ad preview tool to view the search results.

Hi Bob,

Some thoughts below:

• You might want to try a sticky navigation so that the top navigation follows the user as they scroll down the article page
• Trying a sliding secondary navigation option. Sort of like gmail with the labels following the user as they scroll down their mail

Hope this helps.

hmm then it might be one of following:

• The algo updates impacted the competitor sites and rewarded them with higher positions for more quality content than your site
• Their link profile for that keyword is better than yours

Hi Kade,

I see this page ranking http://www.snoshield.com/snowGuards.aspx on position 32 for this keyword.Did you make any recent changes on the home page optimization ( altering title tags or any other on site changes) besides the link building efforts that you mentioned.

Try out this tool to check if you have been impacted by any of Google's algo updates.

Hi Frédéric,

You might find the below resources useful:

Article by Bruce Clay

French Link Building Tool

French Google SEO Guide

You can also analyze your competitor link profile using OSE and identify link building opportunities using this tool.

the pipe or hyphen practice is just for aesthetic purposes and does not have an SEO value associated with it. You are ok to use the brand name in multiple titles along with unique keywords associated with them. Should not have any downside to it. Here's a link to a post discussing this practice.

Hi,

In my opinion this is not a duplicate title. From the above example it seems like you are trying to optimize the pages for 2 different keywords ( Kelowna Real Estate and Kelowna Condos)

From an aesthetic perspective you might want to consider adding hyphens or pipes between the keywords and your brand. ( e.g Kelowna Real estate | Smith McLellan Group )

You may also want to consider putting your brand name first in the title tag if it has branding and is popular with your target audience to impact the click thru rates in the search engine results.

Hi Bob,

Personally love the style adopted by The New Yorker . Lots of "white" space on the pages , the font used is very readable, nice combination of images and text.

Hi Zora,

My thoughts are that it really depends on the competition in your niche. If it is not very competitive then just the on site optimization itself should bring you good results. (quality , optimized content being key). If ,on the other hand, there is a lot of competition for the keywords that you are trying to rank for , you will have to do the whole bit (on site and off site) to get traction.

Hi Dave,

Just to be on the safe side, i'd advise optimizing each title tag for one keyword. Seen a lot of sites get hit with the overoptimizaiton penalty. You may think that having the keyword twice in the title tag might not do much harm, however when you start couting the # of instances the keyword is used on the page ( in the content, anchor text, image tags etc), it all adds up.

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Hi Sorina,

Archiving is more about classifying information/content that is either outdated or not being accessed that frequently by the visitors into a separate section on your site. I would not no index those pages because they might be ranking well in the search engines and still be getting traffic to the site. You can do this creating an "archives" section on your site so that if the visitors want to access the old content on your site they can still do so by accessing that section.

Here is a useful post on archiving content on your site

Hi,

If your on site optimization is done properly then your focus going forward should be on the 2 activities listed below:

• Link Building

• Social Media Optimization

Some posts below that you might find useful in your SEO planning:

Building a Monthly SEO Action Plan

Noob Guide to Online Marketing

Noob Guide to Link Building

6 Month Link Building Plan

Hi Diane,

My recommendation would be to do your due diligence. I would suggest asking for case studies, references and testimonials from existing clients.

Rand has a great post on this link on factors to consider when choosing an SEO company

Hi Matt,

Would like more info on the search results. What page for Queens's University ranks higher for that search result.Is it optimized for that keyword phrase?

Hi Sara,

We have used the following and found them quite effective:

UK - PRWeb UK

Germany - DPA.de

Spain / Latin America - Logos-pr.com

Hi Lauren,

You could try contentproz.net for the ebooks. You could also get good ebook writers on elance and vworker.

All the best.

Hi Joel,

Changing a hosting provider should not impact your rankings or traffic. We have changed hosting for a lot of websites without any adverse impact in rankings.Just make sure that all the site files are transferred correctly on the new hosting account.

If the new and the existing hosting providers are located in the different countries , that can impact the results.

We recommend Rackspace to our clients for their hosting needs.

Hi Megan,

Dr. Pete has an interesting post on this link. Be sure to read the comments as well.

Hi Cesar,

You can try sites like vworker.com and elance to find good writers. I suggest reviewing their writing samples in detail to get an idea of their writing quality and style. You can also try posting ads on craigslist under the "writing/editing" section.

Hi Sebastian,

How old is your site? Try a combination of social bookmarking your site/posts, using social media (facebook, twitter, google+) to push your content and pinging your site . All these efforts should help your posts get indexed faster.

Hi Joe,

Welcome to the community.

In my opinion, be very careful of using this plugin especially with Google going aggressive with their over optimization penalty. It does not look very aesthetically appealing to have visitors looking at a bunch of search terms at the end of your blog posts.

You might find this post from Scott Mclay posted today quite helpful on this link.

The most often used techniques by us include:

• Open site explorer: studying the link profiles of our competitors
• Advanced Search Operators as mentioned by Scott and referenced in this link 
• Researching blogging opportunities with related industry sites.Quite often we have seen that a lot of chamber of commerce sites are very open to having members contribute content for their site and they dont mind if you add a link to your site in your author bio or the post.
• Top 10 list related to the client's vertical.These kinds of posts are always interesting and fun to read and attract lots of sites wanting to share it with their visitors

stand corrected, what i meant was to set the preferred domain on GWT and do the 301 via the servers. Thanks for pointing that out Keri.

Since you already have one link from them, i would not bother getting the 2nd link.

This earlier post might also be helpful for you.