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This can really be one of many reasons.

This may be a case of unnatural link building. You have 617 links of which 594 are anchored "<a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">l arginine". Its best practice to use variations of your keywords when linking in.</a>

<a class="clickable title link-pivot" style="background-color: initial;" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">Also the home page looks very very busy.  Too many colors and graphics, user interaction might be the issue, maybe people get to your site and leave because of the clutter.</a>

How long has this site been live? was it ranking well in the past (statically) and now its starting to lose ranking (de-indexing)?

Have you checked your webmaster tools?

Yes it did become more complex and will continue to do so. However SEOmoz has always for the most part suggested building for the users within Googles guidelines.

I like to think of Google as the God of information and its rules as a bible that SEOs need to follow... Just like the bible everyone interpits it in their own way and tries to be good...

Ive read a few case studie and I found that it is best to link to your brand name 70% of the time and use the other 20% with keyword variation and lastly use 10% [Exact] keyword and you will be safe.

Google has been talking about reducing the amount of weight keyword in URL has on a result. IMO No one really knows how much of a ranking factor it has.

Heres a tip for loca link building.

Best practices I know for local area is local link building. Get links for the site within the location you want to rank for.

Good Question,

I would keep them live, if its not broken dont fix it. You can keep them live and add widget C to both pages.

Or

If you really want everything on page C. 301 both A & B to C and be sure to include the keywords your ranking for in your: title, H1, and body. If you do not do a 301 all the link juice will stay on the pages A and B.

IMO it's best to keep it all under one roof. I would use one brand name and build pages for each of your services. This way you can brand one company and be known for everything you do.

Google will not penalize you for building three domains targeting three different terms however you are spreading your content onto three sites rather then one (IMO you are punishing yourself).

Simply trackback to the originals. As long as you trackback to the original content the search engines will know that this is not duplicate content.

If you are using Wordpress for your website simply click the "screen options" on top and check "send trackbacks." That will add the field.

I attached an example of the "screen options" tab with the "send trackbacks" selected.

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Yes that could be the ONE issue causing the problem.

Use Google keyword tool to find good keyword phrases. (be sure to check [exact] field on the left of page) This tool will also suggest other keywords for you. The thing is it will show competitiveness for Google Adwords not organic results soo...

Once you have the keywords you want...

Check SEOmoz keyword tool to see how competitive each phrase is. Since you are a pro member you can check 5 at a time.

You are searching on a broad scale.If you look to the left of the adwords tool, check the box that says [exact] the search volume for this exact phrase is 16

If it helps your users find something they are looking for Search Engines help those users find you.

It depends. If the article goes on your site first it gets indexed and all the credit. If someone takes it for their own usage and does not link back to you it can hurt them. If they syndicate your article and trackback to the original, AKA the first one indexed they will not be punished.

sure no prob... These update apply in the US not sure about France...

New Panda Update - Over optimizing / Overstuffing keywords

Over optimizing is when a page on a site is using an exact keyword without variations  on a page. For Example:

Title: "Chaussures grandes tailles"

Description: "Chaussures  grandes tailles" bla bla bla

H1: "Chaussures grandes tailles"

Body: "Chaussures grandes tailles" 10 times 1 in bold, 1 underlined, and 1 in italic.

Overstuffing keywordsis when a page has 100 exact phrases "Chaussures grandes tailles" on a page with 10,000 words on it. This keeps the ratio low when comparing keywords to content.

Penguin Update

This was placed to prevent unnatural link building/spam

(When a user likes your page they will link to it. Naturally the link is going to be your Company name or Brand name.)

When a company links to a page on their site 100x with an exact keyword "Chaussures grandes tailles" without variation and without a brand name it looks unnatural. This can trigger the penguin update.

A natural link building structure should be:

70% Branding

20% Diverse Anchoring (big shoe, cool big shoe, amazing big shoe, best big shoe, etc...)

10% Exact

They have been mentioned many times on SEOmoz, I never used them but I am assuming they are good.

Probably a boring niche... my specialty : )

I would recommend guest blogging in relevant niches.  Myblogguest.com is a great place for that. Also see if you can find someone in your field that has a large social media presence to share some of your information with. SEOmoz is full of useful blog posts with strategies to gain relevant traffic.

SEO is not just build it and they will come. You must build and share it, create info graphics, Press releases (PRweb or another reliable source), create a contest and write a PR for it, maybe Donate and write a PR. Be sure to use variations of your keywords when linking.

In my opinion the best linking anchor structure is 70% brand name keyword 20%long tail keywords 10% exact keywords

Tip: If you want something from someone you must give value first. I offer potential link building partners all types of things, it depends on who and how. Example: Sometimes I find problems with a site or poor graphics. I can offer my services in exchange for a link.

There may be other factors preventing you from ranking however without your sites URL I cannot help.

The beauty of a boring niche is its boring for your competition as well.

+Donnie Strompf

Sounds like a case of the Google dance... It will balance out, unless you have some personalized settings on. If its a case of personalized settings try searching for your results with private browsing (firefox), or incognito window(google chrome). Or just clear your personal info (cookies and catch) in which ever browser you are using.

What do you mean? Exact local search count is for your continent and Exact global search count is for the keyword world wide.

If it says your exact local search count is 2000 that means 2000 people are searching for that exact keyword in your continent.

Miamisrealtor is shorter and easier to remember. (If you do some keyword research you will find that both: "Miamis realtor" and  "Water front real estate miami" have barely any search volume https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS)Having a URL that your customers can remember and wont have problems typing is better in this case.

Exact domain are best however they are only best if there is traffic for the term.

Someone asked this here in the past: http://www.seomoz.org/q/avoiding-duplicate-page-title-and-duplicate-page-content-best-practices this should help...

Mat and Irving are correct and you can also work on Conversion Rate Optimization. Traffic is one thing, are you generating money? Are the visitors converting into sales? What can you improve to gain results?

I like to start my keyword research by examining the search volume and competitive organic rates on SEOmoz.

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty (pro members only)

| IT Services Los Angeles | 54 |  165,000 | 165,000 | 170 | 170 | Full Analysis |
| Los Angeles IT Services | 60 |  unavailable | unavailable | unavailable | unavailable | Full Analysis |
| IT Support Los Angeles | 53 |  22,200 | 22,200 | 320 | 320 | Full Analysis |
| Los Angeles IT Support | 53 |  22,200 | 22,200 | 91 | 110 | Full Analysis |

out of your selected keywords I would use "IT Support Los Angeles" as your main keyword (highest local exact search volume with lower competition level). Use this with diversity in you title, description, H1, and at least 2 times in your body one regular and one bold or italic.

Here's a good title for your site: "IT Support Los Angeles by [Company name]"

First look at the link profile of the site you are linking to here OSE Once you do a search click on the Anchor Text tab and see how the links are pointing in. Google wants your links to look natural: 50-70% branded/URL and 30-50% linking with diversity/exact anchor text (the keywords you are after)...

Hi Krista,

If the old data is useful to users I would update all of it. If the old data is useless to the users I would create good new data and optimize the newer posts.

Now when you say optimize... are you referring to just adding links to the existing content? If so.. I would also be careful having a bunch of links pop up all at once will not look natural : ) If all your doing is adding some links I would not do it all at once... Space it out, maybe do 1-3 a day..

As Irvine Weiss is mentioning the way to do it is to pick your best page and do a canonical tag directing to it. here is a great read:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

It's best to build your site for your users and not try to manipulate the search engines. I would go for one keyword per page two max. Placing two keywords in a title may look funny in most cases. In your case "IT Support Los Angeles" has the highest local search volume 320 out of the keywords you mentioned.

Adding spammy footer links does not help your users and most likely is not helping your competitors (it may have in the past) rather putting their sites in danger.

I understand that you want to rank for multipul locations, which can be done without spamming. For a good internal linking structure watch this video: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

I see,

However these are not exact match domains.

An exact match domain must be exact:

If I wanted to rank for cars and I had cars.com or cars.net those would be exact.

These are you links...

• Auto Insurance
• Business Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Home Insurance
• Renters Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Travel Insurance
• Long Term Care Insurance

These are your URLs:

online renters insurance - 210

Disability quotes - 480

consumer insurance guide - 58

life quotes - 301,000

renters insurance illinois - 46

e health insurance - 2,400

You have a gold URL out of all of these...

I would forget all the other URLs and invest all my time on lifequotes.com

You can still have lifequotes.com/auto-insurance and that counts as having the keyword in your URL. In fact Lifequote is your brand name in this case and all your anchored text which are [exact] will also look natural.

You need to create a robot.txt file and upload it to your server.

www.akaalpet.com/robot.txt does not exist...

This should help you set it up: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt

If you copy and paste the text into google you will find that:

<cite>www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/cd-duplicators</cite>andwww.ccisound.com/StoreFront/category/cd-duplicators have the same exact content on them.

This is duplicate content.

if you paste this line of text into google: "When it comes to Acoustics, Sound, Video and Lighting Systems for Church, Presentation & Entertainment Venues expectations are always high and success is never negotiable. That's why prominent venues have turned to CCI Solutions for creative answers to their complex challenges."

You will find several URLs with the same content.

Here is a link to Google Keyword research tool. Be sure to check the box on the left to see [exact] search volume: https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS

Also, I do not recommend making your title, URL, and H1 exact because that does not look natural (Panda update). I do recommend including them but with variations, build your site for your users not for the search engine spiders.

You can always use who.is to find out who the site is registered to I also remember this question being asked in the past: http://www.seomoz.org/q/finding-specific-name-to-send-email-to-broken-link-building

Not necessarily.. If your article gets no action and it's keyword density is perfect (if there is such a thing), it will not out rank (give more authority) an article that goes viral without perfect keyword density.

Remember Google does not like manipulations. The latest Panda update is designed to detect keyword stuffing and other unnatural on page factors.

Place your keywords where it makes sense for the user and in time your site will gain authority.

How could they do that?

You see one of the companies I work for is a boring niche. We used a Facebook ad to gain users and we gained 1000 of these users when I pulled the plug. With 1000 users in a boring niche we got no interaction. So, do you believe Google can determine a boring niche from a non boring niche?

What do you think will get more attention a Lady Gaga post or a metal building post?

I am unsure of how much value these mentions have or how they are calculated. I find too many flaws in it.

However, if your in a non boring niche and users are interacting you should do fine, and most likely this will help.

Im speaking from a boring niche perspective... Whether I get 1,000,000 users to like me or 5 its the same interaction for each post. Non existant.

Is this a recent incremental Penguin Update?

Penguin update happened around April 2012...

if I build more backlinks with anchor text other than my keywords it should help?

Yes.. Build quality links (your brand/URL) from relavent authoritative sites (Link to sites in which your site can benefit the users).

What is the best startegy to build these links ( Social Bookarking, Blogs etc ) as I need it indexed quickly.

I would build a blog on your site and write articles that can benefit specific niche related people. I would find niche related people and build a relationship with them (by adding value), offer them to contribute on my blog and then ask them to share it.

Do you think Google will tell me if I'm penalised if I contact them?

I would not contact Google because they did not send you anything. However I would invest my time in some quality work that can benefit users..

Conclusion:

Give the people what they want and Google will give you to the people.

Lets say you wanted to rank for "blue cat" having your page set up like this:

URL: http://www.brand.com/blue-cat

Page Title:blue cat

H1:blue cat

body: blue cat

link on page: blue cat

This is considered over optimizing

Having your page set up like this:

URL: http://www.brand.com/blue-cat

Page Title:blue cat from the Brand

H1:Welcome to blue cat - where we painted our cat blue.

body: the blue cat has many friends and smells like paint. lorem ipsum etc. etc.

link on page: learn more about the blue cat

This is a page that uses diversity and still includes your main keyword phrase. This is how you protect your site prom the over optimizing.

I would no index the tags.

I attached a little image for your review.

I pulled the image from this article on setting up wordpress for SEO: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

However it's still the best practice for most blog's.

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I would highly recommend it and there are a handfull of opportunities available when utilized properly.

Three good articles.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-every-marketer-now-needs-a-google-strategy

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-plus-the-ultimate-you-sourced-search-engine

Exactly! Good luck!

I dont think there is such a thing as "perfect SEO" (or perfect anything), I did a little research on this because it got me a bit nervous... I found this article http://www.webconfs.com/over-optimization-article-8.php... Last time Google was hinting a change to its algo's Panda kicked some sites. I wouldn't underestimate Googles "Hints"...

The article I mentioned explains the differences between overstuffing keywords and keeping it clean. Keeping a keyword to content ratio of 3-7% should keep you in the "safe" SEO area (for now).

I spend a good amount of time on SEO forums and I found a thread about building links within comments.. I personally don't see how putting my keyword in my name place and linking it to my site will benefit me, I feel like google is already on to this and no one is going to click on it. Is this a waste of time?

There is no way to control how fast a site gets indexed.. However if you follow good on-page optimization and create/upload a sitemap to the search engines, it can help your site get indexed faster.

It would be nice if they gave you google classic (AKA Vanoogle.com) as an option. That way everyone would be happy.

Yes I agree, If you cannot get all the features with a dedicated CMS as Rand suggests a static site without a CMS is better.

This is a good question you should contact Ann Smarty from my guest blog, she also happens to be an SEOmoz user...

http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/54095

Other related sites:

http://www.seosmarty.com/

http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/ann-smarty/

If you are the first to publish and have the article indexed you get the credit. I would also have them trackback to your article. Many articles get syndicated on the web, however as long as it is trackbacked no one gets punished.

Probably not legal, copyright infringement.. However, I would not worry too much if someone has a problem with it they will contact you to take it down, make sure you do so.

Yes new links will help out. However if you follow the article I mentioned it has a great 6 month plan to regaining trust.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-6-month-link-building-plan-for-an-established-website

I would highly recommend using this article as your 6 month plan it has everything you need in it and in detail.

I recommend a link building strategy. You have a good site however it needs to have some authority (relevant quality links). There are many ways to build links to your site: Guest Blogging / Press Releases / Contacting a webmaster and giving some value in exchange for a link. Also take a look at your competitor links for whatever keywords you are trying to rank for. Type the keyword in google and take the top site paste it into OSE and evaluate these links. Are these links relevant? Do these sites have fresh content? Will your site / Can your site add value to the users of these site? If all three answers are yes, do whatever it takes to get those links or similar links.

Build a blog on your site and get others to blog on it using a good blog service (http://myblogguest.com), make sure that you only link to other relevant quality sites (sites that have good linking profiles).

Be sure to keep you link ratio natural (majority of your inbound links anchored with your URL/Brand name)

Create content on your blog that others will be interested in: Cute video of 20 kittens in a plastic bin... 5 reasons why our bins are indestructible... Yogi gets stuck in bin...

Create unique (entertaining, educational, funny) content that others will naturally link to and then share it with niche related people via social networks.

SEOmoz has hundreds of great link building strategy that you can utilize. Simply go to the search in the top right and type: link building or guest blogging or Press Release.

Penguin is designed to penalize sites that have low credibility and the way the sites are linking in. For Example: If your site has 90% of its inbound links anchored with your exact keyword it becomes obvious that your are trying to rank for that specific keyword. The penguin update looks at where your sites are linking from and how they are linking in. If it looks unnatural to the search engines you may get penalized.

Best practices are to build good articles on any site that can help/entertain/educate users within your niche. Best structure for your anchor text is 70% to your brand name or URL, 20% long tail keywords, 10% exact keywords.

Blogging on these sites:

wordpress.com
weebly.com
blogger.com
livejournal.com
tumblr.com
squidoo.com
blog.com

Is fine if the content is somewhat helpful/educational/entertaining and if the links look natural.

I think you may have your personal settings saved on your browser. I am only seeing one result from Wikipedia and thats for "loudspeakers"... For  "Speaker" I dont even see wikipedia on the first page.

Try doing the search again from another browser. Or you can open an incognito window (only in chrome) or private browsing (Only in Firefox) and redo the search.