If I am building a Nav bar should I use my keywords or make it easier for the user to find what they are looking for. IMO one should ALWAYS make a site based on user experience.

If it Google and other SEs do count Nav links, would it be best to place more important keys first?

Competition difficulty level only shows sites on first pages SERPs. For example: If wiki is up there it throws the number off or just makes it look way more challenging.

Is there an ideal ratio of percent difficulty to search volume?

No there is not. There are plenty of keywords out there with huge traffic volume and no competition. For the most part profitable keywords are more challenging.

Ooops I read this after posting below... Sorry about that

"the more words in your domain, the less SEO impact each word is going to have. At some point, it may start to look a bit spammy." I think I missed a good article on this can you please provide a source?

I would not use this for over the phone lol... Only to tap into search engine traffic, lets say I found a term that is highly competitive. However, the rankers are not optimizing for that specific query. Its only highly competitive because these sites are authoritative for other relavent keywords.

Example.

I want to rank for the keywords "how can i be sure this is true"

When I type this in a search engine, lets say I get youtube/ebay/etsy/etc... for the SERP (highly authoritative according to SEOmoz but they are not targeting the long tail question)

Would I be better off buying a domain canthisbe.com? I dont see how this makes sense....

I am not 100% about hyphens. However, I noticed that most sites use hyphens in all their sub pages. (Just look at the URL of this thread http://www.seomoz.org/q/domain**-**length) I think that Hyphens are bad on a root domain.

"The reason behind it is that words such as: what, is, right etc. do not really give you any keyword value. Your main keyword would be France and then something to indicate that you want to relate to the current time - like 'now'."

Are you sure about this?

I never heard of this... Can you please provide a source?

From my understanding exact domain helps (no telling how much). By exact I am implying [iwanttogetonthefirstpageofgoogle] for the term "I want to get on the first page of google"

THis is somewhat helpful. However, it explains domain for users...

Let me give you an example..

If I want to rank for "what is going on in france right now" it is longer then 15 characters and no one will want to type it. If my domain is whatisgoingoninfrancerightnow.com it will help my SEO rankings, or do the search engines look at the length and say nonono?

The link you provided led me to another question. It recomends not using hyphens, are they talking about the main domain only www.my-domain.com, or main domain and extension www.mydomain.com/my-domain?

Does Domain length matter for SEO?

I have a new customer and he wants me to clear up the SERP for his branded keyword, the SERP currently has his site and two other sites related to him under his result... Under that is bad reviews and old reports. My client does own the top spot (#1) for his branded name.

My client has a:

linkedin

facebook

twitter

myspace

I was thinking to push all these to the first page, this will clear up some of those bad reviews.

What are your thoughts?

Have any of you ever had this type of case?

I need to get 6 different sites to all rank for the same exact key term, however I have the top spot to link from...

Your welcome : )

Although you are correct... there is still more then one way to skin a chicken.

But the spiders still run on the page and read the canonical link, however with the robot text the spiders will not.

Yes, but Rel=Canonical does not block a page it only tells google which page to follow out of two pages.The question was how to block, not how to tell google which link to follow. I believe you gave credit to the wrong answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element

This is not fair. lol

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt