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Right I have done some research... As this was bugging me...
Remove:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Default\.aspx$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pagename=About-Us$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.co.uk/About-Us/ [R=301,L]
And replace it with:
```
<code>RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pagename=About-Us$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^Default\.aspx$ http://www.domain.co.uk/About-Us/? [R=301,L,NC]</code>
```
Test it and let me know...
Keith
Hi Uds,
I wouldn't say it's worth moving them... I suspect the links are all in the footers any way? (which pass less juice).
If you have 50 sites on one host from the same C block all linking back they are not going to pass as much juice as say 50 links from various high quality sites.
Keith
Hi Pieter,
They are google local listing results, on a mobile device the number is displayed as a call button.
You will need to setup a Google Places account (which is now integrated with Google+) and get it to rank in order to show up with a call button in the SERP's.
I did a blog post on Google Places Optimisation that you might find useful.
Keith
The short answer is no, there is no issue with targeting the keywords on each site but you will have to put twice the work in... A better option would be to use the same site and build more domain authority to that site and target some different keywords to increase traffic.
Or are you trying to appear on the first SERP page multiple times using different domains?
I would not worry about it... That's like saying "For next day delivery lease make sure you order before 3pm monday - friday." - which is completely legit.
It's when you have two pages that are almost the same you run into issues, or two urls for one page 
Or you are copying content from other sites.
A 307 Redirect is the HTTP 1.1 successor of the 302 redirect. While the major crawlers will treat it like a 302 in some cases, it is best to use a 301 for almost all cases. The exception to this is when content is really moved only temporarily (such as during maintenance) AND the server has already been identified by the search engines as 1.1 compatible. Since determining if the search engines have identified this essentially impossible, it is best to use a 302 redirect.
Hey Debora,
Any luck?
Keith
Are you looking to redirect a single url or many similar URL's ?
I agree with the above but make sure you have a varied back link profile, build some links for your brand, some naked URL's, some links to other pages etc.
Keep your anchor text keyword % down as low as possible.
Hey Ahmad,
OSE (open site explorer) only shows links from the more reputable sites and does not show links from low quality sources another reason could simply be that Roger (the SEOMoz crawler bot) has not yet crawled sites with your links on.
You should attempt to build an organic (looking) link profile... If all your links are anchor text for "engraved wedding glasses" it looks unnatural and spammy.
There is no golden number of links that triggers googles algo, but don't build stupid amounts in one go, a few per day should be fine I'd say no more than 20 and ideally gradually increase more per day as your site authority grows.
If you are asking why your ranking has not increased... My answer would be due to the quality of your inbound links, most are from low quality forums, directories or low authority sites.
The quality of the inbound link matters greatly.
Google have not used they keyword meta tag since about 2009 IIRC
See here for more details: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html
How that helps,
K
It depends, if it's a .com you are going to be waiting a month at least probably 2, same for a .co.uk
You can use godaddy to back register domains then as soon as the domain is available it will register it for you, I think it costs around $10 per domain.
If Wendy has a keyword heavy domain why not just build the links to the home page?! I would avoid repeating the keyword again in the URL if the domain already includes them...
I could understand this strategy if the domain was branded and did not include the target keywords, but that's not the case here.
Keith
Hi Todd,
A site can still rank for the keywords you are optimising for with on-page alone - if the area is niche enough (or the other pages have poor on-page SEO).
If you mean that you are appearing on page one and you are not getting people link back to you organically... That's just life
If you mean you have built links and they are not showing up using Open Site Explorer then either Roger has not crawled the site with your links on or the index has not updated (IIRC OSE's site index gets updated once a month).
I would just add:
rel="canonical" href="http://www.mycompany.com/blah.html" />
No need to add 301's.
This might be useful it's Magento specific: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/adding_canonical_url_to_cms_pages
Hey Ahmad,
OSE (open site explorer) only shows links from the more reputable sites and does not show links from low quality sources another reason could simply be that Roger (the SEOMoz crawler bot) has not yet crawled sites with your links on.
You should attempt to build an organic (looking) link profile... If all your links are anchor text for "engraved wedding glasses" it looks unnatural and spammy.
There is no golden number of links that triggers googles algo, but don't build stupid amounts in one go, a few per day should be fine I'd say no more than 20 and ideally gradually increase more per day as your site authority grows.
If you are asking why your ranking has not increased... My answer would be due to the quality of your inbound links, most are from low quality forums, directories or low authority sites.
The quality of the inbound link matters greatly.
I would simplify your robots.txt to read something like:
**User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://www.your-domain.com/sitemap.xml**
Hi Diane,
You need to add your blog's RSS feed to FeedBurner, when you create your feed in FeedBurner it should ask you for this information.
FYI, Feedburner is system that enables users to sign up to your blog and be notified when new posts are made, it is not a platform for blogging.
Here is a blog post I wrote a while back explaining how to use FeedBurner with Wordpress, but it's applicable to any website with an RSS / Atom feed http://techspotting.org/how-to-use-feedburner-with-wordpress/
It's a nice step by step post with screen shots
A 307 Redirect is the HTTP 1.1 successor of the 302 redirect. While the major crawlers will treat it like a 302 in some cases, it is best to use a 301 for almost all cases. The exception to this is when content is really moved only temporarily (such as during maintenance) AND the server has already been identified by the search engines as 1.1 compatible. Since determining if the search engines have identified this essentially impossible, it is best to use a 302 redirect.
Hi Vjay,
TBH it's probably your back link catalog... It's mainly built from blog comment spam.