Hi Albere

It sounds like you've done some good work to progress as far as you have. I'd suggest to keep going and not give up, if what you've been doing has worked then keep doing more of it.

I've seen on many an occasion that it does take time and perseverance to jump from the second page to the first.

Try performing a competitor link analysis if you haven't already, look for any linking opportunities. See if you can improve the anchor text of any existing inbound links that you have.

Check your on-page and on-site attributes with the SEOmoz toolset.  Ensure those keywords that you are targeting and included in your Meta Title, Description, H1 tag and throughout your page content (without over-doing it, everything in moderation).

Have a read of  "A New Way of Looking at Ranking Factors" and check out the periodic table of ranking factors within it.

Keep producing fresh, relevant, interesting valuable content and share it socially across the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+.  Do some online PR and share your content, this helps with acquiring new natural links.

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

Hi Maria, this usually has absolutely no effect at all on SEO, though can't be completely sure without seeing it and your website. The main consideration with such pop ups is User Experience rather than SEO. Hope that helps, Simon

Thanks Ryan. I like your more detailed answer on user experience, spot on!

Hi there

From the sounds of things in your question, yes, you will likely be better off targeting your internal pages to rank for relevant search terms rather than your homepage as a 'catch-all'.

So e.g.  http://xxxxxx.org/the-keyword-for-ranking  try to acquire (natural, not paid) inbound links to these pages from relevant authoritive websites with relevant anchor text.

Your homepage will acquire links anyway (usual scenario), this page will rank for your brand and perhaps main overall keyword, difficult to tell though without knowing anything about the website.

There was an interesting White Board Friday recently entitled "Mapping Keywords to Content for Maximum Impact" which is worth a view. It introduces the concept of the 'Frankenpage' which is best avoided (e.g. a homepage or internal page that tries to cater for too many different topics and keywords), better off targeting 1 page for one or two phrases based around 1 main topic.

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

Hi Bob

On the SEO side, keywords in domain names don't directly matter as much as they used to, especially with Google. That's the general consensus these days.

On the Usability side, it still helps if there is a keyword or two in the domain name, it helps with that remember-ability as you mentioned plus can help with Click Through Rates if it 'does what it says on the tin'.

What the keyword(s) is depends largely on whether Brand or Product/Service is your most important selling point.

If 'Bob Weikel' is your brand that you'd like to be the main selling point, then include those words.

If 'Health Coach' is what you'd like to be foremost known for, then go for that.

And of course, your suggestion of  'bobweikelhealthcoach.com'  includes both brand and service and isn't too long, though more difficult to remember perhaps than either or.  Perhaps drop the Bob and become known as 'w****eikelhealthcoach.com' as a suggestion.

There's no definitive right or wrong, it's what best matches your business purpose & goals.

If you haven't already read it, have a read of a Domain Guide here on SEOmoz which may help you further.

I hope all that does help you out,

Regards

Simon