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Hi,

Place your wordpress install into a subdirectory like "YourDomain.com/wp/.

Develop your site

Move the WP site to the Root. Follow the instruction on http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress.

There can sometimes be issues with the image and media uploads but checking on the General Settings for the media Library pointer usually fixes that.

I build Wordpress Sites like this all the time.

Hope that helps.

Steve

At the start of an SEO campaign for my smaller client I use their competitors site keyword metat tag as a starting point for keyword research.

I also recommend that we remove the keyword meta from my clients sites so other SEOs don't use the information to their own benefit.

It's an approach that seems to work for me.

Yes I agree. Content is still King (ish).

I have no direct experience BUT...

I have heard that .info domains are often used for porn / spam sites so they've already got a bad reputation before you start.

Advice I've been given is to staty away from .info.

HTH

Steve

Hi MirandaP

I think the only way to do that is to build a new campaign.

I understand why they only crawl once a week. If the "Crawl again now" feature was available the servers and software could get really over loaded and degrade the service for everyone.

Hope that helps

Steve

Hi,

I'd go for option 3.

A - Make sure you have a fully updates Google Places Page

B - Build your site NOW and start adding content

C - Start a Hairdresser blog and post a small hairdresser advice blog every day. Maybe Style of the day with picture

D - Start a lik build campaign

E - Get listed on all the local and free directories

As for dominating the serp in the first 2 months I'm not sure abiut that but it's worth a go.

Lots of content pages linking etc. Gradual build up of content over the 2 months. It's a whole load of work.

Good luck

Hi,

It's impossible to say the number of visits you'll get in the future. Looking at Googles Keyword Tool there are 550,000 searches for your key phrase "movies 2012" so I guess there could be at least 5000 visits if you get a page 1 position near the top.

Hope that helps

Steve

Hey,

I see you have a Wordpress Site so your "Home Page" could be called anything. What are you expecting to see as your home page?

Just the domain name I guess.

Of course the actual page you are looking for may be indexed in another name. Maybe take a look at how is your home page created.

Not that helpful. sorry...

Hi David

In my experience you'd be better off adding the educational content to your own site with the addition of local (Ashville) references within the content.

More experienced SEOmoz'ers may have a better answer

Building a very full and rich content base within your own site / domain with healthy links within the site that will provide the user a better experience has got to be the first target for any website.

be good to see the URL for the site too.

Regards

Steve

What is the URL of the Home page?  Are you certain it's been removed from the index?

try searching in Google for SITE:http://www.YOURHOMEPAGE.com/INDEX-NAME.HTML

Steve

Hi,

I use Google Analytics for Goal Tracking (if that's what you are referring to). Getting people to fill in a form and go to a THANKS page is the way I do it.

I set the goal as the thanks page URL. It's pretty easy to set up.

Hope that helps.

Hi,

It kinda depends on where the search is starting and where you want the users to end up.

Getting your 301 redirect to sort out where the user should be (product1 , 2 or 3) may well be possible. Is that what you actually want?

From the question I am assuming that you want to move the 3 product page (single page) to multiple 1 product pages.

If this is the way you want it to be there could be a way to create a 301 redirect to push url/anchor to the correct page.

Are you now duplicating the content in your 3 product page and the individual pages?

Hi,

I've just replaced an "In House" SEO with a consultancy model.  The process related to me from the in-house guy was very bureaucratic as you have said.

From a consultant perspective I need to prove what I do does have a difference to te bottom line and then this builds trust.

Work out what will make a difference to the bottom line and attack that first. In my situation, they'd been running AdWords unsuccessfully for a while so I managed to get a small budget (£100) to prove a point. We ran a campaign for 2 weeks and got a noticeable spike in traffic and business. This has built the trust in my approach and process enormously.

On the reporting side I only report once a month in writing with other ad-hoc verbal reports of how things are going. Slipping in one or two suggestions about direction and budget in the verbal reports can be very beneficial.

Report less - Do more.

When reporting try to focus on the "what you did, what outcome you expected and what you learned" This should then feed back into an SEO Plan and overall strategy. In terms of SEO I've found business leaders like strategy.

Hope that helps

Steve

Hi,

I could not detect a meta description in your code. Maybe try adding this to the page head section:

name="description" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION TEXT" />

HTH

Steve

Thanks Yannick, much appreciated.

Hey Yannick. Thanks

And just to be clear. There is 1 file for each page serving bot www & non-www version with a 301 redirect pointing all requests to the non-www URL.

The rel canonical is in every file so search engines will see the rel canonical on every request.

I'm thinking this MUST have some effect on the site. What to you think?

Hi Yannick

Thanks for the reply. I've been working on "on page" stuff for the last month for a site and noticed that I'm getting no improvement at all in ranking.

This is very unusual I think.

The tech guys on the site are 301'ing to the non-www site AND have placed a re canonical to the non-www version too.

My thought are to have the rel canonical removed as there is a 301 (.htaccess) in place.

Thanks again

Steve

I have a site that has been developed to default to the non-www version. However each page has a rel canonical to the non-www version too.

Could having this in place on all pages hurt the site in terms of search engines?

thanks

Steve

Hey Alan,

! ! ! ! 300 broken Links ?????

I'm not seing any of that.  The most I've seen are 2 URLS.  What are you using the detect broken links?

Thanks for your help

Perfect!

You guys really are fantastic.

I figured it'd be worth the time writing your own content so i've been doing that although have tried out a couple of links with their writers.

You're right the quality is on the low side.

Much appreciate the advice

Cheers

Steve

Hey itrogers

Thanks for the pointer to the seomoz link directory. I'm OK with on site but link building is new to me so I'm just feeling my way.

I'm just starting to try our "BuildMyRank" for link building. Do you have any experience of that. Is it worth using?

Cheers

Steve

Now , where's that link building button...

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I've made changes over a few weeks in small batches.  It's a new site so all the pages needed Title and a boit of content focus.

Backlinks may well be holding us back, so we've started that process although the competition aren't looking that great either. It should be easier than this !!

We'll continue to build links and update the content for keyword focus.

Thanks again for your help.

Steve

I've been tweaking a Wordpress little by little over the last 3 to 4 weeks but I'm making no progress in the rankings for my keywords.

All keywords are still reporting >50 in the SEOMOZ Campaign.

Here's the clients pet keyword:

"Sailing in Scotland"  www.capriceyachtcharter.co.uk

The site is indexed and shows IF I search for the company name "Caprice Yacht Charter"

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance

Steve

Thanks Marcus.

Hi,

I've added a campaign to my account with the first crawl taking around a week. The 2nd crawl started 3days 17 hours ago and si still running.

Is this something that others have experienced?

The campaign is tracking 5 keywords and have 17 pages on the site.

Steve

Thanks for your advice.  I've been offered link building by "Smart Traffic" in the UK.  Any experience of these guys?

I know that link building is one of the more important tools for great ranking and know that "paid links" may hurt a sites ranking.

How do I know if a company offering link building will be classified as "paid links"