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Depending on the rewrite rules of your new CMS, and the redirects put in place, there may be issues with the techniques used.

You can 301 redirect the non trailing slash versions too, just to be sure!

Hi James,

There are two ways to do this;

1. In Webmaster tools, there is a link under the Optimization menu to remove a URL,

2. Or if you'rve got access to your robots.txt file, just add the following to the bottom:

Disallow: /airport-cab/?show=gallery

This will remove it from the Google index next time the file is crawled.

If you are on Wordpress, and do not currently have an SEO plugin, try Yoast's, and use the Edit Files sub-menu to edit your robots file there.

John,

41 links for a footer area, whilst it is a large number, isn't too many really. You should be careful on the total number of links on the page however. I believe you should try to cap it at 100, but I think I've read somewhere 200+ is classed excessive

Hope this helps!

Mihai,

Panda is looking for thin sites, so as long as you have a genuine website then there should be no reason your site can't do well in time.

The on page reports are still very useful in highlighting factors for consideration. Whether you take them literally or not is up to you.

Using keywords in H1/Title tags etc is still fairly common practice if you're chasing that key term.

Hi Lisa,

OSE will crawl enough pages of your site that are found/relevant at the time of the last crawl.

OSE is not up to date at any one time.

This FAQ shows that some data may be delayed up to 60 days, however in my experience listing new websites, this has been more like a couple of weeks.

http://www.seomoz.org/help/open-site-explorer-faq

Hello Hardik,

First of all, SEO is not an instant win. There are many things you can do to get a head start, however the off page factors, such as inlinks will take time to build.

I'd recommend reading the SEO Beginners Guide http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo before proceeding too much further.

Exact domain match names will perform better in some cases, currently, however you should focus on building a good brand name, which doesn't have to be relevant. This is much better for future customers, and the potential future for SEO.

Sign up to a few forums, answer some helpful questions, write some reviews, and some blog posts in the hope of getting some links.

In the short term, concentrate on on page factors, such as title tags, keyword density in the copy, image alt tags, and the internal linking structure.

I hope this helps!

Hi Edward, Welcome to SEOMoz!

There may be many reasons why the website in question is ranking higher than yours.

You'll need to factor in a couple of factors, regarding both your site and the competitiors.

How old is your domain? Theirs is almost 12 months old, which if I believe correctly, is long enough to avoid any 'youth website' penalisation. If yours is new then Google may not have crawled it properly yet.

Aside from this, OSE and Google do not share databases, therefore some pages that Google is aware of, OSE may not be aware of. Mozbot would need to follow links to the competitiors site for it to be added to the index (what I believe).

As a result of this, you will see 0 on the mozbar when infact there are some links pointing to it. In fact there are some (rather dodgy) links pointing to ambienmed:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=link%3Aambienmed.com&sugexp=chrome,mod=2&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

On page content can also play a part in ranking factors. Ambienmed has a wealth of content on the home page which is very keyword heavy.

Also, as mentioned previously, your competitiors are fortunate enough to have an exact match domain name.

I hope some/all of this helps!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Yeah thinking about it that would be great,so they land on a long URL with a few php vars in, then these are $_POSTed to the new form.... The page is then 301'ed, and then the content is displayed?

Any ideas on how to go about something like that? I'll have a look around our friend Google in the mean time!

Does using referral programs, such as by using index.php?referral_id=0001 pass any link juice back to the page index.php?

I'm creating a web app that ideally I'd like people to be able to link to and bookmark - so that they can pull up their own settings.

Is there any way that I can solve both of these at once? The use of PHP GET and the use of SEO.

I'd really like to get a solution as I'm developing my new website!

Any help would be appreciated!

I've read a lot about this over the web, but essentially Thomas below has summed it up. It's good to have these high profile cases in the SEO world as it reminds us all why we link build manually ad by the book!!

Yeah, you might even want to show mobile users some different content for example

How do you mean? As it DMOZ / Google directory?

I use them to rank myself against a competitor, and also to judge link sources etc.

Don't worry about meta tags, they're not used and add clutter to the page code.

Must be an on page SEO issue.... Check on page elements out as your next port of call.

Thanks for that pointer goonewscowboy, I just stumbled across this article and it was a good read

Which high authority sources do you go for to get the big links?

You need to do something news worthy to get a link on the BBC! For your hip hop site you should concentrate on a different link building tactic!

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps-archive/thread?tid=4fa32594aadb2e9f&hl=en

It looks like you'll have to use the real address!

Page rank? Or do you mean Page Authority (if you have the toolbar set up!)

Yeah the BBC was a lucky one for us, it was very hard to get it edited once they had already released the article too.

Nice site.... Is it relevant?

SEO value, in terms of Domain Trust, Domain Authority, and Page Authority. I don't have too many links, that refer traffic.

It's a toss up between the PRO toolset and the blogs, both main and the UGC blog (however I'm still waiting for my blog entry to be read, grrrr!)

@Scott Fern, Kris is correct in highlighting the massive average links per domain there... It should be a lot lower! The IP issue is something you might want to look into also, as getting involved with bad neighborhoods is a bad idea!

Follow David's instructions and you'll be sorted in no time! Very useful and informative answer, thanks!

Amazing answer. Put in the groundwork, and soon you'll be unstoppable!!

I'll start with ours, it's a BBC article which listed our website in the resources box, keyword rich

It's not necessarily a best practice in SEO to do this, but there are tools out there like http://www.submityourarticle.com which I've seen positive results from. The service basically pushes out either the same article, or a close spun alternative to many article networks, so there is a huge risk that in the future the links from the duplicate pages will be discounted/have negative impacts on your efforts.

Hope this helps!

You'll need to assess which keywords are actually a possibility for your site. Ranking isn't down to just the keyword you're going for. Domain age, authority, trust etc are all factors used in calculating your position in the SERPs. Don't get scared off by a 'Highly Competitive' keyword though!!

Well if you want a keyword you have to just go for it! If your site has loads of unique content, the likelyhood is that you'll start seeing benefits from long tail searches coming in with not too much work.

Check out the PRO campaigns on here, I'm assuming you're aware that SEOmoz utilizes some Google API's to serve up their own keyword difficulty score. Unfortunately the site I'm link building to is in a super competitive market!

Hope this helps.

Tom

Google doesn't index framed content at all I'm afraid. There are no SEO benefits to providing content served in frames. You don't seem to have any frames on your website however?

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34445

If you are not leaving the company behind, I would suggest flipping the current brandedsite.com to the new city. If you didn't start with CityAWebsiteDesign.com, then you shouldn't need CityBWebsiteDesign.com.

If you need to change the URL in some way to reflect this change... perhaps you're keeping the old office open etc, then the best option would be a subfolder, just brandedcompanyname.com/City-B-website-Design

That way you keep the domain authority of your website, and you get the benefit of the keyword rich url.

Hope this helps!

Tom

DGSEO, as everyone else has stated, it's VERY unlikely that you'll be able to get more than one DMOZ listing. I know it took me weeks just to get one!!

I see you have Domain Authority of 71! Thats mad!

Vjay,

Check out http://guides.seomoz.org/!!

A quick Google showed me this result: Video Optimisation

Essentially these appear to be important

• HTML surrounding video
• Filename, title, description
• Video Files Metadata Optimization
• Keyword “video”
• Links and Backlinks
• Video sitemaps / MRSS / RSS
• Optimize your URLs

Tom

Check out the SEOmoz Juicy Link Finder! There are some example emails online, (just search online).

Great advice Rishi

Linkbuilding is never finished! Just make sure you continue to diversify your link profiles with blog comments, forum links, guest posts, guest posts, partner links, etc.

There are some good guides on SEOmoz explaining how to ask for a link!

Tom

I cant find an infographic on this for you. Essentially every SEO will go about this differently. If I remember there are some template emails on this site??

To get blog and forum links, obviously you just need to comment or sing up and post... Getting guest posts posted you need to build a relationship with the blog owner.

If you're looking for a quick win you could try distributing a few articles to ezines such as http://ezinearticles.com/

Tom

Tom,

It would make sense to target the home page at the National market, as it will generally require higher Domain Authority to perform well long term! You could have some local pages, with office addressess and relevant local terms and images embedded within it for the wine tasting rooms.

This way, the site would not necessarily be split, but it would be more of a journey for the user through the site. Most visitors would land on the home page, and those interested in local niche's can be funneled through to the sub pages via carefully places links/navigation.

Obviously the on page SEO would have to be considered, perhaps using vcard formats on all addresses, and optimising title and H1 tags, as well as monitoring keyword density, bold, emphasis, etc. (The 'Analyse' tool on the SEOmoz toolbar is good for this!)

Finally, the off page SEO will then have to be considered, such as local directory submissions, DMOZ, BOTW, JoeAnt, Yahoo Directory etc. Then following the top level obvious choices, get links form Blogs, Forums, and articles.

Try running online competitions and offering small online discounts to get lasting links to your site also

Tom

Always keep the phone number there. It's not going to give any SEO help, however it's good practise for marketing

Our PR and SEO team is almost one dedicated time. Many business do most trading online, and as a result of that, that's where we concentrate our efforts. Most of the news and PR we put online also goes into the offline channels though!

Infographics, Viral campaigns, competitions are all good things to consider too.

I'd have to agree with this more! 301 to the category, that way once a new article/post/page/job etc appears under that article page, it will instantly have a boost from the PA/DA passed

They're still good for links! Plus, as a company you need to be producing Press Releases weekly anyway to give to other various sources. For the extra 10 minutes it takes to upload it to the site you may as well just for the high PR links!

Definitely stop using this service! Simple as that.

Look to get guest blogs, some profile, comments and forum links, (but concentrate your time in other areas). PR and relationships with high authority sites such as newspapers is an absolute must!

Perhaps some form of viral campaign will push up the searches for 'your keyword'... It's definitely an interesting topic!

We use a call center to handle our leads, and ideally wanted that to be the number on the Google places rather then a direct line. Essentially we just called up the call center ourselves and told them that the call will be coming soon, then asked them to write the code down, then they just emailed it over.

So long as your customers aren't too computer-illiterate I'm sure you could just pre warn them about the call to make sure they're prepared for it.

Our site is customer facing, and we need to keep the content low in some cases, so we use different JQuery plugins to 'hide' some content from the viewers.... but not search engines

I wouldn't say it's black hat as the content is 100% original and very authoratitive (optimised oviously), it's just a way of getting your content on the page without having the old CSS margin: -10000000000000px trick I bet you all know!!