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Also if you are getting a lot of traffic, a CDN is a good investment. CloudFlare.com is free. Others are around $20/month.

Finally, we encounter a lot of clients who come to us complaining their sites are loading slowly. Using something like tools.pingdom.com you might be able to tell if there is a giant image file that is slowing everything down. Also, some themes (free and premium) are not optimized well and load jquery 6 times, etc, which will slow down the page speed in a big way.

Finally, and I hate to rag on them all the time, but GoDaddy's hosting is painfully slow and can barely be helped. Move your site if you are on their servers.

I just want to note that I just caught Google using a meta keyword to rank an article #1 for this keyword, even though the keyword ONLY appeared in the meta keywords tag.

The page was coming up for a search query like "army boots music" even though the page was only about "army boots" and the keyword "music" did not appear anywhere on the page. However, someone had mistakenly put both the meta keywords "army boots" AND "army music" on the page and this is how Google was making this determination.

So I'm perplexed as to how to interpret this, since Google says they "ignore" meta keywords for rankings. Again, this was #1 on the SERP.

This is a great video that will help anyone pick the right SEO company or employee

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-interview-questions-whiteboard-friday

We have the same issue-- our customers are located around the country and when we had AdWords campaigns we targeted certain cites, but always coast-to-coast.

Our solution has been to attack certain cities with special pages, so we can try to rank for "keyword seattle" and "keyword miami"

This is sort of working, so far. I know that isn't possible for every business, just wanted to share that you're not alone.

I would recommend using the Chrome extension "Google Eyes" to see what Google can see: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nnfbmlcnheohiajjmloocbaclnpdhfdp

But it should be able to read the product description without any problem.