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Just a suggestion...Along with using the SEOMoz tool you can also use the Google Webmasters Tool > Optimization > Content Keywords > Click on the listed Content Keywords > Will show you the top pages that carries that Content Keyword within your website. Even though this does not show the ranking for that keyword it will give you a clear picture as to which pages are the top pages for those keywords within your website in Google's eyes.And, since Google Webmasters does not show the keyword combinations but only one keyword, you can always click on those two (or three) keywords separately and then combine them yourself to find out which pages are prominent in combining those keywords. Also, this will give you an idea as to which keywords need to be optimized more.

So, using this in combination with the SEOMoz tool will give you a better picture.

To add to what Oleg has advised...

Fat pinging your articles will help you:

http://www.stealthkca.com/claim-ownership-of-your-content-with-fat-pings

And, here is a very informative post about how to leverage your original content:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/28/content-creators-benefit-from-new-seo/

Since Google Places has been integrated into Google Plus and is now known as Google+ Local, I guess you are not treating Google Plus and Google Places as two different entities when you say: "Google+/Google Places".  I guess you are aware of that, and, anyway, just wanted to clear that in case you were alluding to them as two separate entities.

BTW, here is an informative post related to your concerns, which will be of help to you:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/you-asked-i-answered-qa-from-you-probably-think-this-citation-source-is-about-you-dont-you

Well, the results displayed while you are logged in and while you are logged out are different because when you are logged in Google prefers to show you personalized search results. May be the email you are logged with is in someway connected to your domain/ webpage or something that identifies you with your webpage/ domain. If that is the case then Google does not feel it is necessary to show you the results for your page. Also, since you are logged in and since your search becomes personalized, Google will show the results that you've shown interest in...For example, it will show results related to friends or pages (Actors, Music etc.) you have circled on Google Plus etc. (Basically, where Google can identify from the logged in details, who the person is) and so on and so forth...you get the drift.

So, anyway since this could happen to other people who are logged into Google and is searching for your content or keywords, it is necessary to also utilize that area in SEO as well. I mean...if your page or articles (or a link to it) are liked by someone or if Google knows that you are the author of that article and if a friend of yours who has circled you on Google Plus is doing a search while logged in, then Google might show your result first to that person because Google feels that, that person might like to see more articles from you related to that keyword.

Basically, now a days you need to keep an eye on how to optimize the personalized search aspect (along with normal stuff) so that you or your article will appear for a personalized search by someone who is connected to you. So yeah. get your social circles growing especially on Google Plus.

And, the fact that you are still doing all right when you are not logged in, is a good thing to know.

Basically, Google treats Syndicated content and duplicate content differently. So, if the competitor you are talking about is following the best practices for syndicated content and if Google sees their website or webpage to be more prominent (Because of more relevant/ related contents on that domain, SEO optimization or popularity etc.) and more relevant (Than the original creator of the content or the other syndication partners), in relation to the keywords searched for , then Google will show the content on that particular syndication partner's page (in this situation the competitor you are talking about) rather than that of original creator's page.And, no, as long as they are following the best practices for syndicated content, they won't have any problem. But, it could happen that in the future some other content syndication partner might be given more prominence over the other, if that page on that website has leveraged the content better or even the original creator might given more prominence if they do a good job at optimizing their syndicated content strategy.

As far as syndicated content goes, Google says this:

“If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you’d prefer.”

So, in a nut shell...there are no penalties for properly syndicated content, but, just the fact that Google will decide which page to display based on it's prominence and best practices. But, yeah, if they are not following the best practices for content syndication, then, Google will start to see them as duplicate pages, and, then it is a different story.

BTW, here is a post that will be of help to you which talks about how the original creators of the content can leverage it:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/28/content-creators-benefit-from-new-seo/

May be I haven't understood what you mean when you say that Google Auto corrects the search for the keyword you are talking about. When I typed those words into Google it did not do any auto correction and showed me a list of pages with Finao and Montreal in it. But, yeah, when I typed those keywords in "  "   it said that:  No results found for "finao montreal" and just showed me the pages which has finao and montreal in it, as it did not find any pages with the exact two words knitted closely together to form that exact phrase.

Can you tell us what is the name of your website and also how did you come to the conclusion that Google auto corrects your keywords?

Thanks, Gina. Glad that I could be of help to you along with the others who gave their valuable advice here.

BTW, here is a link to best practices for Title Tags:

http://searchengineland.com/nine-best-practices-for-optimized-title-tags-111979

Also since you are aiming for local optimization the following post about citations will be of help to you:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/you-asked-i-answered-qa-from-you-probably-think-this-citation-source-is-about-you-dont-you

All the best.

I don't know about SEOMoz, but I see that ahrefs.com is also gonna retire their Keywords Analysis tool this month and the reason they give is:

"We decided to stop paying for scraped data as it violates Google's Terms of Service and puts our service on shaky ground nowadays. Without new data our Keywords Analysis will soon grow old and become useless**."**

But, their other tools such as Site Explorer, Backlinks Explorer, Competition Analysis etc. are all gonna be functional. So, I believe it will be same for SEOMoz as well and they will make changes to only such tools that are directly effected by Google's update with relation to what they deem to be "scraped data".

Hi Daan,

Since you are talking about syndicated content and not duplicate content, there is a big difference and if you follow the best practices for syndicated content, you won't have any problems. The following links will be of help to you in how to go about it:

http://www.wedowebcontent.com/blog/duplicated-vs-syndicated-web-content-after-google-panda.cfm

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-leveraging-syndicated-content-effectively

That is cool. I guess since GoMo is powered by both Google and DudaMobile, you get best of both the worlds. Can you send me a link to your website? I would like to see how it looks on mobile.

Hi Gina,
I am not sure why exactly you were ranking well for those keywords. But the reason that you are not ranking well could be because of either one of the below factors or because of a combination of both:

(1) Your competitors got smarter and started tweaking their SEO and Google started noticing them now and gave more weight/authority to them for those keywords.

(2) Google had some updates/changes in their Algorithm and now they see you as an authority for the keywords "Fat Eyes" and less as an authority for the keywords you were targeting. Basically this means that even though you were trying to target your keyword, you were inadvertently optimizing your website for the word "Fat eyes" through your external and internal SEO strategies.

Basically you've utilized your website for the term "fat eyes". When you type this word in Google you are first among 339,000,000 results. That is awesome. You have gained such an authority for that keyword among that many competitors...Unfortunately, for the wrong keyword. So, use the same tactics you've using but this time build it up the same way with the keyword you are looking for. Just take a look at your competitors for the keyword that you are looking at and do a competitor analysis.

Do an in-depth competitor analysis and find out why they are ranking for that keyword. And then do your external and internal SEO based on that.

And, keep on adding more and more relevant pages. Google likes it when your website is active. And that is why it is even more imperative to have a blog and write genuine posts that include your keywords.

Yes, I understand that On-page SEO matters and that you were getting a good grade from SEOMoz for On-Page optimization.But, that only means that each page you are looking at is utilized for a keyword. It does not mean that one particular page is getting all the credits for a particular keyword. So you are confusing Google. Which page will Google decide to show when you yourself are not telling them that which particular page should they be showing among all your pages, when someone types for that keyword? To be more specific...If you've so many pages that are uniquely utilized (I repeat, uniquely) around a keyword (Around a keyword in a unique manner so that even though each page talks about a keyword topic it still talks about it in an unique manner) and then if these pages pass on the credit to a main page (which is the authority page within your website for that keyword) with the right internal anchor texts then Google knows that, that particular page is the main page with all the credits flowing in for that keyword from within your website.

Let us look at your website example for the term "web design santa barbara"

When I type into Google: site:fateyes.com "web design santa barbara" the first page it shows is: fatyes.com
Second page: http://www.fateyes.com/web-design-santa-barbara-or-santa-barbara-web-design/ - shows 404 <--- This itself you need to take care of
Third page: http://www.fateyes.com/on-target-web-design-santa-barbara/

So, basically in Google's eyes the page which is the first authority for that particular keyword term within your domain/website, is your main page: Fateyes.com

So with that in mind let us see how much weight you yourself are giving to that page from within your website and how much relevance you are giving to that page for that keyword.

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links.html?page=1&site=www.fateyes.com&sort=page_authority&filter=&source=internal&target=page&group=0

As you can see SEOMoz's OSE shows you have just 1 internal link (Well 2, but one of it is coming from that page itself) and that too with no anchor text which is really surprising. If this is your main page as well your home page there should be much more just like your main online competitor ndic.com has done.

So, let us look at ndic.com:
On Google when I type  site:ndic.com web design santa barbara, the first page shown is their main page ndic.com. So, in their case as well Google sees that page as the main page utilized for that keyword.

Now when you use OSE and check their internal links to that page it shows 221 internal links point to the main page ndic.com ...even if most of its anchor text is "Home" the links come from internal pages that has "web design" in their URL and from pages that are related to web design, web development etc.

Also, the second result page (which Google displays for the search site:ndic.com "web design santa barbara") links back to their home page, with the anchor text "web design" inside the article on that page. So, clearly it shows that their internal linking structure is done in such a way to optimize their home page for that keyword.

Now, you can clearly see the difference.

Another worry is that if you do a search on Google site:fateyes.com it just shows "Fat Eyes" on the title and is not showing the other elements in your title. Google is ignoring it and feels that your main page is more aligned toward "Fat Eyes" But yes, if you specifically type site:fateyes.com web design it shows the other elements, because you are specifically typing it. But it is not good that Google is ignoring the major keywords in your title when you type site:fateyes.com

For websites that are utilized for the right keyword even if you type just their website name for eg:- site:seomoz.org  Google will show the other elements like: SEO Software. Simplified. | SEOmoz

Basically, your on-page SEO is not properly optimized and you need to take look at your site architecture as a whole (including internal linking factors), not just the keywords on the page. Also, optimize your Meta Title Tags and content with SEO best practices and use a tool like Woorank to see other SEO Issues along with using the SEOMoz tools and other such good SEO tools including WMT.

Now as far as the Off-Site SEO goes:
As you can see Google is now seeing you as an authority for the term "Fat Eyes". So, now moving on from On-Site as to why this has happened, let us look at the off-site SEO.

If you explore your inbound links you can see that most of your anchor texts from the external links are "Fat Eyes". This could not have been a problem if all or most of the websites that were linking to your website with the keyword "Fat Eyes" were websites or pages that were talking about web design OR webdesign santa barbara OR web development or terms like that. But, since you are a web designer your clients are wide and varied and are not necessarily passing on links to your website from a page that is concentrated on such relevant terms. So either you could've used "Fat Eyes Web Design" or such branded keyword terms OR simply could've linked to you with the variations of the term "web design".

For example on one of your clients www.casadelherrero.com/ website it says: Site Design + Development: Fat Eyes  
Since the website Casadelherrero is not about webdesign, they should've been more specific in the anchor text. For example: Why they say "site design" ? why not "website design" ?) OR they could have said: Site Design + Development: Fat Eyes Web Designers (Thus it gives you the keywords as well as your brand name).

Again, if you do a competitor analysis using OSE, on the same - For example, your major online competitor (For the keyword "web design santabarbara) ndic.com, it shows that most of their 29,250 external links have anchor texts such as "Web Design Santa Barbara" "Web Design Ventura" etc. Basically the external linking anchor texts are utilized for those relevant keyword and its variations.

And in your case most of your 1703 external link anchor texts says "fat eyes" or "site design and development" etc. (Just to repeat what I said earlier above, why "site design" why not "website design" or "web design"?)

So, as I said earlier Google now sees you as an authority in "Fat Eyes". What you need to do is go about the same way you did (inadvertently) for the term "fat eyes" and also to keep on dynamically working on your internal seo structure (Internal links, creating authority pages within your website for a specific keyword,

Also keep on doing competitor analysis on your online competitors for a particular keyword and keep on updating your website by taking inputs from those analysis and also look at their Local SEO tweaking/listings etc.

I am sure that you'll get back there and anyway you have experience in tweaking your website for the term "fat eyes". So, you just need to change your targeted keyword and start working on that.

Also, since Google is constantly updating their Algorithm make sure your link building process is in line with it:

Use branded keywords like:
fat eyes website design
website design by fat eyes
And others like:
web design
web designing in santa barbara
santa barbaras best webdesign
creative web designers
etc.. Basically be natural and diverse

Here is an article that might help you in that process:

http://www.stateofsearch.com/penguins-anchor-text-and-headaches-what-do-we-do-now/

I know I've written a very long comment. But since I had some time in hand and since I could hear you "sigh" lol...I thought I might as well put these things out here. All the best to you.

Thanks Chanel BTW, let me know which one you chose and why.

Hi Chanel...the following links might be able to answer your question:

Reviews:

http://searchengineland.com/getting-started-with-gomo-dudamobile-now-backed-by-google-analytics-124094

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDD9z80x33g (Video...Contains in-depth review as well as interview with DudaMobile Co-Founders)

Other resources:

http://www.mobileawesomeness.com/mobile-web-resources/
http://mashable.com/2012/06/10/make-site-mobile-ready/

Hi Gina, thanks for the update...I wonder why it showed 16% to me and did not show your listings...anyway, glad to know that you have a listing score of 60%. And, nice to know that you are coming up with the blog.

BTW, with regard to your original query about the keyword ranking...have you seen any positive changes?

Hi...Out of curiosity I just took a look at your website on getlisted.org (SEOMoz's latest acquisition) and I see that you rank just 16% when it comes to local optimization. Shouldn't you be taking a look at this?...Especially since you are looking to rank for a keyword which has a local factor "Santa Barbara" in your desired keyword? I see that you have no listings on Google Business, Yelp, Yahoo, Bing etc. Recommend that you take care of this...16% is not good at all.

Also, on a side-note: Have you thought about starting a blog on your website? Since you are a web design company I am sure that you can write a lot of posts (which includes images and has social share buttons),  that passes value to the readers/ visitors. That way you also get more pages to target keywords in a natural manner, provide engaging content, pass value to visitors which leads to social sharing etc...You know that social signals are a search-engine factor now and I see that your website has only 29 Facebook likes.

BTW, here is the article about the latest Panda update (May be this had an effect on your website):

http://searchengineland.com/official-google-panda-update-23-impacting-1-3-of-queries-143271

And, to add to my reply above...Since you are working on Joomla, the link below might be helpful to you:

http://education.qld.gov.au/web/schools/joomla15/tutorials/error-404-page-missing.html

Since it is difficult for me to diagnose your particular problem without having access to the root of the problem, and since this is more of a Webmaster problem, I would suggest that you explore/search or ask on these particular forums as well:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en
http://www.webmasterworld.com/
http://www.webmasterforums.com/
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

BTW, I was curious and just now had a look at the page you are referring to, using the SEOMoz On-Page Analysis tool and it gave a "C" for the keyword "Yellow Diamonds". A "C" means the keyword appears in 70-80% of the tested elements.

So, now you can see what I've been talking about above comes into play for the exact keyword "Yellow Diamonds".

BTW, For "Diamond" it received "B" (Which is higher than "C") and for "Yellow" it received "C" again. So you can see that these combination led to the SEOMoz  On-page Analysis tool giving a "C" for the exact keyword "Yellow Diamonds"

Since your question is about on-page optimization...If you look at the page source code, for this particular page you are referring to, you'll see that the words "yellow diamond" and a combination of Yellow and Diamond(s) appear several times. To be specific:

• Yellow Diamond  - Once (On meta name="<a class="attribute-value">keywords</a>" content= )

• Diamond/ Diamonds -  More than 70 times (Including on ahrefs, links, alt tags, h tags etc.)

• Yellow - More than 50 times (Including on ahrefs, links, alt tags, h tags etc.)

Add to that the fact that they might be having good references from outside pages.

So, there you go.

It seems like you have configured your pages under your new category "Holiday-News" to display a 404. Where as all your pages under "News-Travel" are all alive. I think that instead of 301 re-directing all your old URLs  to the new URLs somehow by mistake you 404'd your new URLs.

Anyway here are some links that might help you:

(1) http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php  (How to do 301 re-directs)

(2)http://www.blog.web6.org/404-not-found-webmaster-tools-error-how-to-fix/  (Scroll down to the bottom where it says "Tutorial to fix 404")

(3) http://sixrevisions.com/website-management/find-remove-broken-links/  (How to remove broken links)

Hope this helps...let me know.

I believe that the following post has the answer you are looking for:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical (Also, read the comments area if you are interested in more info)

Or, if you want to see a list of all the related articles:

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results#stq=duplicate content&stp=1

BTW, there is a tiny "next" button at the bottom of the list to navigate to the next page.

Like already mentioned...it won't harm you if you buy it and in some instance might help you as well, as long as you utilize it in a proper and genuine manner. Just keep up with the best practices.

And, I am still waiting for someone to answer this part of my original reply:

"BTW, I am not sure about whether there is some kind of penalty that exists if you buy domain names that closely resemble your website URL and then permanently re-direct it to your Live/ Main URL/ Website. Can someone answer this?? After all your intention is not to spam but to stop others from misusing an URL that closely resembles your brand."

Not necessarily. But, it might help you partly. Having the right keyword in the URL is given some weight by Google but it does not mean that it is true in every case.

Getting the right traffic for the keywords is a combination of:

Right internal linking strategy with the right anchor text + Keywords with the right amount of density in content + Keywords in Title Tag + A well-written Meta Description (Even though it does not effect the ranking factors, it will certainly help improve the CTR, because a well-written description serves as an AD copy for your displayed result) + Search-engine friendly site architecture + unique content spread across many pages with unique title tags etc. + Social-Media Signals + External linking strategy (Links from relevant external websites/ directories, Right anchor text, Co-citation etc.) + competition for the keyword (probably your keyword is not that highly competitive) + Local listings + so many other factors.

Also since the Panda update you need to be doubly sure that you are genuine. Do not use keyword stuffing and other such factors only aimed at influencing search-engine spiders. Just be genuine and think about what value you can provide to the customers and share it and also think about providing engaging content (Videos/ Image/ Texts). Be genuine and the word of mouth will happen naturally.

Basically, (1) be genuine, (2)spread awareness (3) provide tools of engagement (4) find the right balance between pleasing your visitors as well as pleasing the search-engines (By creating a search-engine friendly (NOT search-engine fooling) site architecture).

Also, read these articles about Google's EMD (Exact Match Domains) update:

http://searchengineland.com/low-quality-exact-match-domains-are-googles-next-target-134889

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-exact-match-domain-playbook-a-guide-and-best-practices-for-emds

• BTW isn't "webdesigndevon" a better option than adding "in" in it? "in" will not be given any value anyway and it might lead to a lot of typos if someone manually types the URL: "webdesignindevon" compared to "webdesigndevon" into their browser.

And, if you are worried about someone else starting a "webdesign-devon" domain, just purchase such domain names that closely resembles your website URL (it is not that expensive to buy such less sort after names, I guess) and permanently re-direct those URLs to your live website URL. That way even if someone else manually types any URL that closely resembles your website's URL, they will get re-directed to your website, instead of landing in someone else website and you can sleep happily because there will be no other websites that closely resembles your website URL. Thus you will get some brand value too.

BTW, I am not sure about whether there is some kind of penalty that exists if you buy domain names that closely resemble your website URL and then permanently re-direct it to your Live/ Main URL/ Website. Can someone answer this?? After all your intention is not to spam but to stop others from misusing an URL that closely resembles your brand.