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Yeah they were never linked in adwords, I never thought to check that. Thank you for the help!

On Google analytics for our clients when you check the Matched Search Query under Traffic Sources > Overview, it says "There is no data for this view.".

I have Google searched it and i am not finding my answer to why this is not displaying my information. On my personal analytics account when i clicked on matched search query it displays exactly what the person searched when it trigered my adwords ad. I have no idea why this account doesn't display the same info when it appears to be setup in the same way.

Example: If i am broad match targeting the keyword "outdoor sports", and someone searched "Canadian outdoor sports for kids" It would show exactly what they searched under Matched Search Query.

Anyone know how to resolve this issue?

That's good to know, thank you for the suggestion on creating geo based. I was hoping their was another way to rank locally for each city we provide services in. Maybe one day, i guess this type of business model isn't quite in Google's sites yet for local.

I have a new SEO client that has a business model similar to Criagslist and Angies List or Task Rabbit, Where they offer local based services nationwide. My first thought was Local link building and citation building etc. But the issue is they are a purely online service company and they don't have a phyiscal address in every city/state they will be offering their services in.

What is the best course of action for providing SEO services for this type of business model. I am pretty much at a stand still on how to rank them locally for the areas they provide services in. it's a business model that involves local businesses and customers looking for services from those local businesses.

Thank you for your response, Would it make any different if i changed the image alt text to say: "Keyword" by/at "company name"?. Instead of just putting the keyword would it make any difference if i add the company name in with the keyword?

If i decide to make this change it will definitely be gradual, probably start with the most authoritative client and wait a few months or so then change another clients site, but i will only make the change for a handful of sites instead of all of them, so most of the clients sites will just say "Powered By Brand Name".

Thanks,

Stephen

I don't think it's just you. It's moving like cold molasses on my end.

I provide SEO services in-house and for clients for a ecommerce and web design company. For every client site we create or host we provide a image link on the bottom linking back to our company website.

I started researching competitors that offer same services for our industry that have top Google rankings for all the terms we are targeting and i just realized they rank that well because their image/anchor text link they place on client sites is alt tagged for that specific keyword. We have not been optimizing or utilizing this easy keyword backlink method.

I am now wanting to go to all of our clients sites and change our backlinks to target the keyword we are optimizing for but my  concern is will that number of incoming anchor text/image alt tag links cause us to get penalized from google for either over optimization or them seeing 100's of backlinks keyword specific just change overnight.

What is the best way to go about this change in a safe way to avoid or risk penalty from Google?

99% of all of our client backlinks are in the footer so they show up on every single page and they are all images.

Would it have a different affect if i add a alt tag to those images so that we get the oncoming link juice of that specific keyword?

One of my concerns is over optimization, since some of our clients have 1000's of pages on their website. so that is 1000's of incoming exact match keyword links. I feel like the danger is low for being penalized but i would rather be safe then sorry and get additional feedback.

Thanks,

Stephen

You have been extremely helpful. Thank you for all your help. I will get right on this to get resolved.

I have used SEO analyzer before and i did it again just now and it gave me some weird error.

This is the result:

<label class="error" for="seoUrl">The URL has too many redirects</label>

| ! Redirects detected for the current URL |

I also have submitted the URL  in the "submit URL toolbox page" a couple times.

I will get working on the robots.txt and make sure it's put in place.

I don't do any of the development work on the site i just perform the SEO duties. Seeing those redirect errors is part of what im talking about with it saying there are to many redirects. Any idea what that's all about if its showing everything should be working properly?

I just scanned it again and based on the URL  i enter i get different results.
those redirect errors come when i analyze dunninggolf.com. But when i analyzed www.dunninggolf.com  I only 2 errors on homepage for missing alt tags on images and no H1 tag.

I have been working on getting some new links and have gotten a couple but nothing substantial as of yet.

This client is new for me and i am only aware of this site being around since June or July of last year.

I've been waiting for bing to show search results for the site for almost 5 months now and nothing has changed. I am getting to the point where i feel the culprit lies somewhere else besides saying bing indexing slowly as being an excuse.

I don't think it's just you. It's moving like cold molasses on my end.

You have been extremely helpful. Thank you for all your help. I will get right on this to get resolved.