Hi Instabill,

You can also create another landing page, with home being your initial landing page, create the second one at hompage.com/offshore-merchants-accounts and see how it fares

Also want to comment on 800 number vs local number. Generally for a local small business, a local phone number is preferred. And yes, we use it in the meta description, because it works!

The best post/information I came across was what Geoff has written here: http://moz.com/blog/site-speed-are-you-fast-does-it-matter

Under How important is Site Speed? In two words summary of Google and Matt Cutts reply is that its a factor, but a very small factor of the many factors involved in rankings.

I am also interested in this question as much as you are, but in my efforts I haven't seen a noticeable change in rankings just solely related to speed, this includes TTFB and other speed improvements.

Having said that. TTFB and overall speed optimization is important in conversions on your site and ultimately in providing better user experience, which is always really important.

This leads to another question that you can ask, did improving TTFB improve conversions, or lower bounce rate, etc? This also is a great question, that I am curious in as well.  From my end I did not have a client that was that worried, or had a horrable TTFB that I could measure and notice a difference, but very interested if someone had this effect

Hope this helps

http://www.wpkube.com/wordpress-seo-plugin/ this article just came out as a one of the many guides to Yoast's Wordpress SEO.  I am surprised it mentioned:

• Use meta keywords tag: Google reportedly doesn’t use the keywords that your enter for your posts but as Google isn’t the only show in town, you might want to check this box.Recommendation: check

1. I stopped using meta keywords tag because Google doesn't use it any more, plus if you are in a competitive field by using keywords you are giving free keyword research to your competitors? Does any one still use meta keywords here? If so why?

2. Google doesn't use keyword tags, has anyone experienced a dis-benefit to meta-keywords tag from Google ie. dropped rankings etc.?

Hi Joni,

This guide should help you setup up bit.ly or any other shortening service to be tracked in Google Analytics:

Guide

Hope this is what you were looking for

No it does not, and here is one glimpse as to why:

"Google does indeed sometimes launch algorithms just for the English language but when possible, Google does try to launch them globally."

More info: http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-we-fight-search-spam-in-40-localized-countries-internationalize-our-spam-algorithms-168785

Hope this helps

http://seogadget.com/links-data-excel-seomoz-api/ would using something like this help directly?

Also others have used Netpeak with Parallels for Mac

Hope this helps

I will answer your 3 specific options and general thoughts at the bottom:

1. Yes you have the correct game plan here.  Postal code may or may not help unless it is specifically searched for.

2. Unique content is the name of the game, each neighborhood/area will have their own unique elements you can write about in your content and this will engage the user and bring familiarity and will rank better, and this solves duplicate issues.

3. Greater area reach is hard unless you are dominating with reviews or other local listing factors. The goal is having a physical location close to your area of intent.

"product is expensive so this justifies" - does this justify potentially opening another physical location to be closer to the searcher?

Also how is the current showroom main location doing, with search and its response? Is it in the target area, is it reaching customers well?

Removing was probably a safe bet. Why are you considering putting it back?

Does it help your customers? No, then dont put it back. Yes, then maybe, why does it look over-optimized to you?

Can you explain a bit more of what you mean by, "The product name in the product column is the name from the actual website I am tracking. As such, my keyword was appearing sometimes up the 30 times." ? Is it in a product descriptions with significant amount of information that is relevant to the customer? If so, then you can edit the text to make sure your keyword density is below 10% or 5% just to be on the safe side. Unless you mean something else by the product column. Like Peter said adding relevant content to balance the keyword ratio could really help, fundamentally relevant content is great its great for SEO, if that is possible.