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Thank you. I updated the post with some screenshots of the keywords' difficulty based on MOZ's research tool.

Thanks for your reply Keri. Yes, we are aware of the fact that newpeakmedia.com is blocked from indexing. The website we are looking for help with is hosted on a different domain.

So far we have gotten less than a handful of applicants. Why is it that no one is sending in their proposal?

Any specific questions or anything I forgot to cover? I am more than happy to answer.

We are looking to hire an SEO/reputation manager or firm to complement our existing marketing efforts.

The goal is to take up the front page of Google on 3 branded keywords. We will create the content but need someone to come up with the strategy on what content to create, where to post it and how to link to get it moved to the front page of Google.

We went through MOZ's recommended list of service providers but would rather work with an individual freelancer than a large SEO company.

Please advice where we can find such consultant or email vitaly@newpeakmedia.com to apply. Include your experience and some samples of projects you have worked on.

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Here's the keywords' difficulty based on MOZ's serp analysis tool and top 10 ranking pages for the first term

1. http://i.imgur.com/zqktjuU.jpg
2. http://i.imgur.com/LB7i4yz.jpg

Thanks for your reply.

An article I read recently suggested that using nofollow on links on the same website may not be a good idea as "if the website doesn't trust its own pages by having a nofollow, then why would Google want to put trust in it." Does this make sense? Would a subdomain be considered as a completely different site?

My other concern is using nofollow extensively may raise a flag to Google as a site that is heavily seo optimized or tries to manipulate its linking strategy.

Any more thoughts? The website is done 100% for users. All I am looking for is the best practice to follow to maximize the seo efforts in this area.

Hi,

I run a hotel booking site and the booking engine is setup on a subdomain.
 The subdomain is disabled from being indexed in robots.txt

Should the links from the main domain have a nofollow to the subdomain? What are you thoughts?

Thanks!

Hi there,

I have listings that all link to external sites. In order to track how many times each link was clicked I coded a redirect script that simply redirects to the respective url.

www.mysite.com/go/123/ - redirects to another site

www.mysite.com/go/541/ - redirects to a different site

Is there anything I should or should not do from seo stand point such as blocking the /go directory in robots or adding a no-follow tag to links? I'd appreciate your advice. Thanks

Hi, I have about a dozen hotel booking sites in different cities. All content is unique on each site and specific to its city. Is it a good idea to cross-link them all? If so, is there any strategy to follow? Some of them are older and well established sites wheres others were created recently. The goal is to improve rankings of the newer sites. I appreciate any advice. Thanks!