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You should not use the same keyword in all title tags. So this would be the wrong way to do things

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For city specific keywords first make sure they get traffic by doing some research. If they do then you can target those kinds of phrases within the site.

If not I would target generic phrases such as "dental surgery" and have locations pages set up to assist with your geo targeting.

What if a city has multiple addresses in that area. One page for that city or a new page for each location within the city?

As of today, my page is now ranking 5th on page 1. It is just bouncing all over the place.

If that is the case, why would this page be penalized? Ive never bought links, the on-page isn't totally

spammy, backlink profile isn't all exact match and is a good mix of anchor text and image links. All of the links are legitimately created.

This page for instance was one of my highest viewed pages, has a low BR, high time on site, etc. So its tailored to what people want when searching for this phrase

If I am penalized then it is absolutely beyond me on why I would be.

I write it all. No messages of concern

Are you sure?

It shows up for

"skyward sword walkthrough" "legendzelda.net"

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda.net"+&oq="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda.net"+&gs_l=serp.3...7410.7983.0.8226.4.4.0.0.0.0.100.358.3j1.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.rQlX7c8Rr4c&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=97283d9747b20204&bpcl=38093640&biw=1527&bih=899

I will cut back on the phrase walkthrough, but I find it hard to believe that using it in the way I am would cause the page to be penalized. And my other walkthrough pages do not use it like that so it doesn't make sense either.

Is there anything else you can see on the page that would cause this?

I have a site that was rankly very highly for gaming walkthrough phrases. I was ranking #3 for the phrase skyward sword walkthrough

Then it began to drop, despite me building more links (non spammy links) through guest blogs and emailing people requesting they just link to it from their site.

I went in and added more text to the page and it went up a few places but is now gone from the first 5-10 pages.

This has also happened to all of my walkthrough related ranks. My other ranks are still there but these accounted for a large portion of my traffic and is very odd.

My on-page grade is near if not perfect

my page

Some insight would be nice

I am looking for a company or two that serves customers in multiple regions and has their site set up in the best possible way to target those areas.

I would like, if possible, to see an example of a company that has an address in each area served, and one that only has one base location, but travels to serve customers.

Post stuff that would engage them. Tips of the day, related images, pose a question.

Do not make it only about business or links to your site.

If I see a site is linking to my site in an article I will often find a way to include them in one of my updates (if the site is of good quality). Does this count as a link exchange since they are linking to me and I am also linking to them?

Or is that only if it is a sidebar kind of link?

I more mean what is a good example of how to set up the scholarship page for seo. What steps can I take to ensure it is beneficial and effective.

I own a gaming news and walkthrough site and I am interested in setting up  scholarship thing. Now I run this on the side and do not have a ton of money to give out, but I was thinking of a total of 500.

I am just curious on if there is any good setup to go with for seo reasons.

I was planning on making a page like domain.com/scholarship-info

Then having all of the details and on the sidebar linking to several of my important pages.

After that contacting high schools and colleges. Does anybody have advice for this part? Best way to do so?

Any seo advice for the page?

Yea, I am not seeing a way to do this for my clients so I guess it is not available here.

Thanks for the link though

Any word on if this ever launched

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/07/11/parent-child-corporate-local-locations-pages-places/

and if so how do I enable?

I use Raven Tools which gets its link data from majestic. They are pretty decent. A bit behind but also more up to date than OSE in my experience.

One of my businesses is B2B and I have found that engaging people on LinkedIN is a good way to get people back to my FB page.

I join in a variety of groups on there and just talk to anybody in my market

Click on my username and there will be  PM link in there

Link exchanges used to do a lot. These days not so much. You can still get a benefit from them, but you need to be careful. Don't use the same anchor text, try not to get sitewide footer links, and only do so with highly valuable partners.

I mean if you can get a DA 90 site to link back to your DA 13 site then yea a link exchange would probably benefit you a bit.

But overall 1 way links are the best way to go.

Well, some niches just aren't meant for social activity.

However, you can still succeed with the right content. What exactly are you posting to your page? Try going with some creative content ideas or throwing some contests. If your business is a local company, partner up with some local businesses to  give away gift cards and other prizes in exchange for likes. And then promote that contest through each site.

Try running community events and just stuff that will get people engaged. I know one company that runs a FB fantasy football league.

Your best bet is to just use GWMT for links for now. I tend to use a variety of sources just to get a feel for what is being crawled. It is still good to check OSE, but I would not use that as your primary method if you have to give client reports or anything.

I can help you with that. I am very experienced with Wordpress. Feel free to PM me.

Thanks for the response. Everything is all setup and good to go.

It is very poor with recognizing links quickly.

In this latest round of updates OSE finally recognized links that I got a year ago. But still is missing a ton of 1 way links that I got from attending a conference in June.

I have been building a lot of 1 way links through networking and yet my DA is going down?? and the links take forever to be picked up.

And that does not answer my question. I've already read that page.

I have a client who is on an older ecommerce platform that does not allow url rewrites in anyway. It would cost a ton of money to custom dev a solution.

Anyways right now they have set up a parameter on their product urls to at least get the keyword in there. My question is, will this keyword actually be counted since it is in a parameter?

An example url is

http://domain.com/Catalog.aspx?Level1=01&Level2=02&C=Product-name-here

Does this 'product-name-here' count as having the keyword in the url according to google?

Is there a good reliable tool for getting search volume for local keywords.

The adwords keyword tool is nice but I am wanting to know which cities get which portion of the local traffic they present.

Well, if they are the ones writing it then I would be more willing to say go for it. If somebody else is and you just want a name associated then I would not. Your best bet would be to create a Plus page for the ceo or a owner of some sorts. And associate it with that account.

For something a long those lines Google mixes in shopping results to try and bring the best results. But for a hotel kind of search I would much rather get the hotel itself.

Majority of the tools are great. The only one that I dislike is the OSE because of how rarely it is updated (I understand why it is and am not complaining) and because even when it is updated it is often months behind on recognizing or picking up links.

The on page grader is incredible and the ranking tool is great though it crashes about once every 5 runs for me.

I would say so. Google has been taking a lot of actions to bring back better quality results. When you do a search would you rather get the official companies or a site with a news feed or aggregation ran by a 3rd party source?

About 4 times should be fine. Try not to focus on stuffing the keyword or inserting it in unnatural ways. Just write the content naturally and it should work the keywords in.

Just write relevant information that is tailored towards the user.

Hard to tell without a link to your site to see what is going on.

As for issue #4. I believe that is where they used to have pages for each dimension of a product. So it would be upper level, sub level, product level.

Some products have hundreds of the same thing but with one inch different so they removed those pages and redirected them.

Depends on the kinds of errors being generated. I use wordpress and it does not generate errors like that for me. It may be the theme you are using.

Anyways, invalid markup plays a very minimal role in seo. The primary way it effects things is with site speed. If there are errors that may impact your site's load time then yes it can penalize you a little. But not enough where you will really see that negativity. If the rest of your site is properly optimized you would be fine. It is minor problems that compound and add up which will create a headache for you.

I added more info

The site is indexed but does not rank for anything at all. It used to and now it doesnt ever since the 302s were added

For instance

http://www.metalsforasteel.com/Catalog.aspx?Level1=01&Level2=01

goes to

http://www.metalsforasteel.com/Catalog.aspx?Level1=01&Level2=01&C=Steel_Angle

The site is ugly and has poor navigation but that is not something they wish to change. On page is ok but not the best. Their link profile is again not the best but webmaster tools says there are no problems and when I put in a reconsideration request they said nothing was wrong.

It does not rank for anthing, not even its own company name. Nowhere in the top 100.

I want a brand new, more modern and clean site to be done. That however is not really viable.

The home page does not have a 302 but everything else essentially does.

There is no robots.txt file. There is no noindex.

The 302 is the only major thing that we have come across. Been looking into this for weeks and not finding anything that should be causing this to happen

I have a client who had a screwy url structure based off of parameters and all. They hired a developer that added the keyword to the end of the url and set up 302 redirects to the new keyword included url.

Since then the entire site has virtually gone missing in the results but it is not penalized. I put in a request with webmaster tools for reconsideration and they said there was no penalty.

I only just found the 302 problem today and think this is probably the problem. Could this remove a site from the search results?

Which is better for YT search? Any benefits to one or the other? Should I do both?

Often times you will rank decently right after launching a  site but then it will slip a bit. Part of the whole freshness thing I believe.

But can you share the domain or some other site details? Very vague here and the problem could be anything

OSE can be a couple months behind at times. I think this last one was through May? I also think I read that it has a smaller index than previous ones so your links may not appear.

But I would use a variety of tools. OSE is great but it often misses a bunch of notable links. WBT also has a great tool for checking site links

I have a client who does not actively participate in the content writing or resource providing part of optimization or link building.

I want to build some more links to the site outside of content spreading and guest blogging.

I have read a lot of the recent articles on creative ways to build links but feel that most would not apply to this kind of site.

Any ideas on creative link building methods for a law services info site?

We came up with this idea at work for a client but before I initiate it I was wanting to get feedback on if this would be considered whitehat and alright to use.

It is for an ecommerce site. On the order confirmation and thank you page (not email cause they are on some old system that does not send out emails) we are wanting to put a thank you for your order message and continue with a statement about how they can save money on future purchases with a link that takes them to a page with info on how to do so.

That new page will have info about linking to the site from a blog or website. And will say if you link back to us and send us an email with that link as proof we will give you a promo code for your next purchase.

Is this alright?

correct me if i am wrong but isnt it incorrect practice to generate virtual addresses?

I have a client who serves multiple regions but does not have physical locations and operates out of only one.

Since he does business this way he only has one Google Places listing with the address hidden. However, he has a phone number on it that is localized to one of the regions.

Will this hurt him for ranking in the other regions? To clarify - he has a cincinnati phone number but also has indianpolis, columbus, dayton, and others listed as areas served.

Would it be best to just get him a 1800  number and put that in there?

Only once has a site I reported been penalized in any way. It will probably not happen for most people

Thanks so much. That is all pretty much what I was thinking. I now get to try to convince the business owners to do things the right way. Wish me luck

I have a client who has 2 primary services in 4 regions

He does mold removal and water damage repair.

He then serves cincinnati, dayton, columbus, and indianapolis.

Before hiring my company he had like 30 domains (keyword based) and had tons and tons of fake google places listings. He actually got a lot of traffic that way.

However I will not tolerate that kind of stuff and want to do things the right way.

First of all what is the best site approach for this. He wants a site for each service and for each city.

indy mold

cincy mold

dayton mold

dayton water

etc etc etc

In the end he will have 8 sites and wants to expand into other services and regions.

I feel like this is not the right way to handle this as he also has another site that is more generic

To me the best way to do this is a generic domain with a locations page and a page for each city.

The for the Places he would get one account - an address that is hidden since he goes to customer locations, and just multiple city defined regions.

He does have an office like address at each city. So should I make him a Places listing for each city or just the one? And of course how should the actual sites be organized?

Thanks