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Unfortunately so, the sign on process was all fairly rushed due to the customer and development team are difficult to get in touch with!

Thank you very much for the in depth response. I agree, this type of content strategy would be extremely beneficial for them to be seen as a credible booking engine and help with the SEO too! My only concern is that there are only particular towns and cities that this booking engine has for each service so we really wanted to rank for specific locations. While this type of content would undoubtedly drive traffic, many users would not convert into customers as there is no service nearby.

I like the idea of a side menu but do you think this would be enough to allow the pages to rank?

Hi Mat,

Thanks for the response, I like your thinking but it's another development team who have already began work and we're not going to know the final urls until they put the site live... Another stumbling block with this project!

Cheers

We've recently taken on a new client for an initial 6 months for SEO (until their new site is going live) to help build traffic to the site. They are currently getting a new website built so don't want work done on their current site... but due to the current structure it is making it difficult for us to improve rankings for a number of keywords. They are essentially a booking engine for services across the UK so it is just a home page with a search filtering through their services, locations and dates which leads to a results page. It is a combination of services and locations we need to target keywords for but there are no appropriate landing pages due to the site layout.

The one thing they are happy for us to work on is the blog, so my question is would it be best to create landing pages on the blog targeting keywords such as 'sports massages in London' and build links to these pages? Then when it is time for the new site, with new appropriate landing pages, simply 301 redirect these pages?

If anyone has any input on this idea or suggestions for other ways about it we'd be delighted to hear from you

Thanks

hi all quick question regarding c-block domains

OSE tells me we have 70 c-block domains with a total 130 root domains, is it telling us 70 root domains re c-blocks as this is near impossible for us

are c blocks listed as root domains or just links

Hi,

I'm working on onsite seo for an ecommerce website and my recent report has shown that I have a high number of pages where there are 'too many links on page'. Does anyone have tips on how to avoid this when we're using mega menus, plenty of navigation for the user and links to products on each page?

Thanks

Hi,

One of our clients has got a new website but is still getting quite a lot of traffic to her old site which has a page authority of 30 on the home page and has about 20 external backlinks.

It's on a different hosting package so a different C block but I was wondering if anyone could advise if it would be better to simply redirect this page to the new site or set up a landing page on this domain simply saying "Site has moved, you can now find us here..." sort of idea.

Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks

Yea they are a bit of a waste of time,

The client is better to pick a decent brand type domain, ie proplumbers.co.uk
then create landing pages within the site ie

proplumbers.co.uk/plumbers-townname

then optimise the page for that area with unique content, customers quotes, service map, and if possible local phone number of that area. As in my opinion this helps with conversion.

Google has been moving away from keyword rich domains for years now, yes they are still effective but nothing like they used to be. I would definitely stay away from this practice.

Hi Will here

for me the best way is first off good content, you will find that when your dealing with plumbers, plasterers and builders getting links from guest blogging, infographics and giveaways is not practical.

here is what i would do for a local company

• Join all the industry forums and start talking getting involved with your clients community

• Start doing some keyword research into your clients business, ie plasterers, Rendering, Machine plastering ect

• Start Creating content on this ie "how to Render a wall" , "how to plaster a wall"

• For every job your client does locally write a blog post, ie "Plastering Job Glasgow"

• Start Following other local tradesman or services like your clients business

• Tweet your client work to other tradesmen or like wise service

• Join all the local services directories that are related to your niche

• Make sure your business address matches across directories you join,

• Create a google business plus account,

• Create a nice A5 Flyer offers something a small discount on your clients jobs in return for a honest review of your services

• Join Facebook and do the same, if a customer leaves a review give them a little discount

This is just some of my tips

Also one last tip

If for example your client is a local service for example "plumbing" company and your in Manchester. Then try find a area thats more competive than your area, ie London. Complete a few searches ie Plumbing London, plumbers in London, then complete the following

Check their backlinks
Check their google plus profile
Check their sites onsite

This should give you an idea of their strategies, as sometimes when looking at your competition in your own backyard can distract you.

Hi Yes i see your point about the benefit to the client , but much like guest posting or an artist adding his name to a pice of work, referrals is part of our business.

We are looking to add our credentials to a clients site, so when someone visits the clients site likes the looks of it, we want them to think, "i might just contact this company"

we are trying to develop the least spammist way of doing this.

Hi guys i run a web design company and have around 50 sites that i have designed most dont have links but to us i was considering adding a footer link that will link to a blog page within that site, each post on each site will have unique content about the project and about us as a design company.

As you can see most of my ip address are c blocks,

any advice here please, thanks in advance

Example Ip list
abc.32.230.1
def.20.252.37
ghi.48.68.82
zz.32.229.131
zz.32.231.208
zz.32.253.87
xx.170.40.170
xx.170.40.172
xx.170.40.232
xx.170.40.247
xx.170.40.32
xx.170.43.200
xx.170.44.103
xx.170.44.105
xx.170.44.108
xx.170.44.111
xx.170.44.127
xx.170.44.137
xx.170.44.146
xx.170.44.157
xx.170.44.77
xx.170.44.81
xx.170.44.86
xx.170.44.95
xx.170.44.96

[question edited by staff to remove full IP addresses]

Hi guys got a question regarding ecommerce seo

do you think its a better idea to target more long tail terms and try get links directly to product pages, brand pages and categories.

Rather than focus on short keywords that do bring in good traffic but are very broad, i will prob do both, but i would like a second opinion please about other users strategies

thanks

Hi is there anyway to compare a competitors profile over two time periods ie, 6 months ago, then today for example.

I have the sites within a current campaign, i would like for example to find a competitors back-links they have obtained in the last 6 months. As some of my competitors have 1000s of links to its difficult to see what they have been upto

thanks

Sounds like Google just burst the ball,

I have both raven tools and seomoz sticking with them!!

Hi folks,

We're redesigning our website and looking for some advice on how changing our URL's would affected our rankings. If the page URLs are changing how can we carry out redirects to avoid losing any SEO rank?

Thanks,

Ross

Hi there,

Wondering if anyone can help me with understanding the advanced reports in Open Explorer. I'm looking to create a list of competitors links to go after but don't want to create loads of links from the same c blocks for blog posts, articles etc.

In open explorer it says my competitor has 451 linking C Blocks but when i download csv's using advanced reports with the filter of 'links that come from the same C block', the csv only has 26 links. The same happened with the filter 'from the same ip address'.

How can i download and analyse the links so I can see all the linking C blocks and know which sites I want to use and which ones I want to avoid?

Thanks,

Ross

yea this is what i was thinking to, but how big a slap are we getting,

as its knocked us 100-200 places off

I saw rads video the other day ago and made some extra changes, lighten the load on over optimisation.

I have just removed one of the catering terms from the title, but this looks a bit excessive for over optimisation.

yea this is what i was thinking to, but how big a slap are we getting,

as its knocked us 100-200 places off

I saw rads video the other day ago and made some extra changes, lighten the load on over optimisation.

I have just removed one of the catering terms from the title, but this looks a bit excessive for over optimisation.

yea i just checked nothing there,

its odd that the map listing is working fine tho they are ranked 4th

all other keywords are fine, just the keywords involving "catering glasgow"

it looks like the home page has been excluded from ranking under this term

it was fine yesterday

Hi all

we have being working with a small local client in the last few weeks getting good rankings using onsite op, and business listings

we have been getting good ranking ie top 15

then today we drop right out the top 50, after completing manual checks i see the keywords as all related

| glasgow catering | Not in Top 50 |      > 42 |   |
| catering glasgow | Not in Top 50 |      > 41 |   |
| glasgow caterers | Not in Top 50 |      > 39 |   |
| caterers in glasgow | Not in Top 50 |      > 37 |   |
| caterers glasgow | Not in Top 50 |      > 32 |

Also when completing manual checks on the above keywords, the home page is not ranking what so ever, infact its missing i went 300 results deep and cant find it, other inner pages rank but not the home.

The only other recent change is that we now have a  listing under the Google maps section of the homepage on page 1

any advice

www.georgieporgies.co.uk

Hi all

right now i have 301 redirects setup in my htaccess file

i recently redesigned our site so i have been redirecting all the old urls to the new ones.

I saw a post about having all your urls the same format, so i updated my htaccess file to redirect all urls from http://www.mysite.com/food to http://www.mysite.com/food/ (added a forward slash).

Now on my latest seo crawl i see all my site urls, redirecting to the forward slash url.

am i doing this right,

thanks

will

Is there any benefit in internally linking back to the same page? I have no other relevant pages in the site I can link to so wondering if it's worthwhile to use anchor text to link back to the same page?

thanks for the advice on this one, i always thought the sandbox was still around, i tend not to take on clients with very new domains or even recommend a domain change for this very reason,

thanks for putting me right on this one, i will need to google!!

Yea content and onsite has been completed, I didn't want to do much link building other than business citations.

Hi all

i have a new client, who has bought a shiny new domain name for his business, it has one keyword in it related to his business.

He is a local plastering looking to get his site ranked, but my worry is the domain age, its very new less than 2 months, i know google sandboxes new domains,

The term he is targeting is Mod Completive (26%)

is getting his domain ranked page one within 6 months a possibility, or will it just seem utterly spammy in googles eyes.

Any tips please

thanks

will

Hi Guys i am getting really confusing messages from the on page report in seo moz,

i am running one of my customers urls, and testing it against a keyword "corporate catering " its coming up with an A but there is no meta data in the site or any keywords on the page regarding this,

http://www.georgieporgies.co.uk/corporate-catering

corporate catering

it should not be getting an A but it does, i just checked a few other pages and its the same story whats going on, what am i missing here

thanks

will

Hi all i need a list of all urls google has indexed from my site

i want this in excel format or csv

how do i go about getting this

thanks in advance