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Just a quickie,

Does anybody know of any strong German SEO agencies?

Many Thanks

Sean

Thanks SEOStallion.

Sean

Thanks Barry, I've actually found 52 pages with 404's some with some good authority!

Thanks for you help, greatly appreciated

Sean

Hi,

We have recently made some changes to our agency site. Looking in webmaster tools we have identified a number of old pages with existing link juice. Not a great deal mostly 32/100 PA.

There are a mixture of URLs "meet the team" and people pages etc.

The anchor text on the majority of pages is our brand name. Could we now 301 all these pages to one page, or is this a no no in the eyes of Google?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Best Regards

Sean

Ryan, thanks for your help. Greatly appreciated.

Sean

Thanks for this Ryan, a nifty little tool.  It doesn't break down the Phones by 3G 3GS etc but very useful all the same.

What does the % indicate? Is this % of population: So 18% of USA for example have an iPhone?

Thanks again Ryan, greatly appreciated.

Sean

Hi,

I have a really quick question, which is seeming impossible to find out the answer for.

Could only point me in the right direction? I need to find out:

How many iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4 users there are in:Europe, North America and Global.

The more I can break down the better really.

Many Thanks

Sean

Thank you Daniel & Steve for your comments. This is pretty much the line we have taken on this, always nice to get back up on something that is new to us. Great answers and greatly appreciated Best Regards Sean

Mozzers:

We have a instance where a client is looking to 301 a www.example.com to                                                                                                                           www.example.com/shop

I know of several issues with this but wondered if anyone could chip in with any previous experiences of doing so, and what outcomes positive and negative came out of this.

Issues I'm aware of:

• The root domain URL is the most linked page, a HTTP 301 redirect only passes about 90% of the value. you'll loose 10-15% of your link value of these links.
• navigational queries (i.e.: the "domain part" of "domain.tld") are less likely to produce google site-links
• less deep-crawling: google crawls top down - starts with the most linked page, which will most likely be your domain url. as this does not exist you waste this zero level of crawling depth.
• robots.txt is only allowed on the root of the domain.

Your help as always is greatly appreciated.

Sean

Hi Keri, and thank you.

All is going really well. I had a mail from Rand on this subject which has been a big, big help.

We're focussing all our energy on building relationships primarily.I find that you can get a good feel for the partners knowledge and skill sets through the conversations you have rather than shooting questions at them, which feels a little stiff and interview like, which we don't want.

Our partners {so far} are passionate about the industry Keri, and I can talk SEO till the cows come home, so you get a good feel for their experience, whilst building solid relationships, which I'm sure will stand the test of time.

You may well see my first YOUmoz post very soon!

Best Regards

Sean

This may sound a little basic, but i'm going to ask anyway.

On Googles keyword tool Ive always used broad match, knowing that they are never 100% accurate, and obviously inflated by other SEO's searching for their keywords, but used it all the same to get an idea of global monthly searches and potential targeted traffic.

I have seen recently, on SEOmoz, and a post fromJill Whalen not long back, that unless you change the match to "Exact" your data is useless?

Could somebody explain why this is the case?

My initial thoughts were,  a search for SEO on broad shows 6,120,000 per month

Yet a search for the same keyword in exact match shows 673,000 per month.

I had presumed that the broad match would include "learn SEO"  "What is SEO" etc etc, where as 673,000 just search exactly for SEO. Is this correct?

3 points go to Richard Q&A answering animal dude Getz if he gets this first!

Thanks in advance

I'll just back Thomas up there. Yes that's 100% correct. Google will only display these site-links when it deems the site to have a certain authority.

We have a fairly large client for which I look after the analytics, and just recently the SEO also.

This celebrity client already recieves near a million visitors per month, 96% of the time for her name.

I'm using Googles keyword tool and search trends for insights as to what people are searching for

As I get further and further into optimising different pages, I'm running out of ideas for Unique page titles to drive additinal traffic as they have all been covered. {high volume exact searches that is}

I'm not sure if I'm over using her name also: for example most of the clients pages start with:

"First name last name Keyphrase"  should I be using her first name last name on every title?

Thanks in advance for what seems like a simple task, however when your up against it for the first time, it's a "Do I Don't I situation!"

Kind Regards

Sean