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Thanks Chris. I will check it out.

Thanks Martljn. At least I know it's not just me. Strange.

Does anyone know if the sitelinks demotions tool actually works. I went in and demoted a bunch of pages on my site but the pages are still showing up as sitelinks in search results. I did this like 2 months ago so I am assuming that is plenty of time for it to take.

Any help with this would be great.

Thanks!

I have an IT services company that is based out of Denver. In the past I always used Denver in the H1 tag like this "Denver IT Support & Managed Services" or "Denver Data Center Solutions"

I know that H tags are not that important any more but I still want to put them on each page. My question is in a post panda world do those look too spammy? Should I not include Denver on each page. I have about 25 service pages that I was going to do this for. Each page will be different because of the service but I was going to include Denver on each page.

On that same note how, I normally put never in the title for each page. Should I rethink this also?

Obvisouly I want to rank on Denver and the service.

Any help on this would be great.

Thanks

I am struggling with how I should handle the link structure on my site. Right now most of my pages are like this:

Home -> Department -> Service Groups -> Content Page

For Example:

Home -> IT Solutions -> IT Support & Managed Services -> IT Support

Home -> IT Solutions -> IT Support & Managed Services -> Managed Services

Home -> IT Solutions -> IT Support & Managed Services -> Help Desk Services

Home -> IT Solutions -> Virtualization & Data Center Solutions -> Virtualization

Home -> IT Solutions -> Virtualization & Data Center Solutions -> Data Center Solutions

This structure lines up with our business and makes logical sense but I am not sure how to handle the department and service group pages.

Right now you can click them and it just brings you to a page with a small snippet for the links below. The real content is on the content pages. What I am worried about is that the snippets on those pages are just a paragraph or two of the content that's on the content page. Will this hurt me and get considered duplicate content?

What is the best practice for dealing with this? Those department/service group pages have some good content on them but it's just parts of other pages. Am I okay doing this because there are not direct duplicates of other pages just parts of a few pages?

Any help on this would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks guys. I was thinking about using the rel canonical tag so I think I will go that way. I would love to be able to write unique content for each blog but I know it's just not realistic with my time constraints.

Thanks again for the help.

Quick Question. I am in the process of launching a new website for my IT business which will include a blog. I also want to start up my personal blog again.

I want to publish some blog posts to both my business and personal blogs but I don't want to have any duplicate content issues. I am not concerned with building the SERPs of my personal blog but I am very focused on the business blog/site.

I am looking for some ideas of how I can publish content to both sites without getting hurt by duplicate content. Again, I am not concerned with building up the placement of my personal site but I do want to have a strong personal site that helps build my name.

Any help on this would be great.

Thanks!

Thanks for the help guys.

I will not get into anything like that but it will be interesting to see if they maintain that position.

Thanks again

I was researching some keywords and I found something that kind of confuses me. If you search google for Denver IT Consulting the second hit is for a site** - **denveritconsulting.com. This is a one page site with just a paragraph of text and links to the actual company's site but it's getting the second place on a pretty good keyword.

I also checked open site explorer and they have no links at all.

I am assuming that their placement is based solely on the exact match of the keywords in the URL?

Does anyone have any feedback on this? I have purchased and used keyword based URLs in the past but I have never done or seen something like this that is so successful.

Any input on this would be great.

Thanks!

Ben & Miriam thanks for the help. Very useful information.

I have a better understanding now. I will continue to optimize on Denver and the keywords. I will also runs some geo-targeted PPC.

Thanks again!

I am working on a keyword analysis for a range of keywords. I want to target these keywords in the Denver market. I know if you search google for something like "IT Support" and you are located in Denver it knows where you are and caters the results to be more Denver IT Support oriented. I did notice that those results are different than if you search for "Denver IT Support"

My pages are optimized for the Denver market and the keyword like "IT Support" but I am  a bit confused on how I should be doing my research into keywords.

Should I be putting Denver into all my keyword analysis research even though I still want to rank for just the keyword when they are searching from the Denver area.

I hope this all makes sense. I guess I just need some guidance on how to deal with the location specifics of my keywords.

Thanks in advance for any help.