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Thanks For the tips Jim, Appreciate it!

That's what I'd figured, Thanks

That's what I was thinking but just wanted to get rid of it if I could.

Hi Mark, Thanks for contributing to this question. I would recommend that you read and memorize the Google Places Quality Guidelines, which specifically forbid the use of virtual addresses. Here they are for your perusal: http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528 Specifically, the guidelines state: Do not create a listing or place your pin marker at a location where the business does not physically exist. P.O. Boxes are not considered accurate physical locations. If you operate from a location but receive mail at a mail box there, please list your physical address in Address Line 1, and put your mail box or suite number in Address Line 2. If you don't conduct face-to-face business at your location, you must select the "Do not show my business address on my Maps listing" option within your dashboard. If you don't hide your address, your listing may be removed from Google Maps. Hope it helps to read those. It's not fun to get in hot water with Google if you violate their policies!

We're having an issue where the number of crawled pages in some campaigns has dramatically dropped. Can you send an email to help@seomoz.org and we'll look into it via the help desk? Thanks, and sorry about this! Keri

I'm going to add it to a really BIG site we are working on.  I will keep you all posted.

I agree with Ryan - you need a strategy. I think one of the biggest mistakes we can make when targeting SEO keywords is going too broad and hoping that we can capture things that quite honestly aren't the right fit. You really have to know them, their terminology and how they search. The article link Ryan shared is a great layout for how to go about a sound strategy, which will eventually answer your questions. However, as for the global monthly searches - personally, I say ignore that. Check the "exact" phrase box and look at the local monthly searches. I want to have an idea of how small of an audience I can end up with if I select certain words. It's a very different perspective to find out a word you thought was really popular actually gets 170 searches a month and at best  I can only hope to capture a percentage of that.

I managed to strip out the '?q=' query with the htaccess below, but unfortunately this breaks the query. Any way around this?? (http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/?q=fuel) RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=fuel$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /fuel/? [R=301, L] BEGIN WordPress RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] END WordPress

Hi The Site is looking good! Yslow is a good tool to check the entire site for any issues speed etc. Your hosting provider might have the sitemap tool on their site for you available OR try Google. Depending on your environment you'll need to the tools for it.There are some online tools available too. If you are using a cms, then maybe you'll find a module for it. Regards, Jim Cetin

Hi Wil, If you want to exclude all robots from crawling these pages you can exclude them from Robots.txt. If you want to exclude Rogertbot you can find the info on how to do it on: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot I hope that helped, Istvan

Do you know which plugin (or combination) was the trouble? I use a lot of wordpress, and this is very interesting.

Hi John, Thank you for your input and URL's to find more info, I had looked at the first one but  I was not clear that I was referring to repetition in the URL ITSELF. **http://www.iiba.org/imis15/IIBA/_About_IIBA_/IIBA_Website/_About_IIBA_/_About_IIBA_.aspx ** (the section and page name are both repeated twice) 1. Would this repetition within a URL be considered "stuffing" and be bad from an SEO standpoint? 3. The site is ranking better for Imis15 than for the main keywords so the repeating of that word in every url seems to help that word Appreciate it if you can give me your thoughts on #1.

Alan, I like most of your responses. A fat thumbs up for you! I don't risk getting my clients' websites. Imagine me losing all the income? I had a talk with my client that I can get him to the top by creating a little shady things (spam) OR I could take the long hard road. We took the long hard road which was based off his decision to retire in the next two years. We can't afford to get Google smacked. @Gareth, not everyone spams or over-optimizes. I definitely don't over optimize. It lowers conversions because the content becomes unreadable. ACTUALLY, my sites are ranking higher now so I am glad this is happening.

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I would base the decision by conversion rates and/or what puts more money in your bank account. That's my answer.

If I understand correctly, the American branch is building an entirely new website, and in the meantime they want to direct any traffic that comes through their domain to a landing page at com.au. Is that correct? Will there will be any negative consequences to your .au site? In most cases, no, and this might even make perfect business sense if the parent company is the most appropriate place to direct people. If the American .com has a clean backlink profile, then directing any traffic to the .com.au site should be fine. Unfortunately, without looking at the sites in question there are a lot of unknown variables and it would be almost impossible to account for them all in the space of this answer. In the end, I think you should be fine, but in the case that, you do experience any negative consequences, simply reverse the change and you should be okay

Hi Todd, The metrics you're seeing are from February. OSE is usually updated monthly, but we had technical problems and it's been seven weeks since the last update. There's a new update due on April 27th, and you should see some changes then.

Hi Karen, I'm one of the associates here at SEOmoz. We look at the public questions that come in and respond, endorse, and add information as needed. You tend to get more answers this way, and responses more quickly. To guarantee a response from a staff member or associate, you can ask a private question. With a private question, it may take a few days to get a response, but it will get answered by a staff or associate.