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If you are putting out regular updates it will be better for your business, freshness is targeting websites which have new news content which is been updated on a good basis. Work your blog strategy to publish great content on a daily if not weekly basis.

No problems, glad it was useful, please feel free to mark the question as answered so I can earn a few extra MozPoints thanks!

Hi Alan That seems to make sense, thanks for the logical reply. Regards Simon

Excellent Response Robert.  That was exactly what I was looking for. Very interesting, I guess this is the Directories answer to the Local Pack pushing them down in the rankings a year ago. Great Insight.  Thanks.

I just realized searching [keyword] + testimonials was a great way to find the type of people who would become prospective clients. Further research such as client surveys, web statistics are great ideas

Hi Heather, Thanks for the reply. The page you mention (<cite>www.dataclinic.co.uk/hard-disk-raid-recovery.htm) has had a decent ranking for a while but it is specific & meant to appeal to a certain subset of data recovery traffic, rather than the whole lot. I think I'll just wait for a couple of days and see if there is any change... and perhaps there may be some more input into this discussion too !</cite> Thanks for your time Sue

Having dealt with photographers for many years I would say that it is, but does not have to be. Obviously, there are more Spring and Summer marriages, school pics during school year, etc. Many photographers put their businesses in too narrow a niche and by virtue of that limit themselves to other opportunities. If a photographer is to build a name for themselves it will typically start in one city. They have to become known to a level that someone will say, "This family photo was shot by Bill Photo." But, there are many other areas to be explored: If a photographer is digitally savvy, the real estate market loves a person who understands what parallax is and how to best display a home for sale. They pay very well (Maybe a low of $150 for the lower end real estate up to $1,000's for high end homes). Be willing to set up drop boxes, etc. and teach agents and mls' how to retrieve photos and be prepared to assist them early in the process. Seasoned realtors are good at this, but new ones need help. You never know which new one will become a top producer. Industrial/Commercial photography is another area where they can make money and reduce seasonality. Make it easy on them to get what they want and then have it available when they need a copy, etc. (Get away from the "I own the copyright and a copy is $500 BS - charge a fee, but make the money on the schedule time, difficulty of shoot and setting, etc. - no one likes to feel nickel and dimed). Like any other business, you must be telling people you are there and constantly working the sales pipeline. If you are an "artist" and cannot be bothered with the mundane....good luck. Best

Also make a notation in your analytics program about the day that each of these ads hit the general public. Like I mentioned in my earlier response, my experience was people would just type in the abc.com and ignore the /GQ or /Esquire. Having a notation in your analytics account can help you account for some of the direct traffic that just goes to the home page.

OK i asume this is your title Chicago Web Design & SEO | Capacitr, Inc Chicago web design company, Chicago SEO, Video Production | Capacitr, Inc It is keyword stuffed. try somthing like

Great thanks so much for your help!

I don't have the answer. While I would be interested in hearing feedback from others, I highly doubt anyone has gone to this level of detail in any proper testing. URLs are a ranking factor, but a low one and this focus goes past the point of any realistic difference. I am willing to bet either way would never make any difference at all in a ranking determination. You are talking about 1 component of 1 low consideration factor. It's a 0.001% type of thing in my opinion. Take a look at the Google.co.uk results for "care hire london". Notice you don't find the exact match URLs anywhere on the first page. If you go to the lengths to acquire an exact match domain, you have to receive exceptional rankings to make it pay off. Notice you don't even see the "carhire.co.uk" nor the "carehirelondon-rentals.co.uk" until the second page of results. If you put this type of focus in ensuring you have the best quality site design along with world-class content, you will be on the first page of SERPs with or without the EMD. EDIT: I'll go a bit further and add my private question from last month because I think it will help you as well. I carefully examined two results from a blog article Rand shared. Every single SEO indicator to which I have visibility tells me the #2 article should outrank the #1 article, including the URL. When I look at both results without knowing the ranking outcome, I would have bet with confidence the #2 result would beat the #1 result, and I would have been wrong obviously. There are ranking factors to which we do not have visibility to or otherwise do not understand. Again, I agree you should have good domain names and URLs, but there are other more important factors which deserve our attention. http://www.seomoz.org/q/re-rand-s-blog-the-best-kept-secret-in-the-seomoz-toolset

1. Typically Google will display the result that they feel to be the legitimate source. However, I have had pages with stolen content appear higher in the SERPs because the website had a higher domain or page authority. 2. Duplicate content is never a pretty picture, and yes it can hurt your rankings. It can hurt them by having multiple pages from your website removed from the Google index if they have been flagged as duplicates.

Thanks The site doesn't rank anywhere at the moment but I have just researched into the top result and these are the figures given, does not look like shed loads of work to get up there! | Page Authority | Domain Authority | Linking Root Domains | Total Links | Facebook Shares | Facebook Likes | Tweets | Google +1 | | 31/100 | 22/100 | 9 | 146 | 51 | 8 | 8 | 2 |

.com is such a broadly accepted TLD that I find it hard to believe anyone in the UK would question it's not a UK site. As long as the content looks UK focussed then you're fine. If you slap an American flag in the corner then that might cause a problem Think of all the huge UK brands that have .com sites... moneysupermarket.com, moonpig.com, etc, etc. It's just as normal to have a .com in the UK as it is to have a .co.uk

We have the same issue-- our customers are located around the country and when we had AdWords campaigns we targeted certain cites, but always coast-to-coast. Our solution has been to attack certain cities with special pages, so we can try to rank for "keyword seattle" and "keyword miami" This is sort of working, so far. I know that isn't possible for every business, just wanted to share that you're not alone.