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Links are the answer. The question is: How many links are you getting from the quality content you produce? http://www.yakangler.com/articles/news/events/tournaments How many of those people are bloggers? Do you have backlinks from them? If the answer is no, go get the low hanging fruit!

Depending on the authority of your website depends how quickly it gets indexed/ranked For example: I have seen stuff on Quora get indexed by Google in about 15 minutes If you have a new site, it could take a couple of weeks Personally if I'm planning on launching a new product I'd post in the info on my site a couple of weeks before it's ready to launch with a coming soon banner. This is good for two (2) resons: You are generating buzz You are making sure Google knows your site published the content before anyone else. Is duplicate content an problem? Yes. If you get indexed first, is it your problem? I'd say no

Thank you Moosa and Doug - your answers were very thoughtful and helpful! Do you believe that reducing the # of footer links will have a positive impact by providing additional link juice to the important pages that I keep?

Hi Dave, The best way to track such things is by using tools such as SERPs Volatility and SERPMetrics Flux. Both tools give information about the recent trends on the top 3 search engines for a couple of thousand keywords. You could see best for yourself if you think this caused the beatings of your Web site. Hope this helps!

Mmm.... try to use a termination which is not a country level one. .CA or .IN automatically are targeting they respective countries and you can't avoid the inconviences of that geotargetization if not doing an huge link building in your real target country. Try to check out other generic termination (avoind cc.which is banned by Google)

It seems like you are taking the correct steps. I'm guessing those pages were tossed in to the supplementary index (as they were most likely were dupes) and I beleive by tweaking your robots.txt files, over time, these should be removed. Another thing to do is inform Google on what to do with those parameters inside webmaster tools: Configuration => URL parameters

Single-page penalties are uncommon but possible. Is the page indexed? That's step one. If it is, are you seeing duplicates when you search your index (use the "site:" operator) for the page's title? If so, it could be a filter. If you're indexed but not ranking even on exact-match terms (in quotes), it could be a penalty.

I would use no more than seven remember Google stopped valuing the keyword tags because people were stuffing them. 30 keywords is stuffing, and could possibly send spam signals.

And now I'm back to the top SERP results for my main keywords. For example "price drop alerts" now returns my site as the 4th results after being gone from the first 5 pages for about 10 days. No major changes to the site or links to it that can explain it. I can literally pinpoint the exact hour it happen, yesterday between 6 and 7pm NY. Suddenly my Google organic traffic multiplied by 50 or even 60. I'm obviously very happy to get decent traffic again, but knowing the past patterns, this will only last for few days followed by few more days of being gone again over and over. If anyone has a clue what can cause this, I'd be very happy to know about it.

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Simply put, you want to build good links from good sites. What's a good link? One that's: Natural (not paid or spammy) Editorial (placed by a human, not a content management system) Trusted (high MozTrust) Popular (high MozRank) If you want to improve your rankings, I'd add Relevant (to your niche) Check out this post on qualifying link targets: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/definitive-guide-to-qualifying-a-link-prospect-video Ideally, while you are building natural links by building good content, you raise your Domain Authority, which is a combination of all the metrics SEOmoz measures for your domain. This is probably the most important metric you want to pay attention to. For example, a site with high MozRank but low MozTrust might be considered spammy, and not likely to rank very well in search results. But this would be reflected in the Domain Authority. Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

You may get no traffic from ranking #4 these days, especially on queries with a competitive paid portion of the SERP. What I would do is stop assessing the "what if" scenario's and start focusing all your energy towards acquiring those editorial type links grasshopper was talking about.. right now! You'll get that ranking and secure it for long-term traffic.

I'm not sure I understand the question, but along the way  the original poster seems to be  suggesting that a mobile strategy should always and everywhere be a high priority for every business. I'm not sure I agree with that premise. I recently optimized for mobile the site of a client who mobile traffic has doubled to 25% in the last few months. Much of the site traffic is from 18-35 year old males who are affluent and educated...and access the site daily for updated content.  So it was kind of a no-brainer. We just rolled the mobile optimization into an overall site re-design. There is only one site. But another client is business-to-business. Users access the site only from work, during business hours, from Monday to Friday. It's a very tech un-saavy user basis, with over 65% on IE. Mobile traffic is so small it's hard to measure. The site is not optimized for mobile. We just did a site upgrade, without optimizing for mobile. I recommended we wait another year. That said, when building new sites from scratch these days, I would always optimize for mobile. As to the question of whether you should build a mobi version of a legacy site, my answer would mirror the one above: follow Google's recommendation and just have one site. I'm trying to think of a situation where it would make sense to launch a mobile version of a legacy site with identical content....but I can't think of one.

Perhaps a popular news site based an article around these keywords which led to people google searching the unpopular phrase and got you some traffic...

Hi William, The difference between SERP positions on Google and Bing can be huge, and that can be frustrating, particularly because it's usually much harder for a small company to rank on Google than on Bing. I came across a good article recently that describes some of the differences between Bing and Google's ranking algorithms: http://www.highervisibility.com/blog/how-seo-differs-on-bing-compared-to-google/. Maybe this can help you to identify some of the reasons for the difference in rankings. Good luck.

Also, critical to remember a person who bought the product in the past may want to view their history for some reason (see descriptions and such).

Check out this post there is a lot of great resources http://www.seomoz.org/q/local-seo-3