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Thank you guys thats the best christmas gift so far!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

Thank you for your great answer.

I am  not sure what you are asking, but let me try ... Let's take your home page and the "target page."  I would not use the page you specified above as that doesn't have the targeted content. Instead I would use http://www.in2town.co.uk/news/soap-gossip which could be developed as an excellent landing page for the terms you identified. On your home page, you might have a line that reads: Want the latest news about your favorite stars; check out our posts on <start link="">celebrity news <end link="">and soap gossip.</end></start> Elsewhere on your site I would link to the target page with similar content and links, only you might use 'soap gossip' as the anchor text. Some SEOs believe that the content around the link has 'juice" as well ... so you don't necessarily have to use the trageted terms as anchor text. Does that help?

Yes, I've seen that happen as well, but this is stranger.  I'm in Houston and can check the listings "even when including Phoenix in the keyword" and its fine.  I can move my location (on google) to any other city and the listings are all the same and good.  But as soon as I put it on Phoenix, the listings are killed.  I've just never seen this and have no idea whats going on...

Good answer. The only time I would do anything with an extra domain name is for testing, and if you have a exact match domain, then maybe it may be worth using as a landing domain.

Thanks for your help and I will definitely check out Relevanssi, but I was thinking of a post I saw here on SEO Moz about how to replace WP search with Google search.

It appears that the site www.wilsonevergreens.com has all of the strengths in place but cannot get past the 'plateau' for ranking for 'christmas wreaths. Are you sure?  I think that the competitors have you outgunned, have better content and have superior optimization. Not bashing... just sayin'. If you buy a keyword domain and put your same site with same assets on it you will still be getting your butt whipped. You would still have the same problem. I say improve your current site and forget about the microsite.  Attracting traffic to a microsite to hope that they click off to your main site and hope that they buy something there is like trying to kill a rabbit with a ricochet.  Forget that and just shoot the damn rabbit! Your site appears on page four for "christmas wreaths" with the index page ranking.  Although your wreath's page is better optimized than the homepage it is not your best ranking page for that query because it is a weak page.   Your homepage is more powerful than your wreath's page but it is poorly optimized for "christmas wreaths". If I owned your site my short-term attack  would be to reoptimize my homepage... load it with christmas wreaths... and use it to attack the  "christmas wreaths" SERPs.  That might improve your rankings but I am still confident that your site will not have the mojo to make the first page.....  so my long-term attack would be to produce incredible, fantastic,  asskicking, best-on-the-web content in the christmas wreath theme, get it on my site and promote it with the hope of attracting a lot of very high quality links. "christmas wreaths" is not the easiest SERPs to win and there are a number of fantastic sites above you.  Do not think that you have an easy battle in front of you. If you want to win in these SERPs you will need to develop an attitude. You will need to exert yourself and improve your site so that it will convince everyone everywhere that you are The Man in the christmas wreath business.  If your attitude is for anything less then you are not going to win.  Keep in mind that at least a few people above you and a few people below you are excited, hungry and aggressive about doing the same thing.  So be sure that you set your goals above what is already out there. If you think that you are The Man in the christmas wreath business then you might be able to do this... but keep in mind that it will not be easy. Good luck!

Thanks for the link Keri. Apparently the feature has not been fully implemented as of yet.

Hi there was a big announcement regarding this. I'm hoping for a seomoz blog update with some analysis of what this means! Here are the links: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure-accessing.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/10/accessing-search-query-data-for-your.html

I read some where as follow. So, which is right? I am too confuse... a single feed can handle up to about 100,000 items of all types and categories -- from handbags to hammers. up to 10 feeds may be registered for up to 1,000,000 items. multiple feeds are mainly intended to submit more than 100,000 items -- not as a general separation of products. there are various issues associated with multiple feeds that should be taken into account -- such as coordinating unique id values across all feeds and update and upload coordination issues; but 10 registered feeds are allowed.

Hi Liors, I'm going through older unanswered questions here in Q&A. Did those suggestions meet your needs, or are you still looking for some more advice about Google Shopping?

Yes Trellian keyword discovery, it's not free but it's good. http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/engines.html Keyword Discovery collects search term data from over 200 search engines world wide. As a result we have the largest keyword database that contains nearly 38 billion searches. KeywordDiscovery also offers many language specific keyword databases sourced from regional search engines and users from those regions, including: Australian, Canadian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, UK and US with plans to offer many others.

This isn't really an seo suggestion, but if you want to make a little more money on your site, you can always sell some "justin" fan paraphernalia/art/shirts... etc

thanks guys. all very helpful feedback

1. Does google index these links? In order for Google to index a page it needs to be able to crawl it. Crawlers are not able to activate functions on websites like 'search' or 'submit' buttons. Pages that you can only get to by submitting information cannot be indexed. For example, if you enter a competition online, very often you will need to enter your name and email address and click "Submit". You are then sent to a page that says 'thank you for entering'. This is an example of a page that will never be indexed, unless somebody links directly to it. (and its not blocked by robots.txt, but that's another story) In the same way, the crawlbots cannot do a search on Yahoo and then index the results page. The only way Google can index these pages is if somebody saves the SERP URL and then links to it from somewhere that the googlebot can index. So the answer is yeah, Google indexes some of these pages, but only a small few of them. 2. Does Google give any value to them? As Ronan said, search engines are just like any website, so their pages are just like any pages. It's unlikely that a SERP has a lot of inbound links (unless it's a particularly hilarious/interesting SERP) so the value of their link juice is unlikely to be very high. Let me know if any of that doesn't make sense and I'm happy to clarify - reading back it is quite heavy!

Thanks for the suggestion Cabbagetoe appreciate your time and input on how to use it, but I trust Alexa about as much as I trust a city banker. Sorry Any other ideas?

Hi, The answer to your main question is yes, do a search on google for filetype:doc or filetype:txt and you'll see tons of doc and txt files indexed. The answer to your second question, if they offer any SEO, is a little more complex. You should try and see if you can get a page to be indexed if it is only linked from doc files. Judging by my experience, I rarely see doc or txt files in the SERPs and even more rarely click on them if they show up. I'd rather do a HTML version of the page with a link to download the doc file in a directory blocked to spiders to avoid duplicates. Best regards, Guillaume Voyer.

Here's Google's official blog post about flight search. Hope this helps

That's one of the things I was wondering about Nick - how much other (i.e. non-browsing behaviour type) personal information does Google et al gather? Another type of information is things like  the UK Companies House maintains information of registered companies (including registered office address etc.) - could that be useful for local ranking? (BTW I'm not sure Companies House info is relevant, but there may be other sources that are).