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Hi Perdana, We have a pretty good sized Volusion site.  I recommend you join the unofficial Volusion forum at Convergent 7 and then contact them for your SEO services as well. They are seasoned with everything Volusion.

Whitespark has a good citation building service. They charge $4 for generic citation links and $5 for targeted links for your site. You can read more about it here.

Unless I'm missing something in the question I'm pretty confident that it's just the different browsers interpretation of the CSS used to format the page!? Some CSS elements are supported in most browsers but not necessarily all of them....

This is a bit of a catch 22... The overall benefit of SEO will vary from site to site, the only way to prove it will work on your clients site is to do it! Explain to them that optimising the content will not only improve SEO rankings but also help with converting users from others sources. This is because ultimately SEO is all about optimising your sites for user experience. Optimised content = better user experience = more conversions = better search engine ranking! Steve

Hi Phil Sincere thanks for your post/reply. I apologise for not getting back to you earlier. "Better late than never!"

You're welcome Energy Earth and good luck. Here is another name I'll add to your list (sorry to make your research even harder): Doug Roberts - SEO & Web Designer at Bristol Web Design Like anything else, I imagine your budget will greatly influence your decisions.  Some of the suggestions I offered are in the list of recommendations Keri suggested and some are not. I would check my recommendations against their list and see what size companies they typically do business with. You probably be able to narrow the list and focus your research based on that information.

Great responses, everyone! I think that I will go to the meeting, and then explain all of the components and time that go into SEO. I have a feeling that Bob will not want to increase his workload as much as it will take. And, if he does, I'm sure that it will just get pushed to the side, as "extra work" for when he has time to do it. Thanks everyone!

Im using a script (maxmind geoip) to send users to the correct storefront based on their ip address. However i would prefer to stop with this because it can be buggy and slow. I think (correct me if im wrong) that i i set the right geotargeting in google webmaster tools AND set up brand related searches per country in a google adwords campaign to the correct storefront this would be enough and i can stop with the script.

Hiya, Here are a few good things that never hurt : Keep the blog updated with good content If its updated every week keep it updated every week (I.e keep it on schedule) Socialize : it never hurts to reach out and interact with your community and peers for the website. Hope these quick pointers help

Hi Denise, Robert has made some important points. Most importantly, it's vital to understand that Google considers any business as being most relevant to its city of location - not to neighboring cities, even if the company resides right on the border. This is a frequent cause for frustration for business owners who are located just outside the borders of major cities, especially when many clients come to them from the major city, or when the business owner travels to the major city to serve. Nevertheless, except in cases of low competition or a lack of data, most businesses should only expect to rank locally for their city of location. Additional rankings for nearby cities will typically have to be pursued with organic, rather than local, SEO.

Moz has a list of recommended companies at http://moz.com/article/recommended that can also be a starting place for you.

I just found this as well: http://mathsight.org/ I am still unclear what it is..

If the domain supports the content I think it is ok and even slightly helpful.   You are better served to employ a strong local content strategy combined with good off page local SEO. I think this would serve you in a better way.

Depending on how it is done, then yes.  The specifics are a bit dependent on where the client is based and where the trademark of the brand is registered. However everywhere has some form of trademark protection and something a passing off law.

Hi Vlad, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1oSjCTKpw To export your indexed pages to CSV/Excel to add to a report: http://www.mathewporter.co.uk/list-a-domains-indexed-pages-in-google-docs/ Hope this helps

Shhhhh!!! I'm adding ARIA markup to the site I work on. It was easy to get stakeholder buy-in, as it makes for a good story either way. At minimum, you'll have a website that is more accessible to disabled users. I know this post is from last year, but semantic HTML5 and schema.org in my mind are givens at this point.

Guest blogging as an activity isn't frowned on.  Guest building as a way to manipulate link authority (or in fact anything as a way to manipulate link authority) is.  In that video Cutts says this in the first sentance "Guest blogging for links" Like most things in SEO it is how you do it.  If I write some quality pieces for well respected blogs and these include followed links to my sites (as do many other types of sites / pages of varying types) that is very unlikely to ever cause a problem.  That is very different to having a strategy that involves large amounts of guest posts on sites of questionable value with a high proportion of guest posts and I have little else of more weight to back up my link profile. I really think the "black hat / white hat" metaphor doesn't help people with SEO.  In truth there is a LOT of grey - it's almost all just shades of grey.  Most methods lose their shiny whiteness if you try to scale them up - particularly if you dumb them down at the same time. Most "frowned on" methods can still be used very effectively if you are selective and intelligent in your link building and keep focused on quality over quantity. Don't believe me?  Start another question here on moz.com and ask "If the Huffington post (#1 blog in the world according to Technorati) asked you to write an article about something you are passionate about and said you could have a follow link in it, would you use that link?" .    I don't know many professional SEOs that would say no.

Thanks Yiannis. I was actually hoping for someone from Moz, or at least a blogger they might nominate. At least for now I'd rather not hand out our company info to anyone outside of MOZ, but I'll certainly keep it in mind.

See, if you going to change domain name and aptly make correct 301 redirect to corresponding pages (following the same url pattern) of new site with same **content, title and description - **then you are home. Adding to what Mr. Robert said - you can also check on url hierarchy through Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming frog seo spider of your old domain and new site (post migration). Compare the link structure. If everything goes on well - you may experience 301 redirect working upto 99% and can almost see your similar rankings with new domain