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I'd go for ASOS.com, pretty much perfect SEO and their key demographic blog/are active on social

In most cases you don't need a region based SEO company.  I have multiple foreign based websites we do SEO on and have great success.

I would suggest doing some more quality linkbuilding with that name as the anchor text. Perhaps a few good quality guest postson popular sites would do the trick.

If the content you have is original and is bringing in quality organic traffic then keep it.  If you want to make sure to avoid any duplicate content issues that could arise from this just make sure you correclty implement 301 redirects on any old URL's where the content used to live so you can inform Google that the new content lives at a new URL.  You might find it useful to "refresh" the content while you move it over b/c recency/freshness of content also influences organic rankings.

I took this to mean that they won't show a snippet unless they find all the ingredients - not that  you "can't" so much.  I still did the mark up exercise because at least it was a start in communicating the nature of the page content. I'd love to hear what others think however.

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I lived around 23 years in Sydney. Once you have a network and something to show, it's pretty straight forward to generate business but I think this is true in Sydney as it is in most places around the world. Good luck with everything Danny and let us know how you do!!

I'd also suggest craigslist. Always results in tons of responses, Might need to do a bit of sorting through the pile to get the good resumes.

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Charles, That is all good then. So, your challenge is finding the sweet spot for you and for the client. One thing for us has been that as we go on further and further, we no longer can accept less for more. So, we can't do low price work as it just won't get us to where we want to be. In fact, there are times I am fairly sure we are in the top pricing because we want to limit our clients to those who are willing to pay because they understand the complexities of all the issues and the work that must go into them. It makes me want to scream when I deal with a reasonably sophisticated business person who has no understanding of the Internet and wants to believe sales come from magic fairies. Best,

Not really. We go by "feel" most of the time too. If you know they're not willing to pay as much as you think it's actually going to cost 'hours' wise, sometimes you just have to charge what you think they're willing to pay. Obviously, if you do this for too many clients you'll loose out, but if you're really slow it can make sense.  Moral of the story, try to go for bigger clients :). The smaller ones usually end up burning you if you're on a Cost Per Hour model....in my humble opinion at least.

It really depends on the client's niche, and who is talking about that particular vertical at the moment. Remember the focus and goal of any successful content plan is to create a vast echo chamber of Citations, Mention, Chats, Forum posts, articles outreach links and so on. So when someone searches for that [articular item or subject, Google notices the action of the echo chamber and directs searchers towards it.

Hey Steve, what are you seeing? A loss on just a few big keywords or a more general loss?

Hey Thomas! Thanks for the response. We have an in-house team that focuses on on-page optimization, but of course, any agency we bring in would be encouraged to aid us in on-page optimization efforts as well. Because our focus has primarily been on on-page tasks, we are looking for more assistance in off-page efforts. Yes, I totally agree that quality content is truly the most white-hat method of link building but as we all know, it's incredibly time consuming. That's why we've been looking for an agency that can help in that particular effort. We've shopped around for content marketing agencies as well in the past but are leaning more towards a comprehensive and all-around solid SEO agency that can provide insight on both on and off-page improvements to our site. Thanks for the recommendation! Will definitely look into it.

Sticky posts can help if they contain content that's relevant to the keywords you're targeting. It's just a way to keep content on your homepage in Wordpress, Google will still see the fresh content you are producing.

Mark If you have had your category level or city/state level pages, whatever your architecture is, you'd see your detail pages getting crawled pretty quickly. Give it a week. I would also work on getting some deep links to your website. Google has mentioned several times, PR is a direct measure of how deep and how often Google crawls your website. So I would suggest working on building the domain authority and brand in terms of backlinks to the website. Other then that, as bstone81 said, generate sitemaps and sitemap of sitemaps and submit to Google.

Hi Charles, May I know what I title you have to post ? I find below points in your post: Setting up your Google Places & Google+ Page, Google Reviews, Directory/Business Listings Whats new in your post ? ( Sorry ) Blogpost on "Google Places" in SEOMOZ: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-seo-lessons-learned-from-rank-correlation-data http://www.seomoz.org/blog/optimizing-your-google-places-page http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-traffic-from-google-places-in-google-analytics http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-citations-5-tactics-to-earn-links-for-your-local-business http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-you-may-need-to-hide-your-google-places-address-asap You will learn something new in most of the seomoz blogpost but I didn't find anything in your blogpost. Can you add some unique information ( not content) or case study which will help the community.

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