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Paddy Moogans was great aswell and i found Greg Bosers to be very relevant to us on the agency side of things

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Absolutely spot-on advice again EGOL I've got to admit that I don't think design is my strength, or to rephrase it is definitely not but as they always say it's in the detail and I recognised the advantage of your suggestions again as soon as you point them out. http://www.endeavourcottage.co.uk/ I've have removed the horizontal text links and put a simple banner at the top. I think tomorrow I'll put the social share buttons in the constantly  side field smaller size at the bottom. The whole site is much cleaner, easier to understand immediately. Potential customers don't have to start using brainpower to understand what's on offer where it is! If I start to pull in more property owners it will need a more sophisticated site, but I'll be paying for that design and functionality becouse it is beyond my capabilities... Best Alan

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John, I will endeavor to assist, but it would be easier with a domain and at least one kw. If, you are on your computer and looking at the ranking via doing a search on a given term, you must be sure that you are doing a non personalized search. Otherwise, the cookies on your computer will cause the pages to show differently than they would to a "first time" searcher for that term. There are two ways to check: Using mozbar, you should see SERP control panel in upper right corner. It should show Google (non personalized). I use chrome and see it. If you have that, after doing initial query for keywordX, then click on Google (non personalized). That should change the SERP page. See where you are then. Otherwise, after your search term insert $pws=0 like this: keywordX &pws=0 That should give you a valid search on the term. LMK if that helps or if you can share more data. Robert

Above suggestions look great.  Also something that links SEO with the rest of marketing strategy.

Chenzo, In my experience if you are using the same anchor text which is also in the domain (like brand name) then its fine because how you will stop people linking to you with your brand name (logically you can’t!) but using the keyword  like ‘SEO widgets’ as an anchor text doesn’t make much sense... Hope this helps!

Just reading this now - I love the last part! how true!

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exposure, high quality links and a lot more...

Ok. Shows 25 different domains. But I still don't see 40 people from 25 different domains typing in 12 word phrases that match exactly (or in any order). Maybe certain people typed in one or two of these words and that gets counted as part of the 12 word phrase, but then that would be a bug in google analytics. Something weird is going on, but not sure how to find out what.

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Hi Jake - All the link sources have different indices, hence you'll see different data/numbers from each. A decrease may mean that parts of what was being crawled no longer is, or it could mean that some pages are no longer active or no longer linking to you. Not sure what you're referring to with Sept. of 2011 (~9 months ago). You can read all the updates to OSE here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/38 Best of luck!

That was what I initially thought, but SEOmoz has usage data and social signals as separate factors.

Maybe have a check list of reasons that caused the thums down.. After a Thumbs Down maybe a small drop down comes out as follows: Why thumbs down was it: Spam Wrong Insulting Grudge Im just an Ass After a Thumbs Up maybe a small drop down comes out as follows: I like itI agreeThank you soo much!I like kissing Ass Just because other sites don't do something specific does not mean we can or cannot implement new tech into our sites. Thats what makes a site unique right?

I would not use robots.txt to disallow, as then every link pointing to your search page will leak its link juice. Duplicate content is not a problem unless you have a lot of it so that your site looks like it is a majority fo duplicate content. have one page that has small parts from other pages is not a problem. The think with duplicate content is that only one page will get credit, it is not a penalty unless the vast majority fo pages are duplicate

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