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.htaccess processes requests received by your webserver.   It doesn't process HTML sent to the client, so it can't affect those affiliate links.

Falid, If you're in your campaign and you go to the "brands and mentions" link on the left, you'll have the choice to view reports on your and your competitor brands as well as to add and manage additional queries.

Hi, If you have a look at this URL, there are plenty to choose from, and all appear to have reviews. -Andy

Thanks everyone for the confirmation!

Thanks guys, I have fixed the problem. and got the Root Domain back on the search results. The issue was over optimization and unnatural anchor text link profile. We really appreciate the community for all the response.

The budget is maxed out for this term - they just wanted us to up the bid (which we are spending .25 of the current bid).

Aside from pointing out the things Egol mentions (like the fact that a lousy product selection or bad pricing will mean no sales regardless of how good the SEO is) I always start out these conversations by reminding the client that web businesses are subject to exactly the same business challenges as brick 'n mortar businesses. If you start a brand new store, with no existing customers and no existing word of mouth (brand new social media) on a street a long way from the centre of town and with little traffic(brand new website and domain) and in a town where there are several already-well-established competitors located right in the main shopping district, it's going to take at least a year to 18 months of a rock solid, full-press (expensive) marketing campaign in order for that new store to become profitable. And that's assuming the competition doesn't open expanded stores with more products and reduced prices right in the middle of your launch. Exactly the same challenges apply to the online store. There's no special exemption to this process just because the "store" is on the web. (Though the timeline can be compressed a little, as the marketing can be targeted better online). Too many potential business people have been mislead by the idea that it's somehow easier to make money quick on the web. That's no longer true, if it ever was (unless you're a scammer). Same rules of supply, demand, marketing, exposure, customer service, product selection/pricing etc apply, regardless of business channel. The problem is, this is usually news the client really doesn't want to be true, so they don't want to hear it. But it's critical to get their expectations in line to avoid them jumping ship to a "get results quick" seo scammer who will happily make ridiculous promises to get a few bucks out of them before screwing their site/business and then disappearing. Hopefully that gives you something to include in the conversation? Paul

Will do Gianluca.  Messaging you right now!

Thanks, it definitely seems that results vary greatly by keyword. I've noticed sometimes BuzzFeed is great and Yahoo Answers has junk...but in your case the results were the opposite. Thanks again for the feedback.

lol... Yes, but you can do BOTH.

I like EGOL's idea of partnering with US websites that do not ship to Canada and arranging a referral scheme. This is one way to take advantage of US sites taking up real estate in Canadian results. I agree that "canada" is likely a common modifier - if the product is niche enough or bought in small enough quantities, large-scale keyword research tools might not be of much use. Consider other modifiers, such as "ca" as well. Don't go overboard on the keyword usage though: stuffing "Canada" into every title is unnecessary and will start to look unnatural. Make sure you've taken advantage of localisation tools and techniques such as geo-targeting and the rel="alternative" tag for language, i.e. specifying en-ca as English language, for Canada (or French as well, if that's part of your market!). Unfortunately if your competition, albeit irrelevant US sites, are incredibly strong, you'll need to compete with them on standard metrics such as the rate of link acquisition and the quality of the links you both build. Don't worry yourself with building the same number of links Petco has outright, but you may need to look at figuring out their rate of link building and look at their social / content activity, and devise a plan to match that as best you can in the future. You don't need to build the same historical numbers as these huge sites have, but your competitiveness needs to rise to match or better the sites you want to keep up with / pass.

Frankly...the reason for the slip is irrelevant. Probably Penguin / Penguin 2.0 but you really have 2 choices: Get rid of the paid links and start being smarter about your SEO, you'll probably lose some more traffic in the short term if you're not currently getting an algorithmic spanking from the links in question already. Don't get rid of them and watch your traffic continue to fall as your paid links slowly get devalued. The net result is the same. Get rid of the paid links and start again now rather than dragging it out ad having to start again later.

Hi there, I would stick to one high quality website with separate sections for sports and weddings. My only hesitation is the vast difference in the subject matter and the fact that wedding photography is such an important niche unto itself, but from an SEO point of view, one website is definitely preferable. You'll need to work on site structure and the branding of the wedding and sports sections to differentiate them and not confuse / alienate your potential clientele. For the home page, I would go with the part of the business that is most profitable (I am guessing weddings?) and use navigation and SEO to optimise the sports photography page. PPC is a great way to get an influx of new traffic, especially if you want to do some conversion rate testing in the early stages, before you have a good amount of organic traffic. I would consider creating pages for specific genres, even within your chosen niches. For example, a basketball page, including all the basketball content you've created like http://www.soobumimphotography.com/basketball-floor-remote/ and http://www.soobumimphotography.com/2013-nba-finals/ This section would sit under sports and be linked to from http://www.soobumimphotography.com/portfolio/sports/, along with a section for football, soccer, volleyball, boxing... In terms of conversion, the contact form should be specific to the page it sits on - there is no need for a generic form with engagement and wedding options on the sports page, for example. I would tailor that to ask about the sport, the teams, the league (NCAA? High schoo? Pro?). I'd also really consider reviews or recommendations from your former clients, especially for weddings. They add trust, especially when paired with the people's actual photos. You can use Rich Snippets to include star ratings, and those star ratings can show up in search results: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146645?hl=en http://i.imgur.com/HMegwvh.png I hope this provides some ideas for now. Let me know if anything is unclear. Cheers, Jane

Hi again, Sorry for the misunderstanding. The links being from identical content should not be harmful to you - this sort of citation is fairly common, e.g. when a site has shared a piece of viral content like a video, infographic, tool (calculator etc.) or cited case study that others reproduce and link back to. I'd be far more concerned about the quality of the linking sites. I think the duplication question will also be even less of an issue if you remove the poor-quality links: identical citations from high-quality sources will pass as normal and not malicious liking activity.

Hi again, This could be dampening Google's view of the site, but I would be interested to see what the link building and other promotional activity of your competitors looks like. DA might not have caught up with what they're doing yet, but the subtle improvements are enough to make the "playing field" a little tougher for you. When you're being slowly out-done, I'd definitely recommend making sure the site is absolutely perfect from an on-page point of view. If you suspect you're keyword stuffing at all, resolve that and tidy up any other house keeping issues you come across. I don't think that would be enough to take a site from top 3 rankings to page 2, but it won't help if there are other competitive aspects you are being beaten on. Forgive me for linking to my own post, but I wrote about competitive link analysis a few years ago and it might be helpful if you're looking at what others are doing as far as links go: http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/competitive-backlink-analysis.html

Hey, There are definitely a lot of hurdles included when trying to make an email COMPLETELY white labeled. The best place for you to post about this is here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-Moz-Feature-Requests If you posted there previously you may want to update your thread to continue the conversation with my product team. Thanks! Joel.

This was a question that was recently raised by somebody else here on the Q&A and you can see the full discussion here. Although the question is slightly different, the answer is the same: it depends which HTML version you are using. If it's HTML4 or XHTML, only use one h1 per page, but if you are using HTML5 you can have one per section. So you could have one in your <nav>, on in your, one in each of the <aside>s on your page and one in your <footer>. The reason for this is that for HTML4 search engines look at headings to give the page hierachy - remember they only had s to separate content areas - but HTML5 uses the new semantic elements like <header>and <fotter>to work out hierarchy, with headings only affecting hierachy within one of those tags.</fotter></header> </footer> </aside> </nav>

Hi Eva, Do you have Webmaster Tools set up for the domain? If you do, you will usually be sent a message in your Webmaster Tools account if you have a penalty attached to your site for whatever reason. The penalty messages are not particularly descriptive, but they will tell you whether this is a penalty or is just the site no longer being strong enough to rank well in comparison to its competitors. I see the subdomain properly indexed and being returned for its brand name - do you see this too? http://i.imgur.com/A0P6Hee.png That said, searching for terms like [tutorpace math] do not return the subdomain. Is there a reason why math and English are on subdomains but science, economics, etc. are on subfolders / pages? Then, within science, we go back to subdomains for chemistry, biology etc.? It's generally advisable to keep content on the same subdomain, like "www", so you'd have www.tutorpace.com/science/biology, www.tutorpace.com/math/algebra/, etc. Have you done any deliberate link building to the site or employed an SEO company to do so? Real penalties are usually because of bad link building activity or very poor on-page optimisation (although a lot of different factors make up "bad" link building and "bad" on-page SEO). You do seem to have some internal pages that are indexed but contain no content: http://i.imgur.com/zy7cox7.png --> http://i.imgur.com/v7Y6C1p.png Do you know where these blank pages might have come from? They should return **404 Not Found **or 410 Gone server responses so that Google removes them from its index quickly, rather than continuing to return 200 OK responses (as they are right now, as is shown by the plugin in the screenshot). Another issue is that the content on the Math page is duplicated elsewhere, including on the very strong Facebook domain, via the company's official Facebook page. You need to provide unique content for the Facebook page than what is published on the website: http://i.imgur.com/9hAKoc0.png Ensure that the content on the pages is unique - you can't stop scrapers from picking up your content and publishing it elsewhere, but you can ensure that you don't deliberately publish it in more than one location. I hope these points help. Thanks, Jane

That does help, thanks much!