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Yahoo went secure recently which means the referrer data will be skewed. Read more: http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-search-goes-secure-182343

"They should do a study on who is leaving.  I bet who is leaving has a higher average rep score than the people who are stayin'," Sadly for the investors at times its the quantity that matters vs quality of people on the network...

Hi Jason, The explanation of your business model is helpful in a number of ways. Interestingly, (and excitingly), Google+ Local actually has a category for magicians. Go to Mike Blumenthal's category tool (http://blumenthals.com/Google_LBC_Categories) and type 'magician' into the search box. Here's what you'll see: Category: Magician Synonyms: magic, _magician_s, parties, party, magic, _magician_s, parties, party, magic, _magician_s, parties, party As a Local SEO, I find this extremely interesting because it immediately clues us in to how Google categorizes and views your business, indicating that these are core terms that should be included in the development of your local business profiles and website optimization. I am not sure from your description whether you are making specific efforts to promote your business via Local SEO. I would think you should be doing so, provided your business meets the following criteria: Has a name or DBA Has a dedicated street address (even if it's a home address that you hide when creating your local business listings) Has a local area code phone number Makes face-to-face contact with customers (like when you perform your magic act) If you can say 'yes' to all four things, then you should be doing Local Search Marketing to promote your business to its fullest. Unfortunately, whether you are researching terms like 'magician' or 'entertainer', keyword research tools can give, at best, a general picture of actual local traffic. Things like the Google Keyword Planner Tool and Google Insights can help to form this general picture, but you sort of have to make an assumption that people in major cities are, indeed, looking for magicians and entertainers. As a local business, the core of your geographic optimization is going to be based on the city in which you are physically located. If your street address is in Cleveland, then this is what Google sees you as the most relevant answer for, when it comes to user queries. You can work to appear high in the LOCAL results (often called the 7-pack) for people searching for variations of the term 'magician cleveland' or for searches searching for 'magician' from a device located in Cleveland. Again, we are talking about LOCAL results here. Now, many business models may be located in one city, but also travel to serve additional cities (think of plumbers). Because of Google's bias towards physical location in the city of search, these service area businesses are unlikely to appear in the Local results for these additional service cities. Instead, they have go after gaining visibility in the ORGANIC results for these additional service cities. Currently, best practices for achieving this involve the creation of city landing pages. One page for each city where you serve. The content on each page must be unique and awesome. It should be optimized for what you do in the city where you do it. You can read a detailed explanation of this practice here: The Nitty Gritty of City Landing Pages For Local Businesses How well this practice works depends on how competitive your local market is, and how much work you may need to do to promote these pages. Gaining even a modest amount of visibility in the organic results for your additional service cities can make phones ring, so this will be an important area for you to investigate. Hope this helps!

no but bold does, all be it not much Bold not using css, but overdoing this will look spammy to SE's as well as users

Thanks Chris. I will check it out.

I feel you when it comes to the work load and level of interest.I'm passionate about the clothing industry and SEO so the interest is there plus I have ton of manpower behind me with what I established in the Philippines.I have 70-100 computers in two Internet Cafes in the Philippines and my SEO partner there operates our Internet Marketing team during night shift.The thing is if I just let them sit It may look like bad faith and I want to show these are simply fan sites that promote their brand and prove I'm not holding them hostage and intend to sell fakes or hurt their image.

The services mainly help you identify what needs to be addressed, then an actual human comes in and needs to interpret the results and make the changes. There's no magic software out there where you can click, have everything fixed, and get on the first page of Google.

Hi, Start with installing the Redirect Path plugin for Chrome so you can more easily track what's happening with redirects on your site. That hopefully can provide you with valuable insights. Probably every extra parameter on your site will cause a redirect on your site. So go ahead and just enter a URL on your site add a parameter or the GCLID parameter to see what happens. Use Redirect Path to determine from where to where the page is redirecting. Now you can tell your developer or figure out yourself where the redirect is triggered and how you can overcome this. Good luck!

Hi Derek Dennis provided a good tip! You can also download the csv report to see more detail as the first column will show the page we crawled and there will be a column for all duplicate pages. Hope this helps!

thx, perfect

I just wanted to add to this discussion to say that I created a tool that helps me create really good spreadsheets for link auditing.  It aggregates links from a number of sources, reduces the list down to one link from each domain, and marks the nofollows.  It also tells you which links are from domains that are on my blacklist of domains that I almost always disavow.  The blacklist contains over 14,000 domains at this point and is growing.  And, it tells you which links are from domains that I usually ignore such as dmoz scrapers and domain stats pages where we know the link is not one made for SEO purposes. I'm not a fan of tools that automate the decision making promises because I've seen so many of them mark fantastic links as bad ones and miss a whole bunch of really spammy links.  If you're trying to escape Penguin, you have to be way more accurate than this. It's still in a beta phase right now as I am working on making it as useful as possible, but you can see the details here: http://www.hiswebmarketing.com/manual-link-audits/

No problem, but one thing you also need to know is that keyword density is a myth. It's true that longer articles tend to be shared more often, but there's isn't any set word limit either. If you write about the topic in a way that sounds natural to you, you'll probably be alright. After you get your blog/site fleshed out, it's time to start thinking about letting people you know you're there. Of course, it is advised to do so in a non-desperate/non-annoying way. (Don't worry, you're not annoying. Just don't say; "OMG OMG PULLEEEZE LINK TO MEH LOL!!!!1) Participate in discussions with people. I mean, there's a ton of ways you can go with this. There's mommy bloggers, crafty people/sites - rustic stuff, home decor. Someone out there has at least a moderate interest in your theme and what it entails. Engage people and offer value, don't always sell. If you haven't yet, there's a metric ton of good information here.

Hi I put it on the back burner for a while. This morning i had another go and I think it was caused by shortcodes for accordion style links put in a long time ago by someone else. I've taken the shortcode out and will see if things have improved on the next report.

I also have the Same Problem as My client is Using Volusion So I am also Going for blog.website.com. Thanks