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activitysuper, I do link building research by finding a strong competitor site: I use opensite explorer with these settings only followed links only external links You will find some pretty good links for free (or for a reasonable $ or effort) and you will also learn about what type of content and persona that site projects. Good luck.

Hi David, Apologies, in my haste I didnt take in it was the engine page. I hole heartedly agree with the other comments made here. I would also add that, although not the be all and end all, you may find that linking out to to other sites may help the page get indexed as well. If there are any additional, authoritative resources (that are not competition) it may be worth linking to a few of these. Adds value to the user as well.

Socialdude, that may well be the case. It also looks more natural if you have keyword links going to internal pages. Typically you'd expect keywords for a home page to be the company's name or their main niche with more specific keyword links targetting internal pages. It sounds like your keywords are working for your homepage at the moment, so you may want to continue with that. But I would add more diversity with internal pages at the same time.

In the crawl diagnostics screen of a campaign there are 3 charts (total errors found, total warnings found & total notices found) - I was wondering if it would be possible to get a long term view / data of how this has progressed?

Ah ok, sorry I got the wrong end of that. They will be using rich snippets, a markup such as shema.org - http://schema.org/Review or http://schema.org/AggregateRating should achieve the result

Here is other couple of services for that: http://www.sharethis.com/ http://www.addthis.com/ These will also provide some sweet analytics for you I personally prefer the original buttons that you can grab here (with basic html or css knowlege you will align them as you wish): http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ http://twitter.com/about/resources/tweetbutton http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/

Thanks Ryan, appreciated!

Correct. Often a site will refer to numerous CSS files. There are tools which will combine multiple CSS files into a single file and properly compress the files to optimize them for page speed.

Hi, As the others have said, your backlink profile looks pretty nasty. Another thing to remember is your anchor text. A brief look through OSE shows you have 100% keyword rich anchor text. Natural links often use the domain as anchor text so try to get some good quality, relevant links using www.playhouses.co.uk or http://www.playhouses.co.uk.

I agree with everything John shared but wish to clarify one point: We want to run multiple blogs on different categories If the categories are different but related, then I prefer John's approach. If you have a site that talks about "cars" and you want to offer a "Ford" directory, a "Toyota" directory, and so forth then I prefer the approach John shared. On the other hand, if the categories are completely unrelated, then I would recommend using the subdomain approach so each domain can keep their focus. If one blog talked about cars, the second was about diabetes, the third was about poker, then these blogs clearly lack a uniting theme. To help each domain remain relevant for their primary topic, I would suggest using different sub domains.

That's what I thought, but was wondering if I was missing something.  I suppose I'll avoid the embed button since my content should be the best informational videos int he industry (by far). Thanks!

Ooo, Panda, that's caused a fair bit of trouble hasn't it!? We did the following; Re-formatted and re-wrote a lot of old or 'rubbish' content. Including it's layout and the navigation process Culled any links which looked a bit spammy and tried to obtain links from site with higher MozRank and more credible links itself Updated all our business listings on the major listing sites such as Yell, Google Local, etc. And made sure our domain and addresses on the website corresponded with the business listings. With a view to increase the overall trust of the site. Hope that helps!

Hi Shawn, It is inadvisable to use more than one method of blocking bots from specific pages on your site. There is a very good explanation of this in this blog post from Lindsay - Robot Access and Indexation Restriction Techniques: Avoiding Conflicts. Definitely worth reading! Hope that helps, Sha

We sure do... What's up with that? I know the web is all about equality but in this particular case, the paying customer should have preferential treatment.