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Hi, Yes, I mixed it up a lot with 10 different scripts and then images with different transitions in a different order. Best...

We were discussing him getting a temporary office in whatever city he wants to be found for, so then this would work with Google places, etc? If it was a real physical address and local phone number, then yes it would work with Google Places. I would suggest using Google for whatever address you plan to obtain and examine the results. I like to obtain addresses zoned for business which appear as businesses on Google. Also, how could he also be ranked for a city in Phoenix, like Scottsdale? Would we have to do the same thing as say Tucson or LA? The website would need to be relevant for the area for which he wishes to rank. Relevance can be established in numerous ways: physical address as suggested above mentions of the locations on the site testimonials from clients in the area links from the areas involved anchor text using the area names There are other means but the above area the major ideas. each page needs to rank for it's own city right? You can't have the home page targeting both one or more cities without taking a hit in the SEs on each city? Actually a single page can rank for multiple areas. It's up to you how you wish to present the site. For major areas which are far away such as Chicago and LA, you may want a specific page for those areas. For other Arizona areas, you may wish to continue using the home page. It really depends on your competitiveness and resources.

Cheers. I would use an SEO company but as a small business and brand owners requiring payments, it will be a few months before we have the cash to do so. So I am trying to learn myself as I have a fair bit of web knowledge and it is something that interests me, so learning SEO would be good for me. I understand the spammy directories etc... but what I am asking is what methods are out there for finding these quality links? Do I just google them, tweet them, facebook them and then see if they rank highly with the mozlabs tools? How do people go about finding them and then getting the owners permission? Whats your email text to them? Cheers Will

For UK searches, google will recognise that a .co.uk site is probably more relevant than a .com if you were just comparing by that factor alone, but there are many, many factors that are more importance than this which make up a ranking. Also, it's worth bearing in mind that if you transfer a domain to a new registrant and the site from a content perspective wasn't existent before or the content is changed dramatically in the process (or around the same time) then the domain age will most likely have very little impact. In fact factors such as how long you renew the domain for will probably have more impact. For example if you buy the domain for 4 years it will look less spammy than a 1 year renewal.

ok, I will try to remove some links. thank you both

Thanks Ryan - that's great to know.  We'll definitely bear both of those in mind!

Agreed and thanks, unfortunately, the host provider is anything but a one man op. Its huge. Moving to a tier four farm in Nov/Dec. Major company, in house phone, email, chat support. Etc. As to Sha......I don't care if her answer came from martians, it was one of the best I have seen. (Note to moz staff......Hint, Hint)  

Cheers. I have started a campaign for a subfolder www.designerboutique-online.com/all-clothing/money-clothing/ and a subdomain www.designerboutique-online.com, should I have chosen root here for designerboutique-online.com? Cheers Will

Thanks Gareth, I will give that a go. Just had a thought... redirecting it on my own site with a no follow in the robots.txt , wouldn't that still have the same effect as a nofollow on the actual outgoing aff link? that  the 9 redirected links would still only give 10% to the 1 internal link?

I'm going back to where you said your intent is to be a leader in this space. If you want to be a leader, you need to come up with a new angle on the content itself and have a reason for people to come to your site as a direct visit or rss subscription, not coming there because they found you in a google search for a trending topic. Mashable, and sites like them, gets their views and is a leader in their field because they are the ones who went to YouTube and sorted through hundreds of videos to find those ten videos, write descriptions about them, select the order that they appeared, etc. If you truly want to be a leader, you'll need to be the one out there doing that, not rewriting copy after another site does the research. It's less about "does this beat a plagiarism detector and can I stay a step ahead of the Google algorithm" than "can I provide some awesome content or way of looking at things that no one else has done yet".

Thanks Keri, Yep, it was the Db I was searching for, but the site was a GoDaddy install and was moved to different server because of software install issues. So, having checked Wayback, Google cache and searched through the files without finding a Database, I think I can just refill my mug and settle in to write some new content. To be honest, that's not really so bad - I'd rather start from scratch than rewrite bad copy any day! Less than a dozen pages, so its all good. Most importantly, I now know that I am still sane and not as stupid as I was starting to fear, so thanks for helping resolve that! Have a great weekend! Sha

Thanks Keri, Happy to help where I can. Actually, I think a little taste of TAGFEE could lead to addiction! Have a great weekend

Short term loses are to be expected unless you are a serious player. It could take several weeks, perhaps a month or two to recover fully but it should do in time. As ever, I would now concentrate on building new links & updating any matured links to the moved content and the 301's will take care of themselves. All the best, Anthony

A different approach would be to just create the info@example.com account like you would another email account, and give everyone in sales the password, and them them all access via webmail. That should be fairly easy with most setups, and might at least be an intermediate step while you evaluate a better system.

Hi Networkelites, If I am understanding the scenario correctly, your client is no longer receiving mail at the major city address, but would have a different locale name on his envelopes in the post. Is this correct? Please let me know if I've not understood you correctly. If I'm on the right track, then the work ahead of you looks like this: Update the footer, contact page, tags and copy of the main pages (home, about, etc.) to reflect his new location...meaning the city name at which he now receives postal mail. Update your Google+ Business/Local accounts to reflect the change of address. Begin searching the web for every reference you can find to the old address and update these citations to reflect the new address. If the client is no longer receiving mail at the major city address, Google will no longer view him as a legitimate result for such searches and you must educate the client so that he understands this. Additionally, I strongly recommend that you do not use any geographic terms in the business description field of the client's Google+ Local page as Google has historically treated this practice as spam. The address field is where location info belongs. The business description should be a sales pitch...much like a meta description. It's a great place to include information like: Voted Reader's Choice by the Washington Post! First visit free with affordable care for your whole family. Get ready to smile! That's just a really rough example, but you want to think like this in writing your Google+ business description. Hope my list of points gets you started on the right foot. Good luck to you and your client. Moves are a big deal in local. Miriam

Hi John Doherty, I know this page is very since 2011, but I was wondering if you or any other person could help me out with the right schema for  meQasa's real estate developers page. Will be greatly appreciated.

The quality method would be a single domain with folders representing your categories. All the top retailers in the world use this method. You mentioned clothing so think of Overstock.com, zappos, macy's, etc. None of those sites have any keywords in the name and all will appear on the first page of Google results fighting each other for the top spot. The multiple domain approach is a crutch. It's something you can do when first starting out to gain instant results. Like most instant result solutions, it comes at the cost of long term, lasting goals. If you spent the time focused on your primary site, you will do better in the long term.