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Set up a Campaign. It is very easy to do. Enter in your main site's URL, along with up to 3 competing sites. You can also track various keywords and measure performance between the sites. Just select CAMPAIGN from the SEOmoz navigation bar.

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This seems like a contest your customers might be interested in. Do you have an email list? Perhaps send it out there. I have never run a contest where someone has to create a video, but I have had success with free contest listing sites. Do a quick google search and you will find a few where you can list your contest. Also, don't be afraid to ask your followers to RT your Tweets. I find when I ask followers are happy to oblige. Best of luck with the contest!

For this strategy to work effectively you need to use distinct domain names. Keyword domains tend to rank well for those keywords, but it will take time to have a measurable effect.  The domains (minisites) will still need incoming links to do well - at minimum submit them to a couple of relevant directories, but the more time you can put into promoting them, the better. You should probably have localized landing pages on your main domain too, but make sure the content isn't the same as that on the keyword domains.

Thanks John

Ok, update to this question - there are several hundred pages to redirect when making this transition. File structures are exactly the same between old and new sites. My problem is that I cannot use .htaccess to put in the code to redirect each page to its new page all at once because my client is using IIS, not Apache. Is there ANY WAY at all to do the permanent 301 redirects in IIS outside of just going into the Web Services manager and manually putting in the new URL for each page? HELP!

As Erica has stated, on our Pro Plus and Pro Elite accounts you can add your logos to the reports but you can not replace the SEOmoz logo.  The report will have both your logo at the top and ours at the bottom.  Hope this helps.

Hi Ryan, Send an email to help@seomoz.org with this question since it sounds like a bug, and they'll get back to you within about a day. Thanks!

Yeah I've seen the SERT articles. Though I've actually discovered that it was being caused by what I was searching. When I found the page via the product name, the title displayed as "Product Name - Company Name" - but when I searched for the keywords I've optimized for, they appeared in the title as desired. Didn't know Google did that... do now!

According to Google's Adwords Keyword Tool, "austin plumbers" gets more search volume (go for Match Type 'Exact' in the left-hand column). Neither offer much volume though, so the results might not be that accurate. In your title tag (and everywhere), I think you should use whatever makes most sense for the user, with SEO secondary. Your text should look and read naturally otherwise it'll come across as spammy. It's good to use variations of your keywords, and not always right next to each other, e.g. "plumbers from Austin". Take a look at this for example: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization - it's an old-ish post, you might not want to include as many repetitions of the keywords - natural text is the key.

Hi, Thanks for your answer; i'm aware of the different search options on google, but what strategy would you recommend to improve my rankings on broad based search match? Thanks

You should definitely watch this whiteboard friday video, it will explain a lot about Google PR. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday . Page authority (namned after Larry page) only rates the authority of an individual page, so alone PR does not guarantee a good link. I believe search engines combine PR and DA (among other things) to decide the value of a link. Domain Authority is harder to build than PR, so I give DA more weight then PR. There are a few reasons the numbers can be far apart. Often, homepages have higher PR then their DA. Sometimes /blog sub folders have a higher PR then DA because they have a lot of links, and social media engagement, this isn't a bad thing, but make sure the root domain isn't a spammy site. When looking for links, I would be more concerned about getting links that will send high quality customers to your site. If a site fits that criteria,and it isn't a spammy site, then their PR doesn't matter very much.

I'd suggest checking that any jquery solution hides stuff with display:none after the page has loaded. Essentially is the content/menu fully visible when you turn javascript off and load the page? (regardless of how horrific the display looks?) Bear in mind that Google also advises against things like display:none for implementation of things like microformats.

Why update the main page's meta title monthly?  Is it to highlight special offers?  To stand out from the crowd?  To gather and improve CTR metrics? Regular visitors will find your meta title familiar and wont need it to change often.  New visitors wont know what the old title was anyway. Unless you can really track the success of meta description changes on a monthly basis I suggest you update it less frequently and concentrate on optimising other content.

Keep up the 4-times-per-week updates as long as you can continue to make the posts interesting and informative.  Be sure to tweet, bookmark and otherwise promote your blog posts - over time your shop will be found for all sorts of long tail search terms which should help to increase revenues. To make your blogging activities easier I suggest you plan a few regular themes for posts - i.e. if you can write monthly posts on 4 regular topics that works out to 1 per week so you only have to think of 3 creative posts per week instead of 4.  By regular posts I mean things that keep the same theme each month and which are easy to write - e.g. things like some interesting statistics about the shop, monthly summary of your products in the news, etc.

Hey Brian, If the EDU advice in the SEOMOZ Professional Guide to Link building is correct, (it discusses the EDU myth and if it holds more value than that of a normal link/URL) then i'd imagine that a ccTLD would be a more beneficial link for localised results/sites than one from a non ccTLD, just like any other domain would be. You'd still get the EDU kudos but with the additional benefit of it being more targeted to a region. eg: a link from an edu.ph would be more beneficial for a Philippino site, than a straight .edu would.