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Thanks for the input John, Considering im on .co.uk & .com is unavailable Based on your suggestion I think its best that I create a another website using .ru & best to build that... Cheers..

It kept hitting quantcast and others that go away too soon for me to see. And I tried again and audio that sounded like a radio commercial was playing after about 1 minute having your page open.

Try using proper anchor text for your home page.

Thank you

Thanks Joe - not every post is about it so I think I might just revert a little bit to more manually massaging titles and work a bit on my whole structure.  I have about 100 posts and they all append this tag which probably a bit too much.

Thanks for that link, I wasn't aware of it. Yes, I'm trying to get the redirect you mention taken care of. If only the client could tell me who maintains their website!

Sure - $600/year is tough but are you are a real business then sure go for it. But if it's just for the link then maybe spend the money elseware.

I think Open Site Explorer uses the Linkscape link index which is updated monthly. So it is very possible that the link was taken down or moved to a different page (common with blogs when the link falls off the homepage) since the last time Linkscape was updated. Another tool I use to check links is SEOHeap which is free and you can quickly check whether a link is active by clicking a button next to the link data.

Thanks Kieran

If we decided not to optimize would it be better to 301 or canonical link. I've read arguments for both?

If I had a client who built hand-made kites and he enjoyed sharing information about them.  I would encourage him to start his own blog rather than tell him to go out commenting on blogs owned by other people. The last thing that I would do is to go out myself commenting about kites and trying to get links for him.  I don't know a damn thing about kites and my comments would make him look like an idiot.

The only tools you need and SHOULD use are your fingers and mind. Firstly, there aren't a great deal many to have to go through so set aside a few hours and you should have covered all local yellow pages you can find. Secondly,  You want to make each submission slightly different when it comes to your business description, so you need to use your mind here to rewrite things slightly differently in each case when you can.  Google will appreciate seeing references to your website on pages which aren't identical in content.  And i've often found as your're thinking about differing descriptions you come up with new ideas and as a result end up with descriptions that read better as you go on. Thirdly, You want to ensure you can give as much information as possible on each profile you create, and each site you create profiles on will differ slightly in what they allow you to add. Some will be very basic, some will allow lots of information and different sections to be entered.  E.g. Business hours, On site parking availability, photos & images etc. Hope that helps and leads you to do it the write way

No problem Dan. Brad Geddes has a great book if you want to learn more about Google AdWords. It's worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Google-AdWords-Brad-Geddes/dp/0470500239/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313594583&sr=1-1

Thanks Alex for your quick reply and also for the wonderful link.

That's what I'm after ideally, a company we can work alongside. Rand recommended Link Fish Media (a US company) who do offer this, but they're too busy to take on a lot of new business at the moment.

So you want to rank for the word OR? Or.... Vente d'or sur internet Because thats what your title says.