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A web crawler will start at the top of a page and work it's way to the bottom, discovering links and content on the way down. The first links it encounters will be used for anchor text association and weighed more then other links to the same page. Links in content are given greater weight then links in navigation so it is preferable to have those links discovered first. HTML code can be adjusted to position the navigation after the content. You can look at xenforo which is a forum software developer who designs their software in this manner. If you view the page's source code you will notice the navigation is at the bottom of the HTML code. With respect to your question on content structuring, there are many pages covering this topic. In general I have two pieces of advice. 1. Have your content reviewed by an English teacher. I am not looking for grammatical corrections (although that helps too) but more along the idea of properly presenting a topic. A good header, intro sentence and paragraph, etc. 2. Examine the wikipedia approach. Most wiki pages perform the basics of SEO content presentation very effectively. A WBF article which may be of interest: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/improving-content-shareability-whiteboard-friday

I agree. I very much love to build a brand and prefer that option. I have been offering SEO services and decided to brand my company, and started Vitopian.com. Vitopian is a completely made up brand. I could have chosen VitopianSEO or other options but I like my choice and if I can ever find the time to build my site (it is really just a framework at the moment with no content) then I very much look forward to building the brand. "Vitopian" is one word which I like. Two word names can work, three is too much in my opinion. I really don't like "runyoursocksoff" because it has four words. That's ok! This is your vision. I've been wrong before and you have a great opportunity to build the brand.

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yes and no.. you have to keep bounce rate and stuff like that in mind (pandas are out there) the ideal situation. a site where clients visit a few pages there before heading to your main site.

Alan, Thanks for feedback. I ve written a mail to my website provider today. Most of what you are suggesting isnt available for me to change unfortunately. I think what you are suggesting will solve my problem fast.

Seriously you should be looking forward to my blog post (currently they need to review it for technical accuracy, which may take some time) but it is a post about how to make your Flash website as SEO friendly as possible...but until then I can only tell you, "Even the good-old HTML , we need A LOT of optimization to make it PERFECT for indexing..." , i have tried so many ways to make my Full Flash website SEO friendly, and let me tell you, none of them are as powerful as any optimized HTML page That is why in my blog post here, I am going to explain how to make your Flash website as SEO friendly as those normal optimized HTML page (and it really works) Hopefuly the blog post is approved in time

Agreed. You can change technology without changing URLs or having to do rewrites, which is a big benefit. Another benefit is that your URLs are shorter by four characters, making them a little easier to share.

And it's not allowed by Mechanical Turk, either. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies <a name="#violation_examples">What are some specific examples of HITs that violate Amazon Mechanical Turk policies? [excerpted]</a> HITs that directly or indirectly promote a site, service, or opinion HITs that violate the terms and conditions of an activity or website (for instance asking Workers to vote for something) HITs that generate "referred" site visits or click-through traffic HITs that ask Workers to take action to manipulate a website's behavior or results

ok thanks it does make sense which is why I resisted the urge, in terms of information facebook pages it is fine to link to other facebook pages or should you only link to websites?

Hi Ryan Id also love to know what you thought were good stores, we are also looking at ecomm for wordpress atm Cheers S

If you own an e-commerce site you would want to know: products viewed products purchased purchase date visits to purchase etc This data could be used to serve them with related products, make it easier to find previously looked at products ,drive behavioral targeted e-mail campaigns etc...

In some cases my list will be upto 100 locations - to the user this looks really: a/. Spammy b/. Ugly c/. Unreadable It's an irritating situation - If I am going for option 2, what I am in reality doing is pandering to search engines over users - exactly the opposite of what you should do, and SE's are very clear on this as well. You would have thought SE's would have figured a solution to this out by now as it must be so common - and as a user when I see lists like this which are clearly for SE's not users, then I get annoyed with the site. I'd be interested to know if there has been: A/. Any test done on such list types to see if SE's can actually recognise that although the anchor just says the Location, if the link title has the perfect anchor, do they take this into account. B/. If there are any other methods that could be used to try and tell the search engines the full meaning of the links - eg something like a tag on the container holding the list.

Hi, A lot of changes have been happening with Google places over the last few weeks, we have seen 3rd party review data changed. And Google has been making a bunch of tweeks. another thing I noticed where Google is taking more and more time to make changes is the verification of things it will take 8+ week to get bulk upload feeds accepted these days. I also wonder when Google will fix the problems but for the moment you have to sit tight and monitor the blog: <cite>google-latlong.blogspot.com</cite>

It's a fine topic for discussion. The counter argument is there are reasons CTR should not be part of the algorithm such as users manipulation. Either way PPC is very different from organic search results. Bounce rates and returning to Google for new searches are also different topics. Even if CTR was a factor, meta descriptions are only one component. There are page titles, urls, breadcrumbs and other factors which can affect CTR. Even if meta descriptions were a factor, Google often will replace your meta description with another one of their choosing.

Pluralized terms are treated as different words. When I search for "coin" the wiki article is first. When I search for "coins" that same article is still on the first page but at the bottom. Other pages focused on "coins" have more relevancy due to the identical match.

I tried finding a tool that would automate it for me sometime ago but didn't find it so I simply used excel. I took a list of all major US states and cities and imported to one row. On the right row I used keyword that I wanted to combine with the geo term. Copy pasted both rows (geo+keyword) to get search count.  It took me 20 mins to do it all. Also, if you select 'broad search' for  "music instrument rentals San Francisco" while finding the search count. you will get other search queries as well, like the one you mentioned:"Where to get Instrument rentals in San Francisco" + several other combinations