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I think its okay, because you're paying for service and its pure white hat, its just like using adwords and msn at the same time.

Hi David, Were you able to get this duplicate taken care of, or do you still need a hand? The real URL would be great, but also just telling us if the site is using Wordpress or another CMS and if it's on Apache or IIS would be helpful.

Often brands are seperated from the title message via one of the following characters:   |   -   > It should be noted that the maximum number of characters that will be displayed on search results pages is capped at 70 (and in some cases resolves to less than that) so pay attention to how much info you are stuffing in those title tags. This doesn't mean you cannot go past 70 characters, but the title tag will be truncated in the search results. This can be unavoidable once in a while, but we always try to stay below 70 characters. From a marketing / branding perspective, I'm also a big fan of title tags that 'read' properly. The example you provided doesn't really 'read' well. Of course, there is a trade off here. Are you writing your title tags for users or for search engines? Ideally, you want to walk the line between the two. For example, have you considered the following alternatives? Alternative 1 Use the | to seperate the title tag into two short statements followed by your branding. Wyoming Guest Ranch & Dude Ranch | Jackson Hole Activities | RANCH NAME Alternative 2 Rather than attempt to target 'Guest Ranch, Dude Ranch, and Jackson Hole Activities' all on the same page, why not create a second page as follows? Guest Ranch & Dude Ranch in Wyoming | RANCH NAME (or Wyoming Guest Ranch & Dude Ranch | RANCH NAME) Jackson Hole Activities | RANCH NAME One final note, be sure you are targeting the correct keywords here. For example, do you have data that shows which of the following is the best choice (there are probably even more options, but this gets the point across)? Wyoming Guest Ranch Wyoming Dude Ranch Guest Ranch in Wyoming Dude Ranch in Wyoming Jackson Hole Dude Ranch Jackson Hole Guest Ranch Guest Ranch in Jackson Hole Dude Ranch in Jackson Hole There may or may not be a lot of data available for these searches, but I would at least take a moment to check Google Trends and Google Keyword Tool. Furthermore, as you have a Pro account, you can use SEOmoz's Keyword Difficulty Tool.

Hi Tommy, To delete a campaign, go to your PRO Dashboard and click on "Campaign Settings".  Then scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Delete".  If the campaign is staying there for some strange reason please email help@seomoz.org and let them know. Casey

I haven't considered this option, thanks for the tip.

Assuming all NPA (Name, Phone, Address) are identical to Google Places Page It might take a while for google to include these reviews or Citations to your Google Places page. so I assume giving more time will resolve your questions, but Keep building Citations to your Google profile Page in the mean time.

use those relevant keywords that have the highest traffic, as your main target keyword. you also should need to target those less popular keywords to have more traffic.

Hi John, I've been looking into this myself and the option that I think we're going to go with is this: http://www.scriptiny.com/2011/01/javascript-slider/ Not sure whether it can handle video but it's a lovely script for images because it's a tiny js file, it gracefully degrades for users without javascript and it's very pretty! Hope that helps!

The fact is, quality editorial is going to be doing a lot of the hardwork for you, particularly in the long tail. (Content is king, yada yada.) What you need to be worried about is making sure that content is accessible both to the three major search engines and, as is becoming ever more important, easily shareable. If the content is in the form of articles or blogs, ensure that the template itself (probably generated by a CMS?) is optimised and free of any duplicate content or canonical issues. Are the major on-page things - title, h1, image file names / alt text - in place and optimised on a per-article basis? Is it easily shareable? FB, Twitter, major bookmarking services, RSS etc. Are these well positioned and performing well from a landing page optimisation point of view?

"The display URL should have the same domain (such as example.com) as your landing page."" Doamin -not actual page The part google cares about is mysite.com after the / you can write anything you want people even do coupon.mysite.com -

Anyone has any thoughts as far as "-" as a way to designate keyword string as in funny-greeting-cards vs. funny greeting cards,....

I had a look on open site explorer, and you're right more links would help a lot, the juice pointing at the page is fairly diluted, facebook and twitter would both be nofollow links as are some of the external links pointing at it. The internal links aren't really well placed for promoting it either, you have a link from : http://gyumolcstarhely.hu/tudasbazis/ but that's a page with an enormous number of links on it, so any credit passed down to it would be minimal. The other internal links seem to place it at the bottom of the page under "ezen" which doesn't really give it a huge advantage in indicating what the page is about (I doubt it's a factor here). If you were to get some external links to point directly at it (or maybe just from the front page of your site), I'm sure it would start appearing. Edit: Just spotted something else, there is a severe drop in pagerank from the front page of the site to that page mentioned above, which does make me wonder if there is a problem with it. Is the page you're asking about new? Have you tried posting any other new pages on there? How are they ranking?

Hi Dagný, If you can email help@seomoz.org they may be able to help you with your problem.  All of your campaigns and data is saved regardless of if your PRO or not. Casey

I have a spreadsheet where I keep track of half a dozen metrics, and I just add an entry for a date and list the things that I've done. Also like James, I use the annotations in Google Analytics, and that can really help. Be sure to record any outside influences to the site to help keep track of things. Did the site get a mention in a print publication? Record that, so it can help explain an increase in branded search traffic and/or direct traffic. Did you start or stop a PPC campaign? Send out a press release? etc.

Hey Jason, I wrote a tool myself years ago (phpSitemapNG in 2005) but haven't used, supported or further developed it since than. What would be your requirements for the perfect sitemaps tool? Tobias

Thank you Barry. I took your advice and went to the Google Webmaster forum. If anyone would like to track this question further, please check it out here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=47ea8f99d39f510d&hl=en Thanks

Hi, everyone: problem solved. Here is what I did: I created a seperate sitemap-xml and linked to all the new pdfs. I updated the general sitemap.xml and linked to the new sitemap as well. I (re)submitted both sitempas via the Webmaster Tools. Within a few hours, most of pdfs got indexed and the overall quality of search has improved dramatically. Thanks for all your help.