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Ryan, I would like your participation in the discussion. However, I fear you are hearing what you want to hear and not what I am saying. I didn't say I wanted to charge based on the number of links I build. I want to charge based on results. I don't believe I will achieve consistent, sustainable results marketing content and praying someone links to the content. For some industries that strategy works great. SEO, Web Design, etc... Where the average user has a website and understands how to use it. For real estate, there is not a lot of people going to link to a real estate website. Certainly no real estate agent will link to another one. They could lose their clients. Furthermore, the industry is dominated by brands. None of those brands will link to agents. Even the agent profile pages don't have links. The ones that do you must pay for and they are no-follow. I'm asking you to participate in the discussion but understand there is not one strategy to seo in all niches. People will not link to real estate websites. It is why if you pull up your local agent websites you will see they have DA around 10. Just google [city] real estate and [city] homes for sale. You will see the brand sites dominate the serps. Second page you will start seeing local realtor websites. All of which have nearly no authority. Help me out! As a community we can think of something.

Here's Matt Cutts on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybpXU0ckKQ Basically he's saying that you are perfectly ok to have exact match anchored internal links.  But, if it becomes really obvious that you're overdoing it to try to manipulate Google then you're at risk for a manual penalty. Look at wikipedia.  They are the perfect example of a site that has a LOT of exact match anchors.  And they do pretty well.

Hi, There's an update to Mozscape scheduled for tomorrow (11th March). You can keep track of the update on the API page at http://moz.com/products/api. A better (faster and more accurate) way to measure progress of your SEO campaign is through your Analytics account. There's a ton of blogs on Moz about this at http://moz.com/blog/category/analytics.

Hi there, IMO the two pages are near duplicates and I have seen pages that have been indexed in such cases (on one of our own projects). Then we have taken in consideration the canonical, and issue was solved. This is why I have recommended it, but I am opened to other solutions also. Gr., Keszi

http://www.optimizesmart.com/google-analytics-wrong-why/

I'd say it's mostly transferable as plenty of content is found in both news and the main index. News is more of a service overlay that attempts to better handle user expectations for frequency and speed of response when it comes to news items. Still, old news gets into the index and treated like content from most any site so if you have a subscription based model that aligns with what they're recommending for more news orientated sites, at least you're fitting into a form of what they outline.

Yes. That's a good sign. GWT Fetch and Render would also show you how it's being handled. From your example you've definitely got multiple H2 tags as you're using them to subtitle subsections of the page, but none of them are duplicating. This seems to fall in line with Google's own practice: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.mx/2010/03/googles-seo-report-card.html (an example of them looking at their own site).  Cheers!

Hi, No it is n't as we may believe this old blog: check this link: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/ Grtz, Leonie

Thank you for the advice:)

I'd also try and group keywords onto pages semantically. The days of every keyword getting its own page are long gone.

Hi Ivor Thank you very much for your reply. Each product have their own title tags and h1 tags ( product name ) The content is on each product page and it is the same for all the products. So, i think this is something i need to take care of.

Mark said: "People looking through the SERPs are searching to rent an RV, while traffic from facebook is coming from RV owners who see a blog post about RVs that interests them." Let's finish that thought. Traffic coming from Facebook are RV owners who see a blog post about RVs. But they land on a site that rents RVs so they don't need anything. Is that true? Don't RV rental businesses also sell RVs? And don't they sell equipment? You've brought them in on a topic of interest (RVs), now you can acquaint them with your store. You already know they are your target market. That's a good thing. Your job now is to make sure your presentation is inviting. Assume they are owners (or renters). Can you put an offer on that page, perhaps a download of the best RV spots in your state, or maybe a link to a blog post that lists "10 things no RV should be without" for the owners and those happen to be the things you sell. We're doing a lot of blogging now for an attorney client, and traffic has nearly doubled as a result. Like you, I see traffic come and go, but that is normal for blogs given the reasons mentioned in other comments here. But I'm also seeing that a percentage of those coming from Facebook are repeat visitors and that some of those visitors go to the home page, then the about page, then our main service page. That's exactly what I want. And because I'm boosting those posts in my client's local area, I'm happy because those might be his clients one day. We're building brand awareness so that when the time comes that any one of those or any one of their friends need an attorney, hopefully they'll know who to call or refer. I like to think we're priming the pump.

If you have decent rankings already I would hesitate to do this. While your rankings will eventually come back to where they're at now, there will DEFINITELY be some time in the middle where you're not doing as well.  The 301s suggested in other answers are a great (and necessary) idea. If you don't HAVE to do this, I would question it as well. It will definitely affect your site.

Really nice discussion going on here. Just want to add one quick tip, regarding some of the advice about focusing on Local. Be sure the business meets Google's Guidelines, which describe this as an ineligible business model: Rental or for-sale properties, such as vacation homes or vacant apartments. Sales or leasing offices, however, are eligible for verification. See: https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en

No problem - that's what this great community is all about

Hi Daniel, Having a friendly/readable url structure will surely help you in several ways. You can read more about it here: http://moz.com/learn/seo/url http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/basics-of-search-engine-friendly-design-and-development In the second article check the "Url construction guidelines" part. But before you start implementation on such a development, try to check how you could avoid an url structure redesign failure. (Such as forgetting about 301 redirects from the old structure to the new one). I hope it helped. Gr. Keszi

Point 1 - it takes some time before Google takes redirects into account - if you changed the structure recently, it can take several weeks before these duplicates are removed from Webmastertools. I assume you have already checked that these url's are indeed 301 redirected by testing them with web-sniffer.net and/or Fetch like Google. Point 2 - you can only remove content in the following cases (source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?rd=1 content is removed and generates a 404  - as you redirect the old style url to the new one it's generating a 301 & not 404 so removal is not possible this way the content that needs to be removed is blocked in the robots.txt - which I guess is not the case for you rgds, Dirk

Hi, sorry I don't seem to have this email. Can you either PM me here at Moz or send to matt@payonperformance.com.au? Thanks!