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Has Google +1 been rolled out on just google.com? It doesn't seem to appear on .co.uk

All the best with collecting the data!

The only thing about people not needing to say which agency they represent is that the company name appears next to responses.

And there are could be some prying competitors lurking

Anyway, I'd be happy to help out with your research so if you do set up a survey - send me a link!

Hey Yozzer!

It will be interesting to see your research. Although I doubt you will get many honest responses in the Q&A. You might want to set up a survey for mozzers to complete anonymously.

I'd imagine that most business for most agencies will come from word of mouth. People that are happy with your service to the extent of recommending you are always going to be more likely to provide qualified leads. Essentially the sale has already been made by the person recommending you.

Looking forward to your YouMoz post!

Thanks for your help guys!

It might well be a duplicate content issue. If you have two pages which are almost identical with the only difference being the city name. Google may have classed this as duplicate content and chosen to rank one page much higher than the other.

Like Marcus said - it would be useful to have a bit more information.

Thanks Cocarcea Ion,

I'm sure the algorithms contain the same components but Google must give greater importance to some of those components and less to others depending on whether it is a web search or mobile search.

Surely if you have a site that is quite slow to load on a mobile device but fine with a proper internet connection Google would not display it as high in mobile search results?!

Hello,

A bit of an open question to start the week...

What do you think are the key differences between Google's mobile search and web search algorithms?

Obviously greater importance on site speed for mobile search!?

I agree with the other two response - why have 3 sites selling the same product?

This problem isn't new though. Many big sites have the same problem where they sell the same product as many of their competitors.

You should be fine as long as you make each page different to the others. Amazon got around this by giving users the ability to write reviews of the products, which ensured that each page had unique user generated content on the pages and was therefore useful for Google.

If you can, stick to one site.

From my experience...Initially, the site may drop in rankings - but over a period of time rankings should normalise and improve.

I think too often people forget that we are creating websites for users as well as search engines. I assume that currently the URLs are not optimised? Although optimising URLs doesn't have as much of an effect as it used to it should still help.

I think providing that you carry on with a link building campaign with links pointing directly to your new URLs you should be fine. It's important that the client is aware that rankings may drop in the short term so that they don't get a nasty shock!

Good luck!

iNet SEO is right! Carry on with the best practices. I wouldn't worry too much about not ranking well in Yahoo. If you were ranking well in Yahoo and not Google then I would panic.

Depending on which country you are in may make a difference. If you're in the UK Google dominates hugely. I think Yahoo has around 5% search engine market share here. So although it would be nice to rank well in Google - all is not lost!

If you've bought links and as a result been kicked out of SERPs you should start by cleaning up your link profile. Get rid of the links you bought in the hope you can be re-listed.

This white board Friday video might be a good starting point http://www.seomoz.org/blog/preventing-linkbased-penalties-whiteboard-friday

Good luck!

Try using the opensiteexplorer tool:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/azsun4u.com%252F/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.arizonaforcanadians.com%252F/a!comparison

If you look at this comparison you'll see that your website is not as powerful as the website in position one. Although this is not the only factor - improving the links into your site will certainly help!

Hello,

It really depends on what the keywords are to be honest. If the keywords are just variations of the same e.g. caravan insurance and touring caravan insurance then yes it is possible. Although, I always feel it is better to create a dedicated page for each if possible.

Other than that I think you would struggle and could end up not ranking well for all your target keywords on that page as opposed to ranking well for just one.

If the keywords are completely different it may warrant a dedicated landing page for each. You've got to be careful not to duplicate any content though!

I hope this helps. Let me know if you want me to expand on anything.

HI Wazza1985,

In my experience keyword density is a very important factor. However, it's more important to ensure that your target keywords appear in key places, such as:

• Page title
• H1
• H2
• H3
• Main body text
• Internal and external pointing to your page
• Image alt tags
• etc

Also don't forget that content is for users as well as search engines so forcing keywords into the content to increase density could devalue it.

I hope this answers your question.