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Thanks,

I understand what your saying that a .com and a .us domain are equal and other factors will determine rankings...

But argument against your statement is how comes a EMD that is .co.uk out ranks a .org.uk 10 fold?

This info sheet from Google imply's geo-targeting in webmaster tools will improve your rankings for the chosen location but also says if no location is specified then the domain extension will be the indicator.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62399

Cheers

Thanks for reply,

Can you put the above in layman terms! Finding it a little hard to decipher (my fault).

In general from what I have experienced a location specific extension such as .co.uk geo-targeted to the same location gives the best results when ranking BUT when I look at results from the US, page after page shows results of .com, surely if my above statement is true then a .us domain extension should rank better then a .com.

Thanks for super quick reply.

Suppose another question really is if you don't set the location (basically open to global SE's) then im guessing ranking will become near impossible, someone who sells a service such as SEOMOZ would want this I guess.

From what I can see, buying a .com is the best and geo-targeting the location you would like to target, if in the future the market dries up in your location you could geo-target another without the problem of having a location specific extension.

But if you do have a .co.uk and target the UK, ranking becomes a lot easier then a .com targeting the UK.

Hi,

I've been looking at some of the Google help centre pages for Geo-targeting and it says flat out if you use for example .co.uk and Geo-target in webmaster tools US then you will not rank as well as using .net, .com and a few others they list.

So if you got a UK online business and want to expand into another country then staright away your in a negative situation if you want to rank in the SE for that location.

No because im guessing each page has a title tag specific to the location, if you merge 2 pages together your end up with one title tag rather then 2.

Persoanlly myself I would have a page which lists all the locations called locations.php then link to each city from that page, if you build a few links to the city page your might find the city pages get crawled more often.

So your have:

vipfishingcharters.com/locations/boca-raton-fishing-charters/

You could start with getting a customer testimonial, just have a page with location you fished, comment and collect them, each one will be unique, can be added to the beach they finished and added benefit 'installs trust in potential new business'.

Send the customer an email day after fishing trip with a link to the form.

That's just one way sure there is other ways.

Cheers EGOL,

You have hit the nail on the head for the kind of response I was looking for.

I have seen some amazing results, when you combine a EMD with good content some of the results from it are unbelievable, especially when you appreciate how hard it is to rank without one and how much effort is needed SEO wise to rank without one.

It's the brokers that annoy me the most, a domain is meant to be brought to attach a website to - domain sites on IP, IP points at site.

If Google ever devalues EMD's brokers are going to be in the muck.

Basically without a doubt having a exact match domain name is a massive benefit.

If you targeted a keyword with 2 different sites one with an EMD and one without, I could quite easily expect the EMD to pop up page 1/2 and the non EMD site to be 10 pages deep.

I'm going to be honest, I hate how much weight is put on the EMD, Domain brokers are focused on purely finding these, buying them up and selling them way above there worth.

Google needs to realise this is a massive problem because I see sites with great content, great moz trust and rank being outranked by a EMD that sits on a squeeze page.

Question: If no link building was taking place on the EMD site, lets say it ranked page 2, position 4 but you was linking building on the NON EMD how long to get it up to the EMD site?

Totally agree with EGOL on this one, I find running some long tail keywords from PPC, around the quality content helps to get the sharing process going, like EGOl said add some social sharing buttons, make sure the content is above the norm and you should see some sharing going on through the buttons.

I know EGOL doesn't really like this but you could use myblogguest to post some content on other related blogs in your niche.

Dude, you wont be able to do that, the files are stored on the server behind a password locked folder.

Like Ryan said you can download the the html but not the files themselves.

As long as you get the content that should be enough, put it into a word doc and paste it back up once you have the domain, doesn't even need a template.

You need to stop them from re-using the content on another site.

Search 'Google Gravity' then click back into the search box and remove the 'y' and it should predict (looks like it only works in Firefox and Chrome)

When I first sore it I honestly thought my PC had been infected with something for a split second.

Uh more, I thought I found something hidden then.

Hi,

Paste the words 'do a barrel roll' in Google and see what happens!

Are you saying even though they are just rewriting the urls, she still needs to do a 301 redirect?

There is a reason why your climbing the rankings nicely, because the link profile of your competitors by the sounds of it are poor.

Increase your MozTrust by getting links on Auth websites, Increase your MozRank by gaining more links and this should increase your PA - PA I think is more important then DA.

Those competitor DA stats are not that great.

Hi,

I am a member over at myblogguest, but im wondering is this the only service online for guest blogging?

Cheers

Hi,

If im researching a keyword in Google using the MozBar, and the first 5 results have stats like:

PA:1 - MR:0 - MT:0 - DA:90 - Linking Root Domains:2

They are all pretty much the same, no power apart from the root domain which will be anywhere between 70-90.

Does this mean ranking for this keyword will be a walk in the park? Or because the root domain is so strong its actually going to be a task.

Cheers

What about domains that once had a life?

For example lets say a competitor with 5,000 external links decided to end and you got their domain, could you redirect it to your site and pick up the benefit of those 5,000 links?