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Ok.  I'll get to work on it.  Thanks again.

I see what you're saying Greg.  And I agree. Actually, I had thought about making the blog the home page already.  My only concern is that that name "personally engraved gifts" has no search volume, no traffic.

So you're saying just focus on developing the blog? And do links to the store?

Could you please explain a little about organic (looking) link profiles.  I really thought my anchor text should match my keywords.

Wow.  Thanks everyone.  Looks like I've been wasting a lot of time.  Not giving up but I see I needed direction.  Again, I appreciate the responses.

Search results on my keyword (engraved wedding glasses) produces several pages of linked domains.  (My domain is giftthings.net) Some are good.  And admittedly, some are not so good.  My question then is simply, why does seomoz link analysis show such a small number of links?  And the second part of my question is, "Is there some sort of "magic number", some sort of thresh hold that triggers Google's interest?  With a link list that is small but growing, am I missing something in my concern that I'm not moving up in the search listings? I've written a few articles, continuing my work on link building but I remain buried in the search results.

Excellent.

Thanks Paul.  Appreciate the help.

In the article, "Long List of Link Searches", Rand recommends:

"At Google and others, it often helps to show 100 results per page and have the maximum "grouping" of results from the same site. That way, you can find all of the most relevant pages on a particular domain with ease."

Can someone please share with me just how to customize the various search engine views this way?

Thanks for the help.  I'll take a look at my site config and make sure everything is as it should be.

I'm watching the webinar, Link Building w/ Open Site Explorer. One of the slide pages is 301/Rel Canonicaling Overlapping Content.  Can you explain how this is done?

Take a look at your meta descriptions.  Maybe you need to re-write them so that each is unique.  As I understand it, the meta descriptions don't matter that much with regard to seo rankings but they do matter in terms of uniquely describing your product or service.  Think about it. How can two "different" items logically have the same description.

Search results on my keyword (engraved wedding glasses) produces several pages of linked domains.  (My domain is giftthings.net) Some are good.  And admittedly, some are not so good.  My question then is simply, why does seomoz link analysis show such a small number of links?  And the second part of my question is, "Is there some sort of "magic number", some sort of thresh hold that triggers Google's interest?  With a link list that is small but growing, am I missing something in my concern that I'm not moving up in the search listings? I've written a few articles, continuing my work on link building but I remain buried in the search results.