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Welcome to the community,

First of all it looks like you have very few links pointing to your website so this isn't going to help rankings. I would look at doing some outreach especially on some of your blog articles as this information could be very useful.

Look at other local sites that you think the content would be useful for the web site users and contact the site owner and see if they would like to use part / all of the article. If you are going to let them use all identical content - watch this whiteboard Friday on the best practices to follow: http://moz.com/blog/syndicating-content-whiteboard-friday

The next area I would look at, is the length of the product you offer. Can you not increase the words on here, maybe by putting some tips to look out for if you suspect you have bugs etc. There was a recent whiteboard friday which suggest you need to have around 1,500 words per page.

I am sorry to say, but your 'where we serve' pages look to spammy and look like they we're written purely for SEO purposes - so if I am thinking that then so will Google. All the content is identical on each page, apart from you change the town / place name.

Could you not simply have one page explaining all the services you offer and a list of the towns. (You will have to excuse me here as I don't know US places that well), but could you not group them into larger areas and reduce the number of pages and write unique content for each page, so more places on one page but geographically towns together, maybe by state etc. Also could you include Google maps on these pages - make them more interactive - this is a must watch video http://moz.com/blog/panda-optimization-whiteboard-friday 

So basically I would:

• Work on getting more links
• Write longer blog articles
• Organise your areas where we work sections

Hope this is all useful for you.

Ireland a bit tricky in registering a country domain - you have to prove you have a business in the country, even in the UK it can be difficult to get a domain.

Having different sites means doubling, tripping your SEO efforts, whereas if you have the one site you can use the existing links to boost your initial ranking in a country.

There a pro and cons for either method, but I always prefer 1 domain, then your content strategy is for one site so a blog post can be useful to multiple countries and you don't need to re-write the content.

I want a tweet from Roger too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe he is busy crawling your website to give you some useful tips and tricks.

I think he will be in touch soon on twitter.

I have a few sites showing the same - I am guessing its a timing thing

Great additional to Moz.

Thanks Vijay, its only on my windows machine (I really only use it for Server Log Analysis) and the above seems like to much work. Its working fine on the Mac - so will just install and leave it off the windows machine.

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We had the same issue here, before Business pages was around we created a user. But when we could create a business page (why Google didn't think you wouldn't want to do this, every business wants to promote themselves, i dont know), but after speaking with Google it was advised to us to create a new account and close the old one.

This was a while ago and things might have change, but we was told we couldn't even transfer followers, we could just do post saying we have a new page and to follow the new page, but they couldn't help us a lot.

As far as I know, nothing has changed, so your going to have to create a business page and start all over again, getting followers - would highly recommend running both in parallel for a time before closing the current one and keep posting about your new page, it did help for us.

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Hitwise is a great tool for this, but its pricey.

The data I can get from this is amazing.

SEMRush is good for telling you Organic and Paid traffic to the sites, there is a free version and its not to expensive, if you want the full package.

But Hitwise is the best tool for this, but it depends on the country you operate in, they are not fully Global.

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Andy

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As far as I know there is only two types of account (Free), which you don't get that many of the services or Pro ($99 a month).

http://moz.com/products

I used to have the free account, but since upgrading to the paid account about 18 months ago I wish I had done it sooner, has so much information and tools that are really useful.

The best thing to do would be to contact Moz directly, but I don't believe you can.

i don't know if it would be classed as Black Hat SEO, but its definitely not great SEO. Why not focus more on writing great articles about weight loss etc, but within the article itself mention the place. But if all your titles suddenly have Boston in them you are opening yourself up to being penalised by Google.

Just be natural, when talking in the pub would you say "Boston Tummy Tuck After Weight Loss", no more likely "tummy tuck after weight loss" - think of your titles in how you would speak.

Hope that helps

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Which country are you interested in. I know of some software in the UK, but it only has UK data.

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Andy

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Yes its worth fixing.

Could you not add Disallow: ?route=product/* to your robots file?

Can you edit the robots file.

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Andy

Welcome to the Moz team, hope you enjoy working at Moz - they are a lovely bunch of staff. Lol

I've just joined the company to it would seem, look forward to meeting you all Monday. Does that mean I get MozPro for free?

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We use a company called Awin (Affiliate Window) in the UK and they are very good.

As far as I am aware there is no two way affiliates, but the easiest way round it is, to set your self up as a publisher and advertiser.

Its quite easy to do, and you could be up and running as an a publisher in minutes.

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Andy

First thing, keep it simple and easy to use otherwise people won't use it.

probably add to your contact page as well.

If you wish to use our content or quote a piece, please email email@domain.com.

Or:

Would you like to quote or reuse our content for Free, please email: email@domain.com.

assuming you are not wanting to charge for it.

hope that's hopefully

I believe that in the future you will be able to, but for now and I don't know if this is technically permitted in there T&Cs you have to share your login details.

If you watch the whiteboard Friday from last week:

http://moz.com/blog/the-rules-of-link-building-whiteboard-friday

rule number 4 is don't link to external links in the footer. Hence linking to your website is external link building - but that said sometimes it is useful to find out who built the website.

My advice would be to put the link in - but as "nofollow" link - therefore you can still hopefully generate any sales from people who liked your site build skills, but avoid getting your own site penalised in Google.

Plus if the site you designed did any bad SEO tricks and get themselves penalised you don't suffer - I guess once you have built the site you have very little control over there SEO tricks and they might go for quick win black hat SEO tricks and you wouldn't want to get down ranked for something that is out of your control - nofollow would resolve all the potential issues, but wouldn't affect sales

I would say building backlinks is the wrong way to look at it. You want to earn links, which is completely different strategy.

Building links, you are going to tempted to take a few short cuts to see quicker wins, but these quick wins are usually the signals Google see's to unnatural back linking.

Whereas if you earn links, by producing great content that people link to naturally then you don't ever have to worry about Google updates. Its a lot harder strategy and takes longer to get the results - but in the long run its a much better strategy.

depending what Data you are after SEO doesn't happen instantly and what you change in a week can actually take a while to affect SERPs rankings.

Even data about technical fixes you have will only be updated once Moz has done another crawl of your site.

But I have to agree emailing them is the quickest way. but getting rid of Moz because you can't get historical data seems like a bad idea to me, I use Moz for numerous functions, but I also do pay for multiple pieces of software as I don't believe one software offers everything you need.

Oleg is correct, the crawlers have to be able to spider the page in order for them to find it.

There are a couple of ways round this but these are nasty, not fool proof and I wouldn't recommend them and as Oleg said the page probably doesn't have to much power anyway.

If your purely after this site for a link to pass juice don't waste your time, however if your after a link to generate sales, leads and revenue then still get the link.

Not all links should be about Google and ranking, obviously when link building don't break any of the SEO rules, but don't turn down the opportunity to generate sales, just because you won't get any link juice from the site doesn't make the link irrelevant.

If I have understood the question correctly I would worry less about the product pages themselves, and focus more on the category pages, in the instance above Givency Bag - dont worry too much about the product description if your taking the page down within a few days, concentrate on getting decent unique content onto the category page, meaning the category page will rank high in SERPs for bags and when someone clicks on that page they see the latest deals.

Alternatively you could leave the pages up but just remove the option to buy, stating that this deal has passed, but you may also like these similar products.