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Thanks for that, its always nice to get a second opinion.

thanks

Aran

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However my question is simply, has anyone noticed any changes? perhaps to indicate a shift in the algorithm?

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Hi all,

Has anyone noticed any ranking changes over the weekend?

I've noticed an almost uniform drop of a few positions across almost all of my chosen phrases. Nothing major has occurred on our site, no messages in webmaster tools. An analysis of our competitors positions (which we track the top 10) doesn't reveal any clues.

Cheers

Aran

You ask for no stories about guest posting, but at present I think this is one of the best weapons an SEO can bring to bear. I have had superb success with guest posting over the past 6-9 months which has resulted in top 3 rankings across all my main keywords.

If you shared your URL, we would be able to make some real critique that may uncover some underlying factors that are hindering our site.

Best of luck with which ever strategy you move forward with.

Hi,

I would completely re-write the content, ensuring that the useful info included in the manufacturers content is included in the re-write.

Infographics are generally created to relay statistical information in a graphical and easy to digest format. Not sure I see a way of creating an infographic to explain a subject.

Perhaps you could gather some stats on the industry and express those with some cool graphics. There are plenty of tools around the web to help you create the graphic, I've always found this post quite useful http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/awesome-free-tools-infographics/

Best of luck and be sure to post a link here when you have finished it.

I do use in my pages, but only when it makes sense to do so.

**Does it help search results? Probably not anymore. But It still represents a useful tool for highlighting calls to action or other text which you may want to attract the visitors attention too.

Then if this increases interaction on the page, then you could say that its helping reduce bounce rate, thus its helping SEO.**

Love wordpress as a CMS, it can take some tweaking to get it to behave like a Website and not a blog, but once your done its great.

If you do nothing else be sure to install Yoast SEO plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Don't forget Memes!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-small-success-story-inspired-by-seomoz-and-its-contributors

As far as I can see its still Yoast

http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

Apologies, Joost is the guy who developed the plugin.

Sounds like a hearty plan!

Though I'd skip the EDU links and just go for some relevant UK based sites.

In all of my career I've never chased a single EDU link, as I've never deemed them relevant to my site. In doing so I think I've insulated my sites against penalization and I still rank highly for all my phrases. Ask yourself this, how will a link from an American education institute help my visitors?

I generally use content, blog posts and articles to generate my links and it works well. I don't have thousands, only a few hundred, but they are great quality, relevant and drive traffic.

I like work press as a CMS system is mega powerful (and free), however it takes quite a bit of tweaking to stop it behaving like a blog. Be sure to use the Joost SEO plugin, it will save you lots of time.

Regards

Aran

Hi Craig,

Don't get me wrong, some of the imagery is really nice (photography is a passion and a hobby of mine, so I do appreciate the sentiment).I see your train of thought and its an interesting concept.

With regards to landing pages, for me its a vital part of your SEO and should be a concern, a huge one! I spend the a huge amount of my time ensuring the right page gets the right visitor otherwise your bounce and conversion rates will suffer!

What is the reason for using an iframe to host the blog?

Cheers

Aran

Hi Craig,

Firstly let me state that my criticisms are purely my own opinion and may come across a little harsh, but they only hold the best intentions of advice and help for my fellow web professional brethren.

I agree with you on the homepage content, its extremely light. But you say you do not want to detract from the minimalist feel, I don't get that vibe from your site. Minimalist to me is lots of empty space, or white space. Your site starts with a series of images, which appear to be unrelated. Also in my screen some of the images are quite dark and difficult to make out (perhaps my gamma/brightness/contrast are off).

For me one of the most important tags on a page are heading tags, particularly when they are optimised well. Your homepage has no H1. It has a H2 but it carries the title for your contact box (not optimised for keywords).

Additional content on the homepage is a good idea, though on my sites the homepage is rarely where my visitors land.

I also agree with your ideas for your marketing page, splitting the content into separate pages will make it easier to optimise each page for a particular service related keyword, it will also make it easier for the visitor to find what they are looking for. Though I would think you'll need to expand on your content on each service (perhaps include a case study for each?). Again there appears to be a lack of H1 on your services page.

Your blog doesn't load correctly for me, I get half of the header and then the footer with no content inbetween so I struggle to comment on it.

One thing to note is that with JavaScript turned off your site has a few layout issues, particularly on the Marketing page.

I hope that goes someway to helping you. Best of luck with it all and let us know how you get on.

Regards

Aran

I love this type of site, its quick, different and provides a nice UX. Though in my experience, since Google is not going to process the Javascript and thus will be presented with a different view as to what the user will see. Which in the past has been a no no.

Just to note, disabling Javascript on madebysofa.com results in nothing being rendered on screen! thats one thing to avoid, better to display everything than nothing. In other words, display all sections first, then hide parts with javascript.

In summary, I personally wouldn't go for this type of design as I'm not 100% sure what google would make of it. I would start by checking the Fetch as Google Tool and seeing how the page looks. The lack of individual keyword optimised pages and the like put me off. But I like to err on the side of caution and play it safe.

Ah, simple, nice work!

Hi,

On the page (on the test server),  you could use the following code (assuming your using PHP).

**header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: client-site.com/new-page-name.html**");**

?>

Hope that helps**

hi Could you elaborate and explain what is is your want to achieve with the redirect?

Looks like a move to Wordpress is a safe bet then as your system seems very SEO-Unfriendly.

When you do move to Wordpress be sure to check out Yoast SEO Plugin http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

have you tried using the canonical tag?

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

You should try the Keyword Difficulty tool http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty

It won't actually suggest phrases, but it will provide some indication as to the difficulty to rank.