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Just a guess here but it could have something to do with age of domain as well as age of links.

Unfortunately, you have to start a brand new campaign in order to track what you are looking for.  This is what SEOMoz says about it:

Can I change the domain for my campaign?
No. To track a separate domain you have to create a new campaign. If you are at your max number of campaigns you can archive or delete a current campaign and free up a spot.

Hope that helps.

This may be a dumb question, but are you doing any back-linking, or only onsite optimization?

Just because you submit your site to Google doesn't mean that it will automatically rank you, even for long tail keywords. I would recommend doing a small seo push on that particular page with that keyword and related keyword and see what happens from there.  Your sight as a whole is already ranking on page 1 of google for a variety of San Diego Limo keywords.

That person will have to like the brand page in order to increase the likes on your brand page.  The secondary like will only happen for the post and might only appear on that shared persons wall.  But it will affect your analytics under the "viral" section of the facebook analaytics.

Let me start out by saying the answer below is PERSONAL PREFERENCE:

I would keep everything in one site and separate by menu items and sub menu items.  I assume that the content won't change as much unless the law changes.  This will make your seo pushes more efficient and make your domain more of an authority as well as the potential to have several niche categories connect to you (contextual).

However, this would be a long term strategy that would not yield immediate results, so you have to question whether or not you need immediate results/is your website currently bring business, or are you willing to wait for the website to start converting.

I hope that helps somewhat with the decision making process.

What johnny said is correct.  The reason why Facebook offers promoted posts is that typically your posts will only appear to 6-10% of your "Like" following. By promoting your post, you increase the percentage of people who will see it and whose news feed it will show up in.

Promoted Posts however are not all that helpful in terms of primary clicking of likes.  What I mean by this is that if you promote the post you are targeting the people who already "like" you. If that "Like" person shares your post, it will end up targeting their friends, hopefully gaining you a secondary "like", not a primary "like."

With Facebook advertising you are targeting people who have not had interaction with your brand and therefore have a higher likelihood to have higher returns on a primary "like" simply because of the the psycho-graphic that you choose.

I hope I explained this well.

Google doesn't mind affiliate marketing as long as it is not spam and provides the answer to a search query.  The only way I can see that this will hurt you is if you end up with spam linking to the specific pages that you will be doing your affiliate marketing for.

If you want to associate your affiliate marketing with your website then add landing pages within the site for your affiliate programs.

If you want to limit your exposure then I recommend you do these affiliate programs on different URLs and build them up from scratch while still maintaining your brand within the website.

But please understand, the affiliate marketing will not hurt you unless you spam yourself with SEO practices while doing affiliate marketing.  I hope that answers your question.

Ahrefs in my opinion would be the way to go, however, in order to have the full functionality you would need to pay for it.  For something like finding out what the linking root domains are you would use this as well.  Hope that helps.

When I asked this question a while ago the overall consensus was to go to Mozcon, I also hear good things about SES and SMX and was told to go to them as well, but highest priority was Mozcon.  Hope that helps.

Thank you all for the kind responses,  I will definitely see what I can do.

Hello All,

I have been given the opportunity to go to several conferences.  But like most SEO guys, I have a tone of work, and need to use my time sparingly.  The one conference that has peaked my interest is SMX.

I was wondering if anyone has been to SMX before and if they recommend it.

Also if anyone has any other conferences they would recommend, preferrably on the east coast, that would be interesting please let me know.

Any answers are appreciated.  Thank you.

If your tool is beneficial to the average user, most people will not have a problem signing up for it at the cost of a like, tweet, or plus.  Also, in terms of SEO, there should be no negative impact. The only thing that might end up being negative is the initial sign up which might spike your rankings, mainly because google might think you to be relevant to what is currently being discussed, and then a sharp decline.  But that would be the only downside I could think of.

I hope this helps.

Answer to your first question.  Yes plural and singular count as two different keywords.  However, if you implement the plural form of the keyword you will also be using the singular form of the keyword, as normally the plural of a keywords just means to add an "S" (i.e. Best Developer and Best Developers are considered two different keywords but the plural of the keyword still exists within the phrase so it can end up counting as two different keywords).

In answer to your second question, these different keywords may have the same global monthly search but the priority in search ranking will go to the one that matches the search query the closest.  So if you have "photo booth props" and "props for a photo booth" but someone is searching for "props with photo booth", the person who has that exact match will normally rank higher than the previous two keywords associated with your site.  However, there are exceptions, such as a site that has major authority on photo booths might rank for the keywords solely based on authority.

I hope this helps.

If this new line of business is going to be a separate entity of the business, then get a new site.  However, if it is related to your current business model, do not do a subdomain.  Add your business to your main menu and then create it as such (ex: locksity.co.uk/newbusiness/newcontent)

Doing a subdomain is archaic and not really looked upon favorably, you will end up splitting your link juice.  By doing it this way, you will be adding more content to your site overall and increase the backlinks (if linked correctly) of your website.  This is how I would recommend you do it.  I hope that helps.

What Franck says is correct, it creates user engagement and can help with the SEO.  And David has also mentioned outsourcing to elance and Odesk as well as not using the dates.  Also a good start.

Another thing you should do is just write a bunch of content before hand and just keep them as drafts, that way the writing won't hold you up except for maybe once a month.  In addition, you have other sites like fiverr.com which is hit or miss on how good the content is but only costs 5 dollars.

But if you want a writing service that is backed by actual people and don't want to be worried about whether they speak actual english or whatever language you are looking for, there is also professionalwritingservices.biz/ and I think they cost like $10.

However, back to your original question.  It can't hurt you to start a blog.  It promotes engagement and makes your site dynamic, instead of static.  With the addition of a blog to your site you are providing your customers an insight into your business and an opportunity for them to engage you.

If you choose to go ahead with the blog, make sure that they are socially enabled, meaning people can like it on facebook, share it on twitter, and post it on Google + (good for SEO) so that you are getting the maximum outreach with each post.  I hope this helps.

Site was indexed for 3 months and ranking fairly well, and then privacy settings happened, lost all the rankings.  Oh well.  So keep on trucking.  Thanks for the answer.

Appreciated, I thought along the same lines but wanted to make sure I was correct.  Thanks for the answer

I have a client of which we put up an extensive responsive landing page with a blog in the backend, this was done with Worpress.

Over the new years, our web developer pushed the new site live without telling me, and left the privacy settings on (meaning: please ask search engines not to index this site).

The robots.txt I had set up was set up so that the site would be crawled weekly.  The site had privacy settings on for 9 days (more than a week, ugh!). Thereby, taking away all the SEO work I had done prior and basically starting with a brand new slate.

My question: Do I need to start over with all the seo, or do I need to continue pushing forward and waiting for them to come back up?  Either way, still need to do work, but I want to really know if my prior work has become moot.  Thanks for your replies.

there is a thing called microworkers where you pay like 1 cent per view or something low like that.  However, these microworkers are real people with real interests and you never know who is on it, so it could have generated some actual business.  That would be the only way I could think of if it generated business.  However, that is very spammy, i would tell your clients to not engage and let them do the free work while not paying for it.  Otherwise "buyer beware"

No worries, glad I could help.