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Could someone have a look at my page here www.ashley-wedding-cars.co.uk here and tell me why I have a canonical problem.

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If I am in a very low position in the serps so that I can't find myself. Is it possible that I can determine that I have made progress? Thank you.

Okay I've tried again.

Many thanks webfeatseo.

That's better EGOL.

I am aware that I can't get to position one overnight and that it will take time. I also realize that the learning curb may be steep and that is why I am here.

Thank you for your updated comments.

Hello EGOL.

The question was what do I really need? Your reply could make me jump off the cliff and give up. That’s not me thought and the question remains. What do I really need apart from the desire to succeed.

I’ll point out that things are not great in my business at the moment and this gives me plenty of time to research the subject of SEO. Now, if I don’t want to engage the services of an SEO company that wants to charge huge amounts of money and provide no guarantee, I have an alternative and that is to try myself, to improve the position on my website.

Just because I don’t have huge amounts of cash to throw around, in all honesty, only puts me at a disadvantage in that it becomes a do it yourself project.

Hi. Just sent the link. Thanks.

Good point Nicholas. Also, those links you provided above seem real great. Thanks.

Hi Nicholas and thank you for the words of encouragement. My comment about White hat not working was more to do with one particular competitor that has made a complete mockery of the system. It’s totally unbelievable what they have done. Thousands of links from total rubbish and now on page one. Yes, they may get caught but between now and then, people that are trying to develop an honest site suffer.

I take your point about Yell and Scoot however, I mentioned that scoot.co.uk use the nofollow. Listing myself in scoot I believe would bring in little or no traffic. After all, who needs scoot when you have Google. From my point of view, the only value scoot may bring is in adding to my domain authority but, the nofollow, would that not defeat the object of listing with them.

Thanks for the links above. I shall read those.

Thanks for the comments Webfeatseo.

I have analyzed the competition and I know the keywords I need to go for. It seems that the searcher will almost always go for two words and its these two I can get (a the moment) If the search types in the main keywords and my county (state), then I’m okay and on page one.

I feel that the site is optimized reasonably well and doing the check in seomoz, I receive an A. Just one problem at the moment and that’s mydomain.co.uk and mydomain.co.uk/ suggest duplicate content according to Seomoz.

I’m sure that adding more content to the site may help, but in all honesty, it really seams that there is little I can add. At one time I was in position one for the keywords I need, however, things have changed.  Up until a few years ago I had a huge amount of other information related to the trade I am in and I also had a section on poems and this out ranked the main site purpose and I felt that it was hurting the site so removed it. Perhaps this was a mistake. Not sure.

You may like to take a look at my site and see if it is as good as I think. Yes more content can be added but I do wonder if I have the basis of a good site.

Hello EGOL.

The question was what do I really need? Your reply could make me jump off the cliff and give up. That’s not me thought and the question remains. What do I really need apart from the desire to succeed.

I’ll point out that things are not great in my business at the moment and this gives me plenty of time to research the subject of SEO. Now, if I don’t want to engage the services of an SEO company that wants to charge huge amounts of money and provide no guarantee, I have an alternative and that is to try myself, to improve the position on my website.

Just because I don’t have huge amounts of cash to throw around, in all honesty, only puts me at a disadvantage in that it becomes a do it yourself project.