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Hi Justin,

I can understand why you are frustrated. However I would like to ask you how long as your site been up? What is the age of the domain? All of your links that you've checked our relevant and have high authority? Content is King however sometimes even kings must wait. I would make sure you have your website indexed by Google. Then if you have purchased a new domain I would wait approximately 3 to 5 months to get out of what Google calls the sandbox. It is unfortunate thing but with all the malware and Russian bride mumbo-jumbo out there people can buy a domain for very little money and Google frankly does not trust them until they've proven themselves. You have done a fine job that seems by following the basics creating unique content perfect don't ever stray from it. You also have to understand links are important to your website the fact that a spam link might give more link juice that nothing is not surprising. However believe me when I say this Google will figure out the people cutting corners and using any links that are not relevant to their content. For instance if this is a marriage site about Russian brides or overseas brides that link is fine. I think you completely understand where I am coming from unfortunately it seems you might just have to wait it out. If you would like to private message me your domain or if you feel comfortable posting it here I would be happy to look into some of the reasons as to why you feel you are not getting the recognition on Google you deserve.

PS

Good job doing the right thing really another good website for the web think of what your users want that's how Google thinks.

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

Hi Ewan,

My sincerest apologies I did not get an opportunity to respond in time. However Doug gave you an absolutely fantastic answer. Thumbs up Doug. If I can be of any more help please let me know however I believe your question has been answered successfully.

Sincerely,

Thomas

hey guys I just wanted to say thank you both those are some top notch ideas and I will be in touch soon.

Sincerely,

Thomas

I do agree with you when it comes to doing this you should to it the right way. Meaning not only planning for the move. Using the correct DNS settings to correctly change your site so it is a fluid perfect handoff. One thing I cannot stress more is use a host that is ranked well and a managed WordPress host for instance I use WP engine, Zippy kid, Page.ly & web synthesis every one of those guys will be able to go above and beyond in moving your current website to their platform. I would strongly suggest speaking to one of the people at the above hosts telling them what you plan on doing and then implementing the plan With their help. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the support for managed WordPress hosting companies. If you have any questions about this please feel free to PM me

just to let you know our competitors campaigns are extremely advanced. Extremely famous companies If you would like to talk over PM I can get into more detail.

Respectfully,

Thomas

Hi Nik,

you've got some fantastic ideas I think these are definitely very helpful I'm currently using a combination of tools one of them being http://scribeseo.com/ to generate the best content. However I do strongly agree with you link bait is where it's at. Thumbs up man thank you

sincerely,

Thomas

I have a client who has a website that is based on a magazine. They make their money through advertisement I am primarily an inbound marketer I would be very grateful if anyone out there has any tips for a site that has been around for quite a while ( over 10 years) we are transforming the site from HTML into WordPress then hosting it with a fast managed WordPress host using CDN. I feel the lack of links is an obvious place to start however if there's anything specific to magazine based websites I would be more than grateful to hear your opinions.

Thank you all in advance.

Sincerely,

Thomas von Zickell

if you want to double check your information you can try using some of the tools below. I would put most of my stock in SEOmoz however you may want to do a trial to see if all the data matches. I am not at all saying that there's something wrong with the information you are given however using all of these tools the same ones I use in combination with SEOmoz seems to be the best way of getting a full 360° look at my websites.

http://scribeseo.com/

https://raven-seo-tools.com

http://spydermate.com/

http://MajesticSEO.com

http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/tools/

I though this might sound funny but look at all the excellent tools in SEM Rush partners

http://www.semrush.com/partners.html

I hope I was of help to you.

Sincerely,

Thomas von Zickell

when you select the keywords you want to research you must have the domain but say it is www.example.com/for-rent/  then keyword "chiang mai villas for rent"

you will get the problem you're describing if you do not put the parameter after the /

so to not use just www.example.com/ then keyword "chiang mai villas for rent"

you must have full URL typed in or selected for that keyword. Many reasons for getting on page SEO F's are because there is no mention of the keyword in the title or the keyword is not as close to the beginning of the URL.

Please let me know if I can help you anymore.

Sincerely,

Thomas von Zickell

you want to makeYour content delivery network go through a cname

WHY ARE MY CDN URL’S DIFFERENT THAN MY DOMAIN NAME?

Normally your URL paths would be

http://domain.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg

With a CDN enabled, it becomes

http://account.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg

This can always be changed to a custom CDN URL such as cdn.domain.com if you wish. You just need to setup a CNAME for cdn.domain.com to point to account.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com then contact support and let us know so that we can make the required updates on our end.

this is a link from my hosting company that describes exactly how to set up your DNS

http://support.wpengine.com/how-does-a-cdn-work/

I hope this is of help to you,

Sincerely,

Thomas von Zickell

Hi Ed,

If you would like to ask anymore questions or chat about this I have done quite a bit of this work lately. Please feel free to private message me or e-mail me at your discretion. I would be happy to share what I have learned about this at no cost. I'm actually going to posting a blog on this topic in the very near future.

Sincerely,

Thomas

tzickell@blueprintmarketing.com

I agree with Dan the Yost SEO plug-in is something you definitely want. I think if you go to http://wordpress.org and simply look around at the amount of plug-ins you will realize that anything you want to have done with your website can be done using WordPress. You will have so many new ways of adding information quickly and fixing issues simply by downloading a plug-in that would normally have you calling a developer I don't feel that there's anyway you could go wrong by using WordPress opposed to HTML

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

Your links will be fine

I  or any other excellent web firms here on SEOmoz can do this for not much money at all.

There are many ways of doing this. I will tell you I have converted 5 sites personally to WordPress. There tons of benefits to doing this if you would like to see an example of what I mean take a look at http://www.ras-tech.com this is the staging server of what will be the new version of RAS-Tech built on WordPress http://rastech.wpengine.com one of choices you have is to build a like for like as I just showed you or pick a theme and update your websites look and feel along with updating the type of website you are now using. I have a developer we use Genesis framework as it seems to be the easiest to use. There's many different types of framework for WordPress and this is my personal opinion. If you would like to get your site converted as an exact replica as you've seen in the links I've shown above or you would like to maybe have it based on a theme go to pick a theme

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/

for your links

http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/

Why use WordPress

http://www.computercourage.com/wordpress/top-10-reasons-to-use-wordpress-org-for-your-website/

http://www.studiopress.com/themes

http://www.studiopress.com/features

Top Five Reasons to Use WordPress for Your Small Business Website

http://www.expand2web.com/blog/why-use-wordpress-to-power-your-small-business-website/

SEO – WordPress provides good search engine optimization (SEO) right out of the box. There are a few tweaks you need to make, but there are many seo benefits that WordPress provides for free. In fact Google’s own Matt Cutts says WordPress is “made to do SEO well” in this video: Matt Cutts gives tips to small business owners.

Content – it is easy to update content on your website without knowing HTML.  Do you hate the idea of having to learn to use a complex HTML editor tool like Dreamweaver? Do you have to “ask” your webmaster every time you want to make a small change to your website? Well no longer – once WordPress is set up for you, you can easily create new pages or edit existing pages using a simple rich text editor.

Extensions – There is a thriving ecosystem of developers creating themes and plug-ins – imagine free design themes, or the ability to extend your website with polls, contact forms, ratings or hundreds of other cool features without having to hire a web developer.

Support – If you do have problems, or want to add very custom features, it is easy to find support and developers who can help you. There are literally thousands of WordPress developers out there. And there are so many people writing about WordPress that help is only a Google search away!

One-click-installation – Quick installs are provided by many hosting providers,

as for hosting providers I personally feel you should go with a managed WordPress host. I have used almost all of them and feel you really can't go wrong with any of them.

This is a good list the order is not as it should be but use one of the WordPress

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/wordpress/hosting/

no what you need to do is out of the conocal URL reference whatever is going to be shown to the user as the preferable content so if the pages http://www.omnipress.com/boss-woman" />

and next pages

">http://www.omnipress.com/boss-man" />  you will of course need 301 redirect as usual and anyone that tells you rel="canonical is not important does not understand much about SEO and that's not a sly on anyone.

rel="canonical Tells Google where the original pages are it no matter what helps you immensely who searc it on SEOmoz see what Rand has to say   or we could just look at this link that claims it's the most important advancement in SEO since site maps so please do use a canonical-url-tag http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

here is exactly how to implement them and I wish you all the best. http://www.metatags.org/rel_canonical

Sincerely,

Thomas

Make sure you pay special attention to implementing the correct rel canonical was first introduced we wanted to be a little careful. We didn’t want to open it up for potential abuse so you could only use rel canonical within one domain. The only exception to that was you could do between IP addresses and domains.

But over time we didn’t see people abusing it a lot and if you think about it, if some evil malicious hacker has hacked your website and he’s going to do something to you he’s probably going to put some malware on the page or do a 301 redirect. He’s probably not patient enough to add a rel canonical and then wait for it to be re-crawled and re-indexed and all that sort of stuff.

So we sort of saw that there didn’t seem to be a lot of abuse. Most webmasters use rel canonical in really smart ways. We didn’t see a lot of people accidentally shooting themselves in the foot, which is something we do have to worry about and so a little while after rel canonical was introduced we added the ability to do cross domain rel canonical.

It basically works essentially like a 301 redirect. If you can do a 301 redirect that is still preferred because every search engine knows how to handle those and new search engines will know how to process 301s and permanent redirects.

But we do take a rel canonical and if it’s on one domain and points to another domain we will typically honor that. We always reserve the right to sort of hold back if we think that the webmaster is doing something wrong or making a mistake but in general we will almost always abide by that.

Hope that helps.

I had I have a client who unfortunately had a dispute with her prior IT person and the person made a mess of the site. It is not the quickest thing and I do agree 301 redirects are by far the quickest way to go about it. If you're getting 404 errors and the site is passing link juice. You're going to want to redirect those scattered about the website to the most relevant page.

http://jamesmartell.com/matt-cutts/how-does-google-handle-not-found-pages-that-do-not-return-a-404/

http://www.seroundtable.com/404-links-google-15427.html

http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=11493&parent=1723950&ctx=topic

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/indexing

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/api

I hope I was of help to you,

Thomas

If you are only changing to a new hosting provider and you had a dedicated server as well as a dedicated IP. In the content will not be changed there’s not much to worry about at all. Google not lose any trust in you because of an IP address change if you are changing to a white listed IP. the only ways you could actually hurt your site would be if

1St If you moved from a dedicated server to a shared server and had a bad neighbor

"Google recognizes the server’s IP address. If the majority of websites are of ill-repute (porn sites are automatically marked as spammers), then unfortunately this law-abiding client gets lumped in with a bad crowd. Read more: http://online-sales-marketing.com/seo-issues-caused-by-bad-neighbors#ixzz22SZ2T5cA 
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution”

2nd  if you keep both sites up at the same time obviously you get duplicate content. You want to index the new site as soon as possible. Thus inform Google that will allow the Google bot to crawl it and therefore like Google no you are no longer on your old IP.

3rd  you could move to a slower host I noticed not talk about right often however slow DNS and slow web hosting both play a role in how Google rank your website. I hope whatever deal you made you are on a host that can provideThe same or better speed at delivering your content. Obviously if you lost a content delivery network or happen to luckily add one those types of things matter to Google. You can check with tools like http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ or http://www.webpagetest.org  I tend to use the hosts SEOmoz recommends in their pro perks you cannot go wrong with any of them.

4th make sure your DNS is as good if not better it should be better if you’re moving this will keep speed up and problems to a minimum. Here a list of hosted DNS providers http://dns.nuvvo.com/lesson/12509-list-of-hosted-dns-providers  I use ultraDNS and DYN if you are looking to use a provider with any cast DNS and not spend much money at all and still have fantastic speeds Amazon Route 53 is a couple dollars a month on average and has an excellent reputation. http://aws.amazon.com/route53/

I hope I have been of some help in just remember people who don’t have dedicated IP’s rank extremely high regardless of the IP address changing.

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

Hi Chad,

Can you post the domain or send it to me? I think I can help.

All the best,

Tom

PS

http://techcrunch.com/

Is great too

Hi

Try the two links here

http://workawesome.com/software/social-media-management/

http://www.locallytype.com/pages/submit.htm

I think Dun & Bradstreet as seen in link two is a perfect not spam url

Hope I helped,

Thomas

I did not know we had one free private question every month.

Thank you,

Thomas