I dont see why you would need to check rankings every day, sounds a bit like overkill for any site. But you can check out http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/ If you want to save and print out reports you will need to buy the enterprise edition.

Hi Sean,

Just because you removed them from the sitemap, doesn't mean they wont still cause that duplicate content errors as the page still exists, same with the NO INDEX and NO FOLLOW, the content is still being "duplicated" in multiple locations of your site.

Adding good solid category descriptions before the loop has changed this for me in the past.

Please check out the authentication wiki page: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/29574176/SignedAuthentication

$objectURL = $domain_url;$accessID = "member-XXXXXXXXXXX";

$secretKey = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";

$expires = mktime() + 300;

// The request is good for the next 5 minutes, or 300 seconds from now.

$stringToSign = $accessID."\n".$expires;

// Get the "raw" or binary output of the hmac hash.

$binarySignature = hash_hmac('sha1', $stringToSign, $secretKey, true);

// We need to base64-encode it and then url-encode that.

$urlSafeSignature = urlencode(base64_encode($binarySignature));

$urlToFetch = "http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/links/".urlencode($objectURL)."?AccessID=".$accessID."&Expires=".$expires."&Signature=".$urlSafeSignature."&SourceCols=26&&TargetCols=4&Scope=page_to_domain&Filter=follow&Sort=page_authority&Limit=25";

// You don't have to use fopen and can't in some scenarios. CURL is a better choice for production.

$handle = fopen($urlToFetch, "r");$links_contents = ''; while (!feof($handle)) {    $links_contents .= fread($handle, 8192);} fclose($handle);

echo $links_contents;

?>

Here is how we are pulling it in. Replace $accessID with your API code, you can sort and filter through the different link calls. Replace "Limit" with however much you want to pull in. The code will return a json response, from there you can parse the data however you want.

I hope that helps!

Your old posts signature will be replaced with the new signature, there really no way around that.

Your best bet is to keep the current links on your current account, and create a new account for the new client.

Hi,

The Google keyword tool was made for Adwords. The "competition" column just lets you know how many other Adwords advertisers are bidding on that keywords - which is great for PPC, and almost useless for SEO.

Stick with the moz  keyword difficulty tool for SEO.

"The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each of the posts to be displayed on the current page and formats them according to how they match specified criteria within The Loop tags."

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Its basically the code that displays the list of posts in your category & tag pages.

There was a whiteboard a few months ago (sorry I couldn't find the link) where Rand was talking about this. I believe they figured out that you will not be rewarded or hurt, but Google will simple ignore these links because of the fact that anyone could get anyone banned through tactics like this.

BUT, the fact that this is in a hidden div may alter this theory, so I'll let someone answer that for sure.

I highly recommend NOT using GoDaddy, their service is okay if your lucky. The problem is that they max out all of their servers with as much clients as they can which can effect your performance if your on one of these. At least thats my experience with their shared options.

I would check out Site5 or Host Rocket if you want to get rid of Host Gator

One thing to keep in mind is you have no idea what the majority of users intentions are while searching a more generic "wall decals"(ignore this comment if you have looked that far into your conversion funnel), are they just looking for ideas? brands? do they even know what they are looking for? or are they ready to purchase? I would immagine that someone searching for "wall decals for nursery" would have a higher purchase intent than just "wall decals".

First thing I would do is test with PPC and track your conversion rates for different terms. You may find out that you convert more for the long tail terms over the main terms - or vise versa. Then build my keyword strategy off of that.

Depending on your budget or resources that may not be an option. Personally I would rather be dominating 10 search results for lower traffic keywords that I know will convert than 1 higher traffic keyword that is hit or miss. But it's also always great to get both of those options of course I would optimize your home page for "wall decals", and optimize any sub pages/landing pages/blog posts or any other controlled inbound sources for the long tail opportunities.

You can absolutely still rank with good content and site architecture. It doesn't have to do with having a lot of content, just good content. While you aren't going to rank for any competitive terms, but you can climb up high on the first page for some long tail and local based keywords.

There are no SEO benefits to having a page over a post, or a post over a page. They are essentially the same thing. The only difference is that posts can be categorized.

Creating a category would do you little to no good because you would then have to fill that category with content from a post. It would make no sense in having a blank category filled with category description content when you could create a page/post easier.

So as far as you choosing to publish a post or a page thats up to you. If its a blog entry that has personality and you want users to engage in the content with comments then I would publish it as a post. If the content you are publishing is "static" info then you could make it a page. It sounds as if "Seattle Rocks" would be best suited as a blog post though.

Hi Emerald,

First off, great response above by Andrew.

I just wanted to throw in a suggestion on using a web host such as site5. They are a US based company like you are looking for but they also provide the option to choose your server location - one of which is in Sydney Australia.

They should provide you everything you need with US support and reliability, but with a AU server location.

http://www.site5.com/hosting/web/ Just select your server location to get the details.

Thanks, Casey

What content is included in the modal windows? It sounds like it's just maybe short snippets and some form fields to login or signup? If that is the case you don't have anything to worry about. Depending on your site structure you should have plenty of other content on your pages to differentiate "page" content from "misc" content.

John Doherty did a great post a while back on meta tags that will NOT help SEO. As you can see, "classification" is on that list.

The rel="stylesheet" is just pulling in all of the website's CSS styles. Design related, not SEO.

You can read more about pingback's here.

By default WordPress includes stylesheets and your pingback URL.

You also mentioned you are using meta keyword tags still, I would recommend removing those, they have not been a ranking factor for quite some time now, you are just giving your competitors an insight to the keywords you are targeting.

Hi David,

From what you describe, you will have no negative effects from using 301 redirects to a new URL structure. Thats what 301's are for

Rankings may dip for maybe 3-7 days (depending on which pages are ranking, etc)  if at all, but after that you should be good.

Hi Jon,

At first glance of the website, I would suggest putting some money upfront before SEO in a new website. It doesnt deliver the right message that I think you want it to. I would also have someone look at your analytics and perform a full on analytics and SEO audit, deep competition analysis, and map out a real strategy for the next 12 months.

After that is completed, you should know a bit more on what areas to spend your money on

Hope that helps!

Casey

How many links are in your footer? If there are 30+ I would try trimming it down a bit, anything less you should be fine. But ask yourself this: Is every footer link you have benefitting the user of the website? If not, get rid of them. If you are using your footer links as an SEO tactic, you should probably take a step back and re-think your strategy.

Footer links in my opinion are perfectly fine when used in moderation and they provide value to the user.

It looks like on those two examples its just the table% and depth % that are different? Any way you could just combine the similar products, and just make it a option to select the different table % and depth%?

Like I said above, it would also be beneficial at the same time to do a full analytics and SEO audit, competition analysis, and 12 month strategy outline. Once you do that and have a clear roadmap, its going to be a lot easier to tell you what exactly to spend your $5k on.

Back to the design, even if you are rank #1 for every keyword and city you want - you have to be able to capture and convert your audience through your design.

Check out http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority to get more familiar with domain authority before you try and increase it. This article also links to those great whiteboards by Rand. Basically you need to increase overall SEO