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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.

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.

Hi John,

7 errors all related to 1 plugin shouldnt be a big deal - especially when it comes to social plugins. A lot of the social share buttons themselves dont validate.

Im also not sure what you mean "the way WordPress appears to work"?

Could you post some of the errors here so we can see and try to help? The W3C error itself should let you know what you can do to fix the problem

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

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.

Chances are that content from your company blog should not belong on your personal blog.

'Not only is it a bad duplicate content practice, it doesn't make sense for a user. What motivation does a user have to visit your personal blog, if the same content can be found on your company blog?

If your looking for the correct method, posting good unique content on individual sites is the correct method.

Hi Jeff,

index.php is the same as index.php?something=something&anotherthing=somethinglese

Each page should have a different url like index.php and page.php instead of always using index.php

Hi Czarto,

Speaking from experience, There really isnt a better source to learn Adwords IMO than Google itself. http://www.google.com/adwords/professionals/

They have all of their exam certification training guides online for free. There are about 14 chapters, some of which you can skip but by after reading it all, they will all have a pretty good understanding of Adwords.

Well, a link is a link no matter what and will be worth something. While the DA isnt super high, its in the 50's which is still pretty good.

What kind of work are you doing on the site? Do you have any type of control on the content that is published on the site? If you can somehow creatively come up with content remotely close to your content, and can use an analogy that ties them together and drop a link in there, the link could be worth more.

Well, you should be creating thumbnails of each image(or your gallery script should make them for you). This way the page load is significantly faster.

As far as usability, users will much rather see the image gallery on the same page as the article is on. I takes a step out of their research process and thats ultimately the goal.

Hi David,

Any time I have published a blog post, it will generate a Google alert for my brand name. You just have to get your content out there on a crawl-able site.

Hi KJ,

We use WordPress for everything from small landing pages to large corporate sites, there is really no replacement for it if used correctly!

As far as SEO, you can set anything up to perform, WordPress just makes it easier out of the box.

Thanks,

Casey

There are really no good ones I have found, i have not tried any paid ones though.

I just "add to home screen" my favorite web apps, they all work just like they do as if I was on a desktop browser.

Interested to know if anyone else has a good iPad app they can share!

Hi Ryan,

I havent actually used their full services, I do find this free tool VERY helpful http://www.yext.com/diagnostic.html when comparing my listings across the board. Judging from the quality of that one free tool, I would say the rest should be worth it!

Hi jenadams,

I dont think I have ever heard of "renting" a directory listing, you can buy directory listings though which might be what they were talking about. This form of link building can be helpful in the right circumstance, but it certainly isn't worth paying money to buy a link from a directory. Plus buying links are against Google's TOS.

If you do end up creating directory links, just make sure that your doing so to related in topic directories.

Hi Will,

Today, there isn't much value in search engines besides the top 3, Google, Bing & Yahoo. There is really no difference in those 100 search engines to the top 3.

That being said, Google, Bing & Yahoo are all sophisticated enough to crawl and find your website without it being "submitted". It is a great idea to submit a sitemap for sure, but you dont need to submit it every week. If you follow the http://www.sitemaps.org/ guidelines you can set it up where the search engines will automatically revisit your sitemap and crawl your content on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc basis.

Also, If you are using WordPress you can download a free plugin to create your sitemap that makes it easy to set up the crawl basis.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Casey

Hi Jon,

If you are just trying to create a page on your website about "keyword" there is no reason you should be using a subdomain. Every piece of content on your site should be on the root domain.

You will get no ranking benefits from a subdomain over a subfolder. That being said if you create the best content out there you can rank anything, but this will set you back.

Yes, they will be branded SEOmoz for the pro plan. With the pro plus plan they wont be.

If you do however copy their .PDF reports into Photoshop its pretty easy to just cut/paste your logo. But it takes a bit of manual labor.

We have had success ranking YouTube videos in the past by just doing some "old school" SEO by just optimizing the title and description. Placing a link in the description seems to help it also.

Getting a video to the first page is tough. First, are there currently any videos on the first page for your targeted keywords?

Assuming your using WordPress, you could have installed a plugin or functions.php hack to add tags to your pages, which would have been much easier to manage and maintain.

Assuming the URL and the page template is the same, there is really no difference from a SEO standpoint in a page vs post. They are both in essence a "web page".