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Instead of building a site around that specific keyword on a domain like that. Just develop a piece of great content on your website around your keyword string. Its going to help in the longevity of things.

For some reason on the local level, these domains are powerful. I am not sure about just buying a brand new domain and forwarding them, they will be next to useless. But developing microsites with these domains works quite well, I could see if you build one up and then redirected it, then it would help ranking for one site.

I would recommend doing it a different way as this method is currently on its way out. Its been a declining trend for the last couple of years.

No, at this point all it is doing is giving your competitors a clearer picture of what your targeting. There is no current weight for meta keywords.

As a matter of fact, SEOmoz's on page report card advises you to "Avoid Using Meta Keywords Tag"

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%?

While its not made specifically for sitemaps, but for small to medium sites we use MindNode for mac, Its a really easy to use tool. Clients seem to like the look of it also. Its also free!

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.

Having the same problem here! At first it counted each page as duplicate content, then 404's. I took the code off until further clarification.

One thing to note, iPhone and any newer Android will detect a phone number and should automatically make it a clickable link.

Just to throw another option out there for Mac users. We use **MindNode **for Mac. Its not specifically built for sitemaps, but its easy to use in the same way.

Hi Adam,

75% of duplicate copy in a single piece of content is very high. You can never say for certain with Google, but most likely it will raise red flags.

When faced with similar situations in the past, we have contracted several different writers with different styles to come up with multiple pieces of content on each subject. This way each page will be unique and from different perspective, eliminating the chance for a penalty. You may be forced to pay a bit more hiring different writers for the job, but it will be worth it for the clients goals.

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.

Assuming your using WordPress for your blog, you can get the latest posts with get_posts http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

Either just displaying the_title or the_excerpt will be just fine for SEO

Hi Andrew,

If it is all content for the same company/site it is best practice to keep all of your content under 1 domain. The biggest issue I see here is your blog being on a different domain than the main site.

Any links or authority your blog has received is not passing directly through to your main corporate site - which is what you want. Thats one of the main benefits of your blog, to support your main structure.

For the sub-domains, what sort of content is on them?

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.

We cant really base a conclusion of why they are ranked first page just from a list of 4 link sources.. Post the URL and we can dig in deeper to see why he is ranking higher..

About the reciprocal link, they may have added one in the past and as soon as they got accepted they could have removed the link.

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.

You mentioned you have a number of exact match links coming in for that keyword. You could spend some time trying to contact the linking sites in changing out your anchor text.

Do you offer any similar service or product? You could maybe try and just sell the existing users on a different, similar product.

As long as you redirect the mobile traffic properly you should be fine wherever you put it. Personally I try keeping anything I can in the root domain.

To me, the point in reaching out for guest posting opportunities, is to find very popular websites who are authorities. You should do the research beforehand. Basically, any post that gets published on these sites people will build links to it naturally because of the site and hopefully because you put a ton of effort in creating a kick ass post on someone else's website.

Try to go after larger sites for guest posting opportunities, use the current guest posts you have done as examples to show new sites.

Hi KS_.....

Most of the techniques you posted are not relevant anymore

• 2 or 3 way link requests are not that important (unless its a huge authority site)
• Posting articles to say eZinearticles is not worth it
• Blog commenting is not worth it
• Forum commenting is not worth it
• But Guest Blog Posting is worth it!

Instead of sending a request asking to exchange links, send a request with helpful information for the webmaster and leverage that to get a 1 way link back to your site.

You are correct, exact match domain's are continuing to drop in SEO value. That being said they still do carry a bit of weight. If you already have an established site (and your keyword is already in the domain) its not worth the trouble transferring the site, 301'ing everything, etc etc...

If you were building a new site and assuming your based in the UK, it would maybe be worth it. But I wouldn't waste my time on it at this point. If its something you want to secure for brand reasons, go for it though.