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thanks Moosa

thanks Dana, some very interesting info in the slide deck. Brett

tried google places but too many problems with merged listings and scraped information being added to the page without any input from the so called owner- one of the spammiest things on the web as they regularly contain incorrect information

If you use Google Analytics there the Experiment area within the Content Tab. It's easy to setup - only takes a few minutes - it's also free But in order to use A/B testing (split tests) you need to know what you want to test. Some good resources can be found with some case studies that can give you a direction on conversion rate experts blog - http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/ There are however a lot of resources out there to give you a direction before you start split testing. Hope it helps.

Thanks Dana. I do ads on Facebook but was not aware of stumbleupon's option. I will look into it. Appreciate the time you took to comment and for the links Brett

thanks for the input. Had given quest-posting some thought but have not tried it. I think that I will to see if I get any response

Thats a good idea, in that way we can remove competitor out as well and also notify DMOZ editors as well. But, according to me, they get a notification when the site is dead and there are some hosting or domain issues with the site

thanks Keri

Hi Brett, Woo rank has been around a longtime and has many users, however there are many other options including MOZ that offer so much more. However for a FULL SET OF SEO TOOLS and project management system take a look at MarketBandit.com. It has everything that all the BIG names have, has a client management system that far surpasses anything I have seen, is more affordable than all others, is cloud based responsive, and is US based so you don't have IP's hitting your site from foreign countries unrelated to your niche. I have had this in Beta for the last 5 years and it launches this next week!

thanks very much Keri

By using them properly. Getting people in similar niches interacting with your profile (retweeting and commenting). Follow industry leaders and interact with them, add value to their social presence and they will add value to yours. We are working on a reputation management case and we learned that in order to help give more authority to a social media site is by using it properly.

Do you work to improve website page speed performance? If not, could you recommend any person or company that can get the job done? Thanks, -Mike

Hi Brett, To be honest I think I learned most by really taking the time to read through David Mihm's "Local Search Ranking Factors" for 2011 and 2012. This information compiles the industry's expertise, resulting in quite a good hypothesis as to what one should do in order to rank with guidelines as to your website, Google+ Local page (even though introduced after the 2012 survey), citations, link-building, etc. Lock yourself away for an hour or two... an open plan office is not ideal to chew through all the info http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors-2011.shtml Hope this helps? Cheers Greg

thanks Mark - good info. The announced changes are likely why the response has been the way it is.

http://searchengineland.com/google-may-penalize-ad-heavy-pages-100601 http://www.seroundtable.com/google-page-layout-seo-14288.html Above the fold in this case obviously was referring to sites that are cluttered with ads and banners before the actual page content, not necessarily content that can or can't be read without scrooling down.

I am not on blogger.com.

i have had the same thing happen to some of my sites, google does not garentee to show them, it may be that they dont believe them, or simply that too many people have them.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-rel-canonical-bug ?

thanks Cyrus. I want to keep the current domain and move it from the old host to the new host. Old site stays with the old host - they own it. New site is already with the new host and nearly done residing on a test url that I need to change to the existing domain Brett