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This is something great to keep in mind moving the site over to a .com:

If my client were to propose this to me I would consider building another site with the BRANDED name and company products but use 100% brand new content - avoiding the possibility of being hurt by duped content.

Online real estate is priceless - so instead of just transferring the URL over - or just building a clone site  - use this time to build upon your own brand and WEB business in general.

Look into some other low hanging fruits within your vertical and maybe take an approach by trying to optimize the site from the ground up with a handful of keyterms/products that you have the most REVENUE built into.

But then again - I am always looking to expand and create something new versus replicating.

-Chenzo

I started to put in a response - but then noticed, you are trying to optimize the content going on your sites static section which I then have to agree with Francisco here.

It for sure is going to be very difficult to explain the A-Z best practice for static OPTIMIZED content.

But if this is any help to you - here I go.

When I am writing content for blog/audience purposes there are a few things I have been doing that set the tone for OPTIMIZED content.

1. AUTHENTIC - of course

2. First link is now a  LONG tail keyterm pointing to another article/sub-page to your site (internal link) - but now post penguin, don't use a keyterm you are trying to rank for.

3. 2nd link is an authoritative link relevant to the topic and the site could be a potential partner to link back to you at some point.

4. Secret recipe number 4, private message me and I will share it but it truly has set my clients site on fire and has given them a 50-65% faster increase in rankings - WHITE hat too.

You might run into stubborn webmasters that just don't reply or tell you to fly a kite - so I came up with something that seems to work like a charm.

I inform them in less than 3 sentences that your site has been taking over by a trojan/virus/something scary and that it seems to be attaching itself to any and all sites that are linking to "me" so tell them for the safety of their site and any google penalization please remove the link and actually ask them to "let you know"

A great call to action and has been working for me

-Chenzo

From what Rand said on the last white board Friday, marketing and sites like yours are taking the biggest hit since post penguin update.

I would say for sure fix the current errors now but in the mean time it is a fact your new rankings will take time organically ...

So I would combine your new SEO campaign with a healthy and aggressive social attack as well.

Offering a great give away like play off basketball tickets or something else through your blog/facebook and drive the audience stimulation - this does nothing to much for rankings but HUGE for traffic and word of mouth. * the playoff tickets are a bit of an investment but paying off for clients of mine.

Start to push a lot of "fresh" content through a blog tied to your site and also be sure to post the Post URL to - Facebook, Twitter, Google + as they are imperative to a healthy algorithmic crawl.

Welcome to the SEO world ;o)

-Chenzo

Thanks Nick, hope it starts working soon... This guy is excited -chenzo

I have used a variety of frameworks since my clients are scattered between so many different verticals. I have found that using a third party web builder for homepage and other major converting pages is huge if you really want 100% esthetic control... But uploading your Wordpress to the root file under a subpage (preferably using a keyword) and then building internal links from the nav bar and other in content areas of the 3rd party web built parts has been a major success in getting me almost 10 sites now first page, first spot google. Of course the content is king and best part the indexed post from Wordpress are now picked up as being tied to the root file adding more and more indexed pages to your site. Clients LOVE the flexibility in design and being able to take over some parts of the sites operability and they will LOVE you even more when they are out ranking their competitors. PS . I do not ever use any SEO plugins -chenzo

This is fantastic stuff thanks Batman!

When you are in Error status for Duplicate Page Titles - but it is because of the root domain:

Example.com

and

Example.com/index

• How to you go about changing the title of the same page without looking un-natural.

My client has built his site with the - index file pulling to the root - but the crawlers are seeing TWO separate pages - when in reality they are the same.

Riddle me this batman?

I have never been able to use the blogscape function under my pro membership.

Is this something that will be up sooner than later?

Much thanks,

Chenzo