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I have used SiteTuners for landing page optimization. Highly recommended.  Great people!  Smart too!

thank you for that, i will concentrate on the main site instead of buying urls

i want to take it back to the way i first started with it instead of moving away from what i wanted. So i would like to include a lot of the same content, but what i am worried about is losing all the links. My hosting company have put a new installation of joomla in a new subdomain and then this will be put under www.in2town.co.uk and then i am trying to learn how to keep the old links for the new site

PRNewswire is by far the best although it can be quite pricey

Thanks for that. most of my traffic comes from google organic and now all of a sudden that traffic has hit rock bottom

I agree with Julian; follow the same SEO tactics that you would on Google. All search engines are important... Google has a higher importance because it has so many more users, but I wouldn't negate Bing/Yahoo. If it brings you more traffic, even if it is little, it is still traffic and that can be converted into a customer.

As Gary suggested, moving your blog MAY be beneficial depending on the circumstances. If your site focuses a specific topic, and you wish to add a blog to talk about that topic in further detail, the blog should definitely be on the same domain as the main site. On the other hand, if you wanted to add a personal blog to talk about various topics unrelated to your main site, then that blog should ideally be on a subdomain or separate site. Many people get confused with the concept of subdomains. A subdomain is a separate website. Think of wordpress.com. It offers thousands of subdomains all managed by different people. The subdomains have no relation at all to each other nor the main site. Adding a blog to your site can definitely help increase traffic if you add quality articles to the blog. Adding it to your subdomain instead of your main domain is not going to offer any additional traffic benefits. In fact, it will most likely be less because your subdomain will start with a DA of 1 rather then inheriting the main domain's DA. The articles will rank lower in SERPs and receive less traffic.

I would not worry too much that is just a .info spam website, what the do is they use content spinners to generate very low quality articles then they keep churning them out on their websites. It is all a ploy to gather more revenue from existing ad units. The thing is they probably do not even rank.

Just a few tips that spring to mind: find a content category that is popular yet isn't overloaded with authors produce high quality content that will be voted up by the community gaining you greater exposure write about topics that people are searching for to increase the likelihood of search engine traffic optimise your article for the topic in question following SEO principal Hope this helps...

First thing first, where do you get that number from? is it from alexa ? or google analytics ? or any other sources? In my opinion if you had a bounce rate that high showed up on google analytics, than you really need to made a further research where this bouncing visitors are coming from Other than that, i would suggest you to improve your overall site design , some of the reason is explained here ( http://www.seomoz.org/blog/replicate-googles-panda-questionnaire-whiteboard-friday ), a site that looked good potentially attract customer and encourage them to stay a while and surf deeper  .. (unless of course if your website is nike.com , where the brand trust can easily overshadow the lack of good site design)

My resources http://seobestpractice.org/Linkbuilding But to be honest, since panda, I havent bothered with this stuff, it just doesnt work for me now

Hi David, I'm looking at your profile, and see you do have a paid account (you can't ask a question in Q&A without having a paid account or 500 MozPoints). Sending an email to help@moz.com or visiting the Help Contact page at http://moz.com/help/contact is the best way to get in touch with us. Keri

I copied text from your site and pasted it into Google and searched. I found http://www.chesterhypnotherapy.com/ which has a lot of similar/copied content, as does http://emperortrainingsolutions.com/.

Ryan has a great idea. Think about who will link to your site. Will people want to link to a "cheap flights" website or would they prefer to link to a magazine?

The best free link building is, and always will be, great content. Let's assume we both start SEO sites tomorrow. You spend a week submitting your site to 100 different free directories, adding your link to various asian blog comments who allow followed comments, etc. At the end of the week you have 150 new links which you know wont ever really be seen or used. Meanwhile, I take the time to write the best article ever seen on the topic of "SEO 2011 - Guide to Panda and Google updates". The article is published on my site, then I visit 25 SEO sites, make a topical reply to a relevant Q&A, forum post or blog article leaving a link to the article which is often nofollowed. I also tweet the link to a few SEO-related accounts. If the article I wrote is truly helpful, many people will +1 / Like / Tweet the page and link to it. In the end I would gladly take a dozen authentic links earned from real people who generally appreciate the content over the 150 links from free directories and linking services. Those links are crap, you know they are crap, Google knows they are crap and are actively working to improve their system. Time spent improving your site for the best user experience is always time well spent. Write ONE article that is the best ever written on a topic, and let it do the link building for you.

Hi Diane, I'm following up on older questions that are still marked unanswered. Have you been able to improve traffic to this site, or have you put it on the back burner? I still see the IN2TOWN CHEAP FLIGHTS header and Yemeni security checks article when I look at the site now.

In addition to EGOL on the news front, your news needs to be unique. Aggregate or scraped news won't last long in google. With respect to the site, are you dealing with duplicate content? After taking a large phrase from a new news item and wrapping it in quotes, the SERP page shows a large number of pages with different titles/urls. Without knowing how your site is structured it's a bit difficult to give specific advice, but run the SEOmoz custom crawler over your site and see how much duplicate content you have or are creating.

Can I get an invite to press release point?

In addition to Nemek: Forums: find forums, that are related to your sites topic. Engange in a relevant and useful way. Put a link to your site in your profile. Promote special content (articles, lists, funny stuff) in your profile. Blogs: Comment on related topics, but don't do the regular "Great article, thanks" stuff. Contact the author, ask for a guest article. Twitter, Facebook, LInkedIn etc: Create a profile with your brandname (twitter.com/brandname) and link to your site. You might want to use a service like http://knowem.com/ Google Places: Create your places profile and link to your site.