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You can choose to show different content to different regions based on IP and many large sites use it to some extent. One key point from the Google Webmaster guidelines is not not show Google something complete different again from all the other regions. If you do it will be seen as cloaking.

Therefore you should decide which regions version of the site you widh Google to see.

In terms of how much of the content you can change I am not aware of any best practices on this matter so it may be worth reading through the relevant sections on the Google Webmaster guideline pages.

Will they work? Perhaps as the Google Algo's are flawed.

Are they a good thing to do? Probably not as the Panda/Farmer update has shown Google are looking to improve the quality of the results so at some point may roll out an update that impacts them.

As mentioned below aim for your main keyphrase at the start of the title where ranking for this keyphrase is your key objective.

Not mentioned is that you should aim to have a unique title on each page and you can focus on and target a different keyphrase per page. Therefore your longer title suggested above could possible be split up and the keywords covered by two separate pages as long as you have separate content for each of them.

Hope this helps.

The way to rank for spelling errors is to optimise for them. Rather than littering the site with poor spelling which will not look good to the user you should try to include the misspelling as genuine content.

For example a light hearted blog post with incorrect spelling vs correct spelling in the title and page name. In the content t could mention the spelling mistakes and unusual terms that people use to find your site (gathered from the analytics data).

It may not be the most interesting post for the visitor and will struggle to gain page specific links but you will have a page optimised in terms of content for the misspelling. If you don't really want people to read it release it to the site at a quiet time and then follow up with a stong post which people will read and the spelling blog post will be overshadowed.

Hope this helps.

It may be a bit of an effort but is it possible that you can work your way through the pages and make the content, titles and descrptions unique so that they don't get flagged as duplicate content.

This has the added advantage of having a large number of pages targeted at your various keyphrases whereas other apporaches involving 301 redirects or rel="nofollow" reduce the duplicate content issue but also reduce the number of pages on which to target keyphrases across all of these pages. If they are acorss 50 countries is there a local spin that can be put on the content so that all the relevant terms are targeted for in their regions but so that Google doesn't see 50+ versions of the same site.

Try and make sure the link isn't a nofollow link too.

There is a whole Learn SEO section at SEO Moz and I would also recommend becoming aware of Google's SEO advice at:-

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

and a PDF guide http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

Hope this helps!

Hi Ben

Any links, which are a key component of SEO could be split between the two sites rather than bolstering the single site.

Also would the content on this seperate site be unique from the original site? If not then the search engines may look at the new page and decided that it is not worthy of inclusion.

It is possible to rank for the same term with multiple pages on your site so for example the home page, about us and offers page could rank 1, 2 and 3 for a term. Aiming for this may be a better use of your time and efforts as seeing multiple listings for a site at the top of the rankings increases credibility for that site in the users eyes.

The links aren't shown in real time and can take a few days to appear.

The key thing to do is to have unique content on both pages but the content may still be optimised or focused upon the same keyword or phrase as the other page.

Also make sure each page has unique titles, meta description etc so that the search engine has no reason to look at the pages and think that it would be best to just display the one page due to duplicate content issues.

Hi Martin

There is no magic number although I have heard 100, 150, 300, 450 all given as the "best practice".

The minimum I would suggest would need to be an amount in which you could achieve mentioning the primary keyword naturally at least 2 or 3 times.

I tend to use the text on a home page as an introduction mentioning the company name, what it does and where. More details are then provided on an about us page. This approach usually means that keywords, phrases and brands are covered in this text.

There is obviously a balance to be achieved between providing not too much text for the user as we are told they don't read it but provide enough for the search engines to be happy.

Spammy links will often have a low Moztrust and a medium  or high Moz rank.

Sites penalised by Google can often be spotted if there is a considerable difference between Moz Rank and Page Rank.

Hope this helps.

The page having so many mentions of the keyphrase when it isn't really necessary looks spammy to me and I would expect (and hope to an extent) that the search engines would think so to. These sorts of tactics were seen as spammy years ago let alone in 2011. Apologies if I sound harsh...its true

Each mention  of the keyphrase seems to get a link to the same product just a different size. The links don't work for me and I can't believe you are goign to provide unique content for each page when only the size is different. Therefore you will end up with duplicate content issues.

This question has been covered quite a few times in the Q&A section and I believe there may have even been blog posts on here regarding it.

try searching for site:seomoz.org "domain change" or similar and you should find lots of useful information from this site.

There is an SEO Moz Pro Webinar this week titled "Using SEOmoz Tools to Acquire Whitehat Links" so it may be worth you tuning in to this one. You can register on the webinars page http://www.seomoz.org/webinars

I think you may need to clarify your question. You can add words to the list or delete ones currently on the list. Amending a keyword or phrase sounds like it is the adding of a new one to me.

I would recommend looking at the pages on the Learn SEO section of the site.

The two links below should answer your above questions.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/meta-description

Hope this helps

If you are going to make the comment links follow rather than no follow then there is a good chance that you will get heavily spammed. You mention you plan to delete spam but you may have to be very viligant and check often as I have seen blogs in the past that get tons of it per day and in the end it becomes a pain in the backside for the moderator and looks bad for genuine users of the site.

It may be worth trialling it rather than committing to it if that is possible with the set up of your site so if things do get too spammy you can quickly move to a nofollow approach.

Hi Alexander

As mentioned by Aaron if the existing company domain already has authority or a string link profile then

www.company.com/contractor-license-bond may be the best approach. The new pages benefit from the strenghth of the domain and the URL has the 2 exact key phrases in it that you mentioned.

You can ensure the new page or section of the site is optimised from an on page perspective and then work on relevant link building to the www.company.com/contractor-license-bond page.

Google doesn't use them and they are a great indicator to your competitors about exactly which keywords you believe are important to your business if they look at your source code.