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I actually never had any trouble with them so Ive never disavowed them UNLESS im working on a penalized site. I dont have second thoughts and just throw them in there. They have no effect at all besides messing up your stats anyway.

As you clearly want to put ads on these pages, then I would expect that youll be sending it  organic traffic.

Then just make the content a lot better. Why settle?

Adding that will help little to nothing at this point but it doesnt hurt because youll do it eventually.

When you do, make sure you do the other things like adding and verifying in google places, putting your organization in freebase/wikidata and others. Those will solidify your organizations entity online.

IT does help to have the keywords in the domain but if it's too long, it's going to be harder to recall.

Stick with a domain name that people can recall and if possible, easy to spell as that helps a lot for local businesses.

My gut instinct tells me to stay away from 3 letter domains but I'd do a survey just to test it out with your target audience.

I push for it as much a possible. I always prefer it but if it's just too much trouble (if it affects other things, causes down time etc) then I skip it.

In terms of improvements, I have personally seen some good improvements because of that and cleaner code.

if it was indeed caused by submitting the sitemap, its too late for you to worry about it. My vote, another coincidence. Ive actually experienced this twice and i got my rankings back by analysing where i went wrong with the tech/structure.

With an alexa like that, you probably have a big site. Try to find a "main" problem and fix that first rather than going for different changes all at one time.

Try talkwalker and mention.net if you just want to monitor keywords and brands.

sounds like a pain...lots of clients are lol

I would instead create a plan for training, broken down to each month as long as they reach the cost I charge.

Plus a consultation fee that is separate

the sites that have tag pages ranking usually have onpage problems or a penalty. Instead of the page, they usually show that tag page....or the privacy page....or maybe the keyword is just not competitive and google has nothing better to put there. Ive seen all these cases.

It's up to you, you can noindex them or whatever you want. As long as you dont go crazy and put 1000 tags on your post and spam links to those tag pages, they shouldnt be a problem. At least in my case.

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I would start with keyword research. Those keywords will always be competitive, but it's what you will have to aim for.

Start going through other words related to it(or longer tail keywords so it's easier) - make a list on a spreadsheet and start working on those to build your relevance and trust. Targeted to your inner pages. Yes, the Jules Verne example you mentioned is also something you can do at this point.

Eventually, with a properly optimised ecom site, you will start ranking for different words you werent even considering and you will have to do more for those to increase traffic even more. Never forget to build your brand and to actually getting the word out using other mediums, that will speed things up.

Tip: Be sure all your products have unique content, as well as on the category pages.

Try to read more about keyword research and ecommerce. Places like inbound.org has a good compilation

Im completely with Lesley here. That's exactly how I would do it. Give him a beer!

no need to use one. Google is already well equipped to find these links on it's own

Yes, I've tried that as well as 14 other "indexing tools" so I know how they work, what happens behind it, index % and stuff like that.

If you plan to spam a lot, and want your links indexed, you just let Google find them.

If you plan to use it for white hat seo, you dont even have to because if you ARE doing white hat, the site is probably already good enough to get their content indexed in a few seconds.

Google has come a long way in terms of power.

Dont bother with it. It's not really important. You can rank fine without them

You will find it confusing since most sites that are old and ranking will probably have them lol.

Fix both since these are still returning 404's

I suggest that:

1. Start with GWT and clean out those links. If these are broken backlinks and are WORTH it, then fix it. If these are worthless links, ignore them.

2. Mark as fixed.

3. run screaming frog. Make sure you are getting 404's and not dns or maybe the site went down because you crawled it too much

4. Export the 404's and check them one by one

5. If it's fixed, then you are done with those.

Hello Umer

I would suggest that you not rely on other people to analyse your site and come up with a link plan for you.

You are here on moz for a reason and that is to learn. There are blog posts daily about it, you can go to blogs that focus on link building to learn strategies.

Fellow mozzers could only help you so much.

Keri mentioned a great link to start with. Search for Paddy Moogan posts. Jon Cooper, Jason Acidre and others have their own blogs that talk about link acquisition strategies and stuff like that.

You can search in http://inbound.org and find gems in there, as well as in Twitter.

You can create your own plan, just remember to not over use your anchors.

I could see that you really want to rank for those words but resist the temptation of just hammering the same keywords over and over. Use your brand as part of your anchor texts.

Continue to build each month without just thinking about the next directory you can submit to.

Personally, I dont really mind! Ive done experiments with worse keyword "stuffing" in the URL and they have performed well.

As long as the content is legit and the backlinks are good then I wouldn't really mind that.

I've had equally good results with just something like /suits - when the page is properly optimized for that, it basically does the same thing. Good luck!

Personally, it used to do great and it wasn't much of a big deal. But with the rest of the world improving, a lot of other easier platforms emerged. I've since moved over all clients to self hosted sites.

In terms of SEO, you can edit the meta details of your pages so that's there. I just didn't like the url structure and it feels old to me (more of a personal preference) so I felt it was better to move out early rather than wait longer.

I would just pay for it myself instead of losing the whole account. If it's not that important of an account (low points and not much branding for you personally) then I would just create my own one

you dont have to force yourself. If it's relevant why not? Just make it open in a new window

look at this site. They blog, a lot. It's probably getting them the most leads/sales since the content gets passed and linked to alot. So yes, I would highly suggest that you start your own site and do it there. Then start promoting it