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Hi Mathew,

Thanks for all your input, I would love to learn what works and what doesn't I do the SEO for my wifes business and she makes a living from it so any help on what works and what doesnt would be great, you mentioned your tactics got buried, I would love to know how your ranking, please PM me or email me if you feel inclined to share

Thanks

Hi I am new to the whole SEO + marketing and was just wondering why the competition is doing better in SERP they are all in the top 1-5 positions; however i am 5th on page 2 ?? after doing a site explorer analysis i found that I am beating them in all aspects, my site is sparrowmakeup.com.au keyword is "makeup artist sydney' any suggestions on how to increase my SERP would be helpfull.

So how can I tell the good links from the bad and how do I remove them ? still new to this any help would be appreciated

Yep did miss that thanks

Hi,

Long story shot. my 2 main keywords 'makeup artist sydney' and
'sydney makeup artist' that have fluctuated in #1 - 4 position for the last year even after panda, have now moved to the 2page as of last night 23 May 13.

I have checked webmaster tools and have no messages or error, i have checked Bing and still rank # 3 for the keywords.

I am all out of ideas! am I being paranoid ? there hasn't been any major changes to the site and I don't seem to have major duplicate content issues!

Any suggestions and Ideas would be great, website is www.sparrowmakeup.com.au

Thanks.

Hi,

Thanks for the info on analytics, I'm going to try and implement it now!!

Cheers

Hi Mike

Firstly Thank You for taking the time to answer my question, I sincerely appreciate it!!

What you mentioned makes perfect sense I" actually saw a clip that Matt Cutts did on the topic, the reason I had concerns is that I out rank all my competitors according to seomoz reports; however I still can't seem to crack that no1, no2 position,

In your opinion do you think its harder to compete against local search results when you don't have an address in that locality ?? e.g. keyword "makeup artist sydney"

I will take all your suggestions on board and see what we can come up with.

ps thanks for the comments, it nice knowing the amount of time I spend revamping that site isn't fruitless.

Hi Raviv,

I used this Worpress plugin to fix my broken links, hope it helps http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/

Regards

Ed

Hi,

I am wondering if the way I have set up our website site is creating more harm than good ?

All our SEO efforts and content is located @ www.sparrowmakeup.com.au however our portfolio is located at www.make-up-artists.com.au.

Questions ?

Will Analytic bounce rates effect my SERP, as most people click on the portfolio link in the first 5-15 sec of landing on our page ??

Is there a better way of setting it up ? the reason I set it up like this in the first place was because we wanted a different look/theme for the portfolio. (using WP)

Is there any other issues that this setup might have in the SEO / SERP department ??

Is there any benefits and how can I maximize on them (silver lining)

Your help and experience is greatly appreciated.

Regards

Ed

Hi David,

I asked myself the same question! my thoughts were it wont hurt your SEO and Social presences to have a blogspot or a tumbler site also!!

to avoid having to add content to all the sites I used Jetpack, a wordpress plugin that automatically uploads post to tumblr and other social media sites when you create a post on wordpress...cool right? less work and more exposure!

The best part is...it sends the feeds to the other sites as snippets with a link back to the original post, so what does this all mean ? no duplicate content and traffic back to the original post (can't go wrong with that, more traffic to your site without having to do extra work!! )

There may not be much authority on the site but it definitely doesn't hurt (from my experience anyway) for all you pro's please correct me if I'm wrong.

Hope this helps

Hi Jeepster,

I totally agree with Francisco...guest blogging should only by one element of building links, the fact is we don't know what the algorithm is for a reason (the fun is in the hunt).

I have found if you do a combination of the little things correctly and keep to the basics of web marketing and optimisation, "regular content", social media presence, and good on-site optimisation etc, etc it will go along way!

I recently tested a couple of sites to see what sort of timeframe it would take google to index a page..so I set up "Google Alerts" for certain keywords I wanted to target, the theory behind this I would be able to see how long it takes for google to index and crawl a page and in particular a link. and then measure it against my SERP (search placing)

I tested out the theory on two sites SBWire and PRBuzz, it only took 2 days for it to get indexed and my placing did move not long after, in the right direction

So to answer your questions, PR's are still an effective link building strategy; however it is all still relative to what  your competition is doing ? do they have a strong social media presence, do they blog do they have great content content.

I hope this helped, what does everyone else think ??