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Instead of having separate pages for all of these items, are you able to make a single page that displays the various options?  That might make those pages more competitive in search, give you an opportunity to sell multiples, and upsell to the more profitable models.

Great to hear that you are improving your design.  Its a great time to improve your SEO too!

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This is a PERFECT strategy!

Why?

Landing pages created for SEO and helping visitor navigate your site often have too many diversions and characteristics that distract PPC visitors who you hope will convert.

Typical PPC landing pages place greater emphasis on your product and less on links to other parts of your website.

The answer to that is Top Secret #1.

(honestly... I have not seen any linkbait that is quick and easy.. most of what I have that gets links has cost a lot of money or a lot of time... and some of the things that I have spent significantly on have not earned that many links. )

I normally don't use my domain in the title tag.  However, in this situation my domain is KW.com and the #1 SERP that I am after is "KW".

I do have subpages for all of those keywords.  In fact, one is a blog and the other three are index pages for large sections of my site.

On most other pages of this site the domain is not in the title tag because I feel that the space is more importantly used for other things such as.....

<title>Article Title | A phrase to elicit clicks</title>

People will see the domain name in the URL.

Yes, it might be better to place it afterwards.  However, in this situation I have the KW.com and it is the dominant website in those SERPs and the strongest brand in that niche.  It  also ranks #1 for KW.

The index page of most websites is the most powerful page.

Smart people use that most powerful page to go after their most difficult or most profitable keywords.

Use it wisely.

Your suggested use of "blue widgets" in the title tag of the homepage will not result in a problem.  It's smart business, IMO.

The title tag of the homepage on one of my sites reads.... "Domain.com:  KW1, KW2, KW3, KW4"   As a result I have #1 and #2 rankings for all four of those keywords with my KW page and index page both ranking for them.

Some people will say that is spammy.... It does not bother me.  It reads well and gives me the clearly dominant site in those SERPs.

If your goal is to "get a message out" then you want to syndicate that message to every website that will post it.

However, if your goal is to "advance your own website" then syndication of verbatim articles will place your content on other websites.  That will give those websites an opportunity to rank above you for your own keywords.  It can also get your website filtered from the search results or considered as "low quality" by the search engines.

Also, the links that you get from syndication are often removed by the website owner or nofollowed.  And, many of these websites really don't have links that will provide any useful ranking power - because they have no viable links of their own.

Probably one reason why this tag does not work for some people 

I don't believe that tables count against you in the search engines.

My sites are heavy with tables and they are hard to beat in their niche.

I compete in both retail and information SERPs.

I have never heard or read any information directly from a search engine company that says they reduce rankings of sites built with tables.

Building sites without tables has its advantages.   For new sites and redesigns it would be best to use CSS options instead of tables but has nothing to do with search engines.

ahh... this question is getting messy...

I don't know exactly how the rel-canonical tag will work in this situation.

If you can change future URLs without changing the historic URLs then I would leave the old ones "as is".   (Meaning... change future but not old ones)

It will take work to change them and if you do a 301 then there might be some link power lost.

I always like to base my decisions at least in part on analytics, so if these pages are pulling nice traffic and ranking in the SERPs then I would not do a thing about the old ones.

Just an opinion.

I'm all about kicking ass.

Steve, that's a good way to get the "thumbs down".

I got it.

Joe, I took a quick look at your site and you have done a lot of work on content.  Also, I searched a couple of your topics on Google and saw information that you have created filling the first page of the SERPs on a variety of other websites.  Sometimes your site is on the first page too.

Our approach is very different from yours.  We produce a lot of content - as in your field the potential topics list is enormous.  However, we never give it away.  Everything that we publish is on our own website.  Why?  We don't like to feed our competitors and we want to be the "go to" source for information in our niche.

Consider this..... when I searched for some of your topics I saw your site at let's say position #5 but content that you created on the same subject on websites ranking above you.  If they didn't have your  content on their site  then maybe your site would rank at postion #3 and thus be getting more traffic (and links, likes and tweets).

We spend zero time on linkbuilding.... 100% of our time on content building.  All of that linkbuilding time (lets say you spend 50% of your time hunting links then spending it instead on content would double your content library  and put you in the SERPs on twice as many topics and have twice as much content to impress any visitor.)

The only deviation that we take is to submit occasional... maybe once a month or two... items to sites like Reddit or slashdot or stumbleupon.. where we can quickly share new content with a large number of people.

The links arrive very very slowly... but content that we launched 18 months ago and that ranked in the SERPs on page three at the start is now ranking in the top three positions.  These natural links are so much more valuable than links obtained by other methods.  And they require zero time from  us.

You can make links, likes and tweets occur a little faster by making it easy for visitors to share your content socially.  We use the AddThis.com buttons to facilitate.  They work great.

You asked  what other people do for links... there you have it.

Great content is the backlinks strategy here.  We do nothing else for backlinks.  Just post it on the website and people link, like, tweet, etc. spontaneously without any effort from us.

Write great content about CPA- IRS Problems.

Aren't you supposed to be an expert on that?  Show the world. Show your clients.  Show the search engines.

If you know your stuff and explain it well it should be far better than the backlinking "systems".

These links will be good for a short amount of time but they are quickly descend deep into the bowels of the site. Their real value is potential visibility in news and other channels. To be really successful you need fantastic content -and if you have that a PR is probably not a good way to use it.

It sounds like you are off to a strong start with a great attitude.

Good luck to you!

Nice... I went to the site and it recognized my geographic location and showed nearby tennis courts.

I would optimize for "tennis courts in Philadelphia" and similar local geographic terms.

However, I think that there would be a lot of potential for advertising via site targeted adwords or targeting tennis players on Facebook.