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As Keri has suggested, no. There has been a study however to suggest that including a PPC ad next natural SERPs results increases search trust and as a byproduct improves CTR for your organic listing.

We previously bolded keywords a few times per page but are now moving to bold phrases of 3-6 words each that we find are usual for the user. Eg the key benefits, what differentiates it etc. it looks better, delivers a more valuable user experience and the search engines like this more (with seen positive results)

I am comparing PRbuzz and PR web as I write this and will be making my decision within the next few days. PRBuzz has the annual unlimited distributions for $299 and PRweb is 4 or 5 monthly releases for about $1,500+. A little high for my budget, so probably going with PRbuzz will decide within the next day or so. They have good distribution, but not a recognized as the PRweb.

I believe content is the most important factor, and then on-site optimization which would include URL selection, Identifying keywords, and structure. Once that is out of the way I move on to link building.

What has worked for my clients in the past, is to have two domains: (1) the main domain for SEO purposes, controlled in Google Webmaster tools as the primary domain (2) a shorter marketing domain, that forwards (with masking) to the main domain.. and passes the juice. This way the marketing domain can be shorter, advertised in newspapers,business cards, etc... and can be easily remembered.... and main SEO domain still gets the value of the direct hit traffic.

Yes most of the incoming relevant links are going to www version. I think you are right just wanted a second opinion. Yes we made the changes last weekend.

Just my opinion, Although "WhiteGloveInternational.com" is bordering a bit on the lengthy side It still seems to roll off the tongue quite nicely and it is easy to remember. Personally like it. It seems like  whiteglolveinternational.com is established, if that is true I would certainly stay with that URL. But if your intent is to create a new URL  I would do the following. 1-Keep your URL at fifteen letters or less 2-Include key words in the URL that are relevant to your site. 3- Avoid hyphens, dashes, etc. 4- Make sure the URL is easy to remember and makes sense to  the user and the bots. Unless WGIVIP.com has the potential to become the next zappos, or google I would avoid it. That would be my advice. Best of luck.

The link building category of the SEOmoz blog is also helpful. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/4

In terms of the current algorithm change, we really don't know yet. I suspect that Donnie's right - it's really the same sort of stuff that we've referred to as over-optimization all along: Keyword stuff copy, titles, URLs Aggressive exact-match anchor text SEO-targeted copy (like 1000s of thin pages that only differ by a keyword) Suspicious code-order changes Hidden or partially hidden content I suspect that, unlike the past, Google may start treating over-optimization more like Panda. In other words, dozens of over-optimization variables will get fed into a model and spit out one unified factor. I also suspect the threshold will be pretty high - you're going to have to be knowingly manipulating your site in an aggressive way. I don't think anyone is going to get penalized for an extra keyword repetition or a TITLE that's a bit too long.