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How about trying crazyegg or clicktale?

Then you can see how people are interacting before they bounce. Getting an idea of how they browse; do they scroll and then bounce or just bounce straight away - may give you some clues

I've been using http://www.outreachr.com/bulk-domain-checker/  to pull data out of batches of urls for this. It goes and grabs link data from SEOmoz and then has a go at getting contact details including twitter etc

(Hope I don't kill his server while hes on holiday by posting this here)

Hi Robert

For most agencies, linkbuilding is a lower level activity that I think can be scaled the most easily

• that everyone in the company can do it,
• new recruits can learn it easily
• new recruits can support established team members to deliver more
• you can outsource parts of it
• generally people who are cheaper to employ will be doing this

I see good consultancy as a higher level activity that is restricted by the available time of your most skillful employees

• not everyone  in the company can do it
• harder to learn in a short time
• hard for a new recruit to support someone effectively
• cant really outsource it
• generally your most expensive (experienced) employees will be doing this

S

If your going social, you need to have something interesting to say. Having an opinion helps drive that conversation. Its easier to have an opinion on the politics of education than it is to have one on a maths problem

Maths questions target students, and Im with EGOL that it will more likely be parents who follow you but only if you provide value. I would look at the higher level  stuff, having an opinion on how maths is taught, the politics of maths and teaching, running competitions for maths stuff for their kids

I have to ask why you arent doing the freerice.com thing with it? big extra love & links from the community - work out how many grains of rice there are in a packet and you realise how cheap that type of thing is to do

I recently tested this post panda - 771 articles submitted. 20 days later I could only find 5 of them on Google. Only 1 had the link in it.

771:1 is not a good ratio. If you do this, make sure you check back over time to see if this is actually providing the links you think it is

not provided isnt anything to do with Panda or Penguin. For pretty much every site its their #1 referring organic keyword - Google doe snot provide keyword info for users who are logged into their services anymore

Have you looked at your keywords? I would be surprised if (not provided) did not stand out massively

NEVER go on whats in the SERPs. Get recommendations - so MOz is a good place to start.

Why not look for the really technical SEO posts on moz and then approach those companies? I can recommend Distilled

You could look at the http://moz.com/community/users users board and pick someone from London that has a ton of points - this indicates they have been helpful to the SEO community over a number of years. I'm at 21 and I am based in London. Marcus Miller is at 12 and he is based in Birmingham

There is also a MOZ recommended list http://moz.com/community/recommended

Stephen

Consider whether you should be using social media at all.

It can be a massive distraction and waste of time that you can be spending on activities that you are good at and help your business more

If you are trying twitter, facebook and linkedin all at the same time, with no idea what you are doing, its no surprise it doesnt work - 3 painful learning curves all at once.

Pick 1, and be great at it, or spend your time doing something more useful

S

No one mentioned yoast's seo plugin yet? ive tried a few and its the best by miles http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ you can also find it in the download section within wordpress

Its in constant devleopment and you can do stuff like access your .htaccess file from directly within the plugin.

Other than have a great product? Decide what success looks like

You haven't given enough information really, but I start with Research, Information Architecture, Paper Dolls, UX, UI, goals and analytics.

Then SEO becomes easy

Make this for the beauty industry http://www.cakewrecks.com/

Ofc, many experiments show that tabs are terrible for conversion. Only way you can know is to test

I suggest you have a look at eth templates on unbounce.com and have a look at 5secondtest as well.

Finish off with some google a/b and multivariate tests and you will never have to ask for opinions again; the numbers will tell you the facts

What happens when you shoot a propane tank (video)?

7 uses schools have found for empty propane tanks (gallery)

Forget Ask A Ninja - Ask a Propane Tank (video)

Lolcats vs Propane Tanks - there can be only 1 winner (gallery)

Microsoft designs a Propane Tank (gallery)

How far could you throw a Propane tank if you were bitten by a radioactive spider (quiz)

easy....

You want to buy services from a company that is running Google adsense on its front page? Just another spam site

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, 
noimageindex"> I would start here

Something I read (from Dave Naylor i think) was to understand what your keyword/url structure is going to be. Then while you are building the site, you seed those urls with viral content to gather links.

When the time comes, you just swap the content of the page and your good to go, with links already secured

I am doing SEO for an alcohol client now. There will be no stupid age verification bollocks. make sure its actually a legal requirement in the country you are operating in!

but if you must:

http://groups.google.com/group/google_webmaster_help-tools/browse_thread/thread/3ce6c0b3cc72ede8

from that:

Hey all,

This topic comes up periodically for sites (alcohol, porn, etc.) that 
need to serve an age verification notice on every page. What we 
recommend in this case is to serve it via JavaScript. That way users 
can see the age verification any time they try to access your content, 
but search engines that don't run JavaScript won't see the warning and 
will instead be able to see your content.

this may also be useful http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/07/the-unusable-and-superficial-world-of-beer-and-alcohol-websites/

Maybe its beacuse there is nothing on the page about toy soldiers? why would google want to rank a bunch of links?

Open site explorer also has no data for your domain, you should get some more links and give it a bit of time

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/competitor-analysis-for-linkbuilding-a-guide-for-people-who-hate-linkbuilding My post on finding places to link based on your competitors backlinks (+learning the niche as you go). Asy ou go through, note the places that offer blogging or blogs

I have had a bit of success using <cite>myblogguest.com/</cite> You do have to wade through some crap from article churners but there are a few nuggets in there. I am going to try the paid subscription for a few months and see how it does

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/index.php stick your details in here and see what you get out

http://www.seomoz.org/link-finder/ stick in wedding dresses and get the contact details of those blogs and organise some cross promotion

Otherwise contact, contacts, contacts. Ask these guys if you can guest post <cite>www.secretsalons.com</cite>and get them to guest post back - they use their twitter etc to promote you

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"online wedding retailer and we add new, unique, high quality content to our blogs on a daily basis" <-- Son, I am skeptic

If you are writiing content and then looking for places to seed it, then I think you're doing it the wrong way round. If your daily output isn't getting traction, do fewer posts but make them better

http://www.confetti.co.uk/ <-- this is you I guess? id stick those fb/tw buttons right at the top with a CTA & make the phone number much bigger

S

2 separate things. Don't mess with the sitemap.xml, its for spiders not people