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You're lucky Google hasn't cottoned on to keyword spam yet................

Depends. How trustworthy vs spammy are we talking here? Need more info really - why not link the two pages or two similar pages on another domain so we can judge

If we assume the strength of the inbound links is measured by the PA, then I dont think the quanitity of IBLs by themselves are significant. (How many individual domains are linking, what anchor text etc?)

If the 75 is the homepage, id take that, as I think a 75 homepage can easily support 225 OBs without penalty. (altho both 80 and 225 could easily be spammy)

Otherwise Id take whichever is the closest to the content of your website and gives you a link from within a paragraph of text

If you are asking that question, I guess you are very new. I suggest you spend a while reading through SEOmoz so that you do not create a post which goes against the grain or goes nowhere

I did a trial about a month ago, after the last panda update. 770 submissions and after 2 weeks I could find only 5 in Google (and of that only 1 provided a link back, the other 4 sites had stripped them out)

This is one of the reasons im turning to stuff like myblogguest, but im not convinced of it yet

running shoes and skate shoes |  Shoe Shop is pretty much what you have mentioned above, and thats completely fine

if changeing your title tag breaks your business model, you have other problems

dentistry is a tough area, and actually making them  money will require more than just seo (web dev, converison optimisation etc) so be careful what you sell.

However i find a spreadsheet with keywords against search volume, current position, volume at various rankings mapped back to $ terms per position is a good way to go

S

Common sense says cannibalisation, although G certainly doesnt always obey common sense.

More importantly, how were you planning to create 3 sets of rich, unique content there? I suggest one page and using the keywords in various combinations on the page, then linkbuilding with the exact texts you want rank for as well.

1 page of strong content here will do better than 3 duplicates

aussie address on every page

links from aussie websites likely to be your best bet

personalisation - get people to google for your brand

can you target to aus in webmaster tools from a co.uk?

do you see any UK (or any foreign) websites ranking in aus for similar or competitive terms? Can you identify how they did it?

For EGOLs advice to work, you would need a very well thought through plan and GREAT content (like a lot of super awesome content)

A few of us are having this. Rand replied in this thread http://www.seomoz.org/q/why-is-my-weekly-rankings-report-not-accurate

I didnt understand his reply ^^ but it may help you to read thru the suggestions people made

"find a tennis partner" "tennis partner" "tennis court" "book tennis court" "tennis competition"

You are in the same position as many startups; there is not really any search volume for what you do as its so new and you need to build your audience from the ground up

You may rather wish to put your energy into social media and direct connections with tennis clubs (so make you twitter/facebook bigger with CTAs, and get rid of myspace ) Maybe Linkedin actually works well with this idea

I would suggest soft url hijacking of tennis club names. To that end, this url needs a hell of a lot more content http://www.tennisround.com/tennis-courts/tx/austin/lost-creek-country-club I would go out to the clubs or get them to send you images and video and any specials and competitions they may run

Also make your design higher quality and less spammy, then you will appear miles ahead of crap like this

http://www.letsplaytennis.com/

http://www.tennispartner.co.uk/

http://www.globaltennisnetwork.com/tennis-community/find-a-tennis-partner

From experience working with a startup, its easy enough to get traffic and signups, but getting actual engaged users is the real key to success. The 3 sites above may get organic traffic, but who comes back a second time?

S

canonicalise your urls

more content on the homepage

Get rid of crappy stock photography, makes you look spammy. Have large, quality images

Id add an image with keyword relevant alt attribs

Add a google map with your location

Cant be done naturally unless you hide it in ajax, in an image etc

The real answer is to rewrite the manufacture specs

How often are the tools the deciding factor in what you do?

Excel?

I have a clean main site that I use to link to unindexed pages with links on. Google picks up those pages by following the links from my clean site

Don't worry about what they are now, get the ones that make you money to Grade A asap

Stephen

Yup, numbers all slightly down, including competitors - so I guess just a general reworking of how SEOmoz is calculating these numbers

I don't think theres much issue from a SEO perspective, however from a user perspective I would go .fr etc - its a more seemless and expected interaction (I certainly expect English content on a .com btw)

S

There is no advice, page rank sculpting died a while back.It was replaced by decent keyword research and strong IA

You can combine pages into a single page if you like. Links don't have to go to unique pages, they can go to anchors within a page

The way you are using PR, I don't think it means what you think it means. Forget about PR really