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You are right and not at the same time. Right telling that a redundant use of the keywords is not generating benefits (instead, it can look simply spammy)... not, because the title you are suggesting in not "exciting".

Remember that Titles are the first line of a Search Snippet. Therefore it should have to be crafted wisely:

1. In order to focus Search Engines on your page's main keyword;
2. In order to push the searchers into clicking your result and no other.

I usually suggest to think to Title as they where the Page Tagline. This also make easier its use into the same content of the page itself, as the HTML Title usually is converted to the H1 Title by many CMS.

Therefore, in your case, a Title could be:

Life Insurance? Ask now a life insurance quote to Axa Sunlife

And the Meta Description would renforce the Title call to action, maybe citing the main competitive advantage of the Axa Sunlife life insurance.

Ciao and I hope this helps

Great timeline!!!

I add 1 big Google update you've miss: Vince update in 2009 (February/March 2009), aka the Nig Brand Rank Update...

I believe it is important as, imho, we must see in it the 1st step of the actual updates.

Actually you can restrict part of your site to be crawled by the Linkscape bot (sorry I do not remember its "name") via Robots.txt . If you check well the crawl .csv, in fact, you can see the column "Linkscape crawler blocked via Robots.txt".

That way you can limit the crawl just to what you really want to monitor with the webapp.

Just remember that the robots.txt exclusion doesn't mean that crawlers can find a way to actually crawl a page (for instance if they come from a link). That is why you should also have to add a special meta name robots command in the head making explicit that the linkscape crawler should have not to crawl the page(s)

More infos about robots.txt and meta name robots here:

http://www.robotstxt.org/

http://yoast.com/articles/robots-meta-tags/

Hi Tyler...

I do not remember the exact definition of this, but to preserve all the juice on your site is not suggested by Google.

To answer to your doubt, I suggest you to find the answer reading this old but still very valid post by Randfish: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/5-reasons-you-should-link-out-to-others-from-your-website

I believe that there's a general misconception of what content is. Infact, people tend to think at is a "written content".

But it not so.

Video and audio (both better with transcripts), photos, graphics (and infographics), and, yes, written posts are all contents.

As Adams said, the secret of succes of any enterprise blog happens when it is able to become a relevant and authoritative voice in its market.

Or you can install the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. If I remember well it offers the opportunity to hide the comments RSS (surely to not index it).

Mmm... better the Yahoo SiteExplorer way. the Google link command is absolutely not comprehensive of all the links a site owns.

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Also consider his Google Analytics for Wordpress

To change the Title every week or two does not affect per se the ranking potential if you maintain your main keyword in it... and better it is in the beginning of the Title (as a standard in the first 4 words).

But surely it has a marketing consequence, as people will never be able to assign a clear "Title/Tagline" to your site, and that should be also the function of the Title.

Ah,  thanks... in that case contact me via private mail here. Here is not the right place for "negotiations"

Guest blogging is a great way to make link building.

The rules in how using an editorial link to your site are almost the same, apart - somehow - a sort of "netiquette" that says that maybe it is not so polite to link to your site in the first guest post you write for a blog. But, then, all depends by the specific situation (negotiation with the blog owner, real importance of the page linked).

What is sure, is the link in author signature or about/description that usually follows the post. There you are legitimated to put a link to your site. My suggestion is to make that "author description" consistent for every place you do guest blogging.

Just my opinion, but I do not think that where the link is put in a post/article is really important and related to Panda/Farmer.

I think that you have just to follow the basic and common sense rules:

• Insert a link only if it is editorially justified
• Do not over optimize the anchor text (aka: diversify it)
• Use the link in the right context.

It all depends on what do you mean for "most important".

What I suggest you is to not limit the examination of the backlinks into OSE (I imagine you are using it for competitive analysis), but to export the raw datas in .csv format and then start using some Excel magic, in order to analyse the backlinks the way you consider the most suitable to your needs.

To have the domain name hosted in another country than the targeted one is still a factor, even though - IMO - is a minor one.

It is a factor because it reinforce the geo targeting of a website and its local nature.

On the other hand, being you domain termination a cTld (.no), you know that Google automatically focus it for the Google.no index, no matter where the domain name has been actually registered.

Finally, as Richard Baxter made noticed in a comment to a Rand's WBF about International SEO, exist other method (Proxy) to avoid this location issue: http://seogadget.co.uk/proxy-caching-for-seo/

Hope this helps you

Cheers

Actually I feel the absence of everything relates to Windows platforms (IIS, Isapi Rewrite)

I wonder if those PR5 "anomalies" and the PR3 one really are not "anomalies" due to other ranking factors as external backlinks to those pages.

As Alfredo wrote, one basic factor about GPL CMS systems is how big and active is the community grown around each one of them.

In this sense Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are the ones I would consider.

Then, about how much SEO friendly they are, the first thing you have to know is that all of them have basic SEO features, but that for all them you have to implement new plugins, modules or components.

For instance, for Wordpress I would suggest the SEO plugin by Yoast, SEO Friendly Image and social sharing button (for instance Active Share by OrangeSoda)

Remember that Wordpress is a blogging system, even though it is possible to create more classic web sites with it too.

Joomla is interesting especially because of its community and the tons of devs that almost daily produce new plugins, modules and components for it. It is not so hard to learn too.

Its default SEO features are good, but it is better to install specific components that add more SEO functionality. The most popular are sh404SEF and JoomSEF, but I invite you to explore here to find other software you may need.

Drupal. Of the three is the hardest to learn, but many SEOs consider it best one. Regarding it I warmly suggest you to read this post on Search Engine Journal

Not sure I understood the question, but if you mean with "extra traffic fast" a boost in your traffic volume, I would personally suggest you a twitter campaign, if you have a solid base of active followers.

Also, if you have a blog, you could plan a link bait (controversial not politically correct post, very well crafted infographic or video) and promote it in the right channels (hacker news, reddit, twitter, YouTube).

If you meant fast as a synonym of easy... honestly there are not really easy and instant ways to boost your traffic fast. Also some grey or black hat tactics you could use are not really easy and fast to implement, if not planned with time.

Apart SEOmoz (not just the tools but also Open site explorer) and Raven Tools, I do warmly suggest Ontolo, about which I suggest you to read this post to understand how it works: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/get-creative-google-link-building-query-ideas-with-ontolos-tool/16404/