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Plenty of sites link between each other - distilled and SEO moz for instance. The question is what are you hoping is the benefit? Are you likely to get any direct trade from link?

As simon says, the top is mostly fine, but the bottom is messy. There is too much text - I'd remove all the text below " search louisville homes right here on our website" and probably move it to another page. Maybe keep one testimonial (or use a slider to show several). Shorten the page, less is more.

You may want to try https://www.optimizely.com to test alternatives to your home page.

And the book is ordered - God Bless Amazon.

Anyone else got anything to add?

Hi Matthew,

Sorry to hear this, and it's not good news. As to how/why it's happened, I can only guess one of two resaons. Either someone who knows nothing about SEO has decided s/he would "help" the whole SEO process and buy some links in. Or, and possibly more likely it may be a competitor who is doing a negative SEO campaign with the desire to lower your organic rankings, ensuring you will be penalised by Google.

You can now use the Google Webmaster tools and use the disavow tool to tell Google to ignore those links.

Hope that helps and all the best.

Gordon

Is this a new problem or has it only just arisen? Was it tracking correctly over the past couple of weeks.

If this is a new campaign then in could be that you are tracking your subdomain and not the root domain in your campaign... worth a check. If it is wrong, you'll need to tear it down and start again.

You will find that those companies that "produce results" will provide some form of shady metrics or guarantees. Let's be honest - choose any set of long tail words - the more obscure the better, and anyone on this forum can get you to no1 on Google. It's not difficult, but equally, it's not ethical or useful.

As has been recommended, either go for a company that is highly recommend or be prepared to offer a budget that will make the difference.

Donford - Thought that was great about Space Jam - a useful tip in my arsenal of quotes...

Diane, Yes, by increasing the value of your overall site, this page will increase also, but I would suggest you split the page up, and focus on separate aspects of the work, so as to maximise the keyword potential you have here.

Thanks for the hints and tips. The meetings were brought forward to today, and I managed to nail them both.
I can't put it all down to my charm, so it must have been the coaching!

Hi Kim,

As Peter has suggested, the page grading is simply one of your tools in your SEO arsenal. Assuming all things are equal (backlinks etc) and you page is better optimised than your competitor, then yes, you should be rating higher.

Having looked at your page, yes it's a grade A, yet there are still some things that you can improve upon - they are clearly marked in the right hand column. Try doing that, first.

Secondly, keep building on your backlinks and you social media pages.

Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint!

Hope that little helps.