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Could be a number of things,

Site could be faster on the new server.

Additional elements from the XML site map could have been picked up by Google?

But yes site/ IT infrastructure needs to be top notch to yield the best results from IM.

I believe the standard version of Disqus is not SEO friendly yet the version SE Roundtable has made is a good way to fix the issues, same with with Facebook comments they are not SEO freidnly yet you can hack them up to make them SEO freindly.

Furthermore I disagree with William comments can be a great source of extra content I mean take a look at the blog we are on here SEOmoz, the content adds to the page count like crazy Some posts have 100 x 100-200 character posts, some are a few words.

You can build links via the youtube channel if the video gets alot of link backs to it you can develop a PR5 page.

that been said it is not easy, but you can work alot of link building strategy via YouTube.

Even though description links are no followed, heaps of people scrape youtube and you can build follows that way and also you can drive heaps of traffic via youtube descriptions if made correctly.

To be honest your clients home page should not be on a index2.php, even with a 301 re direct in place full anchor text value is not passed on.

you could also run into multiple page issues, I would implement a canonical tag too once the problem is fixed.

Further more just have the home page run off "www.domainname.com"

good question, I think a lot of people are having the debate recently to find out which version of the website to use

1. Use the non www version.

2. Use the www version on websites.

Personally from sites I have worked with more people are linking to the www versions of the sites so then yes continue to use the www site.

Yet in some new branding campaigns people drop the www, then my advice for the life of the site is not use the www in your link building, I have also seen instances of where I blog about something link to a site using a www, then they sent a email telling me to drop the www in the link.

But form my research on big sites around 85% of people still link with www, sure branding and other factors may sway this.

Do you have a no follow tags placed on the internal link structure?

You can try and add a few footer links too to related pages and see if they pass PR.

I would not give the experts a blog on the wordpress sub domain be sure that when they blog it is on a sub folder for your website so when links are built they benefit your site directly and not wordpress.

To be honest some of the best results I have have had in the past are not going direct to a design house or creative agency. Some times they will just charge alot and not provide the best info graphics.

A niche technique you can try is find a design school, design forum then run a competition with a cash prize (make it decent/worth peoples time) for the winner. You then get a few entries and you can pick the winner, some of the quality I have received in the past is great, some times not the best.

Really it is also up to time you need to gather the info graphic too.

Overall this technique has saved me a lot of money over the years.

Kind Regards,

James Norquay

Are you referring to a XML site map or a HTML site map?

In my opinion what you can do is make a custom sitemap and then target all the top sub categorys/ top internal pages, normally you do not add say 20,000 product pages to a XML site map.

Similar strategy can be utilized with the XML sitemap and also the HTML site map.

No problem Joseph, a blog is a great way to add related content to your site and connect up with potential customers.

You can even run say a event in your local area, blog about it then link it up to your business.

but yeah really push the link building and adding quality content along with on site fixes.

further on site fixes are:

• H1 tag - contact us (Make a target term) * Main title tag - place keywords first brand term later in the title. example [Keyword - Brand term] * Internal meta descriptions text are the same.

• Social Media links and activity is limited, I would try to push some social links and activity.

Regards,

James.

Hi Mate,

To be honest you do not need to add your main keywords to every web page to see a benefit or increase in rank.

You need to be smart about how you optimize your website,

Some advice:

• Make a blog on the website, add relevant information about your local area talk about things you are doing to help the local community. You can mix it up with a few industry reports to gather high quality links.

• Work on off site link building, make sure you have all your suppliers linking to your focus on high quality links.

• Work on adding to the social benefit of your site, grow your social base.

I hope these three points help.

Kind Regards,

James.

I would not advise on buying fans because usually you end up with low quality fans who have no engagement with the page, 95% of the time they are fake profiles too. Really why buy a bunch of fake fans, the only benefit is if you want to make your brand look like it has some likes! 
But overall in the future your page becomes a waste land where people do not even comment or any thing due to the fact you have no real customers to engage with.

A decent post on estimating the CTR of Local listings can be found here, yet you need to remember specific terms may have far more local intent then other terms. For example "Mobile Phone Sydney" may never get the same CTR as "Best Pizza Sydney"

A great example of CTR comparisons can be found here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mission-imposserpble-establishing-clickthrough-rates Also to see the shift in CTR data based on local terms check out this eye tracking study:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/eyetracking-google-serps

I hope this additional information helps you with your research.

Kind Regards,

James.

Hi to be honest article spinning use to bring great results yet recently we see more and more changes with Google cracking down on spinners. I mean Article Samurai is said to be a decent tool using the best spinner, I have tested it and it seems to be decent.

Yet the best results will be driven from authority PR article sites which are indexed in Google news. It is a real method of trial and error you can submit your article to 100 low quality article sites or 10 very high article sites which will yield better results.

Hi Erica, I have placed a few nice comments about my history using the software.

Hi, Depends if you work with larger business they usually charge a service fee, similar to advertising agencys where you take a percentage of the overall spend.

For example if they spend 1 million a month you take a 7% service fee.

For smaller business they probably work on a similar method, case by case basis, all clients vary.

Some people may charge as high as 15% on a service fee.

Some people add on extra amounts per month.

hope this helps.

When you are doing your link building target the following things:

• Both terms in varied anchor texts

• Target on page content to target both terms

• Target internal link building for each term.

You can mix up techniques to achieve many positives

If you are looking for building links via forums you need to do the following:

• Make a name for yourself on the forum by helping out users.

• Post a fair bit on the forum

• Make sure the forum is related or semi related.

• Look for chances to place links but make sure it is a do-follow forum.

Don't get me wrong a lot of forums are junk but you can find forums which are highly authority and related they are beneficial not only for link building but traffic/lead gen.

From my expeirence getting into Google news is not easy.

Some key factors include

• Original content 350+ characters long (multiple versions each week, even daily content)

*Multiple authors of the content.

*Proper attribution (Is the site correctly set up for Google news)

*Response time

*Having a Google news site map.

*Article's full text needs to have a unique URL that does not change. Google cannot include sites in Google News that display multiple articles at the same URL.

I hope this helps.

To be honest automated SEO is never going to work with off site elements, you can never beat networking and picking up the phone to complete link building on high authority websites.