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Depends what type of website you have is it a brand then I would opt for a .com domain if it is a more fun style site then go for the .net.

to be honest do not worry a whole heap about keyword rich domains and domain buying if the numbers are close.

hi good questions,

personally I like to have the same colour scheme on the company blog as you do on the company website.

I mean the best practice for blogs is to have them sit within the sub folder on your websites and within the navigation sure enough with .net ASP set ups it is a bit more tricky then other CMS's.

so my advice is: yes make sure the colour scheme is the same, make sure it sites within a sub folder, and also sites within the websites menu.

Regards,

James.

Hi,

Yes you can do this, it is all about targeting long tails.

The main thing you need to remember is that you want to have content which is about sleeping bags on the sleeping bags page and then when you make the north facing sleeping backs page make sure the content is unique to the other page.

you deal with issue across many niches not just ecommerce, just make sure you target 1 or 2 keywords per title and page and use unique content on pages and you will be fine.

Regards,

James Norquay

hi Mate,

the best thing to do is pull a report for both your website on OSE and Google Webmaster tools.

work out which current pages have links poiting to them then 301 re direct these pages to the new website, try and match up the page.

Once this is all done confirm it with GWT.

Well two things you can do is:

1. Make the domain in google webmaster tools US based.

2. Buy a .com domain and target it in the US market.

Overall it is not easy to target GEO specific domains to other areas I see it with .com.au domains they work great in AU yet ranking them in India is hard.

so in the end it may be worth buying a .com and making a micro site and then drive traffic back to the .co.in

Hi to be honest you seem to be relying on just competitive research.

What about some of the following -

• Making great research content for your niche.

• Looking for bloggers in your niche, to syndicate content.

• Using Article syndication.

• Looking for health based social bookmarking websites.

Facebook is good but really it has limited  SEO value just social traffic value.

Hi Mate,

My advice:

• Make all the domains similar layouts yet have different content on all.

• Try and link up to the main website via all the websites

• Try and split the hosting too is possible.

I don't think you will get punished if you use the right content

Just change the image sizes possible and use vaired alt tests.

I think it will help but be wary of too many sites on the same IP also same GA analytics

Play it smart and use design and content wise and it will work well.

Regards.

I think if you are having 10 links to external sites on the one site if they are all related companies it should not be that bad.

I would aim to have internal links on the main website first, and then externals coming second but.

Other areas such as varied anchors and dup content you seem to be on top of already

But in the end of the day the more links on page you have the less value internal pages will have.

Its usually Dejan SEO and Columbus posting on here Good to see more locals.

Hi Mate,

some advice:

• Get more content on the index page - lacking text.

• Check on site optimization too.

• Backlinks go to photography forums, post into and build links.

• Make a slide show of your photos put on flickR and youtube and other video sites.

• Link to your site on social bookmarking.

• link to your site via local directories for your niche.

• Ask models youve photoed for backlinks.

Also work out what keyword you need to target before you start building links, you site still needs alot of on page help.

hi Mate,

Some advice:

Try to get a SEO company which is local to your area, for example if you live in Sydney - australia try and get a SEO based local so you can have face to face visits.

I see horror stories when people in Aus hire a SEO in the UK and they have a complete link profile from .co.uk domains!!! and not one .com.au at all!!!

Check out case studies and prior work including link profiles, don't be afraid to ask questions, do some research, people can talk a whole bunch of sales BS and rip clients off I have seen some horrors in the past.

By all means go for some one from the SEO market place too, some good companies and consultants in that list.

Regards,

James Norquay

How many pages did you 301 too if it was custom?

In my experience we recently worked with a site that had a few thousand pages recently as it was very smooth the rank tracking showed in a matter of weeks we were on a equal level.

You aim to 301 all the top most linked to pages as per GWT/OSE/Majestic.

Notify the changes in GWT.

It can take a few weeks for the process to kick in, especially if you have duplicative content issues on the new website can delay things even further.

Hi,

Pretty sure it works better when you host the videos on your own website using a service such as Wistia.

Then you make a video XMl site map and add it to webmaster tools with the content hosted on the 3rd party website.

It wont happen over night yet video images do show in SERP's after a few weeks.

Kind Regards,

James.

If pages are not been indexed you can try and add the urls to Digg.com or Stumble Upon for example.

It has worked for me in the past

As said above it could also be other reasons for not been added to the index, no content? robots block? Server issues? Dormant pages not internal linked to?

I would advise on blocking these pages/sub folders via Robots.txt file which sites on your server.

Using meta tags to blog these pages will not be as strong.

Kind Regards,

James.

I would try and look for design forums which have SEO sections.

I remember this forum from ages ago had a design section with designers who know SEO and link building http://myspacepros.com/

It is not that active these days but, try and search for other design forums with webmaster savvy users where you can host content within the forum them self in a post??

Hope this helps.

If you are able to use domains from 10 years ago with even say 10 back links I have seen them to work well in comparison to domains which are registered that day hehe

But if you have a domain which is say 4 years old and it has 200 root domain links from quality sources, good content it will be better.

But it is not just about the age of the domain it is more so about the age the domain has been in the index's.

My Advice is to keep titles below 68 charatcers,

IF you go over the limit it looks like you have rushed the job imo.

Also if possible try to keep the Brand terms at the end of titles

Use - MAIN KEYWORD | CAT | BRAND

Regards.

My advice is not to use sub domains as Google treats them as a separate domain, when you have a sub domain you have no flow of direct link juice as you do when you have a sub folder.

You only really need to think about sub domains when you have duplicate content issues for example.

Example of a advisable blog URL:

website.com/blog

not advisable:

blog.website.com

Hope this helps, Regards

I would map out the current urls which are ranking and generating revenue, then 301 redirect these old URL's to the new URLS you will have.

It is not going to be easy but and it is evident that their may be a loss in ranking when the change over process happens.