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Hi tom,

why are you not considering hosting your own wordpress blog on another server of with a hosting company? That way you can install seo plugins but also perhaps resolve some of these issues that seem to be created by software used by wordpress. If you install it on your own server you get more of a hand in the possibilities of your blog. Still doesnt resolve the issues? Contact the wordpress forum for a technical assistant who perhaps can assist you.

At appears to me this is a very technical solution more appropriate at the wordpress forum but thats just me.

I would start by hosting it away from the wordpress server.

regards

Jarno

Morris,

i would look into a own Virtual Server. Why...? Lot's of advantages. you control who is on the server. The lower the number of websites on the server the more the resources of the virtual server are used for your site.

This will boost your speed up tremendously. Experienced this first hand with the web shop of a client of ours.

I don't know any web host companies in your neighborhood. Just look for one that provides a virtual of dedicated server you could use.

Kind Regards

Jarno

Do what Irving said, park the domain just in case you need it.

Use opensiteexplorer.org to get a clear picture of your backlinkprofile and start cleaning up suspicious and bad links that point to your site: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&site=www.propdental.com&sort=page_authority&filter=&source=external&target=page&group=0

Look at the domain and page authorities of the page linking to you, look at the title of the page, look at the link anchor text or image their using. Don't like what you see? Add them to the Google Disavow Tool

You could also always contact the webmaster of the site pointing/linking to your website and kindly ask them to remove the link or adjust the link (sometimes adjusting the anchor text is enough).

This should help you on your way back to a healthy backlink profile.

Offcourse besides cleaning up the backlinks, gain some new ones and prehaps do some guestposting or something to influence things more positively.

Hopes this helps you a bit.

kind regards

Jarno

You could use A1 Sitemap Generator:

http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/

It's 30 days for free but i think it is worth every dollar/euro/pound you spend on it.

It also lets you create lots of differtent sitemaps (HTML/Google sitemaps divided in sitemaps of a 100 links each or one really big one).

Hope it helps you (or someone else)..

kind regards

Jarno

He Craig,

hope this helps

the .ec stands for ecuador. You can also register that. But .com.ec is also a possibility but it just uses 2 steps (.com) for international and .ec for geotargeting. Maybe using mysitename.ec works better for geotargeting.

Hi Runnerkik,

As Paul suggested using Opensiteexplorer.org is a good way to go. When PR was everything back in the day i just the following formula to calculate the PR flow of the link:

PR{flow} = PR {page} / N{links} * 0,85 + 0,15

So for a page with PR of 3 and 115 links on page you get:

PR{flow} = (3 / 115) * 0,85 + 0,15 = 0.17217 points of link juice. When you reached enough inbound link juice you would go up a PR level.

Since we no longer (primarily) look at PR of a page for building links (because we want to earn links) you get less of a say in the matter. If someone embeds your link in their site there is not much you can do about but contact them (if you don't want it).

Writing good content created a natural flow of inbound links combine this with social media and you get a consistent inbound picture which would be appreciated by the search engines.

If the site has a nice domain authority figure and the page your going for has a nice page authority figure you'll know how to pursue that.

Still you can always assess if it is a link you want using the formula. It always worked for me (and still does).

hope this helps

kind regards

Jarno

Indeed try both.

Irving +1

as a supplement to the others i would definitely add it.

Hi there,

don't know if Google is the company you want a trusted badge from. Here in the Netherlands there are some authorities on shopping online like thuiswinkelwaarborg etc. Don't know if the states got something like that (i image they do....)..

What works best can only be tested but the smartest thing to start with is the authority on shopping online that everyone where you live knows. This gives them a feeling of safety and security and that will be showing in conversions and involvement with the site.

just my 2 cents

Hi there,

i agree with matt but it could also be that the end of the redirect tag would be [R=301,L] in stead of [L,R=301]. This depends on the server. I had it happen to me a copple of times. Makes you question a lot of things and in the end it is as simple as this.

hope this helps

Matt +1

Jarno

Hi there Danny,

i have multiple domain names with hypens in them and the all rank pretty good actually. Most of them have only 1 or 2 hyphens in them but one in particular uses 3 hyphens and still it ourranks all. Yes Google is changing the algo to adjust for this but if you set up your site like i have back in 2007 with hyphens i would rather take my chances with this domain than transferring it to a new domain. Are there any disadvantages, yes offcourse there are.

What is easier to remember: vacuumcleaner.com or vacuum-cleaner.com or even worse for that matter: cheap-vacuum-cleaners-online-for-a-discount.com

People will not remember that. How did i resolve this? Simple, my domainname is my brandname with hyphens. So people will remember. As long as you have good content, good link profiles, good press around your site any disadvantage can be solved.

hope this helps

kind regards

Jarno

Hi Alessia,

what i would try to figure out is how my website is ranking in different search engines and go on from there. So let's say you use RankChecker to check your rankings. So check google.es, google.com google.nl for dutch etc.

Type in the keywords in its own language and hit search and watch the results come back. There is a pretty good change that your website is ranking for each language if the website is programmed correctly.

If your site is not scoring for the foreign keywords you might just want to go ahead with the answer from Ryan and seperate the websites without the script of language (browser or IP based).

hopes this helps a bit.

Jarno

When i look at your question you are wondering how to present a targeted landing page for additional keywords, so you want to add new pages for some additional keywords.

The way I described is a tested solution for this. I've used this method on many websites all rank number 1 for the main specific keyword and some additional keywords.

But if this is not what you are looking for please let us know what you are looking for so we can answer your need.

kind regards

Jarno

You're welcome

if that also is an option i would choose that one: joomlatraining.com

URL's with seperated words by a minus sign (if you use to many minus signs) might be interpreted as keyword spamming.

i think that would be the most obvious one.

Mark,

Google still using anchor text to determine what subject your website is about. If all of the inbound links state something other then your primary keyword then apparently people don't think that that's the subject of your website (according to Google).

Over optimizing is overdoiing it. If you are linkbuilding you can easily add some keyword for inbound links, as long as you don't overdo it. So don't make 100.000 links to your site with keyword and only 5 without. If you can find a good percentage in here somewhere you should be just fine.

Hope this helps

Kind Regards

Jarno

Mark,

the way i see it you did not over optimize your page for the suggested keyword.

I think the problem my be elsewhere. When i look at the code and the page i really don't think that you over optimized your pages.

Look at this link from opensiteexplorer:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.yakangler.com

Look at the link anchor column. Your keyword doesn't even appear here. Kayak fishing doesn't even appear in the first 50 highest ranking inbound links. If i were you i would focus on getting some more links to my site using the keyword you want to rank for. If you can have about 25-50% inbound links containing your keyword you would still be fine (when on the topic of overoptimizing) but i quess you would be in the top 20 of Google then. So start building on your links and shares (facebook and twitter) with your site mentioned in combination with your keyword.

hope this helps

Kind Regards

Jarno

i don't think you have to worry there mark.

If you give a site: command for your website with these search words behind them you literally tell Google to give me all pages from this website that include these words.

This does not mean that all of the pages are the same.

When i look at the first result a see a page about an Okuma Helios fishing wheel. The second page is an overview on pages that have been added in the fishing category.

The 3rd page gives your homepage with an overview on recently added articles.

You do not have to worry about anything

kind regards

Jarno

For starters i would ask myself the question where are your visitors coming from? If they come from international websites you might consider the .com version of the domain name.

Since some time .net will also rank and intent a good company (wasn't always so). My personal experience with this is that you should choose the most natural version of the domain name. Why? Because visitors should be able to easily remember it and share it. So in your example joomla-trainings.com might be remembered as joomla-training.com and then you will loose your visitors.

If it were me that had to make this choice i guess i would go for the joomla-training.net or the training-joomla.com but never would i add a letter as  a difference from a direct competitor.

kind regards

Jarno