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I have a client who when you type in their company name in Google there are some negative terms in the space that says "Searches related to this" ... Is there any way to eliminate these? We are not sure why it is showing up since it has nothing to do with their company but it does look bad...
Thank you Dana... It is frustrating...
I logged in to pull my reports for my clients and noticed that I am missing all of my ranked keywords for my campaigns for the Google columns. One word is ranked. All the rest have a TUES sign that looks like it references Tuesday.
Is anyone else having this issue?
I had over 30 words ranked last week. Only showing 1 today. The rankings for Bing and Yahoo are intact though. There is no report showing a decline in ranking for all those words either (in the google column.)
This is also happening in another campaign of mine but they have a WEDS in place of the google ranking... ugh
Frustrated...
Good point and that's what I was thinking about... However I also started to wonder how the average "Small" business deals with this type of stuff. I have seen instances where the cpc was enough to hammer a company's cash flow...
I was doing some investigating on high priced pay per click keywords. I had a client ask me if there is a way to prevent your competition from just repeat clicking your ads which in turn cost him money... Suggestions?
Also, can you believe this:
| Keyword | Search volume | Average CPC | Category |
| mesothelioma settlement | 1,900 ∼ | $142.67 ↑↑↑ | asbestos |
| mesothelioma asbestos attorney | 5,400 ∼ | $121.68 ↑ | asbestos |
| asbestos attorney | 9,900 ∼ | $117.23 ↓ | asbestos |
| asbestos law firms | 2,900 ∼ | $106.77 ↑ | asbestos |
| sell annuity payment | 1,900 ∼ | $95.16 ↑ | annuity |
| annuity settlements | 5,400 ∼ | $92.36 ↑ | annuity |
| structured annuity settlement | 6,600 ↑↑↑ | $92.36 ↑ | annuity |
| auto donation | 33,100 ∼ | $84.51 ↑ | donate |
| virtual data rooms | 4,400 ∼ | $79.59 ↑ | data |
| donating a used car | 2,900 ∼ | $79.35 ↑ | donate |
| auto accident attorney | 135,000 ∼ | $73.12 ↑ | auto |
| mesothelioma cancer | 9,900 ∼ | $71.30 ↑ | asbestos |
| data recovery RAID | 8,100 ∼ | $70.80 ↓ | data |
| motor insurance quotes | 301,000 ↓↓↓ | $67.09 ↑ | insurance |
| auto insurance discounters | 2,400 ∼ | $66.00 ↑↑ | insurance |
| auto accident lawyer | 135,000 ∼ | $64.54 ↑ | lawyer |
| RAID data recovery | 8,100 ∼ | $64.22 ↓ | data |
| asbestos cancer | 14,800 ∼ | $61.13 ↑ | cancer |
I will have to try to find them. I saw them about a month ago and had been meaning to post it. Do you see any out there?
Thanks for your reply. I had the same thoughts but figured I would run it by my fellow experts here on seomoz 
Cheesy sometimes works I just gave you one... Also thank you for your response. Interesting info regarding the anchor texts in the footer links.
I read a couple "SEO" related articles that sites built in Wordpress are going to be dinged by Google because Google sees Wordpress sites as simple to make and a higher potential to be "spammy".
Is there any truth to this? Your thoughts?
I do give "thumbs up" and "best answer" marks and appreciate receiving thumbs up myself...
Thanks
Thanks again and let me know if you have any other ideas... I will keep you posted on what happens...
Thank you for the info... Some of that is similar to what I was thinking. I feel that corporate is pretty stiff but I will have to try to make a case with them.
I have a client that has 800 locations. 50 of them are mine. The corporation has a standard website for their locations. The only thing different is their location info on each page. The majority of the content is the same for each website for each location.
What can be done to minimize the impact/penalty of having "duplicate or near duplicate" content on their sites? Assuming corporate won't allow the pages to be altered.
No I did not buy them. I had a friend ask her sorority to all like a couple of the pages but unfortunately she directed them to the SEO page http://www.socialseomanagement.com/seoatlanta on my site and not to the homepage. Supposedly the sorority "liked" and also emailed out to their contacts to do the same. Also I am not sure there is an way to remove facebook likes from a page. I have never experienced anything negative from this either....
As of the October 4th these were my statistics for the month of October:
These statistics are based on the October 2012, so far:
Hmm.. Based on the other responses above my load time was not very long. Did you try visiting more than once?
Those type of "likes" weren't what I was referencing. For example if you scroll down to the bottom of my webpage you will see what I mean...
I use sharethis.com share tools. They offer both the facebook like button and the facebook share button. I currently have both on my sites. Is there an advantage to one over the other? I am not a fan of having two facebook buttons on each page of my site.
SEO wise does one help more than the other? Do either help at all?
Is there a way to test the speed of the server also? I am checking my server logs as you suggested to see if someone is linking to our images...