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Not really.... it's just the old seo company is crap and not done much so if I'm going to change it makes sense to do it now... no reason other than a builders with a .org domain.....

I have a client with a business.... normal business and he has a .org address.

.com and .co.uk are taken buy sites trying to sell those for £100000 each.

So.... What would you do...

Original -

mybusinessname.org

OR

my-business-name.co.uk

mybusinessname.uk.com

mybusinessnameuk.com

You get the point...

Suggestions greatly received on what to recommend to the client...

Thanks Ryan -

1. I thought as much with Bing but wanted to see other people thoughts - I will hunt around for the submit in webmaster tools. It begs the obvious question what's better quality (bing being selective) or quantity (google analysing it all and deciding for its self).... To be debated at length! lol

2 & 3. W3C no errors and no css errors either..... I think it is the way we put the pages together using modules and laying them out via css - we employ our own coder. I don't really want to broadcast clients sites on forums etc.... But I am looking to improve to ensure we are doing things right - if something is not right we need to do it again and get it right. I don't want to get a rep for bad quality and bad work.

Can someone explain the following to me please.

The background:

I launched a new website - new domain with no history. I added the domain to my Bing webmaster tools account, verified the domain and submitted the XML sitemap at the same time. I added the domain to my Google analytics account and link webmaster tools and verified the domain - I was NOT asked to submit the sitemap or anything. The site has only 10 pages.

The situation:

The site shows up in bing when I search using site:www.domain.com - Pages indexed:- 1 (the home page) The site shows up in google when I search using site:www.domain.com - Pages indexed:- 30 Please note Google found 30 pages - the sitemap and site only has 10 pages - I have found out due to the way the site has been built that there are "hidden" pages i.e. A page displaying half of a page as it is made up using element in Joomla.

My questions:-

1. Why does Bing find 1 page and Google find 30 - surely Bing should at least find the 10 pages of the site as it has the sitemap? (I suspect I know the answer but I want other peoples input).

2. Why does Google find these hidden elements - Whats the best way to sort this - controllnig the htaccess or robots.txt OR have the programmer look into how Joomla works more to stop this happening.

3. Any Joomla experts out there had the same experience with "hidden" pages showing when you type site:www.domain.com into Google.

I will look forward to your input!

Weird I just asked the same question.... I hope this gets a lot of input from people.

Is there any other services or software that provide keyword ranking and traffic data other than SEOMoz or Raven Tools?

301 Re-direct the /index.html to the top level domain.

Have you been doing link building? My sites seem to get indexed straight away....

Hi,

Was speaking to a client today and got asked how damaging two way links are. i.e. domaina.com links to domainb.com and domainb.com links back to domaina.com. I need a nice simple layman's explanation of if/how damaging they are compared to one way links. And please don't answer with you lose link juice as I have a job explaining link juice.... I am explaining things to a non techie!

Thank you!!

It's trying to example why fake profiles/spam are bad.... they just see the numbers of followers going up and think it makes the account look better....

As I said in my earlier comment..... How do you stop clients paying for cheap follows.... my original comment above is....

"...I find myself explaining why not to pay $25 for 1000 followers. Clients view is that it makes the account look better and if they get taken in the future they have made the account look better in the short term..... How do you defend that sort of logic...."

I find myself explaining why not to pay $25 for 1000 followers. Clients view is that it makes the account look better and if they get taken in the future they have made the account look better in the short term..... How do you defend that sort of logic....

Yeah thats kind of my thinking.... Might just hashtag trends....

I am about to start a brand new twitter account... I have been reading about people offering to set-up accounts with 500 followers... I assume these are spammy/fake profiles.

I was thinking of looking into twellow.com or twiends.com. Any experience with these? How do you get your first 500 followers?

Also any other ideas? AND Does the follow back model work i.e. you follow me and I follow you.... I would of thought healthy twitter accounts for more followers than people you are following.... Discuss...

ContentBurner looks dodgy as hell!!! - Punchtab looks ok.... Social and likes are becoming more and more important - at this stage I'm not sure if Google has a way of tracking "fake" or "forced" social followers/likes. The whole point of a social campaign is to generate interest it is better to have 100 engaged followers than 10000 followers who ignore your brand. Look at paddypower or dawsons music as they have successful social campaigns.

Send the PM - I'm curious - I want to analyse their site. Plus what are the sites you are comparing i.e. yours and their clients....

Dodgy and risky as hell!!! If the sites have nothing in common and link in time it will all fall apart. At this stage I think it's risky but probably getting away with it....

Go on rat on the company or at least private message me the name... I'm curious