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Simply from a front-end development perspective, why would you place a

inside of an <a>? If you are trying to force a block element style, why not simply apply it through the CSS sheet to the</a> <a>tag?

If you supply a URL i can give more specific coding advice

Thanks - Kyle</a>

I have seen and achieved this with many keywords. Normally the less competitive a keyword is the less strict google is with eclipsing multiple listings.

Awesome, thanks Keri!

So i guess the question to SEOMoz is why the campaigns are displaying different results if they are suppose to be the same?

This may be a silly question but are Bing and Yahoo displaying the same organic search results?

I know their paid search is the same, and they suggest using Bing Webmaster Tools in replace of Yahoo Site Explorer. However, my SEOmoz campaigns still show different rankings?

SEOMoz's offerings is SEO software, not consulting. If you need consulting our advice try and being more descriptive in your Q&A posts or visit the marketplace in regards to consultants for hire: http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace

Good luck! - Kyle

I found that time to time there are caching issues with staying logged in to the pro app & OSE. Try clearing your cache/history and re-logging into your account and see if it still doesn't work.

Also try setting up a local business account with Google, Bing and Yahoo to get relevant local search. It won't increase your domains authority but it will help with traffic and reach.

• http://www.google.com/places
• http://listings.local.yahoo.com/
• http://www.bing.com/businessportal

Edit: create one for each location

I posted the same question to the latest blog post on the linkscape update and i got some great advice. Essentially, don't rely simply on one source (even though SEOMOz rocks) for reviewing backlinks and authority. Some referred me to Majestic SEO and so far it is extremely close to YSE and WT. Check it out:

https://www.majesticseo.com/

The free account will let you explorer basic backlink stats for any URL.

Good Luck - Kyle

That would be a great start. There was a recent WBF that gave some great ideas to build links with email marketing campaigns that is definitely worth a read:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-emails-to-build-links-whiteboard-friday

Also, try and get some links from your high authority pages across your domain pointing to these. That will definitely help pass some link juice along.

Good luck - Kyle

Using media selectors you do not need to have a separate mobile site on a different domain, nor do you have to use a redirect. Instead it resizes your corporate site based on the users screen resolution.

For example, here is my portfolio site (not anywhere close to being done). However, it uses HTML5 and CSS3 to resize based on the size of the browser screen. So try slowly resizing your browser when viewing it and you will see what i am talking about.

The SEO benefits of this are:

• No duplicate content since it uses the same page
• You link splitting since there are not multiple domains or subdomains of content

So instead of creating a new mobile site, you would make updates to your current corporate site.

edit: It is also important to mention that only current browsers can render CSS3 so anything before IE9 or early versions of Chrome or Firefox will simply display the website in its full version. Any newer browsers (especially smartphones) will render CSS3 hence giving the graceful degradation to the users!

Alan is spot on with the CSS3 reference to media selectors! Try to search around on "responsive design" there are some great articles on how to have your website respond to the user without having to create multiple site for each experience. This approach wil also benefit you since you won't have to have your mobile site on a different domain or sub-domain and you will have no worries with duplicate content.

It took a look at the page (machu picchu travel), agreed that your on-page is looking good and your domain authority is pretty solid as well to rank at that difficulty. However you only seem to have a total of 6 links going to this page, all internal links.

Continue working on building those internal links with the descriptive anchor text but more importantly try and get some external links to these pages. As you begin to get more external links you will build up your page's authority and in turn a higher rank.

I noticed that you had a few links form your blog, are those pages ranking at all?

Rand and iPullRank just did a great WBF on the topic:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-freshness-update-whiteboard-friday

The main negative is any inbound links to the previous URL will lose some link juice. However, after time search engines will no longer index the previous URL, just the one that you are redirecting too. If you want to speed the process up, try and submit a new XML sitemap to each search engines' webmaster tools.

I believe people are getting these types of listings by using Google's Merchant Center for selling their products.

I just did a quick analysis and it looks like your domain strength is low (DA 17) and you are trying to rank for moderately competitive keywords 30-40%

The only way you can rank for the keywords mentioned with that low of a domain strength is by AWESOME on-page-optimizations. Use the Term Target Tool tool to help with the process. Shoot for an "A" on each page and definitely have an exact match in your title tag. Currently your home page only has a grade of "C" for the term "federal auto loan" so there is room for improvement.

Keep focusing with your on-page, you have a sharp looking site so once you get traffic there you should be all set!

Good luck - Kyle

Are these pages currently indexed in Google yet? Try doing a site search on the specific URL (site:www.domain.com/page). If the URL shows up, then you don't have an indexation issue.

The next step is checking your keyword targeting. So a few questions:

• What keywords where you hoping to rank for?
• What is the average traffic for these, and the difficulty?
• How often and where do these keywords show up on your page?

Let me know the outcome of the site search and the answers to the questions above and then we can go from there!

• Kyle

GWT was the first placed i checked unfortunately you can only remove directories or pages. I need entire subdomained sites to be removed (in fact they shouldn't of been indexed in the first place).

We use subdomains for our development testing environment when creating client sites and once the site is approved we push it live replacing the old site. Somehow these testing sites are getting indexed and it may pose a threat to duplicate content on different domains. So i am trying to find a solution to get the subdomains (100's of them) unindexed.

I understand a 301 redirect is best but that isn't really applicable since these test sites still need to be reached by clients.

Thanks for the quick reply, i will have to try that. Essentially i am trying to get the site un-indexed but i wasn't sure if a 503 would do the trick.