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Cheers - that we me just there - A new SEO plugin killed it which I quickly deleted (it wastn even active but screwed things up).  Site back to 'normal' now Thanks for checking.

That's great Kieran! Chew slowly and savor your progress at it happens Just a couple of things I thought to mention in case you hadn't caught up with them yet... On-page reports in the Pro App show you the on-page elements you can improve, including things like keyword usage, amount of text etc. The trick with these is that you have to load the keywords you want to optimize for in the campaign. Don't worry if it seems to want to apply keywords to the wrong pages, just use the manual selector at top of page to choose keyword and then type in the URL you want. Not sure how the timing works for you, but there is a Weekly Welcome Webinar for Pro members every Friday morning (Seattle time). When you sign up for it on the Webinars Page there is an opportunity to tell Aaron if there are particular things you would like to learn more about. Of course, if you already knew about these things, just ignore my ramblings Have a great day, Sha

Thanks Joe - not every post is about it so I think I might just revert a little bit to more manually massaging titles and work a bit on my whole structure.  I have about 100 posts and they all append this tag which probably a bit too much.

Yeah, it's been generally positive. I'd always used elance in the past, although that was primarily for development tasks, so moving to oDesk was a bit of a worry at first. If you do a time-based project you're at relatively low risk as you get screenshots every few minutes of what your staff are working on. (ie. If they're looking at YouTube videos you'll be able to see and refuse to pay them). A lot of people will offer services for very little outlay so it's worth spending time investigating their feedback and interviewing candidates properly. I generally keep it quite informal and just try to work out if the person I'm talking to is able to string a sentence together and have a bit of banter. If they are I'll give them a week's trial limited to 10 hours or so and see what the results are like. Virtual assistants are really low risk as the outlay is so low... at worst you lose $30 and at best you find someone that will work with you for the next year or two doing all the tasks that you don't have the time or inclination to do yourself. In the past I've always done the outreach part of a link building task myself, although there are those that take the view that it's possible to outsource this effecively so I'm giving it a try at the moment. Will most likely YouMoz how I get on at some point Matt

Just to update people on this topiuc and what has changed / not changed My URL is http://www.grangewebdesign.com and target keywords are website design Cork, web design Cork and Cork before each of these as well as that is the city I live in I made some subtle change to the address (removed the area I was on as Google Maps did not recognise the actual area and now it matches the people above me. I made sure my content was solid on the page and guess what For the search terms website design Cork where I was 5th on the Google Places list I am now on page 2 For the search terms web design Cork where I was bottom of Page 1 for SERPs I am now on Page 3 Time for a stiff drink.  But really I have really worked hard on this and now it seems I am doing more damage than good..