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Craig and Dan,

Thanks so much for the specific suggestions. I put this thread on the back burner, and just now noticed it had new responses. I wish I had checked it earlier, but thanks a lot. This info is really helpful.

• Ruben

When I first started here, the previous SEO company employed a double strategy. We had urls that were blah, blah, attorneys-lawyers and title tags that were attorneys-laywers, and text that was attorneys-lawyers. Except for the urls, I changed it just because I thought it looked bad. I decided to just pick one and work on it. It has worked out fine. Overall our rankings have improved, and will only continue to improve as google does, as stated by Chris above.

Without question, there is a difference if you decide to pick one of the words over the other. The one you pick and optimize for will rank higher. It does for us on everyone of those keywords, however, it is slight. Most often it is 1-5 places. Granted, that can be the difference between being on the first page and the second, so I guess "slight" is relative.

However, my life has been much easier once I decided I didn't want to write for both attorney and lawyer, and just picked one. My content is more user friendly, my rankings went up and I don't have to worry about duplicate content.

Also, if you are looking long term, (and this part is pure conjecture) I could see Google eventually penalizing a site that has one page for Miami Attorney and one page for Miami Lawyer, (because that can't be that substantively different) or at the very least, not allowing both pages to rank. Thus, you would have spent a whole lot of time for, at most, modest gains.

Hope this helps!

Ruben

One by one is fine with me. I'd much prefer that to screwing up the site.

Thanks again,

Ruben

Hi all,

I cannot seem to get my pagespeed up to the level I want, but I do not have the backend knowledge to fix the following errors listed below. I have played around with this for awhile, and gotten a number of them reduced, but these last ones are beyond me at this time. Any idea how long this would take someone proficient to do? Any idea what the cost would be? I know the ideas are going to be super general, but ball park is what I'm looking for. Thanks!

• Ruben

• Remove render-blocking JavaScript:
  • http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/themes/kempruge/scripts/custom.js
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/themes/kempruge/scripts/rem-text-input.js
• Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/themes/kempruge/style.css
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/themes/kempruge/fonts/stylesheet.css
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/plugins/sweetcaptcha-revolutionary-free-captcha-service/css/style.css?ver=3.6.1
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/nextgen_gallery_display/static/nextgen_gallery_related_images.css?ver=3.6.1
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/css/styles.css?ver=3.5.3
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/plugins/easing-slider/css/slideshow.min.css?ver=2.1.2
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-nivo-slider/nivo-slider.css?ver=3.6.1
  • http://www.kempruge.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-nivo-slider/themes/default/default.css?ver=3.6.1

Who are your competitors? it's hard to tell how strong or weak your link profile is until you compare it to the people outranking you. 
Also, I ran your site through Open Site Explorer, and it's also difficult to evaluate for two other reasons. 1. I don't speak your language, but there's nothing we can do about that. 2. Your site is looks like a condom sales site, so it's in the sex industry and a lot of your backlinks are also in the sex industry. Since the sex industry has so many spammers, it's hard to tell if those are quality links or spam links. Were most of your links earned through quality content related to your industry or was this the traditional spammy way most sex related links get added?

• Ruben

Peter,

You're a genius! I'm almost certain that's it, because I can't remember adding "http://" Is there a way to get rid of those pages? I just 301 redirected them to where they are supposed to go, but I have a lot of redirects. When I say a lot, I mean a lot relative to how many pages I have. We have 500 something indexed pages, and probably 200 something redirects. I know that many redirects slows our site down. I'd like to know if there's any better option that the 301s, if I can't just delete them.

Thanks,

Ruben

My apologies, let me rephrase that intro.

I don't think that addresses my concern, so if you could please not mark it as answered, I'd appreciate it.

No problem. Most of what I learned came from bad decisions or (rather less painfully) from other people on here. Happy to share!

Good luck!

Ruben

Chiaryn,

That was not my question, so it's not answered. I am talking about my personal profile that has my linkedin, facebook, twitter, etc profile. Not my campaigns, but my personal profile. I want to change the custom url for that profile page: http://moz.com/community/users/543683

Thanks,

Ruben

The directory submissions jumped out at me as just absurd. I can't imagine there even being 100 directories worth submitting to, and certainly not every month.

Also, this firm used to have an SEO company that outsourced all its blogs and articles like it says your client is about to have happen to him or her. Tell her to look at some ODesk profiles from India and Bangladesh to see if she wants that type of content on her site. When I started here, one of the first things I did was delete every article or post they had written. It was awful. The only good part about the outsourced writing was that it was as poorly written, as it was poorly ranking, so not many people ever read them.

I can't remember if press releases were not going to matter much in the future, or if they were going to get your penalized, but either way, they aren't worth much.

Lastly, 1 local listing a month isn't going to cut it. At the end of a year, your client will have 12 listings. I doubt that will garner much benefit, and they will probably not even be accurate.

Good luck,

Ruben

In GWT, the 404s are slightly different. They are www.kempruge.com/example/www.kempruge.com

In BWT, it's the www.kempruge.com/example/kemprugelaw

In GWT, they say the 404's are coming from my site, but I couldn't find out where it says that for BWT.

Any thoughts, and thanks for helping out. This has been bothering me for awhile.

Ruben

It says it in Webmaster Tools, does that matter? I'm going to check on where from now. Also, I know my sitemap 404's, but I can't figure out what happened. If you go here: http://www.kempruge.com/category/news/feed/ that's my sitemap. How it got changed to that, I have no idea. Plus, I can't find that page in the backend of WP to change the url back to the old one.

I tried redirecting the proper sitemap name to the one that works, but that didn't seem to work.

I've seen this question pop up at least 20 times in the past 6 months, and the answer that I have always seen given is: they're working on it. And, the only solution at this time is to just manually reconnect it. I hope you get a better answer this time, but I'd think they'd make an announcement, if and when they finally get it perfected.

Best,

Ruben

I have a large number of 404's that all have a similar structure: www.kempruge.com/example/kemprugelaw. kemprugelaw keeps getting stuck on the end of url's. While I created www.kempruge.com/example/ I never created the www.kempruge.com/example/kemprugelaw page or edited permalinks to have kemprugelaw at the end of the url. Any idea how this happens? And what I can do to make it stop?

Thanks,

Ruben

Dave,

I would be careful about verifying businesses that do not have physical addresses or have clients at those physical addresses. Google is very clear about this being a violation of their guidelines. https://support.google.com/places/answer/107528?hl=en

Granted, I'm not the google police, but it's something I would recommend you considering.

Best,

Ruben

I'm trying to update the custom url for my Moz profile, and it won't let me. Is this something that can be edited? Or, once you put it in, are you stuck with that url? I can't figure out any other reason it would not let me change it.

Thanks,

Ruben

I found this video extremely helpful in terms of the architecture of one's site: http://moz.com/academy/website-architecture

Since I don't know what products or services you provide, I'll just give you some suggestions I have implemented with other websites which may or may not work with your concept.

1. Implement appropriate, useful social media icons. Too often, people put EVERY icon possible on there but just add the ones that your community uses. One exception, I'd add Google+ regardless of how large your community is.

2. Add a "subscribe to our newsletter" form somewhere tasteful.

3. "Brand out" your homepage, but make sure it's well written. If necessary, hire a copywriter.

4. If you have a web design company build your site, make sure if they add a "website designed by X" that you are getting something out of that in return or delete their link.

5. Do not use a slider. It makes your site slower and serves no valuable purpose.

Good luck!

Ruben

Assuming you are not cannibalizing any of your other pages with keywords or title tags and there is no duplicate content on the contact page, I would index it.

I would avoid it, if possible. While I don't know if Google dislikes it, I know for certain Bing does. We had it flagged as a "High Severity" error for us, so we changed it.

Best,

Ruben

For some reason, we do incredibly worse in Bing than we do in Google. In the SEO reporter tool, I saw this message:
Use tag in the section of your page, where "ll-cc" stands for the culture code of the language and country/region the content applies to. Alternatively use the lang="ll-cc" attribute on either the or the <title> tag .:<br /><br />I'm guessing Bing wants to me to add USA and Eng to my site, but my questions are, 1. why isn't this an issue for google? 2. I have this error message for all my pages, so is there a sitewide WP plugin anyone would recommend?</span></p> <p><span>Thanks,</span></p> <p><span>Ruben</span></p></title>