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I'd remove the <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="<a class="attribute-value">https://globalrose.com/</a>"/> on the pages of your subdomain for a start. Ease up on the auto-generated pages, too. I went to check the robots.txt of the subdomain, and instead got a page with the title "Fresh Flower Delivery To Robots.Txt and throughout the USA"

That's going to be really subjective and it depends on a ton of things. Here is a good post that talks about a lot of the factors that go into optimizing for a conversion http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-definitive-howto-for-conversion-rate-optimization.

Hi Kashif,

If you would like a complete audit of your website, I would suggest you contact Ryan or another provider via private message and set up a contract for services. Ryan is a paying member of SEOmoz, just like yourself, and volunteers his time in here to answer questions. A request for a full audit is a bit beyond the scope of what people normally provide here.

I am an employee of SEOmoz, and am stepping in to suggest that it isn't usual forum behavior at SEOmoz to come into an older question and immediately offer your services. You may want to read a few more Q&A questions and read recent questions to get a bit of a feel for the community. Do feel free to send me a private message if there is anything I can do to help you out with using Q&A.

Is your website on Wordpress or another CMS? If so, is there any caching plugin you can use? Can you strip out any extra images temporarily until your traffic dies down, to help reduce your bandwidth being used?

I'd go to Rae Hoffman's website at http://sugarrae.com/ and read all of her posts about affiliate marketing. She's one of the top in the business, and gives out good information.

Hi Chase,

I want to let you know that one of our Associates, Miriam Ellis, specializes in local SEO. She will be included when we next update the recommended companies list. I do not know what her rates are, but suggest that you PM her and she can help you herself or help you find someone in your price range in her network of people who specialize in local search. Her profile URL is http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/13017

I'm sorry, but I couldn't find you question in this. This post really doesn't fit into a TAGFEE Q&A. Is there a question you would like to ask?

In case it is WordPress, here are a couple of posts about how to optimize the site for heavy traffic. Can you then go to your host and say that you've reduced the file sizes on images, are loading fewer items, etc. and then turn the website back on?

http://codex.wordpress.org/High_Traffic_Tips_For_WordPress

http://wpengine.com/2012/02/22/how-to-prepare-wordpress-for-an-onslaught-of-traffic/

http://speed.wpengine.com/ (for when the site is enabled)

I've seen mention of it on Twitter, and I'm seeing the URL directly under the title tag in my results, both logged in and logged out. I bet there will be coverage of it on Search Engine Roundtable in the next day or two.

Matt Cutts chimes in on Alan B.'s SEJ article at http://www.searchenginejournal.com/get-over-yourself-matt-cutts-did-not-just-kill-another-seo-kitten/56842/ and mentions that he (Cutts) said the same thing in 2005. The series of tweets Matt made are copied below:

I think I covered this on http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-article-in-newsweek/ pretty well (search for “press release” to catch all the comments I made.

Ultra-short version: 1) don’t expect links from press release websites to help ranking.

2. Don’t expect press releases on many other websites, e.g. http://www.chron.com/business/press-releases/article/Levitra-Buy-Viagra-Cheapest-Prices-Guaranteed-3993998.php on Houston Chronicle to help either.

& 3) the benefit is not links/PR from the press release directly; it’s primarily when reporters write an article as a result.

but I think all of those points are implicit in my 2005 comments on press releases from http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-article-in-newsweek/ Hope that helps.

The keywords themselves, independent of a website? That could be a bit tricky. Diecast Corvette could be a great converting keyword if you sell diecast car models, but that same keyword really would not convert on a site like Moz.

Hi! Are you looking for places you can join and offer your services, or are you looking for places that can help you with your website? Is there any specific specialty you're looking for?

This post from YouMoz also has some helpful advice from someone who has created many infographics. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/indepth-guide-to-content-creation-with-infographic

We have a list of recommended companies at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended that could serve as s starting point for you.

You can use some keyword research tools to help you find what people are searching for that is related to cleaning.

What I would suggest is going to Yahoo Answers and other similar Q&A sites and typing in cleaning, house cleaning, etc. to see what questions people have, then use those ideas for blog topics.

Hi Sean,

The update is still scheduled for the 25th, according to the calendar. Thanks so much for your patience!

Well, do you want to get included in these search engines? http://media.entireweb.com/images/pages/express_inclusion/ewpartners.png If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Those are not exactly major search engines they're talking about (the previous link was found at http://entireweb.com/express_inclusion/features/). Google and Bing both have ways to submit your site to them for free, if they haven't already picked up on it. Bing's index powers Yahoo these days, so by submitting to just those two you have over 92% of the US search market taken care of (per August Hitwise numbers at http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/10/searchenginesjuly2012/)

So, I'd save your money and time on that one.

I've edited this question to keep it TAGFEE, especially empathetic to both the potential client and to their current SEO company. This can be a good discussion question when talking in general terms, but given how Q&A is visible to everyone and indexed, we need to pull out this type of identifying information.

The vast majority of keyword data from Google is now "not provided". There is still some that gets through, though less with every month. Data you're seeing is from the keywords that still get through, plus the keywords from other search engines.

We are working on monthly reporting (and you can get some monthly reporting via custom reports), but it's not available in general just yet. It's a high-priority project, as we realize it is an important feature.

Hi everyone,

First, there was an update last night, and I believe we've adjusted the calendars now.

We're actively tracking down what happened. What the team really needs now is domains affected. If you could respond here with the domains involved (if you're allowed to share them) that would be great, otherwise, please send an email to help@seomoz.org with "OSE Domains" in the subject line so they can filter the incoming messages that way.

Thanks for your patience everyone!