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Does anyone search those terms? Do those terms convert?

To answer your question, one of the ways one ranks is to have the light colored text on the light colored background on each page with the following in a spammy footer:

Orlando Pool Service - Orlando Pool Cleaning - Orlando Pool Repairs - Orlando Pool Remodeling - Orlando Pool Renovations - Winter Park, FL - Winter Park Pool Service - Winter Park Pool Service - Winter Park Pool Remodeling - Orlando, FL - Maitland, FL - College Park - Windermere, FL - Longwood, FL - Casselberry, Fl - Lake Mary, FL - Goldenrod, FL - Heathrow, FL - 32825 - 34786 - 32750 - 32779 32714 - 32810 - 32751 - 32707 - 32835 - 32828 - 32801 - 32803 - 32806 - 32789 - 32746 - 32712 - 33880 - 33881 - 33884 - 33801 - 33805 - 33803

I think the terms of service of Google Analytics is against collecting that level of personal information as well.

I'd feel violated too!

We should have a post up tomorrow about this.

I'd focus all of your efforts on one site, and make that site be the authority for your particular field. You'll have only one site to maintain, one site that gets authority from people linking to your content, one business name to maintain, etc.

If you could send help@seomoz.org a note about going from a to f, that would be great, as it sounds like that could be a bug.

In addition to your direct question, here's some information that could help.

You might experiment with adding words like "cheap" "free" "inexpensive" "online" etc to your negative keywords list, as well as adding all of the states or territories except where you do business.

There are a number of lists of negative keyword ideas to give you some more inspiration, including http://www.komarketingassociates.com/blog/200-plus-negative-keywords-to-consider-for-b2b-ppc/.

SEOmoz just recently updated their directory guide, and also made a blog post about the guide and directory submissions in general. You might want to check it out at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices.

Here's a YouMoz post that might also provide some ideas for checking the index. http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-new-content-indexation-issues-for-large-b2b-websites

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Hi David,

I'm so sorry you're having problems with this. The best thing to do is email help@seomoz.org and open up a ticket with them. There's no way to connect the help and Q&A system right now, otherwise I'd do it for you.

Could it be that Adwords can't see a particular call to action on this page, and are figuring you're using it as a bridge to another page that does have the call to action? What is it that you want your people that come to this page from a PPC ad to do?

If I'm looking for a pastry shop, I'm looking for a site that tells me where I can go and get my pastry, the hours, etc. or where I can order my pastry. I'm not looking for a lesson on marketing. If I'm looking for a lesson on marketing, I'm not going to enter the keywords pastry shop. Does this page satisfy the intent of your user's query?

Here's one way to think about it. Google wants to make money, and their primary way of making money is by selling ads. If the users aren't happy after they click on those ads, the users won't come back to Google to click on any more ads, and Google won't make money.

Hi Dan,

I can't speak to sabotage, but I can confirm that the newspapers are all owned by the same group (MediaNews Group http://www.medianewsgroup.com/consumers/Pages/OurBrands.aspx ). I happen to be in the Bay Area and knew that at least three of them were related.

Like Ryan, I'd ask around to see if someone thought they were being helpful and signed up for those without letting you know. I've seen it happen on here before.

To add to Sean's comments, also consider what you are selling:

• A single product, or multiple products?
• Digital only? (need to think about how to make sure stuff isn't copied)
• Subscription services? (you need recurring billing)
• Shippable items? (may need shipping integration, lookup in UPS, and heaven help you if you're shipping items that are considered dimensional weight)
• Do you need to keep track of inventory?
• Does your inventory change?

And what kind of site do you have? Are you doing a new site? Is this going to be added in to an existing site? Are you using a CMS of some time that you will need to integrate?

Hi Dana,

I don't think Rand has done a WBF like that. We'll pass along the suggestion. I'm watching this thread, and will contribute more to it in the next day or two.

Thanks everyone for your feedback!

Thanks to David, Patrick, and EGOL for their great answers. You all help make Q&A such a great place!

Hi,

I do believe this is a bug with the SEOmoz software and that your site is fine. Could you please email help@seomoz.org and open up a ticket there so they can help track this down? Sadly, Q&A is a separate system and I can't auto-magically move this thread over. Thanks so much, and sorry for the problem.

Keri

Hi Nicole,

Did you make any decisions on comparison shopping engines? Do you have anything you can share with us that others might find helpful, or do you have some more questions still? We're going through and trying to clean up the questions that are still marked unanswered. Thanks for your help!

If you think about this question in more general terms, you'd never see CNN or New York Times link anywhere, since most sites have a lower PR than they do. And on the flip side, if I have a site with very little PR about pinball games, I'm not going to link to a site with a higher PR that's about buying pills that's full of spam.I don't have enough personal experience for your particular situation to offer an expert opinion for this case, however.