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Hi there A rebrand is a business decision. I would take advantage of all the information from Umar as well as a few more points for good measure: Content Audit - Find what current content can be updated, consolidated, removed, and migrated to the new website. What other opportunities do you have for your content? Website Migration Guide from Moz - This will help make sure that your transition to the new website will go smooth and cover your bases. Backlink Audit - This will help you on a couple of fronts. First, you will find backlinks that you will want to update to the new domain once it is live and ready to go. Second, you will find links that you can either remove or disavow so that when you redirect, it won't be a factor. Change of Address - You will want to use this so that Google knows your site moved to a new address. Google also has a resource for when you move a website. Local SEO - If you have listings or citations, make sure those are updated. Perform an audit so you can make sure that any mention of your business is corrected and now points to a new domain. There are a lot of opportunities in rebranding, but you want to make sure that you take care of everything that you can to help users and search engines see that your site has moved and you are now a new brand. Hope this helps! Good luck!

The easiest way is as Patrick states below.  Use www.semrush.com.  They scrape the data from search analytics anyway and then put it in an easy format for us! You can get some free searches on Semrush before they close you out. So make sure you change the search to the right country before you press enter. I think semrush is gold. It should be the easy solution.

Hi there There are some great resources on Moz to help you with this: Keyword Research Keywords to Concepts: The Lazy Web Marketer's Guide to Smart Keyword Research Simple Steps for Conducting Creative Content Research All of these should give you some great pointers and tips to be well on your way. I would also take a look at developing personas and content as part of the user experience. Researching both these areas will also help you structure your site in both a user and crawler friendly fashion. Researching your audience, where they are, how they digest content, and doing some well thought out competitor research will help inform your keyword and content research in a more deep and granular fashion. The research will essentially answer itself. I personally like to go after high volume, low competition, but then create long tail variations of those keywords/queries based on what my audience is talking about and how they get their information. There's really no right or wrong way to do keyword research, it's just a matter of knowing your audience's goals, where they are, your place in the industry, and how to develop content that moves your audience through the funnel. Create the best user experience from a content and structure standpoint, and you are golden. Also, don't forget that Moz has a keyword difficulty tool that is highly valuable. Hope this all helps! Good luck!

Hi Miriam. I agree with  your gut feeling. What is wrong is wrong and one should not play games falsify facts and present them as true.... not at least with Google. They are smarter than everybody of us out here. I'll stick with the following tactic: Find a person or a partner in these countries who is ready to genuinely partner with me... or at least is willing to take calls, talk to leads and direct them to me. A local listing will be created for this/these guy/guys when we have genuine NAPs. Focus on organically promoting my website for these locations without local listings. Thanks for your help everybody. KS__

I find it helpful to keep the Google places listing as accurate and up to date (if your company has seasonal specials most important to keep accurate and any hour changes if you are a walkin type company)

I'm so glad to be of help, KS_. See you around Q&A!

I wanted to tell you I did not realize you actually bring different content on the site I'm very glad to hear that. I would not really worry too much about using use the same IP's. A host that is outstanding in Canada and the United States and back by Pier 1 which I know most people here will probably back me on being one of the best hosts out there is Zunicore was developed by PEER 1 Hosting—among the most respected and fastest-growing names in the world of server hosting. As such, it enjoys all the benefits of PEER 1 Hosting's 18 datacenters and wholly-owned FastFiber Network, including NOC monitoring, CDN and SAN—not to mention the parent's legendary standard of customer service, as embedded in a suite of exacting SLAs. https://www.zunicore.com/ Using this service you can put them both on the same cloud have great service and speed then just pay extra $2 month for different IP. Just so you know the whole services  around $31 a great price if you asked me. Considering you get a CDN even DDoS attack protection. I think this is some pretty cool data for everyone https://www.zunicore.com/pdfs/woozworld_cloud_provider_benchmarks.pdf PS I a just took a look at your site and I like it a lot it seems that you're very green you may want to look at the host like this these guys they are 100% solar or green Here is the link to eco-host review http://ecohostreviews.com/ http://greengeeks.com/vps-hosting/vps-hosting.php http://www.mygreenhosting.com/green-data-center.php though what I found is many other hosting companies are hundred percent green powered however they do not name themselves after it or advertisers is much. I would look at PEER 1I know they are on top of things and do a killer job all the best man. Hope this helps, Thomas

We have done this, finding areas of a wiki that includes our niche.  We link to a relevant article or resource.  Th

Thanks for all the help Anton and Tommy. We were able to resolve the issues with help from both of you.

thanks for the great explanation Alan. I hope I am able to convince my client

You can try Ontolo's link building query generator tool: http://ontolo.com/link-building-query-generator-V2 Citation Labs also has great link building tools for finding prospects: http://searchnewscentral.com/20120404276/Tool-Reviews/15-min-showdown-with-the-link-prospector-tool-from-citation-labs.html

Thanks for the response Ryan and Keri. I am new to the world of SEO so didn't know this is considered to be black hat. When I entered this industry, I made a promise to myself to follow only and only white hat practices. Thanks for giving me an insight here. Are forum / web 2.0 profile links creation a part of Black Hat or using softwares to create them is considered to be black hat. Please help me out here and I'll do as you suggest.

Thanks for the awesome comments Cyrus. So what you suggest is going slow and develop solid, long term and genuine links by commenting to blog posts in the same niche, good quality PR submissions. good quality Article submissions and making relevant form posts? Would you like to add something to the above list?

I would like to know more about this one too.

Does using a service like linklicious.me help? Is it recommended?

Thanks Lindz and Tyler. I have got my answer

HI Andrew. I have two more open queries on http://www.seomoz.org/q/rss-feeds#post-68299 and http://www.seomoz.org/q/linklicious-and-crawl-rates. Please help me out there Thanks, KS__

Thanks Andrew. Your help is always appreciated.

Thanks for help. The reason why I asked is that Google Adwords is behaving very awkwardly. A 'hight' competition  keywords with a figure of 0.85 appears to be 'Medium' 0.26 when exported to CSV. I don't know which one to trust. I am not sure why the figure changes when exported to CSV. Quite strange. Have you experienced anything like that? Can you offer a solution to that? Also, you have already answered my  next question. Why doing searches I should enable 'Exact match' and 'phrase match'. Yeah?

Hi Andrew. I just posted two new questions titled "What after I place a blog comment" and "Traditional link requests still the right way?". Please reply when you have time. Thanks, KS__