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I'd either use a plugin or RSS feed from the current blog for the new site. If the content is good enough you want to be passing as much PA to the new page. An external blog with inbound anchor text can be misconstrued as link manipulation (or link wheeling ). I'd only bother with external if you use it for co-citation and/or diversifying your anchor text.

Is it branded or non branded search terms you're using in the SERPs? Google has a habit of changing branded meta titles when it see's fit.

Does www.domain.co.uk redirect to www.domain.co.uk/ or are they treated as separate pages?

Are you on self hosted Wordpress or wordpress.com? Usually on self hosted you can edit the URL under general options.

15K pm... media or media & management? If it is just Media it seems bizarre they would spend that much on SEO, when they could hire a top PR/Copy writing agency for a lot less.

I digress.

• Paid online publications
• Viral competition promotion
• Invest in the latest tracking/technology resources
• Content, Content, Content  (Info-graphics, Written Content, Video, Photos ect)

Thanks Chiaryn

Just wondering if any of the Moz team can give us a heads up when open site explorer will support HTTPS?

A few people have mentioned a refresh, supposed i'll have to wait and see.

Are you using a plug in?

I'd try: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cool-author-box/

Hi guys,

I did a full site redirect back in October to a new URL, SERPS eventually changed to the new URL and everything was fine.

However recently i have started to see the old URL showing up?

Anyone else seeing this?

Hi Peter,

Any update on this? I haven't been able to post a thread the past 2 weeks.

I'm seeing all sorts of issues with SEOmoz atm.

• I can't post a thread
• OSE not loading properly
• On page report cards keep giving the error message "Oops! We were unable to reach the page you requested for your report. Please try again later."
• Crawl tests taking twice as long as they use too.

Developers?

No OSE isn't being crazy, My guess would be lazy link building. Check your SERPs results and see if you have dropped in any keyword positions.

If you have, use the Disavow tool on webmaster tools to get rid of any crappy links.

If they have local stores around the states, i'd attempt Local listing SEO. Accountancy ( despite your prospective client being national) is still a hands on profession, which is why geographical targeting would be ideal.

I'd look into PPC also for the same reason.

No worries Shaun.

If you can get a debate going between industry heads and influences, you could quite easily generate national PR.

Flooding is hot topic in the UK media atm, i'd exploit it while you can.

Lots of things you can do, normally when i'm struggling for content i'll merge current events with an industry spin.

For Example:

UTXs and trackside drainage.

Find a latest news article about the recent flooding that is/was affecting transport and refer the link around the industry (email, social media ect) get people opinion (you could possibly get a guest blogger or get a industry head quote) a good piece of content could lead to inquiries.

other suggestions would be:

• Product History
• Advancing technologies
• Company snippets (target, sales, charity ect)
• Sales targeted blog
• facts and facets
• Top ten lists ect

I think when it comes to branding you have access your business aims, industry,  current keyword performance and competition.

A lot of people will drop it in the meta title and say "its for branding" without understanding what the impact will be.

Ask yourself would having my brand name in the meta title encourage a branded search the second time round?

How well do people know my brand?

Would i generate more sales from a higher search position because of  a shorter Meta title tale?

Unless you are dealing with a national retailer, I'd focus on high traffic keywords for the homepage and then optimize the rest of your keyword targets through better landing pages.

Looks like he's using multiple keyword relevant URL's to pass link juice to Purplepayday.com.

I'd assume the domains that are ranking highly are relatively new, as normally 301 redirects disappear from the SERPS after a short while.

As to why they are currently ranking highly? i'd just put that down to keyword relevant URL's followed by .co.uk addresses.

If he is doing this for more than 7 sites, i'd guess it won't be long until Google red flags the site.

I'm a fan of piping, from personal experience CTR have been higher from dashes or commas.  Which one is best, well according to Matt Cutts it's neither:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_7PTio3Qc

As he suggest,  it's trial and error. See what works best for you.

In terms of keywords, i'd try and keep it to two keyword phrases, use Wordtracker or Google's keyword tool to see what is getting the most traffic and split between.

Remember the value of each keyword is diluted the longer the meta title gets, as Ryan Kent suggest, focus on one or two, depending on if you want branding in the Meta title.

My rule of thumb is:

Just keywords:

"Keyword phrase 1" | "Keyword Phrase  2"

Keywords and Brand:

"Keyword phrase 1" | "Brand Name"

Hope this helps

Hi Jess,

Has your site visitors increased since you started the online campaign? Take the average increase in offline sales pre-campaign over the average increase in offline sales post campaign. This should give you a rough estimate.

If you want more accurate conversion tracking, Use your sales team to collate data where the referral came, this can be done post sale over the phone or direct mail questionnaire posted with the product.

Hope this helps.