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Hi Charlotte

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Personally, I tend not to use SEOmoz for rank tracking as they tend to be slightly off (something that i think they are working on), for full SERPs reports i'd use Ravens Tools or do it manually.

Keri,

Of course, that level of copy-writing, should be penalized, especially if they are that lazy to create an article that doesn't make sense.

I'm talking about top quality spinning. Something that Journalist and PR Specialist do, day in, day out. In fact, the majority of the news stories written today would of been reworded from another source. How else can news spread across outlets if it is all seen as related/duplicate content?

If i get 5 stories,  take a piece from each story and reword it and add my opinion, at what point does Google see this as spun content?

It can't. Otherwise the majority if not all of the blogosphere would be seen as duplicate.I wouldn't even class this as grey hat. Just unoriginal topics with a differing opinion.

Thomas

A single blog on my own servers, used a "fashion news" related site, with the occasional client anchor text dropped it, it has active social presence with many followers and ranks highly.

Manipulation of semi grey hat methods is needed for smaller clients. It is this stepping stone that creates traffic and leads to more organic methods in the future.

I find social outreach is the best plan of action for back links. I usually find a good article (usually from an author with active social presence) , copy the best paragraph from said  article and then do a write up quoting from that article. Once written, then tweet, post (google +, Facebook, ect) the author. Saying you have done write up on them and to come check you out. Build a relationship and hopefully you will get linkin return.

Rand and Ruth Burr have done some good videos on the topic:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-twitter-for-link-relationships-whiteboard-friday

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-separates-a-good-outreach-email-from-a-great-one-whiteboard-friday

Hope this helps.

I spin content on a daily basis and haven't noticed any sufficient drops as a byproduct. I think if you do it right it shouldn't be an issue. Just make sure you change the title, sentence structure, paragraph structure, anchor text and outbound links.

Also how often does the specific site/blog link to the page your trying to rank for?  The beauty of having 10-15 clients is that when it comes to blog spinning each article, the anchor text is diverse to the previous 10 blog posts already posted.

Mix things up and make the content unique and you shouldn't have an issue.

I think by most SEO standards, people would suggest diversifying your keywords as much as possible.

However, I have multiple sites that in order to stay targeted, I have to use the same high traffic keyword, hundreds of time throughout the site.

I've had very positive results when dropping in the keyword, in every meta title (including product pages) and adding any additional keywords in the long tail. (the majority, if not all page 1)

I thinks as long as you mix things up for the rest of title it shouldn't be an issue.

Yes, as Paul has suggested any additional characters in the URL will be seen by Google as a separate page. If it's identical home page content you could see canonicalisation issues and as you have already suggested, a 301 re-direct/ rel canonical would be the best practice.

As Keri has suggested, no.

There has been a study however to suggest that including a PPC ad next natural SERPs results increases search trust and as a byproduct improves CTR for your organic listing.

For fledgling sites i always start with directory submission, the best practice is to get listed in local directories or niche-specific directories that can send highly targeted traffic to your website. (all of which you find in that list)

I personally don't bother for already established sites.

Thanks Ankit,

The site has been re branded for a months now and has had "Ross X Bute" backlinks and anchor text for some time.

The "Ross & Bute" title however has only popped up the last couple of days.

Is it just a case of doing more of the above and sitting it out or is there more of a quick fix i could exploit?

Cheers

A client of mine." Ross X Bute" current meta title is "Luxury designer clothing | Womens designer clothing" for the homepage.

If i search for luxury designer clothing it will show the full meta title for the homepage.

however if i search for the brand name.... "Ross & Bute" will show instead of the meta title.

Whats the problem?

Well my client a few month ago has decided to re brand the business to have a "X" to show instead of the "And".

The rest of the site is branded with an "X" rather than "And"

The URL www.rossandbute.com, so you can understand where google is getting this assumption from.

Is there anyway to change this so it reads the the meta title in the SERPs?

Thanks

Thanks Mark

I also have notices sporadic jumps in search traffic, not just daily but hourly. One keyword keeps going back and forth 3-5 search position.

Thanks for the prompt response....

Backlinks* Inbound*

I'm not sure exactly what option i should take next. but i'll run you through a few points:

• The page is optimized to a rank "A"
• The page has 350 backlinks*
• a strong social presence
• Interlinking pages.
• High domain authority
• an OK page authority
• The domain ranks highly
• Every other sub domain rank highly.

I make a search and the first page that ranks for this domain is a product page within the exact sub domain i'm trying to rank for, followed by some external blogs I've written and then the rest of the product pages.

I've submitted the URL to web master tools twice and yet it still will not rank for that keyword.

The  only time i see the page index is if i copy the exact URL into Google.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Yes, go into webmaster tools, fetch and submit your URL's. When you submit a URL in this way Googlebot will crawl the URL, usually within a day and then consider it for inclusion in its index.

I was literally about to post the same question, I've seen a fair few competitor sties doing this, not wanting to taint the design of the page, so they just add a keyword stuffed doc with <--more--> tag in the footer.

Black, grey or white on this one? I have a client that has insisted on design block heavy site which makes it very difficult to optimize for.....adding something like this could be very useful.

How great of an impact will the optimization of product pages have an impact on a sub level domains?