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Hi Emmy,

When it comes to keyword research everything is time consuming. If you want a refined list of keywords you need to dig into it, however I find it always reliable since I structure every idea around the terms I find.

What I normally use for keyword enrichment is:

• search for my terms in google and see what kind of suggestions google gives. These are not synonyms but terms highly related, then I click into them and find new related ones
• group  my main terms and put them into google keyword tool. In that way google will give you suggestions of related terms, jsut try to expand the list as much as you can and then refine it.
• again in google keyword tool external you may look at your competitors' homepage or to the competing urls in your serps and see which keywords they have. If you find that many of them are using supplies you amy consider adding that term too, since it will be giving you more new keywords to rank for.

About what terms go for, google always tries to give to the user the best result. In that sense Google analyses the related terms, evaluate them and then it mixes them up to try achieve the best results, there are terms which are high related synonims like motorbike and motorcycle and other which are less like motorcycle and bicycle. Depending on how much you're content is, you may consider extending your content to add new related keywords, or may be you want to create totally new sections pointing to those new keywords and deliver your users there.

hope this helps!

Normally the only thing which will prevent a page from ranking is noindex tag. If you don't want to have it indexed just noindex it, if that page has been laready indexed, put the noindex tag and delete from index using GWT option.

Concerning the canonical tag thing, it will consolidate the seo value in one page but it won't prevent those page to appear in rankings, however you may have two cases:

1. the two or more pages are identical. In that case google may accept the canonicalization and show always the original page.
2. the two or more pages are slightly different, it's the case of paginated pages which are canonicalized using rel next/prev. In that sense the whole value will be consolidated in page 1 but then the page which will be shown in the rankings will be the one which responds to that query, for example if someone is looking for blue glass, google will return the page which shows blue glass listing if that's different from the first one.

Hope this may help you!

Hi James, sorry for the delay. You can access your source code (ctrl+U in non ie browsers or right click + view source code), and search for <title>(using ctrl+F), if you want to improve your seo skills I really advise you to try coding domething and studying a bit your html code so you can easily spot wrong things, since errors are not always 404s :-)</p></title>

Hi James, first of all you're not bothering here that's the purpose of any community I think,share experience and thoughts!

about profiles I think that the way to make users interact with them is to enhance integration with social media is highly helpful. Link to their g+ and facebook profiles will help them to easily access them with their facebook login so to not haveing to register from zero with you and ease the way they'll adding content  to them.

It depends on which articles are you creating. If you're writing a guide about an event you may find useful marking up localization,  and dates of the event they will be showing in the serps too.

Also if you have user rating your content with reviews you'll find that interesting, the extrastars are always a ctr booster.

Open site explorer you mean? If your site is young is possible that OSE hasn't crawled it before so it doesn't have any data about it. Also if you don't have any link pointing to it, is quite difficult that OSE will find a path to it in order to index it.

Hi Dan, I'm not so experienced in migrating a WP to non -wp but I understand that the issue you're having is that the spider is returning index.htmlfiles for urls like domain/page/.

IT's normal, any spider you will use you'll always have and index.html file. Every directory has it's index.html which is the default file to show if you're not establishing something different with rewrite rules.

If you write /page/ the browser will read the index.html file. What you have to be sure is that you'll set up a 301 redirect to avoid any index.html url to show and have it redirected to the main / page (with wildcards is a one line rule) and that your internal links are pointing all to / pages and not to index.html version of it. You can jsut find and replace the /index.html" string into the html code with the /" text (dreamweaver or any html editor will do that in bulk.

Only one commentary on you idea is that you may consider useful to build a php driven site, using includes for header, footer and nav/sidebar, jsut because thinking ahead if you're willing to make changes to a portion of the page repeating throughout the site you'll have to make changes in all pages and uplaod them all which is quite huge to do and also let space for many human/machine errors.

Hope that helped you out!

Hi James, I agree with Keri, the beginners' guide is a great content developed by the seomoz guys. If you want to achieve the success, you have to prepare yourself, and know at least the key elements of a page because there you'll want to include your most important keywords.

• title: text shown on top of you page and in blue in google result page. You want there some keywords and at the beginning if possible
• meta description: that's the short descriptive text below the title in google serps. You need to write compelling descriptions to attract users' attention and have your keyword bolded so to improve the CTR

Fix those two elements, try to enahcne the density of your restaurant in totnes keyphrase in your restaurant page and you'll be near the success

Sure! I'm glad you found that useful, it's always good to ask since in seo there's no clear path to the success, share the experience and doubbt is always helpful

If I were you I'll try to create a new page/post focusing on that term, bes ure that the page is linked from the most realted one and see what happens.

If you see that page ranking you're done. If not try to build some value there and if you're still not ranking you may always try to 301 that page to the old ranking one, maybe passing that value to it you'll achieve to rank with that too even without changing it.

Of course before the 301 and any other thing you'll have to try achieving links there, if not you won't see much changes.

You may always consider to build new traffic on pages with an already established values, however I normally recommend to not make huge changes for such pages and try to create a new one with the new term (vendor or miami), linked from the first one.

In that way your good page will not lose as much value and highly contribute to the rankings of the new ones.

Hi Taylor, in my opinion it's alawys better to variate your keywords just because you may achieve more traffic focusing on different keywords that only just one. Moreover focusing 5 different pages to the same keywords will only led you to cannibalize one with the other.

I'mnot google but if I see your title I don't know which page to rank for men leather briefcase bag. You got 5 pages so google will just choose one and discrad the others. In the second example you're highly targeting your pages to a specific keyword and avoid them to compete with each other. Google will be more aware on which page to choose for each thing.

I think that you may consider tweaking a little your site however it depends on how bad are you ranking for the new term and how much traffic you think that new term will give you.

If you're ranking in first position of page 2 for the new term, maybe just modifying a little the h1 of your page you'll still maintain the old rankings but achieve an important increaase for the other term. But if you need to make many changes to the page to achieve better ranking which wil give you maybe 5 more visits a day, is really worth risking your old rankings?

Moreover, how optimized are your competitors? If your competitors are nto so heavily focused on Ofallon lawn care, maybe you may lose some strength on that exact term to achieve bettere results for the other.

It really depends on any particular case, if your competitors are strong and a slight cahnge may let you lose 3 position from top rankings, I won't risk at all. But it's up to you on how you consider you may improve your total traffic and exposure.

Hi James, I'm seeing that your not focusing only on restaurant keywords since your business ismore htan just a restaurant. I think that you're not achieveing high results due to how much that keyword is diluted on your homepage.

1st: you have a page made for restaurant keyword http://theseatroutinn.co.uk/Restaurant.html use that. Try to enhance that page to achieve better links and better rankings

2nd you always use the same title: "The Sea Trout Inn in South Devon, Near Totnes - Luxury Bed and Breakfast and Restaurant - XXXXX" The xxx part seems to me the only one you change. Try to make shorter titles (normally less than 60 characters) and don't go after everything in all pages, but focus. In the restaurant page you may think aboutchanging it to: "Luxury Restaurant in Totnes |  Eat in the South Trouth Inn". In the meta description you may try something more attractive including a call to action like "Do you want an enjoyable lunch in Totnes? Try the south throuth inn a luxury restaurant in totnes"

In that way you'll have more different titles in you website and pages highly focused which won't cannibalize rankings from one to other.

Hi David, local business is an hard niche since there are many places added and it's always difficult to exactly know how google ranks those results. However you're already ranking for general terms, this means you made a good job by now.

Try to optimize your website to enhance your local business page too (steps explained in details here).

After having do that I strongly recommend Rand's tactic on how to enhance rankings for one specific place. It seems really simple and logical but many sites misses this process.

I hope those two articles may help you getting to the top!

Hi Sung, first of all I recommend you to avoid one term keywords, look more to keyphrases. Look at what people normally add to the entrepeneur keyword to make their searches, for that you may use the adwords keyword tool. Expand your list of keywords as much as you can and then refine it removing the not related ones. You need to spend a lot of time in it because that will be the base of your entire work in the future.

After you got the keywords which more interests you look at the seomoz keyword difficulty tool. That may give you insight of which keyword will be the easier compared to the volume it has. Than if you still find those keywords are still too much competititve try to extend those ones with the third term. In that way you'll find which are the best kws to start with.

Remember that when you start achieving value to some longer keywords you're still getting value for the shortest combination, and in the future you may achieve some authority and start seeing your site ranking for the most competitive keywords too.

As a general rule, start getting market share in the bottom lines, huge brands normally leave unseen lower trafficked keywords, they achieve traffic because everyone looks a t the top keywords only. Then you'll start growing from the bottom.

Hi Nikhil, it's normal that you're worried about this kind of things, that's one of the consequences panda got into this market. It's good that you worry about it, there two different approaches to this: try to trick it or understand it and add some real value to that content. This issue is not only in your niche. Think about books, films and lyrics of songs. You can't change them, howeveryou can add something to make that content more useful for google to le t you rank for it.

I'm not a lawyer but I'll try to make an example. The first result will be the official result then you may write an article which takes that law and then add some bullet points of the main aspects of that law, then the related laws, adding bolds, commentaries and things like this. You won't be first but you'll start building your brand as the site giving real value added to that laws, something that some people may think you're valuable and google too.

Don't worry about duplication in this case, as I said before, lyrics sites got a lot of that content and they're not duplicates, try to open your page to more keywords than only the text of that specific law.

I hope that would be useful.

HI Josh I think that you won't run inmore problems than the normal issues of a domain migration.

Considering you have your social media set up withthe old domain would make sense for the users to have everything under that site, that makes  a lot less confusio for users lanidng in your site.

have a look at your htaccess maybe you can just comment the line making this kind of redirect but that's a good practice why do you want to remove that? normally SEOs redirects to www version to avoid duplication issues. IT's agood thing

mmm same number of dupe titles/content, let me think of pages with few content in them.

If you're sure that your developer didn't  make any change you can:

• put a dynamic rule in your title so to have it changing based on the changing elements of the page (like appending page 2 for the second page etc)
• about the content if the duplication happens on different pages you can ask a freelancer to write some new content, but if the content appears on the same page but with some filters or pagination you may consider both: noindexing those pages, canonicalize them or simply remove the content from pages different than the first one.
• export seomoz data and find where are you missing your title(you got same info on GWT)
• the same for 404, see which pages are linking to bad urls and fix that issues. IF you're lucky you may fix more than one link if they're dinamically generated.