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Hi John,

Here are a few reasons why you got a "0 percent link acquisition rate":

• The email pitches are all self-promotional (doesn't add any value to the recipients). You may want to try sending an email and just simply describing your content, then ask the target if he wants to see the page. Give him the link (if the content is uniquely useful, he will not hesitate to link to you).
• The potential linker is not interested to your content (you need to qualify your list of link prospects before sending emails to them). Make sure that the people you want to reach out to are interested to see, share and even link to your content.
• No pre-engagement activities. Tap into the radars of your target linkers first. Comment on their latest blog posts (with value-added insights) and subscribe to their email lists. This way you can increase the odds of getting a link from the prospect since you're not a stranger anymore to him/her. Check out this resource for more tips.

Happy linking!

Hi Tim,

For that specific website (http://www.specialistblastcleaning.co.uk/), you can apply any of the following link building tactics:

• Submit the site to high quality local and niche-specific citation listings and directories (e.g. yelp.co.uk)
• Find resource pages that list down cleaning companies in UK. If they have broken links, you can use the BLB approach.
• Pitch 3 to 5 home improvement blogs with high search share (or with high SEPrice - metric used by SEMRush) and ask if you can become a regular content contributor for them.

Happy link building!

Hi Mack,

For less developed markets, acquiring links would really cost you some money either in developing a content asset that is targeted to tangent industries (not just to the specific industry where the website belongs) or in setting up scholarship programs that aims to provide value to community user in that niche.

In fact, you don't need to tell the webmaster to link to you from their pages, if you know that student discounts is what the .edu/.gov site is interested about, then it won't be difficult for you to get links from them.

You may want to check out this post for more link building tips for boring/difficult industries: http://digitalphilippines.net/link-building

Cheers!

I highly recommend LinkCore Media, it's a link development and content marketing agency that specializes in high quality link building services to local and offshore clients. It was founded by Venchito Tampon. If you want to learn more about their link building services, you can check out this page.

I am not sure if you are looking for a full time job or asking for people to work as a freelancer but if its a full time let me know and I will refer you a guy who is smart when it comes to local SEO.

Hope this helps!

I believe Wedding Photography is a competitive keyword and ranking on local for this kind of keyword we need to think and act beyond basics.

Miriam Ellis did a great post on Moz that illustrates guide on local SEO rankings: http://moz.com/blog/top-20-local-search-ranking-factors-an-illustrated-guide

Please take a look and go from there accordingly.

Hope this helps!

I wrote a detailed post on SEMRush that talks about step by step research in order to come up with the list of keywords that are money making or help you get quality traffic and leads from search engine.

http://www.semrush.com/blog/publications/judge-value-keywords-business/

Go through the post and you will have a better idea. SEMRUsh does have limited countries but I think Google Keyword planner can help better in this regards.

Hope this helps!

Jonathan, the best way to start is by placing the problems at the front of you and see what problems are important and whose solutions are not easily available. When you say audit, the first thing that comes in to my mind is Screaming Frog. If you can make something more amazing and detailed then screaming Frog you should go for it.

Same goes for others. The idea is simple, place the problems at the front of you, think about the solution you have, see what other products offer the same and see if you can come up with a better option.

If you are going to come up with yet another product in the market, you will not survive in the market for a longer period of time.

Just a thought!

Ok, this is how I look at the situation.

1. ABC.com
2. ABC.com/index.php

So you have two URLs and the question is either to redirect301 or use canonical? In my opinion 301 is a better solution and this is because it will not only redirect people to the preferred version but the link value as well.

Whereas, with canonicals only search engines will know what is the preferred page but it will not transfer the link value which can help you with organic rankings.

Hope this helps!

OK, there may be other factors as well but yes exact match domain do have an impact not huge but they do have the power to outreach if all other things are working along.

I think this is what you should do:

-          Audit the website and see how many total links they have and how many are coming from quality sources. Compare it with your link profile and see if this is the problem

-          Another Research why they out rank you can be the quality of content on their website as compare to on your website. You can improve the quality by rewriting content plus adding some additional informative content.

-          Check social and compare it with yours.

Ideally, perform the complete website audit for both websites and if data says you are better it’s just the matter of time that you will again rank and the competitor will either go down or will completely go out from the search results.

Hope this helps!

True, no matter what the platform is if the Meta description is identical to the description of the product on the page it will not be considered as duplicate content but if the product page content is identical to some other page within or outside the website that will be considered as duplicate content.

Hope this helps!

Re-launch s directly proportional to traffic loss but proper planning and launching strategy can help you keep this drop to minimum.

If you are relaunching with keeping everything document, redirections, 404, content updates and more than this temporary dip can be minimum for a small amount of time.

Whenever relaunching it is important to keep few things in mind

-          Get a PR for the relaunch

-          Get new quality links back to the profile

-          Update new content more actively.

This will give Google a hint that you are serious about your business and people wants to see you more in SERP results.

Hope this helps!

I agree with Sage!

Never shift a website from one country to another country by myself but let me tell you what theory tells us.

-          Map Changing

If you website was associated to any business registered in Google Maps and other yellow pages than you carefully need to remove all listings and re-register it on another country. These will defiantly going to hurt your rankings on specific country where you were ranking before.

The problem is results for every country are different from others so if the rankings didn’t really changed (most probably it will fluctuate for local keywords) the rankings that you had in US will not be the same in AU.

What you should be doing.

1. Change your NAP and Re-register your maps in Google and other Yellow pages.
2. Update content accordingly
3. Get new links from .AU domains
4. Change your targeted country in Google Webmaster Tool
5. Get links from local keywords

And you will see your rankings will start appearing in google.com.au

Hope this helps!

Thanks Tomas,

I was trying to come up with a detailed answer but nothing was making sense to me at that time. Kudoos to you as you covered all the possible questions

http://www.redirect-checker.org/ This is the website. Just enter your URL and it will show you the status code of it.

As simple as that!

In your given scenario the best idea is to leave a message a t the top of the page that the product is discontinued and for new products take them to the new products page. Leaving them no follow or follow is up to you.

1. If you will leave them follow with a custom message that will take them to a relevant page will help decrease the overall bounce rate of the website.
2. If you no-follow them it slowly and gradually will be no index from the Google and the traffic that was coming from search engine to those pages will be discounted.

If I would be at your place, I would have designed the powerful message with bright color at the top of the page and will leave them follow as this will allow some of the traffic on that page to move to other areas of the website.

Hope this helps!

Having an identical image and page name didn’t sounds spammy to me at all but if your page will contain the same keywords everywhere in title, description, h1 and more than obviously it will become spammy and it will hurt your rankings from the desired key phrases.

Hope this helps!

I seriously do not understand your question. Can you please try to be a little more specific about your question so that I can answer accordingly!

Please consider!

Talking from the experience, if the content is good, link profile is legit then EMD always help you stay on top as compare to competitors who are using brand names in their domain name.

Hope this helps!