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I am not sure how to respond to it as your information is quite less...at least prove the URL so that i can exactly look in to the issue and can help you with possible fixes...

At the moment i can say this can be Panda, Penguin and if you have the exact match domain then this can be one of the possibilities as Goole comes up with a small algorithm update about EMD.

Try to provide the URL so that we all can get more in to your problem in specific....

Hurting? NO!

Not Helping?  This is not the case either.

Actually you are missing the opportunity to be smarter on links... If you are getting quality links with www then you should use the same URL as upon redirection (301) some of the link juice will be left.

As you said you made most of the links with-www then you should try redirecting all versions of URL to www-version so that you can earn the most out of it...

Ok i guess the problem is that website is crawled but not indexed and there can be several reasons for it...

Here are few things you can do to say hi to Google and in way request them to re-crawl your website....

1. Try updating page content more frequently..
2. Share it on social media especially on twitter and Google+
3. Increase the crawl rate in Google webmaster tool (I know it has nothing directly to do with it but it works for me... most of the times)
4. Try to get some links on the home and internal pages
5. Do some social bookmarking of internal pages (not for link but for crawling purposes)

Hope it will help!

Here you go! >> http://www.seomoz.org/directories

BIG question Ryan, but if I cut all the crap the result would be something like this…

Some directories are really good while others are really bad so if you really know what good directories are go for it but if you don’t then don’t do the wild guess kind of a thing or judge the quality by the website’s layout!

SEOmoz have bunch of good directories in their list so you can go though the full list within your paid SEOmoz account see if you can go with those….

My suggestion is not different from others so i think i will also advice and recommends you to use ‘/’instead of default.aspx and more...

I know you want to get better results and traffic from search engine but to be very honest...with ASP websites it’s a real pain (if you are using ASP platform...) I think following things should be considered as more important than adding keywords in the URL...

1. There should be a proper navigational structure and pages should be 301 redirected instead of 302 (if any)
2. Use single version of URL
3. Add kick ass content
4. Get quality links to it
5. Keep a check of functionality and load time of the website so that things can stay under control

And more...

I think adding too many keywords that does not add value to user will hurt from search engine point of view as search engines are trying hard to come as nearer as possible to how human brain thinks...

I think this is one of the best ways to get your website kicked hard by penguin... To be really honest i can say NO to your idea!

I guess if a guy can work for you 4 hours a day and you want him to do quality link building for you then you should tell him to find link opportunities for you instead of blogs and forums that offer do follow link...

• Tell him to find the website that allow guest posting and are related to your niche.
• Tell him to find websites that are link to broken links of any of the website
• Tell him to email them and request links from them
• Tell him to search the image that you are using on your website to see who else are using it to ask link from them...

And this way you will be able to build a legitimate link profile instead of spammy link building that usually starts with do follow blog commenting...

Not really sure about this but i guess you should email to help team at SEOmoz and ask them if this tool support multi-language... Although i never tried using another language in this tool but i guess it doesn't

I think still the best idea is to email help@seomoz.org and they can tell you the best regarding this.

unfortunately, it is not must that Google will send you an email.. you have to keep track of your links yourself as it is your baby you are building!

If you are looking for an agency or a freelancer to help you with that I guess the it is best to post job on twitter with the relevant hash tag or maybe you can search on Google for some agency who offer similar kind of services...

I think you have a PDF and all you want to do is to promote the website within the targeted audience and get down downloads for the ebook. More downloads means more email subscriptions and this you will use further for promotional emails.

To be honest, If I will be at your place i would have plan the promotion even before the content, but now when you have done this here is the recommended action plan you can follow!

Decide Clear goals:

This will help you identify that your overall promotional plan is getting any success or not. Try to make few clear, measurable goals from the promotional plan. With the ebook you should consider the following goals as important

1. Specific number of email subscription.
2. Specific number of links you will get on an ebook
3. How much quality traffic i should receive
4. Specific number of leads for my business.
5. Number of tiwtter followers should increase
6. Number of facebook followers should increase to a certain extent.

Once the goals are decided now it’s a time for a promotional plan and to achieve each part of the goal you should promote accordingly. Like for example for Facebook and twitter you can invite the people and pass them a book upon a tweet or a facebook like...

Blogger Outreach is also a good idea, you can also try Press Release... as this is a guide, contacting institutes and schools that offer related course can also be of great help...

This is a creative game to think, scale under your budget and do it...

The overall idea makes sense as you want to target specific people who are really looking for the kind of content you offer but what the suggestion about keywords and description there is a slight problem and that is that this will also kick the users who are searching for nightlife in Birmingham...

How about going like this?

Title: What’s on in the Nightlife of Birmingham?

Description: carry on with the result of the information in the description.

This way you will kick the irrelevant searches as well as welcome the people who are looking for your kind of content.

Hope this helps!

Hello Calvin,

I am not exact sure as diagnosing a real problem from the user end in this case seems quite difficult but here are few of things that seem clear!

1. I will agree with Ryan that your link profile contain lousy links in it, so this is quite a possibility that you are facing a limited level of penalty because you are only appearing from your brad related keywords but if you go for any general relevant keyword then your website found nowhere in the search results..
2. As Google try and test multiple algo updates, so this is quite a possibility that this will be the impact of some algorithm update. Again, If this is the case you are somewhere going against the Google guidelines...
3. This can be the impact of any change thing you made recently on the website... if this is the case try undoing things and see if things work out for you...

It is highly advisable to build quality links to the website to deduce the amount of junk from the link profile or else you will face penalties from Google which eventually will hurt your business seriously.

Hope this will help!

SEOmoz use to have this option in the past days but recently when i checked its gone... but while research to answer this question i found this http://www.martinhurford.com/serp-downloader-bookmarklet.html

Check this out and see if it is powerful!

I am not sure the question itself is quite confusing but as far as my understanding goes here is the answer:

If a client has 3 different business addresses in 3 different cities that mean you can include 3 listings for client so why choose anyone, why not include all and optimize them completely?

You can always get a way to completely optimize the listing and get reviews (in terms of local)... if this is what you are looking for.

Actually blogs are talking too much about link building that it seems like on-page optimization is less important or some even come to me for link building on their website with any on-page optimization was not proper.

I think On-page optimization is really important and out of all the on-page factors title tag is one of the most important one. I think if title tag can be handled correctly you can actually beat your very powerful competitors for some of the highly competitive key phrases.

Ann is smart indeed and I always mentioned that she is one of the few people who actually help me get better at SEO and blogging.

Getting free traffic idea is terrific and easy if the community is helpful but if the community is hijacked by spammers and there is no moderator that same good website becomes the real pain in the head...

As I said, Ann is smart so she must have some keep check on it but i would love to hear from her about the maintenance of the highest quality.

Well, to be honest Chris, It is a poorly maintained site. I mean deleting the past news is not at all the solution... I guess the right solution is to work on hosting side and enhance the data base or else the problem will be continuous.

If you are going to use too many redirections this will cause another problem and at the same time will slow down your website speed.

Actually 404s are generating because the URL is available in Google index but there is no page on your website available against it and this causes a 404... The easy way is to reduce 404 is to send a removal request to Google from Google webmaster tool.

And for future... instead of removing pages you should try investing on database and better hosting.

Ok, when the question starts it sounds real easy to me but down the question it become too complex that it makes me confused on how to answer...

For Business listing I think it’s best to go with http://www.example.com/biz/my-business-name

For category pages the URL should be like http://www.example.com/oh/car-parts (oh represents the city name while car parts in the category)

All categories should come in all states for example if a person in California looks for car parts the url should be http://www.example.com/ca/car-parts

Reason why you should adopt this structure...

1. Duplicate content issue will be eliminated
2. URLs will not be so long so there will be no indexing issues
3. Even if a business selects the multiple categories the content will not be duplicated.

Hope this helps...

Sorry about that... must be my bad!

Well yeah Google Places is more focused on delivering the results from the area and surroundings so it’s almost impossible for you to rank in local searches...

I think in that case Matt’s suggestions are helpful in that case and that is to make country specific pages with keyword and make it rank accordingly (not not over optimized to make it look spammy... do it the natural way...)

Hope this helps...