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Nima what platform are you using?

Is it PHP or ASP? And any specific CMS?

With wordpress all you have to do is to install a redirection plugin and you are good to go... but if you have a normal php based website you have to write the following code in your .htaccess file.

_Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.yoursite.com/newpage.html_

_ Redirect 301 /oldpage2.html http://www.yoursite.com/newpage.html_[](http://www.yoursite.com/folder/)

If you are on a ASP platform you have to look in to your IIS and then work accordingly.

I think Google is discouraging site-wide links that are included to manipulate Google SERP results and are not for users... in your case they seems completely fine. I guess adding the link to other websites (for people who use language other than English) without the anchor text but on a flag will be a better idea.

Link on a flag on the header or footer will give your visitor a clear idea of where to go if English is not the language he is looking for and as it will not have any anchor text so it will give no red alert to Google for manipulation!

When i use the same tactic as you defined in your question’s explanation i was able to see your page in the search results...

Use this common in search bar to see how many pages are indexed in Google ‘site:example.com’.

May be not all the pages are indexed, for that try and check the following two things:

• Make sure all pages of the website are follow,index for Google and other search engines
• Update your sitemap and submit it to Google webmaster tool and you will see the efficiency in website page index.

Hope this helps!

James, the best way that I always recommend to my clients is the statistics and presentation. The more you will have stats the more people will link to you and how good your presentation is will help you get more and more natural links.

Stats are something that isn’t SPAMMY content and at the same time attract users and get links from them!

Actually there can be multiple reasons how you can play around with it and stats is only one of the idea… there can be hundreds of different ideas that can come in to mind keeping the industry in mind!

I think Matt and David is pretty much right but I will make my own comment on this…

For Beginners obviously there is no good place to start then SEOmoz guide to SEO Beginners…

But if you have done that step then you have to create your website, links, content and almost everything for user and make sure that you are helping user from your efforts…the more you will do work for user the more people will engage with you and you will be able to get top 10 rankings from your desired key phrases… and no Google animal can kill your rankings over night!

I believe the current progress is pretty much relevant to user but do provide the option to change the location if user want to manually change it! (it will be a good user experience)

To get all links crawled by search engine, here are few things that you should consider!

• Make sure sitemap have all links appearing that have on the website. Including all the links in the xml sitemap will help Google to consider those pages
• Point links to all location pages. This will help Google to consider indexing those pages and make it rank for relevant terms.
• Social Signals are important try to get social value of all location pages as Google usually crawl pages with good social value!

I think the current approach is awesome just add manually change location option if a visitor wants it.

I don’t think there is any specific tool for local keyword search but you can always go with Google keyword tool, Google Insight and more to have a little idea of it…Word Tracker and Free keyword discovery are also a good place to start!

But personally to find the REAL actionable keywords I would suggest you to invest a little on PPC and test all local keywords for a week or two to find out the list of keywords that will produce you traffic as well as conversions…

I think it’s a great question that most people don’t ask.

SEO while development:

This can also further divided in two different parts depending on your budget and goals. Like if you are a simple local business then one way to go with SEO while development is to make sure that website is building currently from Navigation, Content, links, hosting and domain point of view. Other way to go is to have pre promotional plan to engage the target audience even before the website go live and at the same time making sure that website is fit from all development and on-page areas.

Continuous SEO

In this SEO service you expect results, you expect to get yourself on top of search engine from the desired key phrases and get leads and sales for the business out of it. There is no time limit to it but usually one can expect to start seeing results within 4 to 6 month of time (depending on niche and industry)

I believe you should go for One time SEO, with or without the promotion plan is up to your business strategy and budget for SEO.

Depends, If you have secure login system on your website then you cannot put 301 on https because in that case user might not be able to access the login area.

Adding canonical is fine and you can also restrict from crawling by adding it in to Robots.txt file.

http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/creating-an-editorial-calendar-for-content-marketing/

This is one of the most actionable post on Calender for Content Marketing...

Before initiating anything major on the website, always look in to Bing analytics and see what BING webmaster tool tells about your current rankings... sometime due to several data centre issues what you see are not the universal results....

Obviously the idea cannot come in handy but here is a rough idea for you in your related niche...

Take some topic like ‘Idea of a Perfect luxurious Kitchen!’ and put one image that sounds perfectly ideal...

Below to the image allow people to talk about this kitchen and submit the picture of their ideal kitchen... and start promoting the age...

As it is UGC based people will automatically participate and share the content on social media and link to it by discussing it on the blog and forums...

301 simply means that link juice will transfer from old domain to the new one so if it was really penguin and the website get hit really because of links then yes it is bad or else the negative impact of links will transfer on the new domain...

I agree with the Alan’s Idea of disavow links but it will take a lot of time... so why not invest some time on link removing?

I am not sure what your client industry is so I am pitching the idea in general and then you can change it as per your industry.

Why not you put something interesting and valuable to your audience instead of a coming soon page... like provide a FREE guide to something what most people in your niche are looking for!

This will help you get some natural links from different multiple domains and at the same time this will increase your email list that you can later use to increase your sales ratio and more...

#justathought

To start i am not a BIG fan of directories as they sometime takes long and give little benefit to the overall project. I would recommend you investing your time on some other valuable stuff then this!

But as you asked for it i can provide you one resource that have the list of legal web directories...

http://www.web-directories.ws/Niche/Legal/

+1 from my side Ala! I simply hate people who are investing their lot of money on KW density... the more human written your content is the more people will read and convert...

I think get yourself/your business submitted in search engines, local directories, aggregators and other 411 directories is not at all a bad idea and if what they are say is what they really do then i don’t think there is much problem with that...

But submitting the business is not the end of the game you have to make their embassies up and running...like drive clients to get reviews and response to reviews. Before start working (if they are ethical) you should know how you are going to manage many different embassies and if you can’t try to be on less review and yellow pages websites (yelp is important) and get reviews from clients about your business...

I haven’t worked on that industry myself but having a click through rate for your PPC campaign is important. There are some general tips that I have come up with in order to get the most out of campaign.

• Do not over do with lot of information. Research, think and decide what is your primary goal that you want people to achieve and focus on that... providing lot of information will confuse the people.
• The action button on the page should clear, BIG and bright in colour. BIG, clear and different colour from the theme will catch the attention and make people click.
• Generally for every industry and especially for eCommerce, USE GOOD IMAGES. The more high quality your images will be the more it will attract user and he/she will more likely click to it.

Obviously there are many others depending on who kind of audience they are and how they are responding to your test ads...Above all keep one thing in mind is being transparent is the awesome way to increase your click through rate... don’t use titles and description of the ad to catch people attention but use titles and description that tells people what the ad is all about and how it is important to them.

I know about DIGG and its no follow but i dont have a clear idea about what others are do follow book marking website... the list of do follow social bookmarking website can easily be available online.

The point is if you are using social bookmarking website, its better not to consider it too important and spend too much time on it. There are some good bookmarking website like Delicious, Reddit and more...

Glad that you are planning to get links, the legitimate way… there can be several ways to get quality likes on your facebook fan page.

My suggestions are that you should go for the likes that are coming from your targeted audience and in order to do that here are my advices:

• As you said you offer a personal development training, so why not offer a special discount to your facebook fans only and if someone wants to avail a discount he/she have to be the facebook fan.
• Encourage targeted people to like you and share it with others though Tees, activities and others…
• Offer free lecture on personal development training and make it available for the people upon liking the page.

There can be many ideas so the more you can invest the more likes you can get out of it.