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I know, totally understand. Coming from where YP is, as you said, it makes complete sense.

I am guessing your site is corazonas.com ? If yes, I am seeing sitelinks for both the terms. The only difference is that for corazonas foods, it's the expanded sitelinks.

Even for corazonas snacks, you have expanded sitelinks.

There are a lot of ranking factors that influence the ranking for a certain keyword, right ? Given that thought, there has to be something beyond the Page Title / Meta data. Think about some of these things:

• Extermal In-bound links
• Internal Links
• Size of the site / Number of pages within your website
• Nature of content
• Images, Image filenames, Alt Tags etc
• Any social media related to that keyword ?

It's absolutely possible for a website to rank for hundreds and thousands of keywords but that does not mean if they are targeting another keyword, they optimize it, create a page and rank for it ?

Think about it, if Amazon.com wanted to rank for Car Insurance (Extreme examples, super competitive keyword and an equally strong domain). The site may have lots and lots of pages somehow related to Car Insurance (Books, DVDs etc) with Page Titles, On-page content and so on, but they still probably would not rank higher then the competition even though the competition may not have anywhere close to the link profile as Amazon.com

Does that make sense ?

In my opinion, it's a combination of content and internal/external links.

Maybe I am wrong and it's something else. Did you actually get any penalty ? Are/were any of your other keywords affected ? Keep in mind, your site is 6 months old. So it does not really have the age aspect as well as domain authority.

Marie

I just found this Chrome Extension, which does have a copyscape aspect in it. So you can click a button and it can check the entire page, not just a small snippet of text or phrase.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meta-seo-inspector/ibkclpciafdglkjkcibmohobjkcfkaef

I hope this helps.

Considering all this, I would create a second GA account temporarily until you figure out and do what you need to. Should not be an issue. Do what you need to to clarify and confirm the situation as well as identify the problem.

Can the YP/agency setup an Adwords sub-account for you guys to access ?

On my iPhone5 (Gmail App), it shows up fine.

Clearly, it sounds like there isn't enough domain authority / page authority or off-age that is needed to rank competitively for that term. The other terms that you are ranking for in the US and UK, might not have enough competition that you were able to trickle through the SERPS and get higher positions.

I would look at the link profiles of some of your top ranking competitors and see what they are doing in terms of links and help / suggest / propose to build some natural / authority links.

That off-page is going to help the entire site BTW.

Earlier, it was the actual question that was hyperlinked. Now, as matbennett said, it's a button. The "Go to question" button.

I hope this helps.

Can you not just login to the Adwords account and grant it (Adwords) access to analytics ? That should work and not physically grant access to somebody else..or a person access to your Analytics. Does that work ?

James

From between the 2 options you have, clearly the sub-folder is a better option. Sub-domains are almost treated as separate domains, and therefore when you 301 redirect brandA.co.uk to brandA.brandC.co.uk, it does not help build brandC.co.uk, which is what I think you'd want.

If you do brandA.co.uk redirected to brandC.co.uk/brandA, it will build some trust on authority for your brandC.co.uk domain.

I hope this helps.

If you only have 50 or do redirects that you have a list for, I would advise a 1 to 1 redirect. Ie.

domain.com/index.php/red_widgets/ is changing to domain.com/red-widgets/

There's no point in redirecting /index.php/red_widgets/ to domain.com/red_widgets/ which you know does not exist.

It would be wiser to just setup redirects directly from /index.php/red_widgets/ to /red-widgets/ without another step in between. I know that might mean you might not be able to do regular expression, but since you are dealing with 50 redirects only, it's not a big deal.

Regarding the number of redirects, I won't worry about 50 redirects.

With what they are doing, can't they do with Read Only access ? Do they really need admin access ? If not, see this:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/tracking-sites-with-multiple-google-analytics-accounts

If you are just doing a redesign that does not entail any URL changes, I would suggest keep them as is.

On a side note, how are you ranking compared to your competition ?

You could potentially test 1-2 pages on your site, change _ to - and see if it makes any difference. And yes, you would need to do 301 redirects and that would pass most (not all) of your link juice. It can and still work fine. So before you do something like this on a large scale, test it on a small scale if you can.

It also depends on how much authority your site has in Google ? Do your breadcrumbs show up in Google SERPS ? And so on.

I hope this helps you come to the right conclusion.

LOL. That's funny

I second ASmallOrange.com, amazing support. Another one is ServInt.com

Both of them are great in support. I hope this helps.

You have some great points already from Alan, Robert and Phillip. I would identify your competition as well as understand your customer. See where your target audience is and where they are. Look at how your competition is presenting themselves and getting in the face of your customer. All that you need to do is to do a better job then them. It's easier said then done, but it's possible. Think how Startup companies get to become well known. They provide a better service then somebody else.

Yup, definitely. Submit it and forget it. If you get it, great. If not, don't stress yourself to it. There's not much you can do anyways.

As Robert said, it's definitely a good link. Also as Colin said, it's "very" important to submit it in the right category and the right title and description. Don't over optimize it. Keep it simple and descriptive enough.

I agree with the 302 solution. Makes complete sense for usability as well as for SEO.

You could also 302 it to another, more appropriate page during the time it would be down and then remove the redirect when you want it make it available again.

That makes sense, thanks for clarifying Mike. I was looking for a "local" plumber and I would obviously prefer somebody with a local number in my area, rather then a 800 number.

Let's say I am in Boston. I would prefer somebody with 617-xxx-xxxx that I'd like to call. If somebody with 800-xxx-xxxx or an area code that I am not familiar with in my area, I might not call them.

Considering that, if it's a global company servicing clients nationwide, I am sure it makes sense for them to invest in local numbers for each major city/state they service.

Thanks again. Thumbs Up