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Hmmmm kinda sucks......

I just performed a search for wedding photographers in London and lots of google places adverts came up (many of them residential addresses) now none of those photographers can shoot a wedding at their home (studio or not)

So that doesn't make ANY sense whatsoever....oh well I guess its a no no then.

Hi Guys.

I am working with a photographer they do not have a studio they shoot on location.

However I noticed many photographers within their industry have their home address listed in their google places, and they too shoot on location.

My client doesn't want their home address listed so I wondered what options there would be?

Do you think renting mail forwarding address would suffice?

Hi everyone!

Working on a site and the homepage hardly ever updates. Probably 3/4 times per year.

The only page on the site which does is the blog page which updates 4 times per week.

Is this a bad thing? Is there anything I should attempt to do?

Hi Jamie

Yes I was refering to google I'm only really concerned with rankings the other things (PR/DA/PA) all confuse things imo.

When you say I would notice the benefits in minutes what kind of benefit are you referring to? Referral Traffic?

Can I also clarify that the link Im talking about would be the company name and not a targeted keyword......so I assume it would be unlikely that you would rank better for specific keywords would it?

Thanks

What I mean is lets assume you were to get a link from BBC or CNN how long does it take for that link to have a positive impact on your rankings?

I ask because I am experiment with getting links from different sources and I want to try and nail down their real worth.....

Also if you do get a link is it normal that google would crawl your site and if so do you see this reflected in googles cache immediately?

Thanks

I agree with this really people are obsessed with Page Rank and Domain Authority.....SEOr's need to get their head around the fact that traffic is what REALLY matters.

What if you had a site with a DA of 100 but got no traffic?

So OP what you need to really think about since you have started your seo campaign have you been able to increase your rankings and therefore have you been able to increase your traffic?

Ignore D.A for now.......

Would you recommend Yext or Whitespark for UK customers I have never heard of them, personally.

Google places is completely different to organic results. Why dont you google the term if you are unsure of what it is.

In terms of where you are on the first page then you are 5th but that is 2nd in google places (which is below the 3 organic results) rather than 5th on the organic results - there IS a difference.  For example if google decided to remove google places for whatever reason you would no longer be appearing on the first page for this term.

Thank you guys I think that gives me enough info  to make an informed decision!

Its not in the serps it in google places and position 2 there.I didnt find it in the first 3 pages of organic results.

I used pagewash.com to check.

Thank you Jamie......looks good I will give this a go....

Kinda surprised SEOmoz dont have one I would prefer to keep all my seo tools with the same company.....ah well!

Hi Guys

I have been working on a site and I'm doing better but I just want to ensure I am covering all the bases.  I have a list of competitors and I want to see if I can find out what keywords they are ranking for so I can research and see if there is any merit in me trying to rank for those keywords also?

Is there any software or processes that any of you can recommend?

Thanks

Thank you Aran

I will try that......

Hi Guys.

I have been sorting out title tags for a photography site. I have given each page within the website a different title tag but now Im unsure as what I should do with the blog.

Blog title tag is currently "Portrait Photographer London | Company Name Blog"

This is fine however wordpress combines the homepage title tag with the title of each blog post and imo makes for a long & cumbersome title...such as :

"The Obamas Family Portrait | Portrait Photographer London | Company Name Blog"

I'm pretty sure I could do better and should do better but Im at a loss, what do you guys think?

If the blog has good DA I would suggest it does have good benefit especially if it is on topic for your website.

I think its a combination of several factors such as:

• New audience that you wouldn't normally have access to.

• Related website giving you a link.

*Author/Brand awarenes & trust.

Not to mention I have had guest blog articles become extremely popular on twitter and facebook far more popular than I would ever been able to generate on my clients site alone.

Thanks Conell

I instantly recognised that page when I clicked on the link....I obviously read this before and it was lurking in the back of my empty brain somewhere

Thank You!

As the title says really, I'm sure the answer is Yes, but I cannot remember why probably one of the many things I read somewhere along the line and can't recall the reasoning can anyone enlighten me please?

Hi Guys

My client has been offered a link from someone within their industry on their blog. The blog has 20 categories and multiple (hundreds if not more pages within each category). The owner of the website has said that would be happy to give my client a link on each of their pages (including their homepage).

They have done this for another couple of people who they like before, so I typed these domains into OSE and noticed that for each page it shows a link and also the page authority.

Domain Authority of this blog giving the link is 71

Home Page PA - 76

About us PA - 60

it goes on.........the least PA being shown is 52 so lets for arguements sake say the other 18 or say categories are PA of 52 too.

My question is surely the OSE is not accurate to imply that my client could be passed page authority from 18 categories at 52 each + home page of 76 + about me page of 60?

Hopefully you understand the point I'm trying to make

I would personally use the one with ALL the hyphens.= slot-machines-gratis.it

I think that sends the clearest picture to google and users what your site is about.

Even is you bought slotmachinesgratis.it I'm sure google is now sophisticated to know (after a short time crawling your site) that these are 3 seperate words and what you are attempting to rank for.

OP sorry to jump in on your thread but can I ask Jeremy can you clarify what you have said for me, if you move keywords around in the title tag you say you see a dip at first?

Im about to do the same thing but I thought I would only see a dip (even temporarily) if I was moving a keyword further away from the front?

Also if you see a dip can you tell me roughly how long this lasts for?