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Yahoo uses Google in Japan (not that you, or anyone really cares).

Most listing I see now are the hybrid ones.  Meaning they attached your Places page to your website, but the click thru still goes to your website. If that is the case, then that is where you now rank.

Make sure they are part of the actual structure of your website, not just part of search.  Meaning, you have to have links pointing at them.  Also, you will also want to make sure that those pages have value.

Contact all the webmasters that linked to your blogspot blog, and ask them to change the link over to your website since the resources will no longer be there?

• What pages were ranking for those terms?
• What's your site's authority compared to competition?
• Where is your server located?
• What Geo location are you using in Webmaster Tools?

Also, you have two versions of your website: www. and non-www.

First off, if the keywords are pretty related, having similar synonyms, then it can be pretty easy to rank for all three.

For Example, I used my home page to target: Car Dealerships City, City Car Dealerships, City Used Cars, City State Car Dealerships, etc.

Since all of these are so relevant to each other, it made things as easy as just talking about my business in my city-state.

However, my internal pages are very specific: City state auto repair, city state car rentals, etc.

Point is, if your top three keywords are about the same topic, then it can be easy to rank for all three on the home page.  However, if they are different, and highly competitive (Diets and Gyms), then you are going to need to split up the content into different pages to rank well.

As for which pages you should focus on, it depends on your current rankings, and traffic.  If you currently rank pretty well overall for your home page, then get it bumped up to the top to increase traffic.  After that, start working on all the other pages.

If you aren't ranked well yet, and you don't have much traffic, then go after a niche phrase with decent search with all your internal pages.  This will help your bottom line more - easier conversions - and still help your overall domain authority.  I'm having to turn around, and do this with all of my websites that I took over (In-House SEO).

I can't remember where I saw the data, but the benefits of a link drop dramatically after the first few.  So, spending all that time building links to a secondary blog that will only give you good juice on probably two links seems a waste of time.  You would be better off buying a well established blog, drop a couple links to yourself, and continue to utilize it for its intended purpose.

If it were me, I would put that quality content with the products themselves, and work on getting them ranked.  With a well designed page you should be able to convert these people for the phrases they searched.  If additional help is needed, link out to it from this page, and not as a separate blog.  It will benefit from the very relevant link on your own site, and you can continue to build links to it if its a popular search phrase.

For years I would put "Expert with Excel" on my Resume because I thought I knew it all.  Now I know that I only understood the surface of a gigantic beast of a program!

That one is a soft warning.  While best practices dictate that the amount of links you should have on a page is enough, meaning the minimum amount that you need, the number 100 has been used as a base point.  This includes all the links in the header, footer and body.  So, if you have a complex menu system, you are probably going to get close to that number right away.

Anyway, it's all about shaping your website to retain as much "link juice" on your important pages, and making sure less important pages don't start leaching off of it.  This warning is just suggesting that you should take a look to see if everything you are linking to is important to the visitor on that page.

Link Building is starting to be a transition back to College.  You have to write high quality content that identifies, and utilizes references.  In addition to just being structurally, grammatically and intellectually sound, you also have to have it fill a niche within your market.

For example:

You notice that several university websites have an incomplete analysis of the water shed on a predominant mountain range in their area.  You could collect resources online about this topic, and write a complete analysis of how it effects the people around it.  You could then request links from these universities to link to your complete article.  After you go through the 15-20 relevant universities you could start contacting the cities, real estate agencies and some guiding services to link to your article.

As long as you write a high quality piece of content that people will find informative and enjoyable you should generate a few links.  Of course, I would suggest picking a more interesting topic, but this is just hypothetical.

That being said:

I would suggest The Interenet Marketing Ninjas (formerly We Build Pages) and Virante.  Both of these companies have reputations for being great link builders, but you pay for high quality safer links.

If you aren't overly concerned with the risks, and you have a smaller budget, you could also talk to a link broker company like Text Link Brokers, who will assist you in purchasing links (which is a no-no if found).  I don't mean to alarm you, Text Link Brokers is a great company that doesn't give out their client info, but it would be careless of me not to mention that there is a risk.

How else are those pages being linked to?  Have you ran a Screaming Frog scan to see how many internal links they are getting compared to similar pages that are ranking well?

Great response Danaglenn!  Can you send me some of your program info?  I might have a couple people that could use your assistance.  Yes, I'm being totally serious.

From what I can find on the internet, it depends.  Matt Cutt's has stated that these types of links are for profit, so would typically be devalued.  However, a few people have found value in these types of links.

Soooooo, it depends on the situation, but the main purpose of your affiliate network is still in place; to get more leads.

For terms about the same topic, as you just wrote in your A/B example, I would utilize one page.  That is, one page for "Dental Implants."  The reason being, your content is going to be relevant for terms regarding the same topic, and your link profile will be built with many variations of the term (Dental Implants in Boston, Boston Dentists who do Implants, etc.)

Back to your original question though, you will want a seperate page for each individual procedure.

yourwebsite.com/boston-teeth-whitening

yourwebsite.com/boston-dental-implants

I would just make sure to use the keyword phrase with the most traffic in your url (depending on overall length of url).  The benefit seems to be getting smaller as time goes on, but that's what people are looking for when they search.

Ryan Kent always has an awesome explanation for this type of scenario, so hopefully he drops in.

Anyway,

As long as you have it organized properly you should be able to make an attempt at ranking any phrase you want (I say attempt since you still have to optimize after creating the site).

I've ready a couple of Ryan's posts about the reasons for using /folders or subdomains, but I can't seem to find them right now.

Domain.com/Movies/Best-Movies-of-all-time

Domain.com/training/Doggy-Pushups

schema-creator.org

That's what I use.

The best practice is to not let your internal search get indexed.  Use no-index,follow so that Google can follow any links on the page, but doesn't place your search pages in the index.

Reason why: duplicate content

How different is a search for "kitten" going to be from the search "kittens" on your website?  Probably pretty exact.  However, they will possess two different url's.  Ta-da!  Duplicate content!  Not to mention:

Kittie, Kitty, Kitties, cute kittens, funny kittens, black kittens, grey kittens, cat, cats, etc.

For proof, go check out your google analytics, how many different ways are people finding you right now?

Personally, I would pursue a better link from them, right within the content.  Don't just get even, get ahead

As for the .Org being better:

From what I've read in a couple blogs, I've never tested this, it's not that a .Org is just better.  What makes .edu's and .Org more desirable is that they are typically more authoritative sites.  A typical university has a 80+ Domain Authority, where a .Com will vary greatly.

The search volumes look about the same for either one (currently 110-74), and the difficulty level is about the same for either phrase.  So, I would choose the top one since it would be easier for a customer to just type in if they recommend it to a friend.

This really depends on the difficulty of your keywords.  If the market is very competitive, then don't expect to rank in the top three very quickly with a brand  new domain (it can be done, but it would take a lot of planning with link bait, and amazing execution of social media).  However, if you are in a relatively easy vertical, you could end up ranking twice in the same search (bonus!).

I would suggest:

Using the old domain

301'ing, or reusing any highly linked pages

submitting a new sitemap

Gaining a bunch of links to urge re-crawling

Having a sit down with the client before to explain possible short term ranking drops (Which sucks! They don't want to understand why)

Not checking the rankings every 30 minutes if drops occur.