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Since Google is tailoring search results to user IP and location, is it still best practice to optimize your site titles etc. with long-tail geographic keywords? For example, instead of optimizing a page for "dentist in West Palm Beach, Florida", search users who are IN West Palm Beach can just search "dentists" and a list of local dentists will be displayed (both in the local listings AND organic search listings). I'd love to see Rand cover this on a Whiteboard Friday!
Hi Rich,
To the best of my knowledge, most of the directory type links are unlikely to get you penalized. If anything, those types of links are likely to be devalued as Google learns more about their inclusion process etc.
I'd keep most of the directory links unless there is something that is clearly off-the-rails bad!
Look forward to hearing insights from others.
Ricky
Hi there!
Im not sure that I know the answer to this questions as it is a bit outside of my area of expertise and experience, but I figured this page may be able to provide some help.
https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-internationalisation#q8
I have a client who does patio furniture repair and restoration. When performing keyword research in Moz for terms like "patio furniture repair" I see that only 11-50 people in the entire US are searching for this term according to the Moz data. However, running an Adwords campaign currently and our top keyword is the phrase match for "patio furniture repair" which has generated over 100 clicks in just a couple of months in ONE county.
Is there a better way to research more accurate results on search volume estimates? This makes organic SEO and keyword targeting hard!
Thanks,
Ricky
I would maybe check to see if the cover photo was designed with high image resolution? For example, GIMP defaults to a resolution of 72 pixels, but I find that changing that number to 300 produces higher quality on large image files.
Also, check out this article http://ideasandpixels.com/the-new-google-cover-image-size-dimentions
Not sure on this one..hope you find an answer!
For inactive product pages I think it's usually best to send them to a 404 page. I'd make sure the 404 page includes a nice index of product categories and a mention that the product or page they were looking for is out of stock.
These pages don't usually contain much link value, so you shouldn't worry too much about having to set up 301s to similar products etc.
-RIcky
From a search perspective, It may be a bit more beneficial to use the directory route but that is often difficult to organize when we are talking about multiple pages (ie a previous years entire website).
In my opinion, the subdomain route seems like the best option. It will allow for the previous pages and content to contribute to the current sites domain authority while also serving as an extremely organized presentation of the previous years events and attractions!
As far as social media goes, I would follow this rule. If you manage ALL Facebook marketing activities for all locations use a single brand facebook page. If each location does their own marketing/Facebook then having separate accounts could help them engage more specifically with their local communities.
Hope that helps! I had the same issue for a client who was trying to manage multiple locations Facebook pages from a central command. Leads to mediocrity in my opinion!
Completely agree that on-site is needed, however, i'm not sure HOW much good it would do for that keyword phrase.
You are competing against one site for that term that you are extremely unlikely to outrank due to high DA/PA (2 SERP listings for houzz.com)
That being said you are competing with ashlimizell.com and down2earthdesign.com for the spot just ahead of the local listings (which may be hard to rank for due to the fact you are not actually located in Philly) and I think the on-site changes should take care of winning over that #3 ranking!
I also agree, kill the linked footer text. The anchor text doesn't really even match the corresponding page (ie interior design bucks county links to about page)
Also check out the Moz 2013 ranking factors for other areas that could help you get a boost in the SERPS! http://moz.com/rand/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/rank-factors-pie-2013lrg.gif
There is a thread about this actually already. Unfortunately they do not have monthly reports with Moz Analytics and they are not able to provide a timeline. http://moz.com/community/q/when-will-the-monthly-report-data-become-available
Isn't it essentially the same thing as using the "find keywords" aspect of SEOMOZ?
I see no reason to leave Moz! Their stuff is AWESOME!
Hey guys, not sure what was going on but it looks like the page is now registering the link juice passed from the www. version!
I appreciate the help!!
Hi all,
A bit of an unusual request, but wondering if anyone would know how to accomplish the following with Wordpress website and/or other tools.
We have a form on our site that users fill out and we're wanting to automatically generate an email to those users that consists of a contract.
The contract will need to automatically pull information from the form they submitted.
Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks!
Thanks Tom! I thought so, just wanted to make sure. The domain with dashes doesn't have a spammy link profile, just a spammy url 
We finally got our hands on the non-hyphenated version!
Thanks for the help!
-Ricky
Hi Gregory, I'm sure there are MANY others but here are some I read...
If you are interested in link building, I would definitely check out http://www.ericward.com/linkmosesprivate.html for 8 dollars per month. Good stuff there from Eric Ward
I assume not. I believe Google will just use your first line of content as the H1! I think Rand did a video on this not too long ago. I don't think he believes H1s were very important.
