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I'd have to agree with Keri on the feel of where I'm landing when going to the site.  I thought it was a commercial for givenchy as well.

It's a beautiful site though.  I was considering revamping my personal site to be something like this.

If there's any manual raters who got a hold of it, maybe that's why they de-ranked you if they got the same feel as Keri and I did.

When I do a source check on the meta description, I see:

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i.e., nothing.  I'm a little surprised you were #8 with this and a title of:

<title></span><span>Gunshot Digital | Gunshot Digital</title>

I looked at your backlinks and it makes sense why you were ranking now.  But maybe a bunch of your on page got screwed up from your new site?  Take some time going through all of the on page factors and make sure they're all o.k.

I thought the recent change in the algo was about ads showing up towards the top and the stuff above the fold not matching search queries were punishing 1% of the sites.  This just seems like a) not matching search intent at first glance and b) on page elements getting screwed up, but I only spent a few minutes looking.

Thanks Mat.   This last list definitely had a lot of possible rank checkers to look through.

I ended up buying the Rank Checker from Link-Assistant.com today, but a bit disappointed for what you get from $249.00 right now.  I really need something to automate this rankings process for my clients, but all the reporting functions require you to upgrade or buy their most expensive package.  Plus, they try to get you with other little extras to keep the software current after 6 months.  I think I'm going to ask for my money back because they have a 30 day money back guarantee on keeping us happy.

I'm not having any luck with other tools either like cuterank.net and rankerizer.com which weren't on the list.  I just need a tool that can do unlimited rank checks, keep track of the rankings over time so I save a good 3 days worth of work.  Doing it manually with SEOBook's rank checker can't be an option moving forward.

I've been very attracted by Raven before and actually signed up for a while.  However, the 1000 a  month might be too little.  They have a lot of other great benefits for the $99/mo, but I already have SEOMOz, Majestic SEO and bought SECockpit recently which I'm considering returning because I don't know if I have the time to take advantage of them all per month.  Maybe when I build up a team that can start leveraging them, I may invest.  Or maybe I'm just being too cheap?  If I was rolling in it, it would be a different story.  I would be buying tools right and left just to try them out.  

Thanks again.

I do a lot of my SERP ranking tracking via Aaron Wall's Rank Checker, but I'm realizing it's taking up too much time.  I was looking at Raven's tools and a few others.  What's been your favorite thus far?

If you do reply, can you talk about:

• price
• capabilities
• time savings b/c of it
• graphical UI
• other thoughts

I like SEOMoz's UI, but I can only manage 5 domains and I don't have a huge budget yet.

Also, if there's a rank checker out there that incorporates google places results, that would be great too!  Maybe too good, eh?

When you say you:

"Adding us to local business directories"

How many did you do?  Which ones did you add your small business to?

I don't know about the UK, but there's a ton of directories and sites depending on the niche/vertical you can submit to.  While they don't necessarily create better organic rankings, they can help build your PR + if done correctly help your google places page rise.  It's one of the reasons why we were able to move to the top for the main phrase for our business locally in maps.

What's your site?

I just searched "local seo uk" and this popped up: http://www.seo-doctor.co.uk/local-seo-20-citation-places.html  Are you guys in all of these?  There looked to be 2-3 other posts about local seo in the uk.

That's the thing I love about search.  You just have to do it in order to learn more.

I hope you don't take it down Rand.

Frankly, I picked out one of the resources this past month and found the one site had a sister site that literally 10X's my traffic over 2 days.  Of course, it wasn't the best of traffic, but it definitely was a great resource along with providing me some other great SEO benefits.  If you listed just the top 10 and this site wasn't in there, I wouldn't have had as much fun as I did over those few days.

We can make the judgement call or gauge the quality on our end.  You just keep spitting out the ideas like you do and I'll continue to be a follower/subscriber for as long as you do.

So, to summarize, it doesn't matter for SEO

However, it can matter for URL's, CRO, CTR, backlink juice and a few other possible issues that are more language use related.