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I'd keep the billing address. Without it,  the form would look a little suspicious. If your brand has a strong awareness and the visitors are quite familiar with your site then you might get away with it.

I would still recommend A/B testing to prove what works better for your app conversions. You did mention that you don't have a sufficient # of users however that just means that it would take longer to determine a winner when you do the A/B test. At least this way you know for sure which method worked.

Choose your clients carefully Simon especially the ones that don't pay you a lot of money. They are the ones that expect the most amount of work to be done for them and will be on you everyday demanding proof of work. Manage the client's expectations with results from day one. Good, clean SEO takes time and delivers long lasting results. It's all about the education and transparency with the clients.

All the best.

Some resources to help you below:

The International SEO Checklist

International SEO : White Board Friday

Would love the group's opinion on the Forbes.com welcome page

(http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml) redirects to the actual home page after 20 seconds.

• SEO implications for this tactic?
• Does it impact the home page rankings? (Positive/Negative)

Any input is appreciated.

We love using the Wordstream PPC grader tool in the pre sales process. You can put in your client's login info for Google adwords and the Wordstream grader generates a report highlighting several observations in different aspects of your campaign

Grade Your Google Adwords Account

Hi Robert,

Since noone responded , thought we'd chime in. Your assumption would make sense in this case based on all things being equal (Ceteris paribus) haven't used that since University:) . If source A and B are giving you accurate data when it comes to phone calls, we can assume that source C is also the same when it comes to the calls. The only accurate way to test this would be to initiate some sort of call tracking ( even if it is only for 30 days) on that referring source and confirm it for sure (then revert back to the usual #)

Hope this helps.

in addition to Google Analytics, i would also recommend piwik , it's a free software like google and provides good info. Link below:

http://piwik.org/

There are a lot of very powerful paid analytics software solutions like omniture and webtrends that provide terrific insight into visitor info.

This list might be helpful for you:

Turkish Search Engines

Social Networking in Turkey

Cheers,

SEO5..

P.S. Visited Istanbul earlier this year, beautiful place with so much history.

Hi Gary,

We ran a small test with Outbrain, (Spent approx $4k) over the course of 2 months and generated traffic at an average CPC of .90. Their network is very high quality as the traffic came from sites like CNN International, Fox.

PM me if you need more detailed info.

Cheers,

SEO5..

Seems to me that they are engaging in some black hat tactics to get these high rankings. The keyword density on the home page is also quite high for that keyword. "online casino". I would also be interested in getting the group's thoughts on this.

Tanveer, your site speed might have something to do with it. Please take a look at the GT Metrix report that i ran for your site on this link. It grades your site speed as a "F". Also gives you recommendations on what you need to do to fix it. Once you fix the site speed issue,i think the indexing issue will be solved.

i would say that it's ok to have outbound links on your site as long as the links are to established trusted sites.

More on the topic on this link including a quote from Matt Cutts on this question . http://lincontex.com/the-missing-link/googles-matt-cutts-vindicates-controversial-theory-behind-lincontex-com/

Hi Andreas,

A very open ended question. It depends on a lot of factors, the competition, the industry, geo target. The fundamentals involve 3 aspects:

• Strong On Page SEO (www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/on-page-factors)

• Strong Off Page primarily link building (http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links)

• Social Media (www.seomoz.org/blog/the-social-media-marketers-seo-checklist

As long as you have these 3 aspects covered, you are off to a very good start. Keep monitoring your progress regularly. Setup baseline metrics for rankings, traffic and conversions and keep marking progress each day,week, month, quarter, year.

All the best.

You can setup FAQ pages and an info guide on all the products. The key is to create lots of good quality content and each content piece should be focused on one keyword.

Hi DaddySmurf,

While this query does depend on the extent of social media usage for your company, but a general sentiment with users is the desire to unique content catering to the strengths of each platform. Using similar content won’t necessarily fall under the duplicate content rule of Penguin, but it does create the impression of only basic maintenance of social media platforms for your company. Sometimes it may be easier to load a quick blog post or the like across multiple platforms, but based on user experiences documented elsewhere on this forum, it would not necessarily be a recommended strategy across the board, so to speak.

Bryan, you might have created an infinite loop that might be causing the issue you are describing. More on the issue HERE

Use the open site explorer to check links (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/) . Before you start using it, i suggest you view the presentation in this link (http://www.seomoz.org/help/ose-overview)  and the FAQ (http://www.seomoz.org/help/open-site-explorer-faq)

Hi Brad,

Google's official version below:

• Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to your original article. You can also ask those who use your syndicated material to use the noindex meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing their version of the content.

You can refer to it on this link

Cheers,

You may want to exercise the option of reporting your site to Google so they can take a closer look at the search results associated with your site.

Google Survey for Small Sites

I'd do any of the below :

• Submit a new site map for indexing
• Use Google's removal tool

Good post on this topic here