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Hi Garry,

A focus on two or three main keywords on your page is perfectly appropriate, even for longer tail keywords. It may be recommended to use longer tailed keywords for pages on your site appropriate for such keywords. As well, it is recommended to put the keyword(s) as close to the beginning of each tag as possible. Keywords can be combined to create longer tail keywords, but only if they are relevant to each other; try to put two unrelated phrases together will look like spam. If your business is located in a certain area, using long tail keywords with location can help your results; with other keywords, your site can still rank for longer tail keyword due to natural relevancy. With a focus of more than three keywords, your tags will be bulky and read unnaturally.

Hi Wayne,

Google released an official post regarding this topic located here which may help to explain your question. As stated previously, by Google and in the post, Google does take measures to ensure submission to low quality links will not necessarily result in a penalty, but will likely not help your site a significant degree. This also means a significant ranking drop for specific keywords is likely not the result of low quality directory submissions.

Hi Mike,

Pinging an RSS feed is definitely a good way to try expanding your index list. Located here is a good starting guide to building and managing your own RSS feed to help increase your online visibility. This will show you how to set automated RSS, how to manage your own feed, and how to register your feed with major search engines. This will help raise the online profile of the URLs indexing the content you have published.

Just to add to Mihai's response, you can always delete the sitelinks from the GWT if there are some irrelevant links showing up for your website.

Hi Luke,

I'd probably use the reference from the link below for a list of potential companies to work with:

Top SEO Companies in China 

All the best.

There are many things one can do to help Google recognize your business as a store. First, if your business has a centralized location, be sure to create an optimized listing for your company at Google Places for Business. As well, be sure to use selling related terms when optimizing your pages for keywords, e.g. instead of simply listing “hard drives”, use “hard drive retailer” or “hard drives for sale” along with your company name. Ensure your URL and landing page reflect your business wares as well by having a short, clear URL and using reflective keywords within the first 100 words of text on your site.

It will always be a struggle to compete in Google against major corporate retailers, but by following these steps, you should begin to see a change in your results.

Hi Neil,

A direct link to download the program mentioned previously can be found here. What the previously user likely meant in regards to your question is to extract the data to a CSV file using Open Site Explorer, and then to use the aforementioned PowerPivot (a data analysis tool for Microsoft Excel) to help sort and gather information for your data. This tool is designed to help organize large datasets, so it would be worth a try.

Hi Vliegtickets.nl,

For targeting keywords, this is a good start. Putting your keywords near the beginning of your meta titles and descriptions is proper format and will help your click-through rate.

However, as stated previously, make sure not to use the same word repeatedly throughout the tags. By using more varied text while focusing on variations of your keywords, you can optimize your keyword use and not have your text read like spam. Also, make sure not to waste characters on smaller, unnecessary words; instead, create short phrases emphasizing your keywords. As well, make sure your keywords are used within the first 100 words of visible text on your site. This will help your keyword ranking even more than emphasizing the keywords in the meta description.

If you are inquiring about overall page building, then also be sure your site design is static, organized and has lots of relevant information pertaining to your keywords on the main page. A clear call-to-action and contact form in the upper right hand corner is also an essential component.

Hi Dustin,

By adding additional characters to your keywords, this can have the effect of “splitting the vote” with crawlers. If the initial keyword has a strong ranking, then adding additional text to complement it likely will not affect the main keyword ranking. Crawlers are fairly adept at finding keywords within other keywords, but for more precise effect, it may prove beneficial to use both the main keyword and the additional keyword as separate entities (e.g. “Lawn Mowers | Cheap Lawn Mowers”) to cover the most amount of ground. Use this tactic only with proper meta tags, and do not repeat phrases more than once to avoid keyword stuffing.

Hi blackrino,
As mentioned, to optimize keywords on your website it is recommended to use the keywords in the first 100 words of text on the site. More importantly, ensure the keywords are also utilized in the meta tags (title, description, and alt attribute) in your page source; this way, the text is easier for Google crawlers to read. Make sure the location of your business is notable on the landing page; you do not need to stuff the page with the exact keywords, but you can mention location more than once if necessary. As well, feel free to list your business address on the main page, and be sure to add your business to Google Places if you haven’t already.

Hi Jane

There has been a fair amount of discrepancy regarding Google Places rejections, and unfortunately as of now, there are still difficulties in re-instating rejected submission for Google Places. Located here is a good article regarding difficulties with Google Places listings; in the meantime, you can start by ensuring you are using Google Webmaster Tools. The Google Places dashboard does not mention checking the Google Webmaster Tools dashboard, where issues may be occurring, so you may be able to find helpful notices there. As well, if you have two businesses residing at the same address, it may be beneficial to add an “a” and “b” to the suite number (if possible) as Google Places may have trouble identifying two businesses in the same suite.

Hi Vjay,

Tripwire Magazine offers a recent article showcasing 40 different webpage templates which may help provide a frame of reference for strong landing pages. A clean, static design with a clear call-to-action and contact information in your top right corner will always help your user navigation. As well, ensure your landing page has a simple, descriptive URL visitors can easily use and remember. Featuring current, relevant text on the page explaining your services to potential customers will also help your user experience.

Hi Tim,

We recommend Wordpress for all non ecomm sites and Joomla/Magento for the ecomm ones. Wordpress with all their plugins is very SEO friendly as well as a user friendly interface in the backend .

We tried it for e-comm sites as well however had a very bad experience when the client wanted to customize the e-comm solution on the wordpress platform.

Cheers,

Extensive discussion on this topic in the link below:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4550136.htm

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Hi Claire,

RocketTheme is another good wordpress theme club. You might also want to read the link below:

Comparison of Wordpress Theme Clubs

No changes noticed on our end. Seomoz's algo change monitor also has not recorded any changes.

http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change

Any top digital agency should be able to fulfill your syndication request. I'd refer to the list of SEOmoz recommended providers.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended#pr

I'd also suggest craigslist. Always results in tons of responses, Might need to do a bit of sorting through the pile to get the good resumes.

Any Online PR service provider should be able to assist you. They already have established accounts with these agencies and you can also avail discounts through them.