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Hi Nikolas,

Sent you a PM. Would like to get more info on your project.

Cheers,

SEO 5

Totally agree with EGOL especially the over analysis bit. A lot of times we end up doing too much in order to rank for a particular keyword and that ends up working against us. We do all types of analysis (competitor, on site, link profile, the list goes on and one) and sometimes forget the fact that all it takes is good solid content and following SEO best practices when adding that content on the site and syndicating it.

Hi Carolina,

A quick glance in the whois records for their own domain reveals the following info:

Registrant
Great Value Domains LLC
Michael Newton
Email:sales@antiplastics.com
1620 East 16th Street
93500 LA
United States
Tel: +1.307123456

The phone # is wrong. Does not inspire a lot of confidence. The email is associated with another domain and not the domain  "active domain resale"

More research on the direct premium domains.com reveals this info:

Riverside Domain Brokers
Edward Clark
Email:riversidedomainbrokers@gmail.com
2710 Thomes Ave
82001 Cheyenne Wy
United States
Tel: +1.3074591955

Riverside has a lot of reviews on the net . Links below. I'd be very wary of sending any money to them.

Domains.com Review

DNForum.com

Hi Bob,

Some thoughts below:

• You might want to try a sticky navigation so that the top navigation follows the user as they scroll down the article page
• Trying a sliding secondary navigation option. Sort of like gmail with the labels following the user as they scroll down their mail

Hope this helps.

Hi Matthew,

Try these ones

• http://prdrop.info/
• http://www.ffplugins.com/
• http://www.registercompass.org/

hmm then it might be one of following:

• The algo updates impacted the competitor sites and rewarded them with higher positions for more quality content than your site
• Their link profile for that keyword is better than yours

Hi Kade,

I see this page ranking http://www.snoshield.com/snowGuards.aspx on position 32 for this keyword.Did you make any recent changes on the home page optimization ( altering title tags or any other on site changes) besides the link building efforts that you mentioned.

Try out this tool to check if you have been impacted by any of Google's algo updates.

Hi Frédéric,

You might find the below resources useful:

Article by Bruce Clay

French Link Building Tool

French Google SEO Guide

You can also analyze your competitor link profile using OSE and identify link building opportunities using this tool.

the pipe or hyphen practice is just for aesthetic purposes and does not have an SEO value associated with it. You are ok to use the brand name in multiple titles along with unique keywords associated with them. Should not have any downside to it. Here's a link to a post discussing this practice.

Hi,

In my opinion this is not a duplicate title. From the above example it seems like you are trying to optimize the pages for 2 different keywords ( Kelowna Real Estate and Kelowna Condos)

From an aesthetic perspective you might want to consider adding hyphens or pipes between the keywords and your brand. ( e.g Kelowna Real estate | Smith McLellan Group )

You may also want to consider putting your brand name first in the title tag if it has branding and is popular with your target audience to impact the click thru rates in the search engine results.

Hi Bob,

Personally love the style adopted by The New Yorker . Lots of "white" space on the pages , the font used is very readable, nice combination of images and text.

Hi Zora,

My thoughts are that it really depends on the competition in your niche. If it is not very competitive then just the on site optimization itself should bring you good results. (quality , optimized content being key). If ,on the other hand, there is a lot of competition for the keywords that you are trying to rank for , you will have to do the whole bit (on site and off site) to get traction.

Hi Dave,

Just to be on the safe side, i'd advise optimizing each title tag for one keyword. Seen a lot of sites get hit with the overoptimizaiton penalty. You may think that having the keyword twice in the title tag might not do much harm, however when you start couting the # of instances the keyword is used on the page ( in the content, anchor text, image tags etc), it all adds up.

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Hi Sorina,

Archiving is more about classifying information/content that is either outdated or not being accessed that frequently by the visitors into a separate section on your site. I would not no index those pages because they might be ranking well in the search engines and still be getting traffic to the site. You can do this creating an "archives" section on your site so that if the visitors want to access the old content on your site they can still do so by accessing that section.

Here is a useful post on archiving content on your site

Hi,

If your on site optimization is done properly then your focus going forward should be on the 2 activities listed below:

• Link Building

• Social Media Optimization

Some posts below that you might find useful in your SEO planning:

Building a Monthly SEO Action Plan

Noob Guide to Online Marketing

Noob Guide to Link Building

6 Month Link Building Plan

Hi Diane,

My recommendation would be to do your due diligence. I would suggest asking for case studies, references and testimonials from existing clients.

Rand has a great post on this link on factors to consider when choosing an SEO company

Hi Sara,

We have used the following and found them quite effective:

UK - PRWeb UK

Germany - DPA.de

Spain / Latin America - Logos-pr.com

Hi Lauren,

You could try contentproz.net for the ebooks. You could also get good ebook writers on elance and vworker.

All the best.

Hi Joel,

Changing a hosting provider should not impact your rankings or traffic. We have changed hosting for a lot of websites without any adverse impact in rankings.Just make sure that all the site files are transferred correctly on the new hosting account.

If the new and the existing hosting providers are located in the different countries , that can impact the results.

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