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There is no way to control how fast a site gets indexed.. However if you follow good on-page optimization and create/upload a sitemap to the search engines, it can help your site get indexed faster.

How could they do that?

You see one of the companies I work for is a boring niche. We used a Facebook ad to gain users and we gained 1000 of these users when I pulled the plug. With 1000 users in a boring niche we got no interaction. So, do you believe Google can determine a boring niche from a non boring niche?

What do you think will get more attention a Lady Gaga post or a metal building post?

I am unsure of how much value these mentions have or how they are calculated. I find too many flaws in it.

However, if your in a non boring niche and users are interacting you should do fine, and most likely this will help.

Im speaking from a boring niche perspective... Whether I get 1,000,000 users to like me or 5 its the same interaction for each post. Non existant.

I have read many posts on this. However, the one thing I find challenging is getting an expert to give me a social mention. In many cases they have shared something similar in the past, and in many cases they are too busy. IMO building relationships via forums is the easiest way to find experts who will mention my site. I can engage them in a thread, and eventually take it to a Personal Messages. After building a relationship I can ask for a link or a social mention or to guest post or something.

I have attempted contacting many experts via Blogs, E-mail, Facebook, Google + etc. for many different sites, IMExperince most “Experts” (people with large followings) will not give a noob (new site w/no rankings or new user w/no following) the time of day, nor a social mention. I have read many posts on engaging experts: tag them; send them flowers; like every post; make great comments. My result… bruised lips (from kissing behinds).

I work with an SEO company, and every new site we work on seems to require a unique strategy for ranking. When we work on building relationships in fields we know nothing about, the outcome is weak. Unless we use forums.

What are some strategies that work for you? what approach do you take when you have to build a relationship with someone you cant give value to?

Myblogguest.com is a good place to get some free content for your blog. However you will need to give credit the writer with a link to their site.

Keep in mind content is only 1/3rd the battle. Getting that content to the right people/social networks is what will help you gain more visibility.

I would highly recommend it and there are a handfull of opportunities available when utilized properly.

Three good articles.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-every-marketer-now-needs-a-google-strategy

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-plus-the-ultimate-you-sourced-search-engine

Hi Chris,

The on-page factors are based on the keywords you want to target for each page. You can optimize them here.

Your site does not have many backlinks, I would recommend building a blog on your site with content that others will want to link to. The key here is to get traffic to your site that can learn from it, get entertained by it, or simply just find what they are looking for. I would also recommend getting involved with others in the same or similar niche. Follow them, interact with them, buy them a drink, and then ask them to help you share your article or contribute to it.

The design of your site looks good to me but I don't eat cheese. Unfortunetly there is no set it and forget it when it comes to design... It's more of a test it and then test it again to ensure that its converting. I like to use visualwebsiteoptimizer.com (A/B Testing) for this.

I also noticed that you don't have canonicals set up... I would recommend adding canonical codes to your pages.

Hope this helps.

You can use their actual article and trackback to their original (first indexed) post, this will avoid duplicate content and save you time. Google only punishes a site if the duplicate content without tracking back to it's original location.

PR sites are distributing every press release they get to as many news sites that will take it... However these sites are all tracking back (at least the ones who know what they are doing) to the original.

HI chris,

I checked http://www.internationalcheese.co.uk/ and I did it in the SEOmoz report card: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

Just put the keyword you want to rank for and for which page. it will give you back a grade with instructions on correcting anything that is not best practice.

My favorite is Wordpress with the Yoast plugin. here is an article to help you set it up for best SEO results: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

Hi,

If you are positive that Panda update is the reasoning for your loss of ranking then you can use a canonical tag to let the search engine know which page to credit. However, your drop in rankings can be from multiple scenarios.