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I dont believe Google punishes sites for external links, they cant. If they did my competition would be F'd.

All the warnings and fuss is about "over stuffing keywords" on a page or doing other unnatural activity on a page.

Yes keep it under 10% keyword to content ratio. This is what PR web recommends for their articles, I am sure it is safe and applies to all pages on the web.

Keyword Stuffing, having too many keywords on one page. Anything that looks unnatural on site. You can not really get punished for offsite because you can not control it. Your competitors would have a field day on you if off site stuff could be penalized for.

I am able to do keyword research for any term that I want,. However, I want to see results for broad keywords in local areas....

For example.. Hair cut Miami may get 100 searches a month.

How can I find the number (x) of search volume for "Hair Cut" searched within Miami, FL.?

If I add the 100 and the other number (x) it may be worth the while to build.

Hello,

I am fairly new to creating case study material, can some of you share some strategies that work for you.

I agree with this... Just wanted to add that if you do have to use a ton of links you can always add a bunch of content around it. Google looks at percentage, how many links does a page have versus how much content.

Content to keyword ratio should be around 10%

Ooops I read this after posting below... Sorry about that

"the more words in your domain, the less SEO impact each word is going to have. At some point, it may start to look a bit spammy." I think I missed a good article on this can you please provide a source?

I would not use this for over the phone lol... Only to tap into search engine traffic, lets say I found a term that is highly competitive. However, the rankers are not optimizing for that specific query. Its only highly competitive because these sites are authoritative for other relavent keywords.

Example.

I want to rank for the keywords "how can i be sure this is true"

When I type this in a search engine, lets say I get youtube/ebay/etsy/etc... for the SERP (highly authoritative according to SEOmoz but they are not targeting the long tail question)

Would I be better off buying a domain canthisbe.com? I dont see how this makes sense....

I am not 100% about hyphens. However, I noticed that most sites use hyphens in all their sub pages. (Just look at the URL of this thread http://www.seomoz.org/q/domain**-**length) I think that Hyphens are bad on a root domain.

"The reason behind it is that words such as: what, is, right etc. do not really give you any keyword value. Your main keyword would be France and then something to indicate that you want to relate to the current time - like 'now'."

Are you sure about this?

I never heard of this... Can you please provide a source?

From my understanding exact domain helps (no telling how much). By exact I am implying [iwanttogetonthefirstpageofgoogle] for the term "I want to get on the first page of google"

THis is somewhat helpful. However, it explains domain for users...

Let me give you an example..

If I want to rank for "what is going on in france right now" it is longer then 15 characters and no one will want to type it. If my domain is whatisgoingoninfrancerightnow.com it will help my SEO rankings, or do the search engines look at the length and say nonono?

The link you provided led me to another question. It recomends not using hyphens, are they talking about the main domain only www.my-domain.com, or main domain and extension www.mydomain.com/my-domain?

Does Domain length matter for SEO?

I dont know for sure what it is. That was just a guestimate.

BTW I did say "probably" and I was implying that Google updates are scrambling results..   Regardless of location.

Probably preparing/ adjusting the new algorithms for over optimized SEO sites.

I have been doing some research on onsite optimization and I hit a dead end, need some help with OnSite....

These three I get for the most part... (If you would like to add anything please do)

Title optimization - needs to be unique with keywords included under 90 words

Meta description - needs to be unique with keywords included under 150 words

Meta keywords – all keywords

Questions begin here...

H1 headings – Should this be the first thing the spider crawls? Should they be unique? Is there a penalty for having this content the same on every page? (H1s are under the logo at the top of every one of my sites pages)

H2-H6 headings – Should they be unique? Is there a penalty for having this content the same on every page?

Bold text – does this matter for SEO?

Italic text - does this matter for SEO?

Link anchor text – These are the same on most pages. However, most of these links are part of the navigation, does this matter for SEO? is this duplicate? how does the search engine analyze this data?

Image alt attributes – I have the share image buttons on my site (Facebook, Twitter, etc...) and they have the same alt attributes on each page. Does this matter for SEO?

Body text – I found a competitor site that’s ranking #1 for a key term. This competitor has 11,106 words in their body with the keyword mentioned 29 times (0.8%). They placed all this text in a small scroll down on the bottom of their page. Its strange how they included it. Please review attached image.

the competitor URL is http://www(dot)1804design(dot)com/

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It can be one of many reasons, however if you want to be sure... The SEOmoz RankTracker will suffice correct placements.

I have a new customer and he wants me to clear up the SERP for his branded keyword, the SERP currently has his site and two other sites related to him under his result... Under that is bad reviews and old reports. My client does own the top spot (#1) for his branded name.

My client has a:

linkedin

facebook

twitter

myspace

I was thinking to push all these to the first page, this will clear up some of those bad reviews.

What are your thoughts?

Have any of you ever had this type of case?

I need to get 6 different sites to all rank for the same exact key term, however I have the top spot to link from...

I dont think there is such a thing as "perfect SEO" (or perfect anything), I did a little research on this because it got me a bit nervous... I found this article http://www.webconfs.com/over-optimization-article-8.php... Last time Google was hinting a change to its algo's Panda kicked some sites. I wouldn't underestimate Googles "Hints"...

The article I mentioned explains the differences between overstuffing keywords and keeping it clean. Keeping a keyword to content ratio of 3-7% should keep you in the "safe" SEO area (for now).